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Several wizards and witches sit about Muggle studying, and their musings lead to many diverse topics, including love, friendship, hatred, depression, and envy.

An Umbridgebashing fic. Professor Trelawney is about to be sacked by the High Inquisitor, but refuses to leave. And a seer can be very tricky to nail down...

The worst experience of your life could be living with the fear of what is to come. A peek inside Dudley's head during his encounter with the dementor that night in Little Whinging. Violent and sad, not for the impressionable or the squeamish.

A grieving father, a disfigured Death Eater, the memories of an alienated Ravenclaw schoolgirl, Sirius Black, and the legacy of a festering evil of the long-departed past. In the department of mysteries, the shadows of the Death Eaters are lengthening, and no one can be sure of redemption...

Bridge piece for other fics. Harry hopes to find out about his mother's pasts, but the answers he receives only lead to more questions. He finds information from an unlikely source.

Sometimes, there is more to people than we can see with the eye. Petunia Dursley is much more than she is made out to be, and she has regrets about never saying good-bye to her sister.

The wind now takes the hood off and shakes the cloak of a figure. A figure with silver-blond hair and a sword hanging on his hip. A figure with a reddish scar on his jaw. War is cruel, but you're born in the Night of the Nadir. You're hunted for war crimes, but this won't be the night you'll be arrested.

Only after all the pain, can Harry see Ginny for who she really is.

A stand alone based on a challenge. All about what secrets would be in wizard attics and what those secrets would be for one of the most ancient pure-blood families.

Takes place that fateful night when Wormtail betrayed the Potters...

"I wonder what shade of red the Hell-flames are. I want to see your eyes reflect them. Anyway, red looks good on you, Potter. "

Hermione Granger reflects back on the person who helped her to become the woman she is.

Everywhere he went, he knew: if he just turned, everything would be all right.

Written for Ginny Fic-a-thon. Ginny/Tom. ````Ginny thinks back on her time in the chamber and...regrets.

Draco's had enough of his father-- he's finally had enough of everything, and he's ready for his sweet release. Rated PG-13 for blood and violence.

They told her it would get better, that the pain would leave her in time. They were lying. Night after night she dreams of him, her heart aches for him. Does he think of her?

A bookish old werewolf and a bookish young Gryffindor girl muse about lost love, fate and James Joyce. Indirect RWHG and RLNT hinting.

You learn a lot of interesting things working at a bar... very short oneshot of Madam Rosmerta's views on You-Know-Who, Harry Potter, and her lot in life.

A letter from his aunt forces Theodore Nott to choose between easy and right... but the line between them is blurring.

It started with a boy who wanted another boy to like him.

They both had an innate fear that surrounded them, the fear of a life repressed by the outside world. They could both relate in their absolute terror, that deep aching fear of failure, of never reaching the sky. Never touching the extent of the world. Fear is expensive and Draco and Harry both paid enormous prices for their fear.

Set in the same universe as "Where We Begin", this is a bit of a departure from my usual stories. It's Penelope-centric and gives an idea of what Remus Lupin might have been doing while he was in hiding from the wizarding world. Also, oddly enough, it's a war-story, and rather Cabaret-esque.

Where there is departure, something is lost, and everything changes. When Sirius Black left Number 12 Grimmauld Place, nothing was ever the same for the Blacks.

Ron discovers the truth about Harry and Draco's relationship.

Remus' wildest dream comes true as his world shatters.

Rosmerta works at that pub day in and day out. No one knows the grief that she feels. But you'll soon find out.

"It hurt to remember, but it would hurt even more to forget." Slight Remus/Sirius, post-OotP.

I push back the fear that always comes with meeting your gaze, push back the fear that you will remember that I am your enemy, the spawn of he who destroyed all that you loved and possessed with one blow. Your wand is no more, your lightning bolt scar faded, glasses no more accentuating your emerald eyes, your heroism, the beacon of light you represent, gone with your trademark. Everything has been taken from you, all is hopeless, the world is lost and has changed, transformed to live without you, and yet here I stand, your only visitor in this asylum, wondering if I dare to touch you and try and change something within you that I am not sure exists anymore: your heart.

