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Right now, I am so full of conflicting emotions that any attempts to capture them on parchment will never be enough. You-Know-Who is destroyed. James and Lily are dead. And they say that you’re the one who killed them...

What exactly happened between Ginny and Harry when they left the room? This is a companion piece to "Verge".

We do what we must to get by.

He never knows what the next rainfall will bring, but Harry still waits for the day when he can finally let go... let go of everything he fears

Someone thinks about choices.

Ah, yes. The ancient issue of blood purity that has caused so many troubles and so much strife. Told through the eyes of a pure-blood, a Mudblood, and a werewolf.

When Harry resumes his Occlumency lessons with Professor Snape in sixth year he finds out he is not the only one having to deal with the pain of war. Sometimes the most humane and human thing to do is comfort the one your with. Could be seen as HP/SS if you look hard enough.

Cuts can happen for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes they happen because we are careless, sometimes they are inflicted by others, and sometimes they happen because we need to kill the pain.

Harry takes out Sirius' mirror one last time.

What happens when a dream-come-true becomes a nightmare? And what do you do when you can't give up?

"Harry!" I scream and I quickly grab the boy before he goes right in after him. I'm saying words although they don't make much sense, all I can think is that I have to hold him. He hits me again and again in his struggle, beating against my chest as he tries to break free. It was instinct, I think. I certainly don't remember using any strength to hold him back - even though I remember him struggling so fiercely against me. Then again, I've always been strong. It's part of my nature. Remus spends a moment alone after Sirius' death.

"Harry Potter had asked special permission to Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to leave the castle one evening. It had been a month since the school year had started, and Dumbledore had not been very surprised by his request. He had actually thought that Harry would come to him sooner."

Remus Lupin hates himself in the days after the death of the Potters. A study of self-loathing and healing.

He'd give her everything she wanted, he'd love her forever... But he could never share her.

Sirius, Peter, Remus and James get a mangled glimpse of the future, which, for two members of the group, has a lasting effect. Set in the MWPP era.

It's sad, gloomy, and uplifting. Thank Merlin for Voldemort!

Sequel to The End of Innocence. On the long flight to America, Harry is scared and in pain inside. In anguish, he tells his thoughts to the only person on the flight he can tell and not be overheard-his diary.

What if Ginny had been the one to warn Umbridge and the Inquisitorial Squad of Harry's use of the fire? What if she had been working for the Dark Lord all along? Dark, angsty D/G with a bit of V/G.

James never knew how Sirius felt, and Sirius made it a strict point not to let him know. But now, as Sirius watches James prepare to settle into a new life with Lily, he knows that he can’t keep his feelings inside anymore. So with one slow dance, and a quiet confession, his life changes, and not necessarily for the better.

In the war for good and for evil, there is always a critical battle. This battle has just been fought. These are the thoughts of a young man who has just gone through the battle, and his feelings about what has happened. A dark fic, so get ready for the angst and darkness! Rated for some abuse mentioned...but I'm not telling you who's having these thoughts until the end!

One special little boy takes his pain and invents a world of magic and mystery, but all dreams end. Everyone has to wake up sometime. One little girl is all it takes.

After Ron's death, Hermione loses her mind and wants to die. Will someone be able to help her?

When Lucius sets Draco an impossible deadline, he turns to the Gryffindors for help. But solving his dilemna has consequences he could never have forseen.

A young Severus Snape discovers the magical properties of a fig he finds in his mother’s garden while experimenting with chemistry. To his joy, he learns that magic exists and that his mother is magical. But he pays a heavy price for learning the truth.

James reflects on the past on how he lost Lily. He has a flash back of what happened to her and at the end, he decides that Harry (who is tuning 15) should know about how he really lost his mother.

A short ficlet that involves a very depressed Hermione and her thoughts as she watches a storm. Is based on the song "Wish that I Was There" by Hanson! A lot of Angst, but just a sprinkle of Romance.

I’m so tired of being here / Suppressed by all of my childish fears / And if you have to leave / I wish that you would just leave / Because your presence still lingers here / And it won’t leave me alone -- A depressed Ginny reflects on what happened when she picked up the diary of Tom Riddle. An angsty songfic to Evanescence's "My Immortal".

In the aftermath of Dumbledore's tragic death, while waiting for Bill and Fleur's wedding, Ron Weasley takes some time to reflect - upon how Dumbledore's death has affected his friends, what the future holds for, but mostly he broods about the one he personally holds responsible: Draco Malfoy.

H/D Angst. It's all a waiting game, and everyone's practising.

Young Remus Lupin meets his werewolf attacker in the Forbidden Forest while a seventh-year student at Hogwarts.

Eleven years after the Final Battle, Ron Weasley is still trying to come to terms with his grief.

