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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.

"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.

[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.)

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!

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?

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - Kenyan Proverb

"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

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

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

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...

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."

The mind of Draco Malfoy is a complicated thing.

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.

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.

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

Things are what they are supposed to be.

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

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.

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

Grief can push even a good man to extremes. How far will Lupin go?

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

Memories still linger in the halls of Hogwarts, replayed, untouched, and unbroken.

Follow Sirius Black through part of his escape from Azkaban.

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.

After the death of Hermione's parents, Ron and Harry contemplate what to do next and how to help her cope. Filled with drama, angst, romance, and some suprises. Also includes many appearances of members of the Order of the Phoenix, and details of the fight against Voldemort. This is for anyone who believes in the power of friendship and love.

Ron knows that now, when members of the Order of the Phoenix look at him, they look past the red hair and freckles and think not Weasley, but Sirius Black. And now that he's dead, Ron wonders if history will repeat itself.

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

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.

On the eve of war, Hermione finds out what Draco has been hiding all year.

Alone on her twenty-first birthday after a fight with Ron, Hermione Granger runs into a stranger from her past in the seediest part of London. Who is he, and how has her life taken such a turn for the worse?

The wizarding world has finally defeated Voldemort. Everyone believes that Voldemort is dead. But is he really dead if he lives in your dreams. "Why, Why are you haunting me, Voldemort?"

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.

Possibly the fluffiest-ever take on the apocalypse. The Earth's orbit is about to take the planet through the middle of a massive asteroid swarm, and the world has a few months to face certain death. Call me strange, but I actually see the ending here as quite optimistic. In a way.

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.

Ginny is alone and calling for her Romeo. London city is alive and free, yet for Gin there is nothing but black emptiness. A short story of lost love and frozen tears. It's a cold world, and this is ice.

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

Who would ever be interested in what a soul-sucking Dementor would have to say? Well, hopefully you would be...

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.

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.

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

A Slytherin reflects on how her House works.

Moaning Myrtle tells a ghost story. Her death is not Hogwarts' most tragic by any means.

Alastor Moody's thoughts after OotP.

Some people say that you see your life flash before your eyes just before you die. Remus disagreed. He saw the lives of those around him. Harry's Posse. The Six.

The blood in his mouth had a familiar taste, one that he had grown used to as years passed in that house, in that cupboard, alone and unloved.

Sirius has come to accept one life when he is back in Grimmauld Place. He knows that he is supposed to be nothing but the perfect pureblooded Black his parents expect him to be. But he cannot accept what he is supposed to be and what he is supposed to become...

Harry faces the reality of taking on Voldemort in their biggest and final battle, and considers that it'll be a fight he'll have to undertake alone. Or will he?

Lupin's thoughts before he leaves Hogwarts at the end of Harry and the others' third year, as he reflects over his students and over his own days at Hogwarts.

On a dark night years after the war has ended, Pansy Parkinson is surprised by a knock at her door.

How could it have come to this? How did we fall so far? It is the day after Christmas, and while the rest of the world is returning to normalcy after the holiday, one man isn't feeling very cheerful. The holidays have only allowed him to remember the pain and loss of the previous year, though he tries desperately to forget those memories. But as a fresh blanket of snow has covered the ground, he decides to take a walk to clear his mind, and at the same time, he decides to take a chance; he allows himself to just remember.

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

I am who I am, I am only different when it comes to you. (H/D)

A companion to "Plutonian Shore." He did not like the icy light here. He curled into his shadowed corner and felt safe.

Sirius is beginning to crack, but Remus is afraid of broken things.

"red mouth like a venomous flower". You think that you've won. Takes place during OotP. Minerva/Dolores.

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

You can't change the past. Or can you? Harry tries to change the past. But fate is more cruel then he ever imagined. Harry/Tom slash.

"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"?

Tom needed a way to kill him. And it wasn't hard to think of one. After all, he had everything he needed. Especially the bait. Set before the end of CoS.

Draco tries to kill himself, with mixed results. **DM/HP Slash**

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

Percy Weasley reunites with his family.

"I’ve woken up early again.Too early. It’s four in the morning. I sigh and stare blankly at the curtains for a few minutes, trying to recall the dream I’d been having. It was something to do with Lily; but the more I thought about it the less I could remember." James Potter wakes early one morning and makes a vow to himself and his family. J/L one shot

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. :)

"You think that’s all you really have to remember, just to breathe. It’s not like they ever expect anything of you anyway." Neville, Harry, bubblegum, and broken prophecies, all in the space of a single breath. Slash.

