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An "application essay" by Tom Riddle regarding his Award for Special Services to the School. So earnest. So modest. ... Such a crock.

Remus thinks about the death in OotP. SPOILERS!

One day, Remus Lupin died. Harry/Remus slash.

Narcissa's mentally unstable and on ocassion finds herself in her childhood again.

Harry's dead. Well, not exactly, he's in what must be an inbetween. Meanwhile, everyone's going back to Hogwarts, strange dreams are over throwing people's self restraint, and Voldemort is back for the kill. But this time they have to set right an ancient prophecy, they have to go back in time. Is the universe they're in now the right one? Or has everything gone terribly wrong?

Molly Weasley arrives at 12 Grimmauld Place shortly after the events of GoF. My attempt to explain why she acted like she did throughout OotP.

Detective Ronald Weasley is telling one of his famous Cases, can you solve the crime bfore he does or will someone get killed in the process? Read to find out.``Prologue: Ron Weasley summarizes one of the cases that he will tell you this day... it may not be halloween but what the hey!

'Her classmates couldn't be more correct: Lavender Brown is a daft cow with no common sense and nought a spare thought in her head.' [SS/HG]

Even before he murdered his father and his grandparents, Tom Riddle had split his soul in more ways than one. For murder is not the only event that will break the heart.

"I learned, I learned, I learned elsewhere, From muses unhired by you, dear mother." -Sylvia Plath, The Disquieting Muses. A series exploring Sirius's relationship with his family, what they did to him and what he did to them, from many points of view. Who is leaving? Who got left?

Eileen Prince has only been glimpsed as a sullen girl and a cowering woman. Here's another quick look at a resolutely quiet witch.

Ron was the only one who truly understood Ginny and stayed by her side, so when he leaves Hogwarts, Ginny loses control of her Darker side. She becomes a notorious Death Eaters and the new Mrs. Draco Malfoy. Set on vengeance and power, Ginny's mission is to kill the Weasleys; kill Hermione for taking Ron away from her; and convince Ron that he belongs on the Dark side because both of them have the Darkness in their eyes unlike everyone else.

The story of how Bellatrix Lestrange and nine other Death Eaters escaped from Azkaban during The Order of the Phoenix. Who needs a mole when you can have a rat?

Regulus Black gets Sorted. He will learn some things that will affect the rest of his time at Hogwarts. Sirius, Bellatrix, and Severus all make an appearance. Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge.

It was easier to hate him when you didn\'t know he was human. Letters between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter after their sixth year offer a glimpse into the aftermath of obsession and the desperate lengths some go to for companionship.

You build your own Azkaban, and you let yourself out.

Narcissa reflects on her life.

[TRxGW] "...be a man... try... try for some remorse..." Dark Lords did not feel remorse ... but if he had, if Tom Riddle had felt even one second of regret, it would have been for her. Twoshot.

One shot. Some years after the war, Draco, traumatised and alone, reaches out desperately for human contact.

Funerals are hardest on those left behind.

This was written for greyangel through McTabby's Blame Each Other Challenge. Snape/Pomfrey. "A late night visit to the dungeons, untold secrets... He has to heal her... in more ways than one."

"My name is Harry Potter. I have lived through war and fear, pain and grief. I have seen my best friends die in front of my eyes." Harry had nothing left in the world, save a desire to kill Voldemort. His thoughts before the battle.

It's New Years Eve, and Dean Thomas is alone, quite unwillingingly, by choice. Dean realizes a way to deal with the demons and dreams that haunt him, now that he's the last man standing. A post-Hogwarts fic that isn't horribly depressing.

It is Halloween and Lucius is heading out to make the world a better place.

"When Harry awoke, the man that had rescued him was almost dead..."

Post OotP...Harry begins to cope with the devastating loss.

Lily makes a difficult choice that changes her life -- and death -- forever.

Harry goes to Military School for the Magical, and with his new-found powers, vows to get revenge on He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

It seemed like it was going to be the best year ever. At least that's what MWPP, and Lily and Co. thought. That was until a sinister mystery presented itself to them...

What will Harry do when Voldemort kills someone important to his world?

Snape knows better. Features: Occlumency, Pensieves, inevitable madness, and memories. SS/HP, in a very roundabout way.

Harry finds out about Draco's illness. What does he do about it? This is the sequel to 'I Had a Bad Day'.

This what if centers on Book Four. Krum asked Harry what there was between he and Hermione. Harry assured him there wasn't anything going on between them, and Krum believed him. What if he hadn't? This story deals with that possibility.

With Lord Voldemort risen again, all the wizards of the world know that the first people to suffer will be the Death Eaters who betrayed or abandoned him. This is the account of one such ex-Death Eater, Severus Snape...

Set nearing the end of the marauder's years at Hogwarts. Peter witnesses a nasty trick Lucius and Snape play on Remus and Sirius. His intrigue leads into his gateway to darkness.

