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When Sirius ran away from home, it was ten years in the making. But no, it wasn't because of abuse or something equally dramatic. Really, it was just another holiday.

The story of a little girl and an eclipse that really isn't about a little girl and an eclipse.

Ginny has had enough. She's tired of being the different one. A barrier separates her and the world, but not for much longer...

After being tortured into insanity, Alice and Frank Longbottom live in a closed ward for permanent spell damage at Saint Mungo's. The Healers say they cannot recognize their family members. The Healers call them insane. Alice Longbottom drifts through time, experiencing small blips of sanity when her son, Neville, comes to visit. This is her story.

The story of Peter Pettigrew. Peter contemplates.

It is the eve of Harry's 17th birthday and he is still trying to come to terms with the death of Albus Dumbledore. Feeling cut off from the wizarding world and abandoned by his friends, he receives an approach that is neither sought nor desired. Soon he comes to realise that dying may be the best way to escape the clutches of Lord Voldemort. My take on book 7 where some unlikely alliances are forged and help is provided from some unexpected quarters.

Students keep catching fire in Snape's classes. What is going on? Who is behind it? And what will Snape do?

Remus keeps getting out of bed to play, so his parents have taken drastic action. Unfortunately, this only makes him feel worse. Rated for one word.

Perhaps one of the Dark Lord's most loyal followers to the cause Nyx Nerezza was. She loved seeing others in pain- even more when she knew she was the one inflicting it. Some would call her sadistic. Some would call her schizophrenic. Be that as it may, Nyx Naeva Narezza was still the Dark Lord's most loyal follower since Bellatrix Lestrange and Lucius Malfoy.

Peter Pettigrew, after his betrayal of Lily and James. Reflections on why he did what he did, why he regrets it, and why it will be the greatest thing he has ever done.

All Harry wants is to live a normal life after the war, but he finds that that is harder said than done. His impressions of everyone and everything is jumbled, and Draco suddenly plays a big part in his mental health. Featuring an angsty Boy-Who-Lived, a proud Draco Malfoy, and a sobbing Hermione Granger.

Harry is grieving, Ron and Hermione are always on prefect duty together, and Ginny has taken quite an interest in forbidden books. What is this all about? Harry has no idea and Ginny won't tell him - or will she? Perhaps it's time to get the truth to Harry, but how will he take it? - One-shot

Ginny's liked Harry for so long that it's hard to let go, at least in her mind.

Harry Potter wants to learn about his family. Problem is no one tells him much of anything. Therefore, a disgruntled Harry starts looking for answers, but will he like what he discovers?

What if Draco ran away before taking the Dark Mark? Includes New Identity! Draco and WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! MAJOR HBP SPOILERS! Don't say I didn't warn you.

More than anything, Regulus needs answers. (Sequel to Once Again Pure)

Several years of agony and war packed into three pages. A reflective one shot that deals with Draco Malfoy as a human being and even more as a Malfoy. Slightly repressed, with a hint of scenery. Contains themes from "A Slytherin Scarf" by Umbralin.

Well, I just don't know. I bet a lot of people will find this boring, but I personally love this sort of extended history stuff. I wrote this to make an imaginary background in charm theory, where it might have come from, and it's signifigance to modern day wizardry.

The sorting of Narcissa Black.

Draco Malfoy can tell you how to cope with frightening burdens, though his method may not be fun. A Draco character sketch, set during and immediately after his sixth year.

At the end we look back at the beginning. Rating is just to be careful.

Peter never thought of himself as brave. It took someone else to point out to him that there is more than one kind of hero....

Six years after his graduation, Neville and Madam Pomfrey discuss scars, living after the war, and cross-breeding plants.

A short one-shot about the Weasleys' arrivial to Number 12. Includes a reunion with Hermione, and the talk that Albus has with Ron and Hermione. (Missing moment.)

Harry, Ginny, a lying boyfriend; What to do when there is no Arizona. There is no Promised Land. Rated for mild swearing.

Harry Potter never does anything the way he should, and Draco Malfoy hates being in love with fools and dead people.

Harry finds himself somewhere in between worlds, with familiar and unfamiliar faces.

I am and will always overcome...

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

It’s quiet. No…it’s silent. It’s ironic how the silence can seem so noisy when you’re used to the sound of feet bounding down the stairs...

This one-shot concerns Snape, and a single sentence, about a boy shooting flies that somehow captured my imagination.

Sirius is unsatisfied with the government and some of its policies and decides he wants to protest. (Remus/Sirius)

This is a one shot about the accidental meeting of Christopher Jones and Severus Snape, and the bitter-sweet outcome. It is mentioned, in passing, in my story, "What Goes Around...Comes Around--Lost and Found...Love."

