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"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)

Draco talks about his life and about how his father treated him. He really dislikes his father and will never forgive him for what he did to him. Songfic to Metalica's The Unforgiven.

It is the mid-1980s, and Alastor Moody has just lost his leg, his eye, and half his face. He is not the only one who has been scarred by the experience, however. There is another who has yet to come to terms with Alastor's loss: his dearest friend, Minerva McGonagall. Minerva is one of the strongest witches in the wizarding world, but perhaps there are fears that even Gryffindor bravery cannot conquer. And though Alastor and Minerva both have the hearts of lions, some pain may still be too much to bear.

SS-Lily. Why did Snape turn away from Voldemort? What happened at Godrick's Hollow? Why does Snape protect Harry? Snape sometimes seems not quite sane and I wondered if that were the case. Not a happy bunny.

She sees his face and cringes in disgust; she hates him. But she loves him all the same...or does she? She may be his wife but she does not belive she could ever love this man.

Severus sits in the dark wallowing in remorse until a certain someone arrives and shows him that world isn't all that bad. SS/GW.

Theres a girl in my mirror``I wonder who she is``Sometimes I think I know her``Sometimes I really wish I did

An Auror returns from the battlefield. Tonks/Ginny femslash.

Hermione can't cope anymore, she loves Severus but does she love him enough to carry on like this?

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.

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.

After the war is over, Hermione writes a letter.

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.

"Are you shocked to learn that I feel I share the blame for his death? If I had not pushed him so hard, if I had taken pride in his loyalty and his sense of fair play, that sense of loyalty - to me, and I know how little I deserve it - would never have driven him to become a school champion." A Slytherin father mourns the Hufflepuff son he never understood.

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.

"'Draco...' Ginny whispered. She moved over to him. She was shining in her white, long dress with drops of blood on. She was so gorgeous. So beautiful. She was like an angel of death."

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).

Because everything has to depend upon something.

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

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.

Telling tales to stay execution. It’s not easy being Malfoy. It’s not easy being Draco, either.