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"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?

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

"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."

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"

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".

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

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.

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...?

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!

"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

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

"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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

"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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Illicit liaisons, jealousy and violence disintegrate a new marriage.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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

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.

A girl named Rosanna/Rosie creates a web of love, and Harry gets tangled in it. Because of this Ron gets in a small but huge fight with Harry. Harry finds a letter that sends Hermione, Harry, Rosie, and Draco on a quest to find the lost piece of a tablet, and they end up fighting on the curve of the worlds destruction.

Harry Potter was told that he is the only one who can defeat Lord Voldemort. For the past few months he’s been dwelling on that prophecy. But there’s another prophecy, one that he doesn’t know about yet. ````There is one person who can help him. A person who is, in fact, essential to the defeat of Lord Voldemort. ````She is Albus Dumbledore’s daughter and she’s been living as an American Muggle for the past sixteen years, unaware of her true heritage. Can Harry and Ella defeat Lord Voldemort together? Or are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives searching for the strength to destroy the greatest evil that has ever threatened the wizarding world?

And she knew in her heart that he was wrong, now, and she looked at him with dead eyes that were empty of all emotion. It didn't matter to her much, anymore, for he was wrong. But he had won. And the winner was always right.

A one shot from the point of view of Hermione's parents.

Two boys, sitting alone in the darkness on a stormy night. “Why?” he whispered quietly, in a heartbroken tone, as he watched his hands. His companion only stared at him with sadness, as if searching for the words that might comfort his friend but not being able to find them.

What if Harry had a different Head of House in spite of being sorted into Gryffindor? Completely AU, will probably be a longer story following most canon events from first year until the end of fifth year but with a twist. Partly OOC, sick!Harry.

You are a fledgling who tried to fly from the nest, little bird. Tried to fly and fell. Why did you leave the safety of the nest? ``WARNING: cross generation femmeslash.

Eight-year-old Draco gets beat up. Gen.

'Midquel' to Searching for the Truth. Connie goes home after a hard year at Hogwarts, but this one may just be worse.

After Crouch dies, Sirius pays a visit to Hogwarts. Takes places during Goblet of Fire.

A Minerva McGonagall pastfic. Minerva is still attending Hogwarts and she's still on the Quidditch team. Semi-finals are here, and eager parents become obsessed with the team's winning. Every time the team slips up, the parents become more outraged. Soon, they take their anger out on their kids and havoc ensues.

Suddenly the Dursleys don't look too bad. Short story based on the Harry Potter universe.

The blind man thinks about the thin line between love and hate.

Can one live with the horror of what they've done? Can they live with their betrayal? A short tale about a woman who failed to bring back one man she grew close to during the war, and her self-hatred.

AU: Instead of Harry being the boy who lived he is the brother of the girl who lived and lives in the shadows. Voldemort rises again yet the wizarding world are thinking his sister will save them but she can't for it is Harry who will help them! Will they figure it out before it's too late and he turns dark or before Voldemort gets to the Potter siblings? And will Harry ever learn to like his sister and not just protect her because of the memory of his late parents?

After the Dementor attack in the summer after Voldemort's return, Dudley is reflecting on what happened and the implications for the future. Explores the relationship between Dudley and Harry, from Dudley's point of view.

"Tomorrow. Just another wasted day. A day without comfort, hope and freedom. A day filled with pain. A day in the life of a shadow." - The wizarding world is a few months away from The Final Battle. Ron, Hermoine, Harry, Ginny and Draco have become mere shadows of their former selves. When events take a surprising turn, will they survive?

Everyone is absolutely delighted that Hermione and Ron are finally engaged. Everyone, that is, except Molly Weasley. A different look at Molly Prewett's decision to marry Arthur Weasley many years prior, and at the fickle relationship that exists between the family-oriented Ron Weasley and the driven Hermione Granger.

Thanks to a sex-obsessed Ronald Weasley, Hermione secretly spends much of her fifth year considering the intimate relationships of the giant populace. HW, HP, RW, Giants and a cameo from Snape.

Sirius, James, and Peter know Remus's secret. Now they have only one problem: How to tell Remus that they know? What if our favourite werewolf freaks out or something? There's only one way to find out. Remus indeed freaks, James is a pack leader, Peter is a protective friend and Sirius tries to bribe with chocolate.``No slash.

This is the story of what would have been, if Harry Potter hadn't shot that jet of green light, illuminating the battlefield, that jet of light that told everyone in the world his story. That one stream of light, of concentrated energy, power, and magic... that ended it all.

A short glimpse of Severus Snape's life during the Marauder's time. Sometimes, what must be done is very different from what the heart yearns to do. Severus/Sirius slash.

During the war, Hermione's thirst for vengeance is the only thing that keeps her alive. Harry's POV. Angst, drama and slash warning, G/Hr

After the war, a destitute Ginevra finds that marrying Lucius Malfoy is her only chance to survive.

"I feel like... like I’m standing on the edge of a sunset, fighting to snag the edge of light as it slips past my fingers and below the horizon. I can’t hold on to that last bit of familiarity, as the darkness takes over, but I’ll try with all my heart, until it fades and I have to face the night." A Slytherin ponders the life of the Boy Who Lived.

There is always a next battle. (DH Spoilers!)

Strange dreams and not-quite-by-chance meetings set Harry and Draco on edge as they begin to realize that there's something very strange going on with them. Contains slash (Draco/Boy!Blaise), war paint, the two things Malfoy doesn't like to advertise, the possible reason for all the secret-spilling at that dinner with Grace, and Harry's remarkably Bludger-like punch. Sequel to A Meal with the Viper.

A Dark artefact falls into the hands of a Muggle cricketer ... and the trail leads Harry and his picked band of Aurors through Spinner's End and the Hangletons, to a final confrontation on a village cricket pitch, where they hit the Forces of Evil for six. (All Kingsley wants is for the forms to be filed correctly.)

An aside to Switch. Where do memories go to die? Why, our dreams, of course.

Can you imagine being ripped out of the world you know, and plunged into a world that is cold and dark? Can you imagine being tortured...? There have been rumours that Lucius brings Draco girls to practice the unforgivable curses on, and one night, one girl finds the truth in these rumours.

Its ten years after canon-Potter; Voldemort has been defeated (probably, although he's bound to pop up somewhere again) and England is settling down. However, a new Dark Lord is on the rise. He's clever. He's maliciously evil. He won't let a bespectacled scar-face stand in his way, and he has impeccable taste... Welcome to No. 2 Winding Road, Home of the Dark Lord.

Lucius Malfoy tries to talk his way out of prison and regain his place in society. Can this smooth-talking Slytherin really convince them to accept someone with such a questionable past? One-shot.

Harry sits on the train and wonders about losing his best friend until he discovers something that might make a difference!

Luna has questions that she thinks Remus might be able to answer.

"Sometimes a master needs his slave just as much as a slave needs her master." t/g with some d/g, darkfic.

"You have made your decision." Harry Potter ponders his life and the decisions that he has made.

Shortly before trying to tell Harry and Ron, Ginny confides her secret with her close friend.

When Harry and Draco go into a coma, they share a dream that is very interesting. Draco POV and the first in the Brothers trilogy.

Some familiar characters exercise their magical powers for the first time.

You always hurt the ones you love. (H/D)