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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." (George Bernard Shaw). Ginny revisits some old haunts and finds lurking ghosts, disturbing mysteries and twisted truths. She can't escape it twice. Dark Angel crossover.

Harry struggles to come to terms with his past, present, and future moments after the downfall of the Dark Lord. (Songfic.)

Murderer. That word rings through my ears. Murderer. Murderer. Murderer. He killed people, so he was a murderer.

The Second War is over and everyone is rejoicing, right? Wrong, because somewhere out there, there is a boy, whose spirit was crushed by this terrible war. Who is this boy, and why is he so broken? D/H

A "Bonding" schedule with the in-laws? What could possibly go wrong?

Mia and Sirius met when they were eleven. As the years passed, their roles in each other's lives grew and changed. What does the future reserve to them?

Harry's first time out of the British Isles left something to be desired. In fact, as the locals would say, so far it sucked. Written for HP 10K Awareness.

Shadow. His shadow. It fell over her like a funeral veil. The one that would inevitably enshroud her. Tears of pain poured from her eyes as she struggled to move. About three feet away lay Lucius. His body lay stiff. Stiff for all eternity. Draco’s eyes burned with a searing hatred as he dropped his wand.

Harry's life is quiet, but soon, his career as an Auror will lead both him and Ron halfway around the world to investigate a mysterious school known only as the Skat-Hatokha Academy of Magic. But from the beginning, something seems off. No one in the wizarding world has heard of this school, the board of directors can contact you, but you can't contact them, and the accepted students have all been in some trouble with the law and take their right to remain silent very seriously.

Harry conveys a message to Snape in Umbridge's office. This story tracks various Order members (mostly Snape) from the time he leaves Umbridge's office until after Dumbledore has filled him in on what happened in the Department of Mysteries.

Harry has failed the Prophecy and Voldemort reigns over the Wizarding World. Colin Creevey holds the entire fate of Wizardkind in his hands... and camera?

Even now, years after Tom is gone, Ginny feels him everywhere.

Ever wonder what made Dumbledore really trust Snape? For Snape, the decision was simple and easy, and it involved Sirius Black.

It was the man closest to him that would become his downfall. Betrayed with a kiss.

As the smoke settled after the final battle, Hermione began to count.

Today the clouds are gray. Silly, silly little Mudblood..."How many of the twenty-six did you kill?" Sticks and stones, Malfoy. This is the story. [Oneshot]

After two years of a dead marriage, Ginny is leaving Harry, wondering how things got so bad. Another songfic -- this time to Evanescence's Missing.

Loyalty to oneself above all.

In the world of pureblooded wizards, marriages are arranged even before the children are born. If it doesn't work out, there's no one to turn to for help... except yourself. She freed herself from him in the only way she could; she's a trophy wife no more.

A day in Harry's life goes all wrong, but all he want is to be like everyone else...

Remus and Sirius go for a walk. With close to fourteen years between them, they try to cover the ground they've lost, but find that they can but move forward. [nonslash, friendship, set between GoF and OotP]

Snape/Lily school days fic. In which Snape wonders what the fuss over kissing is all about.

When Harry reveals to Ron that he and Draco have become friends, sparks fly, Hermione gets caught in the middle, and Mrs. Weasley is Not Pleased. Takes place about six months after "New Beginnings".

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs growing up through the eyes of an outsider.

The rain evokes memories from long past, and the very nature of love is called into question. If love is happy, perfect, and sweet, then how can his heart hurt so much?

Demons. The inner kind, not the kind that you can exorcise quickly, but the kind that haunt you, paralyze you, pull you into a different world. Ginny talks about her inner demons.

Sirius is finally done with school, but he as one major thing from Hogwarts that won't leave him alone. The moody Christen Nelson, and her Muggle family.

When Sirius runs away from home, Regulus is left behind with his thoughts and his memories. Includes flashbacks. Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge.

Sirius is left alone after Remus' suicide to contemplate his relationship with the werewolf. Counter-story to "I Am A Rock".

