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Wouldn't it figure that on one of the worst days of George's life, the weather would be unrelentingly cheerful?

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Their families hated each other of generations. One chance look meant everlasting love. If only the war hadn't exploded in their faces. They weren't Romeo and Juliet-- for one thing, one of them was left alive. They were Draco and Ginny, and once upon a time, they dared to dream of happiness. Living a life that betrays all he once stood for, Draco Malfoy is haunted by guilt, uncertainty, and quite possibly Ginny Weasley herself.

"Virginia Weasley doesn’t dislike her name, really."

Harry still dreams of the Department of Mysteries—only this time he’s not alone. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come… A short piece of fiction set after Order of the Phoenix.

"Nothing felt the same after the war." Snape is haunted by his past and present memories of Harry. (Snape/Harry slash)

When Sirius Black challenges Severus Snape over a woman, the Potions master sharpens his claws - and his tongue, of course. Taunts, acidity, sarcasm and the shards of three lives...

Part 2 of my series explaining the spells used in HP books. (Part one was the Fidelius Charm.) Talks about the theory behind the Mirror of Erised, a bit about what was involved in putting the stone in it (not much), points out a few plot holes, and talks about the character of Mr. Potter.

Lily and James Potter. The perfect couple. You don't see how she puts on too much makeup when she leaves him at night, or how he drinks a bottle of firewhiskey after she's gone. A look into the anguished mind of James Potter, father and reluctant husband. Slash content.

On an early spring morning of his fifth year, Neville gets a surprise visit from a classmate while in the hospital. He realises something very important about her.

"I always wake up and reach for you. But I only see Harry, pale and cold in the moonlight. Body clenched tight into a ball, his backbone a rigged curve, afraid to feel, to be felt. He thinks I hate to touch him." Implied H/Hr/R.

The mutilated corpse of the charming Fleur Delacour leads to a grisly trail of murders centered around one Ginny Weasley. *Warning* This is not for the faint of heart.

Bellatrix Lestrange was desperate.

Harry wakes up to find Number 4 Privet Drive in chaos. He and Aunt Petunia are the only ones whole...

Three days after Voldemort's defeat, in the dead of night, Ginny finds her way to the boys' dormitory. (Harry/Ginny)

Years after the war has ended and with Voldemort long since dead, unlikely companions mourn their losses.

All is not as it seems, and love has grown cold in a world turned upside down by madness. Severus would do anything to gain Minerva's forgiveness, but will her pardon come to late to save him?

Draco hates a lot of things and he will gladly list them if asked. The list will be long and meandering, switching quickly from one seemingly unrelated item to the next. Slash. boy!Blaise/Draco.

A tear-stricken Remus looks back on life with, and without, Sirius Black...``OotP Spoiler!!! Angst-fic. Slash. Song-fic to Delta Goodrum's 'Lost Without You'.

Long before Hermione wore buns, a little boy named Tommy Riddle lived in a rundown old orphanage. When Orion Jensen and his young apprentice Albus Dumbledore discover the boy's magical powers, complications lead to anger, and anger leads to another segment in the saga. The Phantom Vampire attacks!!

Ron had always thought that when he finally got around to telling Hermione that he loved her, she would be happy. And that she’d smile and kiss hum or hug him or say that she loved him too or… something. He certainly hadn't expected they'd be locked up in a dungeon, threatened by Death Eaters and locked away from their friends, who were probably still in battle. And when Hermione responded in the entire opposite way, he at least felt certain that things couldn't get much worse. But nothing ever went out the way he expected.

Harry Potter takes a trip down memory lane from a graveyard.

It's a hot, summer day, and Harry and Ron go for a swim. Harry/Ron, set before their sixth year at Hogwarts.

It's the summer after Draco's fourth year, and he starts having nightmares. He goes to Lucius for comfort.

The ghosts of Hogwarts have disappeared and been replaced with malevolent spirits with a taste for bringing pain to the living. To make matters worse the entire Hogwarts grounds have been surrounded with a magic force field that not even Dumbledore has figured out how to break. Harry and the gang have to find out how the evil ghosts got there. But the answer may be even more frightening then the ghosts themselves....

Featuring all the usual characters, a bunch of OCs with familiar sounding names, beating up Malfoy, the easiest way to defeat Lord Voldemort, and seals. Yes, seals.

Rose Cooper meets Hermione while on vacation in the Virgin Islands. After complications with her parents' schedule she decides to stay with Hermione and go to Hogwarts. But she has secrets that must not be revealed and isn't what she seems. What will happen when she joins The Society, a group of exceptionally skilled resistance fighters against Voldemort, and what will Harry think if he finds out?

