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The Potters and the Malfoys have been at odds with each other for hundreds of years. It didn't start with just Harry and Draco, you know...

For all we've learned about Snape and his past, we haven't ever seen why it was that he left the Death Eaters. This is one idea.

A sequel to “I Wait for the Dawn.” Harry Potter finds himself trapped in a magical fort and is forced into a fight he can’t win. (WARNING: Character deaths)

Six years after his graduation, Neville and Madam Pomfrey discuss scars, living after the war, and cross-breeding plants.

Ever wonder what happened on Molly and Arthur's midnight stroll?

Two Americans are assigned a report on wizards, but what will they do, since wizards are extinct? But when Albus Dumbledore comes and takes them to the past, they are trapped in a whirlwind of Oreo cookies, snogging, ferrets and a really bad grade on their report.

Peter never thought of himself as brave. It took someone else to point out to him that there is more than one kind of hero....

With the arrival of a new student comes new danger. Will Kalinda Damia be able to protect Harry from the wizard everyone fears?

The first time you showed interest in me was in our fifth year. You still weren't the person who captured me, but interesting, more intriguing of what I liked to admit. I knew you were a Malfoy; you came from an ancient pure-blooded family and everybody who could look beyond prejudices could see it. It was in your way of walking, with your head held up high, not showing-off, but simply proud of who you were.

She\'s moving onwards and upwards. No dwelling. Bitter? Hardly. She never thinks about what could have been. Or very rarely anyways.

Hermione had been fearing for her family's safety in the troubled times of the Second War. She never thought it would take something far more common and irrevocable than a magical war to tear her secure world apart.``Rated for mature emotional themes.``AU after HBP as it is set in an intact Hogwarts.

Finally she lifted the mental block that the witch had placed on her own mind for the sake of others. Finally she allowed herself the luxury of memory.

Voldemort has found Adara once again. Luckily, the Order managed to rescue her but was too late to save her guardians. Now, with no where left to turn, it's time for Adara to return to Hogwarts where it is said that she will unlock the horrors within. And as if that isn't enough, four boys will be vying for her heart, but only one will win. Being an Immortal just got a little harder.

Ron has loved Hermione since first year. Hermione hasn't always returned the feelings. But, they'll always be friends, and nothing more.

A songfic to Reba McEntire's The Night the Lights went out in Georgia. In Ginny's POV, This is her time, her night....

Snape reflects on how long it has taken him to learn what Roosevelt said so well: "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." Dumbledore's death is a high price to pay for this lesson.

Have you ever hidden in a corner and felt invisible? When the time comes, someone may come along and offer to be your guiding light out of the darkness of dispair. Such a thing happened to two particular Hogwarts students one evening. Fanon.

Percy Weasley remembers the first time he met Penelope Clearwater and the last time he saw his best friend.

I am and will always overcome...

Gilderoy Lockhart is on a lecture tour before teaching at Hogwarts.

Mysterious missives and dangerous circumstances alert Harry Potter that something strange is underfoot. When his friends start disappearing, he decides to take matters into his own hands once more. Things spiral out of his control and he is tempted to give into the Dark Lord. How far will he go?

"I often dream of you, and the dreams are almost always in the shaded brownish greys of a fading photograph. My own feelings are lost in a sea of emptiness, wind in my hair, tears on my cheeks, your voice a haunting song on the endless waves of sorrow. I call out to you, but there’s no one beside me at night. The burning emptiness beside me lies on the icy sheets of a bed too big for me alone."````Ginny speaks of Draco. Companion piece to Something I Can Never Have, but you do not need to have read that to understand this one.

I was falling. The first time I saw him, I was falling. Before I knew it, I was falling.

"She felt as though she saw them now as through a glass, through some lens of unmeasured misery..." A post OotP look at how one character attempts to deal with life in the face of death and the intangible nature of faith. Slight Remus/Minerva.

