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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?

Sirius has been in Azkaban for a decade now, and he is starting to grow impatient.

Hermione never thought growing up would be complicated.

"'And Millicent Bulstrode's no pixie'" (COS 23) One Shot

"It used to be..." she repeated. "Yes, well, nothing's what it used to be." [DMHG and RWHG if you squint real hard][oneshot]

Narcissa Malfoy and Remus Lupin call a moratorium to chat like old friends. Problem is, they've never been friends.

"Was he... right?" she asked faintly. "When he said he couldn't have made me do those things if I didn't want to?" Albus waited for her to look up at him. When she did, he held her gaze. "Only you can answer that, Ginny...."

'With nothing left to him, this boy-lover-has-been must follow; in an instant, his love, his insecurity has turned him from a prince to a pauper, from a would-be savior to a slave.' Regulus visits Narcissa, seeking redemption.

"He wasn’t meant for this… for this dull, endless, lifeless existence." In the aftermath of war, Harry is barely existing in a haze of grey depression.

Part five of five in the 'Colours' sequence. "And Harry was white, Harry who had been out here since before breakfast; the sun was setting now and Ron and Hermione would be looking for him, but they wouldn’t find him because he had turned as white as the snow, and for the first time in quite a while Harry felt like he was almost clean. Not quite clean, no, and as soon as he stepped back into the school he would be filthy again, coated with the deaths of God-knew-how-many, but for now he was almost white again."

Pettigrew is captured and Harry gains the family he deserves: his godfather. But as darkness begins to grow, Harry discovers that his new found happiness is short lived. POA AU. HP/GW and RW/HG

In the end, Dumbledore was just meat, and now his pup is Fenrir's...

Touch me with your love, and reveal to me my true name. Once and for all, and all for once, Nemo my name forever more.

Sirius Black has just lost everything in his life worth living for... now all he wants is revenge. (Takes place after the Potters' Death)

Songfic for "Gollum's Song." Ginny has thoughts of suicide after deciding she can't take any more of her life. Will Draco be able to change her mind?

Ever wonder why Lucius is the way he is? 'Being evil is about having hate and ambition and meeting them in the middle...' One-shot, Lucius. Warning; not for those who believe there is no such thing as pure evil.

The illusion of death is not always as concrete as one might think. Regulus was never dead, just thought to be. His return has shaken the worlds of everyone important to him. Sirius' feelings are unclear, though they were never very evident to begin with. He must set things right with his wife and a son he has never known. Most importantly however, he must try to stay alive, one can only narrowly miss death so many times.

Harry Potter doesn't care about Draco Malfoy. He really doesn't.

Wormtail returns to Godric's Hollow.

"She knew from the beginning that she could only ever buy herself some time. Her husband would not be merciful." Narcissa must sacrifice who she loves most to save him.

Though they're both in Grimmauld Place, neither Remus nor Sirius is home.

Sometimes, reading other people's minds is not fun. Sometimes it leads you further than expected. Just... Be happy you lived to tell the tale.

For many, life is the most wonderful thing in the world. While others, miserable, are condemned to live eternally in the shadows, observing everyone else’s happiness without being able to touch it. Remus is one of these people, a victim of a destiny that, no matter how much he tries, cannot be changed.

A short, vignette type story. Based on the idea that both Harry and Snape are a little insane. Reference to DM/HP, but not a romance fic.

A broken soul looks back on the dark road of his life.````LSS is back with a new offering. First stab at angst, somewhat lacking in comparison to my other fics.

Post-HBP: Draco and Pansy reflect on the relationship they never really had.

Hermione reminisces on when Harry told them about the prophecy. A little vignette on what she was doing and how she felt as he told them.

In a world where war is waging, Draco is a poor and lonely soul. He wanders and stumbles upon an ending. This ending opens the beginning to a life with someone he'd only been with in his dreams... (H/D slash, poem-fic)

"...he should have known, from the first summer morning he woke to notice the faint black lines rising towards him on his arm, that he was not merely imagining it..." -- Kenneth Avery on the night of Voldemort's return.

In Iceland, they didn't need anything. They only needed the moors and they only needed together and they slept beneath the midnight sun and the endless sky and raced to the end of the world and fell off the edge together. They were in love. (Frank/Alice.)

Sirius hasn't seen the Potters since they were placed under the Fidelius Charm... it's Halloween, 1981, and what he does not know is he will lose three friends... two by death, and one by betrayal.

