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What was Ron Weasley thinking during and after the chess match in SS?

Tyke’s mother has an unusual hobby – she breeds house-elves. But life isn’t always kind to those who are weak, something Tyke is about to find out.

Time does not heal all wounds. Time digs the wounds deeper into the heart, forcing the salt of pain to worsen everything until it breaks the soul. Time is murder in a new form.

"Pain, glory, effort and balls - that's what my old man said Quidditch was all about." For Nathan Halbend, Quidditch was more than just a sport, but a way of life. When he finally graduated from school and was drafted into the American Quidditch League, he thought all his dreams had come true. But was he ready to compete with his own personal heroes as a starting chaser for a division team? Will he hold his own seventy-feet above the surface of the Las Vegas Veela Aquadome? Can Nathan fight his way to personal glory and replace his dreams of love, gaming and pain with the hardened reality of the AQL? Cameo appearance by Draco Malfoy. .

One day in early December, 1979, a young potions apprentice notices a purchase. The world is in the midst of a terrible, secretive war, and the customer's circumstances lead her to make an important decision. The consequences of her actions are life-altering for many...

A young woman sits alone at a small table outside a Parisian cafe. Her life has left her bitter and lonely, until a stranger changes it forever. Based on the beautiful song "La Vie En Rose" by the brilliant Edith Piaf.

Hogwarts is in for a great surprise....

My version of the last chapter of Book 7. It's a bit sad. Hope you like it. (As you might notice, the last word is "scar") EPILOGUE COMING SOON.

The story of the first Harry Potter book/movie, written in rhyme.

In the aftermath of a war, some things always slip through the cracks in the pavement--including two witnesses to Sirius Black's infamous massacre. A Harry Potter/The X-Files crossover.

“You cannot live without me.” Draco’s voice was little more than a whisper- emotionless; a statement, not a ``question.

Everyone thinks Charlie has always loved dragons. Hear the truth, in his own words.

Harry's POV on the day that he married Hermione.

Someone gets an eyeful, and lives to tell the backstory behind this line from Mystery Stories: Neville? He\'d never be quite so bold, would he? And anyway, there were rumours floating around about him and Zacharias Smith and a particularly scandalous episode in Greenhouse Three.

A beautiful young woman walks the streets of the most despicable port of mankind.

"Yes, I know it sounds like a ghost story, but that’s what it was. Supernatural, I tell you, sir. He was just different." An old woman remembers one orphan in particular.

Harry is disgruntled to discover that Draco Malfoy is the only other boy in Hogwarts who hates Christmas as much as he. A cinnamon-scented story about friendship written for Christmas, in the children's storytelling style of Enid Blyton.

James confronts Severus Snape after Sirius told Snape about the entrance to the Whomping Willow.

One day, somewhere within the last year of the war, Lily finds a photo that makes her remember the days when Petunia was her sister. A short examination of the relationship between the Evans sisters. Not sappy.

Severus is angry with Harry and dwells on it alone.

Lavender Brown, warrior, reflects on life, death and family, the night before a battle.

One-shot sequel to Confession Is Good For the Soul. First-date jitters.

Harry gets fed up with the Auror Office and goes back to Hogwarts to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts instead.

The air is thick with the dreams of dreamers, Hogwarts students past and present. In the darkest part of the night, guards are let down, truths are faced and sweet denial is bliss. Desperation, fear, hate, lust, love and what might have been are rampant at the midnight hour.

The Order's chief strategist is accustomed to sacrifice. (Ginny/Hermione and implied Snape/Dumbledore. Warnings for sexual content, semi-gratuitous military tactics and character death.)

Time is a concept. Everything is a concept. Time stops. Nothing works anymore. Everything hurts… There is no magic. AU

After Voldemort's downfall those who were found guilty for crimes under the Dark Lord were officially punished. Remus Lupin contemplates his life, his feelings, his losses... and his own punishment after what had happened.

Electrified amber. That's what he saw. The most wonderful mix of browns, golds, oranges and even a slight hint of violet blended together with flecks of black. Those innocent eyes that knew so much yet knew so little. Ginny Weasley was compassion personified and the expressiveness in her eyes proved it so... Draco Malfoy could do little to stop from loving her - except pretend to detest her.

Hagrid is on his deathbed and wants Harry to make a promise to him.

A prologue to "Crimson Snow": details how Draco and Hermione fell in love, and why they eventually died. A story about the insignificance of life, the absurd nature of love, and about nothing at all.

"There would have been a time when hearing voices would have had Remus Lupin checking into St. Mungos. That was a different time."

On either side the great lake lie``Long lawn of grass so green and bright,``That clothe the soil and meet the sky;``And thro’ the lawn the drive runs by``To many-tower’d Hogwarts;``And up and down the students go,``Gazing where the waters flow``Round an island there below,``The island of Shalorts.

Salazar Slytherin is in love with a kitchen maid in his household, but he's betrothed to Rowena Ravenclaw. Will they be able to get along... and even maybe fall in love? RRSS

Ron, in his old age, reflects on certain events

The start of a new world, a new life and a new beginning. Harry is the last hope for wizardkind. Will he succeed?

