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"I can still see his face, clear green eyes confused. His hair, black and sweat matted. His skin bruised and bloody. I thought you cared, Draco. I thought you loved me. I thought you would never join the dark side. I trusted you, Draco. You betrayed me." ``Alone and afraid, Draco looks back over his life, and why he is taking the coward's way out..``(Rated for suicide)

This is a slightly twisted, odd, semi-dark-Harry fic.

Hit hard with his best friend's death, Remus Lupin must find a way to cope. With the appearance of an unexpected visitor, he finds it might just be a little easier than he thought.``(Just after OotP, slight implied S/R.)

I wrote this shortly before Christmas last year, inspired by Lord Voldemort's famous words: 'One, who I believe has left me forever. He will be killed, of course.' The Dark Lord has finally decided on the traitor's fate...

Alone in the house Madame Mercator, Daily Prophet astrologer, is uneasy. Her own horoscope has warned her that she might meet an old friend and now her crystal ball seems to be trying to tell her something....then there's a knock at the door!

"The portion of her clothing that is still intact is cold and sticky, and she isn't very comfortable sitting on the corridor floor. He's lying there, and she wishes he'd go away, but she can't seem to move and he doesn't seem willing to." (Warning: implied and non-romanticized/eroticized non-con. Darkest thing I've written--not part of any series.)

The boy turned and ran for the house, through the door to his mother. Caradoc Dearborn turned and Apparated with a sharp crack. He was never seen again.

Minerva McGonagall loves, and hates, sometimes the same people at the same time. A PG-rated look inside her head during OotP. How exactly was she feeling throughout the reign of Umbridge? A bit of implied het. There are spoilers for OotP.

The night before he becomes a Death Eater, Draco Malfoy reflects on Harry Potter and the friendship that never was.

I had always followed Lucius. This time would be no different, no matter how confused I might feel.

A Wizengamot trial for a wizard accused of being a Death Eater.

She has nothing save a weariness that rests on her shoulders from hours of work and little sleep, and a sour taste in the back of her mouth, a bitterness she has never tasted before. January - June 1997 in the life of Nymphadora Tonks.

In which Hermione has a bladder problem, Moaning Myrtle is moody, and Pansy Parkinson finally gets some respect.

“Amber will play with white in Lucius’ hair, and he will breathe and breathe in his faint perfume scent. If only he could recall the right turn…”

Severus reflects on love and betrayal.

'In the dim light of your wand, he looks like nothing more than a pathetic shadow of a man. Good, good... it will be so much fun to watch him crumble, to break him down to even less than he has already become, won't it, pretty Narcissa?' (Sirius/Narcissa)

A letter to never be sent to a man that no longer exists. "I have hated a lot of things in life... But the one thing that I hate the most, I found out what that was tonight."

One dark night, James get a surprise coming through his window. From there onwards, Sirius and Remus love each other, abuse each other and lose each other. Two wars, two letters, a long leather trench coat and fear and loathing in Camden Market.

Sometimes, for the good of others, you must give up everything. Including the thing that means the most to you. Including the person that means the most to you.````But walking away is the hardest part of all.````A bittersweet Remus/Lily fic. One shot.

"Though we are separated now, I know that he cries every night before he sleeps." Remus reconciles his own grief with Harry's.

Hermione thinks of all the things she remembers about Neville.

Some of Neville's life with the children -- or, as Luna called them, the Tadpoles. Neville/Luna, songfic.

Same words unspoken, same dream lost. A bitter story of what might have been...A surreal piece of H/D slash.

Hermione, at seventeen, is eager to graduate and seek her fortune in the outside world now. Hogwarts has become claustrophbic and restrictive to her. However, a Christmas holiday and London that leads to an unexpected romance with a muggle has the young magician questioning the validity of her own powers. If that isn't enough to distract our heroine, a dark magician from the shadowy fortress of Pendragon Thoth, high above the Rhine, has become aware of Hermione's infatuation and her desire to leave Hogwarts.

Severus reflects on why he is going over to the Dark side, and by the time he realizes it's the wrong decision, it's too late..One Shot!

Neville reflects on a cruel and heartbreaking attack at Hogwarts using the Imperius Curse on the students. How can he come to terms with what he did and what he lost that day when all he wants to do is die? And can Harry save his friend from the guilt that threatens to consume him before it's too late? A Neville/Lavender fic.

The final battle has been won and life has gone back to normal for humanity... but not for a certain two friends.

A Hogsmeade trip is coming up and Hagrid, though extremely nervous, asks a Gryffindor girl if she would like to be his date.

A few years after Hogwarts, and a while after the war has ended, Draco looks back on the chance he never took with Harry. And looks forward to a new opportunity.

[Femslash] Pansy doesn't cry. She's a Slytherin, that's why. Can a confession from Hermione change her opinions?

Ginny Weasley, twenty-two years of age, terminally single, and a common customer of the Leaky Cauldron! This is what has become of the Weasley family’s pride and joy? Then something happens that makes her wake up--but will it be enough to make her change?

