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There is a motive behind every action, no matter how big or small. What was Peter Pettigrew's the night he betrayed the Potters?

A chance encounter leads to an unexpected offer. This is a crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

A boy should never have to pay for his father's mistakes. When a five-year-old Remus refuses to come in for a bath, he gets more than he bargained for....

Alicia's going through some tough times, but who will stop her when she decides to end it all? Mild George/Alicia. Rated for suicide themes.

I look into the mirror, and I don't recognise the girl staring back at me. It seems to me that I am much older than my birthdays tell me, and I most certainly look it. I can look at other girls my age, and see no reflection of myself in them. I've seen too much. (Hermione, post-war)

Rosalie Edwards thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband and three beautiful daughters, but her husband's secret past is going to turn their entire world upside down. **Written in response to NevilleFan's "The I Heart Muggles" Challenge on HPFF**

Am I really a hero? That's what they tell me. They say I'm a hero, a savior, but I'm not. I am survivor. I'll tell you who the real heroes are, because they aren't here anymore. They are the heroes.

"To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die." ~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground (st. 6).

Tonks arrives at Grimmauld Place with a full heart... and leaves with a broken one. Angsty R/T oneshot. [HBP spoilers]

Short Narcissa suicide. "Perhaps this place was only in her mind. But what was the difference? She was here and she would never leave..."

Remus John Lupin is a four year old wizard who is like most other boys his age until he ventures into the forest where a bloodthirsty werewolf awaits him and his cousin ...

When it comes time for Kalli to face her parents, Harry gets caught in the crossfire. Can Kalli save him without losing herself in the process?

December 1979 has defeated Remus to the point of taking up quarters at Sirius's, whom he can't expect back from an Order mission yet.

"He had always been able to feel the eyes on him somewhere between his shoulderblades, like a hot coal under his skin. People watched Harry as though they’d never seen him before, like he was some strange, unknown creature that might vanish if they so much as blinked, like a vapour trembling in the midday sun. If he thinks about it, Harry can tell you how many people are watching him at any one moment, how many eyes are trickling down his back and fingering idly through the locks of his hair and across his weather-tanned flesh, and he’ll be nearly right nine times out of ten."

Is anybody out there?/Does anybody see?/ That when the lights are/Off something’s killing me? Fire and Ice...depending on each other? Songfic to Ashlee Simpson's Catch Me When I Fall

Tom Riddle has cast one final curse, sending a fallen warrior into an ultimate darkness. Only through a mythic journey of redemption will he be freed. This is a REVISED version of a story originally posted on other sites about a year ago.

The song of a witch in the wake of Harry Potter's death. A parody of Don McLean's American Pie

"Who's this, then?" Marvolo leered at Amycus, and the other, younger man next to him giggled. It was a funny kind of giggle, but what was even funnier was that the giggling man's eyes were pointing in two different directions. Amycus found this fascinating, until it seemed that one of the eyes was fixed on him; then he looked at the table again. -- A young Amycus Carrow meets Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt. Runner-up in FictionAlley's Lusty Month of May Challenge.

Draco needs this moment to say goodbye to Harry. Will he find freedom in release? H/D, death-fic.

I'm lost. Traveling in a world of chaos and darkness. There's a light out there. I can see it, but it's so distant. I can't get close to it; no matter how hard I try. I'm lost, Moony, find me.

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity and his friends Justin Finch-Fletchley and Trevor Entwhistle visits the city of Fez. There, due to a mistake, he finds a vial the contents of which are not what is written on the label...

Hermione wakes up in a world of her own imagination, and realises that she is trapped in a horrible place of her own making.

This is the sequel to Behind Blind Eyes, so it's probably a lot like it. Anyway, it's Ginny's story, and it would probably be a good idea to read Behind Blind Eyes first. Ginny hadn't seen him since the funeral. She hadn't even said good bye. But she hadn't moved on. She hadn't forgotten. But now he was almost gone, and she was the only one who could save him.

