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The first half sits slumped. Mouth agape, eyes drooping. Trying everything in their power to stay awake. Those who aren’t half asleep are plotting a mysterious death of their teacher or how to get out of the class. They sit and tap their fingertips together, plotting, praying he chokes on his food or falls to his death. Or sneaking out of this cold place. Wasn’t Hell supposed to be hot? A blaze? A humongous fire pit? It is underground, though. That and the teacher are the only thing that make it qualified for anything close to Hell. Sometimes they like to think of him with horns sprouting out of his head. His train of his robes a tail. His wand a miniature pitch-fork. Strutting through his cave, around stalagmites.

Nemesis: (1) A rival that cannot be beaten or overcome, (2) The Ancient Greek Goddess of Divine Retribution. Draco's pondering on his and Harry's relationship, and his questions based upon that. Is it really only a rivalry, or something deeper than that? Is Harry really just his enemy? His conclusions made on these questions, and his feelings about the illustrious Boy Who Lived.

Harry never understood why he was the way he was. Questions filled the thoughts of a fifteen-year-old Hogwarts student who happened to be the savior of the magical world.

A character exploration of Peeves and why he is the character/force of destruction that we all know and love.

Life is full of tests.

What was Peter Pettigrew thinking as he planned the murders of some of his best friends? Why did he become a Death Eater? How long did he hate the other Marauders? Or was he just scared? Find out the importance of friendship... and what the lack of it can do to a person.

The end of the war has come at last. Voldemort has been defeated, but at a terrible cost. The evening after the final battle, Ginny stands outside of the Burrow and thinks about what she's lost, and Harry, and the plans they made for after the war. What will she do now that life must go on? *song-fic*

Ron Weasley is tired of living in his famous best friend's shadow. So here is his chance to tell his version of events, through those years at Hogwarts, in Ron Weasley (and Harry Potter) and the Philosopher's Stone ... with an appearance by Hermione Granger.

Narcissa has a night to remember.

Nearly Headless Nick finds a solution to being rejected from the Headless Hunt.

Where Azkaban is like death to a Malfoy, and throwing rocks at a Giant Squid is a perfect way of dealing with it. Unfortunately, a Potter does -not- think so, and when you try and prevent a Malfoy from standing upon his dignity, you are helpless.

"Why? Why keep on living? You answer those questions for me because I really cannot. Yes, you. Both sides seem so alike now. This is the only truth—my only truth—and others do not see it, much less make it retreat. They are blind—blind with a slight blaze of glory from me. I’m me, and no one person can know what I am feeling. Yes, people can help me, but no one can save me, only myself." A slight gaze into Harry's mind two years post OotP.

The events in the Department of Mysteries, at the end of Harry’s fifth year, leave Albus Dumbledore with the broken pieces of the past year. Before he starts cleaning up he has a conversation with his reluctant Potion Master about hate and consequences. But they are not alone in the shadow a third person is watching and wondering why Albus trust him and why Snape chose Voldemort.

Voldemort is gone, the wizarding world is safe, but Harry Potter wakes up one day to find that it's all been ... a dream?

A rare glimpse into the past of Argus Filch.

I am transported to Hogwarts and witness a series of wacky events throughout the progression of the day. (The result of being too sick to sit up straight and half unconscious from cold medicine.) Total insanity.

Blaise wants to show Susan that not all kids are like their parents.

Winter came, and with it came the dark. A look at Moody between the first war and the second.

James has never understood Muggles, and now, hiding with his family, he has to pretend to be one. He doesn't quite like it.

Set in the summer after fourth year, and written before OotP (though edited after), this fic gives a glimpse of Cho Chang following the death of her boyfriend. Tears, fears, guilt and blame, as Cho tries to get a handle on what has happened.

In a battle with Voldemort, Kalli loses one of the most important people in her life. How will she deal with it, without the love of her life?

The death of the ones we love often kills us from the inside out, and we are haunted by the memory of what was, and by what will never be again.

'... many thought he was an attention-seeking little monster. Others gave him a wide berth in the hallways because he was supposedly a raving lunatic. The little boy’s green eyes full of wonder became the young man’s green eyes full of sadness. And worry. And fear.'

A young witch escapes a tear filled past to America, but a mysterious man continues to haunt her...

Stories tend to move in circles; a chilling account of one possible circle, with an important message from Hermione. One-shot

Over 100 years before the Canon: Same Hogwarts. Different teachers. In J K Rowling's canon we only really see Hogwarts from the point of view of the students, glimpses into the lives of the staff are rare and tantalising. Behind the Staffroom Door is a story set some hundred years before the main action of the canon. Its main character is DADA teacher, Peregrine Proudfoot and how he deals with running the school for a very ill Headmaster and handling staffroom politics.

"To Hermione Granger, life was like a blank piece of parchment—like Transfiguration homework before it was completed—like an essay." The companion to You’re Dead. Hermione knew that Sirius’s death had affected more people than thought. All she could do was help Harry grieve and give him more knowledge. But for once in her life, she didn’t know what to do with Ron. She couldn’t correct him. She couldn’t help him now.