A dull evening in a gloomy village pub in Sweden is interrupted by a very special girl.

It's the summer after OotP, just before school starts again. Ron struggles to deal with his feelings surrounding Sirius' death.

So. London. A town full of people and life and a thousand strange tales, and a place to be when days suddenly became too empty. With Hogwarts closed and without even the pretence of friendship that was offered there, Luna left for the capital with few hopes and fewer expectations. But it was a little bit closer to everything, and there was a slightly bigger chance of having news of Ronald, Hermione and Harry. Most importantly, it was less lonely when there was something she could open her window to.

She remembers a sweeter time. A time when she was whole. Then came the darknes and with the darkness went her soul.

Dumbledore sits, surrounded by many, and contimplates the meaning of Fate. And yet a fear is growing inside him...````He fears the very worst. Has Fate come to take away the Boy-Who-Lived?

Hermione Granger couldn't remember why, but the phenomenon of cutting and cutters had fascinated her as a child. She supposed there was always some smidgen of depression hiding deep in her soul. Maybe that was why she had to be so perfect in school. Maybe she was overcompensating for feelings of emptiness inside. She never wanted to know, so she never asked herself.

Arthur pays his distanced son a visit, with saddening results. Percy is obsessed with his work; he wants nothing to do with his family or his past. Yet there appears to be a justification for his actions, layered beneath an outer display of anger and condescension.

It's been said that if walls could talk they would tell stories. What would the walls of Godric's Hollow say about the night Lily and James were murdered?

In the year of 2002, Cornelius Fudge retired as Minister of Magic after thirty years of outstanding work and Charlie 'Chuckles' Dented was instated into the esteemed position. Jayden Briggs is a man who condemns all half-breeds only because they are different from what God intended. Marcus Flint and Percy Weasley are stuck in the middle. A satire on society.

Ginny Weasley has a secret with silver hair and a Dark Mark. No one knows, except her fiancee.

During his seventh year, after the final battle, Seamus sits with his girlfriend and has plenty of time to think about what has happened to him, her, and their friends.

Prequel to Twelve Years Later

We all know (or should know) that Peter told You Know Who where Lily and James and Harry were hiding. But, have we ever heard the whole story? Peter saved his own life rather than protecting others, but learn what transpired between You Know Who and Peter that night.

The-Boy-Who-Lived and The-Girl-Who-Shined lived a lie until their seemingly perfect little world was flipped upside-down by one event: the death of Ginny Weasley.

The trail is long and winding and Ron finds that he keeps stumbling over small twigs and pebbles. Harry walks steadily ahead of him, looking over his shoulder occasionally to make sure Ron is still there. He smiles and encourages the redhead. Ron stumbles every time Harry smiles. (HP/RW, Character Death)

One decision can make you lose everything. But, nobody ever said you can't try and get it all back. Post-Hogwarts. Songfic to "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne.

Ginny Potter wonders how, in eight years, she had never seen Matilda Malfoy. Now she and Harry have to decide how to deal with this new development. Third installment in the Not Enough series.

This is the story of the boy James Freyler, who grew up with his oppressive father, struggling to win his fathers pride and trust. Follow James in his adventures at Hogwarts, and see how he battles with dangerous creatures, and makes new friends!

The Golden Trio seemed destined to triumph, but nothing said they had to be good. A tale of a dark Trio and of their conquests.

Draco knows he's made a mistake and he's finally gone for help. But is it too late for him to change sides of the Battle?

Two outcasts drawn to the same magical realm, they meet under moonlight, but cannot be together, a Muggle and a werewolf can never have true love no matter how hard they try. Influenced by Beauty and the Beast. Hogwarts student Remus meets Lily's sister.

