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It's the summer after OotP, just before school starts again. Ron struggles to deal with his feelings surrounding Sirius' death.

So. London. A town full of people and life and a thousand strange tales, and a place to be when days suddenly became too empty. With Hogwarts closed and without even the pretence of friendship that was offered there, Luna left for the capital with few hopes and fewer expectations. But it was a little bit closer to everything, and there was a slightly bigger chance of having news of Ronald, Hermione and Harry. Most importantly, it was less lonely when there was something she could open her window to.

Dolores was always the unwanted, unattractive child among a beautiful family.

Looking into the past helps them forget about the future.

The night of Draco's initiation has arrived.

It's been said that if walls could talk they would tell stories. What would the walls of Godric's Hollow say about the night Lily and James were murdered?

I haven’t been here before. I’ve never had a chance.``But I had to come. There isn’t anything here anymore. The house was destroyed. But I walk over to it. It’s just a vacant lot. -- Harry visits where his parent's house used to be, and remembers...

Dumbledore sits, surrounded by many, and contimplates the meaning of Fate. And yet a fear is growing inside him...````He fears the very worst. Has Fate come to take away the Boy-Who-Lived?

Harry looks into a Pensieve and discovers Luna was tortured during her stay at Malfoy Manor. He decides to make it up to her.

Ginny Weasley has a secret with silver hair and a Dark Mark. No one knows, except her fiancee.

During his seventh year, after the final battle, Seamus sits with his girlfriend and has plenty of time to think about what has happened to him, her, and their friends.

Tied for first. Oh, my God. Dad is so not going to be happy with me. ``````A short fic exploring what Cedric might've been thinking before the third task.

We all know (or should know) that Peter told You Know Who where Lily and James and Harry were hiding. But, have we ever heard the whole story? Peter saved his own life rather than protecting others, but learn what transpired between You Know Who and Peter that night.

A quick venture into the mind of one Draco Malfoy, aged seventeen. Homicidal? No. Suicidal? No. Sadistic? Definitely.

Prequel to Twelve Years Later

The-Boy-Who-Lived and The-Girl-Who-Shined lived a lie until their seemingly perfect little world was flipped upside-down by one event: the death of Ginny Weasley.

The Samuriess are an intense cult that faded out in early history-or so everyone thinks. For thousands of years they have been waiting, and they have chosen this age to return. And they want Ginny Weasley for a warrioress...

Bellatrix is staying at the Riddle House with her husband and stays up one night to do some thinking.

Hermione is going home from Hogwarts. She thinks about the Department of Mysteries and how Harry must feel. One shot on how Hermione interprets Harry's feelings.

Harry misses Lily most on Mother's Day

"It's too late"... Remus looks over some memoirs... A story of mourning, grief, unrequited love, and a letter that came 16 years too late.

Remus thinks of what could have been. (Severus/Remus, Sirius/Remus)

One decision can make you lose everything. But, nobody ever said you can't try and get it all back. Post-Hogwarts. Songfic to "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne.

Remus Lupin is leaving school AGAIN and the other boys are suspicious. Will the other boys hurt Remus's feelings with a misplaced accusation? Or will Remus spill his well-kept secret?

At Sirius' funeral, Remus reflects on what might have been.

Draco knows he's made a mistake and he's finally gone for help. But is it too late for him to change sides of the Battle?

Draco Malfoy is always upholding his perfect facade. But all that changes when he met one Virginia Weasley... his love... his hate.

This is a glimpse into the life of Joy. When best friend Cay tells her that her prince has landed, things will start to get very interesting...

"This would be my legacy, what I would leave behind when and if I ever had the misfortune to die." Tom Riddle reflects on his making-and-breaking, dearest Virginia, and the attributes of one Lucius Malfoy. Set during CoS, with an interesting take on the relationship between Voldemort and his most trusted servant. Not Slash.

This is the story of the boy James Freyler, who grew up with his oppressive father, struggling to win his fathers pride and trust. Follow James in his adventures at Hogwarts, and see how he battles with dangerous creatures, and makes new friends!

Voldemort has been defeated, and as he slowly dies, his life begins to flash before his eyes....

Burning with zealous fire, she walks in time to the drum of her god, the drum that beats within her.

The Golden Trio seemed destined to triumph, but nothing said they had to be good. A tale of a dark Trio and of their conquests.

Some people get given everything. Others have to take what they want. Rita Skeeter has to make a choice.

Hannah Abbot's life is shattered when she receives the news of her mother's death, but can anyone help to come to terms with her grief?

“I do not know where this path leads. I am simply following the signs.” “Signs? Like the Virgin Mary appearing in a burrito?” “No. Not at all.” A look inside Severus's twisted mind on the night after the the Department of Mysteries fiasco. A song fic to Boulevard of Broken dreams, by Green Day.

