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Remus Lupin walks down a cold street in London, reminiscing about his old school days and a certain man who he is missing very much.

What Sirius finds beyond the veil is not death but life and penance in an odd friendship to a boy from his past...

Every Friday I clean Mr. Harry Potter's flat. Every Friday I go home sad.

A series of quiet epiphanies. Post-GoF, Sirius/Remus slash. "Even the sunlight's older here, faded and cooled with dawn; the floorboards feel odd under his human feet, and his skin is too thin, too sensitive. So long as a dog, and he's almost forgotten - this muted scent of dust, of Remus, of books lining the creaking shelves."

Following the battle in the Department of Mysteries, Lucius Malfoy is sent to Azkaban, leaving Severus Snape to ponder the years of love and transgressions they have shared. Romance/angst. SS/LM slash.

Harry reflects on the past year, on both a personal level and the changes in the wizarding world. However, what appears to be a normal Christmastime in the Weasley household, takes a sudden sinister turn as night falls.

Young Severus Snape enters to Hogwarts for first time. How will his schooltime go? Warning of school teasing! Please read and review!

Jacquelyn Randolf wants this Christmas to be the best Christmas for her and her orphaned brother and sisters. What happens when she gets her wish? How does Hogwarts and Harry Potter fit into all of this?

So what happened to Sirius Black after he stepped through the doorway and left Harry's world? Who does he meet there... and will he ever come back from The Land Beyond the magic?

Sometimes Neville Longbottom secretly hated the world.

Mistakes of the past become nightmares of the future. Snape views a memory in the Pensieve he would rather forget. Snape/Lily.

Vinyl isn't just something to wear. Music, mayhem and Muggle love abound during the summer of Harry's fifth year. To be played at maximum volume...

Epilogue to Nine Months in F Minor.``Hermione and Ron's relationship finally reaches the next level; Harry makes a confession; and Draco's punishment is finally realized. H/G, Hr/R Quite angsty.

Two friends sit reminiscing about the past and remembering better times. But the arrival of dire news causes arguments to erupt and choices to be made. Guilt is still felt, the past is remembered, but he won’t let it happen again.

After the battle in the Department of Mysteries, Ron and Ginny retreat into their home and each other. Until Luna arrives to rock their tiny world.

'You start to wonder what happened to all of the others who fell from the edge, and why they’re not keeping you company. Why you’re not seeing the dry white bones floating by like the candles in Hogwarts.'

Drucila Weasley, cousin to Ronald and the others is coming to Hogwarts. Placed in Harry's sixth year. She comes from Durmstrang and she is absolutely disgusted by Harry Potter. All seems well on the train until they get a message that Hogwarts has collapsed. How did it happen? Where will they stay? What house will Dru be in? What will happen in the way of romance? (Drucila IS Ron's age and year)

Neville Longbottom realises that his admiration for his third-year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher isn't just hero-worship... it's love.

How serious can a boggart really be? It can be a simple fear of spiders or something more horrifying, like the fear of fear itself. Sirius has an all different fear: the fear of someone's disapproval. Semi-Sequel to The Boggart.

There is a place, it exists for nearly all of us, that seems to serve solely as the physical manifestation of everything that reminds us that we are imperfect, uncomfortable, or simply don\'t belong. This place, for Sirius, is none other than the drawing room in Grimmauld Place. A Sirius Marauders-era fic.

Something good comes out of Malfoy’s favouritism - Goyle learns that he can do well. Non slash, in character, in canon, cheering fic!

Even in the deepest friendships, we are ultimately alone.

Regret. Grief. Longing. What he kept from everyone. How it really feels to loose so much at sixteen.

Harry has returned from his fifth year at Hogwarts and now everything that has happened has started to sink in. He also learns he must say goodbye to someone before he can move on.

As he is brutally told his brother fled the house, Regulus understands he has to make Sirius come back. He'd prefer not to think about their differences.

Remus Lupin was part of the mischief-making band of the Marauders when he was in school. Now, twenty years later, he is once again meeting someone who good life can be. Remus/Tonks.

