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Even before he murdered his father and his grandparents, Tom Riddle had split his soul in more ways than one. For murder is not the only event that will break the heart.

In many ways one would consider Harry Potter victorious. He had conquered the dark Lord Voldemort and managed to live. He had put many of his Death Eaters in Azkaban. He drove away the greatly feared Dementors. He saved the world from a dark fate. However, Harry Potter did not see himself as some victorious hero. Blood stained his hands -- blood that would never wash away.

He heard someone approaching. He turned, smiling. He knew who it was. When he saw the outstretched arm pointed at him. holding a wand that had brought an untimely fate to so many wizards and witches, his smile faded.``"Draco."``"Harry."````Harry thought he'd finished the Dark Wizard reign of fear. He didn't know his lover was destined to continue it.

Lily makes a difficult choice that changes her life -- and death -- forever.

Post OotP...Harry begins to cope with the devastating loss.

You build your own Azkaban, and you let yourself out.

Snape knows better. Features: Occlumency, Pensieves, inevitable madness, and memories. SS/HP, in a very roundabout way.

Set a few months after HBP. The war is gaining momentum; Harry, Ron and Hermione are in training. On a standard reconnaissance mission, Harry stumbles upon one Death Eater that didn't quite make the cut. H/D.

Harry finds out about Draco's illness. What does he do about it? This is the sequel to 'I Had a Bad Day'.

This was written for greyangel through McTabby's Blame Each Other Challenge. Snape/Pomfrey. "A late night visit to the dungeons, untold secrets... He has to heal her... in more ways than one."

Ginny is persistent with Harry about her feelings when she finds out he may be leaving soon to fight Voldemort. And Harry surprises her and himself with his response. But then Harry and Ginny have to cope with Harry's perfect goodbye.... maybe forever.

One shot. Some years after the war, Draco, traumatised and alone, reaches out desperately for human contact.

"My name is Harry Potter. I have lived through war and fear, pain and grief. I have seen my best friends die in front of my eyes." Harry had nothing left in the world, save a desire to kill Voldemort. His thoughts before the battle.

It's New Years Eve, and Dean Thomas is alone, quite unwillingingly, by choice. Dean realizes a way to deal with the demons and dreams that haunt him, now that he's the last man standing. A post-Hogwarts fic that isn't horribly depressing.

Maybe it's love after all.

Lavender accompanies fiance Neville on one of his monthly visits to his parents at St. Mungo's.

Narcissa reflects on her life.

On a quiet day in Malfoy Manor, Narcissa watches Draco and remembers days spent in the company of the two men she has most strongly loved.

In the dark days before Halloween 1981, Sirius and Remus have allowed suspicion and mistrust to come between them.

No one understood. They all knew she had tried to help him in his battle and that she was devastated from his passing. It seemed ironic that the disease she despised so much would also take her life. Still, no one knew of her pain. No one knew of her guilt.

Harry's thoughts during his stay at the Dursleys' before sixth year!

This is my first song fic. It's about Harry and Hermione breaking up after a long relationship.

When a surprisingly strong-witted friend of Rowena Ravenclaw comes to visit her in the Hogwarts castle, she begins to brew up some unknown emotions: love, hatred, and disgust among the four friends. Her arrival means death and lust.

When Harry Potter was ten, he could see his life stretching out before him in a long, empty line.

Hermione Granger, pride of the Auror Department, is given the task to scry out the latest aspiring Dark Lord, who seems to be a very real threat, as he is hailed to be as powerful as the late Lord Voldemort...

Can you keep a secret? I suppose it matters little if you can. I am a marked man and my days are numbered, so it's only a matter of time before they come for me.

Forgetting is easy. It's the memories that are hard. Remus reflects on his life and his memories after Sirius' death.

Everyone's lives are put in jeopardy when a secret revealed causes identity confusion and a tangle of assassins after the Boy-Who-Lived. When the hunter becomes the hunted, who can put things right? A tale of love, family, lies and blackmail.

Things had always been simple for Riley Lestrange--that was, of course, until her world started crashing down around her. She was supposed to get betrothed, completely support the Dark Lord, and somehow manage to stay calm in the midst of a sudden. When she runs into Sirius Black, a former best friend and a current hated Gryffindor, she finds that things can change, if only she has the courage. But when it all comes down to it, will she choose the life she’s always known, or the life that could risk everything?

...they feared what they did not know, and Tom's introverted personality caused others to fear him even more. To them, he was a mystery- the less of himself he revealed to others, the less they were sure of. Tom contemplates the way things are and the way things are to become. Set in his third year.

He touched him... he touched him there, and he doesn't know what to do, and the Devil will come and steal his eyes for it, because he reacted. He reacted, and he has been shamed, and now he is light-forsaken, doomed to return back to that room and let the demon touch him, hurt him, bleed him. Graham Pritchard is being abused, and he doesn't know what to do- until he finds safety and hope in the most unlikely of people. Companion piece to The Love of a Brother.

Ginny's reflects on the hollowness and hopelessness of the forces of light after Harry's death.