Godric Gryffindor has been called too daring for his own good, but even HE is starting to think that charging into a swamp in search of a wizard known only as "Serpent-Tongue" is not the brightest move.... Not connected to Moon and Stone or Stepbrothers.

This is simply a poem told from Harry's point of view. He reflects on his life and the lives of his friends.

Mrs. Black's portrait is a staple in Grimmauld Place. Everyone who visits there is influenced by her in some way or another; the warning against ringing the doorbell, tiptoeing around the house so not to start her screaming, and so on. But who was Mrs. Black, really? And what is her story that she has to tell? Travel beyond the drapes that hide her from the world and you will find your answer.

Kiri McDonaldson does NOT want to come to Hogwarts. She doesn't, in fact, want anything to do with Wizards and Witches. So when she is finally shipped off to the world reknowned schhool of Sorcery, she's, well, kinda pissed.

"Everything down here in Britain seems to be done over a cup of tea. Everything: Order Meetings – though I don’t attend – afternoon snacks, talks with adults, homework, whatever. Everything. Indeed adults seem to love tea, it’s an unhealthy obsession. Don’t now why though. I can just picture Mrs. Weasley with her purple apron: 'Have a cup of tea, dear,' she says, 'everything’ll be all right.' Or Lupin, sipping his tea silently, alternatively either nose deep in a book, or staring into space, imperturbable. Tonks, even! Well – when she’s not breaking the tea pot. All of them. Dumbledore, McGonagall, Snape. All…" Yes! Another middle-of-the-night-tea-scene! Hermione centred *one shot* gen. fic; not really angsty.

Oliver seems to be the only one who notices that all is still not well with Ginny Weasley. A disastrous Quidditch practice provides a chance to help.

Potter has a dream and tells Draco about it.

The Grey Lady, about whom we know little save that she was highly intelligent and no prospective lover could ever live up to her expectations, muses on a life’s lesson she learned too late.

On her sixth birthday, a young Seer learns that some gifts come with too high a price.

"Their favorite thing to say is that you have a smile that can light up the room and it's brighter than the sun." A young teacher hears a startling revelation.

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.

Ever wondered what happened to bring the Marauders together?

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

Morena Serran came from a rich wizarding family, but lived in a small farmhouse in rural Ireland with a selfish and neglectful father and a timid and scared mother. She was almost grateful when she came home from her last year of Hogwarts and found that she could leave that life behind. Her freedom, however, would come at a steep price: she would be forced into servitude for a dangerous sorcerer looking for a few items that would help him on his way to bring the wizarding world to a reign over all Muggles, and to refuse the request would practically be suicide.

"The darkness drops again; but now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"``What lies on the other side of change?

Coming back from a DE meeting, Severus Snape has some regrets about his life. Songfic set to Godsmack's Voodoo.

Perfection has its price.

Hermione never thought growing up would be complicated.

Being Petrified and losing out on most of your first year at Hogwarts can be rather frustrating. When you lose a film full of perfect photos in the process it’s even worse. Can the new DADA teacher get Colin out of his apathy without offering him tea (or chocolate)?

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

Why did Peter Pettigrew turn against his friends?

"My heart is sick of being in chains". Ginny has tried to forget Harry, but in the close quarters of 12 Grimmauld Place that becomes harder and harder to do.

When we, in OotP, saw the Marauders taking their OWL exams there was a girl sitting behind Sirius. Who was she, and what were her thoughts?

Rita Skeeter, Roving Reporter. Yeah right. Rita's ruined, and in the wizard prison Culparrat, all for the little crime of revealing the magical world to the muggles, even if it was only in a fiction book. Now it's the day before she is released, and she is thinking back to years before when Lily and James died, when she had best friends, and when she was free.

Hermione reminisces on when Harry told them about the prophecy. A little vignette on what she was doing and how she felt as he told them.

Who would have thought that Hermione Granger would find joy in such nothingness and uncertainty? She liked that about herself. She liked that there was this untouchable part of herself that she did not particularly understand. There were questions with no answers, and when they had first crept into her waking consciousness, they disturbed and frightened her, but now... well, now was different wasn’t it?

Written for the HP_Remnants "After THe War" challenge on LiveJournal with the prompt "And the picture frames are staring down/and the ringing from this empty sound/is deafening and keeping you from sleep", a lyric from a Dashboard Confessional song. Although this is by no means a song-fic, I did listen to the song several times while writing.

Ginny once had a diary, and it changed everyone in Hogwarts for a whole year. But Ginny's always had it harder, and knows she'll never be the same.

Fred Weasley is on his way home from a normal day at work when he comes across something that changes his life forever... and forces him to grow up faster than he would have liked.