The Weasley family enjoys a singular sort of Christmas. With Fred and George planning something, their father particularly amused by Christmas trees, and odd family traditions, Christmas-time at the Burrow is unlike any celebration you have ever known.

Even at a young age, Severus Snape didn't think much of self-pity. However, even he was not above the occasional bouts of it.

Harry is going off to save the world, as per norm. Only this time... he might not come back. So his friends take it upon themselves to write him letters of good luck, etc. Oh, dear. He really doesn't have very eloquent friends, does he?

Harry and the Dursleys are on vacation in New York City when Harry meets the girl of his dreams. When he tries to talk to her, he is ridiculed. Unfortunately, Dudley sees him, resulting in a fight and more *sigh* maid duties for Harry.

While staying at Grimmauld Place, Bill and Ginny discuss the past, the present, and growing up.

It's the Halloween Boogie, a dance only seventh-years are allowed to attend. So what happens when you throw the Marauders in there?

A letter, from Peter to Sirius, written just after James' death and Sirius' capture. Peter is trying to explain some things he have done, and is at the same time saying good bye to his younger self and his previous life.

Dumbledore's lingering contemplations as his former student, Lord Voldemort, casts the death spell and the regrets of a man to have his entire life lived for others.

August, 1977: Tom Riddle meets with Percival Malfoy and son Lucius in Diagon Alley preceding the younger man's seventh year. Enter to-be second year Slytherin Kiora Smith, a disgrace to the Slytherin house due to her lack of legitimate pureblood ancestry and residence in a muggle orphanage. Christmas, 1983: a seventh-year Kiora leaves Hogwarts to be forgotten, taking refuge in the elite nameless ranks of Tom Riddle's Unmarked Army. Halloween, 2003: Harry Potter defeats Lord Voldemort in the final stand. The entirety of the wizarding world celebrates. All is relatively peaceful until Halloween, 2007, when Tom Riddle loses control of his puppet and the unmarked army is turned over to the Order of the Phoenix by the new Dark Lord.

During her fifth year, Luna receives an unexpected summons to visit Dumbledore in his office. There, he confides vital information and makes four key requests of her. This meeting lays down the path ahead of Luna -- and could shape the very conflict with Lord Voldemort, as she struggles to act from the shadows and maintain her trust in both Dumbledore and her friends. Attempting to overcome some of her darkest fears, Luna finds refuge in a variety of places, and she views the demise of Voldemort from a unique angle, contributing more than anyone can know, and sacrificing an enormous amount.

Ron had never heard of a condom before, and Hermione swore up and down he needed at least one if wanted to get laid. And Ron definitely wanted that. Harry helps him out a bit.

How did Oliver get his obsession with Quidditch? How did he become the captain that worked his team to victory?

One day you wake up to find your total life has been a lie. You loose all family and are sent to a school you have never been to before. Epona must gain friends at Hogwarts, but she also attracts the attention of two evils...

A crazy story about a muggleborn and her obsession with Sirius. Sirius-ness ahead!

Harry reflects on his realationship with Draco, what happens during the war, and how they came to be. Short H/D one-shot, a bit angsty, songfic.

Lily was excellent at comforting, but she was horrible at being comforted.

The tables are turned on Harry - it's his turn to develop a crush on Ginny.

Never leaving. Always letting go. Sirius packs a suitcase.

"If you squint hard enough, you can still see Harry – or at least a faded Harry, but with his still vibrant green eyes." Being insane is one thing. Coming out of insanity with a mixing of memories is another. Ron takes that confusing journey post-Final Battle and struggles to make sense of what is real and what is not. Insanity is rarely ever a clear picture.

Ginny hasn't forgotten the circus her father once took her to, and when things with Draco fall apart, she decides to join.

The Hogwarts' trio has a mystery on their hands. The phoenix, Fawkes, is distressed, and the three students find out more than they bargain for. The mystery involves time in the Library and the Forbidden Forest (to Ron's joy!)

Vaguely in a post-Book 7 future one-shot told from Ginny's perspective. A bit of heavy pillow talk as Harry realizes that much of his life is not unlike that of a Jedi from a galaxy far, far away. Some mild Ginny/Harry in the background.

Cho is sitting at a cafe thinking about her past. It has been nine years since she graduated Hogwarts, five since Voldemort was destroyed. The world is Happy, but Cho's love died stopping Voldemort.

An enlightening conversation between Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Set near the end of their last year at Hogwarts.

“I need to leave,” he whispers, but the words ring out clearly in the silent house and the girls’ eyes widen just slightly. One-shot

Professor Snape is Hogwarts' (somewhat unwilling!) Agony Aunt. Sympathy is not his strong point...

The mind is a powerful thing. It can convince you of anything, letting reality go and replacing it with fantasy. However, when that happens, is it what we truly need to become free?

Draco finally gets the chance to prove himself to his father and to Voldermort. He says he has wanted this, but does he really mean it? What happens when things become too much for him? Will Draco lose his cool and ruin the chance to save himself and his family? Rated for violence and child abuse.

