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Hermione's dead and Harry's worse than dead. How will Harry handle the love of his life's departure? A very angsty one-shot. Song-fic to NickleCreek's "Hanging By a Thread". Contains suicide, character death, and over all unhappiness.

Lucius is standing at his son's grave, thinking of the choices he's had to make and the price he's had to pay. Could it be that Lucius had a heart after all? Songfic of Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan.

Hermione has always been able to rationalize everything. But now she's at a complete loss. When did it begin? How can she understand without knowing when it started? Harry/Draco, with some unrequited love and angsty pondering. There are some things even Hermione can't comprehend.

He comes to her and strokes her head. He doesn't whisper promises of happiness, because they will evaporate come the next full moon, and his head in her lap, and they will stare at the moon together. Hermione/Remus, post-Hogwarts. Warning for Character Death

Draco Malfoy can tell you how to cope with frightening burdens, though his method may not be fun. A Draco character sketch, set during and immediately after his sixth year.

Companion to An Age. Remus takes a moment to reflect on the last moments of Sirius' life, and what they meant to him. R/S slash.

Remus finds himself in a horrid situation with another. How lonely it's been without his friends, especially, more recently, without Sirius. Implied Remus/Sirius.

What if a magical version of the incident at Columbine happened at Hogwarts? Three guesses on who finally snaps. One-Shot.

“Outside the confines of the windows are the rustles of false autumn warmth, hums of a distant day... you realise that all senses eventually come back to the deep longing for roaring waves.” Remus/Sirius dark slash.

Song fic. Ginny finally breaks ties with the one person she knew best.

The last note rang out and the last words fell from my mouth. Forever. It was a whisper on the air of the hall. I looked out into the hall. Never had I done this before, but I felt compelled to tell them. I had never sung before, but as I proved, I could sing in a club. I swept the tables with my gaze, picked up my glass and started.

Porcelain, are you wasting away in your skin? Are you missing the love of your kin? Drifing and floating and fading away... (H/D slash)

For all we've learned about Snape and his past, we haven't ever seen why it was that he left the Death Eaters. This is one idea.

When three could have been one. The Amelia Bones story.

In a spot of bother with Goblins, Augustus Rookwood seeks the help of the Dark Side - which helps him out. However, in return, they want a favor. The favor is not to be in Gold and Silver, but in Flesh and Blood. What is the favor? What does it have to do with Dahlia Black? Will she be able to solve her mysterious past, equipped with only her wits and her knowledge of Runes... a story set in the MWPP era, where memories are black and white, self-obliviating after a while, and friends are not forever.

It's not called "The Forbidden Forest" for nothing! Bane/Umbridge one-shot, a missing scene fic from OotP. WARNING: if you feel that human/centaur relations constitute bestiality, this is going to rattle your cage.

Ginny's world is torn apart by the war, but the broken pieces of the life she knew are now held by the most unlikely person.

Finally she lifted the mental block that the witch had placed on her own mind for the sake of others. Finally she allowed herself the luxury of memory.

Sirius is in Azkaban, and Remus, his friend and lover, is heart broken. He is approached by the Death Eaters. At first he refuses, but then in the end he gives in. Very AU, has Voldemort as a spirit entity.

Snape reflects on how long it has taken him to learn what Roosevelt said so well: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." Dumbledore's death is a high price to pay for this lesson.

Ron has loved Hermione since first year. Hermione hasn't always returned the feelings. But, they'll always be friends, and nothing more.

Remus mourns after OotP, and remembers better times: kisses and sunlight and lazy afternoons. Sirius/Remus, a bit dark and certainly angsty. Warnings for character death.

It's their first Hogsmeade trip and Ron and Hermione are without Harry. What could ever come of this? A missing moment from PoA.

She\'s moving onwards and upwards. No dwelling. Bitter? Hardly. She never thinks about what could have been. Or very rarely anyways.

"I was given something great, then had it so hastily taken away. I learned to feel, and then I lost all feeling. I learned to love, and then I lost my lover. I was given a reason to live, and then I was given a reason to die." ``Post-war fic about how Draco Malfoy tries to pic up the pieces and move on. HP/DM.

