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“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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

"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.

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

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".

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.

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.

"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.

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

"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.

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.

This story's title pretty much says it all.

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.

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

"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.

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

Even the Dark Lord was once a child.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

"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.

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.

Hermione tries to save Draco on a cold winter night.

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...

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?

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...

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.

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.

Murder can do strange things to a person, like drive them over the edge... but whether that is a bad thing or not depends on your perspective.

In his shelter in the North, Igor Karkaroff hears news from Great Britain: Minister Fudge has confirmed the news of Voldemort's return.

Roger Davies meditates on his relationship with Blaise Zabini. M/m slash.

"This is how you kill someone, dear sister..." Harry gets a taste of what true power is when he realizes that Purity of Blood is more important than most know or want to believe. Harry-Padma Draco-Ginny

The Kingdom of Kissell has a mysterious pull for Harry James Potter. Two-second sound bytes, swirls of colour, faces and places and names, all too fast to get a coherant picture, but all calling him to that mysterious place...Kissell, the kingdom at the end of the Road that Leads to the End of the World. What awaits him there and why he feels such a mysterious bond to the kingdom, he does not yet know, but he will...and when he finds out, it will be the biggest shock of his life.

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.

Sirius has been in Azkaban for a few years now and he's slowly losing his good memories. However drained he feels, some are still worth fighting for. ('Moon River' songfic)

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

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.

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.

The final hour of Cedric's life. The Third task in GoF from Cedric's POV.

“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.

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...

Justin Finch-Fletchley, leader of the Anti-Obstructionist Party--which opposes Fudge's claims that Voldemort hasn't risen again--is the next favourite for Minister of Magic. But Harry knows of a threat against Justin's life. Can he save Justin?````Takes place before the events of "Brothers in Arms" on The Dark Arts.

Ever wonder how Bellatrix Lestrange came to be such a wicked witch? The thoughts that went on in her mind? She left behind a letter that tells all...

It's been a while since Ron has seen the sunlight, and he dearly misses it. He's been stuck in a dungeon for weeks now since the Final Battle ended. Harry is dead; Hermione is dead; he is the last of the Weasleys. His last request is to just fade away and Voldemort's feeling a bit moody...

"...That's just how it is, you know?" He didn't want to be the bearer of bad news. But there it was, spilling like liquid mercury from his high class mouth. There was a strangely acidic aftertaste following the words, leaving his throat dry.' DM/HG, drama, remorse, understanding... worth a look.

La Figlia Dei Morti, better known as The Daughter of the Dead, is an ancient terror, deep in sleep in the Italian mountains for a thousand years. Her name strikes cold hard fear into the heart of anyone who hears it. She has been awakened - Lord Voldemort has called her out of slumber - and she does not appreciate being woken ...

Harry Potter realizes that he is dying. On a whim, he decides to tell the story of Voldemort's downfall and the sacrifices of the people who ment the most to him.

"It's been coming on for a while," said Percy ... "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time." (DH, ch30). This is Percy's journey to that point.

Severus Snape reflects on a sudden and unexpected death, and what it means to him.

For Colin, it had never stopped being an adventure.

Lord Voldemort thinks he’s the most powerful wizard alive, but he gets his butt kicked by a bunch of kids on a regular basis. He also thinks he’s the son of a Muggle who abandoned his witch wife. Herewith one possible answer to the musical question: how deluded is this guy?

Strange things are happening all around Harry. People he thought were dead are reappearing. People he thought were his friends may not be. The Truman Show, Hogwarts-style!

A guy can ruin a girl’s reputation with a few, well chosen words. Can it work the other way around? Circumstances force Hermione and Draco to call a temporary truce. However, Draco starts a rumour about Hermione that spreads like wildfire. It threatens her relationship with her boyfriend, Ron Weasley. This short story is set in November of the gang’s fifth year at Hogwarts. Cheer for Hermione as she turns the tables on Draco and forces him to redeem her. At the expense of his dignity. Harry and Ginny are also paired in this story.

