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Making deals, breaking deals and striking a bargain. All in a day's work for Marcus Broil

Harry's never had evil thoughts, not without being inhabited by Voldemort. But now, when depression has hit him hard, he finds himself with disturbing thoughts all his own prowling in his mind. And as he spirals downward...he starts to lose his love for Ginny and his ability to feel anything besides numb...

Ginny is different from her family but she never realised how much. Implied Narcissa/Ginny.

Remus Lupin thinks about his life, his lost love, and going insane as he watches the snow fall. Implied Sirius/Remus. Song fic to Good Charlotte's song "Ghost of You".

Harry's thoughts and feelings on Sirius's passing one year prior.

Sirius caught a glimpse of the moon. Sirius/Remus

If the past is a different country, could you do things differently there? Remus Lupin has visited it many times.

...I pound my hands on the wall, ignoring the blood running from them. "We were friends!" He can't hear me now, he's too far away, but I can't stop screaming. "We were friends! We were friends!"

Young Severus Snape discovers that choosing a side can come with a steep price.

"I wanted to destroy something beautiful." ("Fight Club") And he very nearly had the chance.

You can’t see tears in the rain. And for that sole reason, she waited and yearned for the rain to come. So that she could cry her sadness away. Hermione loved the rain.

All that remained was a box full of memories. (Remus/Sirius)

A story retracing the events before the Potters died to when Sirius Black was sentenced to Azkaban - Remus Lupin, facing challenges, comes forward to the Ministry with certain suspicions of certain friends. It all began during sixth year when....

A tale on the Bloody Baron - What is his connection to Peeves and the Grey Lady, and why is he covered in bloodstains? A tale of intrigue and regrets.

After Voldemort’s defeat, the magic world is mundane again. Hermione finds herself in a standstill in her life where even though she’s incredibly intelligent, there isn’t anything she’s interested in making a career out of. Attending a carnival with her flatmate, Ginny, she comes into a scary new power: She can see visions of people’s impending death when she touches them. Despite her disgust at the art of Divination, she is forced to come to terms with her new power, realizing it isn’t something she can just ignore. What Hermione sees in her visions will lead her to discover a new evil brewing in the magic world, one where only her insightful mind and another’s tenacity for sneaking around can save the day.

Harry Potter was unjustifiably tried in August for underage magic, but after successfully appealing, he rightfully returned to Hogwarts for his fifth year. Now, an unbelievable three months later, Harry is wrongly on CRIMINAL trial for a murder charge which could land him an Azkaban life sentence. Ultimately, Harry must defeat this unrighteous injustice before it steals his life away! Thus, with Umbridge as the fierce prosecutor, Dumbledore as his passionate defender, and Bones as the fair-minded judge, A GRANDIOSE SHOWDOWN TRANSPIRES!!!

In canon, it is definite that Dean Thomas is a talented artist. But why? How did he become interested in art in the first place? This flashback to Dean's past tells that story.

"She cannot even afford to live in the most humble of hovels. She is reduced to this. Whoring herself, living in an attic and eating little." A woman lives alone in a hostile world, fighting for survival. This is the story of her fall from grace.

Sirius meets Shaula in a secured room before his sentence is passed for Azkaban. They are of a similar background, and both followed good and evil with equal valour. Yet how did they both end up here, in the same place?

Arthur and Molly Weasley face the terrible realities of the Second War, and realize that in the darkness, the best thing to do is to hold on to one another.

A smoky corner office. A pouting dame. Follow Neville as he tails Moaning Myrtle in her mysterious doings as a '20s-style detective. A short little ficlet.

In which Harry is dizzy, Draco is smiling, and life doesn't go the way it's supposed to.

Blaise stood Draco up. He needs a substitute. He finds one in a pile of photos Colin was looking at which was not meant for modeling purposes and insists that Colin persuade this person to model... Guess who? I won't tell you, it'll ruin the surprising twist in the story...

I lived in a shadow. At school I lived in Potter’s shadow, and at home I lived in my father’s shadow. I didn’t want to live that way. Whatever my destiny was, I came to see that it didn’t belong in anyone’s shadow.

