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No I would not sleep in this bed of lies``So toss me out and turn in``And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes``I'm marking it down to learning ``I am...``If you've ever been broken-hearted, or ever felt like you wouldn't love again, then read on.

"Barcelona, where the winds all blew, / The churches don't have windows, but the graveyards do. / Me and my shadow are wrestling again. / Look out stranger, there's a dark cloud moving in." First full moon after the Ministry break-in, and dear Moony is having a hard time living with himself. Reflections on lost friends and hopefully an insight into Remus's mind.

In her eyes he saw his soul. This is the story of the shattering of the last horcrux.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done. Written for the SiYE Open House Challenge.

How does Harry really feel about the Dursleys? We all think that he hates them, but is life ever that simple? Harry POV. Set in the future when Harry must protect his family from Death Eater attack.

Hermione thinks about how her life has been, the matters of family, friends, and the matters of her heart. Background of some parts of the story also come from "Reflections (3)", another of my stories

Set during CoS. Ginny stays in Hogwarts for Christmas while her parents go to Egypt to visit Bill. Amidst all that has happened in school, Ginny wonders whether Christmas has decided to abandon her during a time where she needs company most.

How do you live when you feel destined to die? Don't ask me. If I knew that, my life and death would be a lot easier.

“It’s over Malfoy. It’s finally over,” saying that, Harry fell down at Draco’s feet breathing heavily.

A lone figure stood in the field, next to the lake, the wind blowing her red hair all about. Silent tears were streaming down her face, mixing in with the rain as it fell. More thunder rumbled in the distance, but she was oblivious to all around her. GW/DM

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings/ look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!". In the desert there is only one law, and this law is: sand. Ginny/Bill.

A short vignette on how love can transcend the boundaries of war, death and even love.

Lighting the fire, she took the time to look at the pictures on top of the fireplace, something she had never found the time to do before, though she couldn’t think why. She could feel her eyes beginning to well up as she look down at a photograph that must have been taken years ago.

What is the song of a wandering man? Is it some tune that he remembers fondly from a time gone by? Or has that tune become so bitter that he can no longer hear it? And so he walks alone... and in silence.

It is Azkaban the day after Sirius Black has escaped. The Warden ponders where they might have gone wrong with Sirius Black

"Remus Lupin, are you pouting?" "I'm a werewolf. Werewolves do not pout." "You love me, Remus Lupin, and what's more I love you too!" Her cheeks flushed and her eyes sparked emeralds. "Then why are you dating James?" Short and bittersweet. *RemusLily*

Love, betrayal, anger and hate can drive a man to desperate measures. And further.

What would happen if Harry Potter really hadn't died the night of his and Gypsy's wedding? Where did he go and will he ever get back? (sequel to Shards of Glass)

A different light on Ginny Weasley... and what does Harry Potter think of it all?

"I grew up in a haunted house. This isn't who I wanted to be. You can never outgrow anything, and how does that make you feel? I'll never stop being one of them. I grew up with ghosts in my childhood and vampires in the bed next to me, and I'm not afraid of monsters anymore. And I'm stuck in the past and I can't get out, and I know that they're like that, too. I can feel it in their blood." Andromeda reflects on her family.

A look into a moment in the life of Regulus. Don't remember who Regulus is? You'll remember if you start reading. Haven't read OotP? Slight spoilers, but nothing too major (this story has nothing to do with Harry and what happens to him in Book Five). A bit of Regulus/Lily. Poor boy.

Ron speaks to Harry as the war rages on.

Harry deals with the death of Severus in his own way.

Post-DH. George contemplates surviving.

"It was too bad those beautiful dreams had to break. It was too bad the truth would never be that simple." (implied RL/SB slash)

He always liked nights best. One-Shot, Lucius Malfoy in Azkaban.

Draco has some things he needs to get off his chest.

Harry Potter has gone into hiding, but finally decides that he must begin the hunt for the Horcruxes, but at what costs?

"If this is death, he thought, it’s not quite as final as everyone thinks." As he falls through the Veil, Sirius watches the people he loves come to terms with what has happened.

Hermione's given Harry some advice for how to deal with his emotions about Sirius's death.

After her ordeal in the Chamber of Secrets, Ginny is in the Infirmary. Someone unexpected keeps her company and asks her strange questions.

D/G ficlet. Draco makes unsettling appearances in Ginny's dreams, as she begins to lose her grip on reality.``No one else had dared to kiss her the way he did. Confident and selfish. But in the morning, her covers are completely dry, immune to sticky sweat, the fevered skin she’d touched, and the hot breath that passed her lips.

Always being in love with the same person can lead to disasterous outcomes. Especially if you'll do wahtever it takes to be near your "love." DM/HG, contains rape.

A lifetime ago, she made her choice. The dusty memories of golden summers and broken bonds. Presenting the Postmortem Observations of Andromeda Black-Tonks

Following the defeat of Voldemort, Hermione seeks peace and Harry has other demons to face.