"I close my eyes and try to drown out their voices. And then Dumbledore’s words are coming back to me again.````"Draco Malfoy is dead." ````And I am crying.````I haven’t cried like this since my first year. Since I found out the truth about Tom. And it is horrible. I had almost forgotten how much. "

Sometimes there are no second chances.

Everyone is coming back after the holiday. Everybody knows what happened to Hermione, but nobody's willing to forgive her for it.

Maybe being a superhero isn't all that its cracked up to be. sometimes maybe, the hero, the richest person in the world, and the most popular person in school have bad days. its not easy.

A reason to live, to love, to hope - everyone has to have one.

Hermione is jolted back into reality by memories from the past. She remembers her pain of losing her love, but why is it she can still hear him?

Remus never understood what love meant. Finding out that his parents hadn't wanted him in the first place, doesn't help one bit.

Tragic, sad, beautiful. That was their love story.

The Triwizard Tournament is over. Voldemort is back. Terror and fright is everywhere. You don't know who to trust or who you can turn to. In times like that, often a journal is the only place you can turn to. Harry discusses his pain, his anguish, his guilt. A songfic to Cat Stevens's "Oh, Very Young".

"Just tell me I was not worthy of even one chance, no matter how much I touched you, no matter how many marks of love I left on your body." Draco Malfoy has never been heartbroken before.

Who has been leaving candy at the white tomb? Minerva stumbles upon the solution to a mystery. Can she bring a lost soul home? A response to the Third Floor Corridor Fanfiction #3 challenge: "Write about something that either occurs in or starts in the staff room, between staff members or grown up characters." Takes place five years after HBP. ONE-SHOT. [rated PG-13 just to be safe]

Harry's sixteenth birthday is approaching. He receives a fantastic gift that leads him to believe the one thing he wants more than anything else in the world is true!

Ron's dying. Hermione's very sad. Warning: much angst!

Every first year Hogwarts student learns about potions and spells, but there are a few things that are not on the curriculum. Muggle born Eleanor Howard comes to Hogwarts with more than her trunk, diary, and a wand. She suffers from a seemingly innocent ailment in her eyes, but her parents and new teachers refuse to discuss it with her. How can the magical world cope with a disability that cannot be mended with a spell or potion? Set in the era of Voldemorts first rise to power when tolerance and acceptance were not appreciated.

Draco released Hermione from her captivity. Now it's time for her to return the favour. DM/HG

A simple gift can lead to the restoration of many things. Short one-shot.

And then, there’s Chang. The biggest cliché of all. Intelligent, pretty, untouchable widow, who’s gone out with every noble, chivalric guy you can possibly think of. So trust fate to throw her my way.

All Harry has left are the old memories of how it used to be. But should he give up on Draco? (D/H Slash)

"Quietly she stepped back on the platform and pushed her robe’s hood back. She looked up to the heavens, eyes soon fixing on one of the stars. It took Amelia a moment or two to grasp the meaning of this. The Blacks were a family of stargazers. Almost every one of their children was named after a star or a constellation. Before Amelia could remember which one of the cold, shining light-points had to be Bellatrix, Mrs. Lestrange turned around to the fortress." – New Year's Day 1982: Barty Crouch and the Lestranges are taken to Azkaban. What (and who) is on Lord Voldemort's most loyal servant's mind during her last hours in freedom?

Sequel to Knowing Too Much: There are differences between listening and hearing... killer differences...

Harry is not exactly looking forward to showing Sirius his Animagus form. Will these two men, unused to sharing their feelings with others, be able to open up to each other, or will their relationship be damaged permanently?

Everyone thinks of Severus Snape as a cold, ruthless man. What made him that way? And why does one particular night of the year break all his carefully cultivated control? Read this one-shot fic about your favorite love to hate character to find out!

How long until he is forgiven?

Ron is dead. Hermione needs someone to keep her world spinning and keep her feet on the ground.

A Terence/Penelope moment. During their last night at Hogwarts, Penelope Clearwater sits with her boyfriend in the Three Broomsticks. Over their quiet evening, they are joined by their other classmates who offer a final goodbye before entering the world as legal-aged wizards. A light look at friendship through the houses.

In the beginning and after the end, things are never what they seem. (H/D)

Severus loves Lily. Lily loves Severus and James. James loves Lily. Sirius is running around like a chicken with its head cut off. Peter is just trying to help. Sirius, and later James catch Lily and Severus together.

Here lies Draco Malfoy, hair gel extraordinaire and beloved git. Draco's life conclusion...

Part one of "The Wedding Series" Remus reflects on his life after Sirius, or does he?

What if Hagrid had not found Harry on his eleventh birthday. AU Darkfic``Warning: Adult themes, Deathfic

During the Death Eater trials of the late '70s and early '80s, the word 'Slytherin' is practically synonymous with evil. Here, Rita Skeeter ponders the label she can't escape, even years after she's left Hogwarts.

"During moments like these, I would reach out and touch his hand. The palm of my hand is pressed against his cold dry skin of his. Our fingers will entwine..." Harry/Ron slash

Sometimes, you have to rip yourself away. Tom/Draco. Title from Browning.

