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Post-DH. George contemplates surviving.

Ron speaks to Harry as the war rages on.

They looked at us and they couldn't see past the hatred. They couldn't see the lust.

Petunia tells about her past, telling about her envy of her sister in all things, and then, about her future.

The events of the astronomy tower, from Severus' perspective. Spoilers for HBP

How do you deal with a loss that is not just in your heart, but in the very heart of your home? ``Warning: Character Death

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

It’s Halloween, the day of the dead, and after the war there are plenty of dead people to remember. An ancient school, an old battlefield, and a new graveyard. Old enemies meet again, but nothing is quite the same. DM/CC pairing.

An unidentified person muses at Harry Potter's funeral.

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

Dumbledore's nephew is in love... with a feisty redhead who happens to be working for the wrong side. What is Tom Riddle's plan? And what does this woman have to do with a prophecy about a boy to bring about the downfall of her master? A very twisted Romeo and Juliet.

Harry fights with the confusing thoughts in his head as he realizes his attraction to the one person he would never expect to love. Songfic to Linkin Park's 'Somewhere I Belong'.

Remus finds something Sirius lost. He'd rather have Sirius. Character death, SB/RL.

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 knew they were up to something. Hermione would sneak off at all hours of the night, and Malfoy always sent those annoyingly "superior" looks to Ron. But what they were up to was much more than even he wanted to find out. (D/Hr, mild hint of H/G if you look real hard.)

In the beginning Harry is stranded in an unconcious state. He has almost lost hope, but then slowly regains it though the story.

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.

"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."

What happens after life? After you don't have a further will to live? After you're so empty it hurts? Well, sometimes, you just have to learn the hard way. By experiencing it for yourself.

AU. In a cold dark prison cell a young man sits alone, reflecting on his actions. Tomorrow Draco Malfoy will be resentenced for his crimes. As he waits he tries to justify what he did, but he knows in his heart that he deserves all he gets.

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.

Dedicated to family and anyone who has ever lost someone they loved. Time heals all wounds, but nothing can erase the scars. With Love.

Everything in Harry's life is perfect. He's halfway through his seventh (and final) year, and life is great. Then the Dark Lord prepares to take the final step on his rise to power and no one is there to stop him.

Some mistakes are soon forgiven while some can never be.

Everyone has a limit, a point at which even the most opimistic person in world loses all hope. When suddenly they know there is no point anymore because it will all end badly. Yet some people still go on hoping after this because there is nothing else they can do when they are so removed from the wizarding world that it's all just stories in a newspaper. But they still feel the pain and even when there is no hope left they have to keep grieving and remember those who've died because it's all they can do.

A re-telling, of sorts, of the journey through the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack in which Harry decides it's not a good idea to visit Hagrid when a mass-murderer is on the loose.

'The mouth snapped at him, thick saliva dripped from the elongated fangs and the yellow eyes gleamed at him in hunger.' Remus Lupin's past.

Narcissa Malfoy wanders through her garden and wonders of what has she become, and if she could ever escape her prison.

Every man tends a secret garden, and Neville Longbottom is no exception. He is a good boy, a diligent boy, and he does his best to tend it well in the moldering house of his grandmother, but every secret garden has a dark place where even the hands that tend it dare not venture.

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

When Draco fails to return to Hogwarts after the Christmas holidays Harry panics. A companion to "Nobody Came."

Air and water, life and death. Who or what is``the only thing that can save you when things get just as bad as they``can get?

Everyone understands Lavender Brown. They understand her obsession with passion-pink-lipstick, they comprehend that she gossips and creates scandals. The only problem is that nobody really knows Lavender… they can’t, because she doesn’t even know herself.

She waits. He doesn't come. Darkness falls.

Based on Placebo's beautifully tragic "Song to Say Goodbye". For true Draco fans only. Keep the tissues handy.

You think muggle-borns are opressed? Wait until you meet Joseph Bloauiex, human/goblin mix!