Draco loves music, and plays the piano like no other. Harry just soars.

Snape's reaction to Sirius' death - and the repercussions.

First sequel to "Somewhere in my Past". When Harry first opened his eyes that night, it was Draco he first thought of.

Alone. The word bounced around in his head, reverberating over and over. He’d always been alone, even in a crowded room. Had anyone else in history ever been so isolated as he?

I would be just too depressed. There would be rumors and speculation about things no one had the faintest idea about. Stories and slander I didn’t want to deal with. The Boy Who Lived didn’t want to deal with it anymore.

A cliche line: every hero needs a dragon to be slain-- Harry got one.

It's Christmas Eve and Penelope Clearwater is about to make a decision that will change her whole life. Percy/Penelope. Set during Ootp.

Today is THE day. Pansy waits for Draco to propose. But what is this? Cold feet?

After Harry regains his memory, Ron must see things as they are. Sequel to Post Bellum.

Elliot Wood doesn't want to be known as Oliver's little sister, the Weasley twins' other friend, the smart girl, or the girl who dated Cedric. How far will she go to get out from under the shadow of everyone else?

Adonis Rookwood was brought under mysterious circumstances to the Rookwood household, the most notorious and wealthy Wizarding clan in Britain, on the day of his birth. Katherine Reynold is a driven young witch who lost her mother to the hands of war. So what do these two have in common? Lord Voldemort. Their meeting was no coincidence, for there are no real coincidences. And as their seemingly different worlds clash, both begin to unravel Lord Voldemort's hidden past through cryptic objects, dangerous encounters, and tales from the most unlikely of people. Throughout their journey, not only do they learn of how Tom Riddle became the Dark Lord, but of themselves, and what it truly means to be human.

Four years of war, four years of loss and death and tragedy; but nothing could have prepared Harry for losing the one thing he fought so hard to gain.

HP/DM SLASH. Fairytales never come true, and life isn't like the movies.

A single spell can change the very essence of a thing evolution spent thousands of years creating. Magic makes all things fluid and subject to change- and Lisa Turpin learns that words can change lives just as instantaneously as magic, and that as one life falls apart, it may transform into another.

Ever wondered about that scar above Dumbledore's left knee (the one that was a "perfect map of the London Underground")? Or why he said scars can be useful? Or why he likes chamber music? This story explores all those things, and also speculates about how Severus Snape spent the summer before Harry Potter started at Hogwarts. Two wizards meet a Muggle woman who learns something about magic, and about her own family.

‘He was older than me by three years, so naturally he thought that he knew everything before I did.’ ````Regulus Black reflects on Sirius and their relationship earlier on in life.

Harry has lost his glasses. What does Draco have to do with it?

Dedicated to all the members of the HMS Wolfstar. What do we do when memories are all we have? Can we ever move beyond the regret?

Five different beginnings for Ron Weasley. Ron/Luna, Ron/Padma, Ron/Pansy, Ron/Cho, Ron-Draco.

Lily Evans buys a magic mirror, and is drawn in by its dark magic. Chaos ensues, and ends with a ship you'd never expect.

Sometimes surviving is worse than not making it back, it always is when you have the opportunity to walk away from it. D/Hr

Percy writes a letter to his youngest brother. Written for amidalashari for the LJ springtime_gen exchange.

And they waltzed around the hallway, Pansy as light as air in his arms. Sometimes she seemed so frail, it was if she wasn't there at all, but she danced for him, closing her eyes and leading him through the steps so he would not falter. She was his Octavia, his Messlina. She was his, but then again, not quite. Theodore Nott/Pansy Parkinson

After everything, Neville Longbottom is still an outsider. That's one of the few things about him that haven't changed. He's a different person than he was - and so is Luna Lovegood.

Due to mysterious circumstances, Harry and Ginny's daughter, Lily, ends up back in 1997, the end of Harry's sixth year. While Lily tries to adapt to teenage parents and a foreign Hogwarts the Wizarding World is entering a war. Meanwhile, Lily's family struggles to unravel the cause of her disappearance and figure out a way to bring her back. Time travel. DH spoilers.

