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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.

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs growing up through the eyes of an outsider.

Sirius is left alone after Remus' suicide to contemplate his relationship with the werewolf. Counter-story to "I Am A Rock".

In the world of pureblooded wizards, marriages are arranged even before the children are born. If it doesn't work out, there's no one to turn to for help... except yourself. She freed herself from him in the only way she could; she's a trophy wife no more.

Sometimes Harry takes time out to think. Several years time out. Features dark!Harry.

What if Kali Lupin had made a different decision in 'The Diary'? What if she had decided against joining the IDL and joined Voldemort?

Somewhere in the near future, Narcissa's musing over Lucius' body.

A one-shot about Minerva McGonagall and her lost love. Has anyone ever wondered how the war with Grindelwald affected the characters we know and love? This is just a little speculation on that theme. MM/OC

Minerva can't grasp such ideas. No pairings.

Neville Longbottom is about to embark on the most incredulous, daunting and indefinite quest of his lifetime. He will be forced to battle an insurmountable amount of demons along the way. Through this quest, he will not only gather the strength of a true hero, but he will also win the heart of a true friend who holds the key. Hope is sometimes blind and not easy to come by and courage can only take you so far. So what happens when the courage to face your fears is frozen and locked deep inside of you? Neville Longbottom is about to find out. Witness the incredible and unforgettable journey Neville is about to take by getting inside of his head and looking at him in a new light...

After the events of "Goblet of Fire", Albus Dumbledore goes to meet an old friend in Hyde Park. HP/Spooks crossover.

They said that he was crazy. That is, he was insane. That was because he sat in Azkaban for twelve years and acted normal; and yet he was deemed crazy. They said that he killed twelve Muggles and one wizard. They said that all he did was laugh when he was caught. They said that he ratted out his two best friends and caused their deaths. They said he felt no remorse. They said that he never shed a tear. They said that he couldn’t love. They said that the dementors couldn’t take his soul because he didn’t have one. Definate PoA spoilers with a slight hint of OotP. One-shot fic.

Fred and George cause trouble. Involves love potions, Cuba, and... Pansy Parkinson?

Ginny had thought of Pansy as a reflection on glass, so shallow that even her physical existence may as well have been an illusion, a trick of the light. Ginny/Pansy

The Dark Lord is losing his patience; he desperately wants the knowledge of the prophecy's exact location, and Lucius Malfoy can no longer put off searching the legendary Department of Mysteries.

Deep under a waterfall in Iceland lies the Cristalis Institute of Wizardry. Due to an outburst in population of witches and wizards throughout the rest of the world, the sparsely populated Icelandic school opened its doors to students from all over the world. This did not sit well with the Headmaster's daughter, Sigrún, who knew the way the rest of the world treated her kind. How will she take it once the students arrive? Will she make friends? Will they find out her secret?

"His pale, freckled face was lit by the flickering flames and gave his eyes a murky glow. The bright blue, so like Dumbledore’s, was shaded, and no one noticed. Ron was used to it. In a large family, you got used to being overlooked. Being the best friend of the famous Harry Potter, you got used to it. Didn’t mean you had to like it." A glimpse into the mind of one Ron Weasley, on a night down in the Common Room

The others brought their own things to the table: bravery, loyalty, fidelity, intelligence, wit, cunning, faith... But I was the one with the dream. I was the one who made it happen.

Teachers sometimes act worse than their students, and Severus Snape is no exception. Join him as he endures another Hogwarts Staff Meeting. Poor man.

A young woman walks home at a very late hour, but things are not always peaceful in the night. Especially during a war.

Some things just aren't meant to be. Draco/Ginny.