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What will Harry do when Voldemort kills someone important to his world?

Post OotP...Harry begins to cope with the devastating loss.

Ginny is persistent with Harry about her feelings when she finds out he may be leaving soon to fight Voldemort. And Harry surprises her and himself with his response. But then Harry and Ginny have to cope with Harry's perfect goodbye.... maybe forever.

Welcome to the World of Courtney Carson, a pessimistic fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After following the terrible trio as an extracurricular activity for four years, Courtney admits she's taking a liking for the famous Harry Potter. Things can't get any worse when she faces one embarassing situation after another, Harry is in steady relationship with her worst enemy, she gets into a row with her best friend, and someone unexpected asks her out.

In many ways one would consider Harry Potter victorious. He had conquered the dark Lord Voldemort and managed to live. He had put many of his Death Eaters in Azkaban. He drove away the greatly feared Dementors. He saved the world from a dark fate. However, Harry Potter did not see himself as some victorious hero. Blood stained his hands -- blood that would never wash away.

Snape knows better. Features: Occlumency, Pensieves, inevitable madness, and memories. SS/HP, in a very roundabout way.

Set a few months after HBP. The war is gaining momentum; Harry, Ron and Hermione are in training. On a standard reconnaissance mission, Harry stumbles upon one Death Eater that didn't quite make the cut. H/D.

It was easier to hate him when you didn\'t know he was human. Letters between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter after their sixth year offer a glimpse into the aftermath of obsession and the desperate lengths some go to for companionship.

Sirius and Hagrid's confrontation at Godric's Hollow after the Potters' deaths.

Ron's had an awful summer. He keeps waking up in his front yard and has no idea why. Can Harry and Hermione help figure out what's been happening to him?

Hermione Granger, pride of the Auror Department, is given the task to scry out the latest aspiring Dark Lord, who seems to be a very real threat, as he is hailed to be as powerful as the late Lord Voldemort...

Everyone's lives are put in jeopardy when a secret revealed causes identity confusion and a tangle of assassins after the Boy-Who-Lived. When the hunter becomes the hunted, who can put things right? A tale of love, family, lies and blackmail.

When Harry Potter was ten, he could see his life stretching out before him in a long, empty line.

Draco recites poetry to Harry. Slash warning. Mild involvement of Dr. Seuss and maybe a candy cane or two.

Harry's thoughts during his stay at the Dursleys' before sixth year!

Harry and Draco just can't let go of each other.

Hermione Granger. Harry Potter. A timeturner. A locket. And R.A.B. You have no idea.

Ginny Weasley's thoughts on her depressing life, when she realizes how she's really feeling, it's too late.

Draco’s favorite champagne, Harry’s favorite glass. Is the flute half empty or half full? SLASH. HP/DM.

Harry must destroy the last of the Horcruxes. This one is the most horrible of them all. It's... it's... it's a cheese cracker? ``Anyway, can Harry destroy the evil cheese cracker? Not without the help of the Siamese Weasels, a hobo, an axe-ridden maniac, his forty-year-old son, and several others! ``This won't make any sense if you haven't read "Happiness Is Just a Daddy Away!" Then again, it won't make much sense, anyway....

A very funny and senseless fic with two original characters. Very cliched. Rated PG-13 for a few swear words.

Trials come in all shapes and sizes and Harry’s going to have``to deal with a lot on them in his sixth year. Join him as he represses, burns books, plays Quidditch and does his homework, all while having to foil Voldemort’s plans for immortality.

The famous trio have graduated and moved on with their lives. Two of the group have gotten married, while one of them is still fighting his feelings for the one that got away.

After Harry gets in a fight with Cho to get his relationship he finds himself thinking about only one person... the one person who has always been there. Who? While he takes a walk to think he finds a glove on the road, whose glove is it? and why does he feel the need to take it? (Harry/Ginny)

A very dark sixth-year fic. Draco and Harry's hate comes to a shocking climax. Rather than at the end, the climax is at the beginning, so read onwards, ever onwards to discover the reasons behind their actions.

