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After seven years the final battle of the Second War comes to Hogwarts... And Hogwarts is ready for it.

A story of Lucius Malfoy\\\'s parents, Mondis and Giulia, from their first meeting to their being parted by death, via a wedding, a talk with Tom, betrayal by Lucius and the fall of Voldemort.

"Only I saw her for what she really was--a freak!" Want to know the story behind Lily Potter and Petunia Dursley's falling-out? Want to know why Petunia hates magic? Want to know why there are no words in Portmeirion? Well, I want to know the answer to that last one, anyway, but you won't find the answer here! However, find out the answer to the first to questions and more in this story...

Five-years-old Andromeda is okay with Bellatrix being older, because there's nothing Bella can do Andromeda can't do just as well. Isn't there?

In the final moments of life, what will happen before death?

Hermione and Ron have another of their famous rows, though maybe he has gone too far this time. She wanders through the school corridors in tears, till she finds an unexpected source of comfort.

Oneiros has crept into the mind of the slumbering for years untold. With him, he brings dreams. To a chosen few, he brings the mixed blessing of prophecy. But are these dreams a gift of the gods... or their punishment?

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.

"Someone once said that man is inherently good, but I think he was a Muggle, so I never gave the sentiment a second thought." Introspective Draco. Non-ship fic. One shot. COMPLETE.

Draco remembers the past, reflects on his life, and decides he wants no more of it.

‘Under a dictatorship, active resistance can only be practised by those who pretend to collaborate with the regime.’ Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976

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

This song fic takes place during the time that Harry and Ron are at odds in book 4. Ron is feeling sulky about Harry being the center of attention, as usual. Song is property of Del Amitri, from the album "Can you do me good?"

"Ginny still thinks about him sometimes – she doesn’t really know why." Ginny Weasley ponders the question of Tom Riddle.

When a new charcater comes to Hogwarts, some things are changed around. Young, smart, and a genius, Artemis Riddle is transferred. Harry, Ron, and Hermione don't expect much, but what they do get is something of a surprise.

The beast inside is something you can't deny. And sometimes... sometimes you don't want to. Draco/Remus.

The Hufflepuff story of what went on the night they stopped looking up to Ernie.

Before she was a mother, mom had her own adventure. Maybe she didn't save the world... but hey, how many of you can say your mom turned somebody into a giant worm?

Songfic to Pink's 'Family Portrait', as Draco Malfoy reminisces and learns to cope with his family. Some implied Draco/Snape. Links with my other fics 'Blame it on the Weatherman' and 'Weird'.

Some things never change, and one of those things is the way that Molly Weasley feels about her children. But some there are some events in the wizarding world that are beyond her control, and sometimes change is inevitable.

Neville Longbottom always seemed an odd choice to be in Gryffindor House. A timid, meek, clumsy boy, Neville always seemed the object of ridicule. A one-shot fic of a tortured mind and its desperate attempts to prove its boldness.

It's five years after Draco Malfoy graduated from Hogwarts, and his relationship with his father, as well as his unexpected feelings for Ginny Weasley, seem to change his mind about Voldemort's cause. WARNING: dark fic, character death. Also a tissue might come in handy...

One morning Pansy wakes up as a man. She doesn't know why or how this happened. It just happened. This fic is about tender feelings, fear and helping each other. But I have to warn you, there's no happy ending.

After everything she had been through - the yearly life-threatening adventures, the battles, the war - she didn’t think it would end this way.

Ginny Weasley was taking a slow stroll around the Hogwarts corridors until she finds herself at a window, peering out. Everyone is enjoying themselves on this beautiful day except for one person.... HP/GW, implied RW/HG, NL/LL, GW/DT.

Funerals and phoenix feathers and resolution. Harry and Remus say goodbye.

Deathfic. She swore to never use the Killing Curse unless her love ever married another...this is the end, and she's put it off long enough. Her love has married and had kids, and still she has hung on...she must give it all up now.

Lucius Malfoy was a Death Eater, had been one since he was a youth of seventeen. During his years as a Death Eater he had enjoyed the thrill of killing people, of seeing red. Torn between faimly, his blood and the desire to kill, Lucius struggles.

Harry's lifeline without an ending, the way Ron used to be, a brief Draco/Hermione romance, what it means to be a lion, and tales of what blood means. All these stories told in a few poems of my own creation...

Lily, Harry's room and the early morning summer breeze.

Ginny is battling against the Dark Lord. She is literally blown away and now must find someone.

Young Regulus Black has been given an important task by the Dark Lord. But it was one that leads him to question if what he has believed to be right really was. (We look deeper into the character mentioned so brieftly in OotP.)

Fred always joked that he and George shared a soul. George never joked; it was too close to the truth.

Peter Pettigrew is dead by his own hand. Remus Lupin shares the news of Wormtail's death with Sirius Black and the Potters, and ponders how he feels about it.

