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Although she wishes she could Lily knows that she cannot protect Harry forever.

Post OOTP, Harry broods on the major changes in his life. His dark thoughts on life and it's cruelties.

"Isn't it weird how joy can have you almost come apart just when things are at their most perfect?"

An older, wiser Severus Snape reflects on his past, an obsession, and Remus Lupin. This story contains implied slash.

From the moment he entered the wizarding world, Harry Potter has been told he is special. Now he's about to find out why. (rated PG-13 due to possible creature violence and mild language. NO slash!)

“…The night they died, I’d arranged to check on Peter, make sure he was still safe…” ``The story of that night from Sirius’s POV. (One-shot.)

Hermione Granger writes two poems, one before the war and one after. The poems are very different. What changed?

Sirius has little more than his thoughts to comfort or distress him in Azkaban.

Amy Black is not related to the famous pureblood Blacks, nor is she anyone important, nor does she have a life of drama. Nope, Amy Black is just a quiet bookworm that gets straight A's and is an outcast. She has no real life... at least that is what she lets everyone else think...

Pansy is reflecting on feelings towards Draco and what he does towards her. She madly in love with someone she hates...

Remus feels isolated by his friends during the first war, and it takes running into Severus at a bar to make him feel anywhere near all right.

The war is over, the good guys won. But that doesn't always make for happy endings. "It's over Harry, he's dead. You won. Don't you remember? It's done. YOU'RE done."

Do you the way she looks at you? She looks at you with that utmost admiration and passion. But you don’t see it.

What do you do when you realise every choice you have ever made has brought you to a dead end? Draco remembers his relationship with Harry as the Final Battle rages around him.

Your body gives but then holds back``The sun is bright ``The sky is black``Can only be another sign``I cannot keep what isn’t mine`` ``How can I tell if you mean what you say?``You say it so loud``But you sound far away``Maybe I had just a glimpse of your soul``Was that your shadow I saw on the wall?`` ``I’m watching you disappear``But you``you ``were``never``here...

Every story will have an inspiration. This is my take on how J.K. Rowling got her inspiration for the Harry Potter series. The story is about a chance meeting between a young J.K.Rowling and a certain Red haired boy at Kings Cross station.

Continuation to "In Your Dreams". Hermione... well, she dreams, just like Ron hoped she would, except not quite of what Ron hoped she would.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione are out of school. Harry has finished off Voldemort and his followers. Has he finished all of them? One is returning? Who is it? How will Harry defeat him?

A Dementor is sent into a common mission: go and Kiss a man. As it crosses the woods; however, things don't go as it expected and a mission that should finish in a good hunt, ends with this Dementor finding out that there are more things inside itself than its hunger for souls it meets with something that stays on the road of the Dementor's classification for things: it isn't food, and it isn't non-food. How it deals with things when they go out of its control? Because, as it can remember, a Dementor never is wrong and, most importantly, things aren't ever out-of-control in the small world of theirs.

"...When I walk the halls, I hear people mutter "slut" and "whore" in the air behind my back. You do not do or say anything about it, so I just look straight at them and I smile. I smile, and I nod, but I do not speak, for I am a watcher, and I see..." This fic contains some disturbing material. You have been warned. Angst D/G with D/P undertones.

Draco was the reason Blaise could see thestrals, and Blaise was the reason that Draco could see thestrals. And thestrals only bring misfortune upon the ones who see them.

In a darker world where Voldemort has triumphed, a man sentenced to Azkaban reflects on his crimes, his fate, and the one he loved enough to kill. H/D implications, stream-of-consciousness.

Fidelius has been performed already, but on a dark night with a storm rising fast and furious over the home where they were staying, a visitor arrives on a dark bike with an idea that will effect them all. Lily POV. JP/LE.

Is Pansy Parkinson really the Draco-stalking-simpering-idiot people make her out to be? Read and see.

A brief glimpse into the lives of Lycurgus Randall and Selena Lowell of the Werewolf Support Services as they fight an uphill battle to do their job.