It’s Halloween, the day of the dead, and after the war there are plenty of dead people to remember. An ancient school, an old battlefield, and a new graveyard. Old enemies meet again, but nothing is quite the same. DM/CC pairing.

Harry fights with the confusing thoughts in his head as he realizes his attraction to the one person he would never expect to love. Songfic to Linkin Park's 'Somewhere I Belong'.

Remus finds something Sirius lost. He'd rather have Sirius. Character death, SB/RL.

How do you deal with a loss that is not just in your heart, but in the very heart of your home? ``Warning: Character Death

What happens after life? After you don't have a further will to live? After you're so empty it hurts? Well, sometimes, you just have to learn the hard way. By experiencing it for yourself.

Petunia tells about her past, telling about her envy of her sister in all things, and then, about her future.

Dedicated to family and anyone who has ever lost someone they loved. Time heals all wounds, but nothing can erase the scars. With Love.

"So here I am, hopelessly in love with Harry Potter whilst he hates me. No one can live a life without love. Not even Harry Potter. So I will slice open my veins, and let the romance bleed away. Goodbye Harry. I hope you cry actual tears at my funeral. I love you. Love Always, Percy" A letter from Percy to Harry.

Sirius struggles to grasp the meaning of death as he watches those he left behind grow up without him and the world he is no longer a part of change dramatically. Rated for mild language and adult themes.

AU. In a cold dark prison cell a young man sits alone, reflecting on his actions. Tomorrow Draco Malfoy will be resentenced for his crimes. As he waits he tries to justify what he did, but he knows in his heart that he deserves all he gets.

Harry knew they were up to something. Hermione would sneak off at all hours of the night, and Malfoy always sent those annoyingly "superior" looks to Ron. But what they were up to was much more than even he wanted to find out. (D/Hr, mild hint of H/G if you look real hard.)

In the beginning Harry is stranded in an unconcious state. He has almost lost hope, but then slowly regains it though the story.

They looked at us and they couldn't see past the hatred. They couldn't see the lust.

Silvius Malfoy, father of Lucius Malfoy, looks back on his childhood, his corruption, and his children.

Narcissa Malfoy wanders through her garden and wonders of what has she become, and if she could ever escape her prison.

Some mistakes are soon forgiven while some can never be.

"I am become Death, destroyer of Worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer Dark times are ahead and it's not getting any better. It's kill or be killed, and with the Apocalypse rising and on Voldemort's side, the impending war is upon them, and Dumbledore is dead, Harry and his new accomplice Kisa Cordova-Snape aren't even sure they can get through this alive.

"Harry thought she looked like a picture he'd seen in 'Holidays With Hags'..." What it's been like to grow up as the fat, ugly Slytherin.

Everyone has a limit, a point at which even the most opimistic person in world loses all hope. When suddenly they know there is no point anymore because it will all end badly. Yet some people still go on hoping after this because there is nothing else they can do when they are so removed from the wizarding world that it's all just stories in a newspaper. But they still feel the pain and even when there is no hope left they have to keep grieving and remember those who've died because it's all they can do.

Rows of gravestones mark the lives of friend gone. One man goes to the graveyard every year to visit them.

Can things get any worse? Ron Weasley doesn't believe they can, and he's never felt so happy in his life.

Draco and Hermione look at the moon one night and realize that there may be more than the hatred. NOT intended as a romance, although it can be perceived that way.

Everything in Harry's life is perfect. He's halfway through his seventh (and final) year, and life is great. Then the Dark Lord prepares to take the final step on his rise to power and no one is there to stop him.

When Draco fails to return to Hogwarts after the Christmas holidays Harry panics. A companion to "Nobody Came."

She waits. He doesn't come. Darkness falls.

You think muggle-borns are opressed? Wait until you meet Joseph Bloauiex, human/goblin mix!

Twin-centric one-shot set during Book 5, after the duo left Hogwarts Fred is being a twit. George is tired of it. They beat on each other. And a good time is had by all. Mentions of various other Weasleys, Hogwarts students and mild references to Fred/Angelina, George/Alicia and Angelina/Roger.

Brethren... two brothers separated by much more than a difference in blood, they re-meet in a time that is both dark and ultimately life-changing for them both. Will the bonds be forever broken or can the past really be forgotten?

Draco thinks back to his last night with Harry. One-shot. Draco's POV.

Remus feels betrayed by Sirius after he leads Snape to him [Chapter Eighteen of the Prisoner of Azkaban (on page 261 in the UK hardcover)]. sbxrl, jp+ss, jp+le.

AU. "I was born in Azkaban..." Following the death of her French grandfather, the daughter of Bellatrix Lestrange is brought to England to live with her relatives, the Malfoys. The story begins in the summer holidays between CoS and PoA.

The newest Weasley has faced problems before, but things are starting to get more complicated as she finds herself in a new relationship.

