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"After a while he began to fight the Imperius Curse just as I had done." - Barty Crouch Jr., Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire A father, fighting darker and stronger forces, struggles against an inevitable descent into madness. These are his final moments.

NOT A TRADITIONAL SONGFIC! This story is inspired by the song of the same name. A few lyrics tossed in here and there in the dialogue, much like my other story, One Thing. I'm crap at summaries, but here it is: Harry. Draco. Holiday. Let the tension ensue. Ignores HBP and DH.

A woman attempts to force Lord Voldemort to stop the hostile and senseless killings--a woman who is, and has always been, happily untouched.

Hermione Granger is in a race against time. A recent series of Muggle deaths have drawn the attention of the magical community and as a member of an elite Auror team in charge of monitoring the activities of suspected Death Eaters, Hermione in charged with tracking down the perpetrator before the killer can strike again. Hermione x Marcus

When seven-year-old Argus Filch still hasn’t showed signs of magic, his father fears the worst. The result is a tangle of bloodlines, rejection, and even mention of the dreaded “s” word – “Squib.” Based on Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby."

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down. Such morbid words from an innocuous rhyme seemed quite adequate in his situation. After all, wasn't everyone dying? (Remus centered)

A clever satire on the world we live in today, using ideas from the Harry Potter world as its base.

The date is December 31, 1999, and the time of the Final Battle is drawing near. After a devastating loss, Harry gathers his closest friends for togetherness and remembrance, drawing, as always, the strength that he will need to prevail in the end.

Harry can't handle the joy of Bill and Fleur's Wedding -- he can only see the futility of it all, with the new war upon them. His own parents lost their lives soon after marriage... so what was the point? Until Voldemort was gone, how could there possibly be room for happiness? His parents' memory haunts him, but can their memories cure him as well? (Featuring the POV of Harry, Lily, and James). A mix of angst, humor and love, but all drama.

Ginny lies in pain, and there is nothing that an anxious Harry can do to help. This isn't the time for Harry to fall in love with someone new, is it?

Your time is running out. But what is time exactly? Many say time is an illusion, others don’t take it very seriously. But their, as your time is running out. What can you do about this? You could try running. You would have many reasons to run from time. Age, upcoming nerve-racking events… but it wouldn’t help. Because time is running with you. Time isn’t something you can wave away or hide from. It’s something you have to stand up and face. The seconds are ticking… have you faced it yet? The clock is running… Have you faced it yet? Because if you haven’t, you should soon… for your time is running out.

When everything is crashing down around her, will Olivia find more than dirty clothes in Draco's room?

Ginny looks back at her and Harry's relationship throughout their Hogwarts terms.

Memories of a past love can be sweet... But not for Ginny...

All these years, I have lingered, neither dead nor alive...I have paid for my sins, in tears and regret...If only there was a way to take them back...

Written from Harry's point of view. He ponders what he is and what it means to have fulfilled his destiny. The hero's dilemma; I've completed my task... now what?

"Then I wake and think to myself: how quickly dreams of reason can produce monsters." (Neville fic)

Her mother had told her stories of ladies in towers, imprisoned there by wicked relations, and rescued by knights. But the visions faded quickly, leaving nothing but the filthy little shack in the woods. And there were no knights in Little Hangleton.

Draco takes Ron for a ride, and Ron doesn't mind.

Hermione had always believed she could stand up for herself. She'd done it often enough as a student in dealing with Harry and Ron. Why couldn't she do it now?

For every end, there is a beginning.

Believing his life forfeit, Draco Malfoy makes a final stand against his father in the wilderness. By his side is an old rival, but she is far more than she seems, and there is far more to the world than he has ever suspected ... Draco POV. OCs, slight AU. One shot. Warning: This fic is far from straightforward. Lots of angry language.

Sirius arrives at James' house after leaving Grimmauld Place.

Draco must confirm where his loyalties lie with this one last mission. Dean is on a mission to protect the few friends left in his life. Alternating between Draco and Dean's POV, with mild Dean/Luna.

A little scene from the fabulous story "Interwoven," by Katinka, with permission. Sirius Black's thoughts as he prepares to leave Abigail Loomis and the welcoming home she has provided him.

An anonymous soldier reflects on the bloody aftermath of the final battle. Pain, blood, and death. Obsession.

