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Everything should have been perfect, but life never is. When Draco is faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, he risks losing everything – Harry, the war, and even himself. Despite the warnings and the risks, Harry isn't about to give up on the boy who was once willing to die to save him. However, what Harry doesn't know and what Draco can't remember may destroy them both. (The sequel to "Eclipse"; HP/DM)

In Draco's seventh year, he and Ginny Weasley shared a wonderful semester surrendering to their lusts and to their passions. At the year's end, everything fell catastrophically to pieces and they erased each other from their lives. Now, nine years later, they are face to face once again, each of them married off and Draco's wife expecting a child. Yet, after all this time, the passion is still there, perhaps had never left; and so after an unexpected reunion, both Draco and Ginny must cope with the past as well as the present while they carry on a full-fledged affair. Written before HBP. AU for multiple, but slightly small, reasons.

Ginny is a re-encarnate of the Earth Goddess, she who created the world. Ever since she was a child she heard stories of her soulmate, the Green Man but she has no idea who he was.

All the Hogwarts students are older and falling in love. They also have new jobs. D/G & H/H!

It's after Cedric's death, and the beginning of Cho’s sixth year. She is devastated and tells herself she'll never love again. Then again, she never considered the great, the famous Harry Potter, did she?

Harry and Draco had a mission. It was simple. Find out who stole the artefact, and get it back from the Muggle fencing it. Not as simple as it sounds, when you both hate each other with a passion, and the Muggle starts falling for your straight partner, who you need to help handle the Muggle Gay Scene. And what happens when you start falling for him too?

Voldemort IS BACK for the last year. The gang comes back for another year of adventure, love, and pain. Relationships will develop between Harry, Draco, Hermione, Ginny...read if you want to find out who gets with who!! Look forward to lots of new spells, new creatures, and a laugh-and-cry-out-loud story!

"Christmas Bells, those Christmas Bells..." After a life-changing incident or two, Draco is in a romantic, Christmas-y mood...and Hermione reaps the benefits.

Harry, Ginny, Draco, Ron, Hermione, the ancient Septien's Charm, an heirloom from Voldemort, and a healthy ratio of angst : snogging. ``"Ah, but it’s getting better. Sure, you were nearly violated – twice – and your poncy brother is rotting in Azkaban. And it’s likely``that your fantasies of Potter are shot since he’s too noble to gallivant around with someone else’s wife. And you owe me money. And we’re in substandard lodging where someone was most likely murdered in the last twelve hours, although the killing curse wasn’t tossed by you which is a refreshing change. What was my point again?" smirked Draco.

Fred and Angelina have kissed and make up. But after a few days, Angelina starts to act strange and nobody knows what's going on... even Fred. What they both don't know is that they are about to deal with the unexpected...

It's time for the students of Hogwarts to set aside house differences in favor of fighting the true battle - Boys VS Girls!

Just a game? Since when was this all just a game? Draco Malfoy does not play games. Games are for Gryffindors and other subhuman life-forms. The people genuinely worth having in your address book take everything as life and death. Chess, cards, Quidditch, and love. So why doesn't love have rules? If Potter could move on those squares only, and Draco could avoid being taken in with a little bit of strategic playing, things would be so much easier...

In which Draco starts (gasp) ignoring Harry, and Harry doesn't like it. He doesn't like it at all. Seventh year, H/D SLASH.

After a brutal attack, Harry loses his memory and ends up trapped in Malfoy Manor. Here, games are everything and you have to keep your wits about you to survive. Can Harry play the Malfoys at their own game? DRACO/HARRY slash, plus LUCIUS/DRACO.

He said to me once, 'Never forget that no matter what happens, I'll always love you.' I believed him.

This is the second part of a three-part story about the Malfoy family, the sequel of 'Ad Mortem Festinamus' and the prequel to 'Et Nulli Miseretur'. This part describes the time between Voldemort's downfall in 1981 and Dumbledore's death in 1997

We left not-so-ickle Ronnikins in the Slytherin common room in the company of the charmingly sinister Mr Malfoy… Does Ron have the strength to resist the fall into evil habits?

Ambrosia is a Muggle night club on the outskirts of London where the teens of the city come out to dance, drink, and play. When Harry and Draco unexpectedly meet here one mysterious night, a bond is formed that no force of evil will ever be able to break.

