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A dip into the life of one of the most despised characters of the Potterverse. Why what happened, happened.

Sirius is Harry's father, in everything but the technicality of shared genes. One-shot, OotP spoilers, non-explicit SB/JP/LEP.

Dobby has unfinished business at Malfoy Manor. This one-shot takes place right after the events of the Chamber of Secrets.

The Philosopher’s Stone speaks of a gray lady—-the Ravenclaw ghost. Legend has it that a gray lady has lost love and is doomed to spend eternity on earth to mourn him. This is her story.

Severus Snape is a man shrouded in mystery and darkness. Take a closer look into the mind and life of the Potions Master.... A look that has never been taken before.

"The mind of a child, no matter how innocent and trusting can be affected and even injured. A child’s desire is to be loved, and children carry this sort of love buried under their skin, waiting to give it away."

Often ignored, mostly ridiculed, Dudley lets the online community know how it feels to be related to The Boy Who Lived.

Dumbledore's last moments on the Tower, as seen through the eyes of Draco Malfoy.

Alternate Universe: A letter to a granddaughter can reveal many things. This is the story of red haired courtesan, a Dark Lord, and the choices you have to make in love and war. Ginny/Tom

"The grief was only rivaled by the rage burning in him. It was a fire that would not be extinguished until the person responsible was dead. No more would die because of Harry. He was the target, and he was bringing himself within shooting range." Harry faces his last battle...

Angelina is feeling estranged from her friends, Katie Bell and the Weasleys, and lonely despite her popularity. Alicia is depressed and ignored and misunderstood. Can their indifference become love? (slash)

AU. DH Spoilers. Snape is the post-DH headmaster of Hogwarts, and not all the students want to return. Especially a certain bushy-haired Muggleborn. One-shot.

"One part of my brain chants a non-stop mantra of 'Stop! Stop!,' while an equally insistent one cries out 'Run! Run!' I listen to the latter because I’m running for my life." Hermione unwittingly participates in a game of hide-and-go-seek.

Inspired by The Pianist, this is the testament of a lonely solitude Slytherin boy who is trapped - in many aspects - while a war goes on in the wizarding world.

As Harry is dealing with the death of Sirius, he finds comfort in two unexpected places. A loved one who is gone, and a young love yet to be realized.

But then you zoom in on that thought, and all else freezes, and you realize with a dull horror that your grimace is not because of the pain, but because of the pleasure that is coming with that pain, the pleasure that you are enjoying, although it is he, your enemy, that is giving it to you. Your muscles tighten as, in shame, you struggle all the more, although you know the truth: it is useless. Because, deep down, there is no denying it, you want this, have always wanted it, and being a Gryffindor, stubborn, brave, and reckless, you always fight and fight and fight until you get what you want.

Luna is comforted in the Department of Mysteries.

Have you ever wondered what was running through Draco’s mind on that surprising day in third year?

What if you were the wife of a death-eater? This is Narcissa Malfoy's story on how she feels, along with something I thought may possibly happen (though not something I wish to happen). We know how everyone else feels, but what about Malfoy's mum? She may not be quite like you would inagine her... late hogwarts, a teeny bit of H/D and Luc./Bell.L

In a beach villa in the south of France, Fleur and Gabrielle Delacour are allowed to be sisters. Genfic, oneshot.

COMPLETE Voldemort has decreed a punishment for the traitor. What will happen to Severus? SSHG

My version.

One month post HBP, Severus sits writing a mad assignment for the Dark Lord. To be read with Vivaldi and a glass of cognac.

It is the beginning of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts and Harry meets another determined soldier in his fight against Voldemort. (Complete)

Post HPB, Minerva puts Albus' chessboard back in order, and comes to some conclusions about the rules of war.

Harry goes into Snape's office in search of an ingredient and finds more than he bargained for.

The return of a figure from 22 year old Remus Lupin's past places him and the rest of the Marauders in a difficult and potential fatal situation. Can they save Moony from his destined fate?

~I want to scream.~ She didn't know where she was, who had her, or anything else. She didn't know that magic existed. She didn't know her captors were called Death Eaters. It wouldn't matter.

