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Severus Snape, a former Death Eater, reflects on his past and a past lost love.

'Harry had a habit of keeping things he shouldn't.' That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.

A timeless story of love and…stuff. A new spin on Jack Spratt and reality, among other things.

Ron looks back and tries to forget... until someone reminds him it's not forgetting that's good, it's remembering...

Ginny Weasley reflects on the paths her life has taken.

Sirius watches Peter as he tries to convince James to use Peter as the Secret Keeper. The night the Potters die, Sirius vows for vengance. The confrontation in the alley, and being led away to Azkaban. All in Sirius' point of view.````A parrallel to The Sin We Share.

"Remus Lupin was lying awake in bed, on his back with his arms folded under his pillow. It was nearly midnight and he had not managed to shut his eyes for a single minute. He thought everybody around him must have been asleep and it was driving him crazy to know that he surely was the only one still awake."``What could be considered as a quick sequel to my other fic, My Immortal.

Draco reflects on his last weeks at Hogwarts and makes unexpected friends of the Boy Who Lived.

Neville tried standing up for himself and what he thought was right. All he got was a Full Body Bind from the people he thought were his friends.

Harry is back at Hogwarts, but everything is going wrong. What's really happening, and why are Ron and Hermione being so different? Why are they crying? H/Hr, Hr/R.

Pansy hates that she's thought of as a whore. She just wants to be accepted by others. Especially the one she loves, Draco. One-shot fic. Pansy’s POV.

On the run from Death Eaters, Cho Chang encounters the last person she'd ever expected to see again. One thing leads to another, and Cho comes face-to-face with the ghosts of her past. How much will she sacrifice to go back in time, even for just one night?

A Death Eater reminisces about her childhood and the changes in later life. Written for the Unexpected Task challenge: \\

Harry sees that Blaise is slowly killing Draco, but he understands nothing. Gift-fic for Ali-chan.

Narcissa reflects on the past, on the days when her son was still innocent and her part in changing him.

What is worse, to remember nothing or to remember everything? The war is over and Severus and Bellatrix are living their hell.

Remus Lupin is 25 years old and going nowhere fast. Until he meets an unusual old man, and confronts his past, with mixed results. Remus/Sirius friendship story (sort of) - read it if you're interested in what Remus did during those 'lost' years.

Alicia Spinnet is doing some research about Rowena Ravenclaw for a History of Magic homework when she stumbles upon a diary. It is the beginning of a trail into the past, showing her a story of hatred, desertion, loyalty and love that she had never before imagined, and the history which underlies the Wizarding World.

What drives Severus Snape? A short character study.

Harry has a dream that seems so real that he doesn't want to let go.

A standalone about Ginny Weasley walking around at night. The war is nearing an end, but that doesn't always mean happily ever after. Ginny/Hermione is the main ship, but there are hints at Harry/Draco and a kinda standard Ron/Hermione.

While she lays dying, shocking and bitter revelations are made. Involves Psycho!Draco.

It was a bittersweet love, wasn’t it? When you were alone and could pretend that he really loved you, but was too scared to admit it, it was heaven. But when you went back into the real world, just for a glimpse of him, you knew it wasn’t so. He loved her.

In order to save her child, a mother has to sacrifice her own life. These are her thoughts, as she approaches the end...

Companion fic to Fire but also a stand-alone. "I have to admit he was sublime. A slug, yes, but sublime. He was spoiled, rich, snobbish, and a future Death Eater. Everyone knew it, and they either detested him or worshipped him for it. I knew he was evil, oh, yes, everyone know Draco Malfoy was evil. But he had smooth skin, robes that were trimmed with silver although it wasn’t really allowed, and hair so blond it looked silver. Then he had those eyes, those cold, gray, icy eyes that could swallow you whole. At least, they swallowed me. "

He lies awake listening to the sound of rain drumming on the roof. He lies awake knowing that there is not much time left, a few hours if he’s lucky. But Draco Malfoy doesn’t give a damn. Contains character torture and death.

Ron reminisces about his lost love and only chance at moving on.

