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Two cousins have the misfortune to be placed in opposing houses at Hogwarts. But those houses influence their futures and not all futures are bright. What happens when the new friends they've made and the choices they've made affect their friendship?

A prisoner reflects as the moon rises.

If you've read "Come What May" you're about to find out what happened; if you haven't, you're in for a shock. Harry Potter's happy family wasn't so happy all the time.

The Triwizard judges select the hostages for the second task.

They're both in training to be Aurors, but one has been given so much more than the other. Hermione, Harry and envy.

Something dark for the New Year. Did you ever delve yourself into the irony of chance meetings? [Harry/Draco]

Love is hard to come by, but it's even harder to let go...and sometimes, it's hard to share.

Another Draco Vignette. First person POV from Draco's eyes of the last encounter between him and the Boy-Who-Lived before the final, epic battle. When all friends and allies have been slain, where does one turn for comfort?

It's the things you do that make me and break me into a thousand tiny shards. A Draco piece.

Remus Lupin looks in the mirror and wonders when the life he once knew became the life he now lives, and whether living is still worth the effort. Set just before the events of Prisoner of Azkaban; contains implied (non-explicit) Remus/Sirius.

Tom comes to Ginny in the night.

Harry stared. He couldn’t help it. Of all the things he had expected to see tonight when he, together with Draco Malfoy, suddenly had been propelled into this dark musty room, it sure as hell wasn’t this.

Nobody really thinks about what life would be like after Voldie's downfall, do they? Death, gloom, misty November evenings, nobody to turn to for help... Hermione's got problems, and Pansy's not helping. Driven to the North Tower for solace, Hermione's thoughts take a dark turn... Implied Hermione/Ron

He sets his bag down on the bed and lets himself, for just a minute, feel the most lost he's ever felt in his entire life. -- The summer following the war, Harry learns how to live a normal life.

The choice between Gryffindor and Slytherin didn't come as he sat under the Sorting Hat, nor when he stood, as good as alone, on the tiny island at night. Not for him.

"Brave, clever, and energetic ... not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger." Harry wants to keep Ginny safe, but is he right to ask it?

Alone, in the dark of Azkaban, Lucius tries to grasp a happy memory before his death. A songfic, based on the song "Midnight".

Peter Judas Pettigrew remembers the events which led him to join the Dark Lord, the night he betrayed James as he lives up to his namesakes. Contains slash.

Draco reflects on things. (songfic with Stained's fade.)

Getting a wake-up call from your worst enemy is never very fun, particularly if you were looking for honour instead.

Draco, running for his life, wants it all to stop.

"One who has never been to Azkaban would think that the Dementors are the worst of it. They feed on your happiness and leave you only with despair. Yes, they can contribute to your descent into insanity. Lock a man up and leave him with only himself for company, and the result is a raving maniac." The thoughts of one Sirius Black, while in Azkaban.

Set in Harry's seventh year when he and Malfoy finally become Quidditch captains. Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. Includes build up to the match, and has more twists than you would expect from a simple Quidditch match... but the question is... Who will win?

Draco buys a dark magical item. Will it work or will it backfire? A late night frolic in Hogwarts Castle.

Even great men disagree. Those that are particularly great set up ways for their successors the carry on their disagreements. Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor were men without parallel. From the perspective of Dumbledore.

"The universe comes in threes, but the model isn’t Clothos Atropos and Lachesis. It’s Jesus, God & Judas, and one must be a sacrifice." Wizarding myth, Betrand Russel's Political Ideals, and Tom stealing Minerva's soul in the Chamber. Creation is ownership. AU Minerva/Tom.

He expresses his feelings about her death. It's just so hard to forget. Songfic to Cemetery Drive by My Chemical Romance.

Draco's thoughts about his life and his relationship to Lucius.

After the defeat at the Department of Mysteries, Bellatrix Lestrange's spirit seems broken, and she wastes away unto death. But even as she slips away, Bella's indominable spirit protests that with sufficient will, even Death may be overcome. But now, even as Rodolphus takes a new bride, will Bellatrix return again to him from beyond the grave?

Malfoy's rules are not laws in the world. But they are my laws and I follow them. In this situation I can't do anything else. In this situation I don't want to do anything else. I've got a reason.

Professor Snape reflects on the devastating aftermath of his fears and failures as the new school year following Voldemort's return begins.

I can't have any weaknesses, you're one of them. Femmeslash, selfharm, character death.

It's funny how the end seems like it will never come until you crash headfirst into it. On his last morning at Hogwarts, James struggles with the idea of change in his life and in his friends. Reaching the end of something wonderful is never easy, but sometimes we're deceived about what the end really is.

Four months after the final battle, he's running for his life.

Harry considers what meaning Halloween holds for him.

Post-Ootp. Sirius says goodbye to Remus, one last time...

A reoccurring dream haunts Harry both night and day.

