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You see it's good for nothing (good for nothing), a close look at something (so close). It's too much of not enough.

Welcome to Dionysia, California. A town as far removed from Hogwarts as you could imagine. Meet Leila Shahin, a young woman beset with wayward younger siblings, a crazy aunt, and more family secrets than she ever could have guessed. How does our favorite werewolf end up in the picture? It's a smaller world than you think.

Snape pays the ultimate price for the cause.``Warning: Character Death and implied slash. Can be considered AU.

Draco is single. Hermione’s engaged. Her life was in danger and went undercover with Draco to protect her from becoming Voldemort’s pawn. Six months of living together sure changed both of their opinion of each other, but what would happen once the six months was over?

As if having a psycho constantly plotting his death isn't enough, Harry has to go through the daily struggles known to all teenagers. Girls, pimples, studies-does it never end?

Four things that never happened to Remus Lupin on his seventeenth birthday, and one that did.

Sirius didn't get that newspaper from Fudge and never broke out of prison. The summer after his uneventful third year in Hogwarts, Harry receives a letter from the Ministry that turns his world up-side-down. He has a godfather?

Snape's life is endangered by Sirius sixth year, and it falls upon James to rescue him. His simple good deed turns into something unexpected. James and Snape both learn the other meaning of what it's like to act as a hero.

I know the war is over. I know my wife is dead. Now what?

First in a series of three. A short, one chapter story on the life of Dudley and how he's changed. Set after Hogwarts.

Ginny reflects on past events as the wizarding world celebrates the defeat of the Dark Lord. H/G, R/Hr. Companion piece to The Waltz.

Draco Malfoy never wanted things to get quite that far during his school years. He wanted to be himself: cynical, righteous about blood and treated the way he deserved. Childhood's petty insults made adulthood's enemies, and a seventh-year Draco finds himself hanging by a thread over darkness. One night changes it all. In an inner struggle between lifelong-love and self-preservation, Slytherin Draco chooses the course of his life.

Written for Ginnysdarkside's New Year's Challenge. Ron meets someone very interesting at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

"...and in the end...the love you make...is equal to the love you make..."``--The Beatles

Malfoy is sinful as always. Ginny is vulnerable because he saves her life. Will Malfoy truly save her life or will his pride get the best of him? You'll have to stay tuned to find out.

Ron and Hermione think they have come to terms with that dreadful day. That is until their son needs the truth and they discover that they aren't as at ease with it as they might seem.

"Harry!" I scream and I quickly grab the boy before he goes right in after him. I'm saying words although they don't make much sense, all I can think is that I have to hold him. He hits me again and again in his struggle, beating against my chest as he tries to break free. It was instinct, I think. I certainly don't remember using any strength to hold him back - even though I remember him struggling so fiercely against me. Then again, I've always been strong. It's part of my nature. Remus spends a moment alone after Sirius' death.

Amanda is just your ordinary non-magical Muggle. Her brother, however, isn't. He's a wizard, an Auror to be exact. After three years of no word from him, Amanda is finally going to be able to see her beloved brother again. However, little did she know, but his visit ``will be cut short by a mysterious attacker, hellbent on killing her whole family. Amanda is determined to find out who, how and why, in an adventure that leads her to discover a world she has never known. A world that may not welcome her with open arms...

What happens when a dream-come-true becomes a nightmare? And what do you do when you can't give up?

The new year at Hogwarts continues with a Potions class. What will Professor Beeblebrox have in store?``Sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to Hogwarts; AU to OotP.

All the complications of Harry's life mix together into one extremely weird dream to show just how messed up he has become.

Life is getting tough for the Weasley twins in their 7th year, and it isn't much better for their best friend, Lee. To brighten up their day, George Weasley and Lee Jordan decide to take a little trip into the past.

We do what we must to get by.

Right now, I am so full of conflicting emotions that any attempts to capture them on parchment will never be enough. You-Know-Who is destroyed. James and Lily are dead. And they say that you’re the one who killed them...

