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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.

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

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?

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

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)

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.

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.

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!

Ginny doesn't mind hearing nothing at all.

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?

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

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

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.

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

Post HBP. Molly has a hard time letting go.

...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.

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

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.

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

Sirius Black wondered if he’d ever been sane.

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....

It's easy to live a life through photographs.

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

Outtake from

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

An older, wiser Severus Snape reflects on his past, an obsession, and Remus Lupin. This story contains implied slash.

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...

His heart thinks he's making the worst decision of his life. His head thinks it's the best decision he's ever made. Both agree it's for the best. What has Harry done? A Harry/Ginny songfic to "Bus To Birmingham."

"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.

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.

It's not easy to let go of the past, especially the good times. (Ron/Hermione, Ron/Remus)

Post OOTP, Harry broods on the major changes in his life. His dark thoughts on life and it's cruelties.

Pansy is reflecting on feelings towards Draco and what he does towards her. She madly in love with someone she hates...

Although she wishes she could Lily knows that she cannot protect Harry forever.

A series of challenges.... Colin Creevey records the events of oddities occuring around the castle at Hogwarts.

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

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.

Remus feels isolated by his friends during the first war, and it takes running into Severus at a bar to make him feel anywhere near all right.

Hermione is having a baby and Ron thinks back to when he finally got the courage to ask her out and when they got married. One-shot.

The sequel to Passed By. Katharine spends much too much time hanging around train stations. And she sees more magic - magic of the large, purple variety.

Amy Black is not related to the famous pureblood Blacks, nor is she anyone important, nor does she have a life of drama. Nope, Amy Black is just a quiet bookworm that gets straight A's and is an outcast. She has no real life... at least that is what she lets everyone else think...

Written for V.M. Bell's Song Title challenge. Ron recounts the time Malfoy called him a monkey in his fifth year and the repercussions it caused for Malfoy.

“…The night they died, I’d arranged to check on Peter, make sure he was still safe…” ``The story of that night from Sirius’s POV. (One-shot.)

What do you do when you realise every choice you have ever made has brought you to a dead end? Draco remembers his relationship with Harry as the Final Battle rages around him.

Neville thinks Luna is perfectly sane.

Continuation to "In Your Dreams". Hermione... well, she dreams, just like Ron hoped she would, except not quite of what Ron hoped she would.

Do you the way she looks at you? She looks at you with that utmost admiration and passion. But you don’t see it.

The war is over, the good guys won. But that doesn't always make for happy endings. "It's over Harry, he's dead. You won. Don't you remember? It's done. YOU'RE done."

For Sirius, there's something special about January sixteenth. Remus thinks he knows why.

Every story will have an inspiration. This is my take on how J.K. Rowling got her inspiration for the Harry Potter series. The story is about a chance meeting between a young J.K.Rowling and a certain Red haired boy at Kings Cross station.

"No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere." ~Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto VI).

"Isn't it weird how joy can have you almost come apart just when things are at their most perfect?"

From the moment he entered the wizarding world, Harry Potter has been told he is special. Now he's about to find out why. (rated PG-13 due to possible creature violence and mild language. NO slash!)

Picture a cool, pleasant night, the vast final frontier glimmering with heavenly bodies. You are seated comfortably under a weeping willow, contemplating well, life, really. What happens when, as usual, the Boy Who Lived enters your mind? This is basically a short, spur-of-the-moment idea; I sincerely hope I did my job.

Sirius has little more than his thoughts to comfort or distress him in Azkaban.

This is after Sirius's death, kinda gloomy I think.

After settling into her new life, Hermione is surprised by fugitive Draco Malfoy.

This is a post HBP, pre-DH story from Severus' point of view. It's all about the mistakes he's made. This is an SS/HG fic, inspired by the song "Evaporated" by Ben Folds Five.

In a darker world where Voldemort has triumphed, a man sentenced to Azkaban reflects on his crimes, his fate, and the one he loved enough to kill. H/D implications, stream-of-consciousness.

A Dementor is sent into a common mission: go and Kiss a man. As it crosses the woods; however, things don't go as it expected and a mission that should finish in a good hunt, ends with this Dementor finding out that there are more things inside itself than its hunger for souls it meets with something that stays on the road of the Dementor's classification for things: it isn't food, and it isn't non-food. How it deals with things when they go out of its control? Because, as it can remember, a Dementor never is wrong and, most importantly, things aren't ever out-of-control in the small world of theirs.

Draco was the reason Blaise could see thestrals, and Blaise was the reason that Draco could see thestrals. And thestrals only bring misfortune upon the ones who see them.

Draco and Ginny's wedding through Arthur Weasley's POV.

sleep-deprived Hermione on the edge of nervous breakdown and an anxious Snape talk a walk down memory lane.

A brief glimpse into the lives of Lycurgus Randall and Selena Lowell of the Werewolf Support Services as they fight an uphill battle to do their job.

