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A take on how Severus Snape came to be a Death Eater. Completed.

A young wizard seeks advice from a powerful adversary, before departing on a dangerous quest.

Harry Potter is slowly succumbing to the will of Lord Voldemort, despite the ongoing efforts of his friends and guardians. Can he fight against the greatest evil in magical history, or is he doomed to become the Dark Lord's unwilling servant? The arrival of a mysterious stranger seems to be a key in deciding his fate...

Obscene five-inch-diameter Stargazers, the grey light of dawn, and eventually something has to give. H/D, post-Hogwarts

Regulus trembles, gripping his wand whiteknuckled. ... The sick feeling in his stomach is no more than just the heat affecting him, the sweat on his palms is the same. Warning: contains death and violence.

A few months, or maybe years, after the end of the war, Lucius Malfoy lives in a haze of broken memories and loneliness. The Dark Lord and his viceroy now occupy the Malfoy house. By night Lucius walks through the remains of his life on his way to serve the Dark Lord, but by day he and the viceroy are slowly trying to restore what the Dark Lord took from him.

What would you do with a mother like Bellatrix Lestrange? What if you were accepted at Hogwarts? Would you go to escape the torure, knowing you would not be wanted, or would you stay with your mother, your protector, your guardian...?

Harry makes a wish that changes everyone's lives.

Hermione as an ex-ballerina. Contains an OC, crushing, one-sided love affairs, depression, ballet, and suicide.

Virginia Weasley. Who would've expected her to turn out like this? A seventh year, a Prefect, the youngest daughter of a pure-blood family. What happened? Written in Ginny's hand, the words that begin with Dear Diary. The words she had sworn she would never write again. The last words she'll ever write.

Sirius sits in his cell in Azkaban and watches as his cousin Bellatrix pass him on her way to her own. This starts a train of thought leading to the motives behind his escape.

I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence / Two roads diverged in a wood and I / I took the one less traveled by / And that has made all the difference. Blaise/Theodore, and the answer to what ifs.

What if you woke up one morning to find your whole world shattered to pieces? Calypso Panelle's parents are dead, she has no idea what's about to happen next, and to top it all off, she's just found she has to live with the Death Eaters. With the help of some unlikely friends, Caly will find the strength to stand up for what she believes in and learn that in the end, there is no way to avoid facing your fate.

Niobe and Grace Avery were five when they met their first werewolf. One came out of the encounter forever scarred, the other came out a heroine. Both came out changed, and the first strains touched the bond between the twins. Now, with Niobe at Hogwarts, an encounter between Grace and Fenrir Greyback threatens to shatter that bond forever.

Lie: (noun). Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression. I don’t always use them to hurt others, that’s just a by-product of saving myself. And him. I’m terrified so I lie. Terrified of him, of me, us. No one is safe from my lies, least of all myself.

"The dark is my refuge. As a child, whenever I'd get frightened or depressed, I would get into bed and pull the curtains shut. My Nurse knew not to bother me whenever I'd do this, as did Mother. I don't recall Father being around to react to this behavior when I found myself in one of my hiding moods." Draco Malfoy struggles with his concience in a rare moment of introspection. Contains implied Draco/Pansy and truckloads of angst.

The tale of a boy, as he grows to be a man. One-shot.

"Ron had begged me to accompany him to the benefit for Wizarding Children Welfare." This is just the beginning. Hermione, recently injured in a Ministry accident, meets Blaise Zabini, current Potions' teacher at Hogwarts and despised ex-Slytherin.

"What am I supposed to say, "Sorry Harry, but in case you die in the final battle I wanted a piece of you, so I got pregnant? I can't say that Hermione," she said sighing. Ginny looked over at Harry and he glanced at her and held her gaze. "I can't promise anything Hermione," he said softly. He heard her intake of breath. "I can't promise that we'll always be friends, because, Hermione Jane Granger, I love you. I love you so much and I want to have a life with you, but I don't know if we'll ever get to have one. But I can promise you that I will love you till the day I die, whether it be tomorrow or in forty years. I will always love you," he whispered against her ear.

How will Hogwarts react after Lavender Brown's suicide? Or was it a suicide? And if it wasn't, who really killed Lavender Brown? And who was there to see her last moments? Let's see if you can figure it out and remember, looks can be deceiving.

