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One-shot sequel to Confession Is Good For the Soul. First-date jitters.

Severus is angry with Harry and dwells on it alone.

Lavender Brown, warrior, reflects on life, death and family, the night before a battle.

Someone gets an eyeful, and lives to tell the backstory behind this line from Mystery Stories: Neville? He\'d never be quite so bold, would he? And anyway, there were rumours floating around about him and Zacharias Smith and a particularly scandalous episode in Greenhouse Three.

Everyone thinks Charlie has always loved dragons. Hear the truth, in his own words.

A beautiful young woman walks the streets of the most despicable port of mankind.

Electrified amber. That's what he saw. The most wonderful mix of browns, golds, oranges and even a slight hint of violet blended together with flecks of black. Those innocent eyes that knew so much yet knew so little. Ginny Weasley was compassion personified and the expressiveness in her eyes proved it so... Draco Malfoy could do little to stop from loving her - except pretend to detest her.

After Voldemort's downfall those who were found guilty for crimes under the Dark Lord were officially punished. Remus Lupin contemplates his life, his feelings, his losses... and his own punishment after what had happened.

Time is a concept. Everything is a concept. Time stops. Nothing works anymore. Everything hurts… There is no magic. AU

The Order's chief strategist is accustomed to sacrifice. (Ginny/Hermione and implied Snape/Dumbledore. Warnings for sexual content, semi-gratuitous military tactics and character death.)

The Weasley family enjoys a singular sort of Christmas. With Fred and George planning something, their father particularly amused by Christmas trees, and odd family traditions, Christmas-time at the Burrow is unlike any celebration you have ever known.

Harry is disgruntled to discover that Draco Malfoy is the only other boy in Hogwarts who hates Christmas as much as he. A cinnamon-scented story about friendship written for Christmas, in the children's storytelling style of Enid Blyton.

"Yes, I know it sounds like a ghost story, but that’s what it was. Supernatural, I tell you, sir. He was just different." An old woman remembers one orphan in particular.

Ron, in his old age, reflects on certain events

On either side the great lake lie``Long lawn of grass so green and bright,``That clothe the soil and meet the sky;``And thro’ the lawn the drive runs by``To many-tower’d Hogwarts;``And up and down the students go,``Gazing where the waters flow``Round an island there below,``The island of Shalorts.

Salazar Slytherin is in love with a kitchen maid in his household, but he's betrothed to Rowena Ravenclaw. Will they be able to get along... and even maybe fall in love? RRSS

The mind is a powerful thing. It can convince you of anything, letting reality go and replacing it with fantasy. However, when that happens, is it what we truly need to become free?

"If you squint hard enough, you can still see Harry – or at least a faded Harry, but with his still vibrant green eyes." Being insane is one thing. Coming out of insanity with a mixing of memories is another. Ron takes that confusing journey post-Final Battle and struggles to make sense of what is real and what is not. Insanity is rarely ever a clear picture.

During her fifth year, Luna receives an unexpected summons to visit Dumbledore in his office. There, he confides vital information and makes four key requests of her. This meeting lays down the path ahead of Luna -- and could shape the very conflict with Lord Voldemort, as she struggles to act from the shadows and maintain her trust in both Dumbledore and her friends. Attempting to overcome some of her darkest fears, Luna finds refuge in a variety of places, and she views the demise of Voldemort from a unique angle, contributing more than anyone can know, and sacrificing an enormous amount.

Ron had never heard of a condom before, and Hermione swore up and down he needed at least one if wanted to get laid. And Ron definitely wanted that. Harry helps him out a bit.

Harry/Hermione, but where does Draco come in... and who does Hermione love when she tells Dumbledore that "he" is dead? Voldemort striking his final blow, destroying the unlikely friendship...

“I need to leave,” he whispers, but the words ring out clearly in the silent house and the girls’ eyes widen just slightly. One-shot

An enlightening conversation between Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. Set near the end of their last year at Hogwarts.

Cho is sitting at a cafe thinking about her past. It has been nine years since she graduated Hogwarts, five since Voldemort was destroyed. The world is Happy, but Cho's love died stopping Voldemort.

Vaguely in a post-Book 7 future one-shot told from Ginny's perspective. A bit of heavy pillow talk as Harry realizes that much of his life is not unlike that of a Jedi from a galaxy far, far away. Some mild Ginny/Harry in the background.

Professor Snape is Hogwarts' (somewhat unwilling!) Agony Aunt. Sympathy is not his strong point...

Harry is going off to save the world, as per norm. Only this time... he might not come back. So his friends take it upon themselves to write him letters of good luck, etc. Oh, dear. He really doesn't have very eloquent friends, does he?

Harry and the Dursleys are on vacation in New York City when Harry meets the girl of his dreams. When he tries to talk to her, he is ridiculed. Unfortunately, Dudley sees him, resulting in a fight and more *sigh* maid duties for Harry.

Even at a young age, Severus Snape didn't think much of self-pity. However, even he was not above the occasional bouts of it.