Understanding is discovered between two outsiders. Neville Longbottom/Millicent Bulstrode.

Sirius Black knew there was something he didn't like about Cardiff....

You can’t win against anyone, if you can’t win against yourself. Harry/Dudley.

After Voldemort's demise, Harry has a rather painful talk with an incarcerated Death Eater.

"We are at the end of an age, of a great battle that has been raging for years. Some of you have lost loved ones and classmates. You will more than likely encounter others out there. Do not hesitate to strike first. " The final battle has begun. Who survive and who will die?

It was his fault. All his fault. Draco remembered well enough to know this. His fault that his sister, Karina, was always in pain, his fault she had nearly died... his fault that she had been cursed with a strange and horrible gift... one that would change the lives of all she touched forever.

This story is about the continuing pain of Harry's scar and the return of Voldemort. Also in this story you find out lots of information. You will find out why Dumbledore always sends Harry home to the Dursley's before going to Ron's house.

Taking place around 2005, Harry Potter is a general in the Great Wizard War against Voldemort. Slight H/Hr

Harry witnesses the passing of a mentor and doesn't know how to cope. Quick one-shot.

Hermione proves her love. *tom/hermione*

Half-Blood Prince Spoilers. Narcissa Malfoy finds herself deeply concerned for her son when he returns abruptly from Hogwarts.

A letter to nobody from nobody. Except for that certain somebody and a crazy person’s point of view. About betrayal and visions of the same kind. Very dark. It has nothing to do with the letter.

Seventeen years after the death of his parents, Harry returns to Godric's Hollow to exorcise himself of their ghosts. But what he finds there opens the floodgates of memory, and he is forced to remember what happened that night, long ago...

Severus Snape is thirty-five years old and is looking back upon his life. It is with regret he thinks about the one true love of his life and how he lost her to the man he hates the most.

Harry and Ginny receive mysterious and disturbing letters from none other than Draco Malfoy himself. What has happened to Draco? Can Harry face the role that he has played in Draco's life and downfall? And if so, can he and Ginny live with the guilt? -- Sequel to "Draco's Song"

"She had learned from the master, after all. Only to take that mastery, take it, twist it and use it. Use it to devour him as he had devoured her."

My first real lesson in life was almost unrecognizable when it came to me and it came in the form of a black-haired, be-spectacled boy... Cho watches Harry cry at the edge of the lake and it changes her in ways she will never forget. Sonfic to Mandy Moore's "Cry".

Even if we think we are prepared, sometimes the most unlikely person makes us realise otherwise, as Regulus finds out. No ships.

Fred survives the Battle of Hogwarts, but at a price: he is blinded. A guilty Percy declares himself his helper. Fred could barely stand Percy being a git, but this helpful, overtly friendly Percy is driving him mad.

"To die, to sleep-- to sleep, perchance to dream." -William Shakespeare

"TheprophecysaysIhaveto...hesevil...hekilledmyparents...hekilledSirius...hekilledsomany....I don’t want him to hurt anyone, ever again." The end of Book 7. One-shot.

James Potter and Lily Evans: Completely different, but completely in love. Their truimphs and losses, victories and pranks, from first kiss to last.

Snape is puzzled by one of his students. She is smart and funny and everybody loves her, but Snape know the look of one who bears a dark secret, and that look is upon Alannah Leskevitch. As the Potions professor comes to know this girl, he learns that she has suffered more than he could have ever imagined. He sees in her parallels to his own life, and slowly begins to show a human side of himself that lay hidden for many years. Set in the Trio's seventh year during the Second War, love, determination, and sacrifice must rise up out of the evil that encases the world.

She doesn't wear black anymore; she hasn't in a long time, now. She wears reds, vivid and rich as blood, beautiful red-oranges the color of her hair, pale sky-kissed blues and deep royal blue-violet, mellow, sunny yellows, and green most often; green the shade of his eyes. She doesn't laugh anymore, but she doesn't cry, and has not cried for many years.``She is always in mourning.

A long-awaited meeting. Two Black sisters. One unspoken question... Post OoP.

