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Frank Longbottom meets Mr. Crouch and his son at the annual Department of Magical Law Enforcement Christmas party and extends a fateful invitation.

The Dark Lord has been vanquished, and a new era has dawned for both the Wizarding world and for Draco Malfoy. This is a story involving humor, drama, mystery, and yes, a bit of romance.

Andromeda counts her life by moments.

Draco and Harry explore their pasts through scars.

Remus at 12 Grimmauld Place. Post-OotP. "Wide, rough scars on the wooden floor, still matching the shape of Buckbeak's talons. Soft velvet, worn and folded in blue layers on top of the cupboard - old curtains, the ones Remus sees in Black family portraits. No scent of Sirius here - not even on the stiff shirts in that chest of drawers, too formal for Sirius' tastes, no doubt only donned at his mother's command."

So...Ginny Weasley killed herself and Tom Riddle is free of the confines of her head, he is walking, she is soaring, and he will not ever walk again...

Upon the chance encounter of a beautiful young werewolf, and the meeting of Remus Lupin, journalist Paul Osche makes a resolution to fight the ministry tooth and nail on the common beliefs and treatment of werewolves.

Draco, you caused everyone plenty of problems. It makes me sick every minute that passes by. It's better for me to shoot you on sight. But you couldn't fight right now, so let's settle everything in a game of Roulette

Ginny wards against the dark in an unusual fashion. A one-shot in the same story arc as Initiate. D/G

Draco and Ginny had a past both of them wanted to forget about. But when Draco loses his memory and is confined to a hospital Ginny works at, will things change? Will Ginny forgive and forget? Will they share a bond nothing can ever break? Find out.

Snape and Draco return to Spinner\'s End, where Snape is able to offer a little help, and a little hope. (Gen fic - *NOT* SS/DM)

This story is on Fanfiction.net too... Just a oneshot on Harry's thoughts before his final battle with Voldemort.

She wants to have a normal life but he just won't let her. He is needs her too much to forget about her. Harry and Draco get put into this mess unwillingly. What happens when old habits are just too hard to break?

Thinking about the man who ruined his life, a boy wonders how you can love and hate with your entire heart at the same time.

Voldemort was defeated, and the entire wizarding world rejoiced. No longer are they living in fear, and horizon is no longer dark; the future is looking hopeful and promising. And yet, not everyone is able to be optimistic -- unable to do naught but dwell on the devastation suffered, Ginny Weasley finds herself withdrawing from the world around her, distancing herself from everyone she knows in the belief that they can't and won't comprehend how she feels, not when prospects are finally starting to look so bright after so long. What will happen, though, when she finds that the last person she would ever suspect of empathy proves to be the only one who understands?

Rookwood arranged his daughter to marry the Malfoys' son. Everything seemed to be going according to plan until she meets the boy who lived. HPOC DMOC

A game of truth or dare with a twist. Things are not as they seem. MWPP-era. (Peter/Sirius)

At the end of the war, Lucius waits for what is unavoidable.

A year after the Battle for Hogwarts, Hermione remembers her dead.

"She didn't want to die. Not yet, at any rate. And to die in such a way, where no one would know and most likely won't care, would be worse than dying in an accident, she thought. There'd be no fuss over her death. She was just another casualty of life, they'd say. Unimportant, unknown, and unloved." Presumably in 1994, a Ministry of Magic worker by the name of Bertha Jorkins went on a holiday to Albania to visit a relative. But she picked the wrong time and the wrong place - as always. Encountering more than just a couple of non-English-speaking locals and some very strong alcohol, Bertha also loses many things - the most important being her life. A sad, chilling account of sibling rivalry, loneliness, deceit and murder.

Harry gives Sirius' eulogy at a small gathering of friends.

All you see is green. And suddenly you forget what hope is. - Harry are walking to the forbidden forest.

What happens when she is the only one left in the castle? Will she fall into darkness or will she wait for her friends to help her? For her, the line between good and evil was never clear, and now she decided that it doesn't exist. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and she's just about as desperate as she could get.