Lupercania 1978. MWPP. In which two seventh-years perform a werewolf ritual.

"Are you awake?" the brunette whispered towards the lanky form in the cot. The boy rolled over and looked at her with a twinkle in his eyes. "No, I'm just pretending." He grinned, running a hand through his black hair as he sat up fully.

Hermione muses on Neville's similarities to Clark Kent.

Cressida is a shy fourth grade loner. She has just gotten into her first ever fight, verbal or physical. However, it is just the first step down a path to new friends, who drink Firewhisky behind the Herbology greenhouses and sneak in Dragon Puff Cigarettes. But, perhaps best of all, they get sweet revenge.

Teddy and Cedric make a vow to reform the Centaur Liaison Office, but the price may be more than they can bear.

Sirius Black's thoughts when in Azkaban.

Can one person and fate make the difference in Severus' life?

Hogwarts in war. Harry in forward motion. Draco on repeat.

Barty Crouch's thoughts on his father and Voldemort.

In a slightly different Universe, what is Draco Malfoy's life like ahortly after the Final Battle? (AU, if you can't take a hint)

Deep within Voldemort's Stronghold is Ellie Voss, who is she? In an act of desperation Harry Potter makes a daring move and takes his chances in the worst of places.

Train: a connected line of railroad cars with or without a locomotive (from Websters). Harry and Draco are in search of something they've lost, and they make their journeys by train. [warning: rape, non-con]

Albus returns victorious from facing Grindelwald, but the other wizard's words still haunt him. Written for Grey Mist's challenge in the Genficathon: Dumbledore confronts a Boggart, set prior to the start of the series.

Illusions make your days pass in an oblivion... Femmeslash warning!

Draco finds himself in the middle of a grey, barren land, his only company are several horrifying dead bodies. He trudges along, finally taking a rest on a stump. After pondering his whereabouts, a sweet and gentle voice sweeps through his ears... "Come back to me..." Abandoning his resting place, and his wand, he sets forth after the voice, only to discover that it belongs to the one he hates most. But as he wraps his arms around her, he questions himself. Does he really hate her? About to discover his true feelings for her, his life is cut short by a venomous voice.... A Dramione Fic

Find out what happens when the students of Hogwarts put on a theatrical production at the school! Who will get cast? What will happen to those that are superstitious of the curse?

Post OotP, Sirius is dead and the inhabitants of Grimmauld Place each have their own ways of dealing with their loss.

The war is over, but the aftermath is just as bleak.

Slughorn deals with one of his most brilliant students. This is a series of drabbles inspired by some truly excellent writers. There are Half-Blood Prince spoilers. *Very* mild squick. You have been warned.

Headmaster Dumbledore fears the Potions Master's ability to draw conclusions (CoS missing moment with events of DH in mind).

Little Neville Longbottom sees his parents for the first time since they were tortured to insanity.

What was going through Lily Potter's head when she died? What happened to her after she died? This is a story of Lily Potter's thoughts during, and after her death. Slight JPLE. One-shot. Lily's POV. Thanks to my beta, Eddie.

Set Pre-POA, no spoilers for HBP. A chocolate frog card sends Remus into a memory of the time of the first war, reflecting on the things we keep (and those we don't), friends lost (to death and otherwise), and Shakespeare.

Hermione helps a young girl at Hogwarts deal with her homesickness. (Set during OotP)

Peter's naive view of the world leads to trouble when he betrays the people he loves. Lucius shows him the price he must pay for his actions.

“I’m also a survivor, and that’s because of Blaise. The stupid git had saved my life…” After war, sometimes there’s nothing left except the people you never expected to be there in the first place. RWxBZ

Too much blood covered the streets. Everywhere she looked there was blood. Blood was dried up on the streets, on the dry grass, on her clothes, even on the skin of her body. Too much pain inflicted on everyone’s hearts. She could hear no laughs anymore. Who would laugh when destruction was everywhere? No one dared to laugh anyway. They didn’t want to be found. Too many bodies lying dead on the ground. Everyone was dead. She saw only the weak shells of people desperately trying to live.