Draco Malfoy is home for the summer before his final year at Hogwarts. What looks like an uneventful summer gets a bit more exciting when he finds out just who is staying in a nearby Muggle village. (D/Hr)

When Ginny Weasley miscasts a spell, she accidently turns Draco Malfoy into a baby. Since the mistake was hers, Dumbledore and the professors all agree that she should take care of him. There's also the tiny little fact that he screams if he's taken away from her. And he insists on calling her 'Din-din'. Ginny's head is beginning to throb...

The story begins when Dumpty loses his pair of sandals. What does Voldie has to do with it, and how is he going to take over the world? Insane plot and lots of slash pairings. This is a parody, of course.

After the events of the TriWizard Tournament, Harry finds himself depressed and terribly lonely. Even his closest friends can't see what's wrong. A chance encounter on Christmas Eve with his greatest rival (no, not Voldemort or Snape) leads Harry down a path he certainly never expected. Rated R for language, abuse/rape (non-descript), slight AU.

When Draco Malfoy turns in his father, Dumbledore whips up a plan in which he must stay with the Weasley's for the summer. The Weasley children all object, but their parents agree to the plan... The youngest Weasley finds herself drawn to Draco's mysterious ways. She wants to find out who he really is and finds a side of him no one has ever seen. Soon, Draco and Ginny find themselves swept into the middle of Voldemort's latest schemes.

"He wasn't quite sure how it had happened. One minute he'd been leisurely walking the length of the pitch, broom in hand, and the next he'd found himself backed into the wooden building by a stamping, snorting, hairy... thing. It was heavy. And smelled a bit like wet socks and cabbage. And was currently leaning into his stomach, slowly pressing the breath out of him." A D/G Christmas adventure featuring a smitten reindeer, nefarious Christmas elves, a dastardly kidnapping, 'Father Christmas' Atlas to Christmas Town,' the misuse of Christmas powder, a daring rescue, a hungry Yeti, and the appropriate use of mistletoe.

Insecure! and Bitchy! Pansy. Playful! and Angry! Harry. When you find someone has been watching you from on top of a wall, what do you do? What do you say? Emotions is a fun game to play.

During their seventh year at Hogwarts, Hermione's faith in Draco is relentless even after he has joined Voldemort's side. The light side is rapidly losing hope after last year's student massacre. Now that Harry is afraid, who will save them from evil?

What starts as a harmless dare leads Harry into a place even more frightening than the Forbidden Forest: Draco Malfoy's heart. Seeing himself reflected in some of Draco's most private thoughts sets Harry up for a host of new experiences, the least of which are some very private moments with his so-called enemy.

In the year following Lucius' arrest and Harry's once again rise to heroism, Draco is alone and full of anger. After a suprising stunt pulled by his beloved and slightly psychotic mother, he finds himself stuck with an enemy. With the help of a mysterious stranger, he masters a new form of magic with which to serve the Dark Lord and wreak vengence against Harry Potter. But Voldemort has something else planned....

Harry Potter hates Draco Malfoy. Draco certainly feels the same. No one ever said you had to actually *like* someone to snog them, right?

It’s been six years since Ginny left Hogwarts, and two years since the defeat of the Dark Lord. War has taken its toll on everyone, and even though everyone has tried to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives and move on, many are still in denial and shock. Ginny’s profession demands that she must remain unaffected, so that she may help anyone else in need. But what happens when the least likely of all people turns to her for help?

In a world where Voldemort triumphed, Hermione Granger and Charlie Weasley, the sole survivors of Dumbledore's legacy, face the greatest of all crises that threatens the very core of their self-identities. Both find that they must struggle to maintain the hunger that motivates all that they fight for...even it if means joining their enemies.

Draco has become a Death Eater against his will. His first task: kill Harry Potter. Unfortunately for him, he has had a secret crush on Harry ever since the first day he met him. How will he get out of having to complete this task?

Draco refuses to become a Death Eater, and ends up dying on Hermione's doorstep. Dumbledore brings him to Hogwarts, leaving Hermione with questions that Draco refuses to answer. As the year goes on, Hermione starts to fall in love with Draco, but is he even capable of love? Can Draco overcome his upbringing? What happens when they leave the country, and Lucius finds out where they are?