Holidays at Happy Wizards Retirement Home are always exciting! Pancake breakfasts with Bingo make them even MORE exciting, though Hermione apparently hates both pancakes and bingo. Will Harry stay awake long enough for the festivities? Will Ginny remember what she was doing five minutes ago? Find out here in the third HAPPY WIZARDS RETIREMENT HOME!

Harry seeks comfort from the only man whose loss is as great as his own. A vignette about a hug. Harry, Sirius... and James.

Hermione questions what could have been, on the day of her wedding. Written with inspiration from Evanescence’s My Immortal.

"In reality, it is not Save the World, Harry. It’s Harry, save Harry- save everyone Harry loves so Harry’s world can keep going on, even without Harry. Because Harry will live on forever, in the ones he loves."``Harry thinks about Voldemort, his fate, and everyone he loves.

Five years ago the Dark Lord Voldemort was defeated in battle by Harry Potter. Harry lived. However, one should remember that sometimes, there are fates worse than death.

It is the eve of the final battle against Voldemort, and two lone figures stand beside the side of Light's first great casualty. But who is it that has passed on? One shot.

Not everyone is cut out to be a parent.

Someone is seeking closure after the death of their hero.

It didn't matter that they tried to break his body, it didn't matter that they tried to kill him.... What do you do when they take away your heart?

The Dark Lord has risen and his reign of terror is beginning once again. Rafael Karkaroff, a student at Durmstrang, has a rare gift that the Dark Lord seeks. With his father missing, he is sent to Hogwarts for safety, but there is no longer any safe haven for him. The students treat him with suspicion and as the dark events begin to unfold, will he become a Death Eater as his father once was, or will he rise against the darkness?

Ginny is making her lonely way to the Quidditch stadium, to the first match of her fifth year, where her crush, but not she, will be playing.

The war is over, the peril is gone. What happens next in Harry's life? Why is the Boy Who Lived feeling as if he shouldn’t?

One shot about Harry remembering his and Draco's relationship, which has been over for one year. Songfic to Boyz II Men's "Four Seasons of Loneliness." The first part of a trilogy.

Harry and Hermione are getting married. See what Hermione, Ron, Malfoy, and even Loony Luna think about it!

The Sorcerer's Stone movie gets a makeover- along with some help from a really pervy Snape, Gryffindor bashing, and more references to obscure 80's cult movies than you can shake a bowtruckle at!

Ron writes a letter confessing his feelings to Hermione. Very fluffy R/Hr.

Christian's life turns up sidedown when her parents' divorce and she moves with her mother to a boring home on Privet Drive. To make matters worse, Christian must now deal with her mum's new lover. He is handsome, polite, and did I mention a wizard and a werewolf?

A very elderly Draco Malfoy pays a visit to the grave of Harry Potter to have a little conversation with him. NOT slash, although you may think it is at first.

Lily gets a little more than what she was looking for when she decides to teach James how to ice skate. A rather fluffy look at the way James and Lily finally got together in 7th year. One-shot.

The war is over; they have won, but the price was high. All the graves are visited frequently, except one. Only he remembers what his loyal companion did.

'...But then Hermione's head shook side to side, more hair falling out of her braid: "It's not that I hate being here with you, Harry--" He wasn't sure if she meant 'you' as in him or 'you' as in him and Ron both, but he didn't ask. "...It's just, I miss my family." She sniffed, her voice tight.... "I just need..." She sniffed again. A small rub of her back by Harry's hand seemed to coax the rest of what she needed out of her. Voice breaking and muffled, she said, "I just need to be with the people who love me."' Hermione misses her family, and Harry is all she has.

When Harry returns to The Burrow for the Weasley-Delacour wedding Ginny finds herself fighting emotions she never thought she'd have to fight again.

This is my version of the fifth book, but the real fifth book is much better. Harry is starting his fifth year at school, and many things are happening. His eye is on the new exchange student from America, he's having strange dreams, Voldemort has found a new curse, and, to top it all off, the fifth years have O.W.L.s.

This was where he lived, he knew. And he would have to come here, to sleep. Unless, of course, he had found someone else, whereupon he wouldn’t need to come back here. But Remus liked to think he meant more to him than that.

How Harry Potter got his Invisibility Cloak, and who gave it to him.

Seeing is believing... and sometimes the hardest thing to do to open your eyes...

It has been three years since Dumbledore died, Harry has long since gone into hiding. Voldemort rules supreme, whilst Ginny Weasley works as part of the insurgency against him and his Death Eaters - one of whom just happens to be Draco Malfoy ...