Remus Lupin lives a fairy tale. But he knows that only the modern ones have a happily ever after. Remus/Sirius

"Remember me, the boy that you rescued from despair, then cast back to the shadows." With Harry gone, can Draco escape the darkness that is his birthright?

In 1971, twins Eve and Evan De'Malikar were in their sixth year at Hogwarts. That same year, Eve was bitten and changed by a vampire. For nine years, Evan struggles with his sister’s Vampirism. Then, The Dark Lord promises him an escape. When the web of lies is undone, only one man can help them. As the new co-DADA teachers, they must juggle Eve's vampirism, students, spying for the order, Evan's romance with Severus Snape, and that idiot Trelawney.

An odd couple - Ginny/Tom. Tom is thinking (gleefully) about ruining Ginny’s life and turning her, his cherie, his cherry, into a stone, his little china doll. This delightful little monologe takes place during CoS and the post-Hogwarts. None, but the Chamber stuff really happened, but Tom can still imagine…

The trail is long and winding and Ron finds that he keeps stumbling over small twigs and pebbles. Harry walks steadily ahead of him, looking over his shoulder occasionally to make sure Ron is still there. He smiles and encourages the redhead. Ron stumbles every time Harry smiles. (HP/RW, Character Death)

Sometimes all you can do is laugh. First of the Sondheim songfic series.

"Good-bye Mummy.... Good-bye Daddy.... I think my heart beat is slowing down. Oh yes.... It’s coming.... Good-bye world...." Pansy/??

Goodbye always seems to be the hardest word. Harry Potter reflects by dawn's early light.

It's not always safe to trust people you run into in pubs, but sometimes it's better than family. James and Sirius at eight years old.

After the war he's become someone else. He disregards her like she's nothing. A songfic from the viewpoint of a girl in distress; bet you can't guess who it is! Songfic to Smile Empty Soul's "For You."

A response to a challenge on the Bunnies Board - Draco comforts Ginny, but must be in slimy Draco character.

Love pays no heed to reason, rhyme or logic, and Nymphadora Tonks is in love. Remus Lupin is something else entirely. (Remus/Tonks)

The Story of Rubeus Hagrid.

Tom-centric, AU. Now he reaches the altar, where that very same boy kneels asking for a forgiveness Tom knows he won’t find with his head bowed.

This is a companion piece to Alone: Narcissa's Story, from Harry's POV. He's feeling alone and can't quite understand why Draco decided to leave after all they've been through together. Angst and Slash, D/H of course.

Reminiscing on times forgotten is becoming my habit now. Never was I to stay in a dark room, in a dark house, waiting impatiently for the next wave of torture, simply to forget what I’d lost. Here I am, rotting without purpose, without dreams or thoughts, my mind blank and disconnected from the rest of the world.

Narcissa mourns the loss of her father.

"Late at night, she thinks of her." - Molly and Bellatrix remember.

"He dreamt of green swirling fog, alive in darkness and blackness so deep it looked like the embodiment of chaos. "````Harry has a dream one night that scares the hell out of him. No Voldemort, no lovey-dovey stuff, more of a spiritual experience. Read it and find out, and while you're at it, reviews are most welcome.

Years after Voldemort's downfall and Harry's disappearance, Ron is sent to find his old friend. Here is what transpires between the two of them when he succeeds.

Ron's always been funny about his pets, and with everything happening to his oldest and furriest friend, his third year is shaping up to be the worst of his life.

Ginny writes very slowly, shaping each letter with careful precision.

Draco reflects as he says his goodbyes to Malfoy Manor.

Inside the house a man and a woman sat close together, staring out of the second floor window, also watching and listening. The woman held a child close in her arms, clutching him as if his life depended on her constant crooning and kisses on the forehead. The man also reached over every few seconds to touch the child's cheek or smooth down his hair. `` “I can't stand this anymore, James,” the woman whispered.

Draco has a miserable life. Every time he walks around this world, cursing himself about being a Death Eater, he experiences heart pain. The name Harry crosses his mind, but can Harry be enough to save him form this pain? Song from Evanescence. H/D Slash!

Some things are not meant to be spoken, merely understood and accepted.

A look at Percy Weasley's break from his family, from Percy's point of view. Why Percy might not be as much of a git as we all think.

In a conversation taking place shortly after the events described in Tom Riddle's diary, Albus Dumbledore, Transfigurations professor, learns that a headmaster must put the school first, but at what cost? Dumbledore must convince Headmaster Dippet to save a student from an undeserved fate while preserving the reputation of the school.

Dumbledore's locked Harry and Draco in a dungeon. He's a bright man, that old codger. Of course, if he knows what goes on behind locked doors, he certainly isn't letting on...

Ginny likes Draco... Draco is with Pansy... what's a girl to do?

Lucius passes through the Veil and finds himself in a place which isn't death.

With the war finally over, Molly Weasley sits in the kitchen at Grimmauld Place to greet her family.

