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Barty Crouch Sr. reflects on his wife, his son, and the world he has built for himself.

George is left behind after Fred dies in the battle of Hogwarts. In the months to come, he contemplates suicide, why he is the one left behind, and what he should do for his future.

"Always, just after sunset, Ginny watched the butterflies dance..." D/G.

Hermione is dead. At least, emotionally. She has also chosen to let Ron think she loves him, though it is impossible, given her lack of emotion. What happens when the girl must become logic because the boys have enough emotion between them? A look at the points of view of Hermione, Ginny, Harry, and Ron to this situation. Set in the Hogwarts years, written between OOTP and HBP, when we didn't know what was going to happen relationship wise!

Summer 1980. Two young men meet in a pub in Knockturn Alley. For ten days, their lives are entwined. But when the Dark Mark burns, no one can fight the summons. Regulus/Peter.

"To Hermione Granger, life was like a blank piece of parchment—like Transfiguration homework before it was completed—like an essay." The companion to You’re Dead. Hermione knew that Sirius’s death had affected more people than thought. All she could do was help Harry grieve and give him more knowledge. But for once in her life, she didn’t know what to do with Ron. She couldn’t correct him. She couldn’t help him now.

Draco Malfoy knew that this day would come, that this moment must pass, yet that did not seem to make it any easier. And now he stands in the centre of a dark room, surrounded by anonymous masked figures, waiting for the inevitable, as a tall and ominous being approaches.

Sometimes, you are so desperate for changes to happen. Sometimes, you just don't see a way out anymore. Sometimes... desperation will transform the world into a better place.... (T/G)

Teenagers Molly and Arthur chat over the Christmas holidays; he tells her a secret from his past that's been hidden away for years. Rated for sensitive issues.

Remus's pov on Sirius and the aftermath of his death.

My name is Narcissa Malfoy. I live in an atmosphere of terror and neglect. In the end, what will I choose, to be cold and unfeeling like my husband, or to feel utter pain, just so that I can feel?

Rachel woke when it was still dark outside her grimy window. She sat up next to the still-sleeping Ian and looked around, confused. Then everything hit her, physically hit her, so that she fell back onto the bed and bit her pillow to stop keep herself from screaming. This fic also goes as a sort of background story to my fic Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House. (If you haven't read RttRH, consider this a sort of trailer, like what makes you want to see the movie.) Very angst-y.

Gryffindor isn't the only brave House or the only one to pay the consequences of bravery under the Carrows' regime. (Angst, violence, torture.). Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Neville Longbottom and D.A. Rating: R

Harry has to go back in time to retrieve a Horcrux from Grimmauld Place. But can he really keep from changing future events?

James and Sirius made a promise to Remus; Remus also made a promise. How does this change things if both those promises were broken?

It's amazing what little things can trigger memories and tears. Three people remember a man who meant much to them. A man who died too soon.

The tight circle of trees surround you, moving in. They point their crooked branches at you as if they blame you for the frost that has covered this whole godforsaken place. You killed us, they whisper with their leafless branches, you killed us, like you killed him.

After a painful break-up with Draco, Harry tries to be indifferent.

The final showdown between Harry and Voldemort. Not everything goes as expected. possible h/s preslash. May be the first of a series.

If this is the way dying feels, it's not so bad.

It was the full moon the night that James and Lily had died, and Remus was alone.

Slytherins have feelings and loyalties too, you know. Perhaps different from those of the rest of the world, but they’re still there. Pansy listens, thinks, and remembers and re-examines her loyalties. Rather random thoughts. Set after the end of HBP. Slight DM/PP.

After the war, Harry ran from the bad memories that haunted him and took refuge in the Muggle world. When he gets a call from a Muggle hospital telling him that a certain Draco Malfoy has been delivered into the Intensive Care Unit, it seems that his peace of mind is at stake as well as Draco's life.

Judged. Labeled. Levelled. Uniforms turn normal kids into members of their House, while keeping their individual traits out of the way. Hogwarts stole my identity. It's time for me to act against the system.

After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, and Molly deal with Sirius' passing.

A deeper, darker look into the life of the girl we now know as Moaning Myrtle.

