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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.

Ron goes to Harry's house to forgive him for something that happened about a month ago. Harry can't take it. And then neither can Ron. Two years later, neither can Ginny. Rated PG-13 for mild violence, no language. Would actually rate PG-10. But there's no such thing!

Growing up a Malfoy. I wanted to explore Draco Malfoy's character; this story doesn't have much of a point...

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.

A slightly OOC Ginny confesses her love to a delighted Harry Potter. A very short one-shot that came to me all at once.

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.

Blaise Zabini - the male one - well known for beating before asking. This is is childhood, before he befriended Draco Malfoy and fell in hopelessly in love with the same girl as him, before he attended Hogwarts - before he got violent.

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.

Songfic: 3 Doors Down's Here without you. Draco misses Harry and dreams about him every night. H/D POST-HOGWARTS

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

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?

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.

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)

Lies, told in the heat of the moment. Love, only found in an illusion. Death, and then ærist. [Tom/Ginny, Ginny/Hermione, darkfic, film noir, femslash]

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

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*

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

"The droplets cascade down his face like rain water tears, as he remains, unmoving, fingers clasped tightly around the window ledge." A short Vignette, Draco/Harry, with a little Draco/Ron, mostly Draco-centric. Detention with Snape. R for non-explicit slash, extremely mild violenceand thoughts that aren't all about rainbows and daisies. Reviews greatly appreciated.

"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?

Hermione Granger's POV on the mess that has become her life. Songfic to 'Colours of the Wind' from Pochahontas, ties in with 'Family Portrait', 'Weird', and 'Blame it on the Weatherman'.