This is the original version of my fic Snow Petals before I changed it. I felt it was too sad at first, but since some reviewers wanted more dialogue, I figured I might as well do this. Notice that not all descriptions and everything is in it.

It is one month since Sirius Black escaped. An Azkaban guard provides some insight as to how Black's escape has affected Azkaban thus far.

Ron has finally had enough of it, and pours out all his feelings, what he really thinks of The-Boy-Who-Lived.

Sequel to "Former Warmth." Every story must have a happy end.

You love someone... and you don’t get loved back...``And you make that deal with hate, if only to get the love you want. But the need to be needed is the strongest after all...

Lily didn't know why or how it started, exactly, but she did know that this horrid ritual had been a part of her life for almost an entire year. [

Remus didn't like hostility, so when Molly started at Arthur in the hospital he did the only thing he could do. He talked to the werewolf. We know that, but what did they say?

Set in the Marauder's second year at Hogwarts. Remus makes a confession, Sirius a shocking realization, and they both find a way to cope with their problems. Mild SB/RL slash.

"It wasn't that Harry Potter didn't love his son...it was just that - well, there was no other way to say it - James' actions made him nervous..." After killing Voldemort, Harry was supposed to have a perfect life with Ginny and their model Gryffindor kids, right? Wrong. Harry's greatest threat isn't Voldemort now - it's his own flesh and blood.

Many improvements have been made to the concealment of the Wizarding World since Voldemort's defeat. But one Muggle witnesses a fight between Aurors and Death Eaters.

An aftermath of what happened in OoTP, almost a year later.

"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." ~Kahlil Gibran

'I had always wished for a boy. I wanted a little Black boy, dark hair and dark eyes, fierce and devoted.' Andromeda Tonks wishes for a boy, so her child will not have to grow up as she did.

Ron's musings about Hermione and how she's completely different than before. But there's a secret soon to be revealed.... A short songfic to Matchbox 20's Disease

The Lamentation of Severus. A poemfic in which Snape predicts the future, and chides Harry for the choices he's made.

This is the third of my one chapter mini-fics. This is a tale of the marauder we know very little about - James Potter. This small fic shows that even in their early childhood, James and Sirius could be counted on for making mischief.

A visit to the Hog's Head leads to the most important decision in Tom Riddle's life.

The long awaited (perhaps too long) sequel to Dear Harry and Dear Draco. Draco's memory continues to haunt him, and Harry decides he must face the returning Draco.

Draco thinks back on his life before ending it: his marriage, his wife's suicide, his position in the Dark Order, and all the things he's lost over the years.

Harry remembers. He has lost almost everything, but at least his best friend is still there for him.

"I am trapped forever. Always watching, but never living." A point-of-view from canon that has never been noticed before. One-shot.

'Not many could keep a game of chess up for a year, let alone seven. And the rest of my life, before the game even began, I was just being prepared for it.' Harry faces off for a final time against the Dark Lord.

Ding Dong Voldemort's dead! But, *gasp* where is Harry? That is sure as heck what Draco wants to know!

It’s after the war and Draco Malfoy feels like escaping into the fog, if only to forget… everything.

A photo in a treasured album. Who is the woman in that photo, and how did she die?

Death prevails in a fatal confrontation between the dark and the light... LJ, Non-Romance, AU, Angsty.

Sex and Pain, Betrayal and Fear, Determination and Hope. ````Sirius Black is a man that knows each consuming emotion better than almost any other. As he reflects back on all the events of his life, he realises that even in a world torn apart, there's still hope to be found.

Kingsley Shacklebolt headed the operation to find Sirius Black. Two years of shadowing the dog star makes it difficult to leave your work behind.

So you're familiar with Quidditch. But that's only if you play by the rules. This is when Street Quidditch comes into play.

"She quietly pulled herself together, so that when Vernon walked in demanding dinner, she could smile, and fix dinner, and chatter away without shattering." A vignette of Petunia after Harry leaves for his first year at Hogwarts.

Reality is only as concrete as one's perception of it. And there are some voids where even blackness cannot exist. Ginny dreams, and Tom reminds her of things she never tried to forget.

On what may be the happiest day of Tom Riddle's life, he visits the grave of one of his victims for a lark. We learn that snakes are always unfailingly polite, that Tom likes to mangle Shakespeare, and that trite similies praising eye-color are not exclusive to fanfiction. Or, perhaps they are.

Beatlemania hit the Marauders hard in the form of the lovely Lily Evans, supreme Beatles worshipper! Remembering a better time when all was well and Lily bored James with Beatles trivia. Just goes to show that you can take the girl out of the Muggle world, but you can't take the Muggle world out of the girl...

Remus Lupin contemplates an old photo and remembers the bad old days. Nobody wants those times back - do they?

Only one thing scared Sirius Black. That thing was death. He was terrified of death. The very thought of it made him crumble inside. It wasn’t only his own death that scared him. Losing his friends chilled his very bones. If he ever lost James, or Remus, or Peter, or Lily, or Harry... he didn’t want to think about it at all. Definite OotP spoliers as well as CoA spoliers. One shot fic with lots of the drama in OotP through Sirius's eyes and an old photograph.

