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Obscene five-inch-diameter Stargazers, the grey light of dawn, and eventually something has to give. H/D, post-Hogwarts

What if you woke up one morning to find your whole world shattered to pieces? Calypso Panelle's parents are dead, she has no idea what's about to happen next, and to top it all off, she's just found she has to live with the Death Eaters. With the help of some unlikely friends, Caly will find the strength to stand up for what she believes in and learn that in the end, there is no way to avoid facing your fate.

Sirius sits in his cell in Azkaban and watches as his cousin Bellatrix pass him on her way to her own. This starts a train of thought leading to the motives behind his escape.

How will Hogwarts react after Lavender Brown's suicide? Or was it a suicide? And if it wasn't, who really killed Lavender Brown? And who was there to see her last moments? Let's see if you can figure it out and remember, looks can be deceiving.

"What am I supposed to say, "Sorry Harry, but in case you die in the final battle I wanted a piece of you, so I got pregnant? I can't say that Hermione," she said sighing. Ginny looked over at Harry and he glanced at her and held her gaze. "I can't promise anything Hermione," he said softly. He heard her intake of breath. "I can't promise that we'll always be friends, because, Hermione Jane Granger, I love you. I love you so much and I want to have a life with you, but I don't know if we'll ever get to have one. But I can promise you that I will love you till the day I die, whether it be tomorrow or in forty years. I will always love you," he whispered against her ear.

The tale of a boy, as he grows to be a man. One-shot.

Gilderoy Lockhart, the oft (and aptly) maligned DADA teacher from Chamber of Secrets has lost everything which people consider truly important. In the loss of his memory he has lost his family, his history, his home. How can a person be a person without knowing all of the incidents and accidents, which have made them into the person they became? And in Lockhart's case, can he really want to be that person he was before? A look into the private diary of Gilderoy Lockhart, post CoS.

Family isn't always right. Sirius Black sits in a cell waiting for the trial that never came. He remembers.

"The dark is my refuge. As a child, whenever I'd get frightened or depressed, I would get into bed and pull the curtains shut. My Nurse knew not to bother me whenever I'd do this, as did Mother. I don't recall Father being around to react to this behavior when I found myself in one of my hiding moods." Draco Malfoy struggles with his concience in a rare moment of introspection. Contains implied Draco/Pansy and truckloads of angst.

Part 2 of the Sibling Series. Finally, Remus has a chance to meet his younger sister...

I believe in the morning light/When I know it'll be over/I believe in the morning light/When I know it'll be done/I believe in the morning light/Where I know I will see them all again/I will be free/And they'll be there.``Sometimes the morning light can be the most desired thing of all.

"Sweet sixteen ain't that peachy keen / No it ain't so neat to admit defeat..." After the events in the Ministry, Hermione starts drifting. Inspired by the song "I don't Like Mondays".

Bellatrix thrived on knowing how well-respected she was, even if it was only in Voldemort’s circle, and it was devastating, after Azkaban, to realize that she was no longer respected by anyone at all. She lost her pride and her sense of self all in one fell swoop, and that might have made her a little crazy. But only a little.

Voldemort wasn't doing his job, so hell sent their own agents to do it right...

It’s shortly after the war and Lucius is the last surviving Death Eater, who has found himself being chased by Aurors and members of the Order. He has nowhere to escape and no one to save him.

Lie: (noun). Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression. I don’t always use them to hurt others, that’s just a by-product of saving myself. And him. I’m terrified so I lie. Terrified of him, of me, us. No one is safe from my lies, least of all myself.

Many may remember Neville Longbottom as the chubby, clumsy Gryffindor who always managed to screw things up in Potions class. Well now Neville is out on his own and he has run into an old friend....

The rise of the Dark Lord was not sudden. It was a long process of waiting and calculations. A short ``one-shot delving into Voldemort's goals and setbacks as he gained his reputation.

McGonagall suspects Sibyll Trelawney of being worse than a fraud; Trelawney suspects McGonagall of concealing the most important part of herself. After their confrontation, nothing will be quite the same. MM/ST femmeslash.