Remus Lupin thinks about his life, his lost love, and going insane as he watches the snow fall. Implied Sirius/Remus. Song fic to Good Charlotte's song "Ghost of You".

Ginny is different from her family but she never realised how much. Implied Narcissa/Ginny.

'It’s a horrible place to be; lost in your own darkness' The only thing he has to survive on is her memory. Companion to They Ask Me Why I Smile but can be read seperately. Draco/Pansy

It’s quiet. No…it’s silent. It’s ironic how the silence can seem so noisy when you’re used to the sound of feet bounding down the stairs...

Just because he was gone, didn't mean he wasn't still with her every day.

You can’t see tears in the rain. And for that sole reason, she waited and yearned for the rain to come. So that she could cry her sadness away. Hermione loved the rain.

A songfiction based on the events of ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and the lyrics to Garth Brooks' song, STANDING OUTSIDE THE FIRE. Harry reflects on the Mauraders after one of their deaths. SPOILERS

If the past is a different country, could you do things differently there? Remus Lupin has visited it many times.

"So he ran away with his hair dyed brown and his eyes cast downward, and he folded the burnt edges of himself away slowly, like a waxing moon." Dealing with Remus' years between the original fall of Voldemort and Sirius' return. Remus' struggles with the deaths of his friends and betrayal of Sirius Black.

This is a one shot about the accidental meeting of Christopher Jones and Severus Snape, and the bitter-sweet outcome. It is mentioned, in passing, in my story, "What Goes Around...Comes Around--Lost and Found...Love."

A tale on the Bloody Baron - What is his connection to Peeves and the Grey Lady, and why is he covered in bloodstains? A tale of intrigue and regrets.

Harry Potter was unjustifiably tried in August for underage magic, but after successfully appealing, he rightfully returned to Hogwarts for his fifth year. Now, an unbelievable three months later, Harry is wrongly on CRIMINAL trial for a murder charge which could land him an Azkaban life sentence. Ultimately, Harry must defeat this unrighteous injustice before it steals his life away! Thus, with Umbridge as the fierce prosecutor, Dumbledore as his passionate defender, and Bones as the fair-minded judge, A GRANDIOSE SHOWDOWN TRANSPIRES!!!

A reflection on the war, and the hero that won it. The narrator is up to you. "So if I want one thing to be remebered about all of us, it is that we were only human."

She had encountered some of the darkest and most arcane situations as she moved through the shadows of shadows. With Severus Snape, OC and Lucius Malfoy. Short story. Complete.

"She cannot even afford to live in the most humble of hovels. She is reduced to this. Whoring herself, living in an attic and eating little." A woman lives alone in a hostile world, fighting for survival. This is the story of her fall from grace.

Godric Gryffindor has been called too daring for his own good, but even HE is starting to think that charging into a swamp in search of a wizard known only as "Serpent-Tongue" is not the brightest move.... Not connected to Moon and Stone or Stepbrothers.

Neville pauses to remember his childhood friend, Greasy Johnson.

A short vignettish-type fic focusing on Draco, and peripherally on a Draco/Ginny relationship. Draco vents frustrastion and things are broken.

Sirius and Remus were not a particularly happy couple during the time of Voldemort's first rise. Suspicion ran rampant between the two, each certain that the other was the traitor. Finally, the two separated - temporarily. But 'temporary' can end up being a very long time indeed.

I lived in a shadow. At school I lived in Potter’s shadow, and at home I lived in my father’s shadow. I didn’t want to live that way. Whatever my destiny was, I came to see that it didn’t belong in anyone’s shadow.

In which Harry is dizzy, Draco is smiling, and life doesn't go the way it's supposed to.

Sirius meets Shaula in a secured room before his sentence is passed for Azkaban. They are of a similar background, and both followed good and evil with equal valour. Yet how did they both end up here, in the same place?

OOTP fic. Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater learn to live with what little they can have.

A smoky corner office. A pouting dame. Follow Neville as he tails Moaning Myrtle in her mysterious doings as a '20s-style detective. A short little ficlet.