It's a rock concert in the wizarding world! The Weird Sisters are playing a concert at the Quidditch World Cup Stadium, and Ron Weasley is making plans to go. He's bringing his best friends and his sister, of course, but he's also bringing his older marauder brothers. ``How weird and insane will the night be?

There are other students from Muggle families than only the well-known Hermione, Harry, and Justin. What about Dean Thomas? How was his life before Hogwarts, how did he and his parents deal with him entering the wizarding world? Let's dedicate some thoughts to a not so often mentioned Gryffindor.

Voldemort has fallen now for the second time but his legacy still remains throughout the wizard world. A young girl is entering Hogwarts without any knowledge to her origins except that she is indeed a strange witch.

What exactly happened between Ginny and Harry when they left the room? This is a companion piece to "Verge".

What Ginny really thinks about her brothers.

Someone thinks about choices.

Another vingette about the twins and one's thoughts on the other. Again, inspired by my own twin sister. My brother went away today. No. No, I don’t think that’s what I want to say. My brother and I. My brother and I went away, today.

Young Severus Snape travels to Hogwarts for the first time aboard the Hogwarts Express, and is Sorted.

Alone in Azkaban a prisoner sits and contemplates betrayal and despair. Implied slash with a twist.

He'd give her everything she wanted, he'd love her forever... But he could never share her.

Lavender and Parvati have a read together. LavSea and RonHer implied.

McGonagall catches sight of a movie poster... what does it all mean? BeST response to the July 2007 FA challenge. Prompt: Professor McGonagall went to a Muggle movie with Sir Cadogan.

Cuts can happen for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes they happen because we are careless, sometimes they are inflicted by others, and sometimes they happen because we need to kill the pain.

Lauren Arrington, a Muggle, was not supposed to be on platform nine and three-quarters.

It's James and Lily's wedding, and Sirius Black is the Best Man and Do-Gooder.

Luna Lovegood isn't quite the girl she seems. While you see the radish earrings and the protuberant eyes, her mind is something else. This is a snapshot of her before, during, and after her fourth year.

Oh no! It can't be true. It's--it's another one! Another diary!

Andrew is a normal university student, heading home for the holidays. Except for one teensy little detail. His sister is a witch.

What is the son of a Death Eater to do, but follow in his father's footsteps? The night of the Harvest Moon changed Draco Malfoy's life forever, would the night of the Blood Moon do the same? Warning- Slash Pairings.

Harry isn't the same person after the Battle of The Department of Mysteries. He discovers that it isn't just his life that's changed, but his expectations of it and his assumptions about others.

Boys and spectacles. Harry/Percy.

Harry takes out Sirius' mirror one last time.

Ah, yes. The ancient issue of blood purity that has caused so many troubles and so much strife. Told through the eyes of a pure-blood, a Mudblood, and a werewolf.

An unconventional view of chapter 28 in OotP from Snape's point of view - an attempt to understand his motivation for stopping the Occlumency lessons.

Remus Lupin hates himself in the days after the death of the Potters. A study of self-loathing and healing.

Harry and Ron have just graduated from Hogwarts, and Harry moves into the Burrow. It doesn't take long for them to realize they need their own place.

"Harry Potter had asked special permission to Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to leave the castle one evening. It had been a month since the school year had started, and Dumbledore had not been very surprised by his request. He had actually thought that Harry would come to him sooner."

When Harry resumes his Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape in sixth year he finds out he is not the only one having to deal with the pain of war. Sometimes the most humane and human thing to do is comfort the one your with. Could be seen as HP/SS if you look hard enough.

Here I am, once again watching you from the window of my office. It is amazing how you captivate me. Your intriguing smile, your laughter, and the way your chocolate eyes sparkle when you talk are all so amazing. I look out at you, and watch you, sunlight dancing upon your head, as you dip your bare feet into the cool, crisp water of the school Lake. You seem to have not a care in the world, but I know better.

He never knows what the next rainfall will bring, but Harry still waits for the day when he can finally let go... let go of everything he fears

A short one shot assuming that Dumbledore's still alive after the final battle and thus can have a final talk to some dark haired boy.

