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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"

A one-shot about Minerva McGonagall and her lost love. Has anyone ever wondered how the war with Grindelwald affected the characters we know and love? This is just a little speculation on that theme. MM/OC

Remus and Sirius are playing with two very dangerous things: Love and Distrust. It’s only a matter of time before they get burned. Set in October 1981. Slash. One-Shot.

Because walls crumble and happily ever afters don't exist. Not here... H/D slash, angst, one-shot

An AU in which Wormtail was caught at the end of PoA and Sirius, as a result, had his name cleared. Remus and Sirius catch up. Implied slash.

Ginny wonders why there's no room for one more person in the Trio.

Harry has lived in the Muggle world for twenty years after leaving Hogwarts violated and disillusioned. Now Ginny and Sirius come to see him.

A little Christmas-ficlet: Ginny Weasley thinks about the colours and people around her. D/G, sort of.

Ginny had thought of Pansy as a reflection on glass, so shallow that even her physical existence may as well have been an illusion, a trick of the light. Ginny/Pansy

The Memoirs of Narcissa Malfoy - First, and final born son: the birth and infancy of Draco Aqualis Malfoy.

"I have made of myself a weapon, forged in the Dark Arts, consecrated to the Greater Good, and if I can only live with myself by knowing that I have done what I must, then that shall have to be enough."

"His pale, freckled face was lit by the flickering flames and gave his eyes a murky glow. The bright blue, so like Dumbledore’s, was shaded, and no one noticed. Ron was used to it. In a large family, you got used to being overlooked. Being the best friend of the famous Harry Potter, you got used to it. Didn’t mean you had to like it." A glimpse into the mind of one Ron Weasley, on a night down in the Common Room

"I look into the mirror and see nothing. Nothing is looking back at me, nobody. That is what I am, nobody." - At the beginning of his Fifth Year at Hogwarts Draco remembers the day he became a Death Eater.

With Fred gone, George finds himself the victim of a bad subconscious decision to realize his pain.

This is the first of my Backdrop Series, a series focusing on several background characters. This is about Merope Gaunt, and is a short look at her dependance on others. She is crazy as all get out, but in her own special way.

The others brought their own things to the table: bravery, loyalty, fidelity, intelligence, wit, cunning, faith... But I was the one with the dream. I was the one who made it happen.

Remus thinks over the worst days of his life just after Sirius is taken to Azkaban. In response to sugarhighz's Quotation Challenge (from HPFF forums): "Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with Love."

Some people are methodical and plot everything out. Remus knows his beginning and his end.

Who is Hestia Jones and why is she fighting Lord Voldemort?

Some things just aren't meant to be. Draco/Ginny.

ONE SHOT. It was always Lily's favorite holiday, Petunia always hated it. Now their sons share the opposite views of their mothers'. The reasons Halloween's so special.

Sirius would do anything to protect Remus; what happens when he can't do anything to save him? Title from Leona Lewis' track, 'My Hands'

Knowledge of the future comes at a steep price. (A Snape-centric dark fic.)

All alone in the world is never how he imagined it. There was no avoiding the war and now he's the only one left to suffer.

This is a songfic (Linkin Park's Breaking the Habit) that I wrote and intend on expanding. It will be three chapters and no longer a songfic once I finish it. It will most likely be Snape/Hermione once I'm done.

Her name echoed in his mind, expanded in his soul, filled the room and grew until the universe was nothing but the sound of her name and its dismal echo. Onesided Sirius/Lily for the Random Characters Challenge.

Some things bring out the best of the evil people, and the worst of the good. Prejudice does not exclude compasion. Bravery does not banish callousness. Rating for safety.

A songfic of love, loss, and minor insanity, Draco is faced with a world where his loved ones are stolen from him. (Warning: Character death and implied slash.)

Remus is mourning over the death of a certain OotP character and is trying to cope, but is failing terribly. Can anyone save him before he does the unthinkable? OotP Spoilers. Yaoi (slash)

Remus at James and Lily’s funeral. Angst. Not funny, not Christmassy. (SB/RL implied)

All there is left to do is wait. One transformation in the life of Remus J. Lupin, werewolf.

