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'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.

'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.

"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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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."

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

Regulus fights to protect many things - his brother, his friends, the children whose innocence is shattered by the war around them. He's admired by some, but he has doubts he'd be the way he is without outside help. Written for the Alternate Universe community on LJ, set in the same AU and after "Watching Your Back".

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.

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

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.

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. :)

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Harry is at his seventh year of Hogwarts. Some weird things begin to occur. There is someone wanting Harry. Follow Harry through his last year as he finds out the revenge of someone of great importance to Hermione!

Sometimes, there is more to people than we can see with the eye. Petunia Dursley is much more than she is made out to be, and she has regrets about never saying good-bye to her sister.

Three years after the war with Lord Voldemort, the wizarding world is on the edge of extinction, teetering slightly over. Ronald Weasley drinks his nights away, finding purpose at the bottom of a bottle, until a silvery-blonde witch enters the pub and gives him new hope. Songfic.

After months of a passionate affair, Draco reveals a secret to Ginny that threatens everything she has ever loved, and turns into a betrayal he didn't expect. An angsty D/G one shot.

A stand alone based on a challenge. All about what secrets would be in wizard attics and what those secrets would be for one of the most ancient pure-blood families.

He felt like if George Weasley could not laugh, tell jokes, and be happy, then maybe no one could.

She was brainwashed to see the light, but learned to see the dark.

Bridge piece for other fics. Harry hopes to find out about his mother's pasts, but the answers he receives only lead to more questions. He finds information from an unlikely source.

COMPLETE. Post-GoF. One-Shot. Sirius gets a new wand as Dumbledore’s old allies answer the call to arms. A missing scene story occurring early in the 4th-5th year summer.

What happened to Remus between his death and his appearance in the Forest to help Harry.

You are my obsession. All you want is to be left alone, yet I will never comply with what you want. You are mine. H/D

The wind now takes the hood off and shakes the cloak of a figure. A figure with silver-blond hair and a sword hanging on his hip. A figure with a reddish scar on his jaw. War is cruel, but you're born in the Night of the Nadir. You're hunted for war crimes, but this won't be the night you'll be arrested.

Never again, she thinks. Not now that he’s dead. H/G angst fic.

Songfic, Whisper by Evanescence. Harry thinks about the past year's events, and what he is expected to do for the wizarding world in the future

They told her it would get better, that the pain would leave her in time. They were lying. Night after night she dreams of him, her heart aches for him. Does he think of her?

A bookish old werewolf and a bookish young Gryffindor girl muse about lost love, fate and James Joyce. Indirect RWHG and RLNT hinting.

Everywhere he went, he knew: if he just turned, everything would be all right.

Hallie is a good house-elf. Hallie works for Professor Dumbledore, and she is a proper house-elf. She cleans the fireplaces and cooks the food and she washes the laundry. Hallie won't let Miss Hermione tell her what to do.

When Lexie Riddle comes to Hogwarts, Voldemort is rising in power. Harry and the Order are the only ones who can stop him, but someone special will stand in the way.

"You sing to me every night that heaven is somewhere over the rainbow. Granddad told me today when I asked him that heaven is after the stars. Everybody tells me that's where my father is and...I miss him. I wish I could be with him. And if that means being a million light years away from earth, then that's how far I want to be." A heart-wrenching songfic about loss, accepting and needing.

Hermione Granger reflects back on the person who helped her to become the woman she is.

Draco's had enough of his father-- he's finally had enough of everything, and he's ready for his sweet release. Rated PG-13 for blood and violence.

Takes place that fateful night when Wormtail betrayed the Potters...

George turns to Fred, but he is already gone.

Written for Ginny Fic-a-thon. Ginny/Tom. ````Ginny thinks back on her time in the chamber and...regrets.

The final battle between the Dark Lord and the Boy Who Lived falls on the night of the full moon, striking fear into the hearts of all present. Who shall win on this bloody night of judgment between good and evil? Honorable Mention in HarryPotterFanfiction.Com's 2007 Writer's Duel.

"I wonder what shade of red the Hell-flames are. I want to see your eyes reflect them. Anyway, red looks good on you, Potter. "

Sirius Black reflects on his life after twelve years in Azkaban. A one shot song fic based on the song "Wasted Years" by Cold.

NEWSFLASH! Allied Soldiers battle feroucioius Nazis on Hogwarts ground, and the magical Wizards come in, fight back, and they all end up fighting one another in the bloodiest battle between mankind and wizards. BUT HOW DID IT HAPPEN? D-Day, June 6, 1944: the Allied invasion of Western Europe. All's going as planned until a giant purple wall sucks in the invading Allied troops and the defensive Nazis. Landing on Hogwarts, the Allies fight their way up to the castle entrance, and discover a hidden world of witches and wizards. Their new discovery baffles them. The discovery of Muggles on Hogwarts ground, however, confuses the Wizards, and are forced to fight back. Thus, the battle of the century breaks out. WHO WILL WIN?