A little piece with Draco's thoughts in his thirties. Of all the things he had and lost, losing HER was the most terrible blow of all.

A visit from Narcissa Malfoy draws Ron back into his past with her son.

How are you supposed to grow into a functioning adult when for years you rarely see the sky? Marcus struggles to identify himself either within or without circumscribed Slytherin traits. Oliver helps. This is a character study, a critique of the Hogwarts house system, and against all odds, a love story.

A dangerous new weapon is introduced by the Dark wizards to destroy Muggles. But how could a weapon be disguised as such a harmless object?

Potter has a dream and tells Draco about it.

An alternate view of Helga Hufflepuff.

What does one person change? Willow wishes that Kalli never came to Hogwarts. With one wish, her whole world crumbles.

Stemming from a line that popped into my head one evening after an Armchair Chat, describing Draco lying in the snow, dying. A rather dark little piece on role-reversal.

After Voldemort’s defeat, seventeen-year-old Ginny Weasley doesn’t know what to do with the rest of her life.

This is the transcript of a speech made be Harry Potter on Mar 3, 1997. It was the end of his life, and those of many others. This recording was also of great use to the wizards of 2123 in determining exactly how Lord Voldemort had come to rule most of Europe at that time. Filed in the historical records of the Ministry of Magic. (One shot)

Remus reflects on how music has influenced in his life in both good and bad times, with particular emphasis on the phonograph seen in the film version of PoA.

The Potters were the only family Sirius ever cared about. Last night they were killed along with Voldemort and he is the only one who knows who was responsible. This is Sirius' version of the events that end with him going to prison and Peter getting away.

This is a little piece, set after the end of the war against Voldemort. So, it's set after the seventh year. Harry's dead, and Draco reflects on his current miserable life. ``Warning: it's slash, and there's also character death!

A rather different view of Draco. Here Draco confronts how his father brought him up and realizes that he does not want to be what his father felt he should be. Based on the song "Numb" by Linkin Park.

After it is all over, a man remembers...

Lupin has a job to do concerning Snape; Snape has a job to do concerning Lupin. Sequel to "Subterfuges."

Barty Crouch Jr. must have been feeding Alastor Moody, right? Tonight the gift is lemon cake and conversation. (BCJr/AM)

A sort of stream-of-consciousness short story from Sirius's POV on the night Lily and James were murdered. It was inspired by the combination of Hagrid's and Fudge's stories about that night in PoA, when I started wondering what Sirius was thinking.

A Prewett/Weasley family one-shot set during and after the first war. Before she was a Weasley, Molly was a Prewett with two brothers... brothers she loved... brothers she lost... brothers she remembers...

In war, it is easy enough to shoot your enemy but when is it easier to kill a friend? Dean makes a choice when life is the hard part and death is a blessing and a journey only the strong can take.

I miss him, you know. He always made me feel safe, loved, wanted, acknowledged. It’s kind of funny, only not. No one ever asked me what it was like. No one ever wanted to know just how willing I was. I suppose that was to be expected. They’d be horrified if it wasn’t all his fault.

After a mission gone wrong, two men are trapped in a deserted Muggle building, one of them mortally wounded. What happens then sheds light on the true nature of friendship, love, and hope.

War is the great equalizer. Harry Potter employs any means to catch his enemy. Harry/Draco angst written for Contrelamontre's 'Air' challenge.

Tale of a girl who survived being at the hands of the Death Eaters in the Second Wizarding War and her aftermath. -Contains poem by bloodredsoul (who I love *huggles*) called Dark Stars- Warning: This is DARK, like all my other fics. Don't read if you can't handle it.

Draco hates the rain. He's all alone, and he needs somebody to make him feel safe and warm. Deep down in the Slytherin dungeons he ponders on his and Harry's relationship, and the decisions he has just made. Is he really doing the right thing?

Voldemort survives the battle of Hogwarts but Bellatrix doesn't. To his surprise and slight annoyance he misses her and decides to pay a visit to her mother. The visit affects him more than he could have ever imagined and he discovers what it really means to be a pure blood.

