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Harry's life has been destroyed and the chances that he will ever heal are against all odds. Draco has his own plans. Post-war.

Ever thought that Severus and Hermione are very similar? Well, this is an AU fic, assuming that Hermione's mum Catherine is actually a witch, and went to school with Severus. They become staunch friends and later more than just friends. But are they fated to be together? How come Catherine has to live pretending to be a dentist (of all things)? All is told, in 'Of Times that are past'.

Fire burns Harry. Do you know what you're doing?

The annual Christmas celebration at the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black. Lucius/Sirius written for the slash_challenge Secret Santa Exchange.

The war is on in earnest. Sirius and Remus have learned not to trust anyone--not even each other. One cold November night in 1980, Snape arrives with a visitor and Sirius finds comfortable certainties shaken. (Sirius/Regulus pre-slash AU).

Everyone knows Harry’s feeling sad after the loss of Sirius, so Arthur tries to cheer him up by taking him to the movies. As with most of Arthur’s good intentions, it doesn’t go as smoothly as planned. Why does the king look so familiar, and how do Madam Rosmerta and Lucius Malfoy fit in the picture? Includes popcorn, dragons and someone named Jason Isaacs.

She has denied her happieness, but the love is forever. (S/B)

It's not easy being Severus Snape. Picked on, invisible to the girl he fancies, and a loner, getting through seven years at Hogwarts is no easy task. But the winds of change are in the air, and with one fateful decision Severus will change not only the course of his own life, but the lives of the entire wizarding world as well.

The world, as viewed by a victim of the Death Eaters

A question from the least likely person she thought possible makes Hermione contemplate on her relationship with Ron, and why he left her the way he did. Songfic to the U2 song of the same name.

She sat alone in her sanctuary as she had so many nights before. A knock at the door alerted her to some unexpected visitors...

Four chapters...four Slytherins, they don't have their own names, they don't have self-image, they don't have their own morals, all they have are the wars of their fathers. This is Draco...

Sixteen-year-old Sirius Black returns home for Christmas after the infamous Whomping Willow Prank, and realises that the family he has is not the one that he wants to belong to any more. An outtake from From Ashes, but it can be read alone.

"Every piece of matter and antimatter will break under a critical pressure." The Trio's critical pressure occurs when Harry Potter rejects Ron Weasley's affections and finds solace himself in the arms of one Hermione Granger. A different look at the love triangle that exists between the Trio. Hermione-Harry and one-sided Ron-Harry.

The final Christmas prior to Harry Potter's birth veils a tense aura over the entire wizarding world. Darkness is spread over the wide realm of magical creatures as elves crumble away from wizard kind. The languishing urge for freedom and revenge enters the magical minds of house-elves. Service to households and schools are abolished by wizarding law, and secret-dwelling headquarters are incinerated. Weak as house-elves may physically be, the defiant nature of one hero develops the firmness of elf mentality and courage. The falling snow dissipates as a heated conflict erupts between house-elves and the society of wizard kind.

Harry finally has to come to terms with his feelings for Ginny after he defeats Voldemort. Bus is she ready to accept them? Will she ever be ready, or is Ginny too haunted by her own past? H/G angst.

AU: Harry and Ron visit the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's office to tell him where the Chamber of Secrets is. Everything Gilderoy Lockhart writes about himself is actually true.

After the war is over, Hermione writes a letter.

It's 1979 and Bellatrix waits for Regulus.

Written in Ginny's POV. She retells some of the more humourous aspects of the year preceding the fall of Voldie. A/U.

Coda: (noun) In music, it is a few measures past the intentional ending of a composition that brings it to a formal close.

Ginny returns fifty years into the past and meets Tom Riddle. It is hate at first sight. But can things change? Gin and Tonic pairing.

This is the journal or diary of Sirius Black and Nessa Williams. Sirius is friends with James and Nessa is friends with Lily. Find out what they think about the others in their groups, also their point of view. Goes with The Diary within James Potter and Lily Evans.

In which Draco is obsessed but won't admit it and everything is slowly sliding in a direction he'd rather not think about. H/D slash.

His eyes narrowed. So this is how she wanted to play, eh? Well, he was up for a bit of rough-and-tumble. He could give as good as he took and Draco Malfoy never complained. Ever.

