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

[One-Shot] The silent wind ruffled his hair... Harry Potter is visiting his parents' graves. Some things are better if they won't stay inside the heart...PostHBP

Life is a series of choices. Severus Snape’s choices have been more difficult than those most people are faced with. Step into his mind and see what he was thinking when he made his most important choices.

Neville is dismayed to receive a toad as his animal. But he learns that he got a whole lot more, as well. Written for a Hogsmeade weekend contest in Hogwarts_Elite on LiveJournal.

Merope’s agony over the loss of her husband is tempered only by her unborn child. Songfic to Les Miserables I Dreamed a Dream. One-shot.

She had made herself numb, oblivious to the world surrounding her. She had stopped trying to be courageous and strong, and had become impassive and unresponsive to their sadistic pleasures. And suddenly, she didn't really feel like doing that anymore. There was no reason she should forget that past life, with those that she had loved. Suddenly she wanted resolution. She wanted answers. She wanted her life back. Songfic Lacuna Coil "Senzafine"

The last minutes in the life of Emmeline Vance.

I never really understood why people wrote in dairies. I still don't and I write in one. I named mine White Lilies. I can't explain now though, I think Petunia's about to blow. Five, Four, Three, Two .... "What do you mean Lily has a friend from school coming over! I don't want any more Freaks in this house then we already do! Make them leave!" My sister, everyone. Boy, this is going to be one long day.

Sirius and Remus visit Panera Bread one crisp afternoon for a little nourishment.

She was trapped in that house, the walls suffocating her. But it hadn’t always been like that; there was a time when she was happy there. Yet that time is gone, but can she justify – even to herself, if to no one else – performing the greatest of crimes? Can she justify betrayal?

Inspector McGill of K Division doesn't believe in magic. But then, he meets lovely Bellatrix. A follow-up of sorts to "Hermione Granger and the Talons of Fu Manchu" but can be read as a stand-alone.

When Lily Potter is in isolation under the Fidelius Charm, her thoughts wander.

Her names is written in those stars, as strongly as it was stitched into their family tapestry all those years ago, and he thinks sometimes, that there is something inescapable in this, that it has all been set in stone long before he even existed.

Remus and Sirius are reunited, but things will never be the same again. Sirius is forced to return to Grimmauld Place, and Remus comes with him for support.

"Or did you get lost in Amsterdam?" Sirius ran away to Amsterdam after having his soul shattered. Now all James hears are second hand stories through Remus and the letters Sirius sends him. Sirius recieves a shock . . . and then the others do as well. As Sirius puts it, "La dee f-cking dah."

This is a short but personal letter from Luna to her dead mother. It shows some of her thoughts on the events that have happened over the last few years in Hogwarts.

12th August, 2004: Draco and Astoria expect their first child. Lucius visits to set things right.

Hermione remembers her fourth year at Hogwarts.

Draco Malfoy has befriended, fallen in love with and married Ginny Weasley, but is she really the person that he thought she was?

Not everyone is returning to Hogwarts. But those who do must rely on a new Headmistress, a new DADA Professor, and new and unproven Head Boy, Head Girl, and Prefects. Though Neville returns, he is about to undergo his own journey of self-discovery while at Hogwarts. Crossover with 3x3 Eyes.

What is the nature of the magical world's war and its players? Underneath it all, we're all the same.

What if the petrified wards in the Hospital Wing in Second Year could feel and think throughout their time spent there? Please R&R!

It's the first full moon after the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Sirius is lying low at Remus'.

Draco Malfoy is different to any boy Autumn Hopkins has ever gone out with. Being with him makes Autumn forget everything else - her missing sister, her dad's fifth marriage. What happens when being with Draco becomes harder than being without him?

A certain entity's thoughts about those within Hogwarts. . .

Harry and Gabriella's child was hidden to protect her during the second war. But when the war ended, there was no little girl to be found. Years later Abygale Clara (Abby) starts as a first year at Hogwarts, and when Harry is a surprise guest in DADA class, their eyes meet, and Abby begins to learn about her past...