Before Hogwarts, Lily had a friend, her cousin, named Harry. This story is about them, and who they were and what they did. Slightly bittersweet, but it covers Lily's discovery of magic, her meeting with James, and why she named her son Harry.

"It’s a tractor," Harry said matter of factly as they drew closer. "If this is the idea then why don’t we just chew some corn and run after Voldemort saying 'Oh-arrr.'" In which Harry, Ron and Dumbledore are thrown into a field. Randomness ensues.

Remus Lupin in Prisoner of Azkaban... Wrote this sometime back, thought of posting it now.

It seemed only to be a blink of the eye in memory, but in actual fact it had been time enough for entire worlds to change. As a mother, Hermione finds her life to be nothing quite like what she could ever have imagined. Unspoken words held as much weight as those said aloud. Rationality in an irrational world created ramifications she could not have forseen.

When the curse on the position of DADA teacher claims another victim and as the war with old Voldy escalates, Dumbledore decides that he needs to bring new blood to the faculty. A Coven of five American witches steps up to meet the challenge. After the farce in the DoM, Harry, who is getting more powerful by the day, needs training if he is going to face the Dark Lord and live. When new information is revealed, ties are formed, it becomes clear that Harry just may have found the power that the dark lord knows not. Ignores HBP and DH.

"...When I walk the halls, I hear people mutter "slut" and "whore" in the air behind my back. You do not do or say anything about it, so I just look straight at them and I smile. I smile, and I nod, but I do not speak, for I am a watcher, and I see..." This fic contains some disturbing material. You have been warned. Angst D/G with D/P undertones.

As a war they never asked to be a part of rages around them, Sirius and Remus begin to suspect each other as things start to slowly change. Five unadultered angsty drabbles.

Pigwidgeon was never a smart owl. But he was adamant about working for the Wizarding Post nonetheless.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are out of school. Harry has finished off Voldemort and his followers. Has he finished all of them? One is returning? Who is it? How will Harry defeat him?

Don't believe everything you read. But then again . . . (companion piece to 'Elijah's Cup').

Ron brings his fiancee to meet Harry and Hermione. Harry knew it was love at first sight. But when Isabelle loves Harry back, how is Isabelle going to get out of marrying Ron?

Fidelius has been performed already, but on a dark night with a storm rising fast and furious over the home where they were staying, a visitor arrives on a dark bike with an idea that will effect them all. Lily POV. JP/LE.

Is Pansy Parkinson really the Draco-stalking-simpering-idiot people make her out to be? Read and see.

On Pansy's wedding day, as she awaits the time for the ceremony to start, Draco sneaks into her room to visit her...and tell her of the deeper import of the gift that he has sent her. If she will only do as he tells her, Pansy's actions will change the face of the wizarding world forever...

Every mother fears the very worst happening to their child; for Circe Lupin, this has become a reality.

Sirius and Regulus need each other, they're brothers after all. But Regulus can't remain the boy Sirius loves, and change is bound to happen.

Frank Longbottom faces the most dangerous case in his career as an Auror when asked to infiltrate the Ministry's Specialised and Organised Crimes Squad. Rated R for inappropriate language, violence and adult themes. Welcome to Gangland!

After defeating Voldemort, Harry becomes a professor at Oxford, but what could possibly happen for him to stop teaching?

In the darkness of his chamber, he yearned for her yearned for her to bring the reddish glow that would fill his eyes. He hated the shadows. And he lusted for her fiery touch to scare the shadows away. TR & GW

"When someone we love dies, we always think that they’ll come back to us, that they would never leave us. Admit it, you do don’t you? But, if you’re alive you can’t be a ghost, even if you are alive trapped in the Veil world, the world for those who are waiting." Sirius’ thoughts of the world behind the Veil. Not dead yet, he must wait until old age kills him before truly leaving the world. A one shot fic on what might go on behind the Veil.

Coolly his gaze, Ron pushes back his chair and slowly rises, easily towering over her in a way he could not otherwise. His voice is a rich, tremulous baritone. Firm, but mostly soft. “Let’s go.” Blinking, Hermione's mouth slips open and she moves to her feet without thinking.

It was more than love - it was a true meeting of souls. Their bodies were seperated first by marriage and then an infamous death, but a link still remains. Can Narcissa live her life even though she has lost Lily, her first and truest love? ~Sweet, short, fluffy and slightly supernatural femmeslash~

Hannah Grace Abbott drones on about her dull, dull life. Maybe she's just too blind to see that she's needed in the Hufflepuff house.

Buried in my thick red sheets I trace the gold trim until I can no longer keep my eyes open. I am becoming afraid to sleep. Harry tries to come to terms with life's obligations.

Mrs. Lestrange plots, plans and waxes homicidal in her cell at Azkaban prison.

Snape confesses to Dumbledore that he is a Death Eater.