Sirius has a problem he's not sure he wants gotten rid of.

Sirius is dead and everyone misses him...especially Remus. In the dark, rambling old house where Sirius was never happy when he lived, Tonks watches him, hurting as well, wanting to share his pain. She knows about the past that Sirius and Remus have shared and is torn between letting Remus have that past and creating a future with him.

This isn’t a story about right and wrong, about good versus evil. This is a story about convictions, and the places they take you should you adhere to them. It’s a story about the things that change you and how they do – and why who you are goes far beyond the things you do.

When your best friend never notices you the way you want. When he goes for the one person you can't stand. What do you do? Companion piece with Don't You Know and I Always Knew.

Ok, so it´s before Harry Potter´s sixth year at Hogwarts and he finds himself in another place where he can be himself. Will he go back to Hogwarts?

Draco hates his life. He has been writing in his diary for a while now; all his dark and secret thoughts, the thoughts he doesn’t want anyone else knowing. One night he realises that he no longer wants to live. What will happen when Harry finds Draco's diary on his bed? Will he save the young Slytherin, or let him die? What are their feelings regarding one another? Slash. DracoHarry.

Reflections on a death of a true brother, feelings of hatred, love, saddness, angst, suicide, longing, grief, and pain all in a letter that tells about a tragic event... *OotP Spoilers*

Join the students of Hogwarts as some embark on a journey to be the ultimate winner of the Muggle reality show "The Challenge." Who will stand alone in the end and win the million Galleons?

He privately does not consider himself a true Slytherin anymore, and he doubts the others would consider him a Slytherin either if they found out about the thoughts and feelings he has been having .... (D/HR)

Following Harry and Cho's fight on Valentine's Day, and further problems, Cho reflects on their relationship.

Xavier Parkes is just testing his latest technomagical invention, a Time Viewer that can show any event at any point in time. When he decides to watch Harry Potter's final defeat of Voldemort, he discovers that Harry did not defeat Voldemort single-handed, as is told in the history books.

Written for the "What's your OTP" 2006 Valentine's Day challenge. Eloise Midgen worships Petunia Dursley. Personally, I found this an odd topic to write on...

Sometimes, even Harry Potter needs to be shown that he doesn't always have to do things alone. Takes place immediately after HBP.

Narcissa is worried for Bellatrix. She's also furious, because Bellatrix, a recent escapee from Azkaban, is currently having tea with her, as if it were a normal occurrence. And Narcissa isn't sure she can have that.

Remus Lupin doesn't believe in fate, just happenstance. (Slash: Sirius/Remus)

Remus, his rags and his riches.

"If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back... that he really was..." ~Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, pg. 808~ What if Sirius wasn't dead and could hear Harry calling for him? What if there were things he wanted to tell him... things that never got said?

Neville's parents have always been a particularly soft spot with him, but he's finally ready for them to meet someone from school--his girlfriend Luna. Who knows, maybe she'll understand them a little better than he does.

Sequal to Dear Harry. Draco's been getting headaches lately as he's tried to remember his past, but what happens when a dream finally sparks his mind?

Lose one protégé, and then it’s time to find another. Draco/Pansy, Bellatrix (Pansy)/Rodolphus, Voldemort/Pansy.

Thinking is vastly overrated. Denial is divine. Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, post-OoTP.

Libby has spent thirty years working in lycanthropology. Never, in all that time, did she expect one of the people she's helped to come and thank her, nor that they would ask to join the team... even less that it would be the one person she set out to help.

Everyone knows the story of the Four Founders of Hogwarts; the tales of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin are legendary. But did everything happen in the same way that it has always been told? Did Salazar Slytherin leave strictly because of differences concerning the purity of blood? Did friendships suffer and fail because of arguments concerning the running and ruling of Hogwarts? Or was there another reason? Could the story of a romantic relationship between two of the four friends have been lost to time? And did such an event cause more damage to the school than the beliefs in blood?

Hermione has had enough, but it's not over.

It is Ginny's last year at Hogwarts and Harry has gone missing.

The tragic fall of one boy becomes the burden of Harry Potter. Follow him on a journey of betrayal and heartbreak into the very heart of the darkness that threatens his world, as he seeks for the answer of what makes a monster and what makes a man.

