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Perfection never comes without a price. Prequel to Almost Perfect.

The reasons you took once may help you decide your persent again. The decisions you make now build the future in sight. There is a thing called karma. Harry/Draco

Four strangers are forced together and told they were once the best of friends. Now, struggling to remember both the horror and joy of the past, they're asked to fight a madman they know nothing about. The key to defeating Voldemort once and for all is locked in their memories, but will they remember in time to save the world, themselves, and the new loves growing between them? Ships, both slash and het, abound, but will eventually be primarily H/D.

What if Harry died during the final battle and Voldemort took over? Chaos runs amuck in the wizarding world, Death Eaters are growing by the dozens daily, and Draco must learn to deal with his loss. DM/HP--Slash.

Does he love her? Love, she remembers, is for lesser mortals. Does she love him? She doesn’t know but no doubt there is chemistry. Lucius/Narcissa.

Harry's visions of Voldemort are becoming clearer, and his romantic life is coming into focus.

This involves the equation Potter+Evans and its explosive results. It is Lily and the Marauders' final year at Hogwarts. Along with laughter, tears and a few fights, the students must face the upcoming N.E.W.T.s, the growing threat of Lord Voldemort and the question of their lives beyond Hogwarts. The Marauders finally start to grow up, and Lily might even be starting to fall for the ever-present James Potter.

Demelza was married and Ginny was heartbroken. It was just an affair. No one was supposed to fall in love. Three scenes from Ginny's ill-fated relationship with Demelza Robins.

Harry looks out across the battlefield of his defeat of Voldemort and realises: victory shouldn't feel like this.

The Prime Minister of Muggles receives a visit from Rufus Scrimgeour in the wake of Dumbledore's murder.

In the final battle, Harry spares Draco Malfoy's life. But the consequences from this are far more than could be imagined...

Once, Sirius Black decided to play a very nasty prank on Severus Snape. He told the Slytherin to go down to the Whomping Willow, poke a particular knot, and follow the tunnel where he would undoubtedly find a big surprise. When James Potter heard, he knew exactly how wrong this could go, so he raced down to the Shrieking Shack and saved Snape just before he would have come face-to-face with a feral, merciless, blood-thirsty werewolf. What would have happened if James hadn't made it in time?

The night before the final battle, Hermione and Snape share a moment.

Someone thinks about the darkness. A companion piece to my fic The Sun Sets Twice Again, currently on Schnoogle.

Encaged by his family, Remus Lupin found his sanctuary in Hogwarts, where he met another boy who was as trapped as he was by his family's fame, riches and darkness.

In those quiet moments, when the house on Privet Drive is empty save for ghosts and possibilities, Petunia Dursley sees a completely different image of herself.

Rosie Zeller has never had it easy, living life on the streets of London. What will happen when she learns that Lucius Malfoy is her father? AU because Dumbledore is still alive.

A dip into the life of one of the most despised characters of the Potterverse. Why what happened, happened.

Alone in his cold chamber, Severus Snape thinks about his lifelong affair with the seductress that changed his life forever.

When Harry and Ron are made prefects without her, Hermione must deal not only with her own disappointment but also with the changes in her friends.

Lucius Malfoy rots in Azkaban, the news of his son's death fresh in his memory. But when Narcissa gets permission to visit, she brings news that might help heal his soul. Not fluffy, but a love story none the less.

Dobby has unfinished business at Malfoy Manor. This one-shot takes place right after the events of the Chamber of Secrets.

Inspired by The Pianist, this is the testament of a lonely solitude Slytherin boy who is trapped - in many aspects - while a war goes on in the wizarding world.

Of the many secrets in Draco Malfoy's mind, none are hidden so deep as the reason why he thwarted Voldemort at every turn. Can novice Auror Harry Potter convince Draco to testify against the Death Eaters and spare his own life? Draco Malfoy slammed against walls, much snogging and a look into Draco's secret fantasies ensues in this short and sweet fic. H/D.

But then you zoom in on that thought, and all else freezes, and you realize with a dull horror that your grimace is not because of the pain, but because of the pleasure that is coming with that pain, the pleasure that you are enjoying, although it is he, your enemy, that is giving it to you. Your muscles tighten as, in shame, you struggle all the more, although you know the truth: it is useless. Because, deep down, there is no denying it, you want this, have always wanted it, and being a Gryffindor, stubborn, brave, and reckless, you always fight and fight and fight until you get what you want.

What if you were the wife of a death-eater? This is Narcissa Malfoy's story on how she feels, along with something I thought may possibly happen (though not something I wish to happen). We know how everyone else feels, but what about Malfoy's mum? She may not be quite like you would inagine her... late hogwarts, a teeny bit of H/D and Luc./Bell.L

It is the beginning of Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts and Harry meets another determined soldier in his fight against Voldemort. (Complete)

Harry goes into Snape's office in search of an ingredient and finds more than he bargained for.