Harry never understood why he was the way he was. Questions filled the thoughts of a fifteen-year-old Hogwarts student who happened to be the savior of the magical world.

(The Trilogy of the Serpent – Part III) - Like a Phoenix, a new society emerges out of the ashes of Voldemort’s defeat, after justice and revenge have run their parallel courses. An ancient wound will be healed, together with so many fresh ones. Hogwarts never felt so empty, and yet was never so full of new residents and unexpected promises, even to the disenchanted eyes of Professor Severus Snape, ghost.

To his horror, Knight Bus driver Ernie Prang is 'invited' to become an informer for the Ministry at the beginning of the second war. As the months pass, Ernie finds that he is forced to decide which roads are the most dangerous ...

Jasper Fforde's literary detective, Thursday Next, is called in to deal with a problem at Hogwarts concerning a certain Potions Master ...

"Why? Why keep on living? You answer those questions for me because I really cannot. Yes, you. Both sides seem so alike now. This is the only truth—my only truth—and others do not see it, much less make it retreat. They are blind—blind with a slight blaze of glory from me. I’m me, and no one person can know what I am feeling. Yes, people can help me, but no one can save me, only myself." A slight gaze into Harry's mind two years post OotP.

R for some violence to animals. In Hogwarts, during MWPP time, there are secret meetings in the dungeons for upcoming Death Eater trainees. James wants to make the Order and nothing is quite what it seems.

The events in the Department of Mysteries, at the end of Harry’s fifth year, leave Albus Dumbledore with the broken pieces of the past year. Before he starts cleaning up he has a conversation with his reluctant Potion Master about hate and consequences. But they are not alone in the shadow a third person is watching and wondering why Albus trust him and why Snape chose Voldemort.

Harry is having a rough time, and Ron is there. Not slash unless you wish for it to be.

Mummy's gleaming secret like beads of milk, pretty maids all in a row...

Ron Weasley is tired of living in his famous best friend's shadow. So here is his chance to tell his version of events, through those years at Hogwarts, in Ron Weasley (and Harry Potter) and the Philosopher's Stone ... with an appearance by Hermione Granger.

Set in the summer after fourth year, and written before OotP (though edited after), this fic gives a glimpse of Cho Chang following the death of her boyfriend. Tears, fears, guilt and blame, as Cho tries to get a handle on what has happened.

James has never understood Muggles, and now, hiding with his family, he has to pretend to be one. He doesn't quite like it.

Albus Dumbledore takes an interest in whom 17-year-old Severus Snape spends his time with. Gen. One-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ).

Cho Chang is very deeply affected by the death of Cedric Diggory, and this story isn't really a novel, just a view into Cho's distraught state of mind after Cedric's death.

1979 and 1981. Two Halloween nights, two destinies. James and Lily contemplate the meaning of life and death the night of Harry's conception.

Voldemort is gone, the wizarding world is safe, but Harry Potter wakes up one day to find that it's all been ... a dream?

Stories tend to move in circles; a chilling account of one possible circle, with an important message from Hermione. One-shot

One-shot. Wormtail loved his friends. He didn't want to hurt them. And when the pain had subsided, he was only vaguely aware of the Dark Mark burned into his skin...

As the end of the war approaches, Harry thinks about what little is left of his life and himself that is worth living for. A one-shot first person narrative. Brief, one-sided mention of H/G

The death of the ones we love often kills us from the inside out, and we are haunted by the memory of what was, and by what will never be again.

On the eve of Harry's election to Minister of Magic, Draco must decide if being with Harry is where he wants to be.

Summer 1980. Two young men meet in a pub in Knockturn Alley. For ten days, their lives are entwined. But when the Dark Mark burns, no one can fight the summons. Regulus/Peter.

I hate looking into mirrors. I've never liked it. Even as a young girl I would never be able to look directly in the mirror, which is why I use my wand to fix everything.

"To Hermione Granger, life was like a blank piece of parchment—like Transfiguration homework before it was completed—like an essay." The companion to You’re Dead. Hermione knew that Sirius’s death had affected more people than thought. All she could do was help Harry grieve and give him more knowledge. But for once in her life, she didn’t know what to do with Ron. She couldn’t correct him. She couldn’t help him now.