Once, in his naïve days, he’d read about scars in an old medical book he found in a second hand bookstore. A futile attempt at trying to explain to himself why everyone was so fascinated by his own, famous scar. But that was long ago. His new scars are those of a different kind.

There was a locket and a note, courtesy of R.A.B. Someone had to have left it there, and something had to have happened to the real Horcrux. Major HBP spoilers and speculation inside.

Bill Weasley looks back on the day his father left. Oh, don't worry, Arthur never left them. I'm talking about the Weasleys' biological father, Justin Mages. Bill writes a letter to this man, but he has to force himself to remember that horrid day. This is what went on as Bill writes the letter.

Pre-DH. Song fic to the song "Butterfly Kisses." Anyone who knows Arthur Weasley knows that he has seven children - six sons and one daughter, Ginny. A story of the lives of Arthur and Ginny, and how Arthur's "little girl" grows up. Not slash!

Hermione Granger’s dream to fly saved her life. She was left alone with nothing but herself, she’d given up magic and lived her life by a window. A simple dream can lead to so much more…

We know that Sirius Black is gone. What actually happened when Sirius Black fell beyond the veil? Did he really die or did he just go another realm, reality or dimension? Set before end of OoTP, a missing moment. It's my creative take on it.

Sequel to Just Before Midnight. Don't really need to read that to understand this fic. Draco sinks. Darkfic.

What would you do if you had to watch as the only person you ever loved was killed trying to save your life? Minerva's POV. MM/RL Rated for violence and language.

An alternate look at Petunia.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sits high, overlooking a lake in an isolated part of the countryside. ``At night, the lake looks black in the moonlight, like blood does, and the windows open like eyes with candlelight behind them. From the outside, you can circle the castle and find the windows of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff, but you will not see Slytherin. They are reached through the dungeons. (One scene that embodies exactly what Slytherin House is. Set in the James Potter years. Rated what it is basically because it's a little creepy.)

All his life he'd longed for solitude. Other desires had come and gone; power, fame, fortune, love, respect, some fulfilled and others simply forgotten. The one constant, the dream that had survived through it all, was this.

Tom Riddle visits a seer to glimpse his future and decide which path to follow.

Sirius Black jumped off the bike before it properly stopped. It rolled and fell against one of the standing walls of the ruined house. He ran, almost tripping over the wreckage, towards Hagrid's looming figure, sitting in the remains. He heard it then... crying...

Hermione remembers life with Harry after the war and how they would play at forced innocence in their Garden. Failed love, regrets, and lost innocence mark the path leading from Eden.

For Dudley's seventh birthday, he wants a puppy. In that puppy, Trouble, Harry finds his first best friend. But life is never fair to Harry as he gets his first taste of having something great ripped away from him.

Driven mad by the horrific sights of war, Draco stumbles across a lonely battlefield, looking for someone he does not remember. H/D.

“Tell me, Harry…” Tom murmurs as he puts the cigarette into his own mouth and inhales while watching red marks appear on Harry’s skin as the embers burn his fleshy tissue. “Tell me why you never smoked before you came here.” Dark Tom Riddle-Harry Potter.

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him." ~H. Mathews

Sequel to "Away". Ginny's family, friends, and the rest of the wizarding community deals with their loss.

Just a short one-shot about Draco. Songfic to the song 'I Am'.

A troubled Ron lies awake at night, only to find he's not the only one with things on his mind.

Pansy endeavors to save her unborn child.

Draco writes a monologue for History of Magic which is strangely parallel to the conversations and actions of his ancestor Lord Escalus Malfoy, 800 years earlier, during the Burning Times.

After Sirius' death, Harry remembers a day when he'd succumbed to the dragging hurt of his parents' death, a day when Sirius comforted Harry in a way neither of them had been expecting... (Angst and slash ahead)

Harry contemplates his past, and wonders about the future... Short, and full of angstful goodness!

There must have been a reason. Peter Pettigrew was not always a traitor. Something made him that way...

What happens when a werewolf loses his pack? How do you keep someone from tipping over the edge of grief? After the death of the Potters and Peter, someone has to help Remus back to the land of the living.

I knew that this was the beginning of her life – the birth of a warrior queen.

Harry ponders the place where forgotten heroes live.

Peter is flung into the future and decides that he doesn't want to become Wormtail. He's disgusted and decides to find him so justice can be served.

"I don't know what the Hat was thinking. Oh, wait, yes I do--it was thinking, 'Gee, it's a little first year who doesn't know crap about the world she's going into. I think I'll make Slytherin sound appealing, and NOT WARN HER THAT EVERYBODY IN SLYTHERIN WILL HATE HER.' Yeah, that's a great idea." Emma Dobbs reflects. Written for the Muggle-Born Slytherins challenge.

Everywhere you turn there's sharp little reminders, digging into your feet, springing to mind when you least want or expect it. (Character death.)