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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.

Life is full of tests.

In the midst of the Wizarding War Draco Malfoy finds himself completely alone. Panicking, he turns to Harry Potter who rather unwillingly saves his life. Draco Malfoy is thrown into the dungeons- a Prisoner of War. Years later when the War is over, the world no longer has a place for Draco, his existence has been forgotten. Harry and Hermione give him a chance of a new life. So with the new identity of Magnitude Halfpenny he begins to learn to forget the life he lived for nearly eighteen years until his new world is turned upside down by the very people who created it... (Not OC)

Nearly Headless Nick finds a solution to being rejected from the Headless Hunt.

R for some violence to animals. In Hogwarts, during MWPP time, there are secret meetings in the dungeons for upcoming Death Eater trainees. James wants to make the Order and nothing is quite what it seems.

Where Azkaban is like death to a Malfoy, and throwing rocks at a Giant Squid is a perfect way of dealing with it. Unfortunately, a Potter does -not- think so, and when you try and prevent a Malfoy from standing upon his dignity, you are helpless.

Winter came, and with it came the dark. A look at Moody between the first war and the second.

Barty Crouch Sr. reflects on his wife, his son, and the world he has built for himself.

'... many thought he was an attention-seeking little monster. Others gave him a wide berth in the hallways because he was supposedly a raving lunatic. The little boy’s green eyes full of wonder became the young man’s green eyes full of sadness. And worry. And fear.'

Harry muses on Draco, post-OotP.

It's cold and wet. A bedraggled figure wanders through the town.

James and Sirius made a promise to Remus; Remus also made a promise. How does this change things if both those promises were broken?

Harry has to go back in time to retrieve a Horcrux from Grimmauld Place. But can he really keep from changing future events?

In the aftermath of Voldemort's defeat there comes a time for healing.

A trivial decision, perhaps ... but Marietta hates the one she made. Now she's stuck studying Arithmancy (I'd blame her mother) while her Ravenclaw peers discuss the Muggle World. Can anything be done?

“Friendship; treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” While dark forces are gaining strength on the outside world, inside Hogwarts the students are dealing with their own struggles; pining after girls, studying for O.W.L.’s, rebellion, marauding, and mischief. Friendship will be tested, strengthened, and lost. Paths will be chosen, and principles defined. Sirius Black and James Potter are entering their fifth year and it is sure to be an eventful one.

If this is the way dying feels, it's not so bad.

During a brief imprisonment in the first war against Voldemort, Andromeda meets another captive who understands her estrangement from her sisters all too well.

Draco Malfoy comes to the Boy-Who-Lived, asking for help. When they realize that, after denying it, they really WANT to be friends and put the past behind them, it turns their worlds upside-down.

Hermione and Ginny have an explosive talk about Harry's horcrux search in which Ginny proves herself to be an airhead and Hermione turns out to be wrong. HBP Spoilers.

Emery Miller is a halfblood orphan living in a London wizarding orphanage. On a trip to Diagon Alley for supplies two weeks before her first day at Hogwarts, the eleven year old meets a slightly loony blonde woman. Two weeks later on the train, she meets the slightly loony blonde's twin sons and the rest, as they say, is history.