Blaise Zabini, a seventh year, has kept a secret for years now. But now that everyone in Slytherin House knows, and now that everyone hates her, what is she to do? Warning: Contains cutting. DM/BZgirl!

Set in Harry's second year and Ginny's first when the Chamber of Secrets is opened. Ginny wakes up in the middle of the night with her hands covered in blood, and finds her peace with Harry.

"I wish you could do magic!" Janie had shouted in a fit of temper. How exactly should a muggle mother respond to her daughter – especially when she wishes the very same thing?

I'm dying now and it's not what I thought it would be. It is all the regrets I’ve ever had knocking down the doors of my mind, screaming all the things I should have done. It is all the mistakes I ever made, crying for the apologies I never said.

Draco has one last chance to reveal his true feelings to Hermione. Will he forgive himself or allow his regret and shame to destroy his possibility for a happy future?

Devastated by Sirius' death in in final battle, Hermione fled Britain, only to discover six years later that he was not dead at all. When he's recently recaptured by the Ministry, Hermione must confront her past to save the man she loves. HG/SB, HG/CD

Cho reflects upon Cedric's death, Harry, and herself. A short one-shot.

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

After Hogwarts, Ron and Ginny sought employment with Lupin in The Hotel of the Wanderers in Tibet. Ginny still pined for Harry, and felt trapped and stuck in her life. Daniel, an attractive, young, Californian, guitarist and university student visits Lupin seeking help in ridding himself of his lycanthropy. In the process, Ginny learns the universality of heartbreak. (Daniel is a character which most readers should instantly recognise from another source. For those who are fond of cross-overs).

She didn't laugh anymore. Her tinkling laugh in the morning just because her father had forgotten to shave a spot on his cheek was gone. She didn't smile the way she used to do before it happened either. She didn't behave like she used to before; she wasn't the merry singing little girl she had been before. Before him.

// Funny in a certain light, how we all look the same / And there's no one in life you can remember ever stood for you, so / Shame // Draco remembers. And hurts.

There is a motive behind every action, no matter how big or small. What was Peter Pettigrew's the night he betrayed the Potters?

Am I really a hero? That's what they tell me. They say I'm a hero, a savior, but I'm not. I am survivor. I'll tell you who the real heroes are, because they aren't here anymore. They are the heroes.

Ron has a mental rant about Malfoy. Why does he have to be so perfect?``(If you're offended by the words 'bloody', 'hell', or 'bastard', don't read it.)

"To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die." ~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground (st. 6).

Tonks arrives at Grimmauld Place with a full heart... and leaves with a broken one. Angsty R/T oneshot. [HBP spoilers]

Rosalie Edwards thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband and three beautiful daughters, but her husband's secret past is going to turn their entire world upside down. **Written in response to NevilleFan's "The I Heart Muggles" Challenge on HPFF**

I look into the mirror, and I don't recognise the girl staring back at me. It seems to me that I am much older than my birthdays tell me, and I most certainly look it. I can look at other girls my age, and see no reflection of myself in them. I've seen too much. (Hermione, post-war)

Alicia's going through some tough times, but who will stop her when she decides to end it all? Mild George/Alicia. Rated for suicide themes.

With death comes redemption, but it is all meaningless to a new mother whose days were colorless until a rainbow burst into life across her sky. It is a different kind of love...the kind of love that is all consuming. The kind of love that brings agony. The kind of love that eclipses reason, being, and all life before it. The kind of love that is unconditional. The love for a child.

December 1979 has defeated Remus to the point of taking up quarters at Sirius's, whom he can't expect back from an Order mission yet.

Short Narcissa suicide. "Perhaps this place was only in her mind. But what was the difference? She was here and she would never leave..."

Is anybody out there?/Does anybody see?/ That when the lights are/Off something’s killing me? Fire and Ice...depending on each other? Songfic to Ashlee Simpson's Catch Me When I Fall

"He had always been able to feel the eyes on him somewhere between his shoulderblades, like a hot coal under his skin. People watched Harry as though they’d never seen him before, like he was some strange, unknown creature that might vanish if they so much as blinked, like a vapour trembling in the midday sun. If he thinks about it, Harry can tell you how many people are watching him at any one moment, how many eyes are trickling down his back and fingering idly through the locks of his hair and across his weather-tanned flesh, and he’ll be nearly right nine times out of ten."

