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Merlin, what a waste of time. If knowing the future were as easy as looking at leaves in a teacup... Eileen took the final sip, then held the cup in her left hand and swirled vigorously. Three times, clockwise, the way Professor Mopsus had taught them. She drained the dregs, put the cup back down on the saucer, and critically peered inside. It looked like...clumps of damp tea leaves.

There was the room... The meeting... The dwindling sunlight, and her slightly flickering smile... This was the moment Leanne had been pondering about for years... This was a beginning.

Sometimes, when I’m bored, or at another pointless Death Eater meeting, I think about that tapestry, the one in my aunt Black’s home. I remember the feel of it - it was soft, and the gold threads were so intricately woven, so perfect, it seemed. Of course, there were its flaws- the small burned names, and little holes, but other than that it really was very lovely. I remember, when I was a small child, tracing my index finger along the gold line that seemed to run forever…forever, and forever, for all eternity.

She wishes things didn’t have to change. She wishes that she had the courage to tell Sirius to come back, to tell him that the Potters don’t need him. She needs him. She needs him to keep her from a danger she cannot be bothered to give a damn about, and to try and protect her when it is far too late. She shivers at the thought of looking down upon her arm to find a mark that will never go away.

A Gryffindor ponders what could have been after Voldermort's downfall. If his parents had been there, would his childhood had been different? By changing the past, could he bring them back? Would his life be different?

A fic inspired by the song 'Proud of Your Boy'. Ron promises his mum that one day she'll be proud of him.

YYHHP crossover, postHBP. Yusuke Urameshi was concieved by Atsuko when she was 14, but how that came to be was a mystery. When the truth is learned, he will have to face one of the Greatest Evils of the wizarding world, his father.

A small look at my version of the Black family. Starts with Sirius' grandmother, down to Regulus.

Writing is an addiction. Plain and simple. A story for every devout narrator.

The first war - a time of love and betrayal. After the fall of the Dark Lord, Severus Snape prepares to face the consequences of his actions - the funeral of the only woman he ever loved.

It was a binary, remember? Two stars, circling around each other forever? (R/S Slash)

Ginny Weasley has exiled herself from the wizarding world for almost two years after the war between Voldemort and Harry ended, to save her sanity from the memories of that time. With Professor McGonagall's death, she is invited to the funeral, held at Hogwarts. Deciding to go, Ginny must give up everything she's built to keep her mind safe. But as more complications add themselves up, she enters a new war in the wizarding world in which she must depend on her scarred self, and Draco Malfoy, to keep her sanity.

Harry cant stop thinking. And have you ever been in two minds about something? Does it ever seem to take over? It has for Harry, and with his mind in conflict, he doesn't know what to do.

He had this odd feeling, like he would never see her again after this. And it was true. He would never see her again, because she would be beyond the veil, in a place where he could not follow.

Harry Potter's capture ends the war, but it doesn't end the battle; Muggle-borns are rounded up and used as slaves for the ruling Death Eater party, while the rest of the Wizarding World is left in shambles. Hermione Granger turns to some old enemies in order to cope.

As Ginny's sixth year at Hogwarts comes to a close, she gets a strange feeling and hurries to save the Wizarding Community. Unfortunately, something goes wrong...

Most crashes are dramatic and sudden. Then, there are others that are soft and take time, like that of the fall of the House of Nott. After the birth of her son, Theodore, Ella Nott learns of her husband's true work. But that is only the beginning. There on, the Dark Lord vanishes. And then, only time can tell until her time is up. Such a fall will never come around for centuries, as that of Ella Nott and the Nott family.

A dark, disturbing, odd little fic. Harry loves Colin, and Colin loves Harry. It's perfect, surely? (Warning for extreme angst and weirdness!)

So now, less than a month after dying, how is death feeling for Sirius Black? And what is going through poor Harry's mind?

Wormtail probably had his own reason for betraying his friends. Maybe his friends attitudes made him or maybe it was something else. Yes we all think he's a scumbag, but maybe he had his own reasons.

Lavender reflects on how people think of her.