15-year-old Muggle Roxette Summerson lives in a Children’s Home. However when a mysterious stranger introduces her to the magical world and an enigmatic character named Voldemort, Roxette knows she is about to kiss goodbye to her peaceful life. For some strange reason Voldemort makes this ordinary, boring Muggle girl his personal assassin and Roxette is given her first target: Harry Potter. But Harry Potter is in hiding and Roxette finds herself looking for someone who doesn’t want to be found. But she’s not alone. Roxette befriends a pair of teenagers from another world – Elyon and Cadia – and then there are those two mysterious boys who seem to be helping them. And throughout all this, Roxette is discovering powers she never knew she had.

With the news of Lord Voldemort's first attack, Dumbledore ``reflects on what has and what will happen.

Just days after his death, Pansy reflects on Draco and what he meant to her. What did he feel for her? With only one chance for happiness, will Pansy take it? PP/DM

Ron and Harry pull quite the prank on Hermione. But magic can do funny things... Dudley/Hermione, anyone?

Harry doesn't find father in James, he finds hope.

Sometimes Harry takes time out to think. Several years time out. Features dark!Harry.

Hestia Jones shows up for her first Order meeting. Gideon Prewett was expecting someone else. Gen. One-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ community).

Ginny Weasley had left Hogwarts. She reflects on how she comapres to her brothers in the great scheme of things.

The cop-out ending to Dreamwalk Blue, in which I try to give everyone but the plot a decent send-off.

"When you can't walk, you crawl, when you can't do that - " "You find someone to carry you." Done for the Friends That Carry You Challenge on hpff.

Somewhere in the near future, Narcissa's musing over Lucius' body.

I was just reading the Prisoner of Azkaban for like the 500th time, and I was wondering how Sirius must have been feeling when he was looking for Wormtail, about to corner him in a "Crowded Muggle Street"

Every moment centres around something different. Not every moment fits with the next. Character sketches and drabbles of Lily and James, each is about something.

These are in fact four one-shots taking part in autumn, winter, spring and summer, multiple areas and multiple settings. The story is put in Astronomy Tower because it's neither long, funny or dark. But the romance is not the main thing (even though it's there if you know where to look)! You will also find strong family ties and deep friendships. Contains no Cursed Child spoilers!

Remus and Sirius are playing with two very dangerous things: Love and Distrust. It’s only a matter of time before they get burned. Set in October 1981. Slash. One-Shot.

Because walls crumble and happily ever afters don't exist. Not here... H/D slash, angst, one-shot

A one-shot about Minerva McGonagall and her lost love. Has anyone ever wondered how the war with Grindelwald affected the characters we know and love? This is just a little speculation on that theme. MM/OC

Minerva can't grasp such ideas. No pairings.

What if Kali Lupin had made a different decision in 'The Diary'? What if she had decided against joining the IDL and joined Voldemort?

Pronounced i-ro-ny...n, pl. i-ro-nies...Definition #3- Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. A short, not so sweet, guess the character fic.

The threat of open war in on the horizon. The Order and the Ministry are of one accord and both know that where Harry Potter is, Voldemort will eventually be. Preparations are being made and this time the side of the light will not be caught unawares. Summer classes, sabotage, revelations about Draco's father, teaching and the final showdown with Voldemort all await Harry and Draco in this exciting sequel to Gold Tinted Spectacles.

Lily Evans and Leslie Miller were best friends. So were James Potter and Sirius Black. But with danger around every corner, and betrayal plaguing them every step of the way, what will they do to restore peace to their world? Rated R to be safe.

Ginny wonders why there's no room for one more person in the Trio.

Oliver lands in hospital with a minor curse and gets reacquainted with Trainee Healer Katie Bell. Originally written for the hp_rarities exchange on LJ. Oneshot.

An AU in which Wormtail was caught at the end of PoA and Sirius, as a result, had his name cleared. Remus and Sirius catch up. Implied slash.