It's been more than ten months since Harry died in the second war against Voldemort, and Ron is finally ready to move on. Before he marries Hermione and starts a new life, he writes a letter to Harry to say the things he never said to him in life. Short one-shot fic done in a letter format, around 1000 words. R/H and R/Hr appear.

It’s shortly after the war and Lucius is the last surviving Death Eater, who has found himself being chased by Aurors and members of the Order. He has nowhere to escape and no one to save him.

In which Tom Riddle meets a stranger with a destiny is entangled with his own. Weird vingette.

It is the summer after Harry's final year at Hogwarts and the war between good and evil is far from over. As everything around them falls apart, Harry and Ginny discover a mutual understanding for each other.

After the final battle, Draco & Harry retreat from the Wizarding World into the house they share. Harry becomes consumed by the memories that torment him, but is there anything that Draco can do to bring him back from the prison of his own mind?``Told from Draco's POV

A year after Hogwarts graduation, Hermione Granger reflects on the death of the one she loves. Songfic to Rinse by Vanessa Carlton.

Like a play in five acts, except not. On a line connecting the Earth and the Moon, there are three points where a small body may exist in an unstable equilibrium if it has a velocity giving it the same period as the Moon. Two other such points exist at the third point of an equilateral triangle with the base of the line defined by the two masses of the Moon and the Earth. Throughout the events of PoA, Remus reacts to Harry as well as he dares.

Sirius returns from beyod the veil only to find that the Wizarding World is no more. With the help of a young Auror on assignment in the non-magical world, he finds a familiar face and confronts some old demons. But will he return to magic or give it up for another chance with one Remus Lupin?

In his final year of school, Ron learns from some unexpected teachers.

Sirius visits Remus, October 31st, 1981. Remus/Sirius. Written for Remix/Redux III: Reloaded.

The second in the Brothers trilogy. A mysterious disappearance of Harry's belongings brings Harry and Draco into real big trouble. Draco POV.

Two men meet on a dark stormy night. HBP and AU-ish.

Hermione finds herself lost in time (not literally) because of the pain caused by tragic deaths.

Pansy laughs, smoke rolling out from between her lips. "Don't fool yourself into thinking you're his first love." Ginny will give up everything for love. Including everything she has ever believed in.

Prickling touches still linger in the morning over silent attempts at breakfast. At night, they come together. At night, they become the dark. One is the spy. Has to be. Remus/Sirius.

Godric confesses his sins, and Salazar breaks his promises.

There\'s a tribanibian in the well at the Quidditch World Cup, and somehow Seamus Finnigan has been roped into helping Luna Lovegood catch it.

“In her house, a small one-story in a suburb of Manchester, she has surrounded herself with gold-framed pictures. Memories. Remembrances of times gone by.” A one shot story that looks at Gladys Gudgeon and her possible reasons for writing to Gilderoy.

(Draco songfic) Inspired by Christina Aguilera's song, this story tells of Draco's homelife and what he's had to deal with for many years.

Harry and Draco are both too stubborn and risk loosing everything.

Takes place in the summer after SS. Sort of character study/summary

Could they be merely replacements of the loves they had lost? A short Remus/Ginny fic set in the future.

Severus reminds himself of what could have been. The message hits hard.

A lone soldier reflects before the decisive moment of a war.

Somewhere on the north coast of Wales lies a little village, forsaken and miserable. When the wind is in from the sea, it carries with it terrible scream and a mist that chills the bone, and sometimes, sometimes you can see the ghost of lights flickering on the dead island of Abercasden.

Hello there. Let me introduce myself. My full and Christian name is Deirdre Eudoxia Marbelle. Let me start out by saying that this is my story and I have kept it to myself for years. And years can rack up on you when you are an immortal. And you, reader, do not know anything about me. However if you have heard of me, you know me as the Vampire who befriended Draco Malfoy and used her charms to destroy much of the common wizarding world, to demolish all that was of Voldemort’s supporters. You should also know me as the one who, despite also being the one who killed much of the Death Eaters, threw the Order of the Phoenix into a frenzy, and by God destroyed it and all of their followers.

‘Harry can’t be called The Boy Who Lived anymore, can he?’ Harry Potter is a legend, though maybe that’s a lie.

Written PreHBP. “Don’t do anything rash,” Draco tried again. Without taking his eyes of the knife Potter whispered, “Give me a reason Draco. Just a single one.”