The first time you showed interest in me was in our fifth year. You still weren't the person who captured me, but interesting, more intriguing of what I liked to admit. I knew you were a Malfoy; you came from an ancient pure-blooded family and everybody who could look beyond prejudices could see it. It was in your way of walking, with your head held up high, not showing-off, but simply proud of who you were.

After a painful heartache, Harry goes off to sulk in an abandoned corridor...or at least, he thought it was abandoned. "Why did you trust Draco, Harry...look what it's done!" Includes H/Hr (not for long), R/Hr, H/D (my personal favorite)

To sum up, to let this world enjoy once again rainbows, butterflies and peanut butter I have to kill him or to be killed. This is what Dumbledore told me. But how? How can I?

Hermione had been fearing for her family's safety in the troubled times of the Second War. She never thought it would take something far more common and irrevocable than a magical war to tear her secure world apart.``Rated for mature emotional themes.``AU after HBP as it is set in an intact Hogwarts.

I was falling. The first time I saw him, I was falling. Before I knew it, I was falling.

Remus sits and writes a letter to his lost friend - remembering the past and looking to the future.

"You failed her, you know.."

In life, they were kept apart. Now, she seeks her own way out of the mortal coil, leaving him behind. The last thoughts of a girl before she pushes life aside, and those of the man she loves. Rated R for suicide.

They say that midway between Heaven and Hell, Heaven's Lost reside. This time, Blaise and Draco are ready to break the rules.

"I often dream of you, and the dreams are almost always in the shaded brownish greys of a fading photograph. My own feelings are lost in a sea of emptiness, wind in my hair, tears on my cheeks, your voice a haunting song on the endless waves of sorrow. I call out to you, but there’s no one beside me at night. The burning emptiness beside me lies on the icy sheets of a bed too big for me alone."````Ginny speaks of Draco. Companion piece to Something I Can Never Have, but you do not need to have read that to understand this one.

First in a trilogy. --- "Let's seal this deal shall we, Father?" A cold sneer came across Lucius Malfoy's face as he looked at his only son. His heir. "You will do this, to what end? How can you ensure her safety?" "I trust you, Father. A Malfoy keeps his word. Finish the deal." Lucius grabbed his son's head roughly by his hair, jamming the Muggle revolver against his temple. "Any last words, son?" --- In their seventh year at Hogwarts, the Trio, Draco and Ginny all face difficult choices. Whether it is who to love, who to save, who to support or simply how to survive. A story of defiance, desertion and love.

Pansy Parkinson doesn't get much to say about anything. She's just your average bad-egg Jane with a heart of stone. But what does this cold-blooded girl have to say when her own heart is melted by the Prince of Darkness Draco Malfoy? Enter her world and discover that everyone is human after all.

The boy who looked back at him was familiar and yet so very different. He was not the boy who lived; there was a smile that went right to his eyes and no scar to remind him of the past.

It’s quiet. No…it’s silent. It’s ironic how the silence can seem so noisy when you’re used to the sound of feet bounding down the stairs...

Just because he was gone, didn't mean he wasn't still with her every day.

Not really very summarise-able. Harry/Draco hate, hurt, lust, love. Sex. Angst.

A songfic. What happens when you're tired of being what someone else wants you to be? Become numb. Major Draco angst type stuff.

The events leading up to Remus and Tonks' marriage and eventual death. What would have made Remus allow himself to be close to Tonks? How would Tonks feel about him after he breaks her heart twice? What would have brought them to the final battle, both prepared to fight?

"She felt as though she saw them now as through a glass, through some lens of unmeasured misery..." A post OotP look at how one character attempts to deal with life in the face of death and the intangible nature of faith. Slight Remus/Minerva.

The second piece of the Shatter Trilogy. What happens when the secret's out and promises become nothing more than fading words?

Harry's never had evil thoughts, not without being inhabited by Voldemort. But now, when depression has hit him hard, he finds himself with disturbing thoughts all his own prowling in his mind. And as he spirals downward...he starts to lose his love for Ginny and his ability to feel anything besides numb...