When Draco Malfoy becomes the new hero Harry gets jealous. A friendship is force upon them from Dumbledore, but does it become more than that?

“There was no snide quip, though. No deliberately cutting comment. Ginny stared and then a second later the grey eyes rolled dramatically and turned away from her towards the tasteless curtains.” Post-war fic. Ginny was just plodding along, enduring her perfectly well-ordered normal life and dreaming that maybe something more interesting might come along. She just never thought that the ‘something’ might actually turn out to be a ‘someone’.

Harry has been trying to cope with the events of his fifth year at Hogwarts alone and without much success. One night, when everything becomes too much, he decides to bear all ... but is it going to be something he regrets? Post OotP fic. Draco/Harry slash - eventually. Angst Romance and other stuff.

What if your black and white world was suddenly shaded in grey? What would you think? What would you say? What would you do? This is the story of what happens when Hermione's world suddenly shifts, and her actions to set it back on an even keel.

The first four books told from Draco's point of view. Prequel to The Marks We Bear. Unfinished.

We all know what happened the night of Dumbledore's death. We know how Harry felt, and what he did. But what about Draco? What happened to Draco that terrible night? This is his story. Follow Draco through his summer as he remembers that horrid night.

Harry and Ron go to a Quidditch convention in Diagon Alley before the start of their fifth year and melodramatic melodies occur. Lupin is accused by the Ministry of killing a human while in werewolf form, and Ginny is a little crazy. A H/Hr fic that might eventually end up with some D/G and who knows what else. There are moderately fluffy parts but also some definite plot.

Dr Walker, intrepid psychologist to the Magical World, has returned, but she's not happy. Neither are her patients, as the summer of 1996 passes over Hogsmeade, and the emotional lives of several people...er...beings begin to show the stresses of the events of Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. Happily, the good doc's quirky fortunes have not changed over the years, so beware of drunken elves, cursing Malfoys, dentists, and a mooning werewolf. Oh, and possibly the Great Hogsmeade Fire of '96, if Fearless doesn't get to that blasted stove in time.

Draco finds Harry at the top of the Astronomy Tower, apprently ready to end everything. He talks Harry out of it, but Harry gets clumsy at the last minute anyway. Draco manages something at the last minute, saving him. A series of works, each inspired by a different piece of music. H/D slash.

Completed story. Draco had been dreaming about Ginny all summer, but he doesn't know it. Will the new DADA teacher unwittingly help him with his plan of revenge against our red headed heroine or does she have other motives. OotP spoilers and strong sexual content. First book in The Nymph and The Dragon series.

After a deal is made between two unlikely people, they find themselves slowly drawn to each other. Draco may actually be a guy with a heart and sensitive side. Ginny may actually be someone other than Ron's little sister who has a crush on Harry Potter. Maybe they need each other to realize it. Though, someone is watching them....

What if there was a way that Sirius Black could return? What if two sisters knew the answer? How much trouble can two sisters get upto at Hogwarts anyway? H/OC Oliver/OC D/OC R/Hr.

When a new girl, Jawhara, comes to Hogwarts, plenty of things are revealed! (you'll just have to read on to find out what those things are, but here's a preview anyway: ) action, adventure, romance, laughs! (we hope) New people, new loves, a new prophecy... and old characters as well! (don't we all love the Marauders?...) Just give it a try! (you know you want to...)

Harry has always been different. He's gotten used to it by now. But when he realises how different he really is, will he and his friends be able to cope?

When a plan to make a Weasley mad goes awry, Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger are caught in a fierce affair, and don't exactly know when to stop, or how to....

The Malfoys and Weasleys have been enemies for a long time, but what started it? Seventh year, Draco's leaving school and Ginny thinks up ways to get back at him for all she has endured over the years.

Harry learns horrifying news about his parentage, which highly affects his relationship with Draco Malfoy.

Hermione Granger is turning her Sweet Sixteen, a time when each girl becomes the woman she will be for the rest of her life. (some H/Hr)

SLASH. When Harry Potter draws Draco's name, he has to be his Holiday Angel.

Catch-22: any illogical or paradoxical problem or situation; dilemma.