Remus is just a boy and simply wants to understand why people hate him so.````"He wasn’t a perfect boy either; he was rather small, ‘petite’ as he liked to say, so as not to sound like a baby. His hair was a curly brown, and his eyes were grey, very unlike the other children he knew. Instead of playing cruel and repetitive games, he liked to read real books and pick the daisies for his mother, who loved them ever so much. And a grey, drizzling day was his favourite kind of day, as nobody else was ever outside to crowd up the forest where he spent his afternoons."

A muggle-born first-year writes to her family. Short one-shot.

Remus' wildest dream comes true as his world shatters.

Ron discovers the truth about Harry and Draco's relationship.

Lily Potter can't stand being at Godric's Hollow for much longer. So, she runs. Set two days before Hallowe'en 1981.

A speculative history of a certain HP character. With apologies to Paul Harvey.

Where there is departure, something is lost, and everything changes. When Sirius Black left Number 12 Grimmauld Place, nothing was ever the same for the Blacks.

"She took a deep breath, before dipping the quill in the bottle of ink and beginning to write in her tiny, neat hand..." Hermione writes down her feelings about her two best friends the night before the final battle. Angsty one-shot with hints of R/Hr.

A letter from his aunt forces Theodore Nott to choose between easy and right... but the line between them is blurring.

They both had an innate fear that surrounded them, the fear of a life repressed by the outside world. They could both relate in their absolute terror, that deep aching fear of failure, of never reaching the sky. Never touching the extent of the world. Fear is expensive and Draco and Harry both paid enormous prices for their fear.

"I am a spy and a traitor. I am Matahari, the eye of the day." We all know that Voldemort killed Dorcas Meadowes pesonally. But why? And who was she really?

Set in the same universe as "Where We Begin", this is a bit of a departure from my usual stories. It's Penelope-centric and gives an idea of what Remus Lupin might have been doing while he was in hiding from the wizarding world. Also, oddly enough, it's a war-story, and rather Cabaret-esque.

Ginny was always an outcast after her first year. The Chamber of Secrets still haunted her. A shadow always hung over her presence at Hogwarts. And when she graduated, that dark cloud hanging over her grew darker. She made the worst mistake of her life on graduation day. It led her to hurting herself in the worst way possible. Now all she has is the stars above to keep her sanity.

About magical humanoids, and their reluctant lovers. Sirius/Remus, Lucius/Narcissa and Harry/Draco slash.

Don McLean's fabulous song 'American Pie', HP style.

Perhaps you have come to tell me why my son is dead.

You learn a lot of interesting things working at a bar... very short oneshot of Madam Rosmerta's views on You-Know-Who, Harry Potter, and her lot in life.

Severus shares a sad moment with his lover before the end. Very sad, you will need tissues folks.

I push back the fear that always comes with meeting your gaze, push back the fear that you will remember that I am your enemy, the spawn of he who destroyed all that you loved and possessed with one blow. Your wand is no more, your lightning bolt scar faded, glasses no more accentuating your emerald eyes, your heroism, the beacon of light you represent, gone with your trademark. Everything has been taken from you, all is hopeless, the world is lost and has changed, transformed to live without you, and yet here I stand, your only visitor in this asylum, wondering if I dare to touch you and try and change something within you that I am not sure exists anymore: your heart.

A first year, (not any of our regular characters, just a character) gives the account of his first trip to Kings Cross.

Madeline Aborath is a direct descendant of Godric Gryffindor who wants no part in the war against Voldemort. Instead, she is out to obtain what she believes is hers. The Treasures of the Founders. However, will her quest interrupt that of the Trio's?

In another life, Regulus and Sirius are friends as well as brothers, watching each other's backs, and fighting to keep each other alive in a world at war. Written for the Alternate Universe 100 community on LJ.

He wonders why his life is so ironic.

One night will always be remembered in the world of Harry Potter. There was one night that started it all --- a Dark Lord was defeated, a friendship was broken, and a child was left an orphan, yet hailed as a hero at the same time. The night of All Hallow's Eve is recounted once again in this tale.

A dull evening in a gloomy village pub in Sweden is interrupted by a very special girl.

Coralie Roberts is a nineyear old Muggle. She is a witness to the horrific scenes in the camp during the Quidditch World Cup. This is her lost diary. Set during GoF. Oneshot

In your eye lie the dawn and the dusk; Your scents are those of a stormy evening; Your kisses are a philter, your mouth a bottle Who make heroes weak, and children brave. Did you rise from the dark abyss, or fall from the stars? - Charles Baudelaire Daphne Greengrass is standing at the end of a fading bloodline. Theodore Nott has never known anything else than prestige and wealth. Two very different Slytherins cross paths as the Second War begins, and their lives turn to shambles.

Rosmerta works at that pub day in and day out. No one knows the grief that she feels. But you'll soon find out.

Can people who aren't ordinary after a war still have an ordinary day? Hermione is trying to find out.

During his sixth year, Draco Malfoy hears a voice in his head. He doesn't know who is talking to him, nor how to stop them. The voice seems to know everything he does... who is she?