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“My mother died just after I was born, sir. They told me at the orphanage she lived just long enough to name me...” ~Tom Riddle, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"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.

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

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...

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.

"...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.

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.

For Colin, it had never stopped being an adventure.

Harry Potter realizes that he is dying. On a whim, he decides to tell the story of Voldemort's downfall and the sacrifices of the people who ment the most to him.

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.

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

"It's been coming on for a while," said Percy ... "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time." (DH, ch30). This is Percy's journey to that point.

La Figlia Dei Morti, better known as The Daughter of the Dead, is an ancient terror, deep in sleep in the Italian mountains for a thousand years. Her name strikes cold hard fear into the heart of anyone who hears it. She has been awakened - Lord Voldemort has called her out of slumber - and she does not appreciate being woken ...

Sequel to "The Long Day Is Over": What actually happened.

Barty Crouch, Jr., has stripped off his guise for one moment to infiltrate Hogwarts for an ally, a friend of old "still struggling between the Jekyll and the Hyde." He has to decide whether he wants to pull him down with him, or whether just not being betrayed is enough.

Sequel to A Pianist's Unknown Depth. Draco knows that someone has seen him play, and he comes upon that certain someone dancing to HIS music. Draco finds that this forbidden dancer might have more than what he thinks. One-Shot. "A larger part of him wondered what music she was dancing to. Her movements had changed from slow and beguiling to a mischievous playfulness that Draco often felt himself. And he realized then that her movements matched his music. She expressed his music in dance."

Whatever Pansy wants, Pansy gets. But what does Pansy want? She's asking too much. Ginny, ignored as she is, can't take it anymore. After all, she only wished for a kiss.

Graduation is something more than just leaving school; it is often the end of much more than classes.

Ginny is at the train station waiting for the arrival of her love. How will it go?

They clash, in every sense, as they meet. Rich and poor, good and bad, sweet and sour, male and female. Pale skin and pink lips, freckles and wild, fiery tangles, sleek perfection and moon kissed hair.

"Draco Malfoy was my life. I will not betray him." Whilst awaiting her execution Pansy looks back on her life with Draco.

Lupin thinks, in some way, Snape must be his to lose.

He has a gift for words, and...other things. Companion piece to 11 things about Bellatrix Black.

There are a lot of blanks and ambiguities as to what actually happened on that fateful night of Oct. 31 and the following day. This is the story of what really happened, from the point of view of one of those involved: Sirius Black.

A clear AU, a look at the wizarding world with Regulus as a Gryffindor. We are shaped by the people around us, and we shape the people around us. In another universe, it's Regulus and Peter against the world. Dark, with a hint of slash.

An Occlumency lesson forces Severus Snape to recall things he’d rather not: his hatred for James Potter, his decision to become a Death Eater, and the love he’d lost as a result. A Severus/Florence tale.

The year is 1976. Sirius discovers Muggle music and together with Remus, a new hobby... Be prepared for bad hair, bad behaviour and a very, very bad outfit.

"I must not only punish but punish with impunity." This story is loosely based on "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. It is also a sequel/prequel to my earlier story "The Evil and the Damage Done." It is not intended as plagiarism, I merely played around with the theme and bits and pieces of the plot, and it is only partly similar to the Poe story. It has also become rather AU due to the developments in HBP. But if you still enjoy pure-blood Snape...

What happens when our famous Hero goes through puberty? Well, with the help of his best friends and a new love he is in for a wild ride!

"On the third day of what would go down as the coldest November on record, James and Lily Potter were buried in a small cemetary not far from Godric's Hollow..." Small scene from the Potters' funeral. Slight Remus/Minerva, appearances by Baby Harry and the Dursleys.

My ideas for why Neville is the way he is. What brought on this onslaught? No clue. Anyway, Neville is attempting to do his homework for the upcoming Fifth Year when he writes out his thoughts instead of a potions paper.

Severus finally has the chance of a lifetime. He has a date to Hogsmeade with Lily Evans, the most popular girl in school. But, as always, Severus' day wouldn't be complete without something tragic.

With Lord Voldemort vanquished and the Death Eaters sent to rot in Azkaban, the world should be safe, but it's not. Mysterious deaths, impossible crimes, and tht's only the beginning. The darkest, most powerful witch to walk the earth has big plans for muggles and wizards alike. Now it's up to a new generation of Potter, and as she and her friends race to save existence they are plunged into the darkest days yet...

He hated her for everything she was, for everything she wasn't, and most of all for only wanting him when she was too drunk to know better. Draco/Hermione, set in HBP, long oneshot, partial songfic-last portion contains slightly altered Something Corporate lyrics.

Hagrid's had enough of Malfoy's antics in Care of Magical Creatures.

Egypt in December was light and dust and noise and everything different. Ron wasn’t really certain if he liked it or not, but it was as good a place as any to be. [Ron and Neville.]

