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Set during CoS. Ginny stays in Hogwarts for Christmas while her parents go to Egypt to visit Bill. Amidst all that has happened in school, Ginny wonders whether Christmas has decided to abandon her during a time where she needs company most.

“Women have come together under the full moon since magic first arose, to learn and to teach, to celebrate and to morn, to laugh and to cry, and to save a wayward sister from time to time,” Luna intoned as she raised her wand. Pansy tried to seduce the wrong man, and now she pays the price. But what is the cost, and what is the reward. Post DH. The story of a group of women who come together to help one and end up finding a bond undreamt of.

What happens when you wake up early the morning after a duel between Harry and Draco? Read and find out!

"I grew up in a haunted house. This isn't who I wanted to be. You can never outgrow anything, and how does that make you feel? I'll never stop being one of them. I grew up with ghosts in my childhood and vampires in the bed next to me, and I'm not afraid of monsters anymore. And I'm stuck in the past and I can't get out, and I know that they're like that, too. I can feel it in their blood." Andromeda reflects on her family.

How does Harry really feel about the Dursleys? We all think that he hates them, but is life ever that simple? Harry POV. Set in the future when Harry must protect his family from Death Eater attack.

A look into a moment in the life of Regulus. Don't remember who Regulus is? You'll remember if you start reading. Haven't read OotP? Slight spoilers, but nothing too major (this story has nothing to do with Harry and what happens to him in Book Five). A bit of Regulus/Lily. Poor boy.

Memories can be painful. James has a crush on a certain Slytherin but Sirius hates anything abnormal which double James’s problem. Will James conquer his crush’s heart and keep his friendship with Sirius? JL Slash! Pre-sequel of Charmed!

He always liked nights best. One-Shot, Lucius Malfoy in Azkaban.

Harry and Ginny spend their first afternoon together as husband and wife in their new home.

"Oh kisses can be fiery and passionate, they can be tender and sweet, they can be cold and distant, and they can even leave you breathless – but a kiss can take more from you than just your breath. I've learned that they can also take your soul."

Hermione is supposed to be helping Ron with his potions homework, but what is she up to? Ron finds out and Hermione's none too pleased. R/Hr

Sirius struggles to grasp the meaning of death as he watches those he left behind grow up without him and the world he is no longer a part of change dramatically. Rated for mild language and adult themes.

She was in Azkaban for a very long time... she had to do something to keep herself entertained, but how much was she willing to pay?

Harry's eighteenth birthday. Harry gets invited somewhere and then goes shopping... at a Muggle mall. What could he possibly find? [Revised version]

An unidentified person muses at Harry Potter's funeral.

"The deserts of Arabia. A vast land, long dreamed of and romanticized by the poets and the stargazers as the cradle of civilization... it was said that once, a race of men existed who could control the powers of the desert. Strange men these were, men who were granted the wisdom of the desert and the knowledge and power of the sands. Most of them were wanderers, moving from one desert town to the next, awing all the town-dwellers with their mysterious demeanors and apparent ability to control the forces that shaped the earth."

A lifetime ago, she made her choice. The dusty memories of golden summers and broken bonds. Presenting the Postmortem Observations of Andromeda Black-Tonks

An old friend from the Marauders' glory days comes across Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes and manages to discover what has been happening at her alma mater since the Ministry decided to interfere. Little does she know, the simple meeting will drag her back to the part of her life she's been trying to forget.

Moony. Wormtail. Padfoot. Prongs. Torn apart through lies, betrayal, veils, and death. Brought back together through fate. The Marauders, together again, for ever more.

"Nunc scio quit sit amor." A Dean/Ginny fic in which Ginny contemplates life with an artist.

Harry gives Draco shooting lessons now that Draco has switched sides. And when a surprise Order meeting pops up, we discover some new information on the Voldemort front. One shot.

Rows of gravestones mark the lives of friend gone. One man goes to the graveyard every year to visit them.

Music, magic, madness, and a morning in Azkaban.

Daniel Macmillan, at 14 years old, has just discovered that he's a wizard. As he adapts to the Salem Institute for Witches and Wizards, he finds out that this discovery is only the beginning--while Voldemort may be long gone, a new threat has emerged in the wizarding world, and Daniel is in the thick of it...

Albus Dumbledore is not who everyone thought he was. Aberforth Dumbledore doesn't understand English for a reason. The Ithryn Luin have completed their purpose in Middle Earth, and the fourth age is ended...

It's Remus' sixteenth birthday. The Marauders have a little gift planned for him, but all he wants is to be something instead of the nothing he thinks he is.

Percy works late. Arthur plays Father Christmas.

She never thought she'd end up here, with him.

"Nobody ever tells toys that the child they look after, comfort and play with in their youth will grow up and forget you. I thought she would love me for ever. But she left and forgot me." A look at life through the eyes of a Wizarding toy

Remus is counting; first to one, then to four and then, finally, only to two.

Sometimes it's very hard to fit in, and sometimes it's hard to realise that you already do.

The golden trio are in their fifth year but Hermione is feeling blue. The happy, cheerful boys she first made friends with are rapidly disappearing. Hermione spends the day remembering all those times she’s had to be there for them and all the times they haven’t been there in return. Unless she stays strong she may lose them completely...