In the books we get a brief look at the character of Fenrir Greyback, but we never get a glimpse into his mind. Maybe, after all, that is a good thing.

AU set after Harry's fifth year. "He knew it was a stupid hope, but he wished, and he hoped, and he hoped to stop hoping all the same."

SLASH. Harry is dead and Draco is in pain, haunted by the memories of him. Angst so thick you can cut it with a knife.

The Marauders thought that nothing would come between them. And they were right, for a time. What happens when one of them can no longer control his thirst for power? The story of what happened that fateful Halloween night and the following day.

Sirius and Severus have a shared history that has a lot more than just rivalry--There's love too. But there's more than just the simple problem of one being a Gryffindor and the other a Slytherin. It's a lifelong story, one that certainly has its shares of ups and downs.

Originally written for the Remus/Sirius fqf, although for some strange reason it hasn't been posted there yet. Response to challenge #6--Remus sacrifices something important to him to bring Sirius back.

"They’ve asked me to speak for you. For you. As if you’re still alive and it’s merely another award celebrating your person. I wish with all my heart that was it. But now a path has formed down the center of mourners, red faces and blood-stained eyes all looking to me, as if I am Moses and have come to save them from this sea of agony. How can I save them if I can’t save myself?" -- Lily Potter's funeral from the eyes of a friend.

Confession of Severus Snape, the Potions Master. We hear about his life, school times and what happened after: his friends and enemies, his love. Post SS/LE.

Life isn't fair. Hermione knows this. Come read the amazing fic about How To Fool Everyone, Even your Friends.

Harry's intuition led him to the cavern where Dumbledore and he ventured before, only to find a choice too hard to make, an utter depression soon to come, and the biggest mistakes of his life.

When Harry Potter has risen too high, it can only take a second for his second to bring him down. The last resort, through an epistle.

A dark look into Sirius Black's mindset during his imprisonment in Azkaban.

Ginny sat in her room. Alone. She wasn’t going to talk to anyone. She couldn’t.````He was gone.

A grieving father, a disfigured Death Eater, the memories of an alienated Ravenclaw schoolgirl, Sirius Black, and the legacy of a festering evil of the long-departed past. In the department of mysteries, the shadows of the Death Eaters are lengthening, and no one can be sure of redemption...

Sirius has escaped many things, but this is one thing he does not; being dead gives one a lot of time to reflect.

Take that, Voldemort, Charlie thought as he viciously stabbed a stray piece of tuna. Charlie receives a note from his father after the events of the Triwizard Tournament, and isn't quite sure how to handle the news. He reacts the only way he knows how... with tuna casserole.

The worst experience of your life could be living with the fear of what is to come. A peek inside Dudley's head during his encounter with the dementor that night in Little Whinging. Violent and sad, not for the impressionable or the squeamish.

For a good period of time I thought it was my fault. From what I’d heard they were perfectly happy and in love, but once they had me…well as far as I was concerned they might as well have been strangers forced into an arranged marriage from what I saw of their love. Sometimes things don't turn out so wonderful.

Avros's Diaries are a sort of framework for the rest of my work, much of which will be post-Hogwarts for the Trio. Avros does not go to Hogwarts, and is somewhat bitter about this, but that doesn't stop her from getting into all sorts of trouble, anyway. ````Almost all of this diary will focus on the "bad guys". The others will come into play later, I swear.

Song fic to 'Walk Away' By Christina Aguilera. Ginny has a problem, one that has sat within her and festered for years, one she wants to get rid of so desperately but can't...

We’re all so invincible until the end. Snape has betrayed every loyalty he’s ever held. Draco has no loyalties.

But looking back on it all now I at least know why he killed me. I wasn’t just a number; I was the one who counted, the one who started everything off. Blaise Zabini looks down upon his last moments on earth from the great beyond. PRE HBP

Break-ups are not easy for everyone, you can be painfully reminded of what you've lost, and some people can't move on. Songfic - Garbage, "Cup of Coffee." HP/DM. Setting: post-Hogwarts.

Harry rushed off in a daze to write to a friend, then realizes that it's not possible. A good friend reaches him and gives unsolicited, yet unexpected solace. Short, sweet, something that came to my head one day. :)

The speaker is too quick for her, she cannot find him. Her eyes dart about the grounds trying to see any figures moving, breathing, speaking... The voice is back. It moves too quickly to be seen, but she knows that it’s there, somebody or something is there. The story of a lost girl, who has nobody to turn to except a voice inside her head and even that is making her hurt herself...

Several wizards and witches sit about Muggle studying, and their musings lead to many diverse topics, including love, friendship, hatred, depression, and envy.

Two people are musing on life after Voldemort was finally defeated and what it cost them. Slight G/D

Written from the perspective of the werewolf who bit Remus, detailing some of his own transformation and his feelings about the attack.