Draco and Ginny were meant for each other. I mean, he loved her so much! So when Draco isn't exactly who Ginny thought he'd be, that's okay, right?

Alternative Universe. A stranger muses on his past with Lily Evans, what once was, and what never shall be. One-shot.

Lily grows up and grows away from her sister. "Lily always remembered her sister as a flower. Their mother's flower maidens, they had always been, and she worked hard to remember that now."

Eradicate: to destroy, stamp out, or eliminate. Draco deals with Lucius in the only possible way: death.

"Kissing him was like kissing snow, it always fades away to nothing, leaving you with only memories and the traces left on your lips."

"I love the smell of coffee in the morning. Oh, I don’t drink the stuff. Gods, no. But he does. Did." -- A Remus monologue in which he doesn't quite say what he means. Between-the-lines RL/SB, if that's how you choose to see it. OOtP-compliant.

This is the story of the demise of a great, albeit terrible, wizard, and his encounter with Death.

[One shot. Peter centric] There are two choices that can be made, and both basically amount to 'lose everything'. What do you do; save your own life, or die to protect your friends? Either way, you know you're condemned. This is a version of Peter Pettigrew's joining the Dark Lord - what would make a loyal fellow to betray his friends? He was a Marauder; he must have been decent before his crimes soured everybody's memories of him. He must have had a motivation, and here's an idea of what it could have been.

As taken from "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"

Remus POV. How does a man who loves another man's wife cope after their death? How can he move on? One shot- fic.

For him, it is enough, but for her, it never will be. Addiction isn't love, but sometimes love's an addiction...

A sad story about Hermione

I think I hear laughter coming from the grand ballroom - laughter and faint strains of chamber music, glasses clinking and healed shoes on the polished marble floor. It must be a memory, a ghost of Christmas past, because when I step into the room it is empty.````Draco goes home his sixth year for a very different Christmas (little hints of one-sided D/H).

Okay, anyone who was read OoTP knows how Harry's taking Sirius's death so far, but what about Remus?

Ginny finds a reason. Songfic to Wonderwall, by Oasis.

A one-shot song fic to "The Lucky One" by Alison Krauss. Peter had never been lukcy. He always needed help. He never had good grades, never got the girls... unlike Sirius. Sirius has always been the lucky one... and to Peter, he always will be.

Cold. Oh so very cold. Brick, stone, bars, locks.. they want to keep me in and I want to get out. I want to find him.

I can hear people outside. Their footsteps and voices, screams, it all echoes off the wall. And inside my head. I can still remember his manic laughter. That horrible cackle. He thinks I’m dead.

Draco isn't coping.

Hermione writes Cedric a letter confessing her feelings. Spoilers for Goblet of Fire. Mainly movie-verse but with a few elements of the book.

If one drinks from a bottle marked 'Poison' it is almost certain to disagree with one, sooner or later.

Elyssabeth Malfoy is the ill-favored daughter of Draco Malfoy. She had been home-schooled for four years along with her adopted sister Kathryne. It is only in their fifth year that they are allowed to attend Hogwarts. Finally away from the seclusion of Malfoy Manor can Elyssabeth escape the bonds that have held her for fifteen years? Death Eaters, a secret alliance, romance and angst galore as Lys and Kat attempt to fight the past and win their freedom.

The sky was overcast. A slight drizzle and breeze filled the air as I made my way to the Hogwarts Memorial. They say 'Hogwarts Memorial', but really it's just a fancy name for the large assortment of graves that stand upon the grounds where the Final Battle was fought. I would know. I was there.

Can’t feel anything except cold. I’m frozen in place, frozen to the core. Oh Merlin, oh GOD! Why didn’t I tell anyone when I had the chance? I’m dying, and they’ll never know the truth, they’ll never find me.

The fire had started as a small flame, but slowly it had spread through out his soul - deep, deep in him it had burnt. Sirius in Azkaban just before breakout...

The complicated relationship between sisters. Lily Evans reflects.

One moonlit night, Remus Lupin contemplates the happenings of his life and the first half of seventh year. Vignette. [Sirius/Remus, James/Lily]

Snape can't fix Dumbledore's hand, nor many of the other consequences of Voldemort's actions.

A day in the ordinary life of Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. Full of laughter, pranks, and James trying to impress Lily. Basically, the usual.