Ginny's fiery temper has gotten her into trouble before. Draco's cold demeanor is questionable. Fights and humiliation are set on high for the married couple.

Arthur Miller, top agent at Broderick Bunny's (that less famous rabbit) fictional character agency service, prides himself on sending a record number of clients to the mental asylum. But there's one person he just can't get to.

Geoge can't stop thinking about the word giggle. The only problem is that "giggle" makes him think of Katie Bell for some strange and unknown reason...

Two bored boys. What happens after… well let's just say I’m not (wholly) responsible.

James reflects on the past on how he lost Lily. He has a flash back of what happened to her and at the end, he decides that Harry (who is tuning 15) should know about how he really lost his mother.

During the day she is fine. She gets along but when she crawls into bed, and closes her eyes, he enters her head. He has been dead for a year now, but that doesn't matter to Hermione. He's still here, and it feels like he's taking her over...

Blaise Zabini hadn't exactly expected to become the protector of an arrogant little twit of a second year. But lo and behold, that is what happened and now he has to make certain that she doesn't get cursed into oblivion by his peers. Fun times ahead, indeed.

Sequel to The End of Innocence. On the long flight to America, Harry is scared and in pain inside. In anguish, he tells his thoughts to the only person on the flight he can tell and not be overheard-his diary.

A young Severus Snape discovers the magical properties of a fig he finds in his mother’s garden while experimenting with chemistry. To his joy, he learns that magic exists and that his mother is magical. But he pays a heavy price for learning the truth.

"You must chose Draco," said the man, in a low husky voice. "Choose which one shall live, and which one shall die. Then you must kill them."

Hermione listens to a song and it feels as if it is being sung to her, about her. And she reflects upon her past relationship with a certain Quidditch superstar.

I’m so tired of being here / Suppressed by all of my childish fears / And if you have to leave / I wish that you would just leave / Because your presence still lingers here / And it won’t leave me alone -- A depressed Ginny reflects on what happened when she picked up the diary of Tom Riddle. An angsty songfic to Evanescence's "My Immortal".

In the war for good and for evil, there is always a critical battle. This battle has just been fought. These are the thoughts of a young man who has just gone through the battle, and his feelings about what has happened. A dark fic, so get ready for the angst and darkness! Rated for some abuse mentioned...but I'm not telling you who's having these thoughts until the end!

Molly Price has made a fic good enough to be accepted to Fiction Alley School of Writing about Witchcraft and Wizardry! With her friends Marylin Susan (unfortunately named by her parents) and Uncle Voldie (Formerly Voldemort, the most evil villian this side of the Mississippi, whose former life Molly has a crush on) will she find her way in Fiction Alley?

Zacharias wants a teacher. Harry doesn't think its such a good idea. Some good old fashioned teenage boy slash with a helping of Defence Association private lessons and Quidditch.

James never knew how Sirius felt, and Sirius made it a strict point not to let him know. But now, as Sirius watches James prepare to settle into a new life with Lily, he knows that he can’t keep his feelings inside anymore. So with one slow dance, and a quiet confession, his life changes, and not necessarily for the better.

It's sad, gloomy, and uplifting. Thank Merlin for Voldemort!

Draco Malfoy's stomach suddenly harbours fluttery insects, and with violin music in the background he hunts for the one responsible...``Featuring a Draco in denial, possible love for Filch and lots of NOT's for Malfoys.

When Lucius sets Draco an impossible deadline, he turns to the Gryffindors for help. But solving his dilemna has consequences he could never have forseen.

After Ron's death, Hermione loses her mind and wants to die. Will someone be able to help her?

A short ficlet that involves a very depressed Hermione and her thoughts as she watches a storm. Is based on the song "Wish that I Was There" by Hanson! A lot of Angst, but just a sprinkle of Romance.