A dangerous new weapon is introduced by the Dark wizards to destroy Muggles. But how could a weapon be disguised as such a harmless object?

Oliver seems to be the only one who notices that all is still not well with Ginny Weasley. A disastrous Quidditch practice provides a chance to help.

What does one person change? Willow wishes that Kalli never came to Hogwarts. With one wish, her whole world crumbles.

This is the transcript of a speech made be Harry Potter on Mar 3, 1997. It was the end of his life, and those of many others. This recording was also of great use to the wizards of 2123 in determining exactly how Lord Voldemort had come to rule most of Europe at that time. Filed in the historical records of the Ministry of Magic. (One shot)

After Voldemort’s defeat, seventeen-year-old Ginny Weasley doesn’t know what to do with the rest of her life.

An alternate view of Helga Hufflepuff.

On her sixth birthday, a young Seer learns that some gifts come with too high a price.

The Potters were the only family Sirius ever cared about. Last night they were killed along with Voldemort and he is the only one who knows who was responsible. This is Sirius' version of the events that end with him going to prison and Peter getting away.

Harry didn't have any friends before his days at Hogwarts. What if things were different? What if he did make a friend? What if that friend...was me? Haven't you ever wished that you could actually meet Harry Potter? I have. There are things I wish I could say to him and now, I can! So ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present...My Wish. Rated PG for mild language and mild violence. Brief Harry/Ginny and very, very brief Harry/Cho.

Remus reflects on how music has influenced in his life in both good and bad times, with particular emphasis on the phonograph seen in the film version of PoA.

A rather different view of Draco. Here Draco confronts how his father brought him up and realizes that he does not want to be what his father felt he should be. Based on the song "Numb" by Linkin Park.

After it is all over, a man remembers...

Ron and Hermione have someone new to defeat, and this time, Harry isn't with them. Where is Harry, who is this someone, and will they succeed? I'm told it could pass for fluff.

How do you say goodbye to a brother? And what happens after death? Do you really have to know?

A Prewett/Weasley family one-shot set during and after the first war. Before she was a Weasley, Molly was a Prewett with two brothers... brothers she loved... brothers she lost... brothers she remembers...

Peter Pettigrew is forced into a role he does not believe in. But how is one supposed to decide when the lives of your friends are weighed against thousands of innocents? There's a fate worse than death.

After a mission gone wrong, two men are trapped in a deserted Muggle building, one of them mortally wounded. What happens then sheds light on the true nature of friendship, love, and hope.

Ever wondered how Trevor made it from King’s Cross to the Hogwarts’ boats in his first year? Suspected fiendish plots, but been unable to pin-point the culprit? Look no further – the answer is here! Read all about it in the words of both the man – er, toad – himself and also the vile toad-napper.

Draco hates the rain. He's all alone, and he needs somebody to make him feel safe and warm. Deep down in the Slytherin dungeons he ponders on his and Harry's relationship, and the decisions he has just made. Is he really doing the right thing?

He stood there and watched her die. Snape/Lily, the night at Godric's Hollow.

Coming back from a DE meeting, Severus Snape has some regrets about his life. Songfic set to Godsmack's Voodoo.

"Was he... right?" she asked faintly. "When he said he couldn't have made me do those things if I didn't want to?" Albus waited for her to look up at him. When she did, he held her gaze. "Only you can answer that, Ginny...."

A challenge... Insanity fills Hogwarts Castle on the first day back. Set in fifth year. Beans, brownies and giggles.

Inspired by the song Perfect by Simple Plan. In the Malfoy family, a son is never good enough for his father. Why should this duo be any different?

People don't fit into labels, or neat little boxes. Can you ever say someone is really just smart, loyal, cunning, or brave? Never a mixture? Always a definitive line, thick and black, clean cut? No of course not. What happens when the Sorting Hat stops sorting?

Tom Riddle will always be connected with Ginny but maybe her obsession has gotten carried away.