The war was more than anyone had expected. Ginny drinks Firewhisky. Draco can't stand the stuff. Ginny dies. Draco lives. And the war continues. One-shot.

Whatever Pansy wants, Pansy gets. But what does Pansy want? She's asking too much. Ginny, ignored as she is, can't take it anymore. After all, she only wished for a kiss.

Barty Crouch, Jr., has stripped off his guise for one moment to infiltrate Hogwarts for an ally, a friend of old "still struggling between the Jekyll and the Hyde." He has to decide whether he wants to pull him down with him, or whether just not being betrayed is enough.

“My mother died just after I was born, sir. They told me at the orphanage she lived just long enough to name me...” ~Tom Riddle, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Set three weeks after the ending of OoTP, some characters reflect on the death of one of their own. Song fic to "If Only Tears Could Bring You Back To Me" by the Midnight Sons as a tribute to Sirius.

Harry tries to rediscover his purpose following a battle with Voldemort, but thoughts of vengeance are all he seems to be able to hang on to. His life begins to slip away from him as he sinks into the future he has chosen for himself.

"He had imagined it on Harry, knowing full well that the red would enhance the clear, glittering emerald green of Harry’s eyes." It's sometimes hard to see the obvious when you're oblivious. A one-shot fic centered around a red silk tie and green, green eyes.

Wormtail, aided by a bottle of Firewhiskey, finally tells his tale.

Companion piece to "Only the Best". Harry's POV

When Narcissa Malfoy catches her only son, Draco, kissing a fellow Slytherin his age, Blaize Zabini, she is appalled. Scolding him does nothing because he is not ashamed of his "queer" tendencies. Afraid as ever about the Malfoy honor, she and his father, Lucius, Draco soon learns, might have an intense plot to "make" him straight.

A clear AU, a look at the wizarding world with Regulus as a Gryffindor. We are shaped by the people around us, and we shape the people around us. In another universe, it's Regulus and Peter against the world. Dark, with a hint of slash.

With Lord Voldemort vanquished and the Death Eaters sent to rot in Azkaban, the world should be safe, but it's not. Mysterious deaths, impossible crimes, and tht's only the beginning. The darkest, most powerful witch to walk the earth has big plans for muggles and wizards alike. Now it's up to a new generation of Potter, and as she and her friends race to save existence they are plunged into the darkest days yet...

Lupin thinks, in some way, Snape must be his to lose.

There are a lot of blanks and ambiguities as to what actually happened on that fateful night of Oct. 31 and the following day. This is the story of what really happened, from the point of view of one of those involved: Sirius Black.

"Draco Malfoy was my life. I will not betray him." Whilst awaiting her execution Pansy looks back on her life with Draco.

Graduation is something more than just leaving school; it is often the end of much more than classes.

My ideas for why Neville is the way he is. What brought on this onslaught? No clue. Anyway, Neville is attempting to do his homework for the upcoming Fifth Year when he writes out his thoughts instead of a potions paper.

"On the third day of what would go down as the coldest November on record, James and Lily Potter were buried in a small cemetary not far from Godric's Hollow..." Small scene from the Potters' funeral. Slight Remus/Minerva, appearances by Baby Harry and the Dursleys.

They clash, in every sense, as they meet. Rich and poor, good and bad, sweet and sour, male and female. Pale skin and pink lips, freckles and wild, fiery tangles, sleek perfection and moon kissed hair.

"I must not only punish but punish with impunity." This story is loosely based on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is also a sequel/prequel to my earlier story "The Evil and the Damage Done." It is not intended as plagiarism, I merely played around with the theme and bits and pieces of the plot, and it is only partly similar to the Poe story. It has also become rather AU due to the developments in HBP. But if you still enjoy pure-blood Snape...

Song fic, Harry’s POV, A morbid tale of regret, bitterness, loss, acceptance and love. It’s easy to love someone who doesn’t love you back.