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1979 and 1981. Two Halloween nights, two destinies. James and Lily contemplate the meaning of life and death the night of Harry's conception.

While on a plane to South America to find Voldemort and the remaining Horcruxes, the trio's plane crashes and they are stuck on a deserted island...The same island Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on! What mysteries await the brave teenagers on this island, and what surprises await them by finding more in themselves? You probably won't understand if you have never seen the show LOST on ABC. Hope you enjoy!

Harry muses on Draco, post-OotP.

The Marauders find themselves sitting around bored and decide to pass the time with some friendly fun.

One-shot. Wormtail loved his friends. He didn't want to hurt them. And when the pain had subsided, he was only vaguely aware of the Dark Mark burned into his skin...

As the end of the war approaches, Harry thinks about what little is left of his life and himself that is worth living for. A one-shot first person narrative. Brief, one-sided mention of H/G

“You want to know that face that you’ve never truly seen. You want to fall into that gleaming, silver gaze. You want him.” Harry sees Draco flying and discovers unknown feelings. Draco/Harry angst

"Always, just after sunset, Ginny watched the butterflies dance..." D/G.

We all know what happens when a wizard travels through the barrier between platforms nine and ten at King's Cross station. What we don't know, is what happens when a Muggle accidentally stumbles onto platform 9 3/4. How will said Muggle handle the situation when a rambunctious prankster crosses his path?

Teenagers Molly and Arthur chat over the Christmas holidays; he tells her a secret from his past that's been hidden away for years. Rated for sensitive issues.

I hate looking into mirrors. I've never liked it. Even as a young girl I would never be able to look directly in the mirror, which is why I use my wand to fix everything.

Summer 1980. Two young men meet in a pub in Knockturn Alley. For ten days, their lives are entwined. But when the Dark Mark burns, no one can fight the summons. Regulus/Peter.

Everyone at Hogwarts has been mysteriously killed. And it's all Raffi's fault.

“Friendship; treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” While dark forces are gaining strength on the outside world, inside Hogwarts the students are dealing with their own struggles; pining after girls, studying for O.W.L.’s, rebellion, marauding, and mischief. Friendship will be tested, strengthened, and lost. Paths will be chosen, and principles defined. Sirius Black and James Potter are entering their fifth year and it is sure to be an eventful one.

Slytherins have feelings and loyalties too, you know. Perhaps different from those of the rest of the world, but they’re still there. Pansy listens, thinks, and remembers and re-examines her loyalties. Rather random thoughts. Set after the end of HBP. Slight DM/PP.

The final showdown between Harry and Voldemort. Not everything goes as expected. possible h/s preslash. May be the first of a series.

After a painful break-up with Draco, Harry tries to be indifferent.

A deeper, darker look into the life of the girl we now know as Moaning Myrtle.

In the Forbidden Forest, during Goblet of Fire, Barty Crouch Jr. encounters shadows.

Emery Miller is a halfblood orphan living in a London wizarding orphanage. On a trip to Diagon Alley for supplies two weeks before her first day at Hogwarts, the eleven year old meets a slightly loony blonde woman. Two weeks later on the train, she meets the slightly loony blonde's twin sons and the rest, as they say, is history.

Songfic to Standing in the Rain by Billy Talent. Tells the story of Pansy after school. She's sunk to a new low. But Pansy's not your conventional whore.

Hermione receives a letter from Viktor Krum and Ron isn't too thrilled. Fighting ensues. R/Hr. One-shot. Set during Half-Blood Prince.

For every 99 times, you looked me in the eye and swore you weren't lying. Well I was so blind, I never saw the signs. I'm getting out tonight and you're not invited. Lily Evans is heartbroken. Her boyfriend was using her for a bet, and stupid James Potter still won't leave her alone! But sometimes we find the things we need in the most unlikely places.