Ginny loves Harry. Harry doesn't believe he can love her the way she loves him. He rejects her. She is heart broken, and feels very overwhelmed by all that is happening. However, she still believes in love at first sight.

Draco’s favorite champagne, Harry’s favorite glass. Is the flute half empty or half full? SLASH. HP/DM.

All past tenses? She felt blood drain from her face. " It's not true, is it? " she asked. She would not believe it. *If love isn't there to stay, then it isn't yours to keep. *

Lily Evans is everything to James Potter. He changed everything that defined him to make her happy. And yet, for all he has tried, he still can't get her to see that he is no longer the same arrogant jerk that he used to be.

In the end, Severus Snape always makes the right decision, no matter what he really wants.

One-shot. Ginny talks about Tom and Harry. Pure bittersweet angst...

Severus Snape just can't stay away from Lily Evans' wedding to James Potter--no matter how much wants to.

"He knows who I like. Well, I'd say that I don't like the person. I love the person. I know the feelings I have are stronger than just fancying…funny, isn't it. How my feelings about love can be so strong, yet in every other way, I'm weak." Mild Sirius/Remus.

An understanding found, as Snape attempts to move on from his past and into a possible future.

A very dark sixth-year fic. Draco and Harry's hate comes to a shocking climax. Rather than at the end, the climax is at the beginning, so read onwards, ever onwards to discover the reasons behind their actions.

One can find that no matter how much you love someone, they are not always yours.

A man. A woman. A bar. Lots of alcohol. It's amazing the conversations that happen in the middle of a war.

After leaving the hospital wing in GOF, Sirius contemplates the past, the struggle that lies ahead, and vows to make no foolish mistakes this time around.

The famous trio have graduated and moved on with their lives. Two of the group have gotten married, while one of them is still fighting his feelings for the one that got away.

The best things come in threes. Fate split them apart, what brought them back together?

Penelope looks back over her relationship with Percy.````Looking back I feel so stupid. This present seemed so impossible in that past. Now I realise, that it wasn’t meant to be.

Sometimes it takes a big change to let you see past the silly little squabbles of life. Oliver Wood and Marcus Flint reflect at Cedric Diggory’s gravesite.

Why exactly Ron let Ginny name his owl.

Sirius, injured, needs help. Dumbledore sends Ron out to help him, and now he's finally returning. Harry stands to greet him, but will news be what he wants to hear?

Inspired by the lyrics of Sun and Moon from the musical Miss Saigon, the fic focuses on the thoughts of two people torn apart by belief. What will happen? What had happened?

An odd little Draco/Pansy friendship fic, from the latter's PoV. Originally intended to be humorous (but obviously not anymore), we see what goes through Pansy's mind when Draco actually falls in love and leaves her behind.

During his time in Azkaban Sirius finds a moment among the shadows to reflect... but only for a moment, before the shadows once more resume their dance. Slash.

Katora is just about to make the hardest choice of her life, well second hardest. See what happens to Katora as she just tries to make a living.

Suppose you were allowed to go to Hogwarts...but you couldn't interfere, and you had just a glance?

Harry, Draco, and a midnight scuffle in the Astronomy Tower.

Remus is visiting Sirius at Grimmauld Place during OotP. He's not feeling well, recovering from his tranformation. But he wants to tell Sirius something. Cute/sad slash story.

Pansy kisses her and everything changes.

Viktor Krum's thoughts as he prepares for a match.

Sequel to "More than Lovers." ````Remus and Sirius had once been more than friends but now that title is what is ripping them apart. Can James help Remus see what needs to be done and help them save their friendship or is he asking too much?

This story has an interesting twist. You don't know quite who is talking until the very end.

Sequel to Two's Company.

Ron walks down a corridor filled with portraits that he himself painted, until he reaches the final and most important painting of all.

One-shot. “We'll have to go back,” she says, looking mournfully at the castle as he silently closes the book. “We can't stay out here forever.” ``Draco/Hermione ficlet, featuring much angst and reflection.

Harry never knew someone was obsessed about him. And no, I don't mean Ginny Weasley. No one ever noticed Eloise Midgen, but she was always there, watching and dreaming about everything Harry Potter.

Lavender Brown sits and recalls the past two years of her life. It is difficult to think straight with a broken heart, but somehow, the story of her and Parvati Patil comes to light, a tragic story, where Lavender's heart doesn't survive the telling...

Christmas at the Burrow - from Percy Weasley's point of view.

A mysterious character is introduced, in the depths of the Riddle Mansion. As the character's identity is revealed, so are many other secrets of the wizarding world... and secrets of Harry's past that were thought dead and buried long ago.

Ginny finds herself dreaming and fantasising about something that will never happen. It does not do to dwell on dreams, but Ginny does not know that. Ginny wants to dream all she wants. But the dream is starting to take over the reality.

A drunk, heart-broken, and changed Draco Malfoy runs into Harry Potter one night, and finds that the Gryffindor has changed a lot - and for the worst. Set sometime during seventh year.

In the War Against the Dark Arts, the Aurors dealt out death, restrained only by their consciences. Some families practiced the Dark Arts as a matter of course - a look at one and it's intersection with a faction of Aurors.

