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On the eve of the final battle, Peter Pettigrew reflects on how things came to this.

"He can’t come back, Harry." I was choking on the words even as I said them. Not wanting to believe them any more than Harry, and hating them for being true. But I had to say them. “He can’t come back because he’s dead.”

Draco is in love. But where goes the line between love and madness?

Hermione receives a letter asking her to volunteer for war. She reluctantly agrees even though she is terrified that she'll never see her family, friends or love again. One-shot. Hermione/Draco.

Timeframe - post-Hogwarts; pairings - Hagrid/OC, implied R/Hr; Hagrid and Catherine are trying to adopt a child. Wait...Hagrid, a father?

One-shot, intended as a supplement to OotP, a "missing scene" if you will. Years after their affair, Bellatrix finally exacts her revenge on Remus in the Department of Mysteries.

"Tragic romance is no new thing to the world...The story is so old, no one can remember exactly how it started. But these two, they have decided to write another chapter." Not all love stories have a happy ending... NOT a song fic. D/Hr.

Songfic to Hero from the Spider-Man soundtrack. Harry reminisces about his life as a 'hero' and his feelings for a certain someone. Takes place at the beginning of Harry's 7th year.

Mrs. Granger takes her daughter for tea the weekend after she returns home from her fifth year of school. Hermione finally lets her parents know what's really going on in the wizarding world.

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall, and as he did all he could see was the mermaid. He knew she was the mermaid, although her form shifted like the tides, and some numbed part of his brain was telling him about shock and hallucinations, but all he could see was her, and he was still falling.

Remus thinks about letters from his past and writes one of his own to Sirius.

It’s the irony of it all that just really gets me. The irony of the book of life, written by someone long dead; the irony of writing about something beautiful, when there is ugliness all around; the irony of writing about sight, when you are blind. The irony of writing about love, when you can love no more, oh, that’s the greatest of them all, that it is. R/Hr

Padma reflects on Parvati, her brother, her mother and father, Mandy Brocklehurst, her former boyfriend, Voldemort, her best friends, and Hogwarts all in a hazy afternoon, during the summer holidays.

He is manipulated and trapped, but his love for her keeps him going...GoyleHermione, DracoHermione

Songfic. James did something horrible, and Lily found out. How can she forgive him, but most of all, how can he forgive himself? Prepare to cry.

How do I explain? ``How do I put words to something with no words?``How do I make you understand? ``How do I show you war? ``How can I ever show you death?

After the final battle at Hogwarts, Neville reflects on the events of the past and begins to lose himself... until someone unexpected is able to pull him back. Short and sweet.

Seven years after the final battle, Snape considers a few personal demons.

Hermione and Ron are meant to be together, but will they forever miss their chances to be together? Ron already has, and seems to have given up forever (see my fic A House That Might Have Been). Will Hermione have the courage to voice her feelings for a second time, or will she marry Krum? Sweet companion piece to A House That Might Have Been.

She would never do that. She couldn’t. After all, it was him.

A take on Percy's point of view during the events of Christmas in the Half-Blood Prince.

Draco loves Harry, Harry loves some slut. Depression, angst, suicidal thoughts, love, sarcasm, slash and a lot of questions. HPDM. ONE SHOT!

Sequel to A Moment in Time. Whatever happened to Draco after that moment? And what about Hermione?

Sirius Black put up with his family for sixteen years. But one day he ran away. It was freedom, it was liberation, but in a way it hurt. Because some things are painful, even to a sixteen-year-old boy.

Nearly Headless Nick is a ghost because he was afraid of death - how about the others? What do the Hogwarts ghosts think about death, their own in particular? Is there any hope for them?

Pansy is in love with Draco, but Draco is with Harry. What do you think she will do to get them back together? Will she go too far?

"Your parents, you have been told, are heroes." Neville Longbottom reflects.

Hermione initiates; Ron concludes; Harry assists; Draco suffers for his sins.

During a snowbound winter, Sirius' desire to protect Remus grows stronger.

How does Molly Weasley really feel about her clock? What tortures has it put her through? Set on the night of the battle at the Ministry of Magic

Harry's had a lot to think about over the summer before his fifth year, and for the first time, he puts his thoughts on parchment.``"I guess that writing your feelings out does ease the pain a bit after all."

Companion fic to "How the Lion Became a Weasel" by Starry-eyed Writer.``Ginny blames Harry for Ron's death, and seeks revenge. With the help of shy, quiet Neville, will she reach her goal?

"Absence makes the heart grow fungus" - when two people have been forcibly seperated for over a decade, and reunited only briefly before being seperated again, it's not easy to pick up where they left off. Remus/Sirius, during OotP.

Peter wages a losing battle with his own fear. Set in early 1981.

What would it be like - losing your magic?

A lone wizard wakes on the last battlefield, but even surviving the main event can't prepare him for the shock of one confrontation. One-shot (for now). Darkfic, angst, suspense (hopefully), character deaths, implied slash. HBP-compliant, so 'ware the spoilers.