One-shot. Song-fic to Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Harry is going to Godric's Hollow with or without anyone's help. A half drunken Draco follows him to see what he's up to. The two have some decisions to make on this lonely road.

It's amazing the things you can survive, and the things you can't. I knew this wasn’t over, and when it was, the two of them would be walking away, and I would not.

Harry is back for his sixth year stronger than before, Voldemort's on the rise, and the Wizarding World is locked in an epic battle between good and evil. Add in a mysterious orb, sparking romances, and a new Defense professor, and watch the events unfold. PG-13 for now, will probably change later.

Harry wants us to share the title of Triwizard Champion. That actually sounds quite nice, because it would mean that we're unified and in this together for our school. Even so, I still want to make absolutely sure he knows what he's asking me to do before I tell him yes or no. (Cedric genfic)

No one should ever have to feel like this. Some go through it on a daily basis. Learn first hand. This would be your worst nightmare.

George grieves after the death of his twin brother. A story of Fred, George and a carousel.

Ginny Weasley reflects on the last month's events...and decides they're too much.

Sequel to Chiaroscuro and second in the Sacred Beauty series. Draco is back at the Manor, preparing himself to fulfill the Second Prophecy, which will require him to battle Harry to the death. He wants nothing more than to go back to Harry, but he has no choice - he is about his father's business.

Sitting on the steps of his childhood home, Grimmauld place, Sirius ponders his memories. Good and bad.

Ginny's reflections as she walks through the final battle field of the war. In the midst of the blood and pain and suffering, she manages to find a shred of hope, a new friend, and a reason to carry on.

Peter's thoughts at the moment of ultimate betrayal.

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

Upon returning from a mission for his Master, Wormtail's mind begins to wander.

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?

A Master and the Wolf FQF response. When Remus has gone to missing, everybody’s convinced that he is dead -- or that the Death Eaters have captured the werewolf. In the end Severus finds out that everyone has been terribly, horribly wrong... Implied SLASH RL/SS.

A young wizard seeks advice from a powerful adversary, before departing on a dangerous quest.

Harry has lost everyone he loved. Now it's time to join his family in heaven. His thoughts as his life slips away.

Remus is all that is left; all the others have left him. Peter to join Voldemort, James because he died for Lily, and Sirius because he died to save Harry. How does he feel about being the last one? How does he feel about the others for leaving him behind, their friend, the one they made a certain promise to that none of them kept their word on, This is how he feels now that he is all alone…*SPOILER*

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.

"Do you wonder? Does it matter? Do you care? Sometimes, a candle is more than enough to light the way." An idle, nonsensical reflection of the one we all love to hate.

Harry and Co. are off to hunt Horcruxes...but there is an unexpected detour. Winner of FA's January, 2007 challenge.

Despite the lovely world that he now resides in, Sirius Black can only watch as his friends and loved ones fight for their lives. Discontent and depressed, he seeks James for advice. Prongs, an angel, and another world promptly teach him a lesson he will never forget. Companion fic to "Dear Sirius..." and "Dear Padfoot..."

He has the perfect life, but if he was to give it up? Harry already knows what will happen...

Dogs are pack animals by nature. This doesn’t exclude Sirius Black. After 15 years of being apart, the Black family reconciles. But for how long? And do they even know about it?

Late at night in July of 1981, Albus Dumbldore received information that the Dark Lord intended to attack the Potters. Two scenes.

After Peter, James, and Lily are murdered, Remus struggles to take a hold on his life again. Broken-hearted about Sirius' betrayal, he decides to write a letter to his far away lover to heal some of the wounds.

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

Seamus is sick of everything being about Harry. Finally, it gets to him and sends him over the edge.

A take on how Severus Snape came to be a Death Eater. Completed.

One-shot. Four years after the events of 'When You Think of Me'. The world has changed; The Dark Lord has won; Draco Malfoy writes a letter to Ginny.

Open for dissection - The inner mind of Ginny Weasley; her speculations on life, love, Harry Potter and snow.``Snow. You love snow. I don’t really know why you love it so much, but you do. I think you like to preserve your childhood, you are amused quickly and bored as easily, in a way which doesn’t really convey immaturity, just... a different way of growing up...