Five years after Ginny Weasley graduated from Hogwarts she finds herself in a perilous situation. She will have to come up with a plan to save herself, and her heart, from someone from her past. G/D, Au-fic

Sequel to The Green Flame Torch. Years 4-6: Dancing, parties, jealousy, family histories unveiled, snogging, shagging *winks*, heirs revealed, and the Marauders make a guest appearance.

Draco Malfoy's job for the Order becomes retrieval after they ask him to deliver Voldemort's top follower, his favorite. Draco delivers, but there's a price: He's forced to guard her until Voldemort thinks she's dead, and even worse, with Granger. His fierce hatred for the prisoner and his scathing distaste for Hermione are torturing him, when finally he and Hermione make a real effort to get along. Suddenly, it's too easy to like Hermione. Meanwhile, they both begin interacting with the prisoner, and as they learn more about her, they find that perhaps she can change if they teach her. Can someone as evil as Flaherty change? Is she really so evil? And what happened to make her such a monster? Rated for language.

Draco receives a letter from his father, and with it, a mission involving Harry Potter. This is a story about how even the most carefully considered plans can go wrong sometimes.

"It’s easy to hate someone from a distance. When you talk to a person, up close, things can look very, very different." Draco sets Harry up for an ambush, but revenge isn't enough. He wants to see Harry fall for himself, and he wants Harry to know, when it's all over, that Draco Malfoy finally beat him. So, Draco decides to shadow Harry all day... but he gets much more than he bargained for. Never get too close to your enemy; you might mistake him for a human being.

After the last task, Harry has withdrawn into himself and let his defenses down. He almost willingly lets his uncle verbally abuse and scar him. When he thought his life could not possibly get any worse, an ominous group takes him away from the Dursleys and deeper into despair. (violence, implications of rape and slash)

Adjudication: To settle judiciously. Forgive thyself, for love is a complicated thing. The trio's seventh year finds Ron desperately worried for Harry's fate, hopelessly pining for Hermione's attentions, and slowly coming to terms with his family, himself, and his eventual place in the world. After escaping a life-threatening situation through wit and resourcefulness, Ron will learn the hard way how one singular event can change everything. This, combined with the unexpected attentions of one perfectly wretched, ever-vexing Slytherin girl, will forever meld together within Ron's psyche to weave a rich and complex foundation for a future life fully lived. One moment. One choice. One lifetime.

SLASH. HP/SS (In the end). Harry suffers because of his abusive boyfriend, but knows that it is his fault, partly. If he had been more determined to be with someone he does love, he would not have to deal with the consequences of being handled roughly. Remus, his friend, is alarmed to find him unhealthy, and recruits Severus Snape and Madam Pomfrey for his treatment. Snape and Lupin are shocked at the truth, but after some time, Harry gets the feeling that things happen for their own reasons. When Severus Snape starts to visit him occasionally, Harry wished he could confess his feelings to the wizard, but does not have the courage to do so. In the end, it is Severus, who makes the first move.

A short series of (mostly) romantic vignettes, each with a fragment of colour at its heart.

When Voldemort lures Harry Potter to the Department of Mysteries, the life of Severus Snape starts to get REALLY complicated. This story includes MAJOR SPOILERS for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This story is in part a re-write of my (abandoned) pre-DH story of the same name which is incpompatible with DH canon. Parts of it may therefore seem familiar to readers of that story.

Three weeks have passed since the end of the Wizards of Narhassa. At the request of their American friend Sean, the gang is preparing for a leisurely Christmas Holiday in Southern California to enjoy the beach and the waves, yet what happens when Ron is not invited? What will happen when Draco is forced into a bathing suit? (Just for you ladies; he was kicking and screaming the whole time.) This fic contains wizard duels, teen magazines, love, betrayal, surfing, lots of California ditzes, the reason why Dumbledore is considered the greatest wizard of all time, and most sinisterly, a new champion of darkness... is he just another forerunner of the Dark Times, or an old face Harry thought he’d never see again?

Neville has finally stopped the second war of Voldemort, but as the Wizarding World starts to rebuild, the survivors must deal with the fall out of war. Life is tough for a hero who never wanted to be. Between his boyfriend turning on him, his best friend being a temperamental dark``wizard and his comrades going insane, Neville must deal with life as it is, and life as it will be. And with a new Dark Lord rising, life only looks like it's getting more hellish.

