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Bellatrix, in Azkaban, receives a visit from an old schoolfriend seeking answers. (Original Character)

History has a way of reapeating itself. Nobody knows this better than Albus Dumbledore. Yet if you want to know how he learned this, look at this fic, where we'll explore why did he learned this the hard way.

Harry is having a generally weird time of it this summer, and during a very complicated potion-brewing incident on arrival back at Hogwarts, he and Ron accidentally manage to create a Philosopher's Stone. Unfortunately, Voldemort has found out, and is going to any lengths to get his hands on it. It will take all the guile Harry and most of the rest of the school possess to keep it out of his way... Can they do it? Sixth-year fic.

The darkness that threatened to consume Harry Potter when he was in school looms once more. He teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts, yet can't control his fascination for the very magic that his subject strives to counter. His wife is continually cold and absorbed in her work. His world, seemingly stable, begins to change again with a surreal Resurrection spell, the subsequent reappearance of people long thought dead, and the fresh emergence of an old enemy with a new face.

An answer to WIKTT's Pensieve Challenge. Hermione becomes addicted to using a pensieve. HG/SS.

A month after Sirius' passing, Remus runs into Harry at the cemetary. RL/SB.

Narcissa reflects on Sirius and the Black family.

He spat, unable to contain his disgust any longer. Not easy, being firmly tied to a stone floor, arms and legs stretched to the point of snapping the joints.``‘My Lord, what have I done to deserve such humiliation?’ He was pretending to be pleading, and not doing a very good job at it.``‘You know what you have done, Lucius. Why don’t you share it with us all? It may make you feel better.’

The Moonlight showed everything. And as Draco finds it harder to conceal the deadly secret, he realises what he must do.

Sirius Black never received a proper, fair trial. All he ever got was a sentencing, and one last chance to speak to the world before being shut up in Azkaban Prison. His sentencing, told through the eyes of Remus Lupin, Albus Dumbledore, and his own.

Andromeda Black and Fabian Prewett are slumming it on their Muggle night out. Only it doesn't end the way either of them expect. Co-winner of FictionAlley's July 2007 Challenge.

On a muggy summer night in 1995, Remus Lupin sits in The Three Broomsticks, pondering the thought of being The Last Marauder. OOTP Spoilers. Inspired by “Empty Chairs At Empty Tables” from Les Miserables

It's a full moon and Remus has assumed his form as a blood-thirsty werewolf. What has he done? What will he do? Was it all real?

If you get close to fire, you'll only get burned. Lucius/Ginny, written for the crossgenathon.

"The problem with looking just like my father is that everyone expects me to act just like him, too."

Draco tells Harry what happened to him before he came to Harry's house. (sequel to Corners of my Mind)

Theodore Nott has always stood on the outside looking in, afraid to give in to the demands of the people around him. Seamus Finnigan bounds about on the fringe of Gryffindor Tower, not a member of the Golden Trio (and not certain he'd want to be, what with all the death-defying and constant danger). Written in response to the HMS Rivalry and Revenge Cookie Jar challenge, involving a grandfather clock, a bunch of bananas, a lullaby and/or drinking song, and a startling revelation.

Hermione has just discovered that a fortress is useless if the object it's protecting has already been destroyed. One-shot, Seventh year.

"Some say that change is a good thing. Some are afraid of change. But for Draco Malfoy, change was just another way to get rid of his pain." Somethings happen for a reason, but not all reasons can be good. In only a month and a half, Draco has changed from Bad Boy Slytherin Prince to Hidden Away Mellowed Out Goth. Will someone be able to stop him from doing something stupid, or is it too late for them, too?

Draco reflects on his relationship with Percy before he is murdered by his father.

*Character Death* The end of the HP series for me, one character's thoughts and realizations after it's over.

The newest addition makes a couple complete. A sequel of sorts to "The Service" but can be read on its own.

Hermione is fed up with dealing with the feuding Harry and Ron. She has literally reached the end of her tether. One fine day she takes a long walk... and learns a great about herself in the process.

It's been months since Percy heard from his former girlfriend, Penelope, but one letter is about to change both of them forever.

Neville reflects on his life without his parents and finds that he has a lot in common with Harry.