'It’s a horrible place to be; lost in your own darkness' The only thing he has to survive on is her memory. Companion to They Ask Me Why I Smile but can be read seperately. Draco/Pansy

Sirius caught a glimpse of the moon. Sirius/Remus

A three-part story about the Black sisters learning that they aren't really Blacks - they are the children of Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall. And Albus Dumbledore is not the man he appears to be. All three stories centre around a single event.

Remus loves everything and anything. Like Sirius often says, he's too good to the world. Unfortunately, those who are too good are often those who leave before their time.... After two years of undisturbed sleep, Remus's mind finally slips further. Sirius tries to come to terms with this, remembering that not as good a person as Remus can ever be forgotten completely. Faintly implied RL/SB.

When there's no where to go, nowhere to run, what else is there to do, just end all the fun.

You can’t see tears in the rain. And for that sole reason, she waited and yearned for the rain to come. So that she could cry her sadness away. Hermione loved the rain.

"I wanted to destroy something beautiful." ("Fight Club") And he very nearly had the chance.

Young Severus Snape discovers that choosing a side can come with a steep price.

A songfiction based on the events of ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and the lyrics to Garth Brooks' song, STANDING OUTSIDE THE FIRE. Harry reflects on the Mauraders after one of their deaths. SPOILERS

...I pound my hands on the wall, ignoring the blood running from them. "We were friends!" He can't hear me now, he's too far away, but I can't stop screaming. "We were friends! We were friends!"

If the past is a different country, could you do things differently there? Remus Lupin has visited it many times.

"There is no good and evil. There is only power, and those too weak to seek it."

A tale on the Bloody Baron - What is his connection to Peeves and the Grey Lady, and why is he covered in bloodstains? A tale of intrigue and regrets.

A reflection on the war, and the hero that won it. The narrator is up to you. "So if I want one thing to be remebered about all of us, it is that we were only human."

In canon, it is definite that Dean Thomas is a talented artist. But why? How did he become interested in art in the first place? This flashback to Dean's past tells that story.

All that remained was a box full of memories. (Remus/Sirius)

Alone in his house, Draco drinks and takes women in an effort to forget the only girl he ever loved. But try as he might, he can' t seem to stop himself thinking about her.

What happened to Remus after the fight in the Department of Mysteries? How does he deal with losing Sirius?

On Severus Snape's birthday, two people come together for drunken introspection and might just wind up friends.

Neville pauses to remember his childhood friend, Greasy Johnson.

Stalking. Killing. Watching. Closer, closer. Stalking. Stalking. Writing. Stalking. Killing. Dying.

The war is raging, Draco is contemplating what it has cost and is missing his fiancee.

What is more important in the life of Rodolphus Lestrange? His devotion for the Dark Lord or his love for his wife?

First in a series of songfics from the score of Les Miserables. You don’t have to know the story to understand this one, but it might help to see the connections. Remus Lupin ponders the loss of his friends after the events in the Department of Mysteries. Some indiscriminate time period after OotP.

OOTP fic. Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater learn to live with what little they can have.

Both Harry and Remus must decide how to reclaim their relationship in the aftermath of the War. (Harry/Remus; implied Remus/Voldemort non-con). Dark.

A short vignettish-type fic focusing on Draco, and peripherally on a Draco/Ginny relationship. Draco vents frustrastion and things are broken.

Sirius and Remus were not a particularly happy couple during the time of Voldemort's first rise. Suspicion ran rampant between the two, each certain that the other was the traitor. Finally, the two separated - temporarily. But 'temporary' can end up being a very long time indeed.

Sirius Black has just escaped from the hell that is Azkaban and is on the run. In the strange, twilight world that exists between the Wizard and Muggle worlds, he learns some of the cruel realities of life here in the underworld. Striking up an uneasy friendship with a strange, deadly clair-sentient named Morgan, the two begin the long journey to Hogwarts. Stopping at an inn in the border village of Mangletorn in the Scottish Lowlands, Sirius is jarringly reminded of an episode from his and James Potter's past, and learns another cruel truth about himself.