Draco needs this moment to say goodbye to Harry. Will he find freedom in release? H/D, death-fic.

I'm lost. Traveling in a world of chaos and darkness. There's a light out there. I can see it, but it's so distant. I can't get close to it; no matter how hard I try. I'm lost, Moony, find me.

This is the sequel to Behind Blind Eyes, so it's probably a lot like it. Anyway, it's Ginny's story, and it would probably be a good idea to read Behind Blind Eyes first. Ginny hadn't seen him since the funeral. She hadn't even said good bye. But she hadn't moved on. She hadn't forgotten. But now he was almost gone, and she was the only one who could save him.

Barty Crouch's thoughts on his father and Voldemort.

In a slightly different Universe, what is Draco Malfoy's life like ahortly after the Final Battle? (AU, if you can't take a hint)

Sirius Black's thoughts when in Azkaban.

Can one person and fate make the difference in Severus' life?

What was going through Lily Potter's head when she died? What happened to her after she died? This is a story of Lily Potter's thoughts during, and after her death. Slight JPLE. One-shot. Lily's POV. Thanks to my beta, Eddie.

It is hard, if not impossible, to break down the barriers our parents have erected for us. (Cedric/Oliver)

Draco finds himself in the middle of a grey, barren land, his only company are several horrifying dead bodies. He trudges along, finally taking a rest on a stump. After pondering his whereabouts, a sweet and gentle voice sweeps through his ears... "Come back to me..." Abandoning his resting place, and his wand, he sets forth after the voice, only to discover that it belongs to the one he hates most. But as he wraps his arms around her, he questions himself. Does he really hate her? About to discover his true feelings for her, his life is cut short by a venomous voice.... A Dramione Fic

Post OotP, Sirius is dead and the inhabitants of Grimmauld Place each have their own ways of dealing with their loss.

Set Pre-POA, no spoilers for HBP. A chocolate frog card sends Remus into a memory of the time of the first war, reflecting on the things we keep (and those we don't), friends lost (to death and otherwise), and Shakespeare.

Little Neville Longbottom sees his parents for the first time since they were tortured to insanity.

Severus Snape is summoned by the Dark Lord for the second time in one night. Harry Potter asks for the impossible and then has to deal with the consequences. AU after OotP, with some elements from the last two books thrown in.

“I’m also a survivor, and that’s because of Blaise. The stupid git had saved my life…” After war, sometimes there’s nothing left except the people you never expected to be there in the first place. RWxBZ

Too much blood covered the streets. Everywhere she looked there was blood. Blood was dried up on the streets, on the dry grass, on her clothes, even on the skin of her body. Too much pain inflicted on everyone’s hearts. She could hear no laughs anymore. Who would laugh when destruction was everywhere? No one dared to laugh anyway. They didn’t want to be found. Too many bodies lying dead on the ground. Everyone was dead. She saw only the weak shells of people desperately trying to live.

Draco reflects his past during the final battle, and regrets the mistake he made in his decision between the Dark and the Light. Character death, HBP spoiler, DM/HG.

Salt is the perfect chemical. It has a pure formula as do all known compounds, and beyond that, it has an extraordinary shape. The individual salt molecule is an exact cube; flawless dimensions, precise 90° angles all around. Er... interesting take on Harry and Draco's relationship. H/D slash.

Draco begins to see that working for Voldemort is draining all of his feelings from him, leaving him cold and emotionless, but he can only think of one way to remedy the situation.

Remus Lupin is alone without Sirius. A dark, pain riddled fic. Rated for self-mutilation. Mild slash. (nothing active)

We hide behind these masks of our own making, all the while yearning to see just a glimpse of each other's faces.

Ron's POV again. Takes place just a few hours after "Coming Home to You." After the final battle, Harry finally gets to see Draco again. This is the final story, the end. Story 4 of the series.

Hermione attends Hogwarts Reopening Ball after leaving the Wizarding World twenty-five years earlier. Perhaps she would be happy if a voice from the past hadn't filled her in on what she had missed in her absence.