The night after Voldemort's fall, Albus Dumbledore pays a visit to Severus Snape. Features Snape's first lesson as a teacher!

The workers of the WB wondered how the trio would react to finding everything that had been devoted to or focused on them. Through a letter, they decided to find out. How will the trio react to finding all that is devoted to them?

A short story based on Sarah McLachlan's "Wintersong". Years after the final battle, Harry lives on in a certain blonde Slytherin's heart.

Slytherins + Sharp, pointy things = interesting happenings. Who bests whom remains to be seen.

The unexplained suicide of Nymphadora Tonks in the summer before Harry's sixth year sparks off a series of unexpected events, and raises all sorts of questions. Are these strange events all connected in some way? Why is everyone acting so suspiciously? And most importantly, what made Tonks kill herself? Was it, in fact, suicide at all...?

The story of a certain Slytherin and how he became the man we all know and love... well, some of us.

Harry survives the final battle of the Second War, but is left comatose and apparently brain dead. Now Ron must decide between two difficult choices: to keep his best friend alive by magical and mechanical means...or to give a hero the true and noble coda he deserves. (One-shot exploring euthanasia in a magical context.)

Remus and Severus have been dating for some time... Is their relationship as passionate as it seems or is there something else? Why did Sirius want to kill Severus Snape when they were in school?

After the incident in the Department of Mysteries, Harry is visited by everyone's favorite centaur, at the Astronomy Tower. And hope may have returned... One-shot, complete!

A one-shot from Petunia's point of view, showing her and Lily's relationship at various different points in time. An attempt to try and give a few theories about Petunia's attitude to magic, Harry, etc. Features guest appearances from Vernon, Marge, MWPP (including Punk!Sirius) and is hopefully not overly angsty.

Our hero is returning to Hogwarts for his sixth year. However, things at Hogwarts aren't quite as peaceful as they have always been. Voldemort isn't in hiding anymore, and suddenly, no one is safe. Harry is sure he'll be able to count on his friends, including a mysterious new girl he just met. However, this girl isn't quite what she seems...

Harry finds love and his fate during his fifth year at Hogwarts.

A/U fic in which Remus has an identical twin brother he hasn't seen since they were children. At Sirius' insistence, Remus visits his twin at St. Mungo's. Love, innocence, and the price of war.

"Your kisses are like poison so why don't you poison me..." Hermione learns a dark truth about Harry and Ron, a truth that could either make their love or break it. Dark Trio (H/R/Hr) fic

"Her hand instinctively went to her shoulder where she lightly fingered the map of dappled scarring." Ginny-gen fic.

A curse from the one she used to love will make her miserable for the rest of her life. She walks down the aisle to become a bride, all the time wanting to run, but finding no escape, and the muggle children's prayer only making everything worse.

Angsty. Crossing over to the dark side. Discovering destinies. Hermione's POV. Rated for deaths.

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." --Buddha

James and Lily on the night of their deaths. Love never dies.

"My lily feet are soiled with mud, with scarlet mud which tells a tale, of hope that was, of guilt that was, of love that shall not yet avail." A Blackfic based on Christina Rossetti's "The Convent Threshold", dealing with reflections, family, hatred, and the role of a young man in the world.

Tom Marvolo Riddle is in his seventh year at Hogwarts. He needs a girlfriend to help his image. Will the girl he so offhandedly and dispassionately picked win his heart? Is Tom really a loving, innocent soul? Um... NO.

She has always been a freak in the eyes of others, but what happens when she starts to believe it herself? To forget about the pain, the changes and the pain of living a lie every day, Tonks begins to hurt herself.

Challenge Response, written before HBP. Having been taken from the Dursleys' early, Harry is brought to Hogwarts where he learns a surprising secret about his mother and Narcissa Malfoy. A secret that will affect the course of the war and provide him with the key to the power the Dark Lord knows not.

Illicit liaisons, jealousy and violence disintegrate a new marriage.

A short fic about Neville. After his mother's death Neville feels discouraged about his life. Can someone close show him that he is gifted in the most important area?

