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"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.

She has one light in a world gone dark. Alastor Moody/Penelope Clearwater

As his son prepares to become a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy reflects upon Draco's life.

Songfic to Death Cab for Cuties "Tiny Vessels". Draco's reflection on his relationship with Hermione. Slightly angsty.

Harry struggles to come to terms with his past, present, and future moments after the downfall of the Dark Lord. (Songfic.)

This a story about two sisters, about how and why they are who they are. But mostly, it's just about the forgotten one.

Harry conveys a message to Snape in Umbridge's office. This story tracks various Order members (mostly Snape) from the time he leaves Umbridge's office until after Dumbledore has filled him in on what happened in the Department of Mysteries.

Harry has failed the Prophecy and Voldemort reigns over the Wizarding World. Colin Creevey holds the entire fate of Wizardkind in his hands... and camera?

Ever wonder what made Dumbledore really trust Snape? For Snape, the decision was simple and easy, and it involved Sirius Black.

Sirius is left alone after Remus' suicide to contemplate his relationship with the werewolf. Counter-story to "I Am A Rock".

Loyalty to oneself above all.

Sirius is finally done with school, but he as one major thing from Hogwarts that won't leave him alone. The moody Christen Nelson, and her Muggle family.

With the news of Lord Voldemort's first attack, Dumbledore ``reflects on what has and what will happen.

Pronounced i-ro-ny...n, pl. i-ro-nies...Definition #3- Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs. A short, not so sweet, guess the character fic.

I stand here, for the first time actually looking at my best friend's grave. The day he died, it was a memorable day. It was the day Voldemort was killed. It was the day I felt all the burdens fall from me, but it was also the day all the burdens got really heavy. Sequel to "Tell My Friends." Harry visits Ron's grave.

Voldemort decided one fateful night that Neville Longbottom was the infant whispered of in the prophecy. Unluckily for the wizarding world, Neville and his parents were killed, leaving Voldemort to continue his tyrannical reign over the wizarding world. The story is centred on two victims of his barbaric reign, Desdemona and Antenociticus Snape. Both of them left parentless by the hand of the Dark Lord. Struggling to find sense in this land of hypocrisy and war, they fumble nervously to care for themselves.

Neville Longbottom is about to embark on the most incredulous, daunting and indefinite quest of his lifetime. He will be forced to battle an insurmountable amount of demons along the way. Through this quest, he will not only gather the strength of a true hero, but he will also win the heart of a true friend who holds the key. Hope is sometimes blind and not easy to come by and courage can only take you so far. So what happens when the courage to face your fears is frozen and locked deep inside of you? Neville Longbottom is about to find out. Witness the incredible and unforgettable journey Neville is about to take by getting inside of his head and looking at him in a new light...

HBP. Three stories. Three worlds. Each so different and yet so close to each other. As time passes by... things have to change and the World has to be rebuilt.

Harry has lived in the Muggle world for twenty years after leaving Hogwarts violated and disillusioned. Now Ginny and Sirius come to see him.

After the events of "Goblet of Fire", Albus Dumbledore goes to meet an old friend in Hyde Park. HP/Spooks crossover.

They said that he was crazy. That is, he was insane. That was because he sat in Azkaban for twelve years and acted normal; and yet he was deemed crazy. They said that he killed twelve Muggles and one wizard. They said that all he did was laugh when he was caught. They said that he ratted out his two best friends and caused their deaths. They said he felt no remorse. They said that he never shed a tear. They said that he couldn’t love. They said that the dementors couldn’t take his soul because he didn’t have one. Definate PoA spoilers with a slight hint of OotP. One-shot fic.

In the end, he wondered whether the boy's name might have made a target of him - his first name even more than his last.

Hannah enters Hogwarts two years late and has to learn seven years' worth of work in five years. Lily Evans makes friends with Hannah, and tries (unsuccessfully) to convince herself she hates James Potter. Remus' 'secret' is almost revealed to the whole school. All in all an average time at Hogwarts.

"I look into the mirror and see nothing. Nothing is looking back at me, nobody. That is what I am, nobody." - At the beginning of his Fifth Year at Hogwarts Draco remembers the day he became a Death Eater.

"I have made of myself a weapon, forged in the Dark Arts, consecrated to the Greater Good, and if I can only live with myself by knowing that I have done what I must, then that shall have to be enough."

“Or, maybe you have grown accustomed to your position of influence, and saw no more need to consort with me. Was that it, Lucius, did you feel your position could grant you amnesty from your past? Were you fool enough to think you could ever escape my reach? Escape from me, the Dark Lord Who Is Not Named?”