Regulus Black learns there is more to becoming a Death Eater than receiving the Dark Mark.

After the end of his fifth year, a self-deprecating Neville reflects on June, his parents, and his relationship with his grandmother.

Pansy hates waking up in the dark. In the darkness the nightmares hide, along with the haunting memories and the hidden doubts.

As Hermione, Harry and Ron embark upon their final year at Hogwarts they discover that life doesn't really care much for their plans and the power that the Dark Lords knows not is revealed in a surprising way. HG/SS with HP/DM. Rated R for later chapters.

If you're wondering what this story's about, I'm afraid I don't know... just a random story where Harry loses his temper a little too often and insults Malfoy a whole lot.

When an Auror is sent to the States to track down some runaway Death Eaters, he finds he may be in over his head. Set sometime after HBP

"Harry had been in this place before, or so it seemed to him. Sure, this room he had walked on looked nothing like any of the Dursleys’, but even as he stood on the threshold, clutching his trunk with Hedwig’s cage on top, he couldn’t help but feel that the place was familiar..." Will there be any hope for Harry after losing his godfather? (No slash or romance here, sorry.)

The house is old, the garden's a jungle, and Lupin isn't sure what can be salvaged. Sequel to "Escapism."

After the war, someone has to live with the guilt of surviving and finding new happiness.

Harry participates in the final, public destruction of Voldemort.

Ron is not made for waiting around uselessly. Remus/Ron

Snape is haunted by memories, and has a meeting with temptation in the form of Bellatrix Lestrange. Because no one can remain impassive forever, and it is not only fools who can wear their hearts on their sleeves.

"I will return to Hogwarts in order to prepare it for the Dark Lord's imminent return. And when he comes to take the school, I will gladly give him what he deserves, and rid those unworthy of being in his presence."``Draco swears his revenge on Potter and his gang, as well as Dumbledore, who dares to try and understand him, and Snape, who betrayed the Death Eaters.

Year six in Slytherin house brings about some unexpected changes, but as the war approaches, will these changes be enough? Story of Sixth Year, as told from the viewpoint of Theodore Nott.

Ron knew that his feelings for Harry were wrong, however he``wanted to know if there was any chance for him to get in Harry's life.

There is a time before a house-elf is given a name. Winky thinks back on her past, and remembers how she learned to be a good house-elf. My thoughts on why house-elves are so servile and self-abasing.

What if T.S. Elliot got it wrong? What if it was the brginning of the world we should be worried about? Rate for intresting takes on the Bible.

"Orphan. Hermione never considered that word much before. Until she became one herself." The death of her parents' death turn Hermione into a catatonic person, who doesn't care, doesn't know, doesn't realise anything going around her. She only knows one thing.``Nobody's home. Pure angst.

"She edited her letters while composing them in her head, learning to give just enough to inspire verisimilitude. She learned to tell stories, in writing at least, and by the time summer came around, she'd told the same ones, over and over until they came automatically to her lips."

When she was younger, Bellatrix used to visit funerals of those killed by the Dark Lord. She now feels they may have an influence on her loyalties.

Takes place right after 'Promise'. This includes Ginny's conversation with Dumbledore, and the Twin's newest Wheeze. Ginny battles with her inner demons.

To Alice, Bellatrix is an enigma, and Bellatrix covets this. (femmeslash)

Written for hd_remix 2007, for mizbean's story "Walk On." Mostly because I loved it, but also in part because I have a huge soft spot for Harry/Ron, even when Harry/Draco is the OTP ;)

Tonks runs into Percy. And then runs into him again. Six scenes in which the pairing discover the truths of one another and where they fit.

Ginny Weasley had been in love with Draco for years and then he simply just disapeared. She had almost forgotten about him when a reminder comes in the form of a single green envelope with a promise of more to follow. Now she faces a dilemma: Continue her new life or try to rekindle the one she lost.

Fourth fic in what I am now calling The Songfic Chronicles. Another GC one, but I promise it's the last.

During the summer before his sixth year at Hogwarts, Draco's whole world falls apart. His mother is killed, and he is left alone to cope with the devestation that this brings. He has decided he has nothing left to live for, but can he be persuaded otherwise?