What is love? Sirius was barely sixteen when he had his first idea of what love was. He had just been convicted for murdering thirteen people, when he realised what love was. He had thirteen years to ponder love, but it took him fifteen to realise it: The tenderest part of love is to forgive each other. Will Sirius be able to forgive the one he loved and more importantly: Will Sirius be able to forgive himself?

At the end of sixth year, Draco had some troubles, the only person that noticed, cared and did something about it was Harry. Angsty. A little fluffy, but not bad, and a short little ficlet. This is one of my first fics ever! *sniff*

One January night in 1981, six year-old Percy Weasley writes a story about a dark and stormy night and the "bad wizards". He has questions about the war that neither of his parents are sure how to answer.

Nobody ever sees themselves, unless it's from another's eyes. Terry has nightmares, and Michael feels helpless. Slight slash. (Alludes to an attack in Hogsmeade in which a character dies.)

Draco seems to be having nightmares, and who's the star in all of his dreams? A young red-head by the name of Ginny Weasley. But what happens when he talks to her about it?

The wizarding world had been attacked. Trinity Snape's children, husband, and the survivors from the Final Battle were killed. Trinity, in a fit of rage and dispair, had demolished the troop of attackers. But, can the savior of the Wizarding world stand being alone? Trinity Snape takes a walk down memory lane.

One boy lost, another one saved. A son of a Death Eater must make a decision.

Harry sits in the Gryffindor common room on a stormy night. He is remembering back to about a month ago, when a terrible accident affected all of Hogwarts.

His story begins too many times to count; in fact, it is always beginning, just as surely as time is always existent. But he does not own the story, for time is too great for one to reign, and Harry Potter is too powerful for anyone, even his son, to possess. And besides, fate is untamable, and choices are to the decider. But even if the story isn’t his, he is the story’s. And there are no endings, but only beginnings for Mark Evans; for Mark Potter.

"But at the ends of the earth, will the deep end be any different than the shallow if we are there for the same purpose?" Someone thinks about a certain death and his great promise to Harry after the funeral.

Alternate ending for "Pretend to Sleep". In which Draco's life becomes a bit more than he can handle, Harry forgets to be the hero, and Ron forgives Draco...at the last minute.

Harry's life as it should have been - in other words, what he missed out on by losing a mother and a father.

What happened to Ginny Weasley down in the Chamber of Secrets? A reminiscence to what happened to her...

Hagrid gets his life back.

She kept Voldemort alive through his darkest days, intertwining their fates forever. But it is a connection far from pure love. See how Nagini entered Tom Riddle's life, and why she chose to shed her skin for another. The memories unwind through the serpent's eye, born from a human soul.

Hermione is a healer, unable to heal even herself. The only thing that alleviates the pain is naming things. Objects, concepts. But she doesn't know how to put a name to her feelings.

Phoenix Bannon thought she was just an ordinary, if unusually lonely, teenage girl. Then on the night of her sixteenth birthday, she is told who... and what she really is. She goes to Hogwarts during the sixth year of the trio, and learns some unusual things about herself, and those around her.

After becoming privvy to Harry's prophecy while being kidnapped, Ron is forced to make a terrible decision.

After the term ends, Severus Snape reflects upon the death of an old enemy.

They say that when Sirius Black was caught after he killed Peter Pettigrew and the Muggles he laughed. This is why.``Sirius has a dream and Remus reassures him. Siri/Remi minorly, L/J

The second prequel to Somewhere in Between. This fic follows on from Of Purple Mice & Floating Paperweights but can also stand alone. It's Ginny's Graduation and an unexpected visitor interupts with a warning.

We could escape when Hogwarts burnt down in the last days of the war and Harry was killed. We did survive when the shadow covered the land and civilization was destroyed. Now, after twenty years, we are still hiding and waiting for signs that will speak of a brighter future, signs of confidence and hope. We know that we are not alone. Not everyone has died. Many of our former friends are scattered all over the land, and they are waiting for us. Finally it's time to leave. A message has come, sending us to the ruins of Hogwarts. We will follow the path that leads into the unknown North. Maybe we will live, maybe we will die - one thing is sure: our fate is the fate of the Land.

It takes a will of steel to tame a dragon, but some are all too willing to be caught. H/D dark!slash.

Ginny decided long ago that she wouldn't wish for anything from Harry. So why is she standing here waiting for him in the freezing cold?

Francis Zabini, eminently foolish Dark supporter, faces the results of being caught in a compromised position.