Hermione goes to visit Ron the night of his poisoning. Can she find it within herself to put all the heartache he's caused her aside? Is she willing to give him a final try? HBP Spoilers, song-fic to Beth Nielsen Chapman's 'Deeper Still'

Bellatrix Lestrange's mind is beautiful in the most twisted of ways... Companion to Perfection.

Remus searches to save Sirius. Inspired by the quote: "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."``-Josephus Daniels

Sometimes the answer hurts too much, and waiting is all you have left. H/D slash.

There is very little I can say when I feel this way.

Harry would die for the stars. Draco knows better.

Draco has died gruesomely and Hermione is left behind to lament his loss. Tchaikovsky and an old cracked mirror are her only confidants, and she struggles to accept the truth. Draco is dead and he's not coming back. Implied HG/DM romance. Warning, though: contains graphic death imagery and currents of self-harm.

"The cold stone remains there still, a silent reminder of what was lost..." Songfic to Savage Garden's Free to Fly.

“Hello, Remus.”``I didn’t even have to look up from my parchment; I knew that voice so well. ``“Hello, Sirius.”

Music, magic, madness, and a morning in Azkaban.

An Oliver-Percy remorse. All six-year-old Percy Weasley wanted was to learn how to fly. All seventeen-year-old Percy wants is freedom. One-sided Oliver and Percy slash, takes place during PoA. Features a missing Weasley son.

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." Ginny reflects on her parents' reaction to Tom Riddle's diary.

The future Mrs. Lestrange speculates on the ups and downs of being a female Death Eater: marriage, love, and sex, not to mention torturing Muggles.

The troll wasn't let loose and Hermione was never given that encounter to bond with Harry and Ron. She has no friends. With her gamble to create a life in the wizarding world failed, she isn't thinking straight. She looks over the ledge of the tower, but is interrupted by someone. A gen fic with NO PAIRINGS and the two starting the basis of even more hate. Rated for swearing.

"I hate you, Harry Potter... I wonder if you could ever love me too." The line between love and hate is very thin. Draco Malfoy knows this all too well.

"So you understand then the predicament in which we are mired." When Remus Lupin is captured, it could spell the end of the Order. The unlikely intervation of Severus Snape brings an unsettling salvation. RL/SB overtones. One-shot.

"Nobody ever tells toys that the child they look after, comfort and play with in their youth will grow up and forget you. I thought she would love me for ever. But she left and forgot me." A look at life through the eyes of a Wizarding toy

Sometimes it's very hard to fit in, and sometimes it's hard to realise that you already do.

'She knew that his eyes would fail, that his faith would erode, that his wings would crumble to dust. And that then, he himself would dissipate into the wind like the smell of wood smoke on a winter’s day.' But all is not lost. There is hope. She is hope embodied.

"She shouldn't have died like that." "She shouldn't have died at all!" * Everything can change in seven years. Hermione's dead, and now Harry must confront everything he thought he left behind.

The golden trio are in their fifth year but Hermione is feeling blue. The happy, cheerful boys she first made friends with are rapidly disappearing. Hermione spends the day remembering all those times she’s had to be there for them and all the times they haven’t been there in return. Unless she stays strong she may lose them completely...

Remus gets a letter from a certain Rubeus Hagrid; an attempt to help a certain boy hero sets Lupin on a trip down memory lane. Very minor RL/JP slash.

A dark secret from Ginny's past has prevented her from having an intimate relationship with everyone she's ever dated. Will Neville's patience and understanding give her what she needs to take back control of her life? An angsty N/G love story.

Remus is counting; first to one, then to four and then, finally, only to two.

When Ginny Weasley began writing in Tom Riddle's diary, she had no idea what it would lead to...

Sirius Black is a young wizard whose outlook on life has been tainted by his emotionally abusive family. He is fervent to continue school so he can escape his demanding parents and become his destiny...

Shortly after Regulus's death, Sirius reminisces about his brother.

Harry thinks about losing a father figure yet again. His reaction is anything but ordinary.

A little over the week after the final battle with Voldemort Ginny Weasley, the only survivor, wakes from a coma like state to find that everyone in the Order was killed, including her entire family, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter. She walks that night, trying to come to terms with what has happened.

Grief can push even a good man to extremes. How far will Lupin go?

Years since he as murdered but why does it seem so weird? Why is it so hard to deal? But what happens if he came back?

"Smiles can be faked. Do not assume everyone who smiles is happy." Harry finally succeeds in defeating the Dark Lord, or so everyone believes-- everyone except Harry. Something grows in his mind, beginning as a whispery voice but then much stronger, causing his loved ones to disappear from his sight. Only one person seems unaffected by this disease, or what ever it is, and that one person may be the only one capable of helping Harry. The question arises, though, does that person want to? H/D

Harry began to pace up and down the small space. “My whole life’s been like something out of a bloody book! And this is just not the way the story ends. I’m supposed to be able to fight the evil, not just sit down in a cave and wait to die.” -- JK Rowling finds Harry so real, she felt almost like she was channeling him. Well... what if she was?