Every night Ginny Weasley is visited by the dark lord in her dreams, every night these encounters get worse and worse until....

Two boys. Two intentions. One aim they never would of thought could be the same. It's the penultimate year in Hogwarts and lots of things are about to change. No slash.

"You stand before the window, gazing outward, ever outward. I cannot know what you see." *Draco/Boy!Blaise of a very mild variety*

We all know (or at least, suppose) how Severus Snape felt about his father being abusive towards his mother. But how does his mother feel about it? Murder-fic. PG-13 for blood.

Draco Malfoy knows exactly how to win someone over, and he also knows who the perfect candidates for Death Eaters are: the weak, and the easily swayed. One of Malfoy's past recruits reminisces about his relationship with the Slytherin and the impact it had on his life and the wizarding world as a whole.

Narcissa does not let her facade crack, because the appearance of disinterest in what others are saying is the only mask left for her.

What has a day in Ginny's life been like since her Fifth year? She sits down one stormy night to reflect on the trying emotions of the past year: from Dumbledore, to Bill's upcoming wedding... and of course, to Harry and the second war with Voldemort.

What if the Whomping Willow could talk? What has it seen? What has it ( intentionally or not) done? What has it had done to it? A poor, mistreated national artifact tells its tale.

Ginny promised herself this was the last time. She always did.

You-Know-Who [not Voldemort] is dying, and reflecting on how much he loves Harry, and that he wishes he could have told him that.

This is from the point of view of Peter and Sirius on the night James and Lily are murdered.

Why does Petunia have such strong odious feelings towards magic and the wizarding world? A question I hope to answer through this collection of memories that begin in Petunia's early childhood.

A terrible childhood experience might just change the look of life for Cho Chang. (Takes place during book 4)

After James and Lily are killed and Sirius narrowly escapes Azkaban, he and Remus take on the job of making Harry’s life with the Dursleys a little less miserable. Written for the Raising Harry Ficathon on Livejournal. Totally AU.

I put it to you - if Draco and Hermione were destined one day to become lovers, their attraction to each other must have had a start somewhere, and this story tells that tale. You will learn how when they were only stubborn ikle first years, Draco and Hermione formed the beginnings of an understanding. Now mind – there is no hand holding or even any words spoken between the two in this tale but you will observe how Hermione’s curiosity crosses paths with Draco’s closely guarded “talent” and how both of them are somehow linked through a small fuzzy, foul-mouthed magical animal. Yes, I know – I didn’t see that coming either.

Horror and mystery abound.

Hermione didn't want to believe in fate. Didn't want to believe everything had all fallen into place, that as humans they were helpless against what had been decided for them. That Harry was helpless against his fate. No, she still wouldn't accept that.

It's been a year since the end of the War of Darkness, and the Rending of the Veil. Relations between the Muggle and Wizarding worlds are just beginning to calm, and slow progress is being made to restore the barrier between the worlds. Magic is at its weakest--and strangest--and a few old heroes are back to restore the balance.

The eve of the final battle, Hermione reminisces over all the people who have been lost so far.

It is seventh year and another battle has been fought between the light and the dark.... Who are victors and who are losers?

AU/Quarte universe. Everyone goes off to the final battle between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix... but what happens if the Order loses?

“Don’t do this, Harry!” Hermione would plead, words falling into the well-worn track. She knew as well as he did what was coming next, like a gambit in wizard chess. Two more moves to checkmate.

What happens when two people suddenly find each other in the midst of a whirlwind of chaos? The answer is Serendipity. Don't always believe what is right in front of your eyes.

Because of him, Sirius had died… Or had he? What exactly does the veil do? However, he most certainly would never see Sirius again, and Harry wasn’t about to let anything like that happen again.

"You know how you feel when you fly? Like everything in the world is right? And I know that you know pretty well what it feels like to be in the presence of a dementor. Well, Potter, imagine going from one extreme to the other randomly, never knowing if tomorrow you will wake up on cloud nine or more depressed than you have ever felt in your entire life." Severus Snape is so misunderstood, but if people only took the time to listen, they could see the man behind the madness.

Forever he painted his world in shades of grey, that color even more bleak and haunting that the sound of his beautiful, horrible music. Forever this grey surrounded him, so wretched, so despairing, and yet so wholly, horrifyingly, breathtakingly him. Draco was grey, in every sense of the word, from his mood, to his physicality, deep in his soul. The color could not be uprooted, so deeply was it entrenched in the muddy soil of his past life, thriving in the darkness that had, and maybe still now, consumed him, and growing to be a creeper so large and thorny that he was caged inside of it, perhaps inescapably.

At the final battle, a grief-stricken Snape looks back over his relationship with Lucius Malfoy.

We all have an element that we are most at home with. Even to the day of our final rest.