[One-Shot] The silent wind ruffled his hair... Harry Potter is visiting his parents' graves. Some things are better if they won't stay inside the heart...PostHBP

I never really understood why people wrote in dairies. I still don't and I write in one. I named mine White Lilies. I can't explain now though, I think Petunia's about to blow. Five, Four, Three, Two .... "What do you mean Lily has a friend from school coming over! I don't want any more Freaks in this house then we already do! Make them leave!" My sister, everyone. Boy, this is going to be one long day.

Remus and Sirius are reunited, but things will never be the same again. Sirius is forced to return to Grimmauld Place, and Remus comes with him for support.

12th August, 2004: Draco and Astoria expect their first child. Lucius visits to set things right.

"Or did you get lost in Amsterdam?" Sirius ran away to Amsterdam after having his soul shattered. Now all James hears are second hand stories through Remus and the letters Sirius sends him. Sirius recieves a shock . . . and then the others do as well. As Sirius puts it, "La dee f-cking dah."

What is the nature of the magical world's war and its players? Underneath it all, we're all the same.

Harry and Gabriella's child was hidden to protect her during the second war. But when the war ended, there was no little girl to be found. Years later Abygale Clara (Abby) starts as a first year at Hogwarts, and when Harry is a surprise guest in DADA class, their eyes meet, and Abby begins to learn about her past...

Draco Malfoy is different to any boy Autumn Hopkins has ever gone out with. Being with him makes Autumn forget everything else - her missing sister, her dad's fifth marriage. What happens when being with Draco becomes harder than being without him?

Peter believes that his best friend knows everything about him, even his darkest secrets. Some Peter/James

AU PoA. Tom Riddle had more of an effect on Ginny than her family thought. He taught her many things. Grey!Ginny though her family doesn't know yet. Draco has noticed something about her and is determined to know what it is. Also, what will they do about Sirius Black.

Set eight years after Memories. What new memories does Freya have? What effect are her remembrances having on her life? What about William and Michael? And him?

In his eyes, Melinda was like an angel to who he would be glad to tear wings; she was like snow, so white that the impulse to dirty her was unstoppable; she was like the apple on the highest branch, the one to receive more than the others the sunlight and the sweeter to eat. She was like Eva, who naively tempted Adam and doomed both to sin.

The Prisoner of Azkaban from Crookshanks' point of view.

An anonymous soldier reflects on the bloody aftermath of the final battle. Hatred, tears, and anger. Obsession. Companion piece to Despair.

Cornelius Fudge is the embodiment of dignity. In his painful fall from grace, Cornelius has a cruel realization - he needs patience, someone to listen to him. He finds it not in his wife or daughter, but in a silent voice of reason.

Minerva McGonagall recalls how the doubt first began in Harry Potter's first end of the year feast. It seems strange that Albus' words brought forth the memories that caused her to wonder: how could Sirius Black betray Lily and James? What if he didn't...

Fighting a war can leave scars, and you can't always hide them. For one young woman, the scars from the Battle of Hogwarts will be with her forever.

Ron feels like he's drowning in Real Life, but a conversation with a strange old woman gives him hope for the future, before conjuring more questions about the present.

Firenze contemplates humans and his role in the second war.

Sirius begins to suspect Remus of being a traitor, with major consequences to their relationship.

The time is after the war, and Voldemort has been defeated by Harry Potter. The boy hero is now a nineteen-year-old man, living in downtown London, with a mixed lifestyle of both magical and muggle. Settling for being a writer instead of an auror, Harry seems content with his life until one evening, one of his many dinner parties is interrupted by a, both physically and mentally scarred, Draco Malfoy. The damage done by the war has not finished its course, and the consequences of choices made return, testing the friendship, morality, and will of these two young men and their loved ones. Slash HP/DM!!!

"Gilderoy Lockhart was a normal boy who wanted to be like everyone else. What was the reason behind his urge to become a literary success as well as attain cosmetic perfection?"

What happened to Draco? Nobody knows what he told Myrtle. But does Myrtle know what he told her? Now there's a question...

Set during the 'missing years.' Remus Lupin thinks about time, grief and loss.

Sometimes things other than ghosts can haunt the living. An unsuspecting Hermione picks up a strange ring and discovers that, unlike most people, Severus Snape left behind more than a mere object.

Twenty years after the war is over, Remus and Harry visit an old friend.