A songfic, but told from who's point of view? Set a year after "our heroes" (ie: the Trio) leave Hogwarts. In a world torn apart by the war.

In which Tom Riddle meets a stranger with a destiny is entangled with his own. Weird vingette.

What happens when things don't go as planned? When things don't work out the way they should? Could you still get through it...together? D/G One-shot.

Like a play in five acts, except not. On a line connecting the Earth and the Moon, there are three points where a small body may exist in an unstable equilibrium if it has a velocity giving it the same period as the Moon. Two other such points exist at the third point of an equilateral triangle with the base of the line defined by the two masses of the Moon and the Earth. Throughout the events of PoA, Remus reacts to Harry as well as he dares.

After the final battle, Draco & Harry retreat from the Wizarding World into the house they share. Harry becomes consumed by the memories that torment him, but is there anything that Draco can do to bring him back from the prison of his own mind?``Told from Draco's POV

A year after Hogwarts graduation, Hermione Granger reflects on the death of the one she loves. Songfic to Rinse by Vanessa Carlton.

From the viewpoint of Mister Draco Malfoy. He's thinking about his old love, Hermione Granger Finnigan. And how he should have done some things he didn't, and how showers are VERY important to all this. One-shot.

The ponderings of a person. A person who knew when the last moment of her life would be. Maybe even fluffy, you tell me! Songfic to 'Tomorrow Never Dies'

In his final year of school, Ron learns from some unexpected teachers.

How could Cedric be Champion if all Hufflepuffs are so mediocre? Why don't the Ministry just assume all Slytherins are Death Eaters? What's with Percy? These and other questions answered here.

Sirius visits Remus, October 31st, 1981. Remus/Sirius. Written for Remix/Redux III: Reloaded.

A 'darkly beautiful' man reflects on the demise of a relationship through the course of several full moons. SS/RL, RL/SB implied slash.

Two men meet on a dark stormy night. HBP and AU-ish.

Dumbledore defeated the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945... what if Harry and co. had something to do with that particular triumph?

The second in the Brothers trilogy. A mysterious disappearance of Harry's belongings brings Harry and Draco into real big trouble. Draco POV.

I dare you all to come up with BETTER theories of why Remus stayed human during the Shrieking Shack scene.

A partner to my songfic "Hate", this is Sirius' sentencing from his point of view. Can stand alone, but better if read after "Hate".

(Draco songfic) Inspired by Christina Aguilera's song, this story tells of Draco's homelife and what he's had to deal with for many years.

Harry and Ginny got married, but before her wedding night Harry was gone for ever for the final battle and wrote his last letter to her wife Ginny.

Hermione finds herself lost in time (not literally) because of the pain caused by tragic deaths.

Pansy laughs, smoke rolling out from between her lips. "Don't fool yourself into thinking you're his first love." Ginny will give up everything for love. Including everything she has ever believed in.

Sequel to Inner Musings. You are a student of Hogwarts. How does it feel? Step inside... This episode: a certain someone you've had your eye on, and how time plays tricks on you.

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." --Walter Winchell

Prickling touches still linger in the morning over silent attempts at breakfast. At night, they come together. At night, they become the dark. One is the spy. Has to be. Remus/Sirius.

“In her house, a small one-story in a suburb of Manchester, she has surrounded herself with gold-framed pictures. Memories. Remembrances of times gone by.” A one shot story that looks at Gladys Gudgeon and her possible reasons for writing to Gilderoy.

Draco contemplates war, and the value of sides.

It's Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts and a new girl has come to the school. She is not just an ordinary witch. Could she be the key to destroying Voldemort?

There\'s a tribanibian in the well at the Quidditch World Cup, and somehow Seamus Finnigan has been roped into helping Luna Lovegood catch it.

Narcissa reflects on her family and their cause.

Godric confesses his sins, and Salazar breaks his promises.

