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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...?

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.

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.

"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.

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

"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.

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...

"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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?]

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.

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

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

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.)

"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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I want to be there when Harry kills Voldemort. I want to be there to hold Harry after, and I want to tell him that he avenged his parents, and that Harry can do whatever he wants now, because Harry defeated Voldemort. -- Sirius Black.

Tom and Ginny story. Set during CoS. Ginny's pov. She misses Tom. Now she's got him. But for how long will she want to keep him? Read, please. This can be a one part story or can continue.

"Because of you, Harry Potter," he writes, "I am nothing." Angst/angst for a reason.

Neville learns just who was behind the mask of 'Mad-Eye' Moody, during his fourth year, and considers what it means to him, reflecting on what happened to his parents and him during his childhood. A counterpoint story to the Crouch Jr. perspective fic - The Scars Of Trust.

Everybody loves Ginny... but who does Ginny love?

A month has passed since the death of Lord Voldemort. A chance meeting on the street forces Remus Lupin to confront questions he cannot answer.

Harry Potter has just lost the closest thing he ever had to a father and has heard word that either he must be a murderer or be murdered. All of this is weighing on poor Harry's back and it's draining him of his will to live. This is a story about how his life changes after his fifth year at Hogwarts and what happens during his sixth year there. Will he be able to make it through to victory again or will he lose hope all together and forsake the rest of the wizarding world as we know ``it? Please R/R!!

Prequel to "Scrawled Upon My Soul" and "The Way the Candles Light Your Face". What was Draco up to while Harry was off being a war hero? Faced with a life or death decision, Draco has a realization regarding the man he wants to be and the man his father wants him to be.

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

Ever wondered who Harry's namesake is? James is trying desperately to get Lily to go out with him and Peter isn't a death eater yet.

Remus is writing, finally, after years of not, about the circumstances leading up to his becoming a werewolf. About his Father, and the irony of a star gazer being becmoing a werewolf. A first person fix, designed to be written as I imagine Remus would write about himself.

My thoughts have become a swirling caricature of sanity, even I admit, but they don’t know. None of them out there know; know that I have you; know that you’re mine. They don’t know that I can keep you alive. Songfic of sorts to the song Sleeping Beauty by A Perfect Circle. Femslash and implied necrophilia.

While school shopping in Diagon Alley, 10-year-old Severus Snape meets Lucius Malfoy for the first time.

One Christmas Eve, Lucius Malfoy takes stock of his crumbling life. Scenes of humiliation and cheap sex punctuate his remembrances.

Snape and Harry have more in common than either would have believed.

Not all problems are solved by magic! Sirius Black and the Potters face The Boy Who Wouldn't Stop Crying.

'I scare myself sometimes. I catch myself thinking all sorts of crazy things… but it’s so tempting to just forget… to pretend…' he says, and you nod unhappily in agreement. But pretending won't solve anything, it only makes the hurt worse when you finally face it.

The final battle has come and gone, and only one man walks away. How will a letter from beyond the grave affect the survivor?

When a Muggle girl who loves fantasy moves into 6 Privet Drive, what will she find out about the mysterious boy in the bedroom next to hers? A bit of everything--humor, action, suspense, and angst. Deals with the forbidden and out-of-reach. Dudley gets beat up by a girl. It's all good.

A few days after Sirius' capture, Remus returns to Hogwarts to recover and remember his old friends. Songfic to Les Miz.

When Harry Potter is convicted for several brutal murders and imprisoned in Azkaban, the magical world unknowingly forges a weapon that will destroy not only its enemy, but its creator.