What if the Veil in the Department of Mysteries does not, in fact, lead immediately to death as wizards have always believed? In this epic tale of adventure, risk, and true love, two of Sirius Black's closest friends uncover evidence that the Veil is merely a portal to another world... an Otherworld full of its own sort of dangers. Rescue attempts are never the easiest of undertakings. And in the women's valiant efforts to recover Sirius, they may just have to sacrifice other things (and people) very near and dear to their hearts.

Sirius deals with the breakup of his long-time girlfriend.

Regulus can't follow him, even though he wants to. He has to stay behind and do everything his brother never did.

After defeating Voldemort, Harry spends the next year in hiding, unsure of how to go about living in a world where he no longer has that burden on his shoulders. Just when he is about to reconsider joining society, he is blamed for a devastating murder. Those who hear from him are the only ones surely-rooted in their belief that Harry is innocent. It turns out, that the first murder is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what someone has plotted to try and bring down the world's hero--Harry. Never knowing just who to trust, or what to do next, Harry must thrust himself back into the world he hid from, avoid capture at all costs, and prove his innocence to everyone.

Hermione finds a like-minded soul at the worst, but possibly best, time when no one else will understand her or her emotions.

A liberal twist on the romance of Cho Chang and Cedric Diggory. Secrets, kisses, and whispers all over.

"Avada Kedavra!" Voldemort spoke the words almost lazily. A smile was on his face but his eyes were cold. Some had said that the curse didn’t kill if you don’t mean to. But he did and so he died...

Rather too many stained glass windows.

After Harry defeats Voldemort, he makes one mistake; a mistake that will come back to haunt him.

Near the end of OotP, Malfoy tells Potter he’s going to pay, and now it’s time for him to cash in. Be warned: this is not pretty.

On the day of Lily and James Potter's demise, one person seeks Dumbledore and forgiveness.

"But it was golden, that one summertime dreaming." Padma/Pavarti.

Harry is alone on a windy cold beach at dusk. He hates himself. Why had everything gotten so complicated? He wished he didn't feel so much; wished he didn't feel at all. ``Someone comes along, infact the most unlikely person. Can they save each other?

How Ginny and Harry cope after the War against Voldemort and the Deaths of their two best friends. Songfic to 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack

His werewolf mind fought to be let out, to be consumed by bloodlust but Remus gritted his teeth and wouldn't give in even as his mental barriers were ripped down. His transformation had become even more painful to bear... and as his skin bled, he trembled as a worse pain he was to relive from the werewolf's mind spread through him.

Hannah Abbott is a typical Hufflepuff, isn't she? She's safe, loyal and boring.

A glimpse of how it looks to Ginny Weasley when she collapses from the inside. A story of the consequences of falling for the darkest love in the world and how when you leave him he doesn't always leave you.

Remus escapes into his lycanthropy to cope with James and Lily's death, Sirius being sent to Azkaban and Peter's disappearance.

A chronicle of a pivotal night in the lives of Alastor Moody, Igor Karkaroff, and Regulus Black. Character study, not three-way romance, to those with their minds in the gutter.

A few brief glimpses into James and Lily's last days.

Harry and Draco refuse to acknowledge some things because it's simpler that way.

What will happpen if Hermione were to see Draco after death. My first fic. R&R

Hermione reflects on her marriage with Ron and her affair with Harry, and what ensued. Snippets of "Deadwood" by Garbage is used.

'He who offers to me with devotion only a leaf, or a flower, or a fruit, or even a little water, this I accept from that yearning soul, because with a pure heart it was offered with love.' - The Bhagavad Gita, 9:27. Arthur Weasley receives a visitor. A little alternative scene set during OotP, with references to incest and slash.

Sides have been chosen, lines have been drawn. But since when is the world in black and white? Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter meet by chance, determined to bring to a close a duel begun years before. And do you really think Draco's learned to play fair in the interim?

The much-anticipated companion piece to The Wound Dresser, told in quick glimpses. The morning after Bill's wedding, Harry, Ron and Hermione set out in search of Voldemort's soul, leaving Ginny - and a piece of Harry's heart - behind. As the many horrors of Voldemort's reign besiege the Wizarding world, the trio soldiers on, and eventually find help from the least likely of sources. As the final confrontation spirals ever nearer, Harry wonders if he'll ever see Ginny again, or if there is even anything left to the world worth saving. A long story told short...

Ginny is stolen from her very bed, and finds herself locked in a Tower. What is she thinking?