Post OotP, Remus/Sirius slash. Remus sighs, thinks, and falters. We ever seek the glittering ‘happily ever after’ of fairytales, but most stories has no cheery ending; if indeed an ending at all.

Audrey Beauvais is a nineteen year old Auror in training and member of the Order of the Phoenix. The final battle against Lord Voldemort is finally approaching and Audrey is in the middle of everything. It is almost impossible for her to remain calm and focused as she deals with death, corruption, peril, and the secrets of a hidden romance.

He didn't own the beloved trinket he wore around his neck; he was merely holding it for a friend.

Regulus Black is R.A.B. His descent into fear, madness, and death as he continues on with his hopeless mission. Regulus was just a lion from the stars sorted into a Slytherin snake, but in the end, none of that mattered.

Songfic based on Chevelle's "The Red." Harry does the unthinkable. And Lucius Malfoy wants him to do it again. Not Slash. Partially Dark!Harry.

"When you save somebody's life you're forever going to be responsible for this life..." -- Severus is looking for trouble. James is looking for authority. Dumbledore is looking for a resolution. James' POV on life debts, innocent bystanders, father issues and what else strikes his fancy that fateful day when he is told that one of his friends must have betrayed him and Lily.

"She sits in her cell and hears laughter ringing in her mind. She thinks it's just another voice in her head when she realizes that it's not—it's Ron Weasley. She smacks into a sad realization: She is the last one alive. But here, Hermione is never alone." This is the companion/sequel to my story Laugh Because You're Dying!

Luna overhears the Trio making Horcrux hunting plans. She insists Harry keep in touch with those he's leaving behind and gives him a stone that her father says will allow people to communicate in their dreams. Loony Lovegood might just be the only person who can keep Harry sane.

Mid-OotP. After the events in the Department of Mysteries, Harry's best friends come to an understanding of the past, the future, and each other. Minor R/Hr.

The Marauders take James Potter out to paint the town red on his last night as a bachelor. A pub crawl through the wizarding world leads to a foray into the seedier parts of Muggle London, and then things really go downhill when one of his friends makes a pass.

Strange things are happening to our heroes. Who is responsible?

Luna, after the War, reflects on the changes she and her friends have undergone.

The summer before OotP, Dobby has had enough of Winky's drinking. A Dobby/Winky shorty.

Harry Potter has defeated Voldemort at last. The long war had just ended, and Harry can finally rest. He has nothing more to fear, except his dreams.

Nymphadora spends some time with her family. A one-shot, with no particular time to be set. Slightly pointless, just a rambling into the blacker corners of my mind.

Remus Lupin must deal with the death of a closer friend, and even harder... learn to move on.

When did they first set the trap? When will she tread on the switch? Pansy reflects on her past and her future, and skirts the edges of a life-altering decision. Hermione/Pansy in later chapters, if there are any.

Harry Potter has turned to drinking after defeating Voldemort. What's happened to our innocent, save-the-world hero?

She was the only one he thought of, for his last moments. SSHG.

Ravenclaws are the smartest and wisest aren't they? Most able to handle delving into the forgotten and the forbidden - even if things go wrong, they have the skills to help themselves out of it. But what happens when they slip? ````Pushing the boundaries can have nasty side-effects. When extra-curricular activities go wrong and to sleep is to face hours of restless nightmares, Ravenclaw expertise can both solve and worsen the problem.````Late night in Ravenclaw dorm, four seniors try to kill the hours until daybreak. ````Set during Goblet of Fire.

Lily Evans, soon to be Mrs. Potter, is a happy prominent auror, who just found out she's pregnant. Love was everything in her world. But darkness overcomes her life, changing her world, so...now she finds herself alone facing a new reality...struggling to live...again (AU completely!!)

'Remus has that nagging feeling of stupidity, like when you wake up from a nightmare and still can't tell what's reality and what's a dream.'