Song-fic to 'I'll Try' about how Harry is coping with his life.

Things are what they are supposed to be.

Imagine if all of the Hogwarts kids lived in a little town called St. Francis, Wisconsin. Imagine if they all played instruments. Imagine if they all went to 'band camp.' Well, you don't have to imagine! Here's a story about it! This is based on a true story. Each of the characters represents me and my friends and our adventures at 'band camp.' It's not THAT kind of band camp, though! Get your mind out of the gutter!

Cho remembers Cedric.

Harry began to pace up and down the small space. “My whole life’s been like something out of a bloody book! And this is just not the way the story ends. I’m supposed to be able to fight the evil, not just sit down in a cave and wait to die.” -- JK Rowling finds Harry so real, she felt almost like she was channeling him. Well... what if she was?

It's the sixth year at Hogwarts for Remus Lupin and the other Marauders. An idea is born, a plan is generated, and action is taken at night.

Practice Room Number Three became synonymous with comfort, soft music, and sometimes a pair of protective arms enclosing anyone who needed reassurance. Just one rule – never a word was spoken within its boundaries.

Sirius Black is a young wizard whose outlook on life has been tainted by his emotionally abusive family. He is fervent to continue school so he can escape his demanding parents and become his destiny...

Draco makes Lucius pay for his crimes in a most imaginative and "classic" way. And if you think this is a "redeemed!Draco" fic... guess again.

Did Amelia Bones's murder affect her niece, and what would it have to do with Marietta Edgecombe's magic-induced acne? A look at an unplanned interaction between two very different students. Set during HBP, written for the Broken Quill challenge at Fiction Alley.

Lucius finds Harry beside the dead body of Draco Malfoy, his only heir. When accusations are thrown at him, Harry wonders about things.

One week and the fate of four feathers. A Draco-centric vignette.

"That's what I remember, the white of the snow and how it darkened and melted red." The wizarding world claims to remember what happened during the war, but Ginny's memories are different.

In 1942, with the Muggle world at war and the Wizarding World in chaos, the situation at Hogwarts is tense, with the relationship between Muggleborns and purebloods already strained to breaking point. Then the Chamber of Secrets is opened... A look at a Hogwarts troubled by war, within and without.

Harry and his fellow seventh years are leaving Hogwarts – forever – and in facing real life, Harry and his arch-nemesis, Draco Malfoy, decide that perhaps courtesy is not that big a deal after all.

“What do you like?” Petunia had asked her once. She had smiled sweetly at her older sister. “Knowing Mum loves me better.”

She was nothing but a cheap fortune-teller, a simple housewife who made a few extra pounds by telling people nice stories. Eva dealt in dreams, not witchcraft. But then a chubby boy named Peter entered her tent.

A time-line without dates. Events that shape and demonstrate the development of a boy. Lists his surroundings and actions as they are known. They say with these two things you can understand a person.

A Young Petunia faces a choice that will ultimately change her life.

Ron Weasley has been left alone and confused. Grown up and on a mission he travels the world, finding himself....

Alastor Moody's thoughts after OotP.

Gypsy thought her parents were dead. The summer before her fifth year, things change drastically...

Ever want to know a day in the life of an Unspeakable?

And as Lucifer had on his banners, he thought Non serviam.

Draco Malfoy spends an unseasonably hot afternoon inside and is not very happy.

"I did love you, Harry, I really did." These are the last words Hermione will ever say to her husband Harry... but why is she saying "did"?

When one relationship ends, another begins... Ginny reflects on Harry and her fifth year at Hogwarts. Ron and Hermione get a nudge in the right direction.

One-shot featuring Remus and what it's like when he's not at Hogwarts. My first attempt at HP fiction (though hopefully that doesn't make you run screaming). Perhaps not the most original fic you'll encounter but give it a try if you like heartstring-tugging. And our dear Moony. :)

Three educated elves change the course of culinary history in one slightly drafty British boarding school.

Peter's thoughts at the moment of ultimate betrayal.

Anne knows there's no such thing a magic. Then one day, her eleven-year old daughter receives a thick yellow envelope in the mail... “Mum...?” She stood in the doorway to the kitchen, torn envelope and letter on the same yellow parchment held out to Anne in her outstretched hand. On her face was an expression of such mingled terror and excitement that Anne’s heart froze, then leapt, pounding, into her throat. She rose and took the letter. Every protective mother instinct was aroused. What on earth could make her daughter look like that?

She came in the dark and begged for his help: to protect the Light in a time of Darkness. A speculation of the devastating move that put our hero Harry in jeopardy.

We all know that Sirius is a klutz...why would James ever ask him to be best man at a wedding?

Draco's thoughts, after returning to the Manor following his fifth year, with a bit of H/D thrown in for good measure.

Who is the mystery character who manages to do magic late in life under desperate circumstances? And what counts as 'desperate cirumstances', anyway? It all depends on your point of view....

At the end of it all, Dumbledore picks up his viola.

Hermione is whinning whinning whinning!!

Harry turns into Harriet, and Ron is Ronnie! How can Hermione help them get themselves out of this mess?!