Sirius, injured, needs help. Dumbledore sends Ron out to help him, and now he's finally returning. Harry stands to greet him, but will news be what he wants to hear?

"'Do you believe in the life to come?' . . . 'Mine was always that.'" - Endgame by Samuel Beckett. Tom. Harry. Blood, genetics, power, immortality. A one-shot.

Suppose you were allowed to go to Hogwarts...but you couldn't interfere, and you had just a glance?

Harry deals with the death of Cedric in his own way.

Harry and Hermione are going out for two years when Hermione breaks up with Harry for what he thinks is a stupid excuse. She soon realizes she's made the biggest mistake in her life. Will she be able to get him back...or will he stay with his new girlfriend? Songfic to Everytime by Britney Spears.

Harry has been gone for a year and Draco is distraught. Will Harry be just in time, or is year to long of an absence? Can salvation be found in mere seconds?

echolalia: Psychiatry. The immediate and involuntary repetition of words or phrases just spoken by others, often a symptom of autism or some types of schizophrenia.

Sequel to Two's Company.

This is a short fic were Sirius does some thinking about his relationship with Harry and another prophecy is made, this time about Sirius.

Harry never knew someone was obsessed about him. And no, I don't mean Ginny Weasley. No one ever noticed Eloise Midgen, but she was always there, watching and dreaming about everything Harry Potter.

From the birth of a Death Eater, to the death of Harry Potter. This is the ultra-condensed history of Severus Snape.

Harry finds a strange note as he's getting ready for the train ride to his sixth year. Could it have something to do with Sirius?

Harry, Draco, and a midnight scuffle in the Astronomy Tower.

In his dreams, Harry mutters Sirius's name. Harry-centric post-OotP ficlet about grief, guilt, loss and love.

Part I of II for Draco Nascent.``At end of his sixth year, Draco Malfoy's carefully constructed world was shattered by Harry Potter's three simple words: "You are a coward."``Too poweful a truth for Draco to bear, he fled from Hogwarts, beginning a nightmare journey into the Dying lands plagued by Hell's Demons. Completely lost to himself, he is remade as Ingel Delano, Guardian of the vampires, by the Master of the Night, a mysterious vampire named Serafin. But the truthfull green eyes haunt and the past may have more horrors than Draco knew...

A drunk, heart-broken, and changed Draco Malfoy runs into Harry Potter one night, and finds that the Gryffindor has changed a lot - and for the worst. Set sometime during seventh year.

Harry is back at Privet Drive for the summer, where he has nothing or no one to occupy him except for his thoughts and memories. How will he deal with what happend at the Ministry? ~summer after fifth year-fic based on 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' by Coldplay~

"You did not ask Harry Potter about the war..." Four years after the defeat of Voldemort, a simple radio announcement and wartime secrets long kept buried may change Harry's life forever...(song lyrics by Ani Difranco)

A mysterious character is introduced, in the depths of the Riddle Mansion. As the character's identity is revealed, so are many other secrets of the wizarding world... and secrets of Harry's past that were thought dead and buried long ago.

When Mary Sue Parody's aunt and uncle are killed in a freak rollercoaster accident, she comes to live in the UK with her mad, long-lost aunt. Strange adventures await her at Hogwarts.

What happens when Harry and the gang find out about the book 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone'? Utter Chaos, that's what.

Death. We all know Harry has been affected by it. His parents, Cedric, Sirius. Who next?

Ginny finds herself dreaming and fantasising about something that will never happen. It does not do to dwell on dreams, but Ginny does not know that. Ginny wants to dream all she wants. But the dream is starting to take over the reality.

What happens when Draco finds Ginny in bed with his enemy?

Blood relatives matter, but so does the family you choose.

"I shake my head, the flakes flying off in all directions. I am going to meet her again today, for the first time in five years. And all I can think about was how beautiful she will look in the snow." Ginny Weasley has been absent from Harry Potter's life for five years, and today, he's going to see her again.

