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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.