The third, and final, book in the Nicole Stevens series. Nicole is now confronted with dark reminders of the danger of love, the pain of betrayal, and the sorrow of friendship. Will she proudly make it through the confrontation, or will it defeat her?

Draco Malfoy was never very fortunate when it came to bringing pain and misery to a certain Mr. Potter. His latest plan is no exception. Or is it?

A Defense Against the Dark Arts Project called Know Your Enemy united Harry and Draco in the sixth year. It's bad enough that Draco Malfoy has changed, then Harry finds that their developing friendship turns into something more. But when Draco does something that Harry stands against, can Harry forgive him?

Nothing interesting ever happened to Sindaria Olsen, or if it did, it was very rarely. She went to school; she did her homework, and lived life in the dangerous streets of New York City. Her family was poor and they had barely enough money to put her through school. She helped around the house as well as she could and bagged groceries at a nearby mart to help her struggling family. As she nears her tenth birthday, strange things begin to occur. Then her father got a job offer in London, England and they had to pack up what little they had and move. Little did Sindaria know, her life was about to get very interesting.

Draco's Diary is full of secrets. Dare you read it?

*HP/DM SLASH!* This saucy, romantic comedy involves an angsty, suicidal Harry whose love life gets completely revamped by a sex-crazed, manipulative red head. Will Ginny mastermind Harry’s seduction of his one true ferret? Does she have her own agenda? Hmm, let’s think....

Harry has done his duty. Voldemort is dead, the Wizarding World is safe. Duty over, Harry has had enough. He 'exiles' himself from all things magic-related and starts a Muggle University. The magical world is nothing but a mermory-that is, until a trip abroad sends him hurtling back into the world he left behind.

Lots of love triangles. The trio are in training in order to prepare for war with Lord Voldemort. They pick up a few people on their way and decisions are made as to which side people are really on. A tale of true love, firery passion and lots of action. Are the ones we love really with us?

Raven is a sixteen year old girl with no family and no idea where she came from. When she goes to Hogwarts in her sixth year, she becomes friends with the famous three and, for the first time, knows what it's like to belong. But, things are not always what they seem and Raven's missing past catches up with her. Through a series of strange events, she learns exactly who she is, learning the art of forgiveness in the process.

Sweat glistened over his leanly muscled chest, his jet black hair thick and curling over his eyes, sticking to his cheeks and neck. He looked... well, he looked bored, actually, but that was beside the point - Hermione couldn't take her eyes from him. Ginny nudged her shoulder. "Did Malfoy just sing 'I love my stinky cheese weasel'?"

Pity poor Draco Malfoy. His stunning looks, charm, and wealth have snagged boys, girls, house elves, garden gnomes, grindylows, and inanimate ``objects alike, but little Ginny Weasley may turn out to be the biggest challenge of all...and opposition comes from a most unexpected source.

Draco returns to Hogwarts having gone missing for 4 months after the violent death of his father during a death eater ritual gone awry. But the dark lord isn't done with this dragon, or with Potter and his friends. Action! Adventure! Romance! Black tank-tops!

In his fifth year, Tom Riddle falls into the grasps of an all - consuming darkness. He becomes obsessed with inventing a new spell -- an enchantment that will allow him to see into the future and reassure himself that he will play an important role in life. During his seventh year, he uncovers the spell and instead of his mind being thrown into the future - as does a seers when they make a prophecy - Tom is thrown into another time: mind, body, and soul.

It's a few years after Hogwarts and Hermione is running her own small Auror firm. When things start to go down hill and the ministry threatens to close her down, she is offered a place in a competing firm with Draco Malfoy. Meanwhile, she's taken up an owl ``correspondence with the man of her dreams! Who is her secret friend? Based on the Meg Ryan movie "You've Got Mail". (Loads of fluffy humour).

Upon returning to Hogwarts for their seventh year, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and friends embark on an interesting game of Truth or Dare.

This is the sequel to Truly Madly Deeply. It is It is five years since the gang have graduated. Harry and Draco are teaching at Hogwarts and are joined by some of their friends. This story is deliberately fluffy with a bit of angst thrown in for good measure.