The zoo accident from Dudley's POV.

Mrs. Figg invites Harry to tea and gives him an unexpected message from Dumbledore - seems like he knew all along what Severus Snape might have to do... and what part could Harry's mother have played in all this?

In silence Harry visits his late godfather's room only to find an unsent letter.

Harry knows where to find Luna when she doesn't want to be found. (Prequel to The Locked Room series: Better Days, Camera Obscura, etc. Harry's seventh year.)

A short one-shot. The final battle is at hand. What will happen? Who will triumph?

Harry Potter has never quite grasped Time. Luna assures him that he doesn't need to.

Insight into Ginny Weasley - and her nascent relationship with one Harry Potter. HP/GW

Remus and Harry have a moment of catharsis together. A challenge fic involving a piano. Order of the Pheonix spoilers contained within!

Where does Bellatrix's love for the Cruciatus Curse stem from? Why does she continue to torture those around her? Spite... power... or merely pleasure? Submerge yourself in the mind of a lunatic who prides herself in perfecting the human condition.... (rated R, includes Bellatrix/Harry pairing, torture, and blood. Read at own risk)

"I didn’t understand how he could forget me, the war, and those long nights together. I know I couldn’t. I know that I have forever ingrained in my memory the scent of him, the way he looks when he wakes up, the way he likes his tea, and the way he looks at me that tells me he loves me without saying a word. All of that, five years of memories gone without a trace. I felt empty." How could he forget? More importantly, how can he learn to remember? HP/DM

Draco has always hated Harry, right from day one, and he'll do whatever he can to break him.

After Sirius' death, Harry was only living on the shred of hope that it could all be changed, Sirius could come back. During the summer, he realises this isn't so and slowly sinks into a strange state of depression that no-one can get through. However Hermione ploughs on, determined to get Harry back... (slight H/Hr)

"What you need is a love spell." Dudley's got a secret.

One must die: Malfoy or Potter. But nobody deserves to die. Nobody. A Malfoy monlogue.

Harry has made a very bad mistake.

Harry tired to look back on his life, but only can think on what he'll be missing... Angsty Vingette.

Hermione's thoughts on the Final Battle. It doesn't go how you'd think!

Harry Potter is back in Privet Drive after a terrible year at school. Everything's just like it always been. Harry's not allowed to send Hedwig with a letter and Dudley's got something very fishy going on...

What *did* happen to Ron and Harry? Hermione stands in the cemetery and recalls it all. Sequel to "Goodbye's the Saddest Word".

Draco's last words to Harry by means of a letter.

They never really saw each other. They might've talked and looked at each other practically every day since they were eleven, but they never really *saw* each other. Until he died, and both experienced the ultimate sorrow; the ultimate loss. They saw each other for who and what they really were. And they loved each other even more for it. A one-shot H/G fic.

Hopes, expectations, fears - so much can be conveyed in a name. When everyone knows what you're supposed to do, any break might be a welcome one. ``H/D one-shot.

Harry always helps a friend in need, no matter the deed. Hermione needs an undercover to help her work her object of affections. Harry marches valiantly in, wearing no less than a pleated skirt and knee-high socks. Eyeshadow, rusty sporks and Bloodthirsty!Hermione come together in a wacky, very random piece.

This story defies being summarized for the time being...just read it. You'll like it, just try it.

Harry died -- probably -- killing Voldemort. His friends, and others, speak at his memorial service.

They are coming. As an army of Death Eaters led by Voldemort himself march on Hogwarts, the remnants of the school prepare for a last stand, pledging to win their freedom or die trying.

It seems everything is going well for our hero Harry Potter. He's been named Headboy and he has a girlfriend from America. But things quickly go downhill when the war with Voldemort begins and he discovers that his girlfriend is not who she seems. Will Harry survive his final confrontation with Lord Voldemort and fulfill his destiny?

Continuation of 'Terrified'. Harry confronts Hermione, and she confronts him right back.