The Hogwarts' trio has a mystery on their hands. The phoenix, Fawkes, is distressed, and the three students find out more than they bargain for. The mystery involves time in the Library and the Forbidden Forest (to Ron's joy!)

While staying at Grimmauld Place, Bill and Ginny discuss the past, the present, and growing up.

Dumbledore's lingering contemplations as his former student, Lord Voldemort, casts the death spell and the regrets of a man to have his entire life lived for others.

August, 1977: Tom Riddle meets with Percival Malfoy and son Lucius in Diagon Alley preceding the younger man's seventh year. Enter to-be second year Slytherin Kiora Smith, a disgrace to the Slytherin house due to her lack of legitimate pureblood ancestry and residence in a muggle orphanage. Christmas, 1983: a seventh-year Kiora leaves Hogwarts to be forgotten, taking refuge in the elite nameless ranks of Tom Riddle's Unmarked Army. Halloween, 2003: Harry Potter defeats Lord Voldemort in the final stand. The entirety of the wizarding world celebrates. All is relatively peaceful until Halloween, 2007, when Tom Riddle loses control of his puppet and the unmarked army is turned over to the Order of the Phoenix by the new Dark Lord.

It's the Halloween Boogie, a dance only seventh-years are allowed to attend. So what happens when you throw the Marauders in there?

A letter, from Peter to Sirius, written just after James' death and Sirius' capture. Peter is trying to explain some things he have done, and is at the same time saying good bye to his younger self and his previous life.

How did Oliver get his obsession with Quidditch? How did he become the captain that worked his team to victory?

One day you wake up to find your total life has been a lie. You loose all family and are sent to a school you have never been to before. Epona must gain friends at Hogwarts, but she also attracts the attention of two evils...

A crazy story about a muggleborn and her obsession with Sirius. Sirius-ness ahead!

The tables are turned on Harry - it's his turn to develop a crush on Ginny.

Never leaving. Always letting go. Sirius packs a suitcase.

Harry reflects on his realationship with Draco, what happens during the war, and how they came to be. Short H/D one-shot, a bit angsty, songfic.

Draco finally gets the chance to prove himself to his father and to Voldermort. He says he has wanted this, but does he really mean it? What happens when things become too much for him? Will Draco lose his cool and ruin the chance to save himself and his family? Rated for violence and child abuse.

Ginny hasn't forgotten the circus her father once took her to, and when things with Draco fall apart, she decides to join.

Lily was excellent at comforting, but she was horrible at being comforted.

Christmas is a time for family, so Harry spends it with his. Both of them... UK English.

Ginny doesn't mind hearing nothing at all.

Outtake from

Circe, an avid Harry Potter fan, traverses time and space to arrive at Hogwarts during Harry's first year. She in a quandary as how to carry on as an outsider in a storyline she knows all too well. Can she manage to realize her dreams about magic while not affecting those destinies inherent to the success of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?

Snape is a madman, because Granger and Malfoy would never work together, but when their project is out of control, Granger's creation wants to kill Malfoy, and Granger isn't going to help him out.

Remus has suffered a terrible loss but now he has to move on. No, I've not been crass enough as to actually pair him with anybody - but everyone's favourite Weasley will help him come to terms with his loss all the same.

New Year's Eve in 1990 falls on a full moon. A Lost Years fic.

The world changes but Hogwarts does not, its traditions ever isolated, ever preserved. Harry gen.

Rodolphus Lestrange familiarizes himself with the idea of emotion through his budding relationship with Bellatrix Black in their final year at Hogwarts.

Femmeslash (Lily/Mrs. Lestrange). It’s not as dark as you might expect.

With a few drinks, some yodle-ing, the Hogwarts faculty and some chocolate cake, what can possibly go wrong?

It's easy to live a life through photographs.

Requirement. She was required to treat him respectably ... to like him even. She was required to listen to him, day in and day out. It was a requirement. It was NOT, under any circumstances, a choice. PP/DM

A fifteen-year old Blaise Zabini goes to Eyelop's Owl Emporium and sees the most lovely kitten ever....

Sirius Black wondered if he’d ever been sane.

Cornelius Fudge--Minister of Magic, great wizard--and lover of jello. Until, that is, Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy turn his love for this delicious Muggle dessert into a trip to the Ministry he'll never forget.

A rather short angsty fic. Alicia's thoughs about Angelina and other stuff. Femslash.

A series of questions asked throughout the years... (Narcissa/Sirius)

Denial is more than just a river in Egypt. But can Harry and Hermione find their way across it?

Two people trapped together, contemplate death.

...it all seems so impossibly unfair, her life does, of a sudden. Her parents and best friend and now her child, all these people ripped away from and out of her, and in the middle of all this heartache Ron has buried himself, deeply, like a wound that will scar. R/Hr. Post-Hogwarts. High on the angst.