A post-DH AU in three parts. Even in the best of all possible worlds, happy endings aren't for everyone. Both of them prefer this ending, really; not much for the storybooks, but most stories are tragedies, anyway. Leave those endings to the tales they'll read to Teddy.

Harry is alone. He has a bloody score to settle. And it's the day before the end of the world.

Narcissa Malfoy and Remus Lupin call a moratorium to chat like old friends. Problem is, they've never been friends.

Narcissa reflects on her mistakes in a way.

Tom Riddle will always be connected with Ginny but maybe her obsession has gotten carried away.

Part five of five in the 'Colours' sequence. "And Harry was white, Harry who had been out here since before breakfast; the sun was setting now and Ron and Hermione would be looking for him, but they wouldn’t find him because he had turned as white as the snow, and for the first time in quite a while Harry felt like he was almost clean. Not quite clean, no, and as soon as he stepped back into the school he would be filthy again, coated with the deaths of God-knew-how-many, but for now he was almost white again."

Wormtail returns to Godric's Hollow.

The illusion of death is not always as concrete as one might think. Regulus was never dead, just thought to be. His return has shaken the worlds of everyone important to him. Sirius' feelings are unclear, though they were never very evident to begin with. He must set things right with his wife and a son he has never known. Most importantly however, he must try to stay alive, one can only narrowly miss death so many times.

Outside the gates of Hogwarts, Severus Snape pauses - and chooses.

'Lily Potter is falling...' What happens after death. Lily thinks back. Lily/James, hints of Remus/Sirius.

It's just days after the deaths of Lily and James Potter. Frank and Alice Longbottom are in danger. This story explains some things about Neville and his parents.

Sirius Black has just lost everything in his life worth living for... now all he wants is revenge. (Takes place after the Potters' Death)

This is an alternative look at the future from my fic - A Broken Bridge Between Two Houses. This is my interpretation of what the future could be if Domenica had chosen Snape rather than Remus.

Even in dreams, Draco knows he is incapable of the task he has set. [Draco/Terry Boot, Harry/Draco, Harry/Terry, PG-13.]

Sirius hasn't seen the Potters since they were placed under the Fidelius Charm... it's Halloween, 1981, and what he does not know is he will lose three friends... two by death, and one by betrayal.

A short, vignette type story. Based on the idea that both Harry and Snape are a little insane. Reference to DM/HP, but not a romance fic.

A broken soul looks back on the dark road of his life.````LSS is back with a new offering. First stab at angst, somewhat lacking in comparison to my other fics.

Sometimes, reading other people's minds is not fun. Sometimes it leads you further than expected. Just... Be happy you lived to tell the tale.

Broken and battered, all he can do is offer his support.

Eradicate: to destroy, stamp out, or eliminate. Draco deals with Lucius in the only possible way: death.

An ailing Remus Lupin has been kidnapped by Severus Snape, who has just been released from Azkaban after serving a 20-year sentence. Snape wants something -- but what? Will Lupin be able to figure it out before it's too late?

"RUN, DRACO!" And that’s what he did. Suddenly it mattered so little, whether he was being "treated like a child". He followed Snape’s blunt commands without the slightest flicker of resentment. Suddenly he would’ve given anything to see his pestering mother, to feel her arms close around him in one of her oppressive hugs. The flight, from Draco's view.

Lily grows up and grows away from her sister. "Lily always remembered her sister as a flower. Their mother's flower maidens, they had always been, and she worked hard to remember that now."

[One shot. Peter centric] There are two choices that can be made, and both basically amount to 'lose everything'. What do you do; save your own life, or die to protect your friends? Either way, you know you're condemned. This is a version of Peter Pettigrew's joining the Dark Lord - what would make a loyal fellow to betray his friends? He was a Marauder; he must have been decent before his crimes soured everybody's memories of him. He must have had a motivation, and here's an idea of what it could have been.

It's snowing. There was once a time when this was a joy to her... but Hermione Granger has loved and lost, and winter is no longer the joy it used to be.