While the war is won, the battle may be lost. Remus Lupin confronts his life and his nature. There just might be some hope after all.

The final battle has come, leaving Draco Malfoy in the middle. What will he chose to do? Sequel to I Just Keep Running and Bitter Tears Come From The Fallen.

Draco’s life has been changed forever by his deeds. And life turns out to be much harder than expected. Sequel to The Ties That Sever.

You know them, the beautiful people, the ones with all the attention and the friends. The special, recognised ones. You know them, all right. Inside the mind of a student at Hogwarts who broods on the beautiful people, especially that bespectacled one...

Draco stares at the wall and the red, red blood and thinks: there’s nothing left.

This is from Hermione's POV, even though she's not mentioned at all by name in the story. It's post-war. Draco is the one talked about.

In that flash of green light, Lucius had died. In some ways, so had Narcissa Malfoy.

From the lines on his palm to the tips of his fingers, Severus Snape’s hands are etched with memories of Albus Dumbledore.

Tessa Morgan, a fourth year Slytherin, finds out about her familiy ties to the Termination League, and must connect with three other students to fulfill a prophetic dream. Things complicate when two of these three people fight for her affection. You're usual "good versus evil" story, with a twist.

In her mind, she is a traitor. Not by her choice, but by the irony of fate in making her love him. While her hands work solely on editing the endless stream of reports and articles and maintaining her façade of sanity, her heart cannot shake the betrayal

Minerva and Albus have something in common.

Hermione loves Harry, but Hermione loves words even more. Draco Malfoy loves many things, but Hermione is not one of them. Language, obsession, and turning inward.

An Auror finds out what lies beneath Snape's icy exterior. My entry for the Potion Master's Muse challenge: So Many Buttons, So Little Time.

The Triwizard Tournament's final task approaches, and a prophecy is made about a boy who will win it. What does it say? A bereaved father must decide whether to know if his son might have lived. Features Amos Diggory, Walden Macnair and a Padfoot cameo.

Draco may believe he knows everything, but in reality he is very innocent of the ways of the world. Only when he loses this innocence in the "training" he receives, is he able to gain compassion for the person whose life he has made miserable, the person who comforts him in his pain.

When young Harry gets left behind in town one day he’s scared and alone. Then a very nice gentleman comes along to help. There’s books involved, with pirates.

The trio's fifth year and some unexpected things are about to happen. Hermione finds out that her cousin, Kristabelle, from Vancouver, Canada, is going to Hogwarts for the fifth, sixth, and seventh years. That's great news, right? She's not your average Canadian girl. Believe me, I know. Harry's freaking out, not knowing what Voldemort's planning to do now that he's risen. And Ron... well, he's just being Ron. Not exactly your average Fifth Year fic... (HP/OC, HG/RW and a bit of DM/GW.) Crossover between Harry Potter and Cardcaptors.

Follow Lillian, Luna and Neville Longbottom's daughter, as she paves her own path in Hogwarts.

The story of Harry in his sixth year. He fights misery and pain from the death of Sirius until he is imprisoned in his own mind by Voldemort. Draco, seeking to take Voldemort's place as Dark Lord, fights against Harry. Very DARK.

“I love you, Ginny.” She knew what she had to say… “I hate you, Draco.” A carefree Ginny and a troubled Draco meet in the empty library one winter’s night – he softens, she hardens. When she gets under his skin, what is he to do? In The Library is a troubled, dark, and ultimately tragic story. Ginny/Draco, mentions of self-harming.

It's been a year since they graduated Hogwarts. Harry and Hermione are married while Ron is dating a fellow Gryffindor named Ellie Swanson. They decide to go camping (Muggle) to get away from the magical world for a while after tragedy struck the Weasleys...unfortunately, something inhuman and hungry is stalking the campsite....

It's the most brutal wizardry prison labor camp... Immortality is a punishment... No 'innocent' witch or wizard was ever brought there... Until three unfortunate souls and one elf washed upon its shore...

Two children are sitting on a rock, eating radishes and talking about nothing in particular. The sun is setting on the horizon, and as you walk closer you recognize them. One is Luna Lovegood. The other is-

There had always been four of them. Until that night. And then there was one. Remus thinks about what happened and regrets not telling anyone his suspicions. Set long before PoA.