How can I even try I can never win Hearing them, seeing them In the state I'm in Hey you've got to hide your love away Hey you've got to hide your love away ~The Beatles Sirius Black is having Valentine wishes for a certain someone. With the isolation of Grimmauld Place pressing in, he finds that suppressing his feelings is getting harder each day. What is he to do when he realizes his cousin, Tonks, is having those same wishes for Remus? He hopes he has the strength to believe Cupid knows what he's doing and to hide his love away for the good of his two best friends. I would like to thank Lady Bracknell of LJ for writing The Firewhiskey Incident, which inspired this story.

After his final fight, Harry is dying. There is just one person that occupies his mind – will she save him?

She watched him turn his back. She watched him walk away. Into the unknown. Into danger. Away from her.

Post HBP. Molly has a hard time letting go.

My depression will not be grieved. Zero. Cold. Ice. Death. Desperation. Solution. Praise. Pain. Panic. Murder. Acceptance. Acquiescence. Suicide. Thus is seen the awesome power of the Dark Lord Voldemort.

Christmas ficlet set during the Marauder's seventh year at Hogwarts, in which Remus wakes up to a rather nice surprise the morning after the last full moon before Christmas. (Implied S/R and J/L)

For the first time in her life, Minerva McGonagall had Seen. Buoyant after her first ever success in a Divination lesson, Minerva receives an unexpected owl. On an icy November night, Minerva finds herself betrayed by the promise of omens but discovers the certainty of the stars.

Warning: AU. Professors Dumbledore, Snape, and McGonagall take a vacation to the beautiful island of Hawaii at the expense of an unwitting Ministry of Magic. Features a drunk, a pansy, and a mediator. Chaos ensues!

Closed in worlds they cannot contain, Lily and James sit together and the fireworks soon fly....

Sirius has little more than his thoughts to comfort or distress him in Azkaban.

Picture a cool, pleasant night, the vast final frontier glimmering with heavenly bodies. You are seated comfortably under a weeping willow, contemplating well, life, really. What happens when, as usual, the Boy Who Lived enters your mind? This is basically a short, spur-of-the-moment idea; I sincerely hope I did my job.

Every story will have an inspiration. This is my take on how J.K. Rowling got her inspiration for the Harry Potter series. The story is about a chance meeting between a young J.K.Rowling and a certain Red haired boy at Kings Cross station.

The war is over, the good guys won. But that doesn't always make for happy endings. "It's over Harry, he's dead. You won. Don't you remember? It's done. YOU'RE done."

For Sirius, there's something special about January sixteenth. Remus thinks he knows why.

"Was it pity though? Love? Duty? Revenge? She honestly couldn’t say. The lines were so blurred where her family was concerned that she doubted she would ever be able to sort it all out."````Andromeda pays Bellatrix a visit in Azkaban.

What do you do when you realise every choice you have ever made has brought you to a dead end? Draco remembers his relationship with Harry as the Final Battle rages around him.

It's not easy to let go of the past, especially the good times. (Ron/Hermione, Ron/Remus)

Continuation to "In Your Dreams". Hermione... well, she dreams, just like Ron hoped she would, except not quite of what Ron hoped she would.

Forbidden thoughts form in the mind of a young Severus Snape, as the Dark Lord shows his ability to raise the dead at a Death Eater meeting.

Although she wishes she could Lily knows that she cannot protect Harry forever.

Do you the way she looks at you? She looks at you with that utmost admiration and passion. But you don’t see it.

Written for V.M. Bell's Song Title challenge. Ron recounts the time Malfoy called him a monkey in his fifth year and the repercussions it caused for Malfoy.

Hermione is having a baby and Ron thinks back to when he finally got the courage to ask her out and when they got married. One-shot.

"Isn't it weird how joy can have you almost come apart just when things are at their most perfect?"

Kingsley Shacklebolt knows what it's like to be alone.

In the summer after OotP, Hermione reflects on her childhood, her friendship with Harry and Ron, and her role in the coming war. Philosophical.

Hermione Granger writes two poems, one before the war and one after. The poems are very different. What changed?

Remus feels isolated by his friends during the first war, and it takes running into Severus at a bar to make him feel anywhere near all right.

The sequel to Passed By. Katharine spends much too much time hanging around train stations. And she sees more magic - magic of the large, purple variety.

From the moment he entered the wizarding world, Harry Potter has been told he is special. Now he's about to find out why. (rated PG-13 due to possible creature violence and mild language. NO slash!)

Amy Black is not related to the famous pureblood Blacks, nor is she anyone important, nor does she have a life of drama. Nope, Amy Black is just a quiet bookworm that gets straight A's and is an outcast. She has no real life... at least that is what she lets everyone else think...

"No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere." ~Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto VI).

Your body gives but then holds back``The sun is bright ``The sky is black``Can only be another sign``I cannot keep what isn’t mine`` ``How can I tell if you mean what you say?``You say it so loud``But you sound far away``Maybe I had just a glimpse of your soul``Was that your shadow I saw on the wall?`` ``I’m watching you disappear``But you``you ``were``never``here...

A series of challenges.... Colin Creevey records the events of oddities occuring around the castle at Hogwarts.

An older, wiser Severus Snape reflects on his past, an obsession, and Remus Lupin. This story contains implied slash.