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A story of Neville Longbottom, the future he desires and the reality he gets instead. A companion piece to The Future That Wouldn’t Be.

This story's title pretty much says it all.

Set in OotP, Lupin looks back over his life, which has been shaped by his terrible loneliness and overwhelming love for Sirius. Can he find the courage to finally confess his love...or is it too late?

"Dumbledore's man through and through." After the funeral, Harry thinks about the past, present and future. He comes to a hopeful conclusion that will help him to continue on.

Even the Dark Lord was once a child.

Memories are a special kind of torture.

The war had dealt each of us a different hand and now we had to continue with what we had. There was no way to switch the cards of fate. The war has changed everyone and even though her own demons are chasing her down, Hermione comes to Malfoy's rescue.

A tragic ending to a life and the suffering of saying his last goodbye. Song fic to Carolina in my Mind by James Taylor.

When students are captured by Death Eaters, Percy Weasley convinces Dumbledore that it's time to prove his worth.

It's Ron's fourth year and his 15th birthday! Yes, we're goin' to a party, party!

Sirius has vanished through the veil, and all Remus has left of him is one final gift...

This is a short ficlet done in Harry's POV during the war. Slightly angsty.

Lily and James knew Voldemort was coming for them. They knew there was no escape. Lily leaves a few parting words with her baby son. A sad songfic to Baby Mine from Dumbo.

"A man stumbles down the road, torn apart with grief and fury. A man with murder in his heart." November 1st, 1981: Voldemort has fallen. James and Lily Potter are dead. But Sirius Black is alive, and he is very, very angry.

Harry's alone and sneaks through the halls of Hogwarts. He thinks about his life, his friends and his love.

Promises are hard to keep, especially when you have no choice...

Remember how Hagrid suggested he might find a lady friend for Grawp? Well, what if he did? Warning: if you are not amused by smutty innuendoes then do not, I repeat, do not read this fic.

After Professor Severus Snape finds Harry reliving his worst memory and subsequently kicking him out of his office, he reflects on why this particular invasion of privacy bothers him so much. Basically an exploration of our favorite introverted professor's thoughts on the Boy Who Lived.

Poor little Harry. Always having the bad hair, the big ugly clothes, those horrible glasses. But it doesn't have to be that way, you know.

Harry is back for his fifth year at Hogwarts. Now he has to worry about love, betrayal, friends, and foes. Also, there are two new girls in the fifth year and one is under that name of Riddle.

"He knows he has found what he was seeking for, and although he can't recall what it was, he feels contented. He feels all right." After their death, soldiers, whatever side they fought on, find themselves to be ravens.

Mr. Ollivander tries to find the right wand for Luna and remembers some other tricky customers, his eccentric father and some unusual wands.

"The waiting ended, as it had begun, on a balmy summer evening—it was hours after dark, and he was standing on the Quidditch Pitch while pandemonium reigned in the grandstands." While Harry Potter duels the Dark Lord in an abandoned graveyard, others are left to speculate. Missing moment from GoF.

Somehow, two pranksters' actions can cause the ties of friendship to loosen, and the love of a certain female to change from a good friend to an arrogant toerag.

Harry Potter meets the Princess Bride - warning: it will make very little sense if you've never see/read The Princess Bride. I suggest you do, it's excellent. Anyway, slightly random and mad, it's romantic and sweet. I think so.

Draco moved from Britain after his side lost the war. One night in January, in the centre of Bucharest, he meets a girl he'll never forget.

When Draco catches sight of copper-auburn hair in a Muggle bar, he just knows it's Ginny. Ginny and all the painful memories with her. An angsty D/G fic written to Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane".

Life after Hogwarts. The war is over and the trio and company are starting to determine who they are and what they can be. The trio soon come to realise that some promises are foolish to make and that dreams are just reminders of what they'll never have. Family ties and special friendships are pushed to the limit as they begin to grow up and find out what the world is like for themselves and pursue their destinies.

Harry's heard of them since his third year and ever since then he's always wanted to be one. Remus, the only one left initiates him with pride.