The night before December's full moon at Twelve Grimmauld Place. A continuation of sorts, from "This Is What We Do."

Written for the Second Gen Ficathon. My assignment, from lostlikealice, was Trio-era. Parvati and Lavender (and anyone else) after the end of Lavender/Ron.

A simple game of tag turns into something more. The Waltz from Harry and Ginny's POV.

Jet hosts ChatBack, a talk show. On oday's episode, the Malfoys discuss their problems.

I know you can’t hear me. I know you think I’ve left you hanging. But, I’m still here. I'll always be. Harry might not have expected a response when he told Sirius what he felt in A Rush Of Blood To The Head, but there is one anyway. Read what Sirius desperately wants his godson to remember. Based on 'Amsterdam' by Coldplay.

What do the eyes of a dragon hold? Mystery? Self-doubt? Longing? Hope? But whatever the price, Harry will find out. HD slash

"Feh, never thought he could get more corny than that time he gave me a rubber duck for my birthday. I ask you, what is the point of a duck made of rubber? “I just want to see you bathe with it,” he said. So I did and enjoyed his grin while he watched me bathe with a floating duck in the water." Harry/Draco slash.

"When you say 'Sirius' are you talking about Stubby Boardman?"

"I don’t know what year it is now, or what month or what day and frankly I couldn’t even care if I tried. Time doesn’t matter to me now. I have no appointments to rush to. No where to go. I have only my obsession, my lust, hate and desire to snap her neck in two.”

The Leavers Ball of the 1971-1972 Hogwarts year.

Mr Ron Worthing is in love with Lady Granger, Harry’s Cousin. Mr Harry Potter is in love with Ginny Weasley, Ron’s ward. Both girls are in love with Frank Worthing. But who exactly is Frank?``A parody of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ Sit back and enjoy the laughs, the romance and the mix-ups that is ‘The Importance of Being… Frank.’

What would you do if you had powers more extreme than any other witch or wizard and Lord Voldemort was holding you hostage for it? Why not get rescued by Harry Potter, go to Hogwarts and fall in love along the way!

Harry is feeling more and more isolated from his friends, which is begining to suit him just fine. A guardian angel tries to right his path.

Former Hogwarts students think back to their school days while they are now in the midst of a war. Dialogue is lyrics from a filk of Avenue Q's "I Wish I Could Go Back to College".

His eyes might be the windows to a man's soul, but his words can be the doorway, unlocked for the one person allowed to walk through. The quill is mightier than the veil.

The tale of Bob, the Ministry worker with the fire-breathing chicken, and how he got that chicken in a box.

Stan didn't like Azkaban one bit. (Stan, Lucius/Narcissa)

"I'm not stupid, you know. I knew, even from the beginning, that going out with her would result in heartbreak for myself. Funny, the things you do when you're in love." Dean Thomas reflects on what it was like to date Ginny Weasley.

Kyria Evangeline is lost. Harry, Ron and Hermione are off fighting Voldemort, her parents are dead and she's forbidden to do magic. Draco Malfoy is the Dark Lord's best man. He thinks "Rea" is a filthy halfbreed, capturing her as his slave until a mysterious letter arrives, changing everything...

The Fates have chosen...Judgement Day is near, Ragnarok is on our doorstep. Modern magic is no longer enough to win the war - an ancient power has reawakened and the deities have chosen sides. A tale of loyalty, of devotion and of love.

By the end of Order of the Phoenix, Harry's world was rocked once more. His godfather, Sirius Black, has slipped through a veil in the Department of Mysteries, and is presumed dead. Lord Voldemort has made his presence felt in such a way that even Minister Fudge can no longer deny his return.````Now, a new school year is beginning, bringing new danger and mystery. Creatures, described as 'demonic' have been spotted throughout the wizarding world, striking fear into many, yet striking only directly at Voldemort.````How will Harry handle a new year without his godfather? What are these creatures, and whose side are they really on? And just who is Cat Black?

Having to keep their relationship a secret isn't as easy as Remus thought it would be. What happens when he starts to get jealous? (Remus and Hermione with slight Ron/Hermione)

Mark Evans's first class at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry is History of Magic. They have a special guest instructor.