A hex causes Regulus to ‘switch’ places with a Gryffindor for a day...

“Pity the insane. They always believe themselves above all other creatures at the expense of their last shreds of humanity.”`` Dolohov's reflections during his second imprisonment to Azkaban - a morbid take on insanity: between the dark humor and sheer tragedy of a man stuck between hum-hums, clickety-clicks and his own bitter memories.

After the war, Draco is forced to stand trial for crimes against the Wizarding World. But why has all the evidence pointing to his innocence been tampered with? What will Harry do about it?

Post-OoP, Ginny reflects on Tom, Harry, desire, fear, and the nature of truth. At what point do illusion and reality meet? Downbeat and philosophical.

They do not know me; no one does. If they did, they would that their jealous looks and hateful stares do nothing to me in any way. I do not feel them. I hover somewhere between happiness and sadness in a state which I suppose one would call numbness. This state is rather pleasant on the whole, with no attachment to anything except you.

Harry encounters his parent's murderer, only this time it isn't Voldemort, and he has something to say.

Life at Hogwarts and in the wizarding world will change as we know it. There is a new headmistress at Hogwarts, and a new Minister of Magic! Analise is only a small part in this big plot, but someone comes to Hogwarts with a big secret, and she's in it! (Ron/Analise, Harry/Ginny, Hermione/?)

A brief look into the teen angst-filled life of James Potter as he walks down the ever-changing hallways of Hogwarts.

“She’s pack,” he said, running the side of his thumb over the exposed scar on her shoulder… Sequel to 'Bloody Footprints'.

Luna Lovegood on truth, life and being yourself, no matter what people say or do. Short, but powerful.

Neville remembers the one he loved. Slash.

Moody opens the door and sees Dumbledore for the first time in nearly five years -- since he left school, since the war started, since a lot of things, most of them bad, have come to pass. ~ An Auror and his former professor share quarters for the night. Slash.

It has been three years since that fateful day when Ginny's life was upended. When everything she had known changed. Three years since she had been the recipient of a kind act from an unsuspecting person. And now that person has returned from his self imposed exile to do what no Malfoy has ever done. Apologize and make right the wrongs he had done.

Potter might have been destined to take on the Dark Lord, but it would be the choice of his heart that would kill him. For a choice will always destroy more than a destiny.

Faced with the unexpected, Ron rethinks his priorities; a war story.

Songfic to Kelly Clarkson's "Beautfiul Disaster". H/Hr.

There's an adventurer, a schemer, and a rapscallion...and then there's Peter. And he certainly never dreamed that this would happen. Marauder-era genfic, AU theme. But it could happen. With Professor Sprout and Hagrid. This was for the January 2006 challenge on the omniocular community on livejournal. Special thanks to Pavonis for "Kate" and the Hanging Basket inclusion. Title taken from the Rolling Stones song.

Lavender and Parvati attack Hermione... but not the way you think. A bit of Ron/Hermione.

Helga Hufflepuff wanted nothing more than a simple quiet life. Yet she found herself unable to refuse Godric's request that she join him in building Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But how will she be able to work with Slytherin, knowing the terrible warning a prophet once made about him?

Two years after Hogwarts, Harry and Blaise share a lovers' spat, which ends up in an utterly unexpected way. HP/BZ

Petter Pettigrew has a son who has grown up believing that his father is a hero. Will he ever find out the truth? And, if he does, how will he react?

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done. Written for the SiYE Open House Challenge.

After the death of a friend, Remus Lupin looks back, before someone helps him look forward again. No slash, and slightly AU, as it replaces the last scenes of OotP.

"Barcelona, where the winds all blew, / The churches don't have windows, but the graveyards do. / Me and my shadow are wrestling again. / Look out stranger, there's a dark cloud moving in." First full moon after the Ministry break-in, and dear Moony is having a hard time living with himself. Reflections on lost friends and hopefully an insight into Remus's mind.

A preview of what's to come in a new humorous Schnoogle novel...

Regulus Black has seven days to die.