A lone soldier reflects before the decisive moment of a war.

In the summer after OotP, Harry is again at 12 Grimmauld Place. He feels sorry for himself, as usual, but with the, er, 'help' of a certain werewolf, he gets over it.

What seems like an error in Potions leads Snape to sing and dance like a disco queen... everybody laughs, but there is more to the situation than meets the eye. The only thing is, will the only person aware of the truth do the right thing, or will they be scared and frightened, and possibly be responsible for Snape's death?

Teddy Lupin was haunted by the sea. On the day he comes of age, he finds out the reason why. Written immediately after DH; inspired by the epilogue, but not directly based on it.

"It must be the atmosphere. Azkaban, with the sound of waves breaking against the rock cliffs in faithful succession. The name itself sounds broken and clumsily repaired. And it is home, they tell themselves. It is life. They hush the part about imprisonment. Azkaban, an island nation."

Sirius tells Harry about the day he was born.

Quote: You don't cry. You don't cry because you can't. You didn't kill him. Why would you kill him? He's got a half-smile on his face and you can't cry because he's happy. That would be sick, to cry.

Same words unspoken, same dream lost. A bitter story of what might have been...H/D slash.

Harry and Draco are both too stubborn and risk loosing everything.

Takes place in the summer after SS. Sort of character study/summary

Molly Weasley is not happy, her children just keep doing things and she's about to go mad until she hears a soft voice...

Ubquitous and nondescript Ginny Weasley writes, writes, and writes ceaselessly and yet her words vanish into thin air.

Your name is Remus Lupin. Today is the happy day, and your heart is broken.

Somewhere on the north coast of Wales lies a little village, forsaken and miserable. When the wind is in from the sea, it carries with it terrible scream and a mist that chills the bone, and sometimes, sometimes you can see the ghost of lights flickering on the dead island of Abercasden.

Hello there. Let me introduce myself. My full and Christian name is Deirdre Eudoxia Marbelle. Let me start out by saying that this is my story and I have kept it to myself for years. And years can rack up on you when you are an immortal. And you, reader, do not know anything about me. However if you have heard of me, you know me as the Vampire who befriended Draco Malfoy and used her charms to destroy much of the common wizarding world, to demolish all that was of Voldemort’s supporters. You should also know me as the one who, despite also being the one who killed much of the Death Eaters, threw the Order of the Phoenix into a frenzy, and by God destroyed it and all of their followers.

‘Harry can’t be called The Boy Who Lived anymore, can he?’ Harry Potter is a legend, though maybe that’s a lie.

The plight of most of the Slytherins during Chamber of Secrets. Edited to be HBP-compliant, with the narrator changed.

"Oh do you care, I still feel for you..." So, do you really care? Can you understand her reasons? (T/G)

Mudbloods and Muggle-lovers first:. Lord Voldemort keeps a long-time promise to his followers, and Hermione -- along with every other Muggle-born and Squib in the Wizarding World -- is swept up in the current.

Severus reminds himself of what could have been. The message hits hard.

Draco writes an essay on his home life.

What does the all-powerful Half Blood Prince think of Harry Potter? His unbiased (ahem!) opinions may surprise you ...

Nobody ever sees themselves, unless it's from another's eyes. Terry has nightmares, and Michael feels helpless. Slight slash. (Alludes to an attack in Hogsmeade in which a character dies.)

"You sit in the darkness. It’s late. In the perfect houses across the road small squares of yellow light are a rare sight. The polished windows, marked by the brief passage of indistinct grey forms, fade into the characteristic black holes puncturing the neat arrangement of bricks. Privet Drive is empty. You’ve seen it before. In your mind you can map out every door, every flowerbed, even the infinite arrangement of light reverberations on the cement, the geometry of every wall." A dark fic full of dark thoughts. Warning, contains references to self-harm! What say ye? Hard-core angst? Nonsense...

Set from Hermione's POV. This story is set in the few seconds after Ron explains to Hermione what a Mudblood is when Draco calls her one after the Quidditch argument in the second book.