Harry has been thirsty all his life... (H/D slash, one shot)

A twenty-something Hermione spends a night out with friends and doesn't know how much more banality and ridiculousness she can take, but when confronted with some real meaning, how will she react?

"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other...." -JK Rowling But some things don't happen the way they should. -James Potter saves Severus Snape's life. Rated PG-13 for some language (entirely Severus's fault).

Ginny Weasley has fantasized about the Quidditch Cup her whole life. However, when she becomes seeker for Gryffindor, she worries about the outcome of her final match.

When a mysterious girl named Allison Potter arrives at the Dursleys', Harry is burdened with bigger questions than before. As Allison begins to fall for the charming Draco Malfoy, despite Hermione and Ginny's careful warnings, she is overcome with terrifying nightmares of a boy's mission to kill the girl he loves.

Tom always knew he was special, and he never let anyone forget it. A series of vignettes.

She didn't cry. She never cried. Yet, somehow, he was able to change that.

All alone in the world is never how he imagined it. There was no avoiding the war and now he's the only one left to suffer.

Knowledge of the future comes at a steep price. (A Snape-centric dark fic.)

Some things bring out the best of the evil people, and the worst of the good. Prejudice does not exclude compasion. Bravery does not banish callousness. Rating for safety.

A rat seeks refuge.

Remus is mourning over the death of a certain OotP character and is trying to cope, but is failing terribly. Can anyone save him before he does the unthinkable? OotP Spoilers. Yaoi (slash)

A Draco story, set in the summer between Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince.

A take on the meeting of Sirius and Hagrid in Godric's Hollow on Halloween, 1981.

Tom Riddle remembers the first and only funeral he's ever been to.

Hey, Fox Moldy here to tell you this fic is sad. So, if you are in a good mood, or a bad mood, or if you're numb and just don't want to be made sad, don't read this fic, 'cause I think it will make you really sad.

Hermione is having trouble keeping her life together. Will she be able to keep things under control long enough to finish her 6th year at Hogwarts?

25th August, 2018: Draco takes Scorpius to Diagon Alley to shop for his second year supplies. Now that his big secret is out, he's collected a new kind of enemy. Takes place one year after the events of the Epilogue. Will spoil parts of Darling.

Post-OotP, Remus Lupin finds himself trying to live up to a promise he made. Fits in with Time of the Turning, but works well on its own.

Draco Malfoy thinks about how it all ended.

Remus muses on a time when he helped Sirius remember their past... and wonders if he should have acted differently.

Short fic, directly after the final battle.

The final battle is upon the wizarding world, and many have paid the price of blood for victory over their foes. The perspective of one who has lost another. Mild Boy!Blaise/?

A girl reflects on the war against Voldemort and his followers, and the losses they've had to face to reach the other side - and peace. Post-Hogwarts. One-off songfic to 'Happy Christmas (War is Over)'.

Of Ginny and Tom, by daylight and shadow as she walks. "...but you are the music / while the music lasts..."

Gilderoy Lockhart is not guilty… Is he? [one shot] [character death] [language]

"He wonders if it hurts less because it hurts less, or because of nerve damage." - In a world without Sirius, Remus wanders and learns to be human again.

The Malfoy family tree needs a little pruning.

Hogsmeade visits are restricted to pupils in their third year, and above. Dennis Creevey managed to get to Hogsmeade as a second year. How?

When Draco reads the letter that was written to Harry so shortly before his death by the person who needed him most of all, he realises for the first time that something went very wrong. (Warning: slash.)

She caused the death of only two people, although that in itself is miraculous. She distorted the memory of a very decent man. And she was not human. Not sapien. But very, very sentient. Rating for safety.

Six years ago, the last Death Eaters were caught, but not before destroying the world Harry Potter had rebuilt for himself. Six years ago, Harry looked Remus Lupin straight in the eye and said he could not be a father. Six years ago, Harry Potter disappeared from the wizarding world. It's not a question of where he went, but who he left behind.

Severus Snape has prepared himself to return to the Dark Lord, but how much will he be willing to give up to prove his loyalty?

"The summer night is like a perfection of thought." Severus x Hermione.

Five years after the death of Voldemort, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Ginny blaze through their lives trying desperately to distance themselves from their heroic past. Hermione, working directly for the Minister of Magic, stumbles on a new threat. One no one in the ministry can comprehend: A muggle, who calls the nastiest witch of all time, master.