The War is over, but Harry still has a score to settle.

Beyond the veil, Sirius Black learns that time can be a thing to appreciate and that sometimes perfection can truly be found. It won’t be long now, for Lily and James Potter to make his fears disappear and the things he’s waited for eternity to come true.

With apologies to George Lucas: "Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?" Written for hd_worldcup 2008, Team Epilogue, Prompt "The Fool."

His happiness nourishes me. He surrounds me, swallows me, tears me apart and puts me back together, and makes me feel more alive. He is my fire. I am his, to the last breath. Nothing exists without her. She is my infatuation, my fetish, my fixation, and my drive. I cannot let anyone else have her. Harry and Hermione slowly descend.

"I have stood for many centuries now, keeping a silent vigil over those within my walls. I have seen many students come and go. I remember each one."````Hogwarts is alive... and she watches over her students.

Harry wants to be normal. He doesn't want eyes staring or people talking about him. And it is all because he is...

Harry's sixth year. Shaken by the events of the past year, he turns to an unexpected source for comfort. Why is it that Dumbledore seems to know more than he's letting on? As usual, Voldemort's after Harry, but how? And how far will he go?

Chapter 8.5 of Amalin's wonderful story Two Lost Souls.

[Slash] In which the author parodies herself in a self-insertion Mary Sue-ish masterpiece after spending a little too much time reading certain journals and communities at LiveJournal.

Set in Harry's sixth year. Because of a heart problem due to being hit by a dark spell at the ministry, he won't be able to fight Voldemort and has to resort to other methods to deal with the prophecy. Completely AU after fifth year, partly OOC.

“Well done, Ha –“ But the Death Eater Hermione had just struck dumb made a sudden slashing movement with his wand from which flew a streak of what looked like purple flame. It passed right across Hermione’s chest; she have a tiny “oh!” as though of surprise and then crumpled onto the floor where she lay motionless. “HERMIONE!” What if Hermione HAD been killed that night at the Ministry of Magic? Would Harry have been able to go on? Here's what might have been if the unthinkable had happened....

Beatles songfic based on the song "A Day in the Life." One morning at Hogwarts, the student body makes a horrific discovery. Hope seems lost, chaos reigns, and the stage is set for the rule of Voldemort. How will they cope? Can evil be surpassed by the weaker good? And, most importantly, how will the world face the loss of a hero?

Harry goes to the barren land of... Canada! Along the way he meets Doris-erm, Stockwell Day, Avril Lavigne and... Mike from Canmore! But why is everyone so mad at him?

"I do not know why he turns to me. Surely he knows that I can do nothing to help him. We are both too far gone."``With the only woman he ever loved lying lifeless in his arms and his one-time enemy dying at his side, Draco Malfoy reflects. D/G, Draco's POV.

‘I never had a childhood of my own, so sometimes I just sit back and admire his.’ The Dark Lord watches over the one he’s marked.

Dreams do not come easily. They cost us always, sometimes dearly. And the things that matter most to us are always priceless. It is impossible to put a tangible value on them. After the "final battle," Hermione is forced to accept what the victory cost them... in this case, one very special life. One shot.

The events after reading the Sunday Prophet article about Voldemort’s return in the hospital wing through Hermione’s eyes. Listen as she speaks of the shadow in Harry’s eyes and her own thoughts about the ... loss of Sirius and her fears of the war to come.

The War has been won, but there have been many casualties. One stands along and reflects on his true lost.

When I look at Harry I see so much, I see James and Lily, I see Dumbledore, I see Tonks, I see Remus and I even see a little bit of me. I see all that I could have given him and never did. I see all that Lily and James meant to give him and were never able to. I see someone worth fighting for.

I know the war is over. I know my wife is dead. Now what?

Sirius didn't get that newspaper from Fudge and never broke out of prison. The summer after his uneventful third year in Hogwarts, Harry receives a letter from the Ministry that turns his world up-side-down. He has a godfather?