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Trusting isn't always easy, but sometimes it is of vital importance. (Remus/Sirius) Title courtesy of the Mystery Jets' 'Horsedrawn Cart'.

Morfin’s sister didn’t watch him avidly. (Gauntcest)

Hope: n - a person or thing that gives cause for hope. There is always hope. You just have to find it.

A girl reflects on the war against Voldemort and his followers, and the losses they've had to face to reach the other side - and peace. Post-Hogwarts. One-off songfic to 'Happy Christmas (War is Over)'.

The final battle is upon the wizarding world, and many have paid the price of blood for victory over their foes. The perspective of one who has lost another. Mild Boy!Blaise/?

Of Ginny and Tom, by daylight and shadow as she walks. "...but you are the music / while the music lasts..."

Draco ponders his time with Harry Potter and describes what should never have happened.

Gilderoy Lockhart is not guilty… Is he? [one shot] [character death] [language]

A long time ago I wrote 'Cruciatus,' in which Neville is the reason his parents are insane. As new books came out, that story became outdated and AU. So, after someone insinuated that such a story could no longer be written, I wrote Curare. Curare is Latin for "to cure," but it is also the name of a poison.

Luna goes out to catch a Flyneer in the middle of the night. But gets side tracked thinking about her life, her mother and her friends (especially Harry) one-Shot.

"He wonders if it hurts less because it hurts less, or because of nerve damage." - In a world without Sirius, Remus wanders and learns to be human again.

Lady Luck sometimes needs a helping hand. Remus realises that he's lost sight of who he was for a while.

Set in Minerva's, Poppy's, and Rolanda's fifth Hogwarts year, when they spend the winter holidays sick at Hogwarts. Completely AU. Written for Healer Pomfrey's writing contest

She was losing her mind in the empty room, and he had to stand and watch

The Malfoy family tree needs a little pruning.

He’s just part of a bigger scheme. (Draco/Blaise(m))

Harry and Severus finally had the life that both wanted so badly: beautiful children, careers that made them happy, friends and family that loved them dearly. It all came crashing to a halt on one Valentine's Day when Harry woke up in St. Mungo's Hospital not remembering the last eleven and two-thirds years of his life. This will be a year long journey for Harry and Severus through heartache, joy, disappointment, self-reflection, discovery, and realizing that love comes from the heart not the mind.

They say nirvana is the state of peace and tranquility attained by one’s soul. A feat long considered impossible. Yet, one never stops searching for it, and perhaps that’s what gives us hope till the very end. "Nirvana," said Harry. "To many... it would be today." Harry saw Remus sigh dejectedly. "But not for us."

On the eve of their fateful fifth year, Severus and Lily spend a quiet interlude. One-shot.

Sirius comes back from the Veil and Remus is missing, presumed to be dead. For Bring Black Back. Remus/Sirius

When Draco reads the letter that was written to Harry so shortly before his death by the person who needed him most of all, he realises for the first time that something went very wrong. (Warning: slash.)

Remus is 15 and just wants some company during the full moon: this is my take on how James, Sirius, and Peter unveiled their Animagi plan to him. (Written for the Knockturn Alley Fiction Challenge #1: Genfic Missing Moments #12: “James, Peter, and Sirius tell Remus their Animagus plan and/or show him their forms.”)

She caused the death of only two people, although that in itself is miraculous. She distorted the memory of a very decent man. And she was not human. Not sapien. But very, very sentient. Rating for safety.

Six years ago, the last Death Eaters were caught, but not before destroying the world Harry Potter had rebuilt for himself. Six years ago, Harry looked Remus Lupin straight in the eye and said he could not be a father. Six years ago, Harry Potter disappeared from the wizarding world. It's not a question of where he went, but who he left behind.

Now that the war has ended, Severus Snape thinks back over his life and considers the decisions he has made. Angsty one-shot.

Hogsmeade visits are restricted to pupils in their third year, and above. Dennis Creevey managed to get to Hogsmeade as a second year. How?