Background characters are what shape the story... They are what the hero fights for, and no war could be fought without them. She's been his background character, she was always there, in the shadows, ready to keep things on track, yet nobody knew she even talked to him. (Companion piece to "Blank Paper", already at the Dark Arts)

He knows nothing but the sound of his feet on the pavement and the thousand curses on the tip of his tongue. All for his Judas. November 1, 1981.

Hermione explains all about an adventure involving Horcruxes and Snape to Professor McGonagall.

What happens when you're right, but you want to be wrong? How can you fight fate? Lavender knew she wasn't going to like what she saw... but she still looked.

"You almost hurt a little girl today, Harry." Ron's voice was so flat and emotionless, Harry almost didn't recognize it. It was the voice of stranger.

Voldemort seems to have died. But a characteristic property of many events occurring both in the wizarding world and the Muggle world is that things aren't always what they seem. The moment Draco Malfoy was branded with the Dark Mark, Voldemort discreetly placed a curse on him which would allow Voldemort to possess Draco Malfoy should he die. His last resort should his Horcruxes, in the unlikely event, fail to save him. Now Draco/Voldemort's evil is becoming more and more apparent, signs and strange events only hinting at Harry, and the wizarding world's, ultimate fate.

Draco Malfoy always throws up on Halloween.

Dennis remembers his older brother. Song by The New Pornographers, My Rights Versus Yours.

Lily's death told through her eyes.

But always, always, he would return to the violin in the end. A Dean Thomas genfic.

Jasper Fforde's literary detective is called back to Hogwarts to deal with an unusual problem ...

Continuing the story of Brett Mordonius (from "Dangerous Pursuits") and his fight against the Death Eaters as a Muggle in the wizarding world.

A speculative look at Lucius' arrest at the end of OotP. In this telling, he manages to escape briefly--just long enough to take care of a few things and offer his wife a sort of goodbye. Currently a one-shot. Likely to be expanded.

On Remus Lupin's fortieth birthday, a day he never thought he would see, there's more than the matter of his age on his mind. A short sequence of thoughts, feelings and memories from the life of a werewolf. (Warning: implied slash.)

Is the end extremely nigh? Alas, no boys snogging in this fic, but hopefully Harry will be able to save the day.

“Weasley,” I said, trying my best to have a soft voice, but I could tell it still frightened her since her shoulders seemed to tense up. She froze in the doorway. It was dark and we were alone. Ginevra Weasley and I were alone in the Potions dungeon late at night. She slowly turned around and she looked enchanting. I couldn’t believe it. A Malfoy is supposed to despise Weasley’s, not think they’re the most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen. NEW VERSION!!!!

Who knew that a trip to the loo could change so much? After months of failed attempt after failed attempt, Draco Malfoy is ready to give it all up. When his Head of House offers a way out, how does this change his path? Begins after gate-crashing a certain Christmas Party...

What is good? What is bad? What really matters? At some point we all ask these questions of ourselves, and it’s a good thing we do. Imagine if you could never step back and examine your life. Who knows what you might do if you were unable to see what you had become? Take my word for it now, you don’t want to know. When a world rests in the hands of one person, sometimes she has to stop wondering whether she's really the one, forgive herself for a broken past, and do what she knows is right.

Rita Skeeter muses and pities herself. [ response to the Rita Gen challenge ]

The war is over, and a character looks out into the aftermath. The battlefield is littered with the bodies of fallen comrads and enemies, and the wind is cluttered by the cries and screams of the survivors and those coming to aid. Yet nothing can enter the ears of those who experienced the war first hand.

A hand on my arm. A gentle voice coming from somewhere... somewhere beyond my reach...

Remus ponders his life after the war and finds that something, or rather, someone is missing.

When Ginny stumbles upon Tom Riddle passed out in a remote Hogwarts passageway, she resolves to have nothing to do with him. Of course, life rarely goes as planned, and Ginny is about to discover the difficulties of avoidance. (AU following OotP)

One-Shot. This is a short fic about Remus Lupin, as he looks at the grave of his oldest and most loved friend. Non-Slash.

A character study of Harry and Snape to Damhnait Doyle’s song “Tattooed,” from her album “Hyperdramatic.” Very short and a one shot.

Cho had enjoyed her visits to Guangzhou. She wasn't at all sure she wanted to live there. But when her parents moved their family away because of the war, she found herself trying to build a new life in China -- and struggling to reconcile it with her unfinished business in Britain.

Buckbeak\'s arrival and departure from Grimmauld Place. Pre-RLNT, starts at beginning of OotP.