This is a post HBP, pre-DH story from Severus' point of view. It's all about the mistakes he's made. This is an SS/HG fic, inspired by the song "Evaporated" by Ben Folds Five.

sleep-deprived Hermione on the edge of nervous breakdown and an anxious Snape talk a walk down memory lane.

This is after Sirius's death, kinda gloomy I think.

Remus Lupin in Prisoner of Azkaban... Wrote this sometime back, thought of posting it now.

Before Hogwarts, Lily had a friend, her cousin, named Harry. This story is about them, and who they were and what they did. Slightly bittersweet, but it covers Lily's discovery of magic, her meeting with James, and why she named her son Harry.

Don't believe everything you read. But then again . . . (companion piece to 'Elijah's Cup').

As a war they never asked to be a part of rages around them, Sirius and Remus begin to suspect each other as things start to slowly change. Five unadultered angsty drabbles.

When the curse on the position of DADA teacher claims another victim and as the war with old Voldy escalates, Dumbledore decides that he needs to bring new blood to the faculty. A Coven of five American witches steps up to meet the challenge. After the farce in the DoM, Harry, who is getting more powerful by the day, needs training if he is going to face the Dark Lord and live. When new information is revealed, ties are formed, it becomes clear that Harry just may have found the power that the dark lord knows not. Ignores HBP and DH.

Hannah Grace Abbott drones on about her dull, dull life. Maybe she's just too blind to see that she's needed in the Hufflepuff house.

"When someone we love dies, we always think that they’ll come back to us, that they would never leave us. Admit it, you do don’t you? But, if you’re alive you can’t be a ghost, even if you are alive trapped in the Veil world, the world for those who are waiting." Sirius’ thoughts of the world behind the Veil. Not dead yet, he must wait until old age kills him before truly leaving the world. A one shot fic on what might go on behind the Veil.

Frank Longbottom faces the most dangerous case in his career as an Auror when asked to infiltrate the Ministry's Specialised and Organised Crimes Squad. Rated R for inappropriate language, violence and adult themes. Welcome to Gangland!

Buried in my thick red sheets I trace the gold trim until I can no longer keep my eyes open. I am becoming afraid to sleep. Harry tries to come to terms with life's obligations.

Snape confesses to Dumbledore that he is a Death Eater.

On Pansy's wedding day, as she awaits the time for the ceremony to start, Draco sneaks into her room to visit her...and tell her of the deeper import of the gift that he has sent her. If she will only do as he tells her, Pansy's actions will change the face of the wizarding world forever...

Coolly his gaze, Ron pushes back his chair and slowly rises, easily towering over her in a way he could not otherwise. His voice is a rich, tremulous baritone. Firm, but mostly soft. “Let’s go.” Blinking, Hermione's mouth slips open and she moves to her feet without thinking.

R due to semi-graphic descriptions. Songfic to 'My Last Breath' by Evanescence. Dying on a battlefield, Hermione Granger reflects on her life with a fellow soldier. A 'Guess the Pairing' songfic...placed in Dark Arts after an intense inner battle (Romance or Angst?).

Mrs. Lestrange plots, plans and waxes homicidal in her cell at Azkaban prison.

In the darkness of his chamber, he yearned for her yearned for her to bring the reddish glow that would fill his eyes. He hated the shadows. And he lusted for her fiery touch to scare the shadows away. TR & GW

Harry stands before a mirror, contemplating what he has become. Songfic to Nine Inch Nails' "Right Where It Belongs".

Every mother fears the very worst happening to their child; for Circe Lupin, this has become a reality.

"Perhaps what had happened had been foretold, inevitable. Inevitable that he would be both desired and abandoned. Inevitable that he would run, thirsting for something... unreachable. Inevitable that he would be swallowed whole by this strange tortured city of dreams and nightmares. Inevitable that he would prick his arm (not his finger) with the needle. Did the story girl feel this ecstasy of pure honeyed light in her veins, like she was being infused with the soul she had lost? For Draco Malfoy, that was all there was."