Just because you're outnumbered doesn't mean you can't score.

How long does it take until a memory isn't enough to keep you going? How long until your existence hangs on that memory? Sirius reflects on his life from beyond the veil.

Although the war is lost, the Order is scattered and darkness is reaching the last corners of Britain, Ginny Weasley tells herself that this is the new beginning she and Harry believed in for so long, and not the end at all.

Vignette. Severus Snape, traitor, liar, killer, pawn. He contemplates the sides he plays and where his loyalties lie. When you are nothing more than a pawn to be used on both sides, it is hard to tell. For him, it is also hard to care.

How in the world do I describe this? A view into Oliver's family situations, on falling in love. Includes slashyness. Starring Oliver, guest-starring Percy, Cedric, Amos Diggory.

Its Harry's sixth year, and he's determined to enjoy it - but naturally this doesn't happen. Death-eater attacks on wizards and muggles alike, leave Harry feeling confused about his place in the battle against Voldermort. It seems he's not the only instrumental figure in this fight against darkness. There's only one thing that Harry knows for sure - this year will be different.

Harry has feelings for Draco, burning feelings. He decides he cannot cope and deals with it - really badly.

“Pack, he thought, and may well have mumbled as much aloud.” Ginny/Fenrir Greyback

Ginny Weasley does not feel quite herself in the summer after her fifth year. Or at least, she feels as though she has changed. She is not the same girl who attended Hogwarts ending just over a month ago. Puzzling over the Second War, which she is allowed no part in, and what exactly she wants to mean to Harry Potter, who never comes to see her, she begins to brew love potions in a desperate attempt to allay her boredom...

When Draco takes a wrong turn one day in fourth year, little does he realise that the person he meets will end up being the only person he has left. Shame she's not really a person then...

Even years after his defeat, Voldemort's reign of terror destroyed lives in more ways than one.

Neville Longbottom speaks up about his life and childhood in this monologue. We see tragic twists and turns, and all feel bad for Neville.

Years of battle, years of pain, immense losses, and the burden of the world on his shoulders. But now he has reached the end of his task, the end of his journey. It is time for him to go home. SONGFIC

Not every childhood is pleasant and not all of our memories can we know. A prequel to Saved Memories.

Songfic. Her hand. Her hand was perfect. She told him to hold on. But he would never hold hands with a person like her. He'd rather die than do that. Or, maybe he wouldn't. Lord only knows what will happen on that cold rainy night.

Albus Dumbledore is a wizard, known for his power, and even more so for his wisdom. But one isn't born with such knowledge. Instead, it is learned through considerable experience. This little one-shot looks into such an experience that taught our favourite Headmaster an important lesson.

The fifth year for the Marauders is an exciting one: they become animagi, Sirius plays a famous joke on Snape, and Lily and James get together (I know they didn't really get together until seventh year). By the time Harry Potter is 15, two Marauders are dead at the hands of Voldemort and his Death Eaters, and one is Voldemort's right-hand man. The only one that remains (and is still loyal to Dumbledore) is Moony, but he is a werewolf! He can't even get a job. I wrote this fanfic to keep all four Marauders (and Lily Evans) alive forever and loyal to Dumbledore (although Peter is in-between here). Enjoy!

My answer to the WIKTT 'Angstier Than Thou' challenge. Snape considers suicide and Hermione interrupts.

Five wizards sit alone in their various lives....all any of them wants is one friend

Lucius Malfoy asks his father politely to sign something. Or maybe not so politely. Another of the loosely–connected Permission Slip (Ridd/AT so far) series.

Ginny isn't the little innocent sister Ron wanted. She's flawed. She's surprised him. Angsty!Angry!Ginny thinks about her life while Ron screams. [Ginny/Tom, Ginny/Snape, Ginny/Ron?]

Set in the summer between PoA and GoF and inspired by Sirius' tropical bird post. A newly-released Sirius and a newly-sacked Lupin try haltingly to pick up where they left off twelve years prior--and have some excitement along the way. Angst, fluff, and high adventure, all thrown together! Remus/Sirius slash themes.