Some lines need to be overstepped so we can move forward. (Remus/Ron)

'Parvati shouldn't be the one to wonder so much. She is the Gryffindor, after all. It ought to be Padma who spent her time thinking, wondering and searching knowledge. But Padma never seems to take time to wonder; she wants knowledge and she gains it.' Padma, Parvati and growing up. (Lavender/Parvati)

Blaize Zabini tells his tale of bringing together the Houses of Hogwarts, the redheaded girl who helped him, and explains the truth behind his House. Now AU, written pre-HBP.

Ginny sets out to prove to Harry that she can do anything as well as any boy... but her plan backfires and not only does she risk losing her own life, but Harry's too. Based on the album, Overcome, by Alexandra Burke. Includes the tracks Broken Heels and You Broke My Heart.

Theirs was an illicit romance, he an auror-in-training, and she a Death Eater, but passion had gripped them both, and nothing could be done. Zacharias Smith/Daphne Greengrass Songfic to Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls.

Cho remembers a past love as she prepares for her binding.

A pregnant, defeated Merope finds herself struggling on the streets. She sells her most prized possession in an attempt to make money for food and shelter. She reflects on the abuse and hardships she has had to endure and hopes to come to terms with where her life has ended up, all while trying to stay healthy for her unborn child.

A young werewolf stumbles into a world where the elves are part-wolf and the planet has two moons. A one-shot cross-over of Harry Potter and ElfQuest.

Peter believes that his best friend knows everything about him, even his darkest secrets. Some Peter/James

Remus weeps for all he's lost – both the people and the feelings, the memories from happier times.

'Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus' NOT COMPLIANT WITH ALL EVENTS IN HBP As Harry continues the Horcrux Hunt to render Voldemort mortal once more Draco must unravel mysteries and relive myths in order to unite Hogwarts. However with his father's blood on Harry Potter's hands, with whom he must work, will he be able to overcome his pain and fury and continue on his epic journey until the very end? 'Some things which became lost should not have been forgotten'

My life has been one that has always been concerned with death. I know not why you wish to learn of it, but I hope you escape the fate that was dealt to me. Enter my domain, if you wish to enlighten yourself with my story.

A self-reflection of Ginny, during that time when Harry was off hunting Horcruxes and she was at Hogwarts. A rather short one-shot. Told in the first person.

Remus Lupin has been waiting all his life. This is a different look at Remus' years after he starts Hogwarts, and his relationship with Sirius Black.

Draco learns the forest can hold many surprises. Based very loosely upon "As You Like It."

I will always be there for him.

Hannah Abbott's mother is dead, and her family isn't coping. What can you do when the person you loved the most is dead, there's a war coming up, and your older brother is being a total arse about it? Even more important, what can you do when your dad doesn't want you to go back to the place you know you belong? Sometimes, you have to be loyal to yourself, and Hannah is about to figure things out the hard way.

After his death, Voldemort must confront the truths he has always denied...

Set eight years after Memories. What new memories does Freya have? What effect are her remembrances having on her life? What about William and Michael? And him?

It’s the calm before the storm, and Hermione watches Harry. One-shot. Gen.

Harry and Hermione meet in an unusual place.

They say your life flashes before your eyes at the moment of your death. Sirius sees his by falls of light and shadow.

In his eyes, Melinda was like an angel to who he would be glad to tear wings; she was like snow, so white that the impulse to dirty her was unstoppable; she was like the apple on the highest branch, the one to receive more than the others the sunlight and the sweeter to eat. She was like Eva, who naively tempted Adam and doomed both to sin.

When Sirius goes to see Peter, his friend is gone. He goes to James and Lily's but they are dead. These are the beginnings of Sirius' troubles.

An anonymous soldier reflects on the bloody aftermath of the final battle. Hatred, tears, and anger. Obsession. Companion piece to Despair.

"I'll free you." Never had such an untrue statement been spoken aloud. It was almost laughable. (A Dementor's Story.)

A take on what was going on inside Peter's head right before he escaped the first time round and left his old friends behind. (Oneshot)

Sirius Black is already in Azkaban, though that doesn't keep him from reminiscing. He's resigned himself to remembering the worst, but one day, something extraordinary happens.

