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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?

As if having a psycho constantly plotting his death isn't enough, Harry has to go through the daily struggles known to all teenagers. Girls, pimples, studies-does it never end?

First in a series of three. A short, one chapter story on the life of Dudley and how he's changed. Set after Hogwarts.

"There are certain constants at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: History of Magic is boring, Dumbledore is eccentric and Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy will fight." But will this always be the case.

When a plot to raise infants to be Death Eaters goes awry with the disappearance of Voldemort, the Malfoys find themselves taking care of two children: Draco and a boy who Voldemort stole from a family and placed into their care. This little boy isn’t just a regular child, though. He is a Weasley. Too afraid of being sent to Azkaban for kidnapping and also too afraid that Voldemort will return and punish them for not following his orders, they decide to keep Ronald Weasley and raise him as Ronaldus Malfoy, the fraternal twin of Draco. Now Ron and Draco are headed for Hogwarts. Will anyone recognize Ron as a Weasley? Will he learn the truth of his identity? And how will he fit into Harry Potter’s story if he hates him with a passion?

You see it's good for nothing (good for nothing), a close look at something (so close). It's too much of not enough.

Harry stumbles across Draco in the Prefects bathroom, leading to an encounter that changes how he thinks and feels about Draco, life, and love.

"...and in the end...the love you make...is equal to the love you make..."``--The Beatles

Boys and spectacles. Harry/Percy.

Harry isn't the same person after the Battle of The Department of Mysteries. He discovers that it isn't just his life that's changed, but his expectations of it and his assumptions about others.

Oh no! It can't be true. It's--it's another one! Another diary!

"Harry Potter had asked special permission to Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to leave the castle one evening. It had been a month since the school year had started, and Dumbledore had not been very surprised by his request. He had actually thought that Harry would come to him sooner."

Harry takes out Sirius' mirror one last time.

An unconventional view of chapter 28 in OotP from Snape's point of view - an attempt to understand his motivation for stopping the Occlumency lessons.

All the complications of Harry's life mix together into one extremely weird dream to show just how messed up he has become.

Harry and Ron have just graduated from Hogwarts, and Harry moves into the Burrow. It doesn't take long for them to realize they need their own place.

He never knows what the next rainfall will bring, but Harry still waits for the day when he can finally let go... let go of everything he fears

The new year at Hogwarts continues with a Potions class. What will Professor Beeblebrox have in store?``Sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to Hogwarts; AU to OotP.

What exactly happened between Ginny and Harry when they left the room? This is a companion piece to "Verge".

We do what we must to get by.

It's a rock concert in the wizarding world! The Weird Sisters are playing a concert at the Quidditch World Cup Stadium, and Ron Weasley is making plans to go. He's bringing his best friends and his sister, of course, but he's also bringing his older marauder brothers. ``How weird and insane will the night be?

Someone thinks about choices.

When Harry resumes his Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape in sixth year he finds out he is not the only one having to deal with the pain of war. Sometimes the most humane and human thing to do is comfort the one your with. Could be seen as HP/SS if you look hard enough.

Sequel to The End of Innocence. On the long flight to America, Harry is scared and in pain inside. In anguish, he tells his thoughts to the only person on the flight he can tell and not be overheard-his diary.

Zacharias wants a teacher. Harry doesn't think its such a good idea. Some good old fashioned teenage boy slash with a helping of Defence Association private lessons and Quidditch.

One special little boy takes his pain and invents a world of magic and mystery, but all dreams end. Everyone has to wake up sometime. One little girl is all it takes.

When Lucius sets Draco an impossible deadline, he turns to the Gryffindors for help. But solving his dilemna has consequences he could never have forseen.

Draco Malfoy's stomach suddenly harbours fluttery insects, and with violin music in the background he hunts for the one responsible...``Featuring a Draco in denial, possible love for Filch and lots of NOT's for Malfoys.

Two bored boys. What happens after… well let's just say I’m not (wholly) responsible.

"The day her mother died, the sky had been a bright cheerful blue." Luna Lovegood throughout the years: how she struggles, fights, and eventually, heals.