In a dream, Harry has a chance to visit the veil and talk to the character in OotP who died. A songfic to David Gray's "The Other Side."

Several years ago, Draco Malfoy was sent to Azkaban from the cause of a certain Miss Weasley. But now he's back for revenge and will stop at no means to finish what he started. But time is running out. Emotions are churning. Anxiety and suspicions run high. The Dark Lord is waiting.

"She stared at her reflection in the mirror and tried to imagine the girl she’d been back then, or even before that. She couldn’t. It was like trying to imagine an imaginary friend she hadn’t pretended to see since she was six. As far as her mind was concerned, that girl no longer existed, and she hadn’t even been real. But that girl had existed. She knew it, because she had been that girl..."

She hated her sister. Perfect Lily with perfect friends and perfect grades and perfect everything. And her, left behind.

This is my take on what happens in the 'last battle' between Voldemort and Harry. After the fifth Horcrux is found and destroyed by Hermione, Ron, Harry and Ginny, there is one more left to be demolished and Voldemort will no longer be immortal. Will Harry be able to reach the last Horcrux in time in order to defeat Voldemort? Are his instincts leading him in the right direction or is it leading him into more danger than he expected? Read and find out! I promise you won't be disappointed.

Remus takes Harry to Godric's Hollow, in memory of Sirius.

Have you ever wondered where Dementors come from? What kind of entities are they? What drives them? How much awarness they have? An unexpected meeting at the gates of Hogwarts challenges a young Dementor to muse about its existence....

“Time to put up our walls.”

Hermione reflects on life as a Muggle-born witch.

A short ficlet on the dark side of Ravenclaw. Set in the Founder's days.

Everyone's got a story. Even Severus Snape. A one-shot Snape-centric fic.

Songfic. Harry has a dark secret that he has to tell Cho, but how can he? Cho/Harry post-Hogwarts

Remus at the funeral of his best friend.

Second part of the 'Colours' Sequence, but stands alone. "Lucius’ eyes had been blue, as blue as the sky was when there were no clouds and it was winter and so cold your tongue turned into one big icicle inside your mouth if you weren’t careful. Draco remembers his eyes, but that’s probably because he sees them every morning and every night in the mirror when he’s brushing his teeth, washing his face, shaving off the few hairs on his chin that might have been a beard if he hadn’t been a Malfoy."

This is a short story about Snape after he returns to Voldemort. It is slightly suicidal.

Oh, I knew—I knew from the very beginning that this was a terrible idea. That filthy Mudblood and I paired together made a terrible Head Boy and Head Girl. It was the one thing that we ever agreed upon. Did anyone listen, though? No, and look where it got us. Hermione Granger is lying dead in our common room. *Warning* Death fic.

"It is funny how I was the one who knew all your secrets, who knew who you really were. Yet every one of them knew before I did. No one told me I had to find out for myself. And you of all people didn’t even tell me." Told from Ginny's POV.

The war is five months new, has settled over everything like a layer of dust. Pansy is five months, too, with child, but it is fear that grows now like a balloon in her lungs.

Draco waits in prison for the dementors to come for him. While he loses all hope of rescue, he thinks of Harry.

Sirius receives a letter from Andromeda informing him of his younger brother's death.

Draco's life takes an unexpected turn as he's driving home from work one night...

By now everyone's heard about Sirius's death, and everyone is quick to comfort Harry. But no one seems to realize that someone else is hurting too.... This is Remus Lupin's side of the grief. Songfic (Michelle Branch and Evanescence).

It is the end of the war, and Draco has lived to see it, but is it possible that he wishes that he didn't?

While the world is in Mourning, Wizards gather to commemorate a great man. Speeches are made and a song is sung by Elton John himself. Tears are shed at the funeral of Sirius Black.

I laugh silently. It's so ironic that I finally stand on a stage with the career I've always dreamed of and sing a love song to you, of all people. I've tried to hate you, Sirius. God have I tried. I want to and I should; yet I cannot.