Let it never be said that irony exempts heroes from its clutches. This fic follows through the eyes of one who is overtaken by hatred and does something that he will regret forever. If the dead have regrets. A post-Hogwarts darkfic.

Hermione accidentally kills Draco, but then she accidentally brings him back to life. What happens when Voldemort becomes interested in Draco's new skeletal form? Soon it becomes clear Hermione has one choice left: kill Draco again. Post HBP. DMHG

In the summer of 1995, Doris Purkiss gave an interview to The Quibbler claiming that Sirius Black, notorious Azkaban escapee, was really the long retired and reclusive singer of the Hobgoblins, Stubby Boardman. Well, what if she was right? Sirius Black tells a story.

And it’s like this that I’ll remember you. Always. A woman, now as small as a girl, who prays the sky for something that, even if it came, you couldn’t recognise. Your conscience has already convicted you. Without appeal. Murderer.

Sirus Black was determined to overcome the dementors for ten years. All he could think about were three souls; two living, one dead.

Sirius has gone through the Veil and Remus is find it difficult to mourn him. So, Remus chooses to write Sirius a letter.

Lee Jordan and George Weasley (a.k.a. River and Wrackspurt) have been anonymously broadcasting a radio show on the Wizarding Wireless Network for nearly a year and a half, dedicated to educating the magical world about popular muggle music. This particular show, dated April 1, 2001, is a poignant tribute to someone near and dear to them both. A one-shot companion to George & Annie: an Unofficial Biography. No slash.

A songfic to Metallica's song "Sad But True". Peter Pettigrew's PoV shortly after Sirius's death.

Draco brought out a silver dagger with a snake on the handle from inside his robes. Harry risked himself a glance at it, but a glance was all it took for the green eyes of the serpent to strike him like venom, bewitching him. Harry often had the suspicion that it was cursed to do that.

"It's no fun being an impatient painting in a dreary house devoid of other pieces of flat art."

Night and Day... two forces in our lives that seem to intertwine with each other and yet repulse each other... total opposites. Watch how the mere change from day to night can turn a person's life upside-down.

Choices were made in the past that can never be forgiven. A lifetime of loneliness and regret forms barriers between him and the world. Friends once lost will be regained even if only as memories surfacing in the mind. A lack of oxygen forces three characters to face the past and attempt to find a way to move on. Post-OotP

Follow up to There is a single candle on the table. James and Lily decide on a Secret Keeper at late at night.

A loving mother thinks it's time to finally tell her daughter the legend of the girl with neverending tears... Cho Chang, a.k.a. Leaky Lue. What was Cho really like during school? After school? And was this really a legend?

This is what the dementors can do. A look into the mind of Sirius Black at the start of his time in Azkaban.

The Driver faces perhaps another of his most perplexing challenges: Coming face-to-face with a hugely talented and successful wizard singing star. But beneath her beauty lies a problem - she always gets what she wants.``He aids her boyfriend cum manager who always get pushed by her demands by giving her some payback of his own style.``Warning: Contains spoilers from The Hire

When Voldemort discovers betrayal within his ranks he sets out to uncover the truth. When the truth is revealed it will show lies and deceit from the people Severus Snape trusted the most and force him to decide where his loyalties lie.

Remus is tidying up the library at Grimmauld Place, when he discovers Sirius' old photo album. The pictures bring back memories, both good and bad, and Remus remembers his friends and thinks that maybe marauders just aren't meant to stay on earth. Song-fic to Whitney Houston's 'My Love Is Your Love'

A former Hogwarts student reminisces a terrifying time when childish taunting resulted in tragedy.

Severus Snape returns to Hogwarts and finds himself once more a student.

It’s Draco’s 18th birthday and Harry’s going to give him the present of his life, if only both can live long enough. MAJOR ANGST! Birthday fic for Shu! Post-War Harry/Draco Slash!

Written for the LiveJournal hp_gen_ch's January Founders Challenge. The Chamber of Secrets was Salazar's idea.