A strange virus attacks Hogwarts and causes a peculiar epidemic. Severe oddness warning. Also, not nice to Harry!

A series of songfics set after GOF and before OoTP. In the first chapter Cho Chang reflects on life since the death of her boyfriend Cedric Diggory and the lessons it has taught her, the friends she has made. (uses In The End by Linkin Park)

Physical changes don't always mean psychological ones, and to become infatuated with the wrong person can have a huge price.

What are we without something to fight against? What is life if you have no purpose?

Round four in the Snowballs war! We have an update on Harry's snakes, more Weasley's into the fun, and oddities galore!

H/D Angst. It's all a waiting game, and everyone's practising.

In the aftermath of Dumbledore's tragic death, while waiting for Bill and Fleur's wedding, Ron Weasley takes some time to reflect - upon how Dumbledore's death has affected his friends, what the future holds for, but mostly he broods about the one he personally holds responsible: Draco Malfoy.

Hermione is worried about Harry's welfare.

In the world of Harry Potter, things never turn out well. If only his hopes weren't always so quickly shattered. AU, creature!fic, slash, and depictions of child abuse.

It is the summer before sixth year. Dumbledore is making a record of his reasoning on the significance of Tom Riddle’s diary, and how Voldemort can be destroyed.

When Severus Snape woke up from his traumatic encounter with Nagini, he found himself back at his favourite spot...his childhood playground.

Everyone says that there are no exceptions to the rules, but what if there was an exception? What if you couldn't go out until after the normal curfew and you had your own set of rules, just for yourself?

What was the reason for Harry Potter’s sudden willingness to serve the Dark Lord, at a time when his aid was most crucial to the side of the Light? Slash - Harry/Severus

In this parody, Harry Potter decides to venture into detective business and solve cases for all Hogwart students. Colin Creevey comes along, asking him to solve a case and the fun begins. What comes next will only be decided by the amazing and humorous brain of Harry Potter!

One last romp in the pre-OotP playground. Harry and Malfoy learn the possibility of hope, and how difficult the path to it threatens to be. Pre-slash.

During Harry Potter’s fifth year, Dumbledore sends him on a quest: to find an ancient race of shape shifters and restore them to their rightful place in the magical world. But Voldemort doesn’t plan to make it easy for him. He unleashes a horror, as old as time itself to stop Harry even if it means giving up his right to kill The-Boy-Who-Lived. Now Harry must run for his life while his nemesis plots to take over Hogwarts Castle while it’s hero is away, and all because of an age old prophecy that could mean the salvation of the magical and Muggle worlds or their enslavement under an evil greater than ever before. It’s going to be a busy year for Harry Potter.

Harry discovers a secret about Hogwarts that has been kept silent for centuries now. When strange and terrible things start happening throughout the wizarding world, Harry begins to suspect that this new knowledge is somehow connected. Now he has to find out everything he can about the history of this secret before its too late.

They say we need help. That there is still hope for us. But I know that to be a lie. There is no hope for us. We did what we had to do and we did it for them. Isn't that enough?

Set in the future. Harry is married with a child. But what would his family do when tragedy strikes and they have no clue as to what happened to him.

Indeed, Harry goes on a little night adventure… but he has made a mistake! Oh dear, what is wrong with the invisibility cloak! Silly humour.

Harry made his choice. Can he now live with it?

The ground was so inviting. It looked almost warm. Harry swore upon all that he loved, which wasn't much these days, that he could hear it whisper his name seductively. "Harry... come on, jump on off and embrace me... forget your troubles...."``Harry wants to jump. Will Draco let him?

Hermione laments how she could have saved Sirius Black.

Things aren't always what they appear, and even the golden boy can have a dark side. A song fic based on Two beds and a coffee machine by Savage Garden. Harry and Ginny's wedded life doesn't go as planned.

There's a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts, and how else does Harry handle it but fall in love with her. What could be more challenging?