Draco reflects his past during the final battle, and regrets the mistake he made in his decision between the Dark and the Light. Character death, HBP spoiler, DM/HG.

We hide behind these masks of our own making, all the while yearning to see just a glimpse of each other's faces.

Colin keeps trying to hold his world in a photograph.

Remus Lupin is alone without Sirius. A dark, pain riddled fic. Rated for self-mutilation. Mild slash. (nothing active)

Draco begins to see that working for Voldemort is draining all of his feelings from him, leaving him cold and emotionless, but he can only think of one way to remedy the situation.

A week after the Battle of Hogwarts, the Harry Potter confronts Draco on an abandoned Quidditch pitch. Potter is always one of the Good Guys. Always the same.

When Oliver Wood's daughter, Olivia, goes to Hogwarts, he wants her to play Quidditch. But does she want to? Olivia makes new friends and has to make her own choices too. But what will Dad say?

Salt is the perfect chemical. It has a pure formula as do all known compounds, and beyond that, it has an extraordinary shape. The individual salt molecule is an exact cube; flawless dimensions, precise 90° angles all around. Er... interesting take on Harry and Draco's relationship. H/D slash.

After years of avoiding this confrontation, Snape comes face to face with the one person he does not wish to look at -- himself. A look at just what Severus thinks of himself and his life, past and present.

Ron's POV again. Takes place just a few hours after "Coming Home to You." After the final battle, Harry finally gets to see Draco again. This is the final story, the end. Story 4 of the series.

Hermione attends Hogwarts Reopening Ball after leaving the Wizarding World twenty-five years earlier. Perhaps she would be happy if a voice from the past hadn't filled her in on what she had missed in her absence.

When Peter Pettigrew "died," where did Sirius go before his arrest? Did Remus really believe that Sirius had betrayed his best friend and murdered another close companion? Could Remus still trust Sirius against overwhelming evidence?

They say a hero dies fighting. Most of the time. Sometimes things don't happen the way they ought to. One-shot ficlet in honor of Sirius. (Yes, I know it's about a book late.) No redeeming humor.

In this short story, Voldemort's war has taken a costly toll on poor Harry. This fiction piece is set five years after Harry's seventh year. Sometimes everything isn't what it appears.

When an Auror approaches Harry and Neville and shows them a way out of a perilous situation at the end of the war with Voldemort, they accept his help with some trepidation. It is their refusal to accept his "job" offer that sets this story in motion. The story is split into two "parts", one featuring Harry and Neville and the other focussing on Hermione, Ron and Ginny. This story can be seen as three separate love stories that are intertwined and held together by mystery and suspense. While Harry and Neville deal with their new "job", Ron and Hermione have to learn to live and love in a strange new post war world. There is swearing and some violence. Very little sexual content.

As his son prepares to become a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy reflects upon Draco's life.

Songfic to Death Cab for Cuties "Tiny Vessels". Draco's reflection on his relationship with Hermione. Slightly angsty.

A little bit AU. Drunk!Sirius is an utter asshole and enjoys hurting poor Remus.

Professor Blaise Zabini investigates the disappearance of a man who is thought to be seized by a Lethifold...

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, meets a relative and captures a criminal...

Ginny performs a final service for a beloved friend. D/G. [Initiateverse one-shot]

All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

She has one light in a world gone dark. Alastor Moody/Penelope Clearwater

She has nightmares about a dead soul welcoming her home. A blank canvas on her wall holds the secret to a Death Eater's life. Hidden away at 12 Grimmauld Place over the summer, Hermione learns that those who walk its halls never really leave.