HP/DM SLASH! Set in 5th year & beyond, continuing from 4th bk. Includes an OC who appears sometime later, but she's only involved in non-romantic relationships, & NOT a Mary Sue! Harry's depressed, withdrawn from his friends after another incident in 5th year. Draco's nearing an important turn in his life and getting more and more confused every day. They find each other through the music they find solace in, away from prying eyes, while War begins its deadly march. Harry fumbles his way through reality, finding out shocking secrets about his past, prophecies involving him, and Draco. Draco's torn between the Light and the Dark, with pressing reasons on each side to consider. And the world meets someone it never imagined still existed.

It's Ginny Weasley's fifth year at Hogwarts, and she's thinking some pretty strange thoughts about someone she never thought she'd give a second thought to. Draco Malfoy is in his sixth year, and he notices the little red-haired Gryffindor Weasley isn't so little anymore. What's a Malfoy to do? [Draco/Ginny] [ON HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE]

~Draco's POV~ Draco tells us his story: how he fell in love with Harry, how they got together and all the problems they had to overcome. ( Harry/Draco, Mpreg)

A series of ficlets about Harry and Draco and their blossoming relationship. H/D.

He didn't think she was good enough for him, but did he make a mistake he will always regret?

A life's debt is a life's debt. Even if you're Draco Malfoy. Even if you'd rather be dead than saved by

When Draco Malfoy's mental health mysteriously declines, he is placed under the care of the only person he responds to: Harry Potter. Contains: Multiple Personality Disorder (Dissociative Identity Disorder), Paranoid Schizophrenia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, H/D slash, incest, non-con, torture, possible drug-use.

As Harry Enters his fifth year at Hogwarts, he enounters many dangerous obstacles. While facing these problems, he learns the meaning of true friends, eneies, good, evil, truse, and true love.

Hermione and her best friends, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, together the inseparable trio, are out in the big wizarding world and loving it. They hold fascinating jobs, and are roommates. How perfect can life be? That is, until Hermione begins to fall for a mysterious man…Will the new love interest tear them apart? And what part does Voldemort play in their new adult lives?

Ginny is fed up with being treated like a child and seeing as only Draco Malfoy has noticed she has grown up he can be put to excellent use for annoying her brother. Draco/Ginny Remus/Hermione/Ron

The war is won, but the battle is only beginning. A reluctant Harry finds himself burdened with a broken Draco and charged with gluing him back together again. There's only one problem: the cracks will always show.

Dark, consuming fires drove Draco Malfoy far from his tarnished past – and from the fiery young girl that had once dared him to believe in the power of love. But when he returns home years later, that laughing, careless girl he had once known was no more. In her place was a beautiful, courageous woman that forced him to choose between passion and pride, honor and desire. But how could Draco give up the one woman who could redeem him – and conquer his scarred devil’s heart with a tenderness he had never known?

It's the seventh year for all of our favorite characters, and guess who made Head Girl? Hermione Granger of course. The surprise comes with both Head Boys, the two this fic surrounds. Harry Potter, and--wait, that can't be right--Draco Malfoy??? Well, he is the one telling the story....

Get inside the heads of five completely different friends while reading their journals. While trying to figure out who's who and who's 'you know what-ing' with who, you also get to see teens grow into adulthood and let me tell you, it's all fun and games! There's the witty self centered one, the confused hopeless romantic, the intelligent worry wart, the 'in denial' head case, and the fast acting ladies man. Let's see if you can handle it.

Draco & Hermione. When Hermione goes to a Renaissance-themed town, she stumbles upon a fortune-teller who offers to help Hermione get what--or

Draco and Ginny have to face the consequences for their secret relationship.

An alternate slashed version of the famous pillow fight in Chapter 8 of Draco Veritas. This scene was just *asking* to be slashed. Now it is.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron’s seventh year is going just fine, albeit Draco is still an Annoying Prat and Ginny has grown up. Then Voldemort has the indecency to rise again, and the only thing that can save the wizarding world from destruction is a mighty sword of power. And now, in a gathering wave of turmoil, treachery, and emotions, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco, Ginny, and her best friend Jennie begin a bold, desperate search for the lost treasure.

Hermione can't sleep, and decides to take a walk. She runs into someone who understands. Set about 8 years post-Hogwarts. Inner pain! Character death! World War III! Alcoholism!