Part 1 of a series. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are heading for Elizabeth City by air...but they have to fly through (dun dun dunnnnn...) Chicago O'Hare. Will they manage to survive...the Layover from Hell?

After Hogwarts, Ron and Ginny sought employment with Lupin in The Hotel of the Wanderers in Tibet. Ginny still pined for Harry, and felt trapped and stuck in her life. Daniel, an attractive, young, Californian, guitarist and university student visits Lupin seeking help in ridding himself of his lycanthropy. In the process, Ginny learns the universality of heartbreak. (Daniel is a character which most readers should instantly recognise from another source. For those who are fond of cross-overs).

I look into the mirror, and I don't recognise the girl staring back at me. It seems to me that I am much older than my birthdays tell me, and I most certainly look it. I can look at other girls my age, and see no reflection of myself in them. I've seen too much. (Hermione, post-war)

A boy should never have to pay for his father's mistakes. When a five-year-old Remus refuses to come in for a bath, he gets more than he bargained for....

There is a motive behind every action, no matter how big or small. What was Peter Pettigrew's the night he betrayed the Potters?

A chance encounter leads to an unexpected offer. This is a crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

With death comes redemption, but it is all meaningless to a new mother whose days were colorless until a rainbow burst into life across her sky. It is a different kind of love...the kind of love that is all consuming. The kind of love that brings agony. The kind of love that eclipses reason, being, and all life before it. The kind of love that is unconditional. The love for a child.

Short Narcissa suicide. "Perhaps this place was only in her mind. But what was the difference? She was here and she would never leave..."

December 1979 has defeated Remus to the point of taking up quarters at Sirius's, whom he can't expect back from an Order mission yet.

Tom Riddle has cast one final curse, sending a fallen warrior into an ultimate darkness. Only through a mythic journey of redemption will he be freed. This is a REVISED version of a story originally posted on other sites about a year ago.

Two investigative reporters from The Daily Prophet newspaper take on various disguises and infiltrate St. Mungo's Hospital to unravel the mysterious details in an arrest of one of its Healers. The trail of evidence leads them into the heart of the Ministry of Magic itself!

I'm lost. Traveling in a world of chaos and darkness. There's a light out there. I can see it, but it's so distant. I can't get close to it; no matter how hard I try. I'm lost, Moony, find me.

Ron is finally facing his feelings, scary though it may be. The Christmas Hogsmeade visit presents an opportunity he cannot pass up. His adventure leads him to turn a corner. A look at an R/Hr date from a confirmed H/Hr shipper.

Draco needs this moment to say goodbye to Harry. Will he find freedom in release? H/D, death-fic.

Cressida is a shy fourth grade loner. She has just gotten into her first ever fight, verbal or physical. However, it is just the first step down a path to new friends, who drink Firewhisky behind the Herbology greenhouses and sneak in Dragon Puff Cigarettes. But, perhaps best of all, they get sweet revenge.

Lupercania 1978. MWPP. In which two seventh-years perform a werewolf ritual.

Can one person and fate make the difference in Severus' life?

In a slightly different Universe, what is Draco Malfoy's life like ahortly after the Final Battle? (AU, if you can't take a hint)

It is Ginny’s twentieth birthday, and she wants to play a game with Harry.

The war is over, but the aftermath is just as bleak.

Slughorn deals with one of his most brilliant students. This is a series of drabbles inspired by some truly excellent writers. There are Half-Blood Prince spoilers. *Very* mild squick. You have been warned.

Draco reflects his past during the final battle, and regrets the mistake he made in his decision between the Dark and the Light. Character death, HBP spoiler, DM/HG.

"You can breathe in the magic the city makes, but the song from a gypsy heart will mystify you forever." Draco remembers these words from long ago, when he finds himself captive of a traveling caravan of Roma people as they make an epic journey through the Black Wood. Though they are faced with the perils of the forest bandits and the ever present "Gypsy Hunters," Draco soon learns that they always have the music and each other.

