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The autumn of 1981 was not a kind time. To anyone. He gestures for her to sit down next to him, and she does, heart beating all the faster. "Please, Ted, what - " "They caught the Potters' Secret-Keeper. The one who betrayed them to Voldemort," he says bluntly."

Set one year after the Epilogue, the golden trio are happy in the new world without He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Ron kept the locket Horcrux that was previously thought to be destroyed, and wears it around his neck like a memento. Little does he know that it wasn't destroyed and the broken soul of Voldemort dwells within it. It eventually possesses him and causes him to become Tom Riddle. Can Harry, Hermione, and Ginny save Ron before he is lost forever? Or will the world once again fall under the grip of the Dark Lord?

If Peter Pettigrew's learned one important lesson in his life, it's that home is where the heart is. Every year, on or around his birthday, he makes a trek to his mother's house and ruminates about earlier, more innocent times.

Sirius remembers his childhood, filled with dark hallways and secret touches. Sirius/Regulus, slash, incest.

A hand on my arm. A gentle voice coming from somewhere... somewhere beyond my reach...

Remus Lupin meets an old school friend at Sirius' funeral, and she asks him to drop by the following evening to catch up. He arrives just in time to find her murdered. Read his reaction.

Harry pauses for just a moment to reflect on the Horcrux Hunt. A simple one-shot involving Harry's thoughts and a memory of a life he used to know...

Ornithophobia: the persistent fear of birds. I'm not afraid of all birds, though...just owls.

Everyone wears a mask. It's the story behind them that makes us human. This is the story of one who wore many masks and how he was eventually able to remove them all in the light of a new world.

Companion to Slash. Harry visits his old professor and begins to help him come to terms with his grief. NOT HP/RL.

Remus wakes after a transformation and remembers what he has lost. Set after James' death and the events of the next few days.

Moments in passing. Disjointed thoughts, where Remus and Sirius screw and fight and flirt and love and leave. Remus alone.

Sirius and Remus in a coffee shop. Remus wants to move away from London. The same moments told from both perspectives. Free-verse RLSB Slash.

Remus doesn't want Sirius the way Sirius wants him, but is it worth tearing his world apart to deny the ever-demanding Black?

What events led to Lucius Malfoy becoming a Death Eater? Did he ever once believe in love? This is a slightly AU look at Lucius Malfoy's early days of becoming a Death Eater. **Written In Response to FannyPrice's "Potter-fy This" Challenge on HPFF, based off of a plot theme from the Twilight Series...**

Harry does what he must do. The ever cliched final battle takes place. But what happens after the battle? Harry falls into a deep coma, and mysterious things take place to other members of the Order. It's up to the normal people now, to become heroes in a world where nothing is right. Told partly in Voldemorts PoV. Post-HBP, not too shippy.

Sirius remembers Marlene. One-shot. Gen-ish. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ community).

“Severus, you’re home.” “Indeed.” Just a little Snape piece.

Eighteen-year-old Harry Potter, despite being the celebrated "Chosen One" who'd recently vanquished He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named at last (not to mention his preceded glory as the "Boy Who Lived"), suffers greatly in the aftermath. Over a month has so far passed since that final showdown at Hogwarts, yet STILL — the young adult wizard cannot sleep, cannot close his eyes without seeing vivid images of that horrific night jog hauntingly across his mind without end. Nevertheless, as Harry now returns to Hogwarts for his rather "belated" seventh year (if one could call it), an unexpected person shockingly spotlights into Harry's traumatized life, even proving to be the beginning of a new, unimaginable attraction and interest: Draco Malfoy!

Could one lost love really have been the only thing that turned Severus into the angry, cruel, and sneering Potions Master that Harry met his first year? Starting in 1970 and continuing through the 80s, this story paints the lovely and often harrowing picture of Severus' life before he met Harry Potter. You’ll meet Severus’s most loyal companion, Marcella Lynch, from the beautiful beginning of their relationship first year, to the tragic end well after the wizarding world thought they were rid of the Dark Lord forever. This story is not an AU; it will work out to fit canon.

Two and a half years after first coming to stay with the Potters, Sirius thinks he might finally be ready to be completely honest with them. Remus/Sirius. One-shot.

I didn't expect everyone to be wearing black at the end of the world, but perhaps I should have.

Hermione takes a moment to reflect...

"You had a choice," Remus said, looking her straight in the eye. She looked back at him defiantly and smiled pityingly. "No, I didn't, I never have. And neither do you. You'll join us sooner or later. It is inevitable," Bellatrix Black is in her fifth year at Hogwarts and Lord Voldemort is gaining power around him quickly. Can an unlikely comradery with Remus Lupin stop her from being caught up in The War?

"We are not putting him down like a sick puppy, werewolf or not!" the other voice shouted, surreptitiousness forgotten. "He is our son!"

Gilderoy Lockhart is used to stealing people's life achievements. But one particular instant is one that truly haunts him, and he doesn't even have a face to associate it with.

It is December during OotP, and Fudge still refuses to admit the Dark Lord has returned...but St Mungo's is filling up with Muggles gone mad, and many of them bear a scar on their foreheads resembling that of one very well-known boy...

"Love Yourself" "Don't forget to love yourself" *~* After a tumultuous sixth year, Draco Malfoy is returning for his seventh. He's troubled by his past experiences and apprehensive about the future. Returning to Hogwarts is the beginning of the rest of his life, though how different it may be is still to be seen.

He loved her and she hated it. But that was them. Always toeing the thin line between love and hate...

James' mother, his only remaining family, is murdered and James decides to join the Order of the Phoenix with his friends. Following the dark episodes they face, with the fear of death always looming over them...

She falls into his abounding grace.

'Then I will laugh because I will always be that Slytherin. I will forever be the Slytherin.' Written for The Minor Character Challenge at the HPFC forum.

Hermione writes a Christmas card to her parents in December of 2007.

It was dark, cold, disgusting, hopeless, sorrow, there.

Ginny is lonely and her only friend is a diary that talks back. She writes about some very unusual happenings her first year at Hogwarts.

He has feared it all along - for longer than she has, he has feared this day, this argument, this goodbye. In the past months, she has come to fear it too, and all summer they have merely been waiting. Pretending, and waiting. While everyone else had spent the past weeks celebrating that yet another lot of them were out of Hogwarts, ready for the world they had been planning for years now, the two of them had desperately been trying not to see the end. Andromeda leaves the only life she knows behind.

Harry finds that one year is not long enough for him to forget. It's just a day. But Sirius is still dead.

Struggling to deal with the events of his fifth year, Harry is at a loss to explain why his friends haven't written. An isolated Harry wrestles with guilt and depression, unaware that a more sinister plot is playing itself out. An AU one-shot following the events of OotP. Heavy Angst.

After Ari's first big fight with Abby... Ari is fourteen and curious about the father she's never known. A storm is brewing as Ari moodily considers what's happened that she knows of.

During Harry's conversation with Scrimgeour, Percy holds a heated discussion with the Weasleys. Twenty minutes later, he's still intact...

'Just shove a bezoar down their throats,' he scribbled in his book. It's not just your choices that make you who you are; who are you to argue when the world wants the worst of you - or so it seems...

Songfic to Hanson's 'Weird', ties in with 'Blame it on the Weatherman' and 'Family Portrait'. Ginny's POV, as she deals with her own issues and is discovered in a difficult situation. Warning: Contains self harm, so don't read if easily offended by this idea.

Cedrella Black has a very important choice to make: follow her heart and be disowned, or follow family tradition and turn her back on the love of her life? **Written for Magravine's "Slytherin Challenge" on HPFF**

It's the day of the Third Task, and Cedric spends the day with his parents, and has a talk with his dad. **Written in response to Redherring's "Parent and Child Challenge" on HPFF**

It’s hard when you don’t belong in the world you were born into. Brianna looks back on a time when she didn’t care about much of anything except for wanting what she couldn’t have. Very short, mildly angsty rumination on the nature of daydreams and the reality of being different. Note: because of the nature of the piece, canon characters are present only in imagination.

When the day of Victory finally comes, Gabrielle finds she can not smile.

This is the last summer when Remus has still not unlearnt to dream.

Cho deals with Cedric's death in this story that takes place between GoF and OotP. This is a sad, lethargic story.

What happened on the night that Tom Riddle was born? What were the events leading up to Merope's last breath? Written in response to EmeraldCity's "The Birth of a HP Character" Challenge on HPFF.

When someone has been misfortunate enough to witness the unforgivable...they have only two options. One option is to continue living life with the memory forever haunting them until the day they die. The second option is to risk the possibility of obtaining severe or fatal brain damage, having all remaining traces of memory destroyed, and extreme absentmindedness by having the memory suppressed with the aide of a memory charm. Everything comes with a certain price...and nothing lasts forever. When a memory charm loses its effect...unforgettable things will happen...and demons will be released... ``***``"Neville IS going to be alright isn't he?"``"I should hope so, Harry."

: What if Remus's father had saved him on that fateful night? Would his life at Hogwarts be any easier being the son of a known werewolf? Can a werewolf keep custody of his only child? Can Remus help his father stay one step ahead of his mother and the Werewolf Registry?

Based off of Carrie Underwood's song Just A Dream but not really a songfic. Dumbledore sent him on that mission. She just wished it could've been her instead. In the dead silence of their house, one word escaped her lips, "James."

'When it happens, it comes fast and hard and it hurts like you wouldn't believe. The air leaves my lungs and my muscles tense and lock and there I am.' Implied slash. Written for the "I'm about to die!"-competition at the HPFC forum.

The first things he sees are the scars.

[RemusLilyJames Love Triangle] Remus Lupin knew good and well the way James felt about Lily. For months, he heard nothing but declarations of love, and everyone knew why. Lily was amazing, but little by little, Remus found it hard not to fall himself.

After the loss of her fiancé, Hermione doesn't know what she's looking for, but she finds it in the company of one Draco Malfoy.

Some days Harry Potter wonders if life is worth something now that he's purposeless. Some days Draco laments the idiocy of Gryffindors. Some days Hermione wonders if the impossibility of her friends will drive her mad. Everyone has their 'some days'.

Recently divorced, she dove into her work for comfort. Recently released, he looked to put his life back together. Can Hermione and Draco find peace with the past? Or will they find more, being in the arms of the enemy?

Harry Potter was known to be the ultimate Gryffindor: brave, daring and self-sacrificing. He would do anything to protect his friends -- even if this meant consorting with those he once hated and testing his very integrity. And in one fateful moment, this idea is tested, pushed to the limit...

Draco calls upon himself a mended fate. Now on a road where only time holds his new destiny, he must commit the ultimate sacrifice so to deliver his soul into the hands of salvation. DrHr.

"No one ever died wishing they'd spent more time at the office." ~Jim Hundley

What happens to Remus Lupin after the fall of Voldemort? This story focuses on what he does from the years 1981-1993, which we have very little information about. However, there are some very canon occurences. It is my first long-term fic, but please don't judge it on that. There are no ships (so far) in this fic except some L/J references.

It's a couple of years after the war finished and Pansy comes across Draco in a party. It's bitter-sweet for the both of them, as they talk and leave many things unsaid but understood.

Voldemort wasn't the end of war, just as he wasn't the beginning. There was Grindelwald before him, and after him there came the war in India. (Slightly AU)

HxD Slash - Post OoTP - 7th Year - Only a giant leap of faith can overcome the desolate feeling of being alone. If it is truly possible to forgive and forget, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are about to embark on an exciting yet perilous journey, but will they have the strength to fight together after so much time alone? And will it be enough to save them both?

Andromeda's account of the Black sisters, the truth, and the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black.

They say people you love never truly leave you. Draco wishes they would just leave him alone.

Over 100 years after the Final Battle, the world finds itself facing life without Harry Potter. This is unacceptable. The solution? Create a new one!

Draco jumped up, yanked out his wand and thrust it, point upwards, in Lucius' face. 'I can still feel them, Father,' he whispered, 'all those writhing, stinking spells!' Lucius curled his lips. 'Then why do you fight them?'

Short of what may of happened in the hours following the Battle of Hogwarts.

She had never thought much about Fred Weasley. Yes, he was Ron's older brother. Yes, he was always joking around. Yes, his twin was almost always attached to his hip. But she hadn't thought of him as more than just another person in her life. Until…

Draco rebels. Lucius sets him straight. A war is coming, after all. Set after Draco’s fourth year at Hogwarts.

His missions for the Dark Lord begin to take a toll on Regulus Black.