Ten-year-old Ginny Weasley searches for a pet but finds Neville Longbottom.

Sometimes, we forget how unpleasant it is to be Gilderoy Lockhart. We underestimate him…and we forget how dangerous he can be. But perhaps he’d like us to forget.

"After a while he began to fight the Imperius Curse just as I had done." - Barty Crouch Jr., Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire A father, fighting darker and stronger forces, struggles against an inevitable descent into madness. These are his final moments.

Draco Malfoy committed the ultimate act of selfishness - suicide. Ten years later, Harry still cannot forget about him.

Evan Rosier causes things to happen.

A time to heal. (Snapefic). (H/G).

Five years after the death of Voldemort, Ron, Harry, Hermione and Ginny blaze through their lives trying desperately to distance themselves from their heroic past. Hermione, working directly for the Minister of Magic, stumbles on a new threat. One no one in the ministry can comprehend: A muggle, who calls the nastiest witch of all time, master.

Harry's struggling with depression, and his friends seem unable to help him. Somebody else can, but at what cost?

In the mirrors of Tom Riddle’s mind magic bounces off, myriad reflections merging into each other. Minions of the gods of Possession and Illusion, Magic is dichotomous and Violence, compulsive. Because in the end the thrill is in killing – and in being killed.

The road from addiction to healing is too long to be walked in a single lifetime. Wisdom comes from experience, and she has plenty. When perfection is too far to reach, you have to make do with normality; for her, normality is the only things she's ever dreamed of.

AU fifth year. Harry has an awful day and can't wait for it to be over. Unfortunately, it just keeps repeating itself. Will his tormentor Snape be able to help?

Learn about the other boy in the prophecy; Neville Longbottom. What really happened to Neville's parents? And what is his grandmother really like? Find out the truth about Neville's past!

"He is a degenerate, Muriel. There's nothing else he can be called. He is simply bad news. And it breaks my heart that my old friend should find someone like that in his own family."

A woman attempts to force Lord Voldemort to stop the hostile and senseless killings--a woman who is, and has always been, happily untouched.

A little stream-of-consciousness meditation on Snape's part, on the vexed subject of Sirius Black and the Whomping Willow. What would it feel like, to confront two people who had tried to murder you, in the very place where you had so nearly died - in order to save three children who would despise you for doing so?

One Shot. Takes place during the summer before HBP: Luna Lovegood hatches a plan to help her deal with her feelings of loss. There is just one thing that she needs before she can act on her plan. She needs Harry's invisibility cloak.

She screams and screams for help, and she cries, and holds him, but in the end he is dead. And when she wakes up she cries, because she remembers.

This is a pre-ficlet ficlet. The next one has Colin in it, I swear.````Jessica was inspired by too many nights reading the works of H.P. Lovecraft and "Girl Genius", The brilliant comic by Phil Foglio. No, she isn't cannon, but I absolutely had to write her down.

Harry has a serious problem and has lost everything he once used to love. A single white feather is the last remaining thing he can confide in. Many deep, disconcerting questions constantly nag at his conscious mind - there is no hope left.

Harry begins to receive racy letters form a mysterious sender. A story done in sections of 100 word drabbles. Slash.

[AU] It's Halloween and Hermione pays Harry a visit. But then something happens. Something with a girl. Something with fear.

The date is December 31, 1999, and the time of the Final Battle is drawing near. After a devastating loss, Harry gathers his closest friends for togetherness and remembrance, drawing, as always, the strength that he will need to prevail in the end.

A clever satire on the world we live in today, using ideas from the Harry Potter world as its base.

Fragments from the life of Sirius Black. From seventh year to the Veil.

A Neville story. "Somehow, day to day life was difficult after she’d died. It wasn’t as though he’d relied on her, or had seen her that often, or that she’d been there to wipe up his tears when Uncle Algie did something especially painful." What it feels like to lose a mother, by somebody who knows.