Aikera wasn't given a choice. The Sorting Hat didn't give her time to object. She never wanted to be a Slytherin. She wasn't her father, she wasn't like him at all.

Remus Lupin is alone without Sirius. A dark, pain riddled fic. Rated for self-mutilation. Mild slash. (nothing active)

Draco begins to see that working for Voldemort is draining all of his feelings from him, leaving him cold and emotionless, but he can only think of one way to remedy the situation.

Hermione attends Hogwarts Reopening Ball after leaving the Wizarding World twenty-five years earlier. Perhaps she would be happy if a voice from the past hadn't filled her in on what she had missed in her absence.

Ginny performs a final service for a beloved friend. D/G. [Initiateverse one-shot]

As his son prepares to become a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy reflects upon Draco's life.

She has nightmares about a dead soul welcoming her home. A blank canvas on her wall holds the secret to a Death Eater's life. Hidden away at 12 Grimmauld Place over the summer, Hermione learns that those who walk its halls never really leave.

All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Ron and Harry are rushing back from a hard potions lesson; they're late for dinner and starving. But there's no way either of them is going to dinner when there's that irritating cricket hanging around. Maybe Neville can help? Err... maybe not.

The Second War is over and everyone is rejoicing, right? Wrong, because somewhere out there, there is a boy, whose spirit was crushed by this terrible war. Who is this boy, and why is he so broken? D/H

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." (George Bernard Shaw). Ginny revisits some old haunts and finds lurking ghosts, disturbing mysteries and twisted truths. She can't escape it twice. Dark Angel crossover.

Shadow. His shadow. It fell over her like a funeral veil. The one that would inevitably enshroud her. Tears of pain poured from her eyes as she struggled to move. About three feet away lay Lucius. His body lay stiff. Stiff for all eternity. Draco’s eyes burned with a searing hatred as he dropped his wand.

Harry's life is quiet, but soon, his career as an Auror will lead both him and Ron halfway around the world to investigate a mysterious school known only as the Skat-Hatokha Academy of Magic. But from the beginning, something seems off. No one in the wizarding world has heard of this school, the board of directors can contact you, but you can't contact them, and the accepted students have all been in some trouble with the law and take their right to remain silent very seriously.

Today the clouds are gray. Silly, silly little Mudblood..."How many of the twenty-six did you kill?" Sticks and stones, Malfoy. This is the story. [Oneshot]

Harry has failed the Prophecy and Voldemort reigns over the Wizarding World. Colin Creevey holds the entire fate of Wizardkind in his hands... and camera?

It was the man closest to him that would become his downfall. Betrayed with a kiss.

The rain evokes memories from long past, and the very nature of love is called into question. If love is happy, perfect, and sweet, then how can his heart hurt so much?

When Sirius runs away from home, Regulus is left behind with his thoughts and his memories. Includes flashbacks. Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge.

Remus and Sirius go for a walk. With close to fourteen years between them, they try to cover the ground they've lost, but find that they can but move forward. [nonslash, friendship, set between GoF and OotP]

Loyalty to oneself above all.

Demons. The inner kind, not the kind that you can exorcise quickly, but the kind that haunt you, paralyze you, pull you into a different world. Ginny talks about her inner demons.

Just days after his death, Pansy reflects on Draco and what he meant to her. What did he feel for her? With only one chance for happiness, will Pansy take it? PP/DM

With the news of Lord Voldemort's first attack, Dumbledore ``reflects on what has and what will happen.

Pronounced i-ro-ny...n, pl. i-ro-nies...Definition #3- Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. A short, not so sweet, guess the character fic.

I was just reading the Prisoner of Azkaban for like the 500th time, and I was wondering how Sirius must have been feeling when he was looking for Wormtail, about to corner him in a "Crowded Muggle Street"

Oliver lands in hospital with a minor curse and gets reacquainted with Trainee Healer Katie Bell. Originally written for the hp_rarities exchange on LJ. Oneshot.