Pansy Parkinson knows exactly what she wants and how she wants it. Most importantly, she knows she has what it takes. [Draco/Pansy]

It's the summer after Harry's fifth year at school and he is once again The Boy Who Lived, but will dark forces at work in Hogwarts, and his bad attitude bring him down again? Also Cho Chang struggles to do the right thing as her world comes down around her.

Far into the future after the war with Voldemort is over, one of the beloved members of the trio dies. Their funeral has come, and the mourners arrive to grieve their loss... H/G, H/L, R/Hr

War. Character death...fast forward, the year is 2007,``ten years after the magical catastrophe. Who is this girl, walking so``eagerly through a museum? And what does it matter that her name is...

It is Dusk and Dumbledore is having tea with a distinctly unwanted guest. What is the right choice when either benefits that which you fight with your every action? Everyone looks to the Hogwarts Headmaster to be the pillar of strength and the beacon of hope, but no man is infallible. The machinations of hell reach out to ensnare an old wizard and plant the seeds of doubt in his mind. Set after Order of the Phoenix.

Hermione tries to save Draco on a cold winter night.

Once upon a time…is such a cliché. Ginny, Parvati, Lavender…all of my girlfriends have started their autobiographies with those four little words. I hate cliches; they’re just overused, too cheap for my taste. Every fair maiden from here to THE END can use that line.

“Oh, fabulous, Aggie thought, another distraction. Sitting behind one’s own crush during the most important and difficult exam in my life.” The events surrounding “Snape’s Worst Memory” from the viewpoint of an OC. Contains OoTP spoilers and more fluff than an author should care to admit.

Severus Snape is an intriguing man. One girl considers him, and realizes just how fake he really is. One-shot.

A parody. Harry finds a very peculiar and perilous handbook, and travels through an unbelievable alternate universe where everything is upside-down.

When Percy and Penelope's oldest son, Patrick comes home for the summer, he brings a girl with him...and Percy isn't too pleased about it until Penelope reminds him of a summer break long ago...

Draco knows that their contact is completely unattached.

Due to certain circumstances, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy fell in love with each other, but their happiness cannot last because Draco was never meant to be with Harry. Response to Alexa’s challenge. Harry/Draco, Draco/Blaise

Music encompasses the soul, impassions the heart; it can make you feel things you never thought possible for people you never even noticed were quite so beautiful. Just ask Draco and Ginny.

Harry finds his best friends irritated with him, Voldemort reveals a mysterious secret about Harry's past, and Harry is horrible at U.S. geography!

Years after Harry broke her heart, Hermione finds a photograph. The picture proves to be more powerful than a pensive. She says her final goodbye.

Harry has some time to reflect on his course of actions and the path which he chose for himself. He didn't mean to hurt them, or let them down... did he?

Sirius is pregnant and doesn't know how to tell James. Lots of contemplation and a little bit of silliness. "Sirius paced. As much as Sirius hated pacing, thinking it made him look mature and worried (or like Remus), he was pacing. And he was pacing in muddy boots on the brand new white carpet. Why he and James had bought white carpet was beyond him, as James always came in from Quidditch practice dripping sweat, rain, or mud and Sirius always spilled things whether it was wine, the ashtray, or a bowl of strawberries."

Draco is poor, Harry helps the helpless, and Draco really wants to kill him.

In the days before Voldemort's attack on the Potters, Remus and Sirius struggle to protect their friends in their own ways. But Remus discovers that justice is as elusive to him as it was to Fenris...

"Everything I ever knew was gone. I was angry too. Maybe more then I was scared. Potter had made a brave new world...." Takes place in seventh year, after defeat of Voldemort.

Snape hurt Lily more than he can ever have imagined... ...how did she react? SEQUEL TO LOVE LOST

It's Harry's second year, and there are strange things going on at the school. When he's badly injured at a Quidditch match, shy, quiet Ginny takes over as Seeker. But she's certainly acting oddly. And what are these rumors about a Ghost?````A crossover fic between CoS and The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, written for the Classic Canon Challenge.

After a scuffle in Flourish and Blotts with the Malfoys, Harry Potter and the Weasley family return to the Burrow. Later Ginny Weasley finds a mysterious black diary tucked in a second-hand schoolbook. The story contains a little humour, mystery, darkness and insight.

What happens when arch-enemies face off in an empty corridor? The answer is here. Expect yelling, shourting, cursing, crying, and kissing. Fun times for the whole family.