Hermione has never really liked horses, but her Muggle friend Pippa loves them and is a member of the local branch of the Pony Club. In the summer before Hermione and Pippa turn seventeen, Hermione goes to watch Pippa ride in a dressage show. But two of Hermione’s schoolmates appear (more or less obviously), and do some unscheduled “airs above the ground” ….

What if Ginny had been the one to warn Umbridge and the Inquisitorial Squad of Harry's use of the fire? What if she had been working for the Dark Lord all along? Dark, angsty D/G with a bit of V/G.

Theodore was used, now, to being known only as the son of a Death Eater. Nobody knew him well enough to judge him by any other measure, and they all got him wrong.

One special little boy takes his pain and invents a world of magic and mystery, but all dreams end. Everyone has to wake up sometime. One little girl is all it takes.

Because of attacks on Muggle-born families, Lily Evans is forced to move away from home. Interning at St. Mungo's she's busy taking care of patients along with the Marauders, and anyone else who needs her, but who will take care of her? This story is about heartache, lost, disappointment, and love. There will be fluff and danger as there is in real life. Enjoy!

Sirius, Peter, Remus and James get a mangled glimpse of the future, which, for two members of the group, has a lasting effect. Set in the MWPP era.

By some miraculous use of persuasion, Hermione manages to get Ron on a bus with her, headed for downtown London. Ron, of course, is a bit apprehensive of muggle contraptions...but it turns out to be a nice ride for the both of them.

Years and years after graduation Draco sits down and thinks about how far he has come.

The students dethrone a devil and his demons. Rated for graphic imagery, psychological torture, and death.

Oliver Wood is a young Quidditch star who finds himself torn between Nationalism and Morality during Riddle's rise to power. This fic focuses mainly on comparing the Death Eaters to Nazis and Riddle to Hitler. Thus, it is not for the faint at heart as it presses on very serious issues.````Oliver Wood/Penelope Clearwater

In the aftermath of Dumbledore's tragic death, while waiting for Bill and Fleur's wedding, Ron Weasley takes some time to reflect - upon how Dumbledore's death has affected his friends, what the future holds for, but mostly he broods about the one he personally holds responsible: Draco Malfoy.

Eleven years after the Final Battle, Ron Weasley is still trying to come to terms with his grief.

Sixth year - Ron and Hermione explore their relationship through the dictionary definition of 'silence'. ``silence: 1. n. absence of sound; abstinence from speech or noise. 2 v.t. make silent, esp. by coercion or superior argument.

H/D Angst. It's all a waiting game, and everyone's practising.

In the midst of the war, Gregory Goyle finds himself on a mission to find and protect his only friend.

Well, this is basically complete random stupidity. Neville is an eccentric billionaire who likes having murder attempts made on him. Everyone has a motive to kill him: they all want the Priceless Artifact! (dun dun dunnn) And no one uses normal weapons.

A girl sits in dismay and remembers...

A strange virus attacks Hogwarts and causes a peculiar epidemic. Severe oddness warning. Also, not nice to Harry!

Round four in the Snowballs war! We have an update on Harry's snakes, more Weasley's into the fun, and oddities galore!

Voldemort tackles the question of love vs. fear.

When Draco and Ginny have an argument, how can he shut her up? Of all things, he chooses to sing. D/G. Not your usual songfic to 'Your Song' from Moulin Rouge.

The calm before the storm is ominous and foreboding. Rain can wash away tears and rivers can quench sorrow, but such memories never fade away. G/D

Yep. Another fifth year fic. Yep, another Dumbledore has a daughter. But hey, they quarrel, she hates him, he treats her like a child.... Some human relationships can't be done too often. There's always more to explore. A girl with a thorny personality, Dumbledore's eyes minus the twinkle, a chip on her shoulder roughly the size of the moon, and oh yeah, a crush she never grew out of. And has to act as the new DADA teacher. She can handle anything but her emotions and her father. An attempt to look at a less than perfect Dumbledore. And maybe a sideways glance at some of his less than brilliant ideas. (Even he has those, like practicing inappropriate charms on a woman in a foreign ministry...)

Some things are meant to be forgotten. But new students never know that.