Really what the title say, the story of the Sorting Hat, what it thinks about its job and how it got it.

She feeds the pigeons. A Post-war G/H fic.

After a major battle, an injured and wandless Bellatrix evaluates whether or not it was a good thing to succumb to the darkness of Voldemort's calls.

Okay, anyone who was read OoTP knows how Harry's taking Sirius's death so far, but what about Remus?

"You see, Harry," Draco began in a smooth, lazy tone, "when it gets... hot," he paused, "your body naturally becomes thirsty, and when it does, it wants satisfaction."

I think I hear laughter coming from the grand ballroom - laughter and faint strains of chamber music, glasses clinking and healed shoes on the polished marble floor. It must be a memory, a ghost of Christmas past, because when I step into the room it is empty.````Draco goes home his sixth year for a very different Christmas (little hints of one-sided D/H).

The complicated relationship between sisters. Lily Evans reflects.

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).

Ginny reflects on the returned memories of her time with Riddle's diary.

A story about Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Remus and Sirius muse over certain aspects of life, on two different nights. Includes MWPP-era and OotP-era pups. Slash.

Sirius and Remus were always there for each other. No matter what. And they always be.

The sequel to 'Words'. Draco finally responds to Ginny's letter, but will his explanation have an effect?

Another nineteen years later, two old friends enjoy the simple pleasure of each other's company.

He talked about the day at the lake. He gestured toward the window, and told Lupin, for the first time, about how he listened to him and Peter when the sun rose. Sirius lied a little; he had heard their voices, but hadn’t cared at the time.

The life of Severus Snape: A clash of science, numbers, and isolation versus stars, myths and swans. Dark if you think it is. Hints at RL/SB. A moment of SS/NB.

Dumbledore had grown accustomed to hearing news of former pupils being captured and sent to Azkaban, but being Flooed and informed that his own brother had been arrested for performing improper charms on a goat was an entirely different matter.

All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put her together agan. An Alice Longbottom vignette.

The war has ended, and Draco must decide what to do now. H/D-ish. Short.

Hermione believes Harry's mourning Sirius has gone on long enough. She wants to help, but telling him he must move on is by far the easiest thing. Harry / Hermione friendship, Hermione's PoV. Songfic, but understandable without knowing the song itself.

Lily Potter is thought to be dead after defying Voldemort by the Healers. James's POV.

Six years after serving in Dumbledore's Army, Luna finds a new vocation in bringing love and happiness to others' lives. But what will happen when love comes to her? Colin/Luna fic, based on the French film, Amelie. Has both OCs and HP characters.

One night before dinner, Sirius takes the first step in becoming James and Lily's Secret Keeper.

Draco Malfoy is plagued by the realities of his mission to kill Dumbledore, and he tries to prepare himself and plan for the coming during several visits to the Room of Requirement.

Harry is wondering where Dumbledore is ... Crookshanks may just know the answer. One-shot. Gen, Trio!fic.

A young Slytherin gets more than he bargained for in an experiment gone awry. Set at Hogwarts in 1943, which may give you a shrewd idea as to who stars in the fic (hint: Tom Riddle). As always with Tom Riddle, this fic is rather dark and a lengthier disclaimer is included inside.

An ancient and senile Helga Hufflepuff whines about the past.

Poppy Pomfrey is a fourth year student when something happens that allows her to know what she wants to do with her future. Takes place in the fifth year of Tom Riddle, when the Chamber of Secrets was opened the first time. Also fifty years before Harry's second year

Does exactly what it says on the tin, really. Fifth year Neville's brooding on the recent events at the ministry, where he came face to face with Bellatrix...One shot. Neville Longbottom: on growing up, and all things dementory.

Dumbleore must be off his rocker! Why is he making such a fiasco over Halloween? Why would he even think of letting the students go off school property? Especially with Sirius Black running loose! [Revised version]

An impression of Tom Riddle - as a young man.

Draco contemplates his new life.

Hermione's summer turns into a very long lesson when she agrees to teach Grawp for Hagrid. Grawp doesn't really understand much and Hermione is neglecting her work. Harry and Ron decide to come to the rescue, and that's when the real problems begin.

Harry destroys Voldemort only to wake up to a hard realization or perhaps it's only irony.

Harry tries to take a break from all his problems, thus ending up wandering around the castle aimlessly. This leads to a somewhat enlightening encounter with Draco Malfoy. Set during sixth year. Mildly slashy.

HBP SPOILERS - The morning after his flight from Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy finds himself having to deal with the aftershock of recent events. This is a companion piece from Family Pride.

Merope liked to watch the beautiful boy because he made her feel wicked. (Gauntcest)