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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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...

Pansy is reflecting on feelings towards Draco and what he does towards her. She madly in love with someone she hates...

His heart thinks he's making the worst decision of his life. His head thinks it's the best decision he's ever made. Both agree it's for the best. What has Harry done? A Harry/Ginny songfic to "Bus To Birmingham."

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."

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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.

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).

Don't believe everything you read. But then again . . . (companion piece to 'Elijah's Cup').

A brief glimpse into the lives of Lycurgus Randall and Selena Lowell of the Werewolf Support Services as they fight an uphill battle to do their job.

sleep-deprived Hermione on the edge of nervous breakdown and an anxious Snape talk a walk down memory lane.

When the curse on the position of DADA teacher claims another victim and as the war with old Voldy escalates, Dumbledore decides that he needs to bring new blood to the faculty. A Coven of five American witches steps up to meet the challenge. After the farce in the DoM, Harry, who is getting more powerful by the day, needs training if he is going to face the Dark Lord and live. When new information is revealed, ties are formed, it becomes clear that Harry just may have found the power that the dark lord knows not. Ignores HBP and DH.

Draco and Ginny's wedding through Arthur Weasley's POV.

Remus Lupin in Prisoner of Azkaban... Wrote this sometime back, thought of posting it now.

It seemed only to be a blink of the eye in memory, but in actual fact it had been time enough for entire worlds to change. As a mother, Hermione finds her life to be nothing quite like what she could ever have imagined. Unspoken words held as much weight as those said aloud. Rationality in an irrational world created ramifications she could not have forseen.

This is after Sirius's death, kinda gloomy I think.

"Perhaps what had happened had been foretold, inevitable. Inevitable that he would be both desired and abandoned. Inevitable that he would run, thirsting for something... unreachable. Inevitable that he would be swallowed whole by this strange tortured city of dreams and nightmares. Inevitable that he would prick his arm (not his finger) with the needle. Did the story girl feel this ecstasy of pure honeyed light in her veins, like she was being infused with the soul she had lost? For Draco Malfoy, that was all there was."

After defeating Voldemort, Harry becomes a professor at Oxford, but what could possibly happen for him to stop teaching?

Buried in my thick red sheets I trace the gold trim until I can no longer keep my eyes open. I am becoming afraid to sleep. Harry tries to come to terms with life's obligations.

In the darkness of his chamber, he yearned for her yearned for her to bring the reddish glow that would fill his eyes. He hated the shadows. And he lusted for her fiery touch to scare the shadows away. TR & GW

"He went there because he wanted to remember, and he stayed because he had no other place to be." In the time between the Order of the Pheonix and Goblet of Fire Remus returns to a familiar place, and is met by a familiar face.

"When someone we love dies, we always think that they’ll come back to us, that they would never leave us. Admit it, you do don’t you? But, if you’re alive you can’t be a ghost, even if you are alive trapped in the Veil world, the world for those who are waiting." Sirius’ thoughts of the world behind the Veil. Not dead yet, he must wait until old age kills him before truly leaving the world. A one shot fic on what might go on behind the Veil.

Sirius and Regulus need each other, they're brothers after all. But Regulus can't remain the boy Sirius loves, and change is bound to happen.

Every mother fears the very worst happening to their child; for Circe Lupin, this has become a reality.

Cedric Diggory made a bet. A very stupid bet. And now, in order to save himself the humiliation of arriving at the End-of-Year feast naked, he’s got two months to seduce the girl known as the Ice Serpent. But Lexxie Wyse isn’t willing to come along quietly, and even the charming Mr. Diggory will be lucky to walk away from this one intact. Sabotaged Herbology projects, girl fights, a jealous Cho Chang, one exceptionally lewd Hufflepuff Chaser, and snark abound.

Post-HBP AU. Dumbledore is dead. Draco thinks that things can't get any worse. He's wrong.

The new Gryffindor prefects share a private moment to congratulate each other at number twelve, Grimmauld Place. The twins help. A one-shot, missing moment from OotP.

Hannah Grace Abbott drones on about her dull, dull life. Maybe she's just too blind to see that she's needed in the Hufflepuff house.

Sometimes it hurt more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead. - Angel, Passion, BtVS. After meeting over a battlefield, Ginny Weasley reflects on the relationship she had with Pansy Parkinson, and what she can do to make everything better. