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On her sixth birthday, a young Seer learns that some gifts come with too high a price.

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

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

“Everyone has to die, Tom,” she breathed, unable to move any closer to him. “It’s part of being human.” -- Tom Riddle learns about life, death, power and those too weak to seek it.

There is always a time in your life when time stands still and every memory runs at the speed of light......basically a narration of the last battle.

As taken from "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"

She feeds the pigeons. A Post-war G/H fic.

Harry met Dumbledore and decided to turn back. But what of the others, who crossed that threshold? They each had a story, and someone to welcome them to their end. This includes many different short scenes.

Luna is captured, and questioned by Voldemort. People were normally mad after he had finished with them- not before. One-shot.

Neville and Harry talk about bravery one late night in Gryffindor Tower.

"Photographs and memories Christmas cards you sent to me All that I have are these To remember you..."

Snape wakes up after the Shrieking Shack to find himself in Azkaban. DH compliant. One-shot, gen. Written for and winner of harrypotter_las, challenge 3.

What was Sirius thinking as he escaped from Azkaban and made history? One-shot.

I always snatch the Snitch. I'm always a winner, golden and perfectly round and armed with wings, forever meant to fly, because I am

Remus listens to Tonks after the infirmary scene in HBP and wonders about the things she does not know and will not see. RL/SB if you squint really hard.

The First War is over; Remus must last beyond it. Day to day.

Dear Diary, I can say the words. I can write them over and over. I can speak to you and tell you everything I feel and everything I think but you will never, never write back. You stupid, useless pile of pages! You are empty. I once had a diary, and next to it, you are nothing. -- Ginny Weasley's thoughts on her true relationship with her Tom Riddle. Rated for dark subject matter.

Why did Sirius send Snape to the Whomping Willow? Here's one scenario. Rating for language and adult themes. Slash. WIP.

We all know that Hermione does not take the quick bout of Lavender/Ron well. But nobody knows how close to heart she actually does take it? A little reflective one-shot.

It was midday when he saw the young man on the road. A two-shot in which a teacher is found and a lesson is learned.

Hermione Granger's death. Totally canon-compliant, and a little sad. This was what I thought Hermione's death would be like after reading about Harry's "death" in Deathly Hallows.

Hannah and Neville hire Lee Jordan to help with the pub. Written for the Rarepair Shorts Number Game Ficathon 2009 on Life Journal.

What happens to a dream deferred?

How does one become a Quidditch Hero? Trace the inception of Oliver Wood's dreams of glory by meeting the person who inspired it all: his brother.

She knew he wasn’t ready, knew he was too young. Yet there was nothing more she could do to keep him from making such a choice. But when he’s given a suicide mission, she does what any mother would do. She makes her decision, and she does it for her son.

"Who's this, then?" Marvolo leered at Amycus, and the other, younger man next to him giggled. It was a funny kind of giggle, but what was even funnier was that the giggling man's eyes were pointing in two different directions. Amycus found this fascinating, until it seemed that one of the eyes was fixed on him; then he looked at the table again. -- A young Amycus Carrow meets Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt. Runner-up in FictionAlley's Lusty Month of May Challenge.

Hermione muses on Neville's similarities to Clark Kent.

"Are you awake?" the brunette whispered towards the lanky form in the cot. The boy rolled over and looked at her with a twinkle in his eyes. "No, I'm just pretending." He grinned, running a hand through his black hair as he sat up fully.

A week after the Battle of Hogwarts, the Harry Potter confronts Draco on an abandoned Quidditch pitch. Potter is always one of the Good Guys. Always the same.

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs growing up through the eyes of an outsider.

Every moment centres around something different. Not every moment fits with the next. Character sketches and drabbles of Lily and James, each is about something.

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.

A young man begins a new life, by killing his dreams.

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

Five moments where Ginny Weasley helps Harry and the others during their Horcrux search and in the final battle, without anyone realizing. Set during DH and based on canon events, these are a series of missing moments revealing Ginny's vital hidden role. Settings include the Burrow, Hogwarts, Aunt Muriel's house, and beyond.

Luna goes out to catch a Flyneer in the middle of the night. But gets side tracked thinking about her life, her mother and her friends (especially Harry) one-Shot.

Hermione Jane Granger was a perfectionist, and everyone knew it.

"He is a degenerate, Muriel. There's nothing else he can be called. He is simply bad news. And it breaks my heart that my old friend should find someone like that in his own family."

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?

Lucius Malfoy takes a moment to ruminate over a rather important milestone in his life late one night in the Slytherin common room.

Life is a series of choices. Severus Snape’s choices have been more difficult than those most people are faced with. Step into his mind and see what he was thinking when he made his most important choices.

A fanfic chapter of Book 7. Voldemort captures Ron and, for cruelty's sake, commands Wormtail to kill his kindly former master.

Neville is dismayed to receive a toad as his animal. But he learns that he got a whole lot more, as well. Written for a Hogsmeade weekend contest in Hogwarts_Elite on LiveJournal.

She was trapped in that house, the walls suffocating her. But it hadn’t always been like that; there was a time when she was happy there. Yet that time is gone, but can she justify – even to herself, if to no one else – performing the greatest of crimes? Can she justify betrayal?

Her names is written in those stars, as strongly as it was stitched into their family tapestry all those years ago, and he thinks sometimes, that there is something inescapable in this, that it has all been set in stone long before he even existed.

What is the nature of the magical world's war and its players? Underneath it all, we're all the same.

What if the petrified wards in the Hospital Wing in Second Year could feel and think throughout their time spent there? Please R&R!

Blaize Zabini tells his tale of bringing together the Houses of Hogwarts, the redheaded girl who helped him, and explains the truth behind his House. Now AU, written pre-HBP.

A self-reflection of Ginny, during that time when Harry was off hunting Horcruxes and she was at Hogwarts. A rather short one-shot. Told in the first person.

Sirius Black is already in Azkaban, though that doesn't keep him from reminiscing. He's resigned himself to remembering the worst, but one day, something extraordinary happens.

Young Severus spends a summer away. A little piece that kept bugging me, because I can so clearly visualise him. No romance, no humour, some violence. No horses were actually harmed in writing this.

Dorcas didn't think it would be like this. Dorcas Meadowes one-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends First Order challenge on LJ.

Harry/Cedric. Takes place during the summer after Cedric's death. Describes Harry's morning routine and general state of being after the death of someone dear; implied slash, possibly survivor's guilt. Plays on the words "morning" and "mourning".

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.

There was a time when I loved them. There was a time when they were my world. But now I realize that I could scream to the skies that I hated them all and they would not pay me any mind. So this is hell. A look into Peter Pettigrew's mind.

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

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

Remus watches.

Gilderoy Lockhart is five years out of school and still a nobody. He's so worthless that even his best friend, who rules the press, can't seem to make a story out of him. A despicable idea comes to mind, one that he's been resisting... but it's foolproof, and he's starved for attention. She wants a story? He'll give her the story of a lifetime.

Snape reflects on his actions at the end of HPB.

'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.

The night Lily and James Potter died. Someone arrived before Hagrid. "...he was really sorry he'd done it, sorry they were dead." - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling

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

Draco's choices after HBP. Which side does he belong on?

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.

Nicolas Flamel's last thoughts before he dies. Written for the 'I'm about to die'-competition at the HPFC forum.

Gilderoy Lockhart is haunted during his stay in St. Mungo's. Not OotP compliant.

'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.

Lucius Malfoy enjoys a Muggle pastime, and contemplates his old and new life.

Freedom and motorbikes.

T.S. Eliot is doing a gavotte in his grave. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, as applied to Severus Snape.

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

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?'

Everyone used the war as an excuse. Oh, it's '

This is how I explained Tonks/Remus to myself in retrospect.