Lillies do not a pleasing bouquet make.

1969: On his way home from work, Tobias Snape ponders his relationship with Eileen. In the beginning, they loved each other, didn't they? But now, only bitterness and harsh words are left. How could it come to this?

Percy isn't always right, and it takes much more than he expected for him to finally realize it.

Ginny Weasley's summer in a tight, insane little nutshell. She wanted to strangle Harry, kill Voldemort slowly and painfully, and strip away all that had rubbed off on her personality during her very eventful fifth year of schooling.

It's harder to kill with Avada Kedavra than one might think.

A take on the meeting of Sirius and Hagrid in Godric's Hollow on Halloween, 1981.

A Draco story, set in the summer between Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.

The war has not yet happened. Voldemort is still alive, as are all of his Death Eaters - who are all 100% loyal to him. And he's giving them free reign to exact revenge on one person they feel have wronged them. Sixteen-year-old Ginny Weasley is only the first to be kidnapped.

Growing up as one of the glamorous Black sisters, Narcissa was always led to believe she had it all made. But maybe, just maybe, things aren’t so perfect after all.

Hey, Fox Moldy here to tell you this fic is sad. So, if you are in a good mood, or a bad mood, or if you're numb and just don't want to be made sad, don't read this fic, 'cause I think it will make you really sad.

Post-OotP, Remus Lupin finds himself trying to live up to a promise he made. Fits in with Time of the Turning, but works well on its own.

Moaning Myrtle's parents are bitter at her death.

Short fic, directly after the final battle.

There is a day all kings must fall. One subject sees the king of the wizarding world and waits for his demise, for the day that he would descend from royalty and become one of the rest. H/D

Lupin's Daughter, Sirena, is on the path to destruction... and all Snape can do is watch. This fic is a bit of a prequel to Everything You Are, which is in the process of a complete overhaul. It's mildly AU in that I made up a hatred for vampires in Dumbledore.... I figure a man that kind has to have one hate...````But this is the beginning of Sirena Lupin's journey to the world of Dark Magic. Enjoy.

Muggles and wizards, wizards and Muggles. ( When our children consort with the unexplained, you take them from us; you take them and teach them, slowly, surely, how to take the mysterious, the mystical, the unknown and weave it into certainty. )

A year after their murder, many come to the gravesite of Lily and James Potter. Sirius escapes Azkaban, but why does he go back?

Draco ponders his time with Harry Potter and describes what should never have happened.

Trusting isn't always easy, but sometimes it is of vital importance. (Remus/Sirius) Title courtesy of the Mystery Jets' 'Horsedrawn Cart'.

Of Ginny and Tom, by daylight and shadow as she walks. "...but you are the music / while the music lasts..."

The final battle is upon the wizarding world, and many have paid the price of blood for victory over their foes. The perspective of one who has lost another. Mild Boy!Blaise/?

"He wonders if it hurts less because it hurts less, or because of nerve damage." - In a world without Sirius, Remus wanders and learns to be human again.

Gilderoy Lockhart is not guilty… Is he? [one shot] [character death] [language]

Draco relives his happiest, most painful memory of love and pain as he fights for his life. But what is worth living for when what you want, love, has left forever?

They say nirvana is the state of peace and tranquility attained by one’s soul. A feat long considered impossible. Yet, one never stops searching for it, and perhaps that’s what gives us hope till the very end. "Nirvana," said Harry. "To many... it would be today." Harry saw Remus sigh dejectedly. "But not for us."

He’s just part of a bigger scheme. (Draco/Blaise(m))

Harry and Severus finally had the life that both wanted so badly: beautiful children, careers that made them happy, friends and family that loved them dearly. It all came crashing to a halt on one Valentine's Day when Harry woke up in St. Mungo's Hospital not remembering the last eleven and two-thirds years of his life. This will be a year long journey for Harry and Severus through heartache, joy, disappointment, self-reflection, discovery, and realizing that love comes from the heart not the mind.