What do any of us want but a second chance, an opportunity to say no to that offer, to turn a different way? For one who's never believed in his own depravity, his own sadistic cruelty, Azkaban will humble him in the most cruel of fashions. PG13 for language, angst, character death and slight SS/LM slash written/implied

He watched. Four seasons come and gone and still he watched. Now he knows what he needs to accomplish his mission. An ambitious young officer tries to better the world with one unforgivable curse.

Cornelius Fudge is the embodiment of dignity. In his painful fall from grace, Cornelius has a cruel realization - he needs patience, someone to listen to him. He finds it not in his wife or daughter, but in a silent voice of reason.

My name is Samuel Hallmanson. My cousin was Cedric Diggory. One shot. Mention of death.

When Harry looks into his eyes they are just like always, but there is something missing. He is reminded of a dream, but can't remember what it was, and quickly looks away.

Songfic set to the song "Beautiful" by The Dreaming. Draco and Ginny attempt to pick up the pieces of a former life...

A one-shot looking at the way the Wizarding World celebrates the anniversary of the war. Just a little glimpse into the future. (Not epilogue compliant)

Minerva McGonagall recalls how the doubt first began in Harry Potter's first end of the year feast. It seems strange that Albus' words brought forth the memories that caused her to wonder: how could Sirius Black betray Lily and James? What if he didn't...

Fighting a war can leave scars, and you can't always hide them. For one young woman, the scars from the Battle of Hogwarts will be with her forever.

Firenze contemplates humans and his role in the second war.

Ron feels like he's drowning in Real Life, but a conversation with a strange old woman gives him hope for the future, before conjuring more questions about the present.

When Harry and Draco get together, Ron and Harry's friendship is destroyed beyond repair. Ron's POV. Harry/Draco and perhaps unrequited Ron/Harry but I'll leave that for you to decide.

Sirius begins to suspect Remus of being a traitor, with major consequences to their relationship.

The time is after the war, and Voldemort has been defeated by Harry Potter. The boy hero is now a nineteen-year-old man, living in downtown London, with a mixed lifestyle of both magical and muggle. Settling for being a writer instead of an auror, Harry seems content with his life until one evening, one of his many dinner parties is interrupted by a, both physically and mentally scarred, Draco Malfoy. The damage done by the war has not finished its course, and the consequences of choices made return, testing the friendship, morality, and will of these two young men and their loved ones. Slash HP/DM!!!

An imaginary, impossible, foolish love? Most definitely. Hermione's reflections. This one-shot songfic was an idea that just popped into my head one day as I was listening to the music of my absolute favorite artist, Rufus Wainwright.

After the Dark Lord’s first fall, Alecto longs to live again. (Alecto Carrow/Fenrir Greyback)

"Gilderoy Lockhart was a normal boy who wanted to be like everyone else. What was the reason behind his urge to become a literary success as well as attain cosmetic perfection?"

Set during the 'missing years.' Remus Lupin thinks about time, grief and loss.

I hate them. Not for what they did to me, but for what they let happen to me. Not for that they hated me in return, but that they didn't love me enough. Not for how they notice me when I am doing something wrong, but for how they ignored me when I needed them the most.

What happened to Draco? Nobody knows what he told Myrtle. But does Myrtle know what he told her? Now there's a question...

When Adela Jackson feels she can no longer cope with her loneliness, a voice from the past gives her hope for the future.

Sometimes things other than ghosts can haunt the living. An unsuspecting Hermione picks up a strange ring and discovers that, unlike most people, Severus Snape left behind more than a mere object.

The adventure of Sirius Black.

Caractacus Cooper has never been an adventurous boy until a body is found washed up on the shores of the Lake and he is filled with an insatiable desire to find out what happened. Secrets are unravelled, love and lust is uncovered and unleashed, lives are irrevocably changed, and a whole lot of snooping is going on...

Sometimes, you must let yourself fall apart before you can put yourself back together again. Remus mourns Sirius, a one-shot in two parts. Not slash.