After the events of "Goblet of Fire", Albus Dumbledore goes to meet an old friend in Hyde Park. HP/Spooks crossover.

Frank Longbottom and his girlfriend Alice are on their way to spend their Easter holiday at Frank's house. Now all he has to do is figure out how he's going to explain their new relationship status to his mother.

Neville Longbottom is about to embark on the most incredulous, daunting and indefinite quest of his lifetime. He will be forced to battle an insurmountable amount of demons along the way. Through this quest, he will not only gather the strength of a true hero, but he will also win the heart of a true friend who holds the key. Hope is sometimes blind and not easy to come by and courage can only take you so far. So what happens when the courage to face your fears is frozen and locked deep inside of you? Neville Longbottom is about to find out. Witness the incredible and unforgettable journey Neville is about to take by getting inside of his head and looking at him in a new light...

I stand here, for the first time actually looking at my best friend's grave. The day he died, it was a memorable day. It was the day Voldemort was killed. It was the day I felt all the burdens fall from me, but it was also the day all the burdens got really heavy. Sequel to "Tell My Friends." Harry visits Ron's grave.

Isn't love ironic? After all these years, all this time, now was the moment he decided to walk away and take his love with him.

An insane Peter sets out to find the cure for Voldemort's mysterious illness.

AU re-write of the Harry Potter series. What if Voldemort had a daughter? What if she was adopted by Severus Snape? As she gets older and attends Hogwarts, how will she keep her true parentage secret?

Voldemort decided one fateful night that Neville Longbottom was the infant whispered of in the prophecy. Unluckily for the wizarding world, Neville and his parents were killed, leaving Voldemort to continue his tyrannical reign over the wizarding world. The story is centred on two victims of his barbaric reign, Desdemona and Antenociticus Snape. Both of them left parentless by the hand of the Dark Lord. Struggling to find sense in this land of hypocrisy and war, they fumble nervously to care for themselves.

HBP. Three stories. Three worlds. Each so different and yet so close to each other. As time passes by... things have to change and the World has to be rebuilt.

Harry has lived in the Muggle world for twenty years after leaving Hogwarts violated and disillusioned. Now Ginny and Sirius come to see him.

A little Christmas-ficlet: Ginny Weasley thinks about the colours and people around her. D/G, sort of.

Ginny had thought of Pansy as a reflection on glass, so shallow that even her physical existence may as well have been an illusion, a trick of the light. Ginny/Pansy

They said that he was crazy. That is, he was insane. That was because he sat in Azkaban for twelve years and acted normal; and yet he was deemed crazy. They said that he killed twelve Muggles and one wizard. They said that all he did was laugh when he was caught. They said that he ratted out his two best friends and caused their deaths. They said he felt no remorse. They said that he never shed a tear. They said that he couldn’t love. They said that the dementors couldn’t take his soul because he didn’t have one. Definate PoA spoilers with a slight hint of OotP. One-shot fic.

Head of design at Zabini's fashion house, Pansy Parkinson has her eye set on the heir apparent. But his eye is caught by a witch who has her own way of looking at things. This was written for the rarepair_shorts Winter 2010/2011 exchange. Beta read by En En chan from PI.

Post-DH. AU. When the bad guys think they have finally won, Harry has a little surprise in store.

Fred and George cause trouble. Involves love potions, Cuba, and... Pansy Parkinson?

“Or, maybe you have grown accustomed to your position of influence, and saw no more need to consort with me. Was that it, Lucius, did you feel your position could grant you amnesty from your past? Were you fool enough to think you could ever escape my reach? Escape from me, the Dark Lord Who Is Not Named?”

Hannah enters Hogwarts two years late and has to learn seven years' worth of work in five years. Lily Evans makes friends with Hannah, and tries (unsuccessfully) to convince herself she hates James Potter. Remus' 'secret' is almost revealed to the whole school. All in all an average time at Hogwarts.