Percy Weasley- the traitor. He forsook his friends and family for his job with nary a thought. Just what could inspire such ambition?

"I am a vain and self absorbed woman. This is a lesson I sorely needed to learn." Narcissa Malfoy narrates the loss of her weaker child in a horrible tragedy and the origins of the darkness in her surviving son, Draco.

It's 1917 and the Great War is raging in the Muggle World, but Newt Scamander, age twenty, has troubles of his own. His Ministry career is "tedious in the extreme" and, to make matters worse, the girl he'll one day marry is parading around with a character he finds most disagreeable. Beasts, books, Quidditch, and post-adolescent confusion abound as Newt and his friends sort out their lives.

Promises are so hard to keep. Harry/Draco; one-shot.

"A man stumbles down the road, torn apart with grief and fury. A man with murder in his heart." November 1st, 1981: Voldemort has fallen. James and Lily Potter are dead. But Sirius Black is alive, and he is very, very angry.

This is a short ficlet done in Harry's POV during the war. Slightly angsty.

A tragic ending to a life and the suffering of saying his last goodbye. Song fic to Carolina in my Mind by James Taylor.

This story's title pretty much says it all.

Mr. Ollivander tries to find the right wand for Luna and remembers some other tricky customers, his eccentric father and some unusual wands.

Harry is back for his fifth year at Hogwarts. Now he has to worry about love, betrayal, friends, and foes. Also, there are two new girls in the fifth year and one is under that name of Riddle.

A story of Neville Longbottom, the future he desires and the reality he gets instead. A companion piece to The Future That Wouldn’t Be.

Lily and James knew Voldemort was coming for them. They knew there was no escape. Lily leaves a few parting words with her baby son. A sad songfic to Baby Mine from Dumbo.

The war had dealt each of us a different hand and now we had to continue with what we had. There was no way to switch the cards of fate. The war has changed everyone and even though her own demons are chasing her down, Hermione comes to Malfoy's rescue.

Even the Dark Lord was once a child.

It's the summer after Harry's fifth year at school and he is once again The Boy Who Lived, but will dark forces at work in Hogwarts, and his bad attitude bring him down again? Also Cho Chang struggles to do the right thing as her world comes down around her.

Sirius has vanished through the veil, and all Remus has left of him is one final gift...

Harry's alone and sneaks through the halls of Hogwarts. He thinks about his life, his friends and his love.

"He knows he has found what he was seeking for, and although he can't recall what it was, he feels contented. He feels all right." After their death, soldiers, whatever side they fought on, find themselves to be ravens.

After Professor Severus Snape finds Harry reliving his worst memory and subsequently kicking him out of his office, he reflects on why this particular invasion of privacy bothers him so much. Basically an exploration of our favorite introverted professor's thoughts on the Boy Who Lived.

"The waiting ended, as it had begun, on a balmy summer evening—it was hours after dark, and he was standing on the Quidditch Pitch while pandemonium reigned in the grandstands." While Harry Potter duels the Dark Lord in an abandoned graveyard, others are left to speculate. Missing moment from GoF.

Harry's heard of them since his third year and ever since then he's always wanted to be one. Remus, the only one left initiates him with pride.

Promises are hard to keep, especially when you have no choice...

When Draco catches sight of copper-auburn hair in a Muggle bar, he just knows it's Ginny. Ginny and all the painful memories with her. An angsty D/G fic written to Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane".

He bought her a dress, a red dress, and they danced until midnight on Valentine's day before they said their last goodbyes. Valentine's ficlet, DG.

What if… What if Regulus Black managed to make it out of the Horcrux cave alive with the locket? And if, after recovering from the potion, he had gone to his brother for shelter from Voldemort’s wrath? What might have turned out differently? My take on a possible Alternate Universe. Will eventually be novel-length. Note: though canon indicates that Regulus’ visit to the cave most likely occurred early in 1979, I’ve decided for various niggling reasons to push it back to early November, 1978, Regulus’ last year at Hogwarts.