"I have information as to the whereabouts of the missing wizard, Caradoc Dearborn. He is alive, but imprisoned, and may be in danger..." So reads the letter Frank Longbottom receives one day at the Ministry. Voldemort has met his doom. It is a time of newfound hope; the wizarding world is safe once again. Isn't it?

Song fic, Harry’s POV, A morbid tale of regret, bitterness, loss, acceptance and love. It’s easy to love someone who doesn’t love you back.

Ron is cheating on Hermione. Hermione wants revenge. Who is helping her, and why?

Christina Owens thought she was a normal girl, or as normal a girl as you can be when you're a witch. Then, after thirteen years, she finds out that she's not that normal even according to wizarding standards. She is Peter Pettigrew's daughter. The traitor every wizard knows about is now also her father. Is it Christina's fate to be a traitor like him, or can she control her own fate and become who she wants to be?

“Is this how we'll always be? Sitting together, reading together, ignoring the fact that the world hates us, together?” ````An in depth look at the relationship between the Slytherin prefects. Draco/Pansy

When Ginny Weasley escaped from the clutches of Lord Voldemort's ghostly past Tom Riddle during her first year in Hogwarts, she was not the only one who was badly affected. There was also her father, Arthur Weasley. Written from Arthur's point-of-view.

Anyways, you know when you get a clog in your sink and you don't know what to do? You run to your parents or the unclogging stuff under the sink. Well, imagine you didnt have either. What would you do then? Ron and Harry have a suggestion that you might want to think about.

Hannah Abbott reflects on her life. Very depressing. One shot.

When Harry walked into the Great Hall at the start of his sixth year, his entire world turned upside-down.

When Petunia was growing up, she was always watching out for her little sister, Lily. She was the oldest, it was her job. But then everything changed. Now, on the day of the dementor attack on Privet Drive, Petunia reflects of her relationship with Lily, her angel sister.

After reading "The Order of the Phoenix", we all hate her. But killing Sirius in the Department of Mysteries isn't the only crime Bellatrix Lestrange is guilty of, and Harry isn't the only one she robbed of a father figure.

A Hr/Dr fic. They fell in love. They fell apart. Now he's a Death Eater and she's resigned to die because of him...

Neville, who is quite content with his personal life, is tired of blind dates. He meets someone as tired of blind dates as he is and they hit it off. Is Neville as content as he thought he was? Will he ever get the chance to go on the one date he actually wants to go on?

Harry gets himself drunk at the yule ball. He does something very stupid, and this means a lot of problems, not only for Harry himself, but especially for a certain Slytherin...!

Almost a year after the Battle of Hogwarts, George was surprised when his wife Annie told him Harry Potter at their door, asking to speak with him. Whatever it is Harry wants to tell him, it doesn't promise to be pleasant, judging by his old friend's level of discomfort. When will the Chosen One realize everything isn't his fault? A friend is about to explain it to him. A one-shot companion to George & Annie: an Unofficial Biography. No slash.

Welcome to Severus Snape's... journal?

Ron's father has died, and now Ron has all but a world of suffering on his shoulders. Harry and Hermione are there to help him through the loss, in their own little ways.

H/D Angst. Inspired by John Lennon and his fans. You wouldn't know from the fic, but it might help to "see" the fic in your mind afterwards. Perhaps.

No one had ever made Draco Malfoy feel. That is, until he meets Blaise Zabini, who scorches him. In response to Coil's Monthly Challenge for May 2003. Gift-fic for Rob-chan.

Neville's mother gives him a gum wrapper every time he visits. This is the story behind the action.

Harry's summer holidays are less bad than usual. Someone provides meals for him and heals him with potions. What can a black-white owl have to do with the matter? Will Harry find out in the end? Completely AU after 5th year, partly OOC, sick!Harry.

A standalone, one-shot, but also a teaser for my epic WIP "For Thine Is The Power". Harry and Dumbledore look into the Mirror of Erised, and the result is a bit of a revelation. Ignores HBP, DH; part of an after-fifth-year AU.

What happened between the time Draco pilfered Harry's wand in Umbridge's office and it was returned to him by Ron in the Forbidden Forest? (Harry/Draco slash)

Dumbledore defeated the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945 -- everyone takes this to mean that Grindelwald was somehow behind World War II, but what if the truth were a little different?

A song that brought Lavender Brown to tears as she read one normal day.

Midnight Johnson is a wild eleven-year old orphan who lives with three sinister and strange vampires in an abandond house that she hates. When she learns that her and the youngest of the vampires are invited to become students at Hogwarts she is estatic! But are things really the way she thought it would be? "Four Stars!" Exclaims Jennifer Cangreeney, a constructive critisism reader.

On that fateful Halloween night in 1980, two heroes died and another was born. But what events transpired to make Voldemort's attack possible? Told through the eyes of the traitor...