Maybe he wasn't always evil. Maybe he wasn't always scary, and maybe, just maybe, there's a tale of a child, so lost and lonely, who doesn't know what to do. Maybe there's a boy out there, who's father left him so long ago. This is the story of the man we all fear, through the eyes of the very same man.

What happens when Draco finds Ginny in bed with his enemy?

"You did not ask Harry Potter about the war..." Four years after the defeat of Voldemort, a simple radio announcement and wartime secrets long kept buried may change Harry's life forever...(song lyrics by Ani Difranco)

Harry is back at Privet Drive for the summer, where he has nothing or no one to occupy him except for his thoughts and memories. How will he deal with what happend at the Ministry? ~summer after fifth year-fic based on 'A Rush Of Blood To The Head' by Coldplay~

A brief songfic. Remus muses on his present, past, and future the morning after a full moon. What makes him tick. What makes him cry. What makes him angry. Takes place the summer after PoA.

"I shake my head, the flakes flying off in all directions. I am going to meet her again today, for the first time in five years. And all I can think about was how beautiful she will look in the snow." Ginny Weasley has been absent from Harry Potter's life for five years, and today, he's going to see her again.

"We were so close there was no room, we bled inside each other's wounds..." Oneshot; sometime in the late 1970s... Remus needs to be made use of, and Dumbledore has an assignment for him. Partner with Severus Snape to fight Voldemort. But there are some unexpected consequences of pairing old school rivals.

"In wine, truth." Wherein lunacy is commonplace and words too long unsaid are spoken. Not your typical drunken Remus. Slash.

Grief Crazed Father Strikes Minster of Magic!``See latest issue of Daily Prophet for details as the story unfolds.

Remus finds himself thinking about his first, and only, love in the darkness of night. He talks to the shadows that comfort him, about the memories that he is haunted by. ``But will he be granted any relief?

Harry knows where to find Luna when she doesn't want to be found. (Prequel to The Locked Room series: Better Days, Camera Obscura, etc. Harry's seventh year.)

Mrs. Figg invites Harry to tea and gives him an unexpected message from Dumbledore - seems like he knew all along what Severus Snape might have to do... and what part could Harry's mother have played in all this?

In this version of the Final Battle, Ron sacrifices himself to save Harry, prompting the latter to go on a heavy "guilt trip"; it takes the entire remainder of the Weasley family as well as Hermione (among others) to assure him that it was Ron's choice to do what he did because he loved Harry and that no one blames him for what happened --so it's time he stopped blaming himself.

It is time to bring Tom back...

How does one begin a journey back to a place where only nightmares reside? Hermione Granger returns to the Wizarding World after the war to those she loved and memories she lost.

One-shot fic. Severus Snape has his final moments as a Death Eater.

After Sirius' death, Harry was only living on the shred of hope that it could all be changed, Sirius could come back. During the summer, he realises this isn't so and slowly sinks into a strange state of depression that no-one can get through. However Hermione ploughs on, determined to get Harry back... (slight H/Hr)

A short Snape fic. Snape tries to figure out why people try to avoid him. The reason shocks him and sends him into a deep depression.

Sirius is suspicious, Remus is worried, Peter is a traitor, and James is about to die. Takes place roughly between 1978 and 1982, although there are some scenes a bit earlier or later.

Five years into the War, a young female Healer who has lost the ability to heal with magic, learns that sacrifices must be made for the sake of her sanity. Hermione-Harry, Ron-Hermione, and Harry-Hermione-Ron abound.

Draco has always hated Harry, right from day one, and he'll do whatever he can to break him.

Corrine has lived her life with a terrible secret: she is cursed to be the only child of Lord Voldemort. Isolated, she has lived in a desolate island in fear of becoming a dark wizard like her father. Now she must go forth and finish the task of her dead mentor and true friend, Dumbledore. Will she be able to complete the task, and help the Chosen One fulfill his destiny, or will she be unable to resist the pull of evil that courses through her blood?

Remus and Harry have a moment of catharsis together. A challenge fic involving a piano. Order of the Pheonix spoilers contained within!

Remus writes a letter to his best friend, knowing that it can never be delivered. OoTP *spoilers*

What do you do when someone you love doesn't love you back? Do you stand alone or do you lie for the sake of being with them? Post-Hogwarts looking back on seventh year. Songfic to Linkin Park's "By Myself".

They were all standing there; my mind wasn’t fully gone as I recognized Sirius leaning against the wall, a cold smirk on his features, his eyes blazing as he watched the two others struggle. “Snape, just go! Just--- damn you, Sirius--- just get out of here now!” My ears perked. That was James shoving Snape backwards, his wand abandoned by his feet. I issued another growl and stepped forward again ...

Lupin works the night shift on a golden oldies radio show, learns how to do his laundry, and eats his own sofa. Takes place just prior to PoA. Parody of angst fic.

The war was over and Voldemort was dead. It was not a time of celebration, but I had ceased to expect that months ago. My trial was set for tomorrow and Harry’s silence had been growing by the day. H/D slash. Sequel to There, In That Silence.