Harry can't handle the joy of Bill and Fleur's Wedding -- he can only see the futility of it all, with the new war upon them. His own parents lost their lives soon after marriage... so what was the point? Until Voldemort was gone, how could there possibly be room for happiness? His parents' memory haunts him, but can their memories cure him as well? (Featuring the POV of Harry, Lily, and James). A mix of angst, humor and love, but all drama.

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down. Such morbid words from an innocuous rhyme seemed quite adequate in his situation. After all, wasn't everyone dying? (Remus centered)

Harry comes back for seventh year along with Hermione and Ron, only to find strange things afoot - unsurprisingly, with Slytherins in the thick of them. What are they up to now, and where have all the Muggleborns' familiars disappeared to?

When seven-year-old Argus Filch still hasn’t showed signs of magic, his father fears the worst. The result is a tangle of bloodlines, rejection, and even mention of the dreaded “s” word – “Squib.” Based on Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby."

Sirius remembers all the first times - memories so tender, so sweet, so miserable, so painful that even a Dementor can't touch them. Slash, would be fluff if it wasn't agony. One-shot.

Sometimes even Santa needs a little help.

James Potter has found himself wandering around Lucius Malfoy's dark manor in an Invisiblity Cloak, spying on Death Eaters and learning Voldemort's plans. It's a bit nerve-wracking. But when he's finally ready to leave, a stupid flutter of cloth gets him captured, alone in the hands Voldemort himself and his inner circle. How will he ever get out with his life?

Draco's life is filled with regret. How could he have been so stupid as to let himself lose her simply for his father's expectations? D/G, Hidden in Plain View songfic ("Belly Full of Kerosene" off of their self-titled EP).

Your time is running out. But what is time exactly? Many say time is an illusion, others don’t take it very seriously. But their, as your time is running out. What can you do about this? You could try running. You would have many reasons to run from time. Age, upcoming nerve-racking events… but it wouldn’t help. Because time is running with you. Time isn’t something you can wave away or hide from. It’s something you have to stand up and face. The seconds are ticking… have you faced it yet? The clock is running… Have you faced it yet? Because if you haven’t, you should soon… for your time is running out.

When the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Harry Potter wants to die. Draco Malfoy wants to help. The question is: With what?

A mother would do anything for her son. Post-HBP, rated PG for angst and oblique references to future violence.

Written from Harry's point of view. He ponders what he is and what it means to have fulfilled his destiny. The hero's dilemma; I've completed my task... now what?

All these years, I have lingered, neither dead nor alive...I have paid for my sins, in tears and regret...If only there was a way to take them back...

Of them all, Sibyll Trelawney was the only one that saw through to the stark truth of the world, which gave her the Insight into the stark truths of the Future. She alone was Wise, possessed of the Powers that Judge, and was profoundly screwed up.

Draco confronts the body of his father and reflects on whether he is yet worthy to be a Malfoy.

Tierney Dearborn comes back to Hogwarts a changed student. He knows that his father is still alive and more importantly is helping him reach his goals of becoming an Auror and to help defeat Tom Riddle. But with his new knowledge come new fears. And one of them appears in his Defence Against The Dark Arts Class.

He left her when he said that he would always be there. What is she to do now that he's gone? He was the only person she could trust, and now she's alone. Will she be able to go on in life? Will there be anything worth living for now that he's gone? Can there be a way for life as she knew it to go on as she knew it, or will it all fall apart?

In his sixth year, on the night of the World Cup, George is separated from Fred and Ginny in the crowds. He meets a stranger in the woods who saves his life and warns him that Harry is in grave danger. Slight AU, since things might not go exactly according to canon.

Her mother had told her stories of ladies in towers, imprisoned there by wicked relations, and rescued by knights. But the visions faded quickly, leaving nothing but the filthy little shack in the woods. And there were no knights in Little Hangleton.

Short ficlet, where we find out why Peter 'Wormtail' Pettigrew really did those nasty nasty things to poor old Lily and James.

"Then I wake and think to myself: how quickly dreams of reason can produce monsters." (Neville fic)

What if---just what if--Voldemort had once been able to love? And what if that love was torn from him just like everything else? Was she just a toy—a memory? Or was she something more? (OC/Voldemort)

Beast, Evil, Dark, Killer, Just another werewolf. Right?