Everyone has skeletons in their closet, and perhaps Professor Snape has a few more then most people. This is the story of Severus Snape and the past that haunts him.

After Ron and Hermione are captured by Death Eaters, Snape has to make some important decisions about the costs of war.

It was hard to imagine a time and place where Hogwarts did not exist. Disarray was sweeping Britain. Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, and Slytherin were determined to stop the horrors that were beginning to ensue.

Cedric Diggory's greatest desire is to be loved by his father.

Faolan Brone wants the same thing as any other five-year-old boy: a real home with a real family. There's only one small problem.

A murder he committed scarred his daughter, and now she's slowly drifting away from him. What is to happen of his family? Sonfic to "Hold On" by Limp Bizkit.

A traitor reflects on his choices and actions after the final battle at Hogwarts.

Percy Weasley is doing what he must to protect what is left of his family, even if it means betraying Harry Potter

An eerie, nagging feeling comes to light as her day progresses.

It's the seventh year at Hogwarts. Several students are missing, but there are others that will pick up the slack. Particularly in Slytherin.

Remus and Sirius spend one last night together. R/S slash.

Tears, he was told, were signs of weakness. And that was not the path they wanted for him... Yet they never did know what path he wanted for himself. And finally now, they would learn about, from his letter to "no one in particular"

The Dark Lord has a rendezvous to meet... With whom?

It was finally here. The Second War. The fight between good and evil. Harry thought he had been prepared for this, but the echoing words of his prophecy filled his mind. ...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... He let out an involuntary shudder, his heart beating in the back of his throat. Pre-HBP.

A random dark fic where Voldemort talks to an unwilling follower. It's just a very dark fic in general, no specific subject really.

Her biggest fear is knowing that she wouldn't change a single thing. *femslash*

Lucius has been planning his Ministry take over for years. His plans never fail.

One night Tonks finds herself in a strange place and she's not alone.

After her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Ginny Weasley is plagued by nightmares.

Sirius is acting strangely and Remus tries to pretend it isn't happening... until events force him to confront what's going on. Remus/Sirius.

Hermione is noticing that Harry slouches as he works on his Potions, and she watches. I guess it's another in my series of dark monologues.

Just a little songfic to Evanescence's song "Haunted." Harry reflects on the day after The Last Battle.

In frightening war times, when you’re longing for comfort, you would never believe where you would find it... This is a story about a woman who decides that she has got to live carpe diem, even in war times! It’s a quite unexpected pairing ;-)

Hermione's been broken, and Ernie can't fix her.

Harry saves Sev's life, but when Minerva asks Severus to postpone the Quidditch match for Harry's sake, it causes the two colleagues to put up a fight in front of the whole school. Who can bring them to reason, and who saves them from Poppy? Completely AU.

The war is finally over, but at a terrible cost. Can Ginny Wealey do something about one of it's victims?

Every head in the Slytherin common room turned when they heard the tell-tale crack of knuckle against bone. Draco stood before the entrance portal that led to the hall, a bloody fist clenched, arm shaking as he stared down at Blaise Zabini. The boy was on the floor, trying to hold back the blood dripping from his nose.

A night that comes and passes every year is back again, at a time when age has stolen them away. The past plays a part as time ticks.``"She seated herself between them, the fabric of each of their tight-fitting clothes touching. She gripped Ron's elbow and kissed Harry's cheek, as the quiet bells of the old Grandfather clock struck and the Witching Hour ticked into place."

"Nobody else did this penance to the dead. It was the price he paid for living still. " Long after the war is over Harry still remembers them.

"Don't throw up," said exactly the last voice she wanted to hear. "There isn't any water for you to drink and you'll wreck my shoes."

Ron brought her orange juice.

The burden of keeping Harry going falls to Ron... but how much must he sacrifice for his best friend?

Exams are over, but school isn't out yet. The Marauders decide to take adavantage of the free time and make this day one to remember

"I really hated you, Granger," he guzzled after many moments, "but I’m glad you’re here." Everyone's lost in the Dark war.

Snowflakes land against his cheeks and melt there. He can feel them in his eyelashes and against his mouth like tears. Harry lies very still and hopes for nothing at all.

Most people have heard of the man in the moon. Many have wished for him to help them in their times of trouble. Few know of his pet, a calico cat that only shows herself once every fifteen years, just before a full moon. She has the true power to grant wishes. As the saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it." Harry's last week with his parents.

"It was the first day of the summer holidays and Draco Malfoy sat in his room staring into his mirror." When Draco returns home after OotP he finds he has to make a choice and finally grow up.

Remus Lupin was suspected of giving information to Voldemort by his best friends. He disappeared for days at a time with no explanation. Perhaps he just needed to get away from it all… People do crazy things… when they’re in love. A Songfic to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Modern Romance."