'In all this, there is someone who is needed to capture the birds used to deliver these messages. Someone who can fly fast enough to catch up with the speedy owls, who is willing to risk freezing to death on a broomstick, just waiting for an incoming message. There is someone needed to pass messages between the Wizarding front and the Muggles, from base to all other camps. The members of the Sky Watch.' On the eve of a new war, Hooch recalls her role in the defeat of Grindelwald... and the price she had to pay.

Murderer. That word rings through my ears. Murderer. Murderer. Murderer. He killed people, so he was a murderer.

The Second War is over and everyone is rejoicing, right? Wrong, because somewhere out there, there is a boy, whose spirit was crushed by this terrible war. Who is this boy, and why is he so broken? D/H

This a story about two sisters, about how and why they are who they are. But mostly, it's just about the forgotten one.

Super short, POA missing scene, one shot. Dumbledore and Sirius in the North Tower when Dumbledore discovers the truth about the Fidelius Charm; sort of a companion piece to "Last of the Blacks". Sirius seems to be a thing with me recently.

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." (George Bernard Shaw). Ginny revisits some old haunts and finds lurking ghosts, disturbing mysteries and twisted truths. She can't escape it twice. Dark Angel crossover.

Harry struggles to come to terms with his past, present, and future moments after the downfall of the Dark Lord. (Songfic.)

Rated R for language. Basically, what happens when Snape's cover is blown in a room full of his fellow Death Eaters... exciting! Takes place before the start of "Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House."

Remus is bitten by a werewolf while he is at Camp Green Lake. Will anybody believe him? (Not compatible with HBP.)

Ever wonder what made Dumbledore really trust Snape? For Snape, the decision was simple and easy, and it involved Sirius Black.

It was the man closest to him that would become his downfall. Betrayed with a kiss.

As the smoke settled after the final battle, Hermione began to count.

Even now, years after Tom is gone, Ginny feels him everywhere.

Shadow. His shadow. It fell over her like a funeral veil. The one that would inevitably enshroud her. Tears of pain poured from her eyes as she struggled to move. About three feet away lay Lucius. His body lay stiff. Stiff for all eternity. Draco’s eyes burned with a searing hatred as he dropped his wand.

After two years of a dead marriage, Ginny is leaving Harry, wondering how things got so bad. Another songfic -- this time to Evanescence's Missing.

Today the clouds are gray. Silly, silly little Mudblood..."How many of the twenty-six did you kill?" Sticks and stones, Malfoy. This is the story. [Oneshot]

Harry conveys a message to Snape in Umbridge's office. This story tracks various Order members (mostly Snape) from the time he leaves Umbridge's office until after Dumbledore has filled him in on what happened in the Department of Mysteries.

Harry has failed the Prophecy and Voldemort reigns over the Wizarding World. Colin Creevey holds the entire fate of Wizardkind in his hands... and camera?

The rain evokes memories from long past, and the very nature of love is called into question. If love is happy, perfect, and sweet, then how can his heart hurt so much?

15-year-old Muggle Roxette Summerson lives in a Children’s Home. However when a mysterious stranger introduces her to the magical world and an enigmatic character named Voldemort, Roxette knows she is about to kiss goodbye to her peaceful life. For some strange reason Voldemort makes this ordinary, boring Muggle girl his personal assassin and Roxette is given her first target: Harry Potter. But Harry Potter is in hiding and Roxette finds herself looking for someone who doesn’t want to be found. But she’s not alone. Roxette befriends a pair of teenagers from another world – Elyon and Cadia – and then there are those two mysterious boys who seem to be helping them. And throughout all this, Roxette is discovering powers she never knew she had.

When Sirius runs away from home, Regulus is left behind with his thoughts and his memories. Includes flashbacks. Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge.

Demons. The inner kind, not the kind that you can exorcise quickly, but the kind that haunt you, paralyze you, pull you into a different world. Ginny talks about her inner demons.

Loyalty to oneself above all.

A day in Harry's life goes all wrong, but all he want is to be like everyone else...