Their first night at Hogwarts, Remus and Sirius bond. Pre-slash.

A battle over two thousand years old is finally laid to rest.

The final battle... with a little of both Harry and Voldemort's 'touch' and some help from the forces of nature and the forces of the impossible.

Post-final battle. A wounded Harry wanders away from the fresh battlefield, searching for help. For someone, anyone...

Anne makes the mistake of introducing Theo to Shakespeare. Warning: may contain fluff.

She sits up until the late hours of the night praying and waiting for Daddy to come back home. It’s been fourteen years and still she waits and waits and prays and prays for him to come back to her and Mommy. Maybe then Mommy wouldn’t be so sad all the time. Maybe then she wouldn’t be sitting alone at the table eating dinner while Mommy had to work three jobs just to pay for the small two-roomed apartment. Maybe then she’d have a family.

Harry is sick of Draco never talking to him. Then when Draco finally does, Harry gets a rude awakening.

A stream-of-consciousness oneshot from Remus's point of view, reflecting on Sirius's death. Inspired by one particular verse of the song "Diamonds and Rust".

In which there is a different sort of Death Eater centric plot, two muggles find themselves completely powerless against Wizarding law, and Hermione makes a desperate decision whose consequences everyone must face. "I made the best choice that I could under the circumstances, and now that I need you to support me, you can't do that?!"

A group of Death Eaters meet in a bar a year after Voldemort's fall, and form a plot that could change all their fortunes. But is there a traitor among them?

Understanding is about point of view. How do two people, caught up in a world that demands self-sacrifice and hardened hearts, find common ground? Remus Lupin and Annwyl King are two such souls. Their personal fencing match quietly plays itself out in the shadow of larger events. ``Co-written by MadEye1200 and Sandy Phoenix, this is a missing moment from chapter nineteen of Harry Potter and the Labyrinth of the Mind.

Every time the thunder would roll, she felt it in the marrow of her bones, as if nature understood the deep agony she held inside of her and it was being reverberated throughout the environment as well. Nature would wail with the wind, bellow with the thunder, weep with the rain, and showcase rage with the lightning.

A sweet songfic about the Weasleys. Particularly Ginny and Molly. Lyrics are from the Blake Shelton song The Baby. One-shot

He put her up on that pillar and she had to get down, and graveyards always have perpetually bad weather.

Hermione used to be happy. Now she can think of only one thing. WARNING: ANGST, CHAR. DEATH, RAPE.

Like grains of sand we were, but together we can be strong, like glass we can win!

Percy Weasly must undo the wrongs he made before it is too late!

Before a great evil governed the wizarding world... he was eleven years old, and got the Hogwarts Letter.

Things begin surfacing for Ginny at night. When no one is around. What happens when a new power arises, calling himself the Dark Lords heir? And how will Ginny play into all this?

The Unmentionables have discovered something. . . something that could ultimately bring an end to the Wizarding World. . . .

Tom finds himself in a war that isn't his to fight.

A bit of insight into Harry's state of mind after the war. AU.

Regina took the small box from Fred, slid her finger under the paper and carefully unwrapped it. She slipped the lid of the box off and stared at the exquisite dragon hair clip with matching earrings. The dragons were made out of jade and edged with gold. The hair clip was large enough to hold Regina's hair in a high ponytail but small enough to hold a small amount of her hair away from her face. She pulled the earrings from the box and removed her small gold studs to put her new earrings on. The dragon earrings dangled about an inch from her earlobes. They swung with each turn of her head.

Remus Lupin laments after Sirius Black's death.

Ginny needs help but she won't admit it. Harry tried to be the savior... again. And Draco just HAS to be in here!

Two stragglers collide in a Hogwarts hallway (though not quite by chance), begin a hesitant romance (though not quite by choice), and may spark the ending of a rivalry that's been going on for centuries (though not quite on purpose). Pre-Yule Ball fluff. (Kenneth Towler/Patricia Stimpson - both minor OOtP characters)

How does Tonks join the Order? How does she react to seeing Sirius for the first time since he went to Azkaban? Post GoF.