"His pale, freckled face was lit by the flickering flames and gave his eyes a murky glow. The bright blue, so like Dumbledore’s, was shaded, and no one noticed. Ron was used to it. In a large family, you got used to being overlooked. Being the best friend of the famous Harry Potter, you got used to it. Didn’t mean you had to like it." A glimpse into the mind of one Ron Weasley, on a night down in the Common Room

"I have made of myself a weapon, forged in the Dark Arts, consecrated to the Greater Good, and if I can only live with myself by knowing that I have done what I must, then that shall have to be enough."

What if Argus Filch decided to write fan fiction?

Deep under a waterfall in Iceland lies the Cristalis Institute of Wizardry. Due to an outburst in population of witches and wizards throughout the rest of the world, the sparsely populated Icelandic school opened its doors to students from all over the world. This did not sit well with the Headmaster's daughter, Sigrún, who knew the way the rest of the world treated her kind. How will she take it once the students arrive? Will she make friends? Will they find out her secret?

"I look into the mirror and see nothing. Nothing is looking back at me, nobody. That is what I am, nobody." - At the beginning of his Fifth Year at Hogwarts Draco remembers the day he became a Death Eater.

The Dark Lord is losing his patience; he desperately wants the knowledge of the prophecy's exact location, and Lucius Malfoy can no longer put off searching the legendary Department of Mysteries.

The Memoirs of Narcissa Malfoy - First, and final born son: the birth and infancy of Draco Aqualis Malfoy.

In the end, he wondered whether the boy's name might have made a target of him - his first name even more than his last.

A young woman walks home at a very late hour, but things are not always peaceful in the night. Especially during a war.

When a mysterious girl named Allison Potter arrives at the Dursleys', Harry is burdened with bigger questions than before. As Allison begins to fall for the charming Draco Malfoy, despite Hermione and Ginny's careful warnings, she is overcome with terrifying nightmares of a boy's mission to kill the girl he loves.

The others brought their own things to the table: bravery, loyalty, fidelity, intelligence, wit, cunning, faith... But I was the one with the dream. I was the one who made it happen.

A twenty-something Hermione spends a night out with friends and doesn't know how much more banality and ridiculousness she can take, but when confronted with some real meaning, how will she react?

Harry has been thirsty all his life... (H/D slash, one shot)

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other...." -JK Rowling But some things don't happen the way they should. -James Potter saves Severus Snape's life. Rated PG-13 for some language (entirely Severus's fault).

Teachers sometimes act worse than their students, and Severus Snape is no exception. Join him as he endures another Hogwarts Staff Meeting. Poor man.

This is the first of my Backdrop Series, a series focusing on several background characters. This is about Merope Gaunt, and is a short look at her dependance on others. She is crazy as all get out, but in her own special way.

A strange and powerful creature comes to be in the Order of the Phoenix -- But what dark secrets lurk beneath the surface?

Curious about what happened to Dennis Bishop and Amy Benson after Tom Riddle got a hold of them? This is my version. VERY DARK!

With Fred gone, George finds himself the victim of a bad subconscious decision to realize his pain.

Ginny Weasley has fantasized about the Quidditch Cup her whole life. However, when she becomes seeker for Gryffindor, she worries about the outcome of her final match.

Who is Hestia Jones and why is she fighting Lord Voldemort?

ONE SHOT. It was always Lily's favorite holiday, Petunia always hated it. Now their sons share the opposite views of their mothers'. The reasons Halloween's so special.

The vestiges of a friendship and an Unbreakable Vow bind Severus Snape's fate to that of a former student. Draco Malfoy, uncertain of his place outside of Hogwarts, turns where he can for help and guidance. Neither expected deliverance. (NOT slash, in case you were wondering.)

'My wands still raised when they arrive' Someone's been caught... 'I remember the very day I was initiated' And they're one of the very most unlikely traitors in this 'unexpected' list

Tom always knew he was special, and he never let anyone forget it. A series of vignettes.

Some things just aren't meant to be. Draco/Ginny.