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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.

Wizards aren't the only ones who are prejudiced against muggle-borns, some muggles are too. One family knows this far too well.

A graveyard in winter. A man who wanders. A glimpse at a life touched by loss, and of a man who grief would not break.

Dearest Whoever is Reading This, My name is Ginevra Molly Weasley. I am 16 years old. I write this from my cell, miles under Malfoy Manor.

Harry is hurting himself, his friends, and risking his life without care or concern about anything. When he starts losing his magic, he really begins to push everyone away. Except one person, who seems to understand him more than he knows. HP/DM slash. NO DH SPOILERS.

Draco watches Hermione for a while outside by the lake. He ponders a choice he must make, and eventually comes to a decision; one that affects both her and himself.

Here's a thought for every man who tries to understand What is in his hands. ``He walks along the path towards the castle-prison with his hands shoved in his pockets, head down. ``He shivers as he approaches; the last time he was here, he was an inmate, but he’d been proven innocent three years before and hadn’t thought then he’d ever come back.

Remus Lupin had relied completely on Sirius Black; he who turned a curse into a gift and accepted him for who he was, not what he was. Then he was gone. Gone in the second it took for a veil to flutter innocently and whisper unheard words. This is what it feels like when a werewolf cries.

Lily and Remus see each other for the last time and they talk of the way things once were.````~The petal might have wilted, but it would always be beautiful. ~

It's all set in a few minutes. From the first few words spoken in their room, Draco thinks about everything that has happened over time. Lucius and Narcissa have been dead for a few years, and Draco has been reluctant to go to their graves, until now.

Sequel to Confessions. Hermione has made her decision about Draco and must deal with all of the consequences.

A world where Peter Pettigrew stood firm and did not betray his friends. A world where he was The Man Who Lived. A world where happy endings are only a dream away. AU one-shot, with characters from Webba’s Devil Series – but it isn’t necessary to have read those to understand this.

Draco's last words to Harry by means of a letter.

What *did* happen to Ron and Harry? Hermione stands in the cemetery and recalls it all. Sequel to "Goodbye's the Saddest Word".

Hermione's thoughts on the Final Battle. It doesn't go how you'd think!

Takes place the summer after Ron's fifth year, the battle against Voldemort is raging. What happens when Ron loses someone he loves? How does he cope?

One must die: Malfoy or Potter. But nobody deserves to die. Nobody. A Malfoy monlogue.

Harry tired to look back on his life, but only can think on what he'll be missing... Angsty Vingette.

Remus discovers a surprise visitor late one stormy evening. Can he make his old friend understand, and put him back together?

Snape stood before a tall hooded figure that could have easily been mistaken as an elongated shadow of a surrounding Death Eater in the dim light. Long, white hands issued from its black sleeves....Voldemort reached into his robes and grasped his wand. He pulled out it into sight and pointed it threateningly at Snape's chest.... 'It takes only one spell, Severus,' he said menacingly, 'I believe you know the two words.'...'Ah, there you have it, Severus,' he said as he stared down at Snape. 'Terrible thing when someone denies you their friendship, isn't it?'

Draco has a plan, and it has led him to a place he never imagined he would venture. But if there is one thing he has learnt over the past two years, it is the price of hesitation.

Remus has trouble speaking his feelings but after Sirius' death it's dangerous for him to keep things bottled up. So he writes in his diary, all the thoughts and feelings he went through before, during and after the fatal fight at the Ministry. He feels bitter, angry and guilty. But gradually he'll get over Sirius', and be able to carry on his life again just like his friends would have wanted.

They are coming. As an army of Death Eaters led by Voldemort himself march on Hogwarts, the remnants of the school prepare for a last stand, pledging to win their freedom or die trying.

Ginny's thoughts as Tom leads her to the Chamber of Secrets.

Harry allows his time to slip away in recollection of a dark night, months ago. Voldemort has won, and all that is left is the crying.

"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. "A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise." ~Niccolo Machiavelli. "There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept." ~Gaelic proverb. [Contains HBP spoilers.]

Sometimes the ending isn't as good as it seems.

Draco is on the path to commit suicide. Can Lucius convince him otherwise?

The War is over, but Harry still has a score to settle.

Beyond the veil, Sirius Black learns that time can be a thing to appreciate and that sometimes perfection can truly be found. It won’t be long now, for Lily and James Potter to make his fears disappear and the things he’s waited for eternity to come true.

Can a life be summarized in a conversation? Can a soul be found in an afterthought, intentions in a passing glance? The war was won, but the price for victory was steep. It cost some people their lives, some their pride, some their position, some their soul. Five years after the war that shook everything the wizarding world took for granted, things have returned back to normal. Lives are being rebuilt, lost, and earned for the first time. Virginia Weasley knows this. She has moved on; she has let things go. But the man at the bar has not. Perhaps this is why he is so interesting to her. Perhaps the reasons run otherwise. In a broken world, nothing can be taken for granted. She always remembers, when it rains...

Continuation of 'Terrified'. Harry confronts Hermione, and she confronts him right back.