There's a great deal that wants doing in the first hours after the Great Victory. Perhaps the most important thing, at the end of the day, is the work of the Magical War Graves Commission.

Death really does turn out be the next great adventure for Albus Dumbledore. Maybe not quite the one he envisioned, but he had to admit that it was probably his own fault.

Well, what do YOU think would happen if Hermione fell out of a window?

Sirius Black has, what some might call, a bad reputation with women. Although deserved, it is somewhat dated. After twelve years in Azkaban and two more in hiding, Kate O'Neill wonders if he still has that "Old Black Magic". Has Sirius lost his touch or is it like the saying, "Once you learn, you never forget"?

Professor Lily Evans has a secret. His name is Harry, and she has been hiding him on the topmost floor of Hogwarts school for nearly seven years, without company, without sunshine. Nearly seven years and finally, the secret is out.

Rose Weasley embarks on her first year at Hogwarts...but all she really wants to do is play one of the most wonderful sports ever invented: Quidditch. Too bad life gets in the way in the form of school stress, family spats and a seeker named Scorpius.

"...he'd even paid for her newest Manolo Blahniks, a snazzy little custom-made pair of snakeskin slingbacks that made her legs look absolutely to die for. Ginny liked that particular pun." (Note: these are not the same versions of Ginny, Harry, and Draco as in my Schnoogle fic, "Ginny Weasley and the Heirs of Darkness.") D/G/H darkfic

With Harry wrapped up in his emotions and a mystery, someone has to step up and protect Ginny... G/N.

Lupin's had enough of magic.

Percy makes a decision that affects his life forever.

Sequel to Valentine. The stage of grief after denial is anger.

Harry is mysteriously transported away from Hogwarts, and when he returns, who else is there but Lord Voldy himself! Can Harry beat him once and for all, or is the world destined to tooth decay forever? written pre-HBP

Hermione muses during a detention she had earned entirely because of Ron Weasley.

Draco has a mysterious benefactor at the moment of his greatest need, but who?...and most importantly...why? (Post OotP; H/D pre-slash)

"He was right. She had experienced lust. Hermione lifted her chin and half-smiled at Snape. Her left eyebrow was raised, challenging Snape. See it. Look into my mind and see what I am showing you. You want to see how I lust? Look and see for yourself. "

SEQUEL TO "INTERRUPTIONS". Sirius comes to "lie low at Lupin's" but not everyone is very happy about it. Arguments and awkward dinner ensues, all with a good helping of stewed plums and ice cream.

The final battle ensues, who will survive, who will be left behind? Based on the song Southampton Dock by Pink Floyd.

Side Story to "Bones to Bones". Justin Finch-Fletchley goes home for Christmas, and is given cause to reflect on what his entrance to the Wizarding World has cost him, and given him.

Even house-elves get the blues. This song-fic takes place after the kids have graduated and moved away, taking Dobby with them. Winky is missing him. Song is property of Tori Amos, from the album "Under the Pink."

Draco Malfoy was raised with a Death Eater Legacy. He knew when he reached Hogwarts he would be sorted into Slytherin. He also knew he would become a Death Eater, like his father before him. When the Dark Lord visits Malfoy Manor shortly after Lucius Malfoy's arrest, Draco realizes that, due to family legacy, he's in deeper than he bargained for.

A journal is found first by Seamus Finnegan. He feels the urge to write in it, all about his feelings for his crush...the one that he's kept secret for a very long time. Throughout the school year, the journal gets passed around to more and more people, and they all write their deepest thoughts within it...until one person lets the pages, the wings of the journal fly, towards each admirer's crush. Read on to see what happens.

Karaoke night in Hogsmeade.

Voldemort wishes to summon Slytherin from the past, and when he does so a twist occurs that blows the story into another dimension. Cho reveals to Harry a secret, and Harry talks to Lupin about his parents.

Remus Lupin's first day at Hogwarts, what house will he be in? How did he meet the rest of the Marauders?

Most of the accounts ascribed her more valiance than she felt, and they put many more words – noble words – in her mouth than she remembered speaking.

Many years after the War, Harry is chivvied into seeking out the last of the elder Potters, with some unlikely companions. Of course, the Fates have inventive ways of buggering up his life, particularly on mysterious Dartmoor.