“Want one, Potter?” you snarl, fists balled in his shirt and holding him up against the corridor wall. He brings his face close to yours, and I feel your shock. “I don’t need one,” he replies in a low voice. “I’ve got you.” You leap back as though you’ve been stung. Your cheekbones are scarlet now, and a halo of crackling energy surrounds you. “You wish,” you snap back. You could think of better, I know you could, but you don’t. I don’t. I can’t think of anything but you standing up for me. Or did you? Were you just standing up for yourself? Would it matter? I can already feel the blinkers around your eyes. You and he are the only people in this whole universe now, all else eclipsed by how you feel when he’s near you.

Was Sirius Black as crazy as we all think he was in Azkaban? What was he thinking of the day before he escaped? Who was he thinking of?

Written PreHBP. “Don’t do anything rash,” Draco tried again. Without taking his eyes of the knife Potter whispered, “Give me a reason Draco. Just a single one.”

One-shot fic about Cho and suicide.

Remus saw Harry’s pain. He saw it from the moment the boy, or rather, man, walked through the door. He wished he could do something to dull the anguish in Harry’s eyes. But that seemed difficult while he was still dealing with his own hurt.

Behind locked doors, things get muddled. Madness and reality intertwine, and monotony becomes standard. They say that insanity is either there or it isn't, but maybe it has levels, just like everything else.

A sixth year Maurader fic, revolving around events before the willow incident and after. Contains Lily/Severus and Remus/Severus (slash..) Tells of the facades which we hide behind when we're in fear of being open to hurt, and what happens when the walls tumble down.

The Founders decide that they need a way to pass their values on when they are gone. Written for The Sky Is Falling festival at Sycophant Hex.

One January night in 1981, six year-old Percy Weasley writes a story about a dark and stormy night and the "bad wizards". He has questions about the war that neither of his parents are sure how to answer.

At the end of sixth year, Draco had some troubles, the only person that noticed, cared and did something about it was Harry. Angsty. A little fluffy, but not bad, and a short little ficlet. This is one of my first fics ever! *sniff*

A story of Snape, a candle, and a life. That's all there is to say, really.

It's the summer after fifth year, and the last place Harry wants to be is Grimmauld Place. So of course, that's exactly where he is, still wrestling with his guilt and anger. Is there anything that can bring him peace? Harry opens his bureau and finds something unexpected.

Living with his grandmother and desperate for her attention and approval, eight-year-old Neville Longbottom still finds it difficult to deal with the mental state his parents are in. However, the two find consolance in each other's company, even though they are without the company of the one's they've lost. (Not angsty, but touching and sweet.)

One boy lost, another one saved. A son of a Death Eater must make a decision.

His story begins too many times to count; in fact, it is always beginning, just as surely as time is always existent. But he does not own the story, for time is too great for one to reign, and Harry Potter is too powerful for anyone, even his son, to possess. And besides, fate is untamable, and choices are to the decider. But even if the story isn’t his, he is the story’s. And there are no endings, but only beginnings for Mark Evans; for Mark Potter.

Reflections of a friend, and a promise.

"But at the ends of the earth, will the deep end be any different than the shallow if we are there for the same purpose?" Someone thinks about a certain death and his great promise to Harry after the funeral.

A one-shot from the perspective of first-year Blaise Zabini, at the end of the year.

Harry's life as it should have been - in other words, what he missed out on by losing a mother and a father.

Harry/Ron(/Hermione). It's supposed to get easier.

Alternate ending for "Pretend to Sleep". In which Draco's life becomes a bit more than he can handle, Harry forgets to be the hero, and Ron forgives Draco...at the last minute.

Voldemort's rant on human emotions. Kinda scary.

Harry is alone in the world, alcohol his only savior. But when he begins to lose himself, is there any retribution? A companion piece to Soul Searching

Harry sits in the Gryffindor common room on a stormy night. He is remembering back to about a month ago, when a terrible accident affected all of Hogwarts.