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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.

Remus reminisces about the events that sent his relationship with Sirius to hell in sixth-year, and waxes angsty.

Blaise Zabini talks to his lover about his past at Hogwarts, and how she changed the course of his future. Blaise/OC

The wood splinters before your eyes. You know they are there. Frank/Alice, R for a scene of torture.

All alone, staring on/ Watching her life go by. Ginny Weasley looks back on her life to date and wonders if she will ever be a normal girl again.

This is just a small thing I wrote about a possible end for the bad man.

An unlikely pair. A strange routine. A conversation that might change it all. A dark vision of the aftermath of war.

Harry's final year ar Hogwarts, the year he will surely have to face Voldemort for one final time, is fast approaching. This short fic shows a certain person's thoughts as he thinks back over the past few years; watching Harry grow up and, for the first time in many years, he acknowledges to himself the final, fatal event that he knows will come.

It was all she could do to keep from screaming out loud: hold it down; swallow it up like some wretched poison ingested by one’s own will. [Sequel to Rain; Ginny's POV]

"And that is why I choose to stumble blindly in the dark, searching for you. Searching for those green eyes that I’ll never see in the black. And I wonder why I can always seem to find you, regardless of the dark, regardless of your cloak, regardless of the black void."

Harry and Draco. The Unexpected Hero and The Unlikely Villain. The lover, the dead. Who has Hermione lost? Is he as bad as he seems? Is he as good as he was?? WHO is The Greatest Hero?

Ginny gets sick of Harry's silent moroseness. He stomps off to the lake, where he contemplates...

Written in POV form, Ginny and Draco are Death Eaters on the run. Surprising turns and twists, suicide, murder, and betrayal of the hands you won't believe.

How far would you go to be with the one you love? What would happen when they found out? SB/RL.

My take on the events of that fateful October night in 1981. Told through many changing points of view and ranges to include an appearance by the whole lot of redheaded Weasley children, Sirius' escapades and the first indoor Quidditch match at the Potter household.

What happens when you make not just one Unbreakable Vow... but two. A short vignette on Severus Snape from the end of HBP.

Those we love never leave us.

It’s not easy when your best friend is the saviour of the wizarding world. It’s even harder when your other best friend is the woman you love. A brief look into Ron's private horrors.

Draco finds a way out of Voldemort's grasp.

Draco and Harry are together, but it isn't a happy relationship. Draco keeps trying to get Harry to admit something, using his own twisted idea to do it. Major angst follows. Be warned: CHARACTER DEATH!!!! A songfic based on Jimmy Eat World's song, Get It Faster.

He watches.

I don't like him. I really don't. But who is Ginny kidding when she writes that in her diary? (T/G)

One Shot Sequel to Menage a Quarte. (It's all written, just not posted yet.) Antoine comes home to see his lover after finishing his Order business and finds out that his life has gotten more complicated, maybe unbearably so. (Warning: major spoiler to Menage a Quarte in here.)

“Glancing out the bedroom window, Hermione reminisced how different life was in Hong Kong compared to England. There was no countryside. There was no need for cars as public transport was highly reliable. English people did not crowd the streets but people of a completely different colour and different language. Most of all, he wasn’t here. His soul lived on the other side of the world as she remembered her last day in England.”

Hermione believes Harry's mourning Sirius has gone on long enough. She wants to help, but telling him he must move on is by far the easiest thing. Harry / Hermione friendship, Hermione's PoV. Songfic, but understandable without knowing the song itself.

Ron’s POV of his relationship with Hermione and why things didn’t work out. R/R.

Remus goes to visit Sirius's grave before a full moon.

Draco remembers a time when everything was perfect everything was great. When his daughter, Claire, and his lover, Harry, were alive. The pain of their loss begins to consume him, and he can't take it anymore... Death!fic with a sort of happy ending.

Deathfic in which Neville Longbottom examines and questions his life, afterlife, and the deity who created him as he experiences hell on earth.

It was a hard lesson to learn. For so long, I had forgotten Him and where my true roots lie. But He trained me again. He made me worthy of His Mark again. And now I am made anew in His image and my direction is back, direction that you could have never offered me. I return to the life of a lapdog.````And I know now that I must be free of you to continue my life as it was laid out to be, as I’ve always known it would unfold. It’s funny, in retrospect, that I thought stature would bring an end to pain. It hasn’t.````It was only you that did it. It’s only ever been you.``(angsty DM/HP one-shot)

Hermione imagines herself beautiful even though she knows that he will never see her. Missing moment from Half-Blood Prince following Ron and Hermione's falling out.

