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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.”

When the war is over there have been betrayals of the worst kind. The only thing Draco wants now is vengeance for the death of the girl he loved.

While visiting the Burrow over Winter Break in an alternate version of Harry's fifth year, Harry and Cho visit Cedric Diggory's grave to pay their respects in the manner of Cho's ancestors.

Sirius explains to Remus exactly how he and Snape first got together--and how they split up. Companion piece to I Dream of You in Shadow.

Hermione tries to get Harry to stop isolating himself from his loved ones - after all, cutting himself off from them is only causing pain. One-shot, H/Hr.

A set of seven short stories depicting the relationship between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black.

(Slash; Sirius/Remus) Short, improv. Before, during, and post-Azkaban. Forever is never a promise, no matter how hard one wishes.

Some people suggest it was just selfishness on Snape's part to stop his Occlumency lessons with Harry, but perhaps Snape's reasons run far deeper. A Snape's POV response to the OotP chapter "Snape's Worst Memory."

The summer day had ended, yet not everyone had been granted sleep. He had wanted to be alone, and she had wanted a drink to defeat her insomnia. He remembered, and she watched. And both had wondered.

Snape has an unwelcome nighttime visitor.

Peter Pettigrew meets his first true love over a game of Gobstones.

The sequel to The First Piece of Silver. Peter Pettigrew meets Regulus Black at a party, Voldemort courts Dark creatures, and wheels are set in motion. Peter thinks he's doing the right thing. He's wrong.

The Founders were the beginning of everything; they started off so happy, so what went wrong? And why did Salazar really disappear?

On and on does anybodt know what we are living for?

Once hurt and alone, Peter finds himself in a seemingly perfect relationship only to discover that not everything is what it seems and a kind mask can hide a monster.

Extremely short ficlet on the frayed relationship of Ginny & Harry. Edited for Post DH effect.

"What is your ambition, Miss Lestrange?" "Sir?" "To be worthy of your name, perhaps, or to redeem it in the eyes of men, or maybe to be so ordinary that you will be swept away in the tide of the unfulfilled desires of lesser hearts and beached by the lacklustre dreams around you." Contains references to self-harm. Also contains french poetry.

A very young Severus Snape takes his first steps into the Dark Wizarding world.

{The natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body.} She forgets all about hating him when he touches her like this. (D/G)

Even though Remus feels that he has been to enough funerals to not be affected by Sirius's death, a visit from Harry right before the funeral shows him he might be wrong.

Crossover: Harry Potter/The Sentinel. While waiting for the release of Book Five, a certain detective gets caught up in a very strange, yet oddly familiar, universe.

Just how many extra hours did Hermione log during her stressful third year? How did she survive her insane academic schedule? The answer: Well, she wouldn’t have survived had it not been for … close friends.

Voldemort reflects on his childhood. Then his years at Hogwarts. And finally, his rise to power. Entrances made by Voldie and Bellatrix.

Draco dreams, and has to decide where his allegiances lie—with Harry, or Voldemort.

A year after Harry dies fighting Voldemort, his husband, Ron Weasley goes through Harry's old things. But what Ron finds changes his life forever.

So how did Ginny really deal with things after the CoS incidents? Let me tell you... not that great!

Katie Bell never knew her father, but it never really bothered her. She had her mother, her grandfather, and her daydreams about Oliver Wood to occupy her time. But what happens when lies from her mother's past threaten to affect her future? (Takes place during OotP)

Ginny sneaks out to the Astronomy Tower where she meets Draco Malfoy. They tell each other a little bit about themselves, and end up... well, that would give everything away now wouldn’t it?

The Final Battle approaches and the question of whether Draco can be trusted to make the right decision is finally answered ... by Crookshanks.

Draco never realizes that he has lost something until after it's lost; after all, they never matter. Then, he loses Blaise, and Draco learns that some things are meant to be kept close to the heart.

Sequel to My Life. "They destroyed the only people I ever loved and still they were surprised by my hatred."

Lord Voldemort has finally been defeated and with this, rejoicing is in order... or is it? Harry and Draco come to a final confrontation. Harry does the hardest thing he’s ever had to do (even including killing the Dark Lord). Emotions are nothing when it comes to the end.

Most of his unit have hit the deck, but he sees a man stand to fight. Before he can cry out there is a flash of green light. He would like to say the man falls as if in slow motion, but in truth it is as quick as if he were falling off a broomstick.

Poe's Annabelle Lee Potterfied. No big spoilers, unless you know nothing of Harry Potter and the wizarding world.

"Why did you leave me with my empty soul? You knew you were the greatest thing that ever happened to me. Why did you leave anyways? What did I do to feel this pain? It’s... breaking me. My life hangs by a thread and don’t know what to do." The sequel to Numb As a Broken Soul.

The only place Lucius Malfoy and Severus Snape can be together is in their scars. (WARNING: slash and self-mutilation.)

Sometimes things seem different from another's perspective. Especially when that someone is brown and furry and looking down from a shelf.

What was going through Snape's head as he died? What was he thinking about, and who?

"The hardest part about taking care of a person dying inch-by-inch isn't the sleepless nights, the wrenched back from lifting once (or twenty times) too often, or the isolation. The hardest part is afterwards." Gregory Goyle/Millicent Bulstrode (GG/MB) (Sequel to 'Memory Like Old Lace')

Narcissa Malfoy reflects on a marriage that hasn’t gone quite as she planned. Songfic to Les Miserables On My Own. One-shot.

Just a one-shot angsty, yet slightly fluffy look into Hermione's late night musings.