A slightly angsty fic about Harry's guilt and Cho's sadness. Could he have saved Cedric? Everyone tells him he did the most that anyone could have...but are they all wrong?

The war is over. Neville is all alone in the world. But will a certain wizard join his lonely life? Post-war. Post-Hogwarts.

The long-awaited sequel to 'Suit You Mr. Potter!' Still good for a giggle even if you've never seen the Fast Show.

The hated puppet must be broken to reveal the human being hiding within. 'There is nothing left.'

After the battle at the Ministry, Ron and Hermione are alone together in the hospital wing. Hermione is still unconscious, but Ron is awake and watching her....

Regulus never expected things to turn out this way. Neither did a certain redheaded girl. And yet, what you don't expect can sometimes be exactly what you're looking for. Sounds almost drabble-ish.

It's seven years after Lily and James' deaths, and Remus Lupin is barely living. So he pays a short visit to Azkaban... One-shot fic.

In order to keep Harry safe, Draco gives himself to the world of darkness, taking Harry's place in a life worse than death.

Welcome aboard Hogwarts Airlines! Please keep all magic out of the aisle and make sure that there are no loose bolts in your brain. Thank you for flying with us, we hope you live to make the return trip!

In his shelter in the North, Igor Karkaroff hears news from Great Britain: Minister Fudge has confirmed the news of Voldemort's return.

Roger Davies meditates on his relationship with Blaise Zabini. M/m slash.

Lilith Smithers is the daughter of a whore. Severus has just been hired at Hogwarts as the Potions Teacher. When they come together they will change each other's world.

Kyan documents the life of him and his friends during their seventh year, and, who knows, maybe he'll finally get a boyfriend and maybe, just maybe, Lily and James will get over themselves and onto each other. MWPP era. OCOCOC LEPJP SBRL Some LESS

A one-shot attempt at sixth year. Featuring weird weather, corny poetry, and some sheep costumes. H/L.

Sirius has been in Azkaban for a few years now and he's slowly losing his good memories. However drained he feels, some are still worth fighting for. ('Moon River' songfic)

Harry's daughter, Ellie, has grown up fast and tells of her rough seventh year. Of her family's secrets and her worries. Of her love of the Weasleys. Of her mistakes. Mostly of her sister though. It was all about her sister.

"This is how you kill someone, dear sister..." Harry gets a taste of what true power is when he realizes that Purity of Blood is more important than most know or want to believe. Harry-Padma Draco-Ginny

Post-war. Harry is having trouble after defeating Voldemort and Draco makes an interesting attempt to call his lover back to him.

"Albus’s life has suffered a great deal of upheaval and Elphias is that constant comforting presence always waiting to take him into his arms." Albus/Elphias, Albus/Gellert.

"Though she wasn't given to obvious facial animation in general, Alicia always secretly admired how well the average Slytherin could nail a smirk. Gryffindors either ended up looking like they had some sort of facial tic or just caught a whiff of something unpleasant." Recent graduate Alicia Spinnet is at Diagon Alley when she has a surprising encounter with an old school rival, who seeks to engage her company.

"He wants to capture it - the feeling of it all - everything. The way everything felt all at once; forlornness of senses; of touch and sound and smell and sight." A R/S; slashy angst.

Lucius is dead, and Draco is free to be himself. He wants to show the world who he really is, and with his childhood best friend by his side...but has she forgotten him? DM/CC pairing. Includes rantings of our favourite Slytherin blond.

“When Remus came back to Number 12 Grimmauld Place, it was there. Their unfinished love. Silently bleeding, strange and nostalgic, not warm — tense…” Set during OotP, this is a story of change and the inability to change, of golden-toned nostalgia and a harsher reality. Remus/Sirius slash.

Harry is beaten by the Dursleys to the brink of death. When he suddenly leaves without warning, Merlin only knows where he'll end up.

Snape meets with Dumbledore and Harry serves a detention.

