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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)

Luna used to be her little princess. And now she is Luna's angel. A short character study of the Ravenclaw in late child years.

"If there's one thing I'll never understand about my sister, it's her love of messing with people's heads. Making waves, she calls it. I'm more likely to call it making trouble."

Take-off on my fic Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House. When Harry woke the morning after Rachel had been attacked, he saw Snape sleeping in the chair beside her hospital wing bed. He supposed he had been sitting up with her. But he didn't have any idea what Snape had been thinking about throughout the long, painful night, giving the girl healing potions every few hours and seeing, over and over, what had just happened to her, and why.... Perhaps Harry was lucky to have woken the next morning at all. Written in third-person limited to Snape.

Voldemort finally achieves the immortality he had always sought, and realizes he should have been more careful what he wished for. Futurefic.

Sequel to The Return Gift. Life drags on, day by day. How does one cope with the shadows he bears? How does one keep on living when everything is wrapped in lies and hurt? One must take the gift that is offered, the gift of silence.``Slight HP/DM if you look for it, can be interpreted as either friendship or developing relationship. Most likely friendship at this point.

All of his life, Draco has been nothing but a spoiled snob. But with a world in the midst of a great war, he can no longer remain indifferent. A one-shot in which Draco chooses sides, and in the process learns a thing or two about family.

Four years after losing all his best friends, Remus Lupin is saved by another friend. Can he only submit to being condemned to life and for whose benefit? Or will he gradually become reconciled with his survival and start accepting the simple gifts implied in being alive? The short story, narrated from two alternating perspectives, is set in Paris of 1984 – 1986.

Third part of my ficlet poetry series. His paradise is a place where nothing from the everyday world can haunt him... until, one night, the red eyes of Voldemort invade where he thought no one could. Those red eyes contain every thread and fiber of hatred and evil in their world, and he swears that the children at Hogwarts will become more than just students... they will learn to fight for their world, and fight for their own survival.

This is every life lesson packed into too few words: God, friends, cooking, and bathtub therapy.

Thirteen year old Bellatrix Black is on a divine quest to unlock the secrets of the universe.

We could be the perfect couple. But we're not. H/Hr, TN/BZ, L/R implied D/Hr, D/BZ, G/H, Hr/BZ

Before they were Harry's eyes, they belonged to Lily. Lily and James contemplate the future on their last night together. One-shot.

Life with the Potters is always interesting. What emergency could haul Deputy Head Auror Harry Potter from his bed in the middle of the night?

A vignette. Cho learns a lesson about life and death, and how to cope with her grief. An emotional and realistic story that jumps from past to present, telling the story of a girl who is too often neglected in fanfiction.

Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville are back for their sixth year while Ginny and Luna return for their fifth. Something happened over the summer, something that brought them closer than they thought they could ever be. People who were thought to be dead keep showing up in their lives. And what is Harry's exact role in defeating Voldemort - and what do Fred and George have to do with it?

Draco would have been the first to admit that he had a problem. A very large problem, in fact, and it came in the form of the one and only Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived, Gryfindor’s Golden Boy. Saint Potter. Draco’s problem wasn’t so much of a problem as it was an obsession.

During HBP, Pansy Parkinson attempts to talk to Draco Malfoy. (D/P)

"If Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, the four brightest blokes Hogwarts has seen in generations, can't decorate a bloody Christmas tree, there is something very wrong with this world."

Hermione makes a startling realisation concerning Snape. Of course, the whole gang gets dragged in, and Madam Pomfrey is left confused. Snape/Luna if you squint.

Setting: Dreary who-knows-where. Characters: Neville Longbottom with an abundance of Creepy Men in Dark Robes. Plot: Survival of the fittest- erm...sort of.

Professor Grubbly-Plank has to resolve an issue with a student.

X-Files/HP cross-over. As a newly trained Auror working for the elite Magical Investigation Bureau, Hermione is given her new partner and her first assignment. However, things aren’t turning out precisely as she planned… SS/HG Mulder/Scully

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

Harry and Ginny have a conversation that's only sort of about football.

In which Bellatrix is not beautiful, and Andromeda doesn't feel real.

Even Sirius Black can't escape from some things. Like how sad life is: "He watches the engine, charmed to emit iridescent silver smoke stars, kick in, then he watches the headlights get smaller and smaller as Hagrid, his godson, and his very favorite thing in the world, his breathtakingly illegal motorbike, disappear into the night sky."

A morning, post-OoTP. What's Harry doing? What's he thinking? What are the ramifications of the prophecy? Who's mad at him now?

After a Flying Ford Anglia is tinkered with by a Weasley, taken out for a drive by The Boy Who Lived and spends some time in the Forbidden Forest, its consciousness can't remain unaffected. A story from the Ford Anglia's POV.

Gossip flies around the halls of the Ministry, and Hermione starts to think that Ron has a disturbing secret. Features a smidgen of H/D.

In December 1978 celebrating solstice according to Lily’s idea means waiting for the sunrise and more.

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

Draco likes to play pretend. Response to SBBO's 'Disorder a Day' Challenge.

A brief look into one night of the post-Hogwarts lives of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Stress, mundane burdens, moonlight, important things like love, and those unfortunate things you just have to do to keep food on the table. SLASH.

A fluffy post-HBP ficlet. Remus/Tonks, with some mention of Remus/Sirius. Remus is haunted by memories of the past, but Tonks is there to lead him home.

At a celebratory Halloween ball, unlikely companions discover more in common than just the battle scars...

Nemesis: (1) A rival that cannot be beaten or overcome, (2) The Ancient Greek Goddess of Divine Retribution. Draco's pondering on his and Harry's relationship, and his questions based upon that. Is it really only a rivalry, or something deeper than that? Is Harry really just his enemy? His conclusions made on these questions, and his feelings about the illustrious Boy Who Lived.

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.

A character exploration of Peeves and why he is the character/force of destruction that we all know and love.

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.

The first thing it knew was the hunger. Life from a Dementor's point of view.