Maybe it's love after all.

Harry Potter is the only one who has ever survived the Killing Curse. It was a miracle that was thought of to happen only once in lifetime... But does not everyone love someone?

I decided what heaven was going to be like, for me at least. The image has stuck with me, although I was only 11 at the time. However, I must confess that it’s a pleasant surprise to find myself breaking the solitude, even such peaceful solitude the one I just described, that plagued me through my mortal life. It was a wonderful shock to see all of you again.

Lily Potter tells her feelings before she dies.

Forgetting is easy. It's the memories that are hard. Remus reflects on his life and his memories after Sirius' death.

Everyone's lives are put in jeopardy when a secret revealed causes identity confusion and a tangle of assassins after the Boy-Who-Lived. When the hunter becomes the hunted, who can put things right? A tale of love, family, lies and blackmail.

Can you keep a secret? I suppose it matters little if you can. I am a marked man and my days are numbered, so it's only a matter of time before they come for me.

This is my first song fic. It's about Harry and Hermione breaking up after a long relationship.

When a surprisingly strong-witted friend of Rowena Ravenclaw comes to visit her in the Hogwarts castle, she begins to brew up some unknown emotions: love, hatred, and disgust among the four friends. Her arrival means death and lust.

Hermione Granger, pride of the Auror Department, is given the task to scry out the latest aspiring Dark Lord, who seems to be a very real threat, as he is hailed to be as powerful as the late Lord Voldemort...

The cold and the darkness bear down on her and her only saviour is the one clouded in darkness. What's the mystery? Who is he? Where is everything I've ever believed in?

Harry's thoughts during his stay at the Dursleys' before sixth year!

When Harry Potter was ten, he could see his life stretching out before him in a long, empty line.

HP/Celtic fairy tale crossover. Did you ever wonder how such a bad wizard came to be? Or why Tom Riddle grew up in an orphanage?

She was born with everything. He was born with nothing. But he's about to take everything he wants and more, and she might be the only one who could save him. But at what cost to herself? TR/OC.

Harry and Draco just can't let go of each other.

Hermione Granger. Harry Potter. A timeturner. A locket. And R.A.B. You have no idea.

No one understood. They all knew she had tried to help him in his battle and that she was devastated from his passing. It seemed ironic that the disease she despised so much would also take her life. Still, no one knew of her pain. No one knew of her guilt.

Severus Snape has been brutally murdered. Then why is he showing up on Hermione’s doorstep with Dumbledore? Hermione must deal with him as a roommate while standing on the edge of disaster as the true web of deceit behind his feigned death threatens her life as well as his. HG/SS, with a little unconventional GW/DM

Sirius and Hagrid's confrontation at Godric's Hollow after the Potters' deaths.

"Angels are Among Us." Ginny Weasley learns this in a very shocking way when a ghost from the past comes back as her "Guardian Angel." Worse yet, this "angel" catchs the eye of one Dark Lord. But the fun's not done yet as another world comes into play and Ginny is faced with choosing the Lesser Evil. TR/GW/HP, RW/HG.

In the end, Severus Snape always makes the right decision, no matter what he really wants.

Draco’s favorite champagne, Harry’s favorite glass. Is the flute half empty or half full? SLASH. HP/DM.

He touched him... he touched him there, and he doesn't know what to do, and the Devil will come and steal his eyes for it, because he reacted. He reacted, and he has been shamed, and now he is light-forsaken, doomed to return back to that room and let the demon touch him, hurt him, bleed him. Graham Pritchard is being abused, and he doesn't know what to do- until he finds safety and hope in the most unlikely of people. Companion piece to The Love of a Brother.

Ginny's reflects on the hollowness and hopelessness of the forces of light after Harry's death.

All past tenses? She felt blood drain from her face. " It's not true, is it? " she asked. She would not believe it. *If love isn't there to stay, then it isn't yours to keep. *

Ginny Weasley's thoughts on her depressing life, when she realizes how she's really feeling, it's too late.

One-shot. Ginny talks about Tom and Harry. Pure bittersweet angst...

Padma Patil's secret is unknown to most people, but there is one who knows. Luna Lovegood. Padma's thieving has to stop and only this one young Ravenclaw can cure it...

...they feared what they did not know, and Tom's introverted personality caused others to fear him even more. To them, he was a mystery- the less of himself he revealed to others, the less they were sure of. Tom contemplates the way things are and the way things are to become. Set in his third year.

Sirius recalls his best friend, James, right before he goes to Azkaban.

Pansy is not the kind of girl to brook any disruption of her well-made plans. It's looking as though Draco might cause trouble, and she will use fair means or foul to get her life back on track. After all, she is in Slytherin. Part II of a Slytherin Triptych.

The famous trio have graduated and moved on with their lives. Two of the group have gotten married, while one of them is still fighting his feelings for the one that got away.