Four years ago, before they knew about the Prophecy, or that children can’t do things, James and Rose modified the Twinbond they’d been born with into something more. The reason they did so, and the method they used has been their secret ever since. Here is the story behind that decision, and the reason James won’t let any evil go.~~~Warning: True Evil abounds, and some parts of this are truly disturbing, and entirely too real.~~~

"Harry thought she looked like a picture he'd seen in 'Holidays With Hags'..." What it's been like to grow up as the fat, ugly Slytherin.

See why Luna is persecuted so much! See what the Ravenclaws do in their spare time! See what happens when Dumbledore tries to put his foot down! Lawsuits! Northern Ireland! Gratuitous bad language!

As the sextet find some time to have a good chat and sort some things out, a large force of Death Eaters are on their way to cleanse Hogsmeade. Lots of non-fluffy fluff, whizz-bang special effects, and a Death Eater with a splitting headache. Rated for violence, gore and huge nasty pointy teeth.

"I am become Death, destroyer of Worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer Dark times are ahead and it's not getting any better. It's kill or be killed, and with the Apocalypse rising and on Voldemort's side, the impending war is upon them, and Dumbledore is dead, Harry and his new accomplice Kisa Cordova-Snape aren't even sure they can get through this alive.

Draco and Hermione look at the moon one night and realize that there may be more than the hatred. NOT intended as a romance, although it can be perceived that way.

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.

Silvius Malfoy, father of Lucius Malfoy, looks back on his childhood, his corruption, and his children.

Remus searches to save Sirius. Inspired by the quote: "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."``-Josephus Daniels

Percy works late. Arthur plays Father Christmas.

He thought he had left behind his true home forever, until a familiar face teaches him otherwise. Maybe it hadn't been home at all. Closure. Post-OoTP.

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

“Hello, Remus.”``I didn’t even have to look up from my parchment; I knew that voice so well. ``“Hello, Sirius.”

Bellatrix Lestrange's mind is beautiful in the most twisted of ways... Companion to Perfection.

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...

A look into why Peter Pettigrew went bad. Year One

In another world, Harry Potter was not just a wizard. In this other world, Ronald Weasley became a Knight. The only hope for their world's survival is love. Will their love be enough?

AU. "I was born in Azkaban..." Following the death of her French grandfather, the daughter of Bellatrix Lestrange is brought to England to live with her relatives, the Malfoys. The story begins in the summer holidays between CoS and PoA.

Draco thinks back to his last night with Harry. One-shot. Draco's POV.

There is very little I can say when I feel this way.

Harry would die for the stars. Draco knows better.

What really happened that Halloween night? It was a night of murder and mayhem, but who killed whom? How did Voldemort mark Harry?

"The cold stone remains there still, a silent reminder of what was lost..." Songfic to Savage Garden's Free to Fly.

Ginny Weasley and the restoration of a memory she'd long thought lost. Song lyrics used in this story are from "Serpent's Kiss" by The Mission U.K.

Brethren... two brothers separated by much more than a difference in blood, they re-meet in a time that is both dark and ultimately life-changing for them both. Will the bonds be forever broken or can the past really be forgotten?

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

An Oliver-Percy remorse. All six-year-old Percy Weasley wanted was to learn how to fly. All seventeen-year-old Percy wants is freedom. One-sided Oliver and Percy slash, takes place during PoA. Features a missing Weasley son.

Sometimes the answer hurts too much, and waiting is all you have left. H/D slash.

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.

"So you understand then the predicament in which we are mired." When Remus Lupin is captured, it could spell the end of the Order. The unlikely intervation of Severus Snape brings an unsettling salvation. RL/SB overtones. One-shot.

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

The troll wasn't let loose and Hermione was never given that encounter to bond with Harry and Ron. She has no friends. With her gamble to create a life in the wizarding world failed, she isn't thinking straight. She looks over the ledge of the tower, but is interrupted by someone. A gen fic with NO PAIRINGS and the two starting the basis of even more hate. Rated for swearing.

'She knew that his eyes would fail, that his faith would erode, that his wings would crumble to dust. And that then, he himself would dissipate into the wind like the smell of wood smoke on a winter’s day.' But all is not lost. There is hope. She is hope embodied.