My name is Narcissa Malfoy. I live in an atmosphere of terror and neglect. In the end, what will I choose, to be cold and unfeeling like my husband, or to feel utter pain, just so that I can feel?

Draco Malfoy knew that this day would come, that this moment must pass, yet that did not seem to make it any easier. And now he stands in the centre of a dark room, surrounded by anonymous masked figures, waiting for the inevitable, as a tall and ominous being approaches.

After the war, Harry ran from the bad memories that haunted him and took refuge in the Muggle world. When he gets a call from a Muggle hospital telling him that a certain Draco Malfoy has been delivered into the Intensive Care Unit, it seems that his peace of mind is at stake as well as Draco's life.

How did "the gang" Snape hung out with during his days in Hogwarts all become Death Eaters? How high was their opinion of him?

Slytherins have feelings and loyalties too, you know. Perhaps different from those of the rest of the world, but they’re still there. Pansy listens, thinks, and remembers and re-examines her loyalties. Rather random thoughts. Set after the end of HBP. Slight DM/PP.

He wasn't really thinking about it, even as he walked up the pathway to the house.... This part was simple, thoughtless.... Voldemort goes to kill the Potters, never dreaming the fate which awaits him. The first defeat of the Dark Lord, from his point of view.

After a painful break-up with Draco, Harry tries to be indifferent.

A trivial decision, perhaps ... but Marietta hates the one she made. Now she's stuck studying Arithmancy (I'd blame her mother) while her Ravenclaw peers discuss the Muggle World. Can anything be done?

Hermione talks to Harry about coping with death and learns to let go in the strangest way.

A deeper, darker look into the life of the girl we now know as Moaning Myrtle.

After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, and Molly deal with Sirius' passing.

This is an AU fanfic; what if, basically. Don't want to give too much away, but it'll be messy, and plenty of people die. Sorry.

During a brief imprisonment in the first war against Voldemort, Andromeda meets another captive who understands her estrangement from her sisters all too well.

"A year, a salvation of one year for her to gather the child and run. And the child would have to go with her, because she could not leave behind a little girl in this house." Pregnant with Morfin's child, Merope longs to escape to a life with Tom, and a better world for the child she hopes will be a girl.

In the Forbidden Forest, during Goblet of Fire, Barty Crouch Jr. encounters shadows.

'From across the grounds, amidst the throes of battle, Draco felt a feather light brush of lips against his cheek. A blown kiss that he knew could only mean one thing. His beloved was gone.'

Harry and company have gone into hiding after the end of their sixth year and are currently waiting to make a move on Voldemort. When the opportunity arises, they must fight more than the enemy; each other.

Blaise Zabini, a seventh year, has kept a secret for years now. But now that everyone in Slytherin House knows, and now that everyone hates her, what is she to do? Warning: Contains cutting. DM/BZgirl!

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

Cho reflects upon Cedric's death, Harry, and herself. A short one-shot.

Hermione receives a letter from Viktor Krum and Ron isn't too thrilled. Fighting ensues. R/Hr. One-shot. Set during Half-Blood Prince.

Draco has one last chance to reveal his true feelings to Hermione. Will he forgive himself or allow his regret and shame to destroy his possibility for a happy future?

Dudley taught me to run. Run like the angel of hell is behind me, because at five I thought it was and at seventeen it might have been and now...maybe I never learned to stand still.

Songfic to Standing in the Rain by Billy Talent. Tells the story of Pansy after school. She's sunk to a new low. But Pansy's not your conventional whore.

In the world of magic, cruelty takes on physical incarnations: monsters, dark arts and Voldemort, all terrifyingly real, yet comfortingly separate from the good. But in the world of everyday, non-magical life, evil is much less easy to define. Cruelty and hatred hide beneath the plastic exterior of everday life, and no one is untouched. Take a look at the reality that lies behind the mask, and see for yourself what it really means to be normal.

She didn't laugh anymore. Her tinkling laugh in the morning just because her father had forgotten to shave a spot on his cheek was gone. She didn't smile the way she used to do before it happened either. She didn't behave like she used to before; she wasn't the merry singing little girl she had been before. Before him.