Sometimes, you are so desperate for changes to happen. Sometimes, you just don't see a way out anymore. Sometimes... desperation will transform the world into a better place.... (T/G)

Cormac McLaggen claimed he missed Quidditch trials in 1995 because he ate doxy eggs for a bet. But was the timing of this "Fear Factor"-esc challenge more than just coincidence? And what do the Weasley twins have to do with any of this?

It's cold and wet. A bedraggled figure wanders through the town.

Hermione is dead. At least, emotionally. She has also chosen to let Ron think she loves him, though it is impossible, given her lack of emotion. What happens when the girl must become logic because the boys have enough emotion between them? A look at the points of view of Hermione, Ginny, Harry, and Ron to this situation. Set in the Hogwarts years, written between OOTP and HBP, when we didn't know what was going to happen relationship wise!

Rachel woke when it was still dark outside her grimy window. She sat up next to the still-sleeping Ian and looked around, confused. Then everything hit her, physically hit her, so that she fell back onto the bed and bit her pillow to stop keep herself from screaming. This fic also goes as a sort of background story to my fic Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House. (If you haven't read RttRH, consider this a sort of trailer, like what makes you want to see the movie.) Very angst-y.

In the aftermath of Voldemort's defeat there comes a time for healing.

March 2007 Challenge fic. Prompt: Gideon Prewett gave Gregory's Unctuous Unction to Professor Grubbly-Plank. What are the Prewett brothers up to, and how much trouble can they get into?

It's amazing what little things can trigger memories and tears. Three people remember a man who meant much to them. A man who died too soon.

The tight circle of trees surround you, moving in. They point their crooked branches at you as if they blame you for the frost that has covered this whole godforsaken place. You killed us, they whisper with their leafless branches, you killed us, like you killed him.

A trivial decision, perhaps ... but Marietta hates the one she made. Now she's stuck studying Arithmancy (I'd blame her mother) while her Ravenclaw peers discuss the Muggle World. Can anything be done?

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity comes to stay with his friend Liam Rhenford in a quiet seaside town, and solves a mystery of the disappearance of an Oriental star ruby...

If this is the way dying feels, it's not so bad.

Hermione talks to Harry about coping with death and learns to let go in the strangest way.

Hannah and Neville hire Lee Jordan to help with the pub. Written for the Rarepair Shorts Number Game Ficathon 2009 on Life Journal.

What happens to a dream deferred?

During a brief imprisonment in the first war against Voldemort, Andromeda meets another captive who understands her estrangement from her sisters all too well.

'From across the grounds, amidst the throes of battle, Draco felt a feather light brush of lips against his cheek. A blown kiss that he knew could only mean one thing. His beloved was gone.'

Of Harry stupid Potter, Parvati stupid Patil, the Yule stupid Ball, a most disgruntled Ginevra Weasley, broken feet, erected towers, magazines for witches, double meanings of flashes of green light, and complete loads of rubbish.

It's graduation day and Draco is lost in his own thoughts. Ginny's the only one that can find him. A bit of angsty D/G fluff : )

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

I'm dying now and it's not what I thought it would be. It is all the regrets I’ve ever had knocking down the doors of my mind, screaming all the things I should have done. It is all the mistakes I ever made, crying for the apologies I never said.

Dudley taught me to run. Run like the angel of hell is behind me, because at five I thought it was and at seventeen it might have been and now...maybe I never learned to stand still.

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

The psychological murmurings of a terrier-phobe. Vague``spoilers for OotP.

Remus tries to make sense of an Order mission gone wrong by asking Sirius about it. Bad idea. Very, very bad idea.

In the midst of the horrors of the Second War, Ron dares to dream of after.

She knew he wasn’t ready, knew he was too young. Yet there was nothing more she could do to keep him from making such a choice. But when he’s given a suicide mission, she does what any mother would do. She makes her decision, and she does it for her son.

Some friendships last minor squabbles. These outlasted prejudice, betrayal... even death.

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.

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.

Ron has a mental rant about Malfoy. Why does he have to be so perfect?``(If you're offended by the words 'bloody', 'hell', or 'bastard', don't read it.)

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

Neville is in the library one evening and hears a girl crying. Can he comfort her?

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?

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

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 ...

"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.

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

Four boys. James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin were not always inseparable. It was a chance meeting helped along by books, robes, and lots of candy.

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 muses on Neville's similarities to Clark Kent.

"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.

Sirius Black's thoughts when in Azkaban.

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

Barty Crouch's thoughts on his father and Voldemort.

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.

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?

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.

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

“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

Suffocation never sounded so bad...

Any press is good press...right? D/G, one-shot. Written for the 2009 Draco/Ginny Fic Exchange at Livejournal. Nominated for Funniest Fic.

Colin keeps trying to hold his world in a photograph.

Harry has a twin, non-cliche. Harry, the true boy who lived, is slightly neglected, but only because of a misinterpreted prophecy not the fame going to his parents' heads, and the twins act like twins are supposed to... THEY DON'T HATE EACH OTHER!

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

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?

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.

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.

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...

When Pansy turns up, asking a favour of Seamus, it stirs old memories. Written for the rarepair_shorts Spring 2010 exchange. Pansy/Seamus. Oneshot.

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

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

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.

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

A "Bonding" schedule with the in-laws? What could possibly go wrong?

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.

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.

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

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

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

Snape/Lily school days fic. In which Snape wonders what the fuss over kissing is all about.