They say that hindsight is 20/20. Here is a tale told in hindsight. Begin at the end and see the mistakes, the confessions, the forbidden. Power is in passion, but knowing the outcome, what is changed? BZ/HP. Implied DM/BZ. Implied DM/HP.

Harry blames himself for Sirius' death. Finally, he decides to do something about it.

Harry and Draco live off of each other. Silent understanding passes through emerald/grey/green/blue eyes.

A songfic to Mandy Moore's 'Cry.' Draco has a change of heart and makes a life altering decision during a heart to heart conversation with Ginny.

What's it like for Angelina Johnson to be one of the few black students at Hogwarts? Well, to be honest, she's never given it much thought. After all, there's much more bigotry in the wizarding world against Muggle-borns and half bloods. But after befriending an angry young African American Muggle-born student at the Salem Wizarding Academy in the U.S., Angelina learns an important lesson about her heritage as a black witch.

Harry and Remus write to Sirius after his death. Slightly AU? The two most important people in Sirius's life try to gain some closure that might not come. Story starts strange but a plot soon emerges.

After the war, all Theodore Nott has left is his childhood home and a ghost that won't let him forget.

He likes his whiskey. He longs for the strong taste that takes him away from his life, giving him a place to get away. And he finds himself addicted; addicted to what isn't.

This is a story of a girl, Kat Meyers (not American), who has been friends with the gang for all their years of Hogwarts. Over the summer before fourth year, something happened to make the outgoing girl stop talking and smiling and being the friend Harry used to know. What's happened and what's with the pointe shoes? Could it be something to do with Voldemort? Is Harry really the only one Voldemort's after?

A sequel to Painful Decisions, we see how Draco has coped with Harry's death.

Slight songfic to Evanescence's "My Immortal." It's the very last battle, and Minerva discovers that it's hard to lose a student, but even harder when they were like your own child. It's always hard to say goodbye. Slight AD/MM, character death and sadness.

Her crush is just a teenage one. His is just fascination, and he knows it could be misconstrued so easily. He had resist - but can it be kept from her? A very short fic hinting at Remus/Luna.

A poignant glance at the sparks of childhood enmity between Severus Snape and James Potter. Short-short story, companion to "Pretty Hate Machine."

From one war into another, Hogwarts remains a sanctuary. Harry/Draco.

Come here and sit a while with me; I will sit you on my knee, and we can pretend The past twenty years away— Run a timeline parallel to our dizzying private hell— Throw them into a wishing well.

The sound of flying cutlery caught the woman's attention and she looked up to see the twins with identical mischievous grins charming silverware to set itself on the table. She heard a squeal and saw Hermoine as she dove away, giggling like mad, and she turned when she heard her mother's bellow as she berated the scheming pair. Then, as suddenly as they appeared, they vanished, leaving a cold and silent kitchen suffocating her.

Draco thinks about how easy it would be to end his life. Rated PG13 for sucidal thoughts.

Sequel to The Last Hour. You are a young girl whose life was once riddled with pain. You are a young girl who nobody mourned. You are a young girl consumed with hatred. You are a young girl. This is your second chance.

Did you ever wonder how the fall of Lily and James came about? Why did Sirius convince them to make Peter their secret keeper? How was Dumbledore unaware? How did the last battle fought? This is an account of what happened when Lily and James Potter found out their baby son was to save the world from Lord Voldemort.

This is the story of Remus Lupin, condensed considerably, and to the lyrics of the wonderful song Unwanted by Avril Lavigne.

Hermione pauses every time she uses the Time Turner.

"I am a rock / I am an island / And a rock feels no pain / And an island never cries" A Snape songfic inspired by a Freelancer Music Video.

Evan Rosier finds himself in need of some company the night of his twenty-first birthday, and Lucius Malfoy reluctantly decides to oblige him. Drunken inner ramblings and bitchiness abound.

Ginny feels like a ghost.

A companion to She Waits told from Harry's POV. You might find out why, or you may leave with more questions.

All Aurors spend at least an hour in Azkaban as part of their training. None of them enjoy it. One of them had better get used to it...

Draco sees Harry through an artist's eye - a beautiful blend of light and shadow. When Harry discovers Draco's fixation, what will his reaction be? A story of lust, obsession, love, and beauty in the highest sense - a story of light and shadow

When Harry loses his sight in a battle against Voldemort, Draco doesn't know what to do or how to act around the injured wizard. However, eventually a plan comes to him. H/D slash.

Upon her passing, he reminisces, and mourns as he realizes that she's no longer there, and must accept it as it comes. Short fic, inspired by sad music.

She knows what's coming... she knows that her child is being cradled in Death's arms... and yet, she can't convince herself that it's real. Will Lily Potter finally come to grips with her son's fate... and her own?

An angsty Cho Chang monologue. On why she cries. Mentions tradition, angst, family, confusion, Cedric and Harry. A chance for Cho-fans to read an interpretation of what she went through, and Cho-haters to take a look from her point of view.