Young Severus spends a summer away. A little piece that kept bugging me, because I can so clearly visualise him. No romance, no humour, some violence. No horses were actually harmed in writing this.

Remus Lupin has gone to run some errands in Godric's Hollow, chat to James and get ready for a Halloween party. By the evening, his life will have fallen apart when he is betrayed in the worst way imaginable.

My name is James Adonijah Potter. I am fifteen years old. I am a wizard. And I have--had--a baby sister named Elisabeth Harriet Potter. This is her story.

He knows nothing but the sound of his feet on the pavement and the thousand curses on the tip of his tongue. All for his Judas. November 1, 1981.

I don’t think I’ve ever been completely normal. Not once, in my entire life, have I been what anybody would call “normal.” It’s a tad bit sad, knowing you’re the only one who doesn’t live up to anybody’s expectations. I guess this is some sort of karma--I’m smart, therefore, I’m a loser. Hermione contemplates just how normal she is.

Dorcas didn't think it would be like this. Dorcas Meadowes one-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends First Order challenge on LJ.

Background characters are what shape the story... They are what the hero fights for, and no war could be fought without them. She's been his background character, she was always there, in the shadows, ready to keep things on track, yet nobody knew she even talked to him. (Companion piece to "Blank Paper", already at the Dark Arts)

Twenty years after the war is over, Remus and Harry visit an old friend.

"Even the paintings seem old and worn and despairing and she quickly walks by before the portrait can inquire about the news. She thinks that there hasn’t been any and won’t be any in the future." Hermione in a vacant castle, haunted by nothing and something at the same time.

What happens when you're right, but you want to be wrong? How can you fight fate? Lavender knew she wasn't going to like what she saw... but she still looked.

Hermione explains all about an adventure involving Horcruxes and Snape to Professor McGonagall.

Set Post-OotP: During a raucous evening at the Burrow, Molly and Arthur have a quiet conversation that reaffirms their hope for their family.

Listen, my children, and let me tell you a tale. . . one of horror, despair, and vengeance served. Strengthen your hearts, my children, for this tale is not meant for the weak. . . This, in the style of Beedle the Bard, is the true story of how the disease known as lycanthropy came to be. Inspired by whydoyouneedtoknow's "Facing Danger" on FanficAuthors.net.

The gloried wizarding communities of Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam... all fell victim to incompetent governments and increasingly frequent riots. But he knows he is safe here, here in the soft Mediterranean coasts and winds of southern France, confined to a one-room cottage, his only friends the clouds, the sea, and the piano before him. A Remus Lupin genfic.

"You almost hurt a little girl today, Harry." Ron's voice was so flat and emotionless, Harry almost didn't recognize it. It was the voice of stranger.

Bill and Fleur's wedding is not the joyous occasion that everyone had wanted it to be. Especially for Ginny, who must endure Harry's departure, and the question of whether she will ever see him again.

It had been a long time since Ginny had been herself. Really, the Ginny Weasley that everyone knew wasn't really Ginny Weasley at all. Of course, she, herself, didn't really know exactly who she was. It had been so long after all...(AU)

"Isn't it beautiful?" he asked, the soft bluish light skimming over his skin like a gentle breeze. "Yeah," came the reply, a voice filled with awe. "Why does the moon change, Daddy?" "Everything changes. Sometimes, the moon is beautiful, and sometimes it just doesn't feel like making the effort. We can forgive it, though; everything has a good and a bad side." It was silent on the hill, for a while.

Lily's death told through her eyes.

Draco Malfoy always throws up on Halloween.

Voldemort seems to have died. But a characteristic property of many events occurring both in the wizarding world and the Muggle world is that things aren't always what they seem. The moment Draco Malfoy was branded with the Dark Mark, Voldemort discreetly placed a curse on him which would allow Voldemort to possess Draco Malfoy should he die. His last resort should his Horcruxes, in the unlikely event, fail to save him. Now Draco/Voldemort's evil is becoming more and more apparent, signs and strange events only hinting at Harry, and the wizarding world's, ultimate fate.