A song fic to Good Charlotte's "Moving On". I'm not a huge GC fan, but when I heard this song, I couldn't help but think of HP. A little angsty, but with a fairly happy ending.

Years and years after graduation Draco sits down and thinks about how far he has come.

Draco Malfoy has been left alone in his compartment in the Hogwarts Express. In a rare moment, we see what he's like when there's no one around, and who he becomes when he lets go of his pride.

Set after Hogwarts, Ron thinks about someone, and how his opinions and feelings have changed about this person.

What are we without something to fight against? What is life if you have no purpose?

A girl sits in dismay and remembers...

The calm before the storm is ominous and foreboding. Rain can wash away tears and rivers can quench sorrow, but such memories never fade away. G/D

A series of songfics set after GOF and before OoTP. In the first chapter Cho Chang reflects on life since the death of her boyfriend Cedric Diggory and the lessons it has taught her, the friends she has made. (uses In The End by Linkin Park)

Yep. Another fifth year fic. Yep, another Dumbledore has a daughter. But hey, they quarrel, she hates him, he treats her like a child.... Some human relationships can't be done too often. There's always more to explore. A girl with a thorny personality, Dumbledore's eyes minus the twinkle, a chip on her shoulder roughly the size of the moon, and oh yeah, a crush she never grew out of. And has to act as the new DADA teacher. She can handle anything but her emotions and her father. An attempt to look at a less than perfect Dumbledore. And maybe a sideways glance at some of his less than brilliant ideas. (Even he has those, like practicing inappropriate charms on a woman in a foreign ministry...)

Physical changes don't always mean psychological ones, and to become infatuated with the wrong person can have a huge price.

Some things are meant to be forgotten. But new students never know that.

In the midst of the war, Gregory Goyle finds himself on a mission to find and protect his only friend.

In the wake of Sirius' death, Tonks tries to comfort a grieving Remus. One shot, set during OotP. RL/SB

The Wizarding World was slowly recovering and rejoicing the infant Potter boy's defeat of the Dark Lord - until Christmas, when things went very wrong for two unsuspecting Aurors and their young child.

They were complete opposites: Kira Wilson is perky, pink, and blond. She is a pop singer who loves springtime, shops at Abercrombie, and smells like roses. Regan Luthin is dark, tormented, and dangerous. She's in a rock band, has black hair, a lot of piercings, and a lot of problems. A mistake brought them together. And it will take the greatest sacrifice of them all to bring them apart.

One last romp in the pre-OotP playground. Harry and Malfoy learn the possibility of hope, and how difficult the path to it threatens to be. Pre-slash.

Draco is a bit insane, shall we say, and wants to murder Harry!

After the war, Harry is broken and Draco has never been much for fixing things. (Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy)

They all thought that she was like them. A normal, pureblooded Slytherin. But she's not. Millicent Bullstrode has her own secrets.

"Good morning," she murmured, but there was no answer.

After falling through the Veil, Sirius meets James for the first time in years. A new look into Peter's relationship with the other Marauders and Lily. Slight L/J and S/R

Summer at the Malfoys and Draco wants revenge! But on who?

What was the reason for Harry Potter’s sudden willingness to serve the Dark Lord, at a time when his aid was most crucial to the side of the Light? Slash - Harry/Severus

Four houses, one student. Four things that never happened to Remus Lupin.

Harrry gives his friends a chance to back out before the final battle, and Hermione takes the time to go home and reflect on what is truly in her heart.

They say we need help. That there is still hope for us. But I know that to be a lie. There is no hope for us. We did what we had to do and we did it for them. Isn't that enough?

Percy Weasley had been the perfect son, the perfect brother, the perfect student...until one day, his striving for perfection nearly became the instrument of his undoing. But then, watered by the pain of hard truths and the love of a father, the seeds of redemption are sown in the ashes of self-destruction.

What's gone is gone, right? Hermione and Draco reflect on their lost love. Post-Hogwarts. Songfic to Yellowcard's "Empty Apartment."

Severus Snape. Brilliant, handsome, dangerous, he joined the Death Eaters for the knowledge Voldemort offered, begining a spiral that devastated a promising carrer and shocked tht wizarding world. At the termination of the Goblet of Fire, he reflects. Loyalty does not mean beleif and action does not require faith. Think Snape likes Dumbledore? think again.

Percy comes to pay Hermione a visit over the Christmas break of her seventh year.

Moaning Myrtle speaks about her life, her love, and her moans...

She still loves him. She may not admit it, but she does. G/T

Draco's been finally granted the greatest honour a dark wizard can get. But will it all end when the Malfoy Manor is being attacked?

It's two in the morning, and Ginny's alone in the Grimmauld Place kitchen: "Looking at the whitewashed wall opposite her, Ginny sighed, sensing the ghosts of the place--”real ghosts, imagined ghosts, metaphoric ghosts--”swirling around the damp, heavy pile above her head."