Some battles are not lightly won, some desires not easily realized.

Harry misses Sirius [obviously] and he decides that he should just end it all. But does he? Memories pour through his head. Some funny, others sad, and he bases the decision of ending his life upon it. [NOT slash!]``*"Never again," [Ron] said, struggling to his feet. He made as though to stride away from his thestral, but, unable to see it, collided with its hindquarters and almost fell over again. "Never, ever again... that was the worst --"*

Remus Lupin waited twenty-five years too long to say the words 'I love you'. [Sirius/Remus angst]

An external monologue, from the point of view of Narcissa Malfoy, to Voldemort. Narcissa discusses her daughter Rose.

"I never know how long I stand here for. Whenever I lean against the cool white tiles, a cascade of burning hot water gushing over my tired body, all time is lost. But then, time doesn’t have much significance anymore. It doesn’t mean a great deal to me now, so I suppose it doesn’t really matter whether I’m in here, under my waterfall, for minutes or for hours." Several years after the final battle, Hermione is still picking up the pieces.

Harry's POV roughly a year after "Much Like Suffocating." He fills in the blanks that Ron's POV left and prepares to go to battle for the last time. He's anxious to see Draco again. Story 3 of the series.

Ron has trouble dealing with his grief. It might be he doesn't want to, and it might be though his loved ones only want what's best for him, they can never really understand....

The past is another country. Petunia Dursley remembers her childhood.

He is falsly accused. He says that the main reason for their accusations is because they simply can't accept truth. What is the truth? What happens when no one believes him?

Things going wrong. (Sirius/Remus, post-GoF)

This Death Eater has a story to tell. Warning: Character deaths

An adult Severus Snape reflects on his relationship with his mother, and on one of the most painful experiences of his young life.

Sirus reflects on the relationship he had with Remus, and why it can never be. RL/SB

Non-magic AU. Detective Sirius Black's world is turned upside down when a gruesome murder occurs in the heart of London. At the centre of the investigation, Remus Lupin. While Sirius' instincts say one thing, his heart says another. He just doesn't know how to decide which one's right.

A sick love triangle between two Hufflepuffs and a Slytherin. A hurtful secret. Friends torn apart because of her.

The boy's life began in happiness when his sister was born. Then it began to slowly fade, his father leaving, his mother depressed, and his sister's sorrow.

Harry Potter believes there is only one way to defeat Voldemort, but nobody else is willing to give him the resources he needs- except for one. Through the game of control that is Dark Magic, Harry loses himself and finds other things in the process. This is Nox, darkness after light. HP/SS SLASH

An ancient and senile Helga Hufflepuff whines about the past.

You stare at the pictures, not really looking at them. You already know them, every one of them, every little detail. You know what is coming, what came, what is, because the pictures are now. He is now. And in your mind you remember and you see Him, see him as you saw him in the pictures.

Words are hurled at Remus like fists, but he doesn’t flinch anymore when they hit him. Five short vignettes in 1500 words.

Severus Snape's life has always been intertwined with duty.

Canon-compliant beginning of 7th year. Ginny finds that the balance of power has shifted. Ginny/Pansy femmeslash. Written for the rarepair_shorts Spring 2010 exchange. Oneshot.

Emmeline Vance has always hated stereotypes.

Fern has always been the invisible girl in Hogwarts. The unpopular and the unappreciated one. Now it was her time to shine, rant and tell the real deal behind the social life at Hogwarts and the truth behind the Trio's popularity.

After the war, there are many deaths, but this one affects Harry more than any other. Luckily, though, Harry is not entirely alone, and he discovers that life - even after such a great loss - is still worth living.

'We're wounded ghosts,' she thought, 'defanged serpents mourning our former lives and haunting each other.' Life has brought changes Narcissa and Gilderoy could never have imagined.

"The only thing I can give myself credit for is for not believing you when you said you loved me." A twisted love story. PP/DM.

Draco contemplates his new life.

As Sirius is sent to Azkaban, Remus tries to make sense of their friendship.

Remus Lupin does not trust his feelings for his new partner, Aeneas MacAskill. Aeneas hopes that a week by the seaside will ease the tension between the two of them. Secrets surface as Remus comes to grips with his grief after the arrest of Sirius Black, and Aeneas grows to understand the pain that haunts his love. This AU is set on the Fundy coast, in New Brunswick, Canada.