For every end, there is a beginning.

Draco takes Ron for a ride, and Ron doesn't mind.

Remus remembers Sirius, as he was and as he was not.

Hermione had always believed she could stand up for herself. She'd done it often enough as a student in dealing with Harry and Ron. Why couldn't she do it now?

Believing his life forfeit, Draco Malfoy makes a final stand against his father in the wilderness. By his side is an old rival, but she is far more than she seems, and there is far more to the world than he has ever suspected ... Draco POV. OCs, slight AU. One shot. Warning: This fic is far from straightforward. Lots of angry language.

Sirius arrives at James' house after leaving Grimmauld Place.

It's the middle of September, but the Trio isn't at Hogwarts. They're getting ready for their mission. This summer's been a long one, between figuring out Horcruxes, dealing with sleepless nights, and bad memories, and preparing for the new chapter in their lives, Harry, Ron and Hermione haven't had much contact with each other. Hermione thinks it's okay, since there's a lot on their minds, but deep down she'd love it they... well, if they hadn't forgotten...

Following the final battle, Harry struggles with his losses and tries to run from the one person who can help him cope. WARNING: Tear-jerker. Have some tissues on hand.

Draco would do anything to be beautiful again... Draco suffers from tricotillomania (compulsive hair pulling disorder).

Draco must confirm where his loyalties lie with this one last mission. Dean is on a mission to protect the few friends left in his life. Alternating between Draco and Dean's POV, with mild Dean/Luna.

The sky outside was turning steadily darker. There would be no spectacular sunset today, no vivid oranges and burnt reds. No hues of bronze and ribbons of lavender. Only gray. The night will be clouded over. A storm is brewing and a boy will be confronted with a fear he is not sure he can overcome.

Lucius Malfoy takes a moment to ruminate over a rather important milestone in his life late one night in the Slytherin common room.

Natalia and Juliette are best friends. Oh, and identical twin sisters as well. Written as two opposing journals of the Tiernan girls, A House Apart tells the story of how they were separated at the infamous Hogwarts Sorting Ceremony and the chaos that ensued. **A collaboration project**

You've had no input into how this is run, none at all except for the fact that you told everyone not to wear black. When your mother asked why, you were going to say that's how he would have wanted it but then stopped yourself at the absurdity of that statement. He wouldn't have wanted any of this at all. He would have wanted to be here, with you.

At Christmas 1993 both Remus and Luna take comfort in looking for what is hard to find, and just where it’s hardest to find it. (Teacher/student love, but no sexual acts.)

A Malfoy will dictate every phase of his existence, even his own death. (LM/DM, deathfic, and HP/LM/DM undertones)

Remus returns to the ocean - a place he shared with Sirius - to search for comfort.

Based loosely off the 30 Seconds to Mars song. The Dark Lord has won by tricking Harry into a false sense of security and then springing a trap. Hermione escapes to the Americas but is detained in a wizarding mental facility for women where they try to erase emotion and remake the person into a good member of society. Hermione relates the genocides of Britain to others in the past and reveals that maybe the treatment that was originally quite good is maybe not as good as they originally thought. Rated for language.

My name is Kathtera....and I hate the color pink.

"Lucidity and sanity mean nothing when scourges and ministers crowd into your dreams. Does it matter? The beast is no more, but his hawk is his handsaw and his north-north-west madness no longer has a method." [One-shot, AU completely]

While on the hunt for a Horcrux, Harry finds himself trapped by a swarm of Death Eaters. His kidnapper also appears to be his rescuer- and an unlikely ally.

Draco Malfoy was preconditioned for a life of evil, a life drenched in sin. When the final battle between the light and the dark rolls around, will he be able to stand up for what he truly believes in?

Harry is a little bitter about how fate has treated him.

An anonymous soldier reflects on the bloody aftermath of the final battle. Pain, blood, and death. Obsession.