One month post HBP, Severus sits writing a mad assignment for the Dark Lord. To be read with Vivaldi and a glass of cognac.

COMPLETE Voldemort has decreed a punishment for the traitor. What will happen to Severus? SSHG

Harry has an unexpected visitor bearing...tofu.

Draco returns to Ginny after months of battle. Songfic to "o my my" by Ani DiFranco. D/G fluff.

Harry witnesses the passing of a mentor and doesn't know how to cope. Quick one-shot.

Severus Snape is thirty-five years old and is looking back upon his life. It is with regret he thinks about the one true love of his life and how he lost her to the man he hates the most.

This story is about the continuing pain of Harry's scar and the return of Voldemort. Also in this story you find out lots of information. You will find out why Dumbledore always sends Harry home to the Dursley's before going to Ron's house.

Taking place around 2005, Harry Potter is a general in the Great Wizard War against Voldemort. Slight H/Hr

You can’t win against anyone, if you can’t win against yourself. Harry/Dudley.

"We are at the end of an age, of a great battle that has been raging for years. Some of you have lost loved ones and classmates. You will more than likely encounter others out there. Do not hesitate to strike first. " The final battle has begun. Who survive and who will die?

Harry and Ginny receive mysterious and disturbing letters from none other than Draco Malfoy himself. What has happened to Draco? Can Harry face the role that he has played in Draco's life and downfall? And if so, can he and Ginny live with the guilt? -- Sequel to "Draco's Song"

"She had learned from the master, after all. Only to take that mastery, take it, twist it and use it. Use it to devour him as he had devoured her."

My first real lesson in life was almost unrecognizable when it came to me and it came in the form of a black-haired, be-spectacled boy... Cho watches Harry cry at the edge of the lake and it changes her in ways she will never forget. Sonfic to Mandy Moore's "Cry".

The night after Voldemort's fall, Albus Dumbledore pays a visit to Severus Snape. Features Snape's first lesson as a teacher!

A long-awaited meeting. Two Black sisters. One unspoken question... Post OoP.

Snape is puzzled by one of his students. She is smart and funny and everybody loves her, but Snape know the look of one who bears a dark secret, and that look is upon Alannah Leskevitch. As the Potions professor comes to know this girl, he learns that she has suffered more than he could have ever imagined. He sees in her parallels to his own life, and slowly begins to show a human side of himself that lay hidden for many years. Set in the Trio's seventh year during the Second War, love, determination, and sacrifice must rise up out of the evil that encases the world.

James Potter and Lily Evans: Completely different, but completely in love. Their truimphs and losses, victories and pranks, from first kiss to last.

She doesn't wear black anymore; she hasn't in a long time, now. She wears reds, vivid and rich as blood, beautiful red-oranges the color of her hair, pale sky-kissed blues and deep royal blue-violet, mellow, sunny yellows, and green most often; green the shade of his eyes. She doesn't laugh anymore, but she doesn't cry, and has not cried for many years.``She is always in mourning.

The unexplained suicide of Nymphadora Tonks in the summer before Harry's sixth year sparks off a series of unexpected events, and raises all sorts of questions. Are these strange events all connected in some way? Why is everyone acting so suspiciously? And most importantly, what made Tonks kill herself? Was it, in fact, suicide at all...?

Written as a side story to the ending of OotP: Draco is surprised when Goyle declares his love for him. Draco/Goyle Please read and review. *complete* M/M

The story of a certain Slytherin and how he became the man we all know and love... well, some of us.

A one-shot from Petunia's point of view, showing her and Lily's relationship at various different points in time. An attempt to try and give a few theories about Petunia's attitude to magic, Harry, etc. Features guest appearances from Vernon, Marge, MWPP (including Punk!Sirius) and is hopefully not overly angsty.

Harry survives the final battle of the Second War, but is left comatose and apparently brain dead. Now Ron must decide between two difficult choices: to keep his best friend alive by magical and mechanical means...or to give a hero the true and noble coda he deserves. (One-shot exploring euthanasia in a magical context.)

Although no one ever bothers to acknowledge Millicent Bulstrode, she DOES exist. In fact, underneath that ugly exterior lives just another dreamy, insecure girl. At the Halloween Masquerade, Millicent thinks that her only problem is finding a dance partner. But as the night progresses, Millicent learns much more about herself and those around her. (D/Hr/B, PP/GG)

She descends from an old French pureblood family. He has a werewolf for a brother. They both have Voldemort to worry about. Their life together has always been an adventure. Anyway, who says that adventures always have happy endings?

In the years before Harry was born, four Marauders, four friends, shared a special bond of friendship. Now one is a traitor, one hero died for his family, one innocent misunderstood man died protecting all he had left, and one still lives, a monster reborn every full moon. This is their story. Join the Marauders through the years of their lives; through laughs and losses, love and tears.

