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

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?

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

"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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sometimes there is nothing worse than having your faults pointed out to you. Especially when they are coming from your soulmate.

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.

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

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

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.

'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.

About a young Snape and his time at Hogwarts through to when Lily and James die.

What made Severus Snape kill Dumbledore? Is he really a loyal Death Eater? Take a step into his mind to find out what really happened.

"Everything suddenly seemed much clearer now."

The follow up to Giving Up Little Girl Dreams.``When Ginny catches Harry with someone else she flirts with the idea of evil.``Rated R for one implied sexual situation.``D/G

Buried his mind there, didn't he? For fives years, he did. Five years. And he was insane. It was deep, and it was hidden, under layers of papers and TVs, shows and Muggle beer, clinging onto the poles of the bar like a sailor to the mast of a sinking ship, yelling on about how we all are castaways of circumstances in the end, as though he'd already reached it.

Assigned to a mission that quickly spins out of control, Nymphadora Tonks meets Remus Lupin for the first time under the direst of circumstances.

In an alternate timeline, Harry and Draco attended Hogwarts in the early twentieth century, where they learned to brew a secret immortality potion. Harry's formula is complete but Draco's is missing its final matrix for forever-earthly life. In the intervening years the always-youthful wizards have participated in many of the key events of the twentieth century... and Draco is still following Harry's trail, trying to complete his own formula before time runs out.

The first victim of the Death Eaters. Who she was, why she was hated... how she triumphed over her enemies.

Hermione Granger is depressed. Her life seems to have hit a mental road block. She can't find love anywhere. But what will she do? A songfic to Paint it Black.

What becomes of a hero when the lights go down and the dragon is slain? Harry PoV.

A lone wizard watches an ordinary Muggle home, pondering the inevitable path that led him to this point.

"Regulus can't bring himself to let go of the horcrux. It masquerades as a heavy locket, and its engraving presses against his palm as his fingers tense around the metal, his skin accepting the imprint of its patterns." Regulus meets Sirius for the last time.

Sirius Black and Severus Snape start getting along. Kind of.

The Hogwarts Sorting Hat is given three rather... unusual children to Sort one September. Told from the Hat's POV. A light-hearted, quickly read, character-sketchy piece providing background for some of my characters from "Heiress of the Curse" and "The Vale Beyond" (which you can read on Schnoogle).

Meet Slytherin 'keeper Bletchley - not the most typical of Quidditch players, or the best of students. Her take on a year filled with her persistent feelings for others, ambitious hope and the desire to play in a certain Quidditch match.

Remus sees a young Nymphadora Tonks' true form for the first time and reflects on her heritage.

There are few things worth killing for. One of them is immortality.

The summer before her third year, Hermione signed up for an inter-collegiate pen-pal program, then promptly forgot about it...until she received a letter from one Brynja Snorrisdotter. Taking place starting in the third year and moving on up.

“You can’t, can you? And you’re more articulate than I am. It’s just a feeling, Moony. One of those feelings that you can’t explain, but it’s there. Like love, Moony, like love. You can’t describe that either. That’s what the tapestry feels like. But I also got this gnawing feeling from it…like anguish or something.”

I still see your face, staring up at me, eyes wide and dying. I still see your pale hand, stretching out to me, silently begging me to save you. Pleading for one more chance at life. Your eyes, not accusatory, but pitying. Pitying me. When you were the one dying. I still hear your last words, like a curse on me. ``WARNING: Slash, suicide, murder, and loads and loads of angst.

It's happening. Again. But I won't wait on him. Not this time. I have work to do. I won’t be his slave anymore.

Who ever thought a little game of tag could go so wrong...?

Based on Severitus. Everyone has skeletons in their closets, but in Harry's case, these skeletons can turn out to be sword-wielding undeads. Which was why Snape tried so hard to keep them under rugs. And what does the Mirror of Erised have to do with all these?

When there is no hope left, when the world you knew is gone forever, when everything around you is dead or dying, there is only one thing that remains to be done - the writing of the epitaph. An epitaph for what once was. An epitaph written in the ashes of the old world...

Towards the end of Ginny's fifth year, she has the usual career counselling session with Professor McGonagall, and she realizes that she has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Being Ginny, she figures out a way to find out - the Mirror of Erised. But what she sees in it isn't anything she would have expected. Can she live with knowing her deepest desire, and what should she do about it, now that she knows it?

The Second War is over and Voldemort has been killed but Harry pays a horrible price, the loss of his best friend.

When two lovers face each other at the final battle, what will be said and done? A HarryxDraco Dark Ficlet.

In the quiet of the infirmary, to ears that could not hear his words, Severus Snape remembers. SS/RL

Hermione will do anything to be with her beloved again, even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice. (TR/HG)

(A/U!) Fred and George, young, care-free, and innocent, find the map which will lead them to success. Only there are some 'details' about the map no one mentioned...

The last words of the dead are painful. Especially if they're meant for someone else. D/G/H

We’ve all seen numerous versions of evil Harry. But what if Voldemort never became who he was today in canon? What if something else happened?

Harry/Draco. Draco has always known he would have to choose a side. Being Draco though, he decides to choose neither.

Sibyl is different. Harry has made her realize that, but can Harry get over Sibyl different and unexpected actions. Can Seamus stand those black eyes?

Malfoy has information, but Ron isn't really listening.

Sara Gordon is a horse-crazy little girl with a remarkable rapport with all animals. She knows she's adopted because she doesn't look a thing like the rest of her family, but she loves her family anyway. Then one day she meets her birth mother: Rhiannon Storm, the Crystal Muse.````A cousin of Narcissa Malfoy and a graduate of Slytherin house, Rhiannon Storm went on to gain fame as being one of the few to escape Voldemort's clutches. She gave Sara up to adoption to protect her from Voldemort's control. She is best known for her ability to call power from stones; thus her nickname "The Crystal Muse." She is craved by Voldemort because he believes she can give him the power to become insurmountable.

A girl starting Hogwarts learns of her past through a library book, having no clue that Harry is one of her ancestors. But who is the other?

Snape's memories of the fateful night at the end of Book Six. This takes the view that Snape is not the bad guy he appears to be. This is what I hope really happened!

Harry hated yellow. He knew, logically, that it was a transitory thing; he had never before had a problem with yellow, and this irrational anger with the colour had only started since – But he didn’t think about that.