"Dumbledore's man through and through." After the funeral, Harry thinks about the past, present and future. He comes to a hopeful conclusion that will help him to continue on.

When students are captured by Death Eaters, Percy Weasley convinces Dumbledore that it's time to prove his worth.

Somehow, two pranksters' actions can cause the ties of friendship to loosen, and the love of a certain female to change from a good friend to an arrogant toerag.

Sometimes we admit our lies only to ourselves. Sometimes others see them in unguarded moments. Five people speak of masks, lies, desire, and truth.

You are a student of Hogwarts. How does it feel? Step inside...

Severus Snape is an intriguing man. One girl considers him, and realizes just how fake he really is. One-shot.

A slightly angsty fic about Harry's guilt and Cho's sadness. Could he have saved Cedric? Everyone tells him he did the most that anyone could have...but are they all wrong?

After a scuffle in Flourish and Blotts with the Malfoys, Harry Potter and the Weasley family return to the Burrow. Later Ginny Weasley finds a mysterious black diary tucked in a second-hand schoolbook. The story contains a little humour, mystery, darkness and insight.

It's Harry's second year, and there are strange things going on at the school. When he's badly injured at a Quidditch match, shy, quiet Ginny takes over as Seeker. But she's certainly acting oddly. And what are these rumors about a Ghost?````A crossover fic between CoS and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, written for the Classic Canon Challenge.

What happens when arch-enemies face off in an empty corridor? The answer is here. Expect yelling, shourting, cursing, crying, and kissing. Fun times for the whole family.

Harry has some time to reflect on his course of actions and the path which he chose for himself. He didn't mean to hurt them, or let them down... did he?

Due to certain circumstances, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy fell in love with each other, but their happiness cannot last because Draco was never meant to be with Harry. Response to Alexa’s challenge. Harry/Draco, Draco/Blaise

In the days before Voldemort's attack on the Potters, Remus and Sirius struggle to protect their friends in their own ways. But Remus discovers that justice is as elusive to him as it was to Fenris...

The war is over. Neville is all alone in the world. But will a certain wizard join his lonely life? Post-war. Post-Hogwarts.

War. Character death...fast forward, the year is 2007,``ten years after the magical catastrophe. Who is this girl, walking so``eagerly through a museum? And what does it matter that her name is...

"Everything I ever knew was gone. I was angry too. Maybe more then I was scared. Potter had made a brave new world...." Takes place in seventh year, after defeat of Voldemort.

Hermione tries to save Draco on a cold winter night.

It is Dusk and Dumbledore is having tea with a distinctly unwanted guest. What is the right choice when either benefits that which you fight with your every action? Everyone looks to the Hogwarts Headmaster to be the pillar of strength and the beacon of hope, but no man is infallible. The machinations of hell reach out to ensnare an old wizard and plant the seeds of doubt in his mind. Set after Order of the Phoenix.

The hated puppet must be broken to reveal the human being hiding within. 'There is nothing left.'

It's seven years after Lily and James' deaths, and Remus Lupin is barely living. So he pays a short visit to Azkaban... One-shot fic.

A fellow Gryffindor is kidnapped by someone working for Voldemort...can the Marauders find her in time? And two friends' friendship tightens and they fall in love...

Harry's daughter, Ellie, has grown up fast and tells of her rough seventh year. Of her family's secrets and her worries. Of her love of the Weasleys. Of her mistakes. Mostly of her sister though. It was all about her sister.

“When Remus came back to Number 12 Grimmauld Place, it was there. Their unfinished love. Silently bleeding, strange and nostalgic, not warm — tense…” Set during OotP, this is a story of change and the inability to change, of golden-toned nostalgia and a harsher reality. Remus/Sirius slash.

"He wants to capture it - the feeling of it all - everything. The way everything felt all at once; forlornness of senses; of touch and sound and smell and sight." A R/S; slashy angst.

Harry is beaten by the Dursleys to the brink of death. When he suddenly leaves without warning, Merlin only knows where he'll end up.

Garrett is a master thief. There is none better, and there never has been. Garrett's mission is simple. Break into Malfoy Manor; kill Lucius Malfoy; rescue his son, Draco, and Draco's girlfriend, Ginny Weasley. But some things can never be easy. D/G