A look at Bellatrix's time in Azkaban, culminating in the January 1996 breakout. Rated for graphic description and Dementors doing what they do best.

A sad story about Hermione

Ginny finds a reason. Songfic to Wonderwall, by Oasis.

But there is a bit of a catch for, you see, neither is anything without the others. The individual will starve in the woods while the collective survives. They are the four proverbial pieces to the proverbial puzzle, differently shaped but equal to the others in every way. There is no keystone for they are all keystones.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright. [Harry/Draco, Draco/Terry Boot, Harry/Terry Boot. A study in avoidance.]

Susan and Hermione lie unconcious in the Hospital Wing. Ernie and Ron despair. This fic shows you a snap-shot of Ernie's torment, and what is going on in his head during this trauma. (Songfic)

A look at Lavender Weasley's life when she is mailed with the letter of her husband's death.

Snape can't fix Dumbledore's hand, nor many of the other consequences of Voldemort's actions.

The fire had started as a small flame, but slowly it had spread through out his soul - deep, deep in him it had burnt. Sirius in Azkaban just before breakout...

This story chronicles the events leading up to Snape becoming a full-fledged Death Eater, beginning with the end of his friendship with Lily Evans in his fifth year. It will be installed in four parts, maybe five if I get over-ambitious. I used to write HP fanfiction weekly, but I haven't written in years, so reviews and the lot are very very appreciated! And yes, the title is taken from a Brand New song. The song lyrics do not play a part in the story, but I thought that the title fit very well--read on to see what I mean!

Ron and Harry move in to a flat in Diagon Alley but they are keeping secrets from one another. (Mild Harry/Ron, mention of Harry/Neville and Harry/other).

Elyssabeth Malfoy is the ill-favored daughter of Draco Malfoy. She had been home-schooled for four years along with her adopted sister Kathryne. It is only in their fifth year that they are allowed to attend Hogwarts. Finally away from the seclusion of Malfoy Manor can Elyssabeth escape the bonds that have held her for fifteen years? Death Eaters, a secret alliance, romance and angst galore as Lys and Kat attempt to fight the past and win their freedom.

Only on her wedding day, did she finally find peace...

A fifteen year old named Viviane Devereaux survives the destruction of her school, Aquitaine, but where can she go next?

All alone, staring on/ Watching her life go by. Ginny Weasley looks back on her life to date and wonders if she will ever be a normal girl again.

It's Harry's 6th year at Hogwarts. He's battling evil, emotions, and....His friends(?). Voldemort has a new plan for power. Can Harry and his friends stop him or will Harry let his emotions get the better of him?

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.

Ron needs to tell Hermione something.... He is thinking why he is doing this....

Arthur Weasley, a kind boy who has always been seen as a bit weird, has an obsession. No, I'm not talking about his love of Muggles. Ever since he first saw Molly Prewett coming back from Quidditch practice, her hair tangled, her robes dirtied, and her face bright red from exertion, he's been unable to get her out of his mind. There's just one problem: She's obsessed with Ludo Bagman, the star seventh year Hufflepuff Quidditch captain. Will he be able to get Molly to notice him? And how will he ever be able to focus on his N.E.W.T. classes when he can't get his mind off of her?

It was all she could do to keep from screaming out loud: hold it down; swallow it up like some wretched poison ingested by one’s own will. [Sequel to Rain; Ginny's POV]

Ginny gets sick of Harry's silent moroseness. He stomps off to the lake, where he contemplates...

When several of the Slytherins refuse to obey Voldemort and look to Snape as their leader, they know things will be difficult. But with the remaining prejudice of their classmates, it seems they shouldn’t have bothered. But whoever heard of a Slytherin giving up? Draco Malfoy sure as hell isn’t. (Draco/Blaise, vague Harry/Draco)

The story of Severus Snape, his darkness, and, ultimately, his light. Begins at the Potters' funeral and goes deep into the soul of Severus Snape, from a rocky beginning to a life of guilt and unimaginable sacrifice. Not AU, no slash.