Sirius and Regulus need each other, they're brothers after all. But Regulus can't remain the boy Sirius loves, and change is bound to happen.

"He went there because he wanted to remember, and he stayed because he had no other place to be." In the time between the Order of the Pheonix and Goblet of Fire Remus returns to a familiar place, and is met by a familiar face.

He had considered Harry his guardian angel, his immortal perhaps, because he had never imagined Harry could ever die or even be harmed.

Bellatrix is a simple farm girl in the summer sun, and she serves her Lord. The wind whistles tunes and dances on bare shoulders, the chains clamber against flesh and iron, and the blood drips, one-two, on the tiling.

A young teacher enters a newly founded Hogwarts full of secrets and scandal. Prejudices, morals and reputations are questioned as history is made. But not the history you would think. This is the secret history of Hogwarts.

Following the life of one Damien Malfoy, son of Draco and Ginny Malfoy.

Owls. Snow. Night. A vignette.

Darkfic. Nothing is what it seems, and what seems to be real isn't. Harry Potter explains his succumbing from savior to murderer and how four people, including his best friend, were killed by his own hand. Seduction and the edge of madness. HP/RW; HP/DM. Warning: smut (strictly R-rated, though), slash, Dark!Harry, and naughty *tsk tsk* language.

The rain. For many people it means sadness and pain, but not for Draco Malfoy. His thought about the significance of the rain for him and Harry. Harry/Draco (mild-slash)

An one-shot story of true love, undeniable courage and bravery set around the events of September 11, 2001. Just a heartbreaking story about Love and 'Shoulds'.````Rated R for sensitive subject matter. ````Features Snape, Lupin and OC.

Draco is sent to the Mirror of Sys'y'lana for some much-needed therapy. He is forced to confront and analyse his relationships with his father, the Dark Lord and the Boy Who Lived and, ultimately, himself.

A deceptively typical evening in the Potter household at Godric's Hollow.

He had plans for them all, but underestimating one Terry Boot will get you killed. Story in the form of a series of long drabbles.

Sometimes it hurt more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead. - Angel, Passion, BtVS. After meeting over a battlefield, Ginny Weasley reflects on the relationship she had with Pansy Parkinson, and what she can do to make everything better. Another ficlet focussing on an aspect of love--this one being obsession. Warning: female slash!

The war has arrived... what happens when Draco and Hermione are seperated and left to duel on their own?

Hermione remembers key events in her life.

Originally titled 'Promises Of Things Yet To Come,' this drabble glimpses into the childhood of one Tom Marvolo Riddle. [Message conveyed: children are evil and will ultimately cause the fall of society]

Takes place at the end of the fifth book. Neville reflects.

How much equality is possible in a relationship? How far can reciprocity go, particularly between people in different worlds? Bill Weasley and a Muggle during the second war. Slash.

Hermione's first sign of magic.

Harry falls into another reality. One where his parents are alive, his arch-enemy is his best friend, and he is Voldemort's right hand man. Will going to see his parents solve anything and what does Dumbledore have to say about it?

Once upon a time there was a boy who could not live...Sequel of sorts to "The Boy Who Could See." Another story living in the shadow of the Dark Arts with H/D subtext.

Harry has been taken by Draco Malfoy as revenge for killing Voldemort and his father. He wants to keep Potter as a prisoner until he is brainwashed into doing evil. Can Harry take it much longer? Will he realize what is going on? Song-fic to Linkin Park's 'Numb'

Draco Malfoy receives a birthday present unlike any other.

A Dr/Hr songfic. She walks into the realization of her dreadful dreams while he is about to wake into the same nightmare.

There's a tenuous line between insanity and madness; in Azkaban Prison, Sirius Black walks it every day.

Harry's been having bad dreams about a screaming book.

Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, and the streets aren't safe. Especially not for a witch walking alone...