With Harry Potter's seventh year in the magical world comes his most important quest, to destroy the remaining Horcruxes and ultimately, to fulfil the Prophecy. With Dumbledore gone, Harry, Ron and Hermione must remain strong if they are to succeed against Lord Voldemort, and Severus Snape must finally reveal his true allegiance.

Kaleo (HP) visits the world he once saved to fulfil a promise made half a decade ago however while some things never change, others do...

Roses are symbols of life and love. No matter what color they are.````H/D.

Everything changes when Ron does not sit with Harry on the train, leaving him to Neville and Draco Malfoy. This story follows Draco through his Hogwarts experience, so very different from the canon because of Harry's acceptance of his friendship.

Incredibly stupid, confectionary sacrilege, and an Evil Auction. Draco wears pink and prances. Lucius is in denial. Uncle Voldie needs money. What more can you ask for in a badfic?

Harry finds solace where he wound not have expected it. A bit of deepness written at a highly unholy hour in the morning.

Three years after the events of "Golden Snitch," the Snape-Potter household finds itself facing an unexpected challenge involving the next generation. Many of their comfortable assumptions are shaken, and the strength of their bonds tested. Will the safe nest they've built survive the winds of change?

Harry keeps on seeing someone right around the corner. Can he find out who they are and what they want before it's too late?

Harry had been sitting in silence for the better part of half an hour, pulling on the thread of the couch upon which he sat. He was feeling uncomfortable in this small room, unsure what it was that made him relent into coming here.

My name is Hermione Granger, and I'm here to clear up some misunderstandings about my life and my relationships with the people around me, including Draco "I Hate Mudbloods" Malfoy. I also want to let you all know that it isn't all that easy to be me.

Harry chooses to give up what he wants most in order to stop Draco from making a choice that he will regret. NOT slash. Implied D/Hr.

When Draco returned, after the summer of their fifth year, Harry knew something had changed. It was as if someone had switched on a light inside Draco in a world that was getting darker by the day.

Ginny muses on what it's like to live your life in someone else's shadow.

A sequel to my other one-shot: Death is Only the Beginning. Harry has fought the final battle, and stands in the carnage of said battle. He now reflects on many thoughts running through his young mind. See what comes of him in this tale of war.

Hello is normally a very nice thing to hear, but for Harry it just gets him locked in a closet. Lucky it was just a dream! How will Draco respond to Harry and his little nightmare?

The last battle is fought, and Ron is thinking back on the things that happend after Harry Potter died. Can he finally have Hermione, as he have wanted to for so many years? Will she even have him?

Sometimes you find just what you need under a Halloween moon.

"But the lonely man didn’t see it. He didn’t pay any attention to it, for his eyes were focused on the ground below. The ground covered in crimson blood and motionless bodies. He was focused on the battlefield where the fates of many had been decided during the night, a night he would never forget. A night that would always be remembered as the night when The-Boy-Who-Lived defeated the Dark Lord."

Harry's had it, and is ready to end it all. Can Hermione talk him down?

Draco relives the night of graduation. Harry is taken from his bed. When they meet again, the only word that suits the situation is pain.

Hermione has fallen for her best friend, the one person who can't seem to live for himself, never mind her. This short chaptered story follows her path from initial love to her final painful decision.

Harry, Ron and Hermione are celebrating the end of their N.E.W.T. exams in The Three Broomsticks, along with the rest of their year. The drinks are flowing and the fun commences with drinking games, emotional singing and friendly groping galore...

They say the truth will set you free... but do you want to be? They say that memories are the diary we all carry about with us... what a coincidence. They say that time flies... but in which direction? Part I of the Yesterday Sequence.

The War is over. Harry seeks to find meaning behind a sacrifice that was made, and Ginny helps to find that meaning. Afterwards, Harry changes his point of view about Ginny.

It's a tale of sex, crime, conspiracy and violence. No longer the Wizarding World's Golden Boy, Harry Potter is a disillusioned Auror, hiding a dark past. When a serial killer begins preying on London citizens and leaving a trail of macabre clues in their wake, Harry finds himself drawn into a web of deceit and betrayal that will force him to confront his secret past... or risk losing everything that he holds dear.

Funny how they all ended up together again.