What if Luna Lovegood never met Harry and his friends on the train? A look at the world as Luna sees it, written as a suicide note.

3rd Year, Hogsmeade. Victoria (OC) tracks down an "old friend," determined to get some answers. (Sirius Black story.)

With apologies to George Lucas: "Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?" Written for hd_worldcup 2008, Team Epilogue, Prompt "The Fool."

You are a young girl, whose life is riddled with misery. You are a young girl, who yearns for acceptance. You are a young girl named Myrtle. This is your last hour.

Lily wants to peform in front of thousands, but it's proving to be difficult. Sirius keeps dragging James off to punk-rock concerts. Voldemort has never loved a soul, until a certain Mudblood comes onto the scene. Phantom of the Opera cross-over.

The Weasleys take time out to look at life with one another to the time of that ill-fated day. Now, they need one another.

In a world rearranged by Voldemort, Luna Lovegood and Percy Weasley cling to tenuous hope.

Hermione is fed up with living; she loves her husband and her friends and family, but she hates living. Life is too much to cope for the Gryffindor and she takes the hard way out.

"I do not know why he turns to me. Surely he knows that I can do nothing to help him. We are both too far gone."``With the only woman he ever loved lying lifeless in his arms and his one-time enemy dying at his side, Draco Malfoy reflects. D/G, Draco's POV.

‘I never had a childhood of my own, so sometimes I just sit back and admire his.’ The Dark Lord watches over the one he’s marked.

Beatles songfic based on the song "A Day in the Life." One morning at Hogwarts, the student body makes a horrific discovery. Hope seems lost, chaos reigns, and the stage is set for the rule of Voldemort. How will they cope? Can evil be surpassed by the weaker good? And, most importantly, how will the world face the loss of a hero?

“Well done, Ha –“ But the Death Eater Hermione had just struck dumb made a sudden slashing movement with his wand from which flew a streak of what looked like purple flame. It passed right across Hermione’s chest; she have a tiny “oh!” as though of surprise and then crumpled onto the floor where she lay motionless. “HERMIONE!” What if Hermione HAD been killed that night at the Ministry of Magic? Would Harry have been able to go on? Here's what might have been if the unthinkable had happened....

Someone is trapped in Azkaban... Someone is going insane... Someone doesn't know it.

The War has been won, but there have been many casualties. One stands along and reflects on his true lost.

When I look at Harry I see so much, I see James and Lily, I see Dumbledore, I see Tonks, I see Remus and I even see a little bit of me. I see all that I could have given him and never did. I see all that Lily and James meant to give him and were never able to. I see someone worth fighting for.

The events after reading the Sunday Prophet article about Voldemort’s return in the hospital wing through Hermione’s eyes. Listen as she speaks of the shadow in Harry’s eyes and her own thoughts about the ... loss of Sirius and her fears of the war to come.

Megan Jones can be irritated by one person, and one person only. Since she first met Zach Smith, he's known what buttons to push and she's let him. But even a Quidditch boy has a heart.

A couple of weeks after Sirius's death, Lupin and Snape reflect.

One-shot, based on the poem by Stephen Crane. During the climax of the war, a day which could very well be her last, Ginny struggles with the concepts of helplessness and the fairness of war.

After speaking with Igor Karkaroff at the Yule Ball in "Goblet of Fire," Snape reflects upon his past. What choices did he make upon his path to becoming a Death Eater, and what choices were made for him? He was led into temptation, but broken and betrayed, he cannot deliver himself from bitterness. Time is supposed to heal all wounds, but there are some marks it can never erase. Even in the dark of winter, however, there is always hope of spring. Snape/Karkaroff slash.

Sirius Black's first infatuation matches him in recklessness and daring. But when Sirius and his friends uncover a dark secret, Sirius is forced to reconsider his loyalties and the games he plays.

I always wondered how Lupin reacted to Sirius' "Throwing Snape to the wolf" -so to speak. This is my interpretation. Oh, and I made the teeeeeny assumption that they're lovers, because I love my slashy boys!

The love between a mother and her child can be expressed in so many different ways. In Draco's case, his mother's words will remain with him, always.

I know the war is over. I know my wife is dead. Now what?

Both sides knew Severus Snape was a double agent. However, no one knew which side he was truly on...

Snape pays the ultimate price for the cause.``Warning: Character Death and implied slash. Can be considered AU.

You see it's good for nothing (good for nothing), a close look at something (so close). It's too much of not enough.

Draco is single. Hermione’s engaged. Her life was in danger and went undercover with Draco to protect her from becoming Voldemort’s pawn. Six months of living together sure changed both of their opinion of each other, but what would happen once the six months was over?

Here I am, once again watching you from the window of my office. It is amazing how you captivate me. Your intriguing smile, your laughter, and the way your chocolate eyes sparkle when you talk are all so amazing. I look out at you, and watch you, sunlight dancing upon your head, as you dip your bare feet into the cool, crisp water of the school Lake. You seem to have not a care in the world, but I know better.