Draco's made a deal with an angel--or is it the devil. With whose blood will he pay for his escape, his exodus? The time to use his dagger has finally come at long last.

Hermione Granger could see Thestrals, now.

Hermione and Ron are minding their own business when they get caught in a mystery involving murder, ghosts, and the most dangerous Muggle alive. Oh yeah, Nayland Smith shows up too.

It is his whole life, this waiting game. Because he knows that if doesn’t, then Draco will slip through his fingers like water, or perhaps even sand, sifting and falling and become wholly unreachable once more. That is far more unthinkable to Harry than this dreadful loneliness that the waiting brings

It's said that Slytherins are the only Dark Wizards around... but what's the real truth? Read the story of a calculating Ravenclaw with a thirst for knowledge--legal or otherwise. One-shot, darkish!

Aiden Wang's past is blank, present is normal and future is blurry. She is stuck living alone and unable to move forward. She loves it, though. So when she is told her life is in danger, Aiden is more than willing to go into denial. She is coaxed into going to a mysterious Hagworts... or is it Hogwarts? What will Aiden find out about herself when she befriends the heroes and the villains?

The Lestranges would do anything for Lord Voldemort. Anything at all. Bellatrix/Rodolphus, disturbing.

Ginny has made a mistake, a bad mistake. She has chosen to spend her life with him... and he has vowed to make it miserable since she shut herself off to him. Will physical abuse truly cut her off from him forever? Read to find out.

Ron is trying to find a way to get over the love he once knew and can he do it with out realizing it? (One shot.)

The war is over, and it has taken a drastic toll on the entire wizarding world. Each person must pay the price in his or her own way.``For Draco, the price is too great.``Can he bear it, or will the cost of the war haunt him... Forever?

When Draco is unhappy with the turn things take after he takes the Dark Mark, he devises a plan to rectify the situation.

Sirius was told to "lay low at Lupin's" and he intends to do just that. But before he does, he has a brief encounter with a young girl who, like him, is without a home.

"I’m not a writer, but for some reason I feel compelled tonight, of all nights, to put my thoughts to paper. When the last of us are gone, when the witnesses have faded into history, those who fought must be remembered. "

Parvati leads an adventurous life seeking out places among the wizarding world long forgotten by time and history. But only one has changed her life, and etched itself into her memory forever.

Frank Longbottom and fellow Auror Alice Belby talk after Frank uses an Unforgivable Curse for the first time.

"At night he sees Him falling, over and over again, even though he wasn’t in the right place to see it at all, on the other side of the towertop, but then Harry has always had a better imagination than he would have liked." Spoilers for HBP.

Molly Weasley has good days and bad days.

Quidditch, girlfriends, meddling inexpertly with the Dark Arts – Lucius Malfoy seems to get stranger by the day. Sixth-year Severus Snape is confronted not only with the changing nature of his social circle, but also with choosing sides.

Part of the 'One Wise Woman' world. Albus Dumbledore can't sleep one night; he must get a bit of assistance from a familiar object to defeat his insomnia.

July 1977 and July 1996 both had blue moons. Written for dogdaysofsummer, prompts of July 1st and 2nd.

When her father is captured by Voldemort, Luna, whose life hasn't been easy, tells Harry the story of her deceased mother. Friendship pairing.

What does it mean to forget? What does it mean to be forgotten? Is oblivion akin to forgiveness? Peter Pettigrew reflects on the irreversibility of one's deeds and the inescapability of life.

Draco Malfoy's finally got what he wants - an induction to the Society. But will a complication on his first mission ruin his chances of rising through the ranks? Or will he ruthlessly erase said complication and continue on his path of death and destruction?

Yes, it's true, Sirius speaks from Beyond The Veil to Remus Lupin. He tells a captivating tale of what he's endured, and what may very well be his fate.

Moonlight and forests. Waking dreams and living grief. ````Short, complex and poetic, this piece looks at the days between the battle of the Ministry and Harry going home.

What would the wand of one of the finest wandmakers be like?