A hundred years or so ago, a wizard rose. His name was Voldemort. I did not know him, nor did I care to. Instead, I knew those whose lives he touched. They are long gone now, and soon, I will join them as well. But before then, there is a story left to tell. ``~And so begins the story that spans two generations and changes everyone’s lives. The story that no one dared speak.

Ginny hates Slytherins in general. But after a chance observation in the libary, she's narrowed her hatred to just one of them. After all, all the other Slytherins were trying to do is rid themselves of a coward. This is not your typical Draco fic. Can Ginny find it in herself to forgive a Slytherin for doing nothing?

It has been fifteen years since that terrible day at the Department of Mysteries, and Harry has realised he finally has to let go of the past. What he hadn't counted on was that sometimes the past doesn't want to be let go...

A year has passed, but nothing has changed.

I'm tired. Tired of pretending that I am someone that I'm not. Pretending that I don't care, I do. Pretending that these scars don't exist, they do. They were given to me by Father.````Why, Father? Why do you shun me when I strive for your praise? Why do you scar me when I only want to please you? Why? There is nothing more I can do. I have fought. I have tried to hide the pain, but they still hurt. No matter how hard I try to hide it from prying eyes, deep down; I hurt.

Can I kill Voldemort? What makes a Dark wizard? Can I win the war without becoming Dark myself?

Remus reflects on his feelings and Sirius' death, and comes to terms with it. ``--``Why didn't I just tell you?``It's too late now. ``I had the chance!``And you didn't take it.

His name was Blaise Zabini, and he shared her love of knowledge. She took his hand and descended into impartiality.

Once you've won, what now? In the silence before the celebration begins, the hero reflects on his enemy. Implied Lucius/Draco

This is the sequal to Walking in Memphis dealing with the events leading up to Hermione's emigration to Memphis, and revealing why she left Harry. So its a prequel within a sequel...``"Prophecies are tricky things. They presume to tell you everything when in fact they tell you nothing, especially when you receive it in fragments in the first place."

A songfic to "Numb" by Linkin Park. Draco has to make a crucial decision that has the potential to change his whole life. Will he make the right choice?

As storm clouds gather overhead, Remus Lupin at last opens up his solitary life. He reminisces about the life and death of Sirius Black, and tries to come to terms with the grief he shares with Harry Potter.

Neither promises nor lies can save Bellatrix now.

I am not ashamed. Slash. Angst. You never really knew him.

On a winter's night, two survivors come together. One has spent his life forgetting while the other desperately wants to remember.

Neither of them ever counted on not being able to forget. Draco/Ginny oneshot

Ginny's dying moments, in Harry's arms (not a H/G ship though.) Songfic with lyrics from "Les Miserables"

Ginny Weasley seems like a happy little girl who has recovered fully from her experience with the dark side... But all is NOT as it seems. Draco Malfoy feels alone...

Ginny was wrong when she thought she was free of Tom when Harry destroyed the diary. Tom tries to take control of her at night and it gets harder and harder to resist as he tried to make her destroy everything she loves.

After the events of the Order of the Phoenix, Draco Malfoy returns home to discover that his father has left him an unexpected gift.

What would it be like if Harry lost his one true love and then married someone else? Find out as the one he married tells the tale of what it was like...

I hate the way I’ve changed because of you, becoming barely an imprint of the man I was destined to be. Slash, set post-Hogwarts.

After the war, Harry develops an unhealthy obsession. Harry/?

All her life, she had cried out for him when she woke up, alone and afraid, from a horrific nightmare. And all her life, it was he who had helped her. But what's a father to do when he no longer has the power to make his little girl's nightmares all better?

After the finale of Chamber of Secrets, Lucius Malfoy tells us his thoughts on being "evil," while drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. Some politics and philosophy, and a very warped sense of right and wrong. Not your usual Lucius fanfiction…then again, is there such a thing?

Narcissa Malfoy has always loved perfection... (Post OotP)

Harry Potter ponders his life.

First and foremost, a story of Draco and all the grey areas of Evil. Secondarily, within this story you will find: what the Malfoy Manor is REALLY like, eventual snogging with a certain Granger, insight into Slytherins, an unravelling Lucius, a heart-broken Harry, a tantrum-throwing Ron, a barely-softened Snape, and as canon of a Draco as I can manage.

In the aftermath of the incident at the Ministry, the members of the Order return to Grimmauld Place for the first time. While sorting through Sirius's things, Remus suddenly hears a familiar voice coming from a certain, all-too-familiar mirror...

A fifteen year old Severus returns to his ancestral home to carry out one final task.

Post-war ficlet. Grief has a funny way of lingering, regardless of acceptance or denial.

Death finds its way onto the battlefield. Two boys lie dying; who will death choose? Or will one choose death?

Hermione has a reason for her quest for knowledge. One most people can't even begin to guess. Not even Harry and Ron know that she hasn't always been Hermione Granger. She was once Samantha Walker....``One-shot on Hermione's past and the reason she is always in search of more knowledge. AU?

Peter Pettigrew has finally been caught, and found guilty of his crime of betraying James and Lily Potter. As he sits alone in Azkaban, he reminisces on his life and the choices he made.

Parvati has some news that Padma finds disturbing (Parvati/Ron, unrequited Padma/Ron)