Draco reminisces his past relationship with Harry, and recalls how he takes it for granted. After all, Malfoys aren't supposed to love... right? Harry/Draco, slash. Post Hogwarts.

There is more than one hole in George Weasley, other than the one of the side of his head. Ever since Fred died he'd been different, so his often neglected fiancée Angelina suggests he adopts a child for two weeks to see how he would fare as a father. George does just that, and adopts Holley, who had also lost a twin. They both expected nothing of the experience, but soon learn truly what love is. And how to heal that hole in both their hearts.

How do you get an injury? ``It gets inflicted. ``How do you get a scar?``First you let it bleed.````" Even if she was lying with a pale face, floor filled with blood, she was still so beautiful..."

By using a Pensieve, Harry Potter finds that he can travel into the past and change certain circumstances; what he doesn’t know is that each change will greatly impact his life. Every trip into his memories digs him into a deeper hole until the worst occurs – he is trapped in an alternate future where Voldemort has the ultimate weapon. And the only way out is to either kill Voldemort...or be killed, without a chance to change what he had done. Today’s lesson: Never tempt fate.

Written for the hd_fqf on Livejournal, "During the war, Draco is fighting against the Order and for the DEs. In the battle, when he's about to get killed by an Auror, Harry saves him."

One year before Albus Severus is set to go to Hogwarts, Harry has an argument with his wife. He goes to the Leaky Cauldron where he, yet again, meets none other than Draco Malfoy.

Yes...it's yet another Lie-Low-At-Lupin's fic. Yes...Sirius and Remus finally acknowledge that they have always loved one another. But no, it is neither fluffy nor happy; their reunion after so many years of separation is anything but, and the feelings they have both suppressed for so long are strong enough to destroy them.

They fought united. For one cause. For one man. One man lost to the blood and death of war. They fought united.

Everyone dies alone. (Takes place at least ten years after Hogwarts graduation.)

Saying goodbye to his last best friend was difficult enough the first time. Having to let go a second time was going to be just about impossible.

Seamus’ POV realising that he never really saw Harry. All he saw was the hero. Memories of a room mate. Can be companion to ‘Martyr’, one shot.

What goes through Tom Riddle's head at the time of his first killing? It seems that ickle Tommy has a liking for blood....

Bellatrix reflects on her two visitors, Harry and Voldemort. (Dark fic, implied violence, possession, and necrophilia).

Narcissa talks to angels. Darkfic. Drug abuse. Songfic, "She Talks to Angels," by the Black Crowes.

Under the influence of Voldemort, Draco and Blaise must gather ingredients for a dark potion under Dumbledore's nose and will go to any length to get what they want. Cho's trying to deal with her dying father and the Trio get caught up in the chaos. Betrayal, deceit and countless heartbreaks will ensue.

It's a hot summer's day, which is unusual in September, and all most of Hogwarts is thinking of is where to get a good suntan and how many items of clothing they can get away with taking off. But Max McKinnon, Raven and Blaise Zabini have other priorities: Harry Potter is going to get a good kicking, and if Slytherin House is ever going to ally with the winning side this must be stopped...

As Harry is about to begin his sixth year, a group of first years discuss the famous Harry Potter. They wonder what this hero is like, but are they ready for their answer?

Someone's writing a letter to Harry, contemplating things long past, and confessions about true feelings.

In the wee hours of August 7th, Ginny writes to the ones she loves to tell them that she won't be coming back. Harry doesn't understand, until he reads between the lines.

As each of us die, we leave behind glimpses of our lives that linger in places we have been. Those memories, those pieces of our lives, are the most powerful form of magic there is. We ourselves are not important. It’s what’s inside of us. What lives on when we are gone.

Minerva McGonagall is in love with Albus Dumbledore, but he is married and not in love with her. Working on a project, she travels sideways through time, and falls in love with someone who actually loves her back.

Seamus, Neville and Dean have just arrived at Hogwarts and should be tucked up happily in bed. But it is the middle of the night and each of them is wide awake, brooding upon their fears and insecurities.

It's the war and people are losing hope.