"And it’s all because I still love you, and that no matter where I go or how hard I try, it won’t go away." `` ``Remus' POV, parallel to "Without You"

A story filled with cunning and deceit, romantic intrigue and heartbreak, and American Exchange Students. The sequel to "A Fanfic Unlike Any Other Fanfic" and based on many cliches in the fandom, mostly those about OCs. This includes Harry/OC, Draco/OC/ another OC (no slash), Lucius/OC, Lily/Narcissa, James/OC/Draco (no slash). As you can tell, it gets... strange....

Garrett is a master thief. There is none better, and there never has been. Garrett's mission is simple. Break into Malfoy Manor; kill Lucius Malfoy; rescue his son, Draco, and Draco's girlfriend, Ginny Weasley. But some things can never be easy. D/G

The Kingdom of Kissell has a mysterious pull for Harry James Potter. Two-second sound bytes, swirls of colour, faces and places and names, all too fast to get a coherant picture, but all calling him to that mysterious place...Kissell, the kingdom at the end of the Road that Leads to the End of the World. What awaits him there and why he feels such a mysterious bond to the kingdom, he does not yet know, but he will...and when he finds out, it will be the biggest shock of his life.

The final hour of Cedric's life. The Third task in GoF from Cedric's POV.

Percy Weasley likes when things are neat and orderly, and when life makes sense. Unfortunately for him, his life stopped making sense a long time ago.

The Slayer, Harry Potter, gets a visit from his old Vampire lover, Ginny Weasley.

A fellow Gryffindor is kidnapped by someone working for Voldemort...can the Marauders find her in time? And two friends' friendship tightens and they fall in love...

Murder can do strange things to a person, like drive them over the edge... but whether that is a bad thing or not depends on your perspective.

When Narcissa Malfoy catches her only son, Draco, kissing a fellow Slytherin his age, Blaize Zabini, she is appalled. Scolding him does nothing because he is not ashamed of his "queer" tendencies. Afraid as ever about the Malfoy honor, she and his father, Lucius, Draco soon learns, might have an intense plot to "make" him straight.

"He had imagined it on Harry, knowing full well that the red would enhance the clear, glittering emerald green of Harry’s eyes." It's sometimes hard to see the obvious when you're oblivious. A one-shot fic centered around a red silk tie and green, green eyes.

"...That's just how it is, you know?" He didn't want to be the bearer of bad news. But there it was, spilling like liquid mercury from his high class mouth. There was a strangely acidic aftertaste following the words, leaving his throat dry.' DM/HG, drama, remorse, understanding... worth a look.

Harry tries to rediscover his purpose following a battle with Voldemort, but thoughts of vengeance are all he seems to be able to hang on to. His life begins to slip away from him as he sinks into the future he has chosen for himself.

Sequel to "Visitor". Neville and Luna meet in Hogsmeade for their first date.

Justin Finch-Fletchley, leader of the Anti-Obstructionist Party--which opposes Fudge's claims that Voldemort hasn't risen again--is the next favourite for Minister of Magic. But Harry knows of a threat against Justin's life. Can he save Justin?````Takes place before the events of "Brothers in Arms" on The Dark Arts.

Ever wonder how Bellatrix Lestrange came to be such a wicked witch? The thoughts that went on in her mind? She left behind a letter that tells all...

The war was more than anyone had expected. Ginny drinks Firewhisky. Draco can't stand the stuff. Ginny dies. Draco lives. And the war continues. One-shot.

A guy can ruin a girl’s reputation with a few, well chosen words. Can it work the other way around? Circumstances force Hermione and Draco to call a temporary truce. However, Draco starts a rumour about Hermione that spreads like wildfire. It threatens her relationship with her boyfriend, Ron Weasley. This short story is set in November of the gang’s fifth year at Hogwarts. Cheer for Hermione as she turns the tables on Draco and forces him to redeem her. At the expense of his dignity. Harry and Ginny are also paired in this story.

Harry and Draco have joined a new Hogwart's dueling club. Harry is winning and has just been tipped off on a spell by a Weasley twin. Draco is desperate to beat him. The next thing that happens is complete "Magical Karma".

Colin Creevey appears on Mastermind. Can you guess what his specialist subject will be?

Lord Voldemort thinks he’s the most powerful wizard alive, but he gets his butt kicked by a bunch of kids on a regular basis. He also thinks he’s the son of a Muggle who abandoned his witch wife. Herewith one possible answer to the musical question: how deluded is this guy?