Sometimes letting go is the most difficult thing that a person can do; none know this better than Hermione. Drawn to Normandy by grief and obsession, she hopes to find the answers she hungers for on a beach once known as "Sword".

A/U fic in which Remus has an identical twin brother he hasn't seen since they were children. At Sirius' insistence, Remus visits his twin at St. Mungo's. Love, innocence, and the price of war.

A curse from the one she used to love will make her miserable for the rest of her life. She walks down the aisle to become a bride, all the time wanting to run, but finding no escape, and the muggle children's prayer only making everything worse.

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." --Buddha

"My lily feet are soiled with mud, with scarlet mud which tells a tale, of hope that was, of guilt that was, of love that shall not yet avail." A Blackfic based on Christina Rossetti's "The Convent Threshold", dealing with reflections, family, hatred, and the role of a young man in the world.

Challenge Response, written before HBP. Having been taken from the Dursleys' early, Harry is brought to Hogwarts where he learns a surprising secret about his mother and Narcissa Malfoy. A secret that will affect the course of the war and provide him with the key to the power the Dark Lord knows not.

Although the war is lost, the Order is scattered and darkness is reaching the last corners of Britain, Ginny Weasley tells herself that this is the new beginning she and Harry believed in for so long, and not the end at all.

This is a songfic of Sinead O'Conner's 'Nothing compares to you'. Sung by Voldemort to Harry during Voldy's weaker times. If you ever wondered what Voldy sings when he has (on rare occasions) a shower, this is for you. Funny and creative.

Vignette. Severus Snape, traitor, liar, killer, pawn. He contemplates the sides he plays and where his loyalties lie. When you are nothing more than a pawn to be used on both sides, it is hard to tell. For him, it is also hard to care.

Illicit liaisons, jealousy and violence disintegrate a new marriage.

Hermione Weasley thinks of another as her husband is laid to his final rest...

Neville Longbottom speaks up about his life and childhood in this monologue. We see tragic twists and turns, and all feel bad for Neville.

Not every childhood is pleasant and not all of our memories can we know. A prequel to Saved Memories.

Even years after his defeat, Voldemort's reign of terror destroyed lives in more ways than one.

Albus Dumbledore is a wizard, known for his power, and even more so for his wisdom. But one isn't born with such knowledge. Instead, it is learned through considerable experience. This little one-shot looks into such an experience that taught our favourite Headmaster an important lesson.

Its Harry's sixth year, and he's determined to enjoy it - but naturally this doesn't happen. Death-eater attacks on wizards and muggles alike, leave Harry feeling confused about his place in the battle against Voldermort. It seems he's not the only instrumental figure in this fight against darkness. There's only one thing that Harry knows for sure - this year will be different.

Facing certain death had a way of altering perspectives, so it felt perfectly natural when Hermione and Ron began moving their relationship from close friendship to that particular gray area of uncertainty which lay beyond. That is, until something ripped the blinders from Hermione's eyes, and the world as she had come to know it came crashing down. Love found her in a most precarious position.

The likelihood of a third member joining their happy family causes different reactions from Ginny and Remus.

Lucius Malfoy asks his father politely to sign something. Or maybe not so politely. Another of the loosely–connected Permission Slip (Ridd/AT so far) series.

Five wizards sit alone in their various lives....all any of them wants is one friend

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Crabbe and Goyle. We have seen and heard how they have each found out and dealt with Harry and Draco’s secret, but what about Draco himself? He might be in a hospital bed, but that doesn’t mean that he is immune from the fall out that was caused by the shockwave. Or is he? Its time to see what Draco was doing the morning he was set upon by two other students brandishing those two mysterious potions.

She didn't want anybody to find out. But they did. He thought nobody would find out. But they did.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Snape decides that Harry and Draco have horsed around with petty revenge games long enough; they need to learn to identify real priorities and real dangers – or else. They decide … various things. A sequel to Victory Parade and Wedding Party. Still no romantic fluff.

"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?

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

Harry and Draco have the perfect ending.

It's year 6 for Harry, and someone in the staff has decided there needs to be a Christmas Dance. (Done in response to a challenge on LJ)

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.

"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.

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

A songfic to Michelle Branch's "I'd Rather Be in Love." Takes place after Draco and Ginny get married.

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.

The night before the Final Battle can prove to be as life-altering as the battle itself.

Being married was never going to be a cake-walk for Tonks and Lupin, but the battle after Bill and Fleur's wedding proves to them that it might be worse than they thought. A bit of what happens in the wedding day battle after Harry, Ron, and Hermione Disapparate and as the Lupins struggle forward in their marriage.

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.

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.

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.

You always hurt the ones you love. (H/D)

Almost eight years have passed since school ended. Harry and Draco continue to fight evil wherever it goes. A peek into Harry and Hermione's future life.

'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.