Maybe his body destroyed his heart in an act of self-preservation. He's always had a ruthless immune system. Dark Draco, with some ambiguous Harry, Ginny, angry Ron.... also, bruises. Draco should keep his cold hands to himself.

Harry feels compelled to address a letter to his deceased godfather. A small mystery follows. A quick fic that turns out to be a little sad.

A distraught orphan contemplates murdering the man who betrayed his parents.

The meek shall inherit the earth, and the faithful will follow you to death and beyond. An alternate look at Hufflepuffs.

A look at Alice and Frank Longbottom's life together while they helped the Order fight Voldemort. Cameos from Baby Neville, Augusta, and Moody.

Harry has had to put up with a lot of loss in his life, there's always been someone to help him through. But when he loses that person, there's no one else left, especially when he feels he has some unfinished business... (Implied H/Hr.)

In which Severus and Remus are part of a story that no one knew. In which friendship makes many demands and even the good guys aren't entirely innocent.

Dumbledore offers Remus the Defense Against the Dark Arts job at Hogwarts. Remus suffers some personal turmoil over accepting it.

On Harry Potter's fifteenth birthday, someone close to him bares her heart and her worst fears to her diary. An in-canon character examination of Hermione.

In every life, things will be lost; time is one, innocence, another. There comes a time when one must decide whether to face their demons, or bow to them. The war was a cruel one, as if a war could be anything but cruel, and love does not always conquer all. Love can fail, and love can break a person in more ways than one can possibly imagine. Five years later, Virginia Weasley stands at the door. It bears the name of someone that she used to trust, obscured by the passage of time, pain, and the slow, cynical, whisper of betrayal. In every life, things will be lost. The choice is before her; if she does not enter it, her soul may well be one of them. A continuation of When it Rains.

Someone finds Ginny in the prefects' bathroom, floating in the bath, with her wrists slit. This is a confession of their love and desire.

A not so innocent bystander tells what happened on the corner of Capulet and Montegue. *character death*

"Some may judge me to be dumb. Some may say that Herbology doesn't prepare them for what they will face on the battlefield. I agree. But it's not only Herbology I teach them. It's patience and an eye for details; trust in their abilities and love for their chosen professions. Not something that will help them during the fighting. Because that's what I'm best at, working behind the scenes, preparing the warriors for the time after the war." Professor Sprout muses about her place in the world.

Snarls. Sniveling. Slap. Quiet murmurs, soft and scared. “Imperio!” A scream explodes at the base of his skull. Remus’s.

As Snape struggles to deal with the consequences of the Occulmency lessons, he meets a former classmate that has come to him as a last hope.

How will Harry and Ron cope with their greatest loss, and deal with their new empty space inside them? She was their best friend....

A sort of prologue to my fic "Forty Shades of Bewilderment". A ballad of sorts about Kelsey Potter, Harry Potter, Cedric Potter (or Cedric Diggory), Percy Weasley, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, Jenny Wren, and Jessica Potter. Each stanza ends with "long time ago".

Remus Lupin remembers his greatest love and greatest regret. During the first war against Voldemort, both sides took extreme measures to guarantee their safety and success. Here is one.

It was the end of the first war that Snape made a promise to those he held most dear but who have since passed.

As their lives fall to pieces around them, Helga Hufflepuff and Rowena Ravenclaw discover the spiteful trick fate has played on them. Each were led up to a forbidden destiny they cannot succumb to - lest they bring down the wrath of society. Founderfic, Helga/Rowena, Godric/Rowena, Helga/OC, Godric/OC. Femmeslash.

“Lumos.” A small beam of light reveals three feet of emptiness. Beyond is nothing but stifling, moist darkness. Accompany sixteen-year-old Severus into the tunnel where he goes through the single most terrifying experience of his entire life.

Ginny reflects on life after Harry...romantic, tragic, wistful...

Someone makes a decision.

As Lupin wanders through the Black house, he is overwhelmed by the memories it stirs. They won't leave him alone and he knows what the inevitable outcome must be.

A war over, a broken mirror, silver eyes and distanced laughter.