Isn't love ironic? After all these years, all this time, now was the moment he decided to walk away and take his love with him.

HBP. Three stories. Three worlds. Each so different and yet so close to each other. As time passes by... things have to change and the World has to be rebuilt.

Harry has lived in the Muggle world for twenty years after leaving Hogwarts violated and disillusioned. Now Ginny and Sirius come to see him.

"I have made of myself a weapon, forged in the Dark Arts, consecrated to the Greater Good, and if I can only live with myself by knowing that I have done what I must, then that shall have to be enough."

“Or, maybe you have grown accustomed to your position of influence, and saw no more need to consort with me. Was that it, Lucius, did you feel your position could grant you amnesty from your past? Were you fool enough to think you could ever escape my reach? Escape from me, the Dark Lord Who Is Not Named?”

Hannah enters Hogwarts two years late and has to learn seven years' worth of work in five years. Lily Evans makes friends with Hannah, and tries (unsuccessfully) to convince herself she hates James Potter. Remus' 'secret' is almost revealed to the whole school. All in all an average time at Hogwarts.

In the end, he wondered whether the boy's name might have made a target of him - his first name even more than his last.

The Memoirs of Narcissa Malfoy - First, and final born son: the birth and infancy of Draco Aqualis Malfoy.

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other...." -JK Rowling But some things don't happen the way they should. -James Potter saves Severus Snape's life. Rated PG-13 for some language (entirely Severus's fault).

This is the first of my Backdrop Series, a series focusing on several background characters. This is about Merope Gaunt, and is a short look at her dependance on others. She is crazy as all get out, but in her own special way.

Curious about what happened to Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson after Tom Riddle got a hold of them? This is my version. VERY DARK!

A twenty-something Hermione spends a night out with friends and doesn't know how much more banality and ridiculousness she can take, but when confronted with some real meaning, how will she react?

With Fred gone, George finds himself the victim of a bad subconscious decision to realize his pain.

Some people are methodical and plot everything out. Remus knows his beginning and his end.

What is the terrible secret that Headmaster Gideon Fortescue is hiding, and what will he do to keep it? His world is flying apart, and while he'd love to blame the retched Gaunts, he knows that everything is his own fault.

The vestiges of a friendship and an Unbreakable Vow bind Severus Snape's fate to that of a former student. Draco Malfoy, uncertain of his place outside of Hogwarts, turns where he can for help and guidance. Neither expected deliverance. (NOT slash, in case you were wondering.)

She didn't cry. She never cried. Yet, somehow, he was able to change that.

Tom always knew he was special, and he never let anyone forget it. A series of vignettes.

This is a songfic (Linkin Park's Breaking the Habit) that I wrote and intend on expanding. It will be three chapters and no longer a songfic once I finish it. It will most likely be Snape/Hermione once I'm done.

A young man begins a new life, by killing his dreams.

1969: On his way home from work, Tobias Snape ponders his relationship with Eileen. In the beginning, they loved each other, didn't they? But now, only bitterness and harsh words are left. How could it come to this?

Hermione is having trouble keeping her life together. Will she be able to keep things under control long enough to finish her 6th year at Hogwarts?

Pansy wants insurance. Draco... doesn't. It might take some convincing and some off-topic conversations to get him to change his mind.

A Draco story, set in the summer between Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.

Lupin's Daughter, Sirena, is on the path to destruction... and all Snape can do is watch. This fic is a bit of a prequel to Everything You Are, which is in the process of a complete overhaul. It's mildly AU in that I made up a hatred for vampires in Dumbledore.... I figure a man that kind has to have one hate...````But this is the beginning of Sirena Lupin's journey to the world of Dark Magic. Enjoy.

Post-OotP, Remus Lupin finds himself trying to live up to a promise he made. Fits in with Time of the Turning, but works well on its own.