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

'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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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

‘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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

"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!

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

“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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Neville remembers the one he loved. Slash.

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

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.

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/?)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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?

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

The path to darkness bleeds. Tom Riddle's journey as he becomes Lord Voldemort.

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.

"The purpose of this letter – it’s silly, really – but the purpose of this letter is to be sure. It’s my husband, you see." -- JK Rowling receives a letter from Mrs Julia Black. It's probably a letter she shouldn't answer.

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

Wind can blow out a fire, but it can also make it flare.

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.

In her eyes he saw his soul. This is the story of the shattering of the last horcrux.

Regulus Black has seven days to die.

"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.

Snape's mother takes a look back on her marriage to his father.

Hermione explains her History of Magic project.``Crossover with Discworld.

The seventh year begins, and the war has just begun. The Dark Lord continues to rise, and gain power, slipping spies amongst those that are doing what they can to fight against his power, his rising influence, causing each attempt by the Ministry to fail drastically. It seems that the protection of Hogwarts is not enough for the young boy who lived, Ron and Hermione are no longer neck and neck, Dumbledore can no longer fight as he used to, and Draco has become the miniature version of Severus Snape. With pooled forces, and the dramas of war, can good hold up against evil? Can those who fight for peace keep from crumbling and falling to their knees before those who want nothing more than bloodshed...?

Love, lust, punishment, betrayal, death. In all things, there’s symmetry.

It is Azkaban the day after Sirius Black has escaped. The Warden ponders where they might have gone wrong with Sirius Black

"Remus Lupin, are you pouting?" "I'm a werewolf. Werewolves do not pout." "You love me, Remus Lupin, and what's more I love you too!" Her cheeks flushed and her eyes sparked emeralds. "Then why are you dating James?" Short and bittersweet. *RemusLily*

"I grew up in a haunted house. This isn't who I wanted to be. You can never outgrow anything, and how does that make you feel? I'll never stop being one of them. I grew up with ghosts in my childhood and vampires in the bed next to me, and I'm not afraid of monsters anymore. And I'm stuck in the past and I can't get out, and I know that they're like that, too. I can feel it in their blood." Andromeda reflects on her family.

Harry and Draco, happily married for three years, live in a London flat. Soon, however, Harry begins to see a new light - a light which tears him between his happily domestic life with Draco, and a new lover to whom he never suspected he'd be attracted. Slash.

"As Luna awoke each day to a dream that never ended, forever chasing her ghosts, Ginny’s only came to her in the night, like snakes in the dark, her own spirits unbidden and unwanted." Ginny/Luna

Hermione thinks about how her life has been, the matters of family, friends, and the matters of her heart. Background of some parts of the story also come from "Reflections (3)", another of my stories

How do you live when you feel destined to die? Don't ask me. If I knew that, my life and death would be a lot easier.

A short vignette on how love can transcend the boundaries of war, death and even love.

Lighting the fire, she took the time to look at the pictures on top of the fireplace, something she had never found the time to do before, though she couldn’t think why. She could feel her eyes beginning to well up as she look down at a photograph that must have been taken years ago.

Love, betrayal, anger and hate can drive a man to desperate measures. And further.

What is the song of a wandering man? Is it some tune that he remembers fondly from a time gone by? Or has that tune become so bitter that he can no longer hear it? And so he walks alone... and in silence.

He had passed the stage of hating himself for what had happened to his godfather, Sirius Black. He was over blaming himself for the loss of fellow Triwizard Tournament contestant, Cedric Diggory. But the thoughts that he was in some way responsible never seemed to leave Harry Potter's nightmares. However, as Hermione Granger found herself digging deeper into her beloved books, she found the one thing that could possibly save the seventeen year old boy from hiding behind his mask of falsified happiness. The only problem is, they soon realize they must fulfill a prophecy they never saw coming.