I like the adrenaline rush from being out of control, but somehow I know at the end of the insanity I'll crash, and then I'll shatter.

How can you miss someone whom you've forgotten. Sometimes you're so desperate for company, you believe he will stay this time. Sirius/Remus, slash.

Set in the future. Harry is married with a child. But what would his family do when tragedy strikes and they have no clue as to what happened to him.

Ron and Hermione are in love, but that doesn't mean they'll ever get together. Ron sits in his kitchen, depressed, reminiscing on a certain waltz with Hermione. Songfic to "A Home" by the Dixie Chicks.

Sometimes, all that is left to do is to apologize. D/G, slight H/G.

Harry made his choice. Can he now live with it?

Hermione laments how she could have saved Sirius Black.

Things aren't always what they appear, and even the golden boy can have a dark side. A song fic based on Two beds and a coffee machine by Savage Garden. Harry and Ginny's wedded life doesn't go as planned.

Three reminiscences in which characters think about who and what died in OotP, and mourn. (Contains spoilers for Order of the Phoenix.)

Hermione and Severus Snape run into each other directly after final battle of the war with Voldemort. They’ve been apart for years... is there anything left between them? HG/SS

Following the death of a loved one, Severus Snape tries to pick up the pieces and say goodbye. SS/LE.

Draco watches the woman he loves get married to another man, and wonders what would happen if they had worked it out. Not slash.

A Lily and James fic. It all starts in Fourth Year from Lily's point of view. A werewolf is out and about, Severus Snape is spreading rumours and lies, Lucius Malfoy has plans of his own and somehow Lily has to work out what's right and what's wrong. More importantly, she has to work out what she needs to do next.

There are bones beneath Snape's skin, and bones in his past. There are skeletons in the closet and there are skeletons in his mind.

A nice short little story wherein Ginny remembers some good things and some bad things. I suppose it's Ginny/Harry, but in a weird way. Inspired by Alice Hoffman's "Here on Earth."

Lucius Malfoy did not always hate Muggles. Once, he was curious about them. The hate didn't come until one Vernon Dursley came along, and only one thing has driven Lucius through life: Revenge.

Roses are symbols of life and love. No matter what color they are.````H/D.

Fluffy bit of teenage drama. A girl in Hermione's dorm we haven't met.

Harry's had it, and is ready to end it all. Can Hermione talk him down?

Death. It affects us all differently. What if Hermione withdraws into herself? What if the doctors can't help her? What if Draco is her only line out of the madness that threatens to consume her?

Hermione has fallen for her best friend, the one person who can't seem to live for himself, never mind her. This short chaptered story follows her path from initial love to her final painful decision.

He’s been broken. Broken far too many times and he’s quite sure that he can’t bare it for a second longer. Stone walls and castle towers have become his all-embracing jail cell.

Remus always tried to mend wherever possible, always liked to know that with effort things could change. Now one by one they had left him forever, and the only remaining person was who it all started with: Severus.

When Draco returned, after the summer of their fifth year, Harry knew something had changed. It was as if someone had switched on a light inside Draco in a world that was getting darker by the day.

Draco relives the night of graduation. Harry is taken from his bed. When they meet again, the only word that suits the situation is pain.

Ginny Weasley was always ignored, and she couldn't take it anymore! She plans a trip back in time... to see what she will see- maybe run into a Malfoy or two?

A sequel to my other one-shot: Death is Only the Beginning. Harry has fought the final battle, and stands in the carnage of said battle. He now reflects on many thoughts running through his young mind. See what comes of him in this tale of war.

Draco fancies Ginny and Ginny fancies Draco, only they don't know it. Both of them think that each one hates the other but oh how wrong they both are. [Complete]

The Dark Mark has made a suspicious reappearance on Severus Snape’s arm, prompting Albus Dumbledore to make a potentially deadly vow. Set during GoF. Slash.

"But the lonely man didn’t see it. He didn’t pay any attention to it, for his eyes were focused on the ground below. The ground covered in crimson blood and motionless bodies. He was focused on the battlefield where the fates of many had been decided during the night, a night he would never forget. A night that would always be remembered as the night when The-Boy-Who-Lived defeated the Dark Lord."

After the events that ended the fifth book, Harry is carrying some major feelings he has locked away. Read as he spills them all in a very sad and almost insane way. Rated PG-13 for angst and mild language.

Ginny muses on what it's like to live your life in someone else's shadow.

The war is over, and someone other than Harry is found to be the true target of Voldemort, all along. The only thing is... he finally hit the bullseye on the target.

Sometimes you find just what you need under a Halloween moon.

Draco reflects on his affair with Hermione when she tells him that she's leaving.