When Harry Potter's life with the Dursleys becomes unbearable, others appear to watch over him. This story is a look at what it means to truly be a hero. This is a prequel to the Canon Works, and a sequel to The Love of a Mother.

Kingsley Shacklebolt had never expected his habit of solving the Daily Prophet crosswords to uncover a security leak. But when the Potterwatch passwords started to appear in them as answers to clues, he had little choice but to investigate who was behind it ...

A songfic to 'Drink With Me' from Les Miserables... a series of flashbacks from Remus Lupin's life.

Hermione was having the best day, all of her days have been great, lately. Ron and she are firmly in love, Harry and Ginny have just gotten togeather, and she is doing just brilliant at school. what could possibly bring her down from her Academically unduced high? Someone who knows her better than she almost knows herself, that's who.

Extremely AU. "Once you tell someone a secret, it's no longer a secret, now, is it?" First of a series.

Companion letter to "Dear Padfoot..." Harry writes a letter to his godfather, telling him about the aftermath. *OoTP spoilers*

Not everybody's gone mad, just a large group. Unfortunately Harry is part of it. Could a pair of ?s be to blame?

Draco Malfoy sees spirits at night while by day, Harry Potter tries to love him.

Harry and Ron have now left Hogwarts to become Aurors. They are set to catch as many dark wizards as they can. Harry and Ron get a job to do, but what if you kill the wrong wizard? Harry pays the extreme price.

A sequel to "A Contraceptive Controversy". Frank Longbottom finds a certain Muggle innovation lying around the castle and has difficulty identifying it. Fortunately, the Marauders are there to help.

Harry goes to the Department of Mysteries to rescue Sirius. Will he be able to bring his godfather back?

Sirius Black loves girls. He is the guy who can't imagine his life without a girl in it. No matter who she is. He is also the guy who cannot imagine his life with a wife in it. No matter who she is. He is just not the marriage material.

A songfic dedicated to what happens in the ending of OotP. MAJOR SPOILER WARNING! Song is "When I'm Gone" by 3 doors down

Dreams are meant to be altered, wishes are meant to change, and the future is not certain for anyone. We must open our minds, clear our hearts, and listen with our souls.

"Even in death, only she could ever make me feel this lost and alone"- Listen to the story of a death eater as he tells about the biggest mistakes of his life. Songfic- "Gollum's song" by Emiliana Torrini

They are sisters. Sisters can make great friends and great enemies. Through all of the fights, they know they can rely on each other.

Ginny Weasley needs help with her Charms essay, but finds herself distracted by paper wings.

How does one go about justifying the long-term presence of a Muggle at Hogwarts, without turning the story into Mary Sue or Gary Stu? Hint A: Don't make the Muggle a student. Hint B: Accept that the Muggle leaves before school starts in book seven.

Sequel to Never Backs Down: How to keep from Madam Pomfrey that Sirius is out cold, has a pair of underwear that isn't his in his hand, is soaking wet with a bump on his head, and dressed sloppily, while you're wearing his pink polka-dotted boxers. Kitta teaches.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of things left unsaid...``Harry ponders, Draco listens, and no one leaves happy.

Have you ever wondered what happened the Night of the Prophecy?

Flowers for his drowned Ophelia.

A bitter first year is about to be sorted. She has seen too much in her life. She has created barriers in her mind to bar more people from hurting her. She has mood swings.

Hope springs eternal, that someday everything will be different, even those things we cannot change.

Filius Flitwick's first experience on the Quidditch Pitch in the 1930s was certainly not what he expected. The same goes for Minerva McGonagall and Santiago Sinistra.

"Bit of a nasty shock for him when he found out." A seemingly harmless comment by Seamus about his childhood sparked off this story, which is about what the words "bit of a nasty shock" could really imply...

A small twist of fate and Draco is faced with life changing choices. He can either succumb to his roots, or begin a whole new chapter of his life. This is his second decision.

A Muggle goes cycling, Dudley (aged four) nearly gets hit, and Harry (aged four) is very nice.

Post-Hogwarts. Azkaban is cruel to him, but the thought of one person keeps him sane. This is a lamentation of a nightmare, because nightmares are preferable to reality.

A quick sketch of my favorite Weasley. Percy thinks about his work and his choices.

Remus sits outside by the edge of the lake one afternoon, thinking about his lycanthropy and everything that goes on with it, and how he always has to lie to his friends. Then James, Sirius and Peter come, and they talk. It reassures Remus a bit, but he knows he's still not ready.

Again. He did it AGAIN. I can't stand when he does that. He cocks his head to the side, smirks, and then looks away. I should be thinking, "Why does he smirk at me like that?" I should be thinking, "Why does he hate muggle-borns like me?" But I'm not thinking that. I'm thinking, "Why does he look away?"

Cedric Diggory is dead and Voldemort is back. It is up to a Hufflepuff and two red-headed Gryffindors to boost morale throughout Hogwarts...

Sometimes, the patterns that shape our lives control us.