Wars make people do mad things. But if Seamus ever finds out about this, he’s dead. Dean/Luna, throughout Deathly Hallows. Charcoal, driftwood and fishfingers abound. Oneshot.

Luna Lovegood goes in search of Crumple-Horned Snorkacks.

At first glance, you would think they had nothing in common. But really, they were both engulfed by shadows and struggling to break free.

A very young Dark wizard returns to his old school with high hopes of obtaining the Defence Against the Dark Arts position. But showing an ugly mark on his arm and explaining how it got there might considerably reduce his chances.... A different take on how and why Severus Snape became a spy.

Continues from the end of Half-Blood Prince. Nymphadora Tonks's twin sister, a skilled actor, is asked by the Order to pose as Bellatrix Lestrange to obtain information for the Order after Snape's defection to the Dark Lord. Rated R for later chapters.

Ginny is trapped in a state of romantic denial. Harry is ignoring any memories of romance. Neither wants to admit any feelings for the other. But when a locked door and and a writer's imagination force them together, who knows what can happen? Sort of written for SIYE's "Baby, It's Cold Outside Challenge," but not really.

Even our favourite bunch of Slytherins were adolescents once. Now we get to laugh at the expense of Draco, Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle, and all the others! Rated for language and crude humour.

Two people meet one night before The Final Battle. One is the light, the other is apart of the darkness. But for this one night, they will forget their places and live the way they would have if evil never existed. But in the morning all will end, and they will have to move on.

This story is loosely based on the film It's a Wonderful life. Mostly the idea of what would happen if someone was granted the wish that they had never been born.

Hermione and Ron have just had their first son, but he looks nothing like either one of them. In fact, he looks a lot like Harry. Ron remembers his fallen friend as he holds his newborn, and wonders whether Harry ever forgave him that last night they saw each other. *song fic to Creed's With Arms Wide Open*

Harry's sixth year. After a long, miserable summer with the Dursleys, Harry returns to Hogwarts and sees life in a very different light. His parents are dead. Cedric is dead. Sirius is dead. All thanks to Voldemort. With this in mind, Harry begins to become obsessed with wanting to murder Voldemort. It's all he can ever think about. So he begins to lose interest in everything else--even Quidditch, which he quits. His grades also continue to drop. His friends try to help him, but are unsuccessful. Even the new DADA teacher tries, but fails. What happens when the only person who CAN help is your most hated enemy? H/D; R/Hr; G/N.

Catherine Emrys is an American teenager who is trying to put her life back together after her father died five years ago, but its not easy while she also has to deal with high school. But there is more to her little world than she ever believed possible. After an event that shatters her life, she is ushered away to be in the middle of a war she had no clue existed. A prophecy is discovered and she finds herself in a mysterious world where anything is possible.

When Hermione stumbles into a crisis and disappears, Harry goes on a quest to find his girl and bring her back. And all he has on his side is a deranged Frenchwoman, a tattered copy of a book that no-one should want to read, and the knowledge that night-time is the best time to wash your hair.

Someone is out to get Harry! This mystery person is trying to kill Harry from the inside out. Find out who's first.

An impostor has infiltrated Hogwarts, and Harry finds he is helpless to prevent this slightly slashy psychopath from igniting chaos and devastation. With the whole gang caught up in her trickery, it looks as though no one will emerge unscathed when the smoke clears. H/G, R/Hr.

While trying to hide one secret from her brother, Ginny potentially gains another one.

Draco and Deirdre: from opposite ends of the spectrum, and two rivaling houses. Lost in the throng of cliques and motivated by their own curiosity, they realize they must come together in order to understand what is happening to the magical world. Family deaths, political assassinations and Death Eaters cannot be ignored, and they are the only ones who seem to realize it. Of course love comes in to play, whether invited or not. It grows like an unwanted weed, and in tragedy, something else blooms along with the will to survive. DM/OC, HP/GW, HG/RW. One-sided and slight LL/RW, HP/OC, NL/OC, DM/PP.

Ginny and Malfoy have a confrontation in her 5th year. What happens at the end leaves one of them shocked.

Maybe Harry Potter is merely fulfilling his duty as an Auror to the best of his abilities, but maybe his friends are right to worry about him. Catching the last Death Eater still alive is more than just work to Harry, and everyone knows it.

Pain isn't a single thing. It spreads like the plague and the suffering doesn't end with just a single person. It eats you up inside until you can't take it anymore, until you want to cry and scream. But what if you can't?

When Petunia found Harry that cold November morning, she knew that he was more than just a normal baby boy. And she knew that taking him into her home, with her past behind her and his future ahead of him, was more than family helping family.