The summer after OotP, seen through Hermione's coversations with the Weasleys. With cameo appearances by Order members and a little about the Order's work, but mainly about the relationships between Harry, Hermione, the Weasleys and a couple of characters I've added.

It has been some time since Harry left his relatives' house after he finished school. Some things have remained unspoken until now, which is why Harry chooses to send one last letter to them. Hint of Harry/Ginny. Planned one-shot, although our favourite young wizard might perhaps eventually receive a reply...

Eight years since "Dear Salazar". Kayla is writing a letter to her father, trying to contact him. She gets a big surprise, though.

The tale of a boy, as he grows to be a man. One-shot.

The rise of the Dark Lord was not sudden. It was a long process of waiting and calculations. A short ``one-shot delving into Voldemort's goals and setbacks as he gained his reputation.

A songfic, but told from who's point of view? Set a year after "our heroes" (ie: the Trio) leave Hogwarts. In a world torn apart by the war.

Part 2 of the Sibling Series. Finally, Remus has a chance to meet his younger sister...

It’s shortly after the war and Lucius is the last surviving Death Eater, who has found himself being chased by Aurors and members of the Order. He has nowhere to escape and no one to save him.

The sequel to Chemistry and Seduction Finally Sarah Fawcett gets her revenge, but does it go to plan?

Harry does not like making this potion. Neither does Snape.

Bellatrix thrived on knowing how well-respected she was, even if it was only in Voldemort’s circle, and it was devastating, after Azkaban, to realize that she was no longer respected by anyone at all. She lost her pride and her sense of self all in one fell swoop, and that might have made her a little crazy. But only a little.

Family isn't always right. Sirius Black sits in a cell waiting for the trial that never came. He remembers.

I believe in the morning light/When I know it'll be over/I believe in the morning light/When I know it'll be done/I believe in the morning light/Where I know I will see them all again/I will be free/And they'll be there.``Sometimes the morning light can be the most desired thing of all.

How could Cedric be Champion if all Hufflepuffs are so mediocre? Why don't the Ministry just assume all Slytherins are Death Eaters? What's with Percy? These and other questions answered here.

I dare you all to come up with BETTER theories of why Remus stayed human during the Shrieking Shack scene.

In his final year of school, Ron learns from some unexpected teachers.

Narcissa reflects on her family and their cause.

Because everybody needs to have hope. Luna likes Harry. Harry doesn't know. Luna can do nothing but to think about him.

It's Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts and a new girl has come to the school. She is not just an ordinary witch. Could she be the key to destroying Voldemort?

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." --Walter Winchell

In my sixth year at Hogwarts, a door was opened, a door to a place so dark that even I was reluctant to step inside. However, my good friend Tom Riddle welcomed that darkness with open arms. Because of my feeling of obligation to my friend -- to my leader -- and because of my own curiosity, I helped to reacquaint the school with the wrath of Salazar Slytherin. I, one of Slytherin's last heirs, helped Tom Riddle in his attempt to purge the school of impure blood. I, Timothy Gaunt, reluctantly opened to the darkness, regardless of the danger it would impose upon Hogwarts.

Sequel to Inner Musings. You are a student of Hogwarts. How does it feel? Step inside... This episode: a certain someone you've had your eye on, and how time plays tricks on you.

“In her house, a small one-story in a suburb of Manchester, she has surrounded herself with gold-framed pictures. Memories. Remembrances of times gone by.” A one shot story that looks at Gladys Gudgeon and her possible reasons for writing to Gilderoy.

‘Harry can’t be called The Boy Who Lived anymore, can he?’ Harry Potter is a legend, though maybe that’s a lie.

Molly Weasley is not happy, her children just keep doing things and she's about to go mad until she hears a soft voice...

Short, stupid fic in response to a "Sickeningly Impossible Challenge" from K-Trina Puffinstuf. A Death Eater dinner gone a bit wrong - Enjoy!

Living with his grandmother and desperate for her attention and approval, eight-year-old Neville Longbottom still finds it difficult to deal with the mental state his parents are in. However, the two find consolance in each other's company, even though they are without the company of the one's they've lost. (Not angsty, but touching and sweet.)

Remus saw Harry’s pain. He saw it from the moment the boy, or rather, man, walked through the door. He wished he could do something to dull the anguish in Harry’s eyes. But that seemed difficult while he was still dealing with his own hurt.

It's the summer after fifth year, and the last place Harry wants to be is Grimmauld Place. So of course, that's exactly where he is, still wrestling with his guilt and anger. Is there anything that can bring him peace? Harry opens his bureau and finds something unexpected.

"You sit in the darkness. It’s late. In the perfect houses across the road small squares of yellow light are a rare sight. The polished windows, marked by the brief passage of indistinct grey forms, fade into the characteristic black holes puncturing the neat arrangement of bricks. Privet Drive is empty. You’ve seen it before. In your mind you can map out every door, every flowerbed, even the infinite arrangement of light reverberations on the cement, the geometry of every wall." A dark fic full of dark thoughts. Warning, contains references to self-harm! What say ye? Hard-core angst? Nonsense...