Remus gets a letter from a certain Rubeus Hagrid; an attempt to help a certain boy hero sets Lupin on a trip down memory lane. Very minor RL/JP slash.

"She shouldn't have died like that." "She shouldn't have died at all!" * Everything can change in seven years. Hermione's dead, and now Harry must confront everything he thought he left behind.

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...

Moaning Myrtle has kept quiet for over fifty years ever since her death... it's time she's spoken up for what she wants to do and what her thoughts on Harry Potter and other things that has happened in her life...

A dark secret from Ginny's past has prevented her from having an intimate relationship with everyone she's ever dated. Will Neville's patience and understanding give her what she needs to take back control of her life? An angsty N/G love story.

The ground was muddy and soaked by the heavy rain. Thick raindrops hit her face, wetting her clothes, but she didn’t feel it. Numbness was all she felt. She saw it happening, disbelieving. She saw how the light emerged from the tip of her wand and formed a mist around the sixteen year-old boy who stood a few steps from her. The dark trees around them made this night even darker than it already was.

"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

The future Mrs. Lestrange speculates on the ups and downs of being a female Death Eater: marriage, love, and sex, not to mention torturing Muggles.

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

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." Ginny reflects on her parents' reaction to Tom Riddle's diary.

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.

Shortly after Regulus's death, Sirius reminisces about his brother.

Harry thinks about losing a father figure yet again. His reaction is anything but ordinary.

A young girl wakes up, only to find this is just the beginning of her nightmare.

A little over the week after the final battle with Voldemort Ginny Weasley, the only survivor, wakes from a coma like state to find that everyone in the Order was killed, including her entire family, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter. She walks that night, trying to come to terms with what has happened.

Adolescence: the time of change, but more so when your family is Black. Thank Merlin for good friends. Remus/Sirius. Written for hp_toujours on LJ.

Draco Malfoy is going to jail! In another series of``letters, Harry, Ron, Crabbe, Goyle, and Voldemort talk about Malfoy's arrest. Sequal to "Harry Potter, Auror of the Ministry."

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

[Written pre-OotP, set post-Hogwarts.] I thought you loved me; I loved you. I thought you cared about me; I cared about you. But now I've realized, finally realized, that to you, I was nothing but a stepping stone. I was just there to help you up in society. I wasn't anything more. D/G (Warning: Ginny is not the nicest/best person.)

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?

How do you pick up the pieces when what you thought would be, will never come to pass? One character must come to grips with reality, and deal with the loss of a love.

The Trio's summer before sixth year is going to be a lot different than before. From an attack to intercepted letters to a big fight to finding out OWL marks, this will be one summer never to forget!

When Ginny Weasley began writing in Tom Riddle's diary, she had no idea what it would lead to...

Years since he as murdered but why does it seem so weird? Why is it so hard to deal? But what happens if he came back?

"This house feeds off me like a cancer. Sometimes, late at nights, I think that the house is a sentient entity, an ugly creature that has absorbed my family’s beliefs over the centuries and is now the embodiment of all I tried to run away from at age sixteen [...]Now I feel that what Peter started that Halloween Eve, what the Dementors continued in Azkaban, this lethifold of a house will finish, and I’ll become some kind of empty shell that looks like Sirius Black, speaks like Sirius Black but it’s not, inside, where it counts, Sirius Black." WARNING (for those faint of heart who need it): angst, slash (SB/SS) and incoherency.

Things are what they are supposed to be.

"Smiles can be faked. Do not assume everyone who smiles is happy." Harry finally succeeds in defeating the Dark Lord, or so everyone believes-- everyone except Harry. Something grows in his mind, beginning as a whispery voice but then much stronger, causing his loved ones to disappear from his sight. Only one person seems unaffected by this disease, or what ever it is, and that one person may be the only one capable of helping Harry. The question arises, though, does that person want to? H/D

Hermione thinks she's found the location of a horcrux and has to go solo to retrieve it. Unfortunately, it's the wrong piece...

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - Kenyan Proverb

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...