The untold story of Harry's godmother - her hardships growing up, her relationships with Harry's parents and their friends, her qualms with her relationship with Harry once he joins the wizarding world and her ultimate role (or lack thereof) in his life.

Ginny wakes up at the beginning of her summer holidays to find a not-so-welcome guest at number 12 Grimmauld Place. With the threat of spending nearly two months with Draco Malfoy looming over her, what can she do? Stay and sulk...or fight back...

After a while of practising, Draco Malfoy never feels anything unless he wants to.

"Draco Malfoy sighed and turned the doorknob to his bedroom. There, his eyes met an unexpected sight." - summer after HBP. I'm trying to get all the Draco/Ginny out of my head before book 7 - I'm a H/G shipper at heart! I always appreciate feedback.

Could one lost love really have been the only thing that turned Severus into the angry, cruel, and sneering Potions Master that Harry met his first year? Starting in 1970 and continuing through the 80s, this story paints the lovely and often harrowing picture of Severus' life before he met Harry Potter. You’ll meet Severus’s most loyal companion, Marcella Lynch, from the beautiful beginning of their relationship first year, to the tragic end well after the wizarding world thought they were rid of the Dark Lord forever. This story is not an AU; it will work out to fit canon.

Mystique Montague, only at the age of 15, has been forced to marry a certain Draco Malfoy. Her parents have moved her from her hometown of Paris, France and enrolled her into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Like her mother before her, and all the females in her mother's ancestry, Mystique has a deadly secret-she isn't full human. Though to the eye you can hardly tell. As she tries to acclimate herself to her new surroundings and her fiance, Mystique slowly starts to loose hold of her instincts. Meanwhile, she starts to fall in love with one who isn't her betrothed and Hogwarts is under the tyranny of Dolores Umbridge. Will instinct or morals guide her, destroy her or destroy those around her?

"The glass didn't just separate her from the weather." One minute, Hermione is sitting at her window watching the thunderstorm outside, wondering when she would see Harry and Ron. The next, she's sent off to Ron's house by an unexpected Death Eater. When she tries to help the Death Eater make the right decision, it ends in a way she never thought it would. Draco/Hermione. One-shot.

I didn't expect everyone to be wearing black at the end of the world, but perhaps I should have.

Kiera Piperel lives the life of an average 6th year Ravenclaw. She's a Chaser for the Quidditch team and her schoolwork is a priority. However, as the Chamber of Secrets is opened, will her life ever be the same?

"We are not putting him down like a sick puppy, werewolf or not!" the other voice shouted, surreptitiousness forgotten. "He is our son!"

It is December during OotP, and Fudge still refuses to admit the Dark Lord has returned...but St Mungo's is filling up with Muggles gone mad, and many of them bear a scar on their foreheads resembling that of one very well-known boy...

Memories are all Ron's got left. AU, Remus/Ron, written for the inaugural fest at remus_ron_slash on LJ. Prompt: Ah me, in that dead Past I love to dwell Whose gladness haunts me ever, day and night! (John Gambril Nicholson, In Absence)

This story follows the Bleekers, a family who went into hiding when the war started and now that it's finally over, try to go back to their normal lives. Unfortunately, the world and people they left behind are torn and broken and putting it back together might be more painful than anyone may have expected. Our favourite canon characters also appear. All thanks to Catnip at ff.net for beta reading!

Harry and Draco each write a letter. Neither one gets where it's going. A sort of prequel to Moret De Savior.

Beyond this veil woven with salt tears, this mysterious shadow trapped in flight, he waits for me. I so desperately want to just reach out, even for an instant, and touch him. I just want to let my fingers rest on his pale white hand, here, in this moment.

She falls into his abounding grace.

An attention-seeking prank goes horribly wrong, and two brothers must decide where their loyalties lie. Genfic, Sirius and Regulus.

Ch. 1. As an espionage, Lily Evans enters pureblood society. Yet, what's real -- Muggleborn, Order member, the Light Side -- and what's not -- society wife, Death Eater, the Dark Side -- becomes blurred. Will reality prevail or will fiction become reality? WORK-IN-PROGRESS. ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

Draco's choices after HBP. Which side does he belong on?

Fifteen-year-old Teddy Lupin has always longed to meet his parents, so when he stumbles upon a new model of a Time Turner, he decides to travel back to August of 1997. But in the past, Teddy finds more questions than answers and begins a desperate quest to reunite the parents he never knew.