In the aftermath of tragedy, Remus Lupin sought an escape. A man with nothing to lose and nothing to leave behind, but on a moonless night in a gypsy camp, he learns how to grieve—and finds out things he never saw in himself in the process.

Draco doesn't know what to choose.

"That led to the question someone, no doubt, would ask: Why did I commit all these dreadful acts of terrorism?" While weak, powerless, and in exile, Voldemort ponders the answer he would give to this question for the benefit of history -- and it is both more complicated and much simpler than one might think...

A one shot from Harry's point of view about the war around him and those he loves. (H/D)

Just lots of talking, really. Remus and Severus have a conversation after James and Sirius, the buggers, make a fool out of Severus yet again.````Set after the scene Harry observes in Snape's Pensieve. Very light slash.

A musing that ends in the unevitable death of two mystery characters is kept secret as the two share a moment in time.

Minerva McGonagall was not present in the Department of Mysteries. However, her understanding of the death is just as painful as everyone elses. Three parter, spoilers for OotP.

What do you do when you look up to the heavens and find no solace, no comfort? What happens when you face the devil himself and even with all the odds against you, you defeat him? I shall never find answers to these questions, for I am Hermione Granger, and I am only a survivor of the war, not the end of the war itself. Written in Hermione's POV, it covers her life with her son, Sam after Harry left her almost five years ago.

Severus reflects upon his vows - past and present - and his own motives. This leads him back to the one person he has ever loved: R. A. B.

Depression and Sorrow engulf Remus Lupin's life. He can think of only one thing... and it haunts him like a ghost.

Ginny is totally in love with Draco Malfoy. But what happens when they get together in the dungeons.

My vision of the last 30-45 min. of Lily and James Potter. She has questions, he answers--again, my vision. Songfic loosely based on the song Moonlight Shadow from the game Dance Dance Revolution.

Harry knows he is about to die. There is no one left to save him. But help comes from the most unlikely of places, a Death Eater, and his enemy. A boy who he thought hated him.

Draco loves Harry. Harry doesn't know. Draco decides that for Harry's good they can never get together and takes it to the extreme to make sure that never happens. But what happens when something happens? (Not another Harry-comes-behind-Draco-before-he-jumps fic!) DM/HP slashy goodness!

Harry's gone and he probably won't come back. He left everything to keep her safe. But he didn't think of the effect it would have in the one person he loves the most in the world. Now he's coming back for a little while to try and fix things.

At the end of "Phoenix", Lucius Malfoy is arrested as a Death Eater. What happens to Draco now that his father's identity is made public? Set within Azkaban itself.

Some may mourn the death of heros. Some may not- but Draco bitterly remembers the roads Harry Potter closed for him, and the fourth dimension that every hero hides from the public eye, only to be brought out in the face of the enemy: hatred.

"And in the mirror he read his truth and counted all the new-old ways he'd failed." Remus Lupin reflects on the many ways in which he fell short.

As Harry’s hand reached out and grasped the glass doorknob, he knew one thing was for certain – this night would be bad. And tomorrow would be beyond imagining.

Years ago Severus Snape met the love of his life. But Vernon and Petunia Dursley aren't the only Muggles who hate magic. And prejudice can go both ways. Love hurts and the loss hurts even more.

This is a last goodbye to my 'Subplot/Unplottable'-universe and therefore heavily AU: After serving Voldemort as a nameless fighter, Snape returns to Hogwarts.

Prequel to "Written on the Wind." Draco stumbles upon secrets, forgotten from long ago.

Harry and Hermione experience the pros and cons of memory charms.

"My hands are stained." On Harry's first day at Hogwarts, Snape ponders damnation and redemption.

Does killing an enemy kill part of you? Are good and evil opposites, or are the two sides really only a heartbeat apart?

Harry reflects in the showers after Gryffindor loses badly in a Quidditch match, but shares his disappointment with someone he never expected. Harry/Cedric.

Remus Lupin has seen life and he has seen death. But as he confronts the latest of his griefs, he must come to terms with the duty that has befallen him in the wake of tragedy.

The Final Battle takes place at Hogsmeade, during Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts. He defeats Voldemort, but loses his life to a Death Eater after fulfilling the Prophecy. But before dying, he has made an indelible mark in the heart of one whose love was as absolute as her faith. Can Luna survive without him to live for? And can someone take his place?

Kristus Vesanus has never lived an ordinary life. He spends his days in fear and doubt, away from magic, even though that is the heritage he was born into.

Symbiosis - n. A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

"She was all that he ever truly had, and then she was gone, away from his cruel words and cold stares. He never realized he needed her more than anything. Could he even have her back, hold her again and be complete again? Hope fluttered in him, and he wondered if he dared to acknowledge it."

"Tom never left you, not completely. He’s just been… dormant all these years. Waiting for his chance. Hurting you in whatever way he could. Tom was a memory, right? A memory trapped in a diary. Now he’s a memory trapped in you, and he won’t let you forget.”