At Sirius' funeral, Remus reflects on what might have been.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh. First of the Sondheim songfic series.

In 1971, twins Eve and Evan De'Malikar were in their sixth year at Hogwarts. That same year, Eve was bitten and changed by a vampire. For nine years, Evan struggles with his sister’s Vampirism. Then, The Dark Lord promises him an escape. When the web of lies is undone, only one man can help them. As the new co-DADA teachers, they must juggle Eve's vampirism, students, spying for the order, Evan's romance with Severus Snape, and that idiot Trelawney.

Remus Lupin lives a fairy tale. But he knows that only the modern ones have a happily ever after. Remus/Sirius

After the war he's become someone else. He disregards her like she's nothing. A songfic from the viewpoint of a girl in distress; bet you can't guess who it is! Songfic to Smile Empty Soul's "For You."

Tom-centric, AU. Now he reaches the altar, where that very same boy kneels asking for a forgiveness Tom knows he won’t find with his head bowed.

This is a companion piece to Alone: Narcissa's Story, from Harry's POV. He's feeling alone and can't quite understand why Draco decided to leave after all they've been through together. Angst and Slash, D/H of course.

Ginny writes very slowly, shaping each letter with careful precision.

All his life he'd longed for solitude. Other desires had come and gone; power, fame, fortune, love, respect, some fulfilled and others simply forgotten. The one constant, the dream that had survived through it all, was this.

Bill Weasley looks back on the day his father left. Oh, don't worry, Arthur never left them. I'm talking about the Weasleys' biological father, Justin Mages. Bill writes a letter to this man, but he has to force himself to remember that horrid day. This is what went on as Bill writes the letter.

We know that Sirius Black is gone. What actually happened when Sirius Black fell beyond the veil? Did he really die or did he just go another realm, reality or dimension? Set before end of OoTP, a missing moment. It's my creative take on it.

Inside the house a man and a woman sat close together, staring out of the second floor window, also watching and listening. The woman held a child close in her arms, clutching him as if his life depended on her constant crooning and kisses on the forehead. The man also reached over every few seconds to touch the child's cheek or smooth down his hair. `` “I can't stand this anymore, James,” the woman whispered.

Sequel to Just Before Midnight. Don't really need to read that to understand this fic. Draco sinks. Darkfic.

A look at Percy Weasley's break from his family, from Percy's point of view. Why Percy might not be as much of a git as we all think.

Once, in his naïve days, he’d read about scars in an old medical book he found in a second hand bookstore. A futile attempt at trying to explain to himself why everyone was so fascinated by his own, famous scar. But that was long ago. His new scars are those of a different kind.

Lucius passes through the Veil and finds himself in a place which isn't death.

In a conversation taking place shortly after the events described in Tom Riddle's diary, Albus Dumbledore, Transfigurations professor, learns that a headmaster must put the school first, but at what cost? Dumbledore must convince Headmaster Dippet to save a student from an undeserved fate while preserving the reputation of the school.

Tom Riddle visits a seer to glimpse his future and decide which path to follow.

Ginny likes Draco... Draco is with Pansy... what's a girl to do?

Draco writes a monologue for History of Magic which is strangely parallel to the conversations and actions of his ancestor Lord Escalus Malfoy, 800 years earlier, during the Burning Times.

The story of a Mother\'s love. He had lived through part of a war, a dreadful war that had taken his father’s life, along with his mother’s heart.

What happens when a werewolf loses his pack? How do you keep someone from tipping over the edge of grief? After the death of the Potters and Peter, someone has to help Remus back to the land of the living.

Driven mad by the horrific sights of war, Draco stumbles across a lonely battlefield, looking for someone he does not remember. H/D.

Sequel to "Away". Ginny's family, friends, and the rest of the wizarding community deals with their loss.