Cho reflects back on her relationship with Cedric and the day of the third and final task.

Now that the war has ended, Severus Snape thinks back over his life and considers the decisions he has made. Angsty one-shot.

Sometimes, we forget how unpleasant it is to be Gilderoy Lockhart. We underestimate him…and we forget how dangerous he can be. But perhaps he’d like us to forget.

When Draco reads the letter that was written to Harry so shortly before his death by the person who needed him most of all, he realises for the first time that something went very wrong. (Warning: slash.)

She caused the death of only two people, although that in itself is miraculous. She distorted the memory of a very decent man. And she was not human. Not sapien. But very, very sentient. Rating for safety.

Draco Malfoy committed the ultimate act of selfishness - suicide. Ten years later, Harry still cannot forget about him.

In the mirrors of Tom Riddle’s mind magic bounces off, myriad reflections merging into each other. Minions of the gods of Possession and Illusion, Magic is dichotomous and Violence, compulsive. Because in the end the thrill is in killing – and in being killed.

Harry's struggling with depression, and his friends seem unable to help him. Somebody else can, but at what cost?

It's been over two years since Seamus and Lavender broke up. He's been in the States, and she's been back in England happily in a committed relationship. But are they as happy as they seem? Inspired by the Sheryl Crow/Kid Rock song "Picture"

A little stream-of-consciousness meditation on Snape's part, on the vexed subject of Sirius Black and the Whomping Willow. What would it feel like, to confront two people who had tried to murder you, in the very place where you had so nearly died - in order to save three children who would despise you for doing so?

She screams and screams for help, and she cries, and holds him, but in the end he is dead. And when she wakes up she cries, because she remembers.

This is a pre-ficlet ficlet. The next one has Colin in it, I swear.````Jessica was inspired by too many nights reading the works of H.P. Lovecraft and "Girl Genius", The brilliant comic by Phil Foglio. No, she isn't cannon, but I absolutely had to write her down.

Harry has a serious problem and has lost everything he once used to love. A single white feather is the last remaining thing he can confide in. Many deep, disconcerting questions constantly nag at his conscious mind - there is no hope left.

One Shot. Takes place during the summer before HBP: Luna Lovegood hatches a plan to help her deal with her feelings of loss. There is just one thing that she needs before she can act on her plan. She needs Harry's invisibility cloak.

[AU] It's Halloween and Hermione pays Harry a visit. But then something happens. Something with a girl. Something with fear.

A Neville story. "Somehow, day to day life was difficult after she’d died. It wasn’t as though he’d relied on her, or had seen her that often, or that she’d been there to wipe up his tears when Uncle Algie did something especially painful." What it feels like to lose a mother, by somebody who knows.

Harry begins to receive racy letters form a mysterious sender. A story done in sections of 100 word drabbles. Slash.

Fragments from the life of Sirius Black. From seventh year to the Veil.

Sirius remembers all the first times - memories so tender, so sweet, so miserable, so painful that even a Dementor can't touch them. Slash, would be fluff if it wasn't agony. One-shot.

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down. Such morbid words from an innocuous rhyme seemed quite adequate in his situation. After all, wasn't everyone dying? (Remus centered)

Draco's life is filled with regret. How could he have been so stupid as to let himself lose her simply for his father's expectations? D/G, Hidden in Plain View songfic ("Belly Full of Kerosene" off of their self-titled EP).

Your time is running out. But what is time exactly? Many say time is an illusion, others don’t take it very seriously. But their, as your time is running out. What can you do about this? You could try running. You would have many reasons to run from time. Age, upcoming nerve-racking events… but it wouldn’t help. Because time is running with you. Time isn’t something you can wave away or hide from. It’s something you have to stand up and face. The seconds are ticking… have you faced it yet? The clock is running… Have you faced it yet? Because if you haven’t, you should soon… for your time is running out.

A mother would do anything for her son. Post-HBP, rated PG for angst and oblique references to future violence.