A very dark sixth-year fic. Draco and Harry's hate comes to a shocking climax. Rather than at the end, the climax is at the beginning, so read onwards, ever onwards to discover the reasons behind their actions.

And there she was, and all Harry could do was stare. He knew her before, but he doesn't know how or why. He needed to talk to her, to find out who she is and what she knew.

There's a new girl at Hogwarts, but is she what she appears to be? When Draco starts hearing voices he decides to find out.

“A mother always has to think twice; once for herself, and once for her child.” ~Sophia Loren | A 'missing scene' set directly prior to the events at Spinner's End in HBP.

One can find that no matter how much you love someone, they are not always yours.

Could you consider Harry/Cho/Hermione a love triangle? Not really, at least not in the reality we know of. What if Hermione wasn't an innocent part of what happened between Harry and Cho? What if Cho had been right? What if Hermione wasn't the girl we know at all? Very A/R

The year is 1969. Little Severus Snape discovers a new passion: Dark magic. His mother thinks it prudent to take charge and explain him the rules of the game.

Trials come in all shapes and sizes and Harry’s going to have``to deal with a lot on them in his sixth year. Join him as he represses, burns books, plays Quidditch and does his homework, all while having to foil Voldemort’s plans for immortality.

A man. A woman. A bar. Lots of alcohol. It's amazing the conversations that happen in the middle of a war.

An understanding found, as Snape attempts to move on from his past and into a possible future.

Unexpected words of comfort come from a young Ginny as Molly finally gets her and Ron to bed with a story.

After leaving the hospital wing in GOF, Sirius contemplates the past, the struggle that lies ahead, and vows to make no foolish mistakes this time around.

Severus Snape participates in the annual search for a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for the first time.

Harry defeated Voldemort at the age of nineteen. Wanting a normal life he then left England, and moved to America, where he married a Muggle woman, and had their daughter, Eliza. When Eli was ten, he died as a result of what happened all those years ago. The killing curse had not killed him immediately. Instead, it shortened his life span significantly. At sixteen,, Eli decides to finish school at Hogwarts, and hopefully do what her father could not: make amends with those he left behind long before he died. Simple enough, except Eli inherited her father's knack for getting in trouble.

During his time in Azkaban Sirius finds a moment among the shadows to reflect... but only for a moment, before the shadows once more resume their dance. Slash.

"'Do you believe in the life to come?' . . . 'Mine was always that.'" - Endgame by Samuel Beckett. Tom. Harry. Blood, genetics, power, immortality. A one-shot.

Sirius, injured, needs help. Dumbledore sends Ron out to help him, and now he's finally returning. Harry stands to greet him, but will news be what he wants to hear?

In every war, both sides think they are right. What would it take for Lucius to convince Narcissa that joining Lord Voldemort is the right choice?

Katora is just about to make the hardest choice of her life, well second hardest. See what happens to Katora as she just tries to make a living.

Suppose you were allowed to go to Hogwarts...but you couldn't interfere, and you had just a glance?

"McGonagall won't last long, she's only filling in..." Following Minerva McGonagall through Chamber of Secrets as she struggles to protect the students in Albus Dumbledore's absence.

Harry deals with the death of Cedric in his own way.

Sometimes it takes a big change to let you see past the silly little squabbles of life. Oliver Wood and Marcus Flint reflect at Cedric Diggory’s gravesite.

Inspired by the lyrics of Sun and Moon from the musical Miss Saigon, the fic focuses on the thoughts of two people torn apart by belief. What will happen? What had happened?

We've repeatedly heard about Sirius Black and how when he got into Gryffindor, his family was shocked and ashamed. Turn the situation around to look at a girl who everyone expected to get into Ravenclaw or Gryffindor --Hufflepuff, at worst. As Hagrid says in book one, "Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin". Modesta's world is turned upside down when she finds herself in the last House she'd expected to get in. She finds herself exploring Slytherin as she never thought she would and discovering things that make her wonder if there is more to this stereotyped house.

The best things come in threes. Fate split them apart, what brought them back together?

Harry never knew someone was obsessed about him. And no, I don't mean Ginny Weasley. No one ever noticed Eloise Midgen, but she was always there, watching and dreaming about everything Harry Potter.

Before Harry Potter was born, Lord Voldemort had another obsession: his experiments. They were to be the ultimate Death Eaters; they were bestial in their ferocity, and stronger and faster than any human. They were his children - before they rebelled. Thought to be exterminated by Voldemort's rage at being betrayed, the last of these warriors will change the wizarding world in a huge way.

Underneath the tight bun and the thick glasses, Minerva McGonagall is a woman who cares.

"I was alone. All alone. And my father deserted me. I couldn't believe it." A songfic to the song Perfect by Simple Plan.

A set of fairly long drabbles about the three Black sisters: Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa, on the topics of power, passion, and pain.

There was a time when a man's name defined him.