AJ is a fifth year Gryffindor. Her relationship with her boyfriend Ron is a little patchy to say the least, so what will happen when a huge mistake results in a rather West Side Story situation? Rated for one naughty word.

He was alone again. He didn't mind, really. His friends were happy with the girls, throwing snow at each other, and he wasn't, but he wasn't bitter.``He didn't yet realise he'd always be the one left behind, always on the outside looking in. Maybe he'd have felt differently if he realised what was to come. ``He didn't however, and stayed in the snow, tracing patterns with his blue tinged fingers.

Harry should be perfectly happy after the defeat of Voldemort at the beginning of summer after his Sixth year. But something sinister has plans for our hero and his friends. Bad dreams, confused hearts, and revealed relations star in this story as well as a smattering of Lupin and Sirius!

Harry and Ron are learning how to fence. But when Ginny and Hermione take up their swords, they may learn more than they bargained for.

An attempt by Harry to defy the odds and come up with some way to rescue his cool beyond the Universe of Cool godfather, Sirius Black. Because we all know we're in Sirius denial about some things...

Harry Potter finally gets at Bellatrix Lestrange for the murder of Padfoot. Will she die or will Harry let her live?

Songs are written to express certain feelings and emotions, but is it right to think that they are used to articulate the feelings that words cannot express? Written for Harry/Ginny Fic-a-Fest's 2nd Wave of Challenges.

Harry has a pleasant chat with his mother.

In the darkening setting of the wizarding world, the professors have a great responsibility for their students to educate them and prepare them. At these times, what do professors truly take the innocent Hogwarts song to mean? What is the value of education?

Another year at the premiere social event for purebloods.

Our story follows two very complicated young people, trying, for once, to do the right thing. Trying to redeem themselves and find forgiveness. Trying to learn who and what they really are and being forced to deal with those startling and sometimes devastating revelations. Fate’s road has many twists and turns and more often than not, the path ahead cannot be seen clearly. The wizarding population has placed their faith and hope in two great wizards, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore and Auror Harry Potter, the pair destined to save the world from this most awful fate. But perhaps, they aren’t the only ones to whom this task will be given?

The war has ended, and now life will try and return to normal for Harry and his friends.

What happens to a person when they feel the world is crumbling around them, but are powerless to stop it? Is there ever such a thing as true happiness, uncontaminated by melancholy memories and grief? This is Harry's tale of friendship, uncertainty, love, adventure and tragedy. And index of misery just trying to find hope among the darkness... Implied Harry/Hermione

The memories hurt her, but thinking about it is the only way she can remember him, and that’s better than nothing. R/Hr

There are ways and ways of saying goodbye. Written in response to OotP.

Sometimes, all you can do is move on in life and forever cherish the memories that you made. This is the case for Hermione and Draco. Songfic to Leann Rimes' song Please Remember. [[HrD]]

Leaving school is like falling blindly off a cliff while someone assures you there will be a net to catch you. You don't know where you'll end up, because everything that was familiar is ripped away from you and you're just expected to walk away from all that you knew and start from scratch. The people you saw everyday you might never see again. This is a fic about friendship that stays strong even after shutting the gate on Hogwarts.

Harry's feet continued to carry him towards Snape's office, while his mind was battered relentlessly by comments such as, "I'm sure kissing Snape would be wonderful, even if he doesn't brush his teeth," and "You know what they say about men with big noses."

After a particuarly bloody murder, Severus Snape, Mordred and Alison Lestrange, Kenneth Avery, Rolly Wilkes, Evan Rosier, and Florence Jorkins try to deal with what they've done.

"Don’t you sometimes wish things had turned out differently in your life? I know I do. I sometimes wish I could change the past, the present and the future."

When Harry Potter returns for his seventh year at Hogwarts, the possibility of Wizarding Civil War looms over all of England. Students are openly taking sides in the war against Voldemort, and families throughout the UK are preparing themselves for what is looking to be the bloodiest battle in recent Wizarding history. Not only must Harry strengthen old alliances and learn to control himself, but there are NEWTS, romance, friends, and family to juggle too! AU.

The Fates contemplate the future of Severus Snape as the boy waits to be Sorted.

She realised that he would always have a hold on her. A cold, punishing hold that tightened with each ``shallow breath she took. And he knew it. Dark fic. Sequel one shot to 'Cantus Inaequalis'.

Quidditch or Hermione? Oliver has to choose when Hermione walks out the door, leaving behind a note. He has to meet her before her train leaves, but time isn't exactly on his side... or is it? [With lyrics from "Just Missed the Train" by Kelly Clarkson] Set in a music video-esque type of setting. [Americanized]

Sirius is in love! There is a slight problem, though....