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him." ~H. Mathews

For Dudley's seventh birthday, he wants a puppy. In that puppy, Trouble, Harry finds his first best friend. But life is never fair to Harry as he gets his first taste of having something great ripped away from him.

Pansy endeavors to save her unborn child.

Severus' life, as described by the Tarot.

It's a small world after all. He knows his pain, he feels it, but he doesn't know. This is your worst nightmare. Companion piece to Teardrops.

Peter is flung into the future and decides that he doesn't want to become Wormtail. He's disgusted and decides to find him so justice can be served.

As Regulus battles one of the biggest decisions of his life, he meets up with Sirius, who he hasn't seen in two years. Title explained inside. One-shot. Companion to Conversations with a Hat, Chapter 3.

After an attack on the school using the Imperius curse a Slytherin victim tries to deal with the consequences of his actions. An OC driven fic with lots of Fred/Angelina. Companion piece to Unbreakable, Troubled Mind and Unforgiveable Sinner.

Told through the eyes of a 'nameless Ravenclaw third from the left,' the relationship between Draco and Harry exists between the lines of the story. Perhaps all is not what it seems in the facade that is love.

Ron is exiled in his dreams, and there he comes to terms with a situation that he prefers to ignore. (Takes place at the same time as The Crying Game)

There is a siege against Hogwarts, and inside the school the students and teachers draw together for warmth, friendship, and what could be love. Many pairings, mainly H/D.

Harry runs into the woods to escape arguing and yelling in The Burrow. He finds Ginny who also ran from the house and after a heated discussion find they have a very unique connection.

"Everything they ever did was funny... Except for the things that weren't." [One-Shot] [MWPP-era]

There were seven Lupin children, five girls and two boys. One boy would grow up to be loved by his family, his friends, and his students. As for the other? He wouldn't grow up at all...

Taking place between the summer before Harry's sixth year and the final battle, this short one-shot finds Harry lost within his own thoughts as he muses about his destiny, his state of mind, that bloody prophecy, and everything going on around him of which he is only vaguely aware.

After a long battle, the trio has returned to Hogwarts with the hope of a bit of safety. Ron promised Hermione that things would be fine in the morning but knew he was wrong. He had to end it all, he just couldn't go on.

He's a fugitive from the law, wanted for a crime he didn't commit. But on an island off the coast of Greece, Sirius has plenty of time to think and to recover from his past, and finds that life on the lam can have its bright spots.

Attempts to educate the three daughters of Druella Black according to their station do not exactly go as planned.

Sirius Black liked it when Remus Lupin shivered. He liked the way that the small hairs on the back of his neck pricked up and the way he tried not to let his shoulders shake. The way Remus would look at him almost accusingly as if he were mad that these reactions made him seem somehow more human, because he was the calm and composed Remus Lupin and shouldn’t shiver or do anything else that wasn’t calm and composed.

The war has begun, the Order of the Phoenix is fighting the Death Eaters, and she is neutral. Their worlds are black-and-white; hers is gray. She is alone, and she doesn't know who to believe in.

Two future Death Eaters are talking by the lake before their initiation ceremony.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved ... loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Victor Hugo) Ten years after the fall of Voldemort, Neville and Hannah Longbottom face a difficult moment in their marriage and experience the truth of that statement.

"You hear them whisper that Cissa Black is breaking..." ``Dreams are not enough to save us, but they're substantial enough to try.

What happens years from now when the Final Battle has taken place? Where are our beloved characters. Embark on a journey of love and passion, where the unexpected is reality.

At Draco's wedding to Astoria, Pansy finally admits how upset she is to the most unexpected person, Ron Weasley, who is suffering from heartbreak of his own.

Hermione should have never trusted Draco Malfoy...

This is another song fic, to the song "Stay or Leave" by Dave Matthews. Remus is having a lot of trouble getting over Sirius and retreats to the place they spent most of their time together. After a while, Harry comes to stay with him, and together they find they can heal one another.