Romance, high drama, bitter angst - this fic contains none of those. Quickly chronicles Draco's writing career from the age of ten to the age of seventeen. Watch him as he learns what a pronoun is and why it doesn't bite.

Companion Piece to A Startling Devotion. What it was like through his eyes.

There is a new girl in Harry's life, and Ginny needs Hermione's help.

Why did Peter Pettigrew turn against his friends?

Harry Potter doesn't care about Draco Malfoy. He really doesn't.

Rita Skeeter, Roving Reporter. Yeah right. Rita's ruined, and in the wizard prison Culparrat, all for the little crime of revealing the magical world to the muggles, even if it was only in a fiction book. Now it's the day before she is released, and she is thinking back to years before when Lily and James died, when she had best friends, and when she was free.

Songfic for "Gollum's Song." Ginny has thoughts of suicide after deciding she can't take any more of her life. Will Draco be able to change her mind?

“Everyone has to die, Tom,” she breathed, unable to move any closer to him. “It’s part of being human.” -- Tom Riddle learns about life, death, power and those too weak to seek it.

Written for the HP_Remnants "After THe War" challenge on LiveJournal with the prompt "And the picture frames are staring down/and the ringing from this empty sound/is deafening and keeping you from sleep", a lyric from a Dashboard Confessional song. Although this is by no means a song-fic, I did listen to the song several times while writing.

Two wars are fought against Voldemort, with two vastly different endings. Seventeen years after Severus betrayed the Dark Lord, Voldemort is finally vanquished. But will Severus' troubles be finally over? Post-MMWP for the first war and Post-HBP for the second war. Slash SS/RL. Character Death

It's James and Lily's anniversary and Lily has some rather exciting news for James...

Who would have thought that Hermione Granger would find joy in such nothingness and uncertainty? She liked that about herself. She liked that there was this untouchable part of herself that she did not particularly understand. There were questions with no answers, and when they had first crept into her waking consciousness, they disturbed and frightened her, but now... well, now was different wasn’t it?

This story is a twisted version of the fairytale Rapunzel. Argus Filch attempts to make some personal improvements to increase his attractiveness. Somehow things don't go according to plan... and the only one surprised by this is Filch.

AU HPDM Pre-slash. In his career as Auror, Harry had never seen such a peculiar case. His job had taught him that evidence was everything to make a fact true and a lie false, but he discovers that evidence isn't everything.

Fred Weasley is on his way home from a normal day at work when he comes across something that changes his life forever... and forces him to grow up faster than he would have liked.

Spearfishing with Draco Malfoy? Every fangirl's dream...

"RUN, DRACO!" And that’s what he did. Suddenly it mattered so little, whether he was being "treated like a child". He followed Snape’s blunt commands without the slightest flicker of resentment. Suddenly he would’ve given anything to see his pestering mother, to feel her arms close around him in one of her oppressive hugs. The flight, from Draco's view.

Alternative Universe. A stranger muses on his past with Lily Evans, what once was, and what never shall be. One-shot.

A sad story about Hermione

There is always a time in your life when time stands still and every memory runs at the speed of light......basically a narration of the last battle.

She feeds the pigeons. A Post-war G/H fic.

A one-shot song fic to "The Lucky One" by Alison Krauss. Peter had never been lukcy. He always needed help. He never had good grades, never got the girls... unlike Sirius. Sirius has always been the lucky one... and to Peter, he always will be.

Cold. Oh so very cold. Brick, stone, bars, locks.. they want to keep me in and I want to get out. I want to find him.

Susan and Hermione lie unconcious in the Hospital Wing. Ernie and Ron despair. This fic shows you a snap-shot of Ernie's torment, and what is going on in his head during this trauma. (Songfic)

But there is a bit of a catch for, you see, neither is anything without the others. The individual will starve in the woods while the collective survives. They are the four proverbial pieces to the proverbial puzzle, differently shaped but equal to the others in every way. There is no keystone for they are all keystones.