Some friendships last minor squabbles. These outlasted prejudice, betrayal... even death.

With death comes redemption, but it is all meaningless to a new mother whose days were colorless until a rainbow burst into life across her sky. It is a different kind of love...the kind of love that is all consuming. The kind of love that brings agony. The kind of love that eclipses reason, being, and all life before it. The kind of love that is unconditional. The love for a child.

In a post-war world of imperfections Ron copes with the ambiguities of doing what needs to be done. Draco becomes a problem. Non-graphical references to torture and death. Mention to Ron/Hermione, Ron/Snape, and Ron/Draco.

As Albus, James, and their faithful friend, Leo, go to Potter Mansion to enjoy their Christmas break, they learn that you can never be too young to learn how to conjure a Patronus. Especially with what they are going to find lurking around.

"There was no point in worrying yet.... what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did." -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Years after Voldemort is defeated, the troubles of the Wizarding World are far from over. A multi-ship, multi-character, post-Hogwarts soap opera. Rated R as a precaution.

Rosalie Edwards thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband and three beautiful daughters, but her husband's secret past is going to turn their entire world upside down. **Written in response to NevilleFan's "The I Heart Muggles" Challenge on HPFF**

Two investigative reporters from The Daily Prophet newspaper take on various disguises and infiltrate St. Mungo's Hospital to unravel the mysterious details in an arrest of one of its Healers. The trail of evidence leads them into the heart of the Ministry of Magic itself!

Is anybody out there?/Does anybody see?/ That when the lights are/Off something’s killing me? Fire and Ice...depending on each other? Songfic to Ashlee Simpson's Catch Me When I Fall

Short Narcissa suicide. "Perhaps this place was only in her mind. But what was the difference? She was here and she would never leave..."

When it comes time for Kalli to face her parents, Harry gets caught in the crossfire. Can Kalli save him without losing herself in the process?

Train: a connected line of railroad cars with or without a locomotive (from Websters). Harry and Draco are in search of something they've lost, and they make their journeys by train. [warning: rape, non-con]

Hogwarts in war. Harry in forward motion. Draco on repeat.

Barty Crouch's thoughts on his father and Voldemort.

Albus returns victorious from facing Grindelwald, but the other wizard's words still haunt him. Written for Grey Mist's challenge in the Genficathon: Dumbledore confronts a Boggart, set prior to the start of the series.

Headmaster Dumbledore fears the Potions Master's ability to draw conclusions (CoS missing moment with events of DH in mind).

Illusions make your days pass in an oblivion... Femmeslash warning!

Slughorn deals with one of his most brilliant students. This is a series of drabbles inspired by some truly excellent writers. There are Half-Blood Prince spoilers. *Very* mild squick. You have been warned.

“I’m also a survivor, and that’s because of Blaise. The stupid git had saved my life…” After war, sometimes there’s nothing left except the people you never expected to be there in the first place. RWxBZ

Too much blood covered the streets. Everywhere she looked there was blood. Blood was dried up on the streets, on the dry grass, on her clothes, even on the skin of her body. Too much pain inflicted on everyone’s hearts. She could hear no laughs anymore. Who would laugh when destruction was everywhere? No one dared to laugh anyway. They didn’t want to be found. Too many bodies lying dead on the ground. Everyone was dead. She saw only the weak shells of people desperately trying to live.

Aikera wasn't given a choice. The Sorting Hat didn't give her time to object. She never wanted to be a Slytherin. She wasn't her father, she wasn't like him at all.

Colin keeps trying to hold his world in a photograph.

In this short story, Voldemort's war has taken a costly toll on poor Harry. This fiction piece is set five years after Harry's seventh year. Sometimes everything isn't what it appears.

Hermione attends Hogwarts Reopening Ball after leaving the Wizarding World twenty-five years earlier. Perhaps she would be happy if a voice from the past hadn't filled her in on what she had missed in her absence.

Ginny performs a final service for a beloved friend. D/G. [Initiateverse one-shot]

All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.