Harry/Hermione, but where does Draco come in... and who does Hermione love when she tells Dumbledore that "he" is dead? Voldemort striking his final blow, destroying the unlikely friendship...

New Year's Eve in 1990 falls on a full moon. A Lost Years fic.

The world changes but Hogwarts does not, its traditions ever isolated, ever preserved. Harry gen.

After his final fight, Harry is dying. There is just one person that occupies his mind – will she save him?

Closed in worlds they cannot contain, Lily and James sit together and the fireworks soon fly....

A rather short angsty fic. Alicia's thoughs about Angelina and other stuff. Femslash.

A series of questions asked throughout the years... (Narcissa/Sirius)

Cornelius Fudge--Minister of Magic, great wizard--and lover of jello. Until, that is, Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy turn his love for this delicious Muggle dessert into a trip to the Ministry he'll never forget.

Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. But can Harry and Hermione find their way across it?

A fifteen-year old Blaise Zabini goes to Eyelop's Owl Emporium and sees the most lovely kitten ever....

Circe, an avid Harry Potter fan, traverses time and space to arrive at Hogwarts during Harry's first year. She in a quandary as how to carry on as an outsider in a storyline she knows all too well. Can she manage to realize her dreams about magic while not affecting those destinies inherent to the success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?

For the first time in her life, Minerva McGonagall had Seen. Buoyant after her first ever success in a Divination lesson, Minerva receives an unexpected owl. On an icy November night, Minerva finds herself betrayed by the promise of omens but discovers the certainty of the stars.

Ginny doesn't mind hearing nothing at all.

Warning: AU. Professors Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall take a vacation to the beautiful island of Hawaii at the expense of an unwitting Ministry of Magic. Features a drunk, a pansy, and a mediator. Chaos ensues!

Christmas ficlet set during the Marauder's seventh year at Hogwarts, in which Remus wakes up to a rather nice surprise the morning after the last full moon before Christmas. (Implied S/R and J/L)

Christmas is a time for family, so Harry spends it with his. Both of them... UK English.

My depression will not be grieved. Zero. Cold. Ice. Death. Desperation. Solution. Praise. Pain. Panic. Murder. Acceptance. Acquiescence. Suicide. Thus is seen the awesome power of the Dark Lord Voldemort.

Outtake from

How can I even try I can never win Hearing them, seeing them In the state I'm in Hey you've got to hide your love away Hey you've got to hide your love away ~The Beatles Sirius Black is having Valentine wishes for a certain someone. With the isolation of Grimmauld Place pressing in, he finds that suppressing his feelings is getting harder each day. What is he to do when he realizes his cousin, Tonks, is having those same wishes for Remus? He hopes he has the strength to believe Cupid knows what he's doing and to hide his love away for the good of his two best friends. I would like to thank Lady Bracknell of LJ for writing The Firewhiskey Incident, which inspired this story.

...it all seems so impossibly unfair, her life does, of a sudden. Her parents and best friend and now her child, all these people ripped away from and out of her, and in the middle of all this heartache Ron has buried himself, deeply, like a wound that will scar. R/Hr. Post-Hogwarts. High on the angst.

Post HBP. Molly has a hard time letting go.

She watched him turn his back. She watched him walk away. Into the unknown. Into danger. Away from her.

Snape is a madman, because Granger and Malfoy would never work together, but when their project is out of control, Granger's creation wants to kill Malfoy, and Granger isn't going to help him out.

Remus has suffered a terrible loss but now he has to move on. No, I've not been crass enough as to actually pair him with anybody - but everyone's favourite Weasley will help him come to terms with his loss all the same.

Two people trapped together, contemplate death.

Sirius Black wondered if he’d ever been sane.

Femmeslash (Lily/Mrs. Lestrange). It’s not as dark as you might expect.

Rodolphus Lestrange familiarizes himself with the idea of emotion through his budding relationship with Bellatrix Black in their final year at Hogwarts.

With a few drinks, some yodle-ing, the Hogwarts faculty and some chocolate cake, what can possibly go wrong?

Requirement. She was required to treat him respectably ... to like him even. She was required to listen to him, day in and day out. It was a requirement. It was NOT, under any circumstances, a choice. PP/DM

It's easy to live a life through photographs.

Hermione Granger writes two poems, one before the war and one after. The poems are very different. What changed?

In the summer after OotP, Hermione reflects on her childhood, her friendship with Harry and Ron, and her role in the coming war. Philosophical.

Kingsley Shacklebolt knows what it's like to be alone.

"Was it pity though? Love? Duty? Revenge? She honestly couldn’t say. The lines were so blurred where her family was concerned that she doubted she would ever be able to sort it all out."````Andromeda pays Bellatrix a visit in Azkaban.

Your body gives but then holds back``The sun is bright ``The sky is black``Can only be another sign``I cannot keep what isn’t mine`` ``How can I tell if you mean what you say?``You say it so loud``But you sound far away``Maybe I had just a glimpse of your soul``Was that your shadow I saw on the wall?`` ``I’m watching you disappear``But you``you ``were``never``here...

Forbidden thoughts form in the mind of a young Severus Snape, as the Dark Lord shows his ability to raise the dead at a Death Eater meeting.