When Peter Pettigrew "died," where did Sirius go before his arrest? Did Remus really believe that Sirius had betrayed his best friend and murdered another close companion? Could Remus still trust Sirius against overwhelming evidence?

A little bit AU. Drunk!Sirius is an utter asshole and enjoys hurting poor Remus.

Songfic to Death Cab for Cuties "Tiny Vessels". Draco's reflection on his relationship with Hermione. Slightly angsty.

'In all this, there is someone who is needed to capture the birds used to deliver these messages. Someone who can fly fast enough to catch up with the speedy owls, who is willing to risk freezing to death on a broomstick, just waiting for an incoming message. There is someone needed to pass messages between the Wizarding front and the Muggles, from base to all other camps. The members of the Sky Watch.' On the eve of a new war, Hooch recalls her role in the defeat of Grindelwald... and the price she had to pay.

Murderer. That word rings through my ears. Murderer. Murderer. Murderer. He killed people, so he was a murderer.

Remus is bitten by a werewolf while he is at Camp Green Lake. Will anybody believe him? (Not compatible with HBP.)

The Second War is over and everyone is rejoicing, right? Wrong, because somewhere out there, there is a boy, whose spirit was crushed by this terrible war. Who is this boy, and why is he so broken? D/H

As the smoke settled after the final battle, Hermione began to count.

Even now, years after Tom is gone, Ginny feels him everywhere.

Shadow. His shadow. It fell over her like a funeral veil. The one that would inevitably enshroud her. Tears of pain poured from her eyes as she struggled to move. About three feet away lay Lucius. His body lay stiff. Stiff for all eternity. Draco’s eyes burned with a searing hatred as he dropped his wand.

Harry conveys a message to Snape in Umbridge's office. This story tracks various Order members (mostly Snape) from the time he leaves Umbridge's office until after Dumbledore has filled him in on what happened in the Department of Mysteries.

After two years of a dead marriage, Ginny is leaving Harry, wondering how things got so bad. Another songfic -- this time to Evanescence's Missing.

Demons. The inner kind, not the kind that you can exorcise quickly, but the kind that haunt you, paralyze you, pull you into a different world. Ginny talks about her inner demons.

The rain evokes memories from long past, and the very nature of love is called into question. If love is happy, perfect, and sweet, then how can his heart hurt so much?

A day in Harry's life goes all wrong, but all he want is to be like everyone else...

15-year-old Muggle Roxette Summerson lives in a Children’s Home. However when a mysterious stranger introduces her to the magical world and an enigmatic character named Voldemort, Roxette knows she is about to kiss goodbye to her peaceful life. For some strange reason Voldemort makes this ordinary, boring Muggle girl his personal assassin and Roxette is given her first target: Harry Potter. But Harry Potter is in hiding and Roxette finds herself looking for someone who doesn’t want to be found. But she’s not alone. Roxette befriends a pair of teenagers from another world – Elyon and Cadia – and then there are those two mysterious boys who seem to be helping them. And throughout all this, Roxette is discovering powers she never knew she had.

Sirius is left alone after Remus' suicide to contemplate his relationship with the werewolf. Counter-story to "I Am A Rock".

In the world of pureblooded wizards, marriages are arranged even before the children are born. If it doesn't work out, there's no one to turn to for help... except yourself. She freed herself from him in the only way she could; she's a trophy wife no more.

When Sirius runs away from home, Regulus is left behind with his thoughts and his memories. Includes flashbacks. Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge.

Just days after his death, Pansy reflects on Draco and what he meant to her. What did he feel for her? With only one chance for happiness, will Pansy take it? PP/DM

Ginny Weasley had left Hogwarts. She reflects on how she comapres to her brothers in the great scheme of things.

Sometimes Harry takes time out to think. Several years time out. Features dark!Harry.

What if Kali Lupin had made a different decision in 'The Diary'? What if she had decided against joining the IDL and joined Voldemort?

Somewhere in the near future, Narcissa's musing over Lucius' body.

I was just reading the Prisoner of Azkaban for like the 500th time, and I was wondering how Sirius must have been feeling when he was looking for Wormtail, about to corner him in a "Crowded Muggle Street"