"Everything down here in Britain seems to be done over a cup of tea. Everything: Order Meetings – though I don’t attend – afternoon snacks, talks with adults, homework, whatever. Everything. Indeed adults seem to love tea, it’s an unhealthy obsession. Don’t now why though. I can just picture Mrs. Weasley with her purple apron: 'Have a cup of tea, dear,' she says, 'everything’ll be all right.' Or Lupin, sipping his tea silently, alternatively either nose deep in a book, or staring into space, imperturbable. Tonks, even! Well – when she’s not breaking the tea pot. All of them. Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape. All…" Yes! Another middle-of-the-night-tea-scene! Hermione centred *one shot* gen. fic; not really angsty.

Stemming from a line that popped into my head one evening after an Armchair Chat, describing Draco lying in the snow, dying. A rather dark little piece on role-reversal.

You do notice that even though he’s not going to Hogsmeade, Draco clearly does have a destination. He is not merely wandering the grounds.” Draco is preoccupied (‘I never told anyone about what you did to me,’ Draco says…) and determined to take care of the problem himself. You are about to find out what “with the passion of a thousand suns” can mean…

Many years ago Sirius Black played a horrible trick on Severus Snape. Snape has always hated the marauders for this, but what if it wasn't Sirius' fault? A look at the events that transpired that fateful night through the eyes of the only one who knows the truth... SS/SB slash

When Bellatrix Black awoke in the middle of the night, there was only one who would understand and ease her worries. The teenage Bellatrix and Rodolphus have a nightly talk about their dreams for the future.

After the Death Eaters lose the war, Snape is awaiting trial when someone makes him an unexpected offer.

You can't always get what you want.... Ron loves Harry, but Harry doesn't exactly feel the same.

A rather different view of Draco. Here Draco confronts how his father brought him up and realizes that he does not want to be what his father felt he should be. Based on the song "Numb" by Linkin Park.

Coming back from a DE meeting, Severus Snape has some regrets about his life. Songfic set to Godsmack's Voodoo.

War is the great equalizer. Harry Potter employs any means to catch his enemy. Harry/Draco angst written for Contrelamontre's 'Air' challenge.

Draco hates the rain. He's all alone, and he needs somebody to make him feel safe and warm. Deep down in the Slytherin dungeons he ponders on his and Harry's relationship, and the decisions he has just made. Is he really doing the right thing?

Tale of a girl who survived being at the hands of the Death Eaters in the Second Wizarding War and her aftermath. -Contains poem by bloodredsoul (who I love *huggles*) called Dark Stars- Warning: This is DARK, like all my other fics. Don't read if you can't handle it.

Draco wishes that he could turn back time... Draco/Harry

He stood there and watched her die. Snape/Lily, the night at Godric's Hollow.

I miss him, you know. He always made me feel safe, loved, wanted, acknowledged. It’s kind of funny, only not. No one ever asked me what it was like. No one ever wanted to know just how willing I was. I suppose that was to be expected. They’d be horrified if it wasn’t all his fault.

Peter Pettigrew is forced into a role he does not believe in. But how is one supposed to decide when the lives of your friends are weighed against thousands of innocents? There's a fate worse than death.

Marauder-era fic. Sirius and Remus being the central couple, they are both pursuing other people in an attempt to hide from their feelings. Quite angsty, actually. SS/RL, RL/SB, SB/LE, LE/JP

How do you say goodbye to a brother? And what happens after death? Do you really have to know?

Barty Crouch Jr. must have been feeding Alastor Moody, right? Tonight the gift is lemon cake and conversation. (BCJr/AM)

A Prewett/Weasley family one-shot set during and after the first war. Before she was a Weasley, Molly was a Prewett with two brothers... brothers she loved... brothers she lost... brothers she remembers...

How Stan Shunpike learned to survive Azkaban.

"The darkness drops again; but now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"``What lies on the other side of change?

Perfection has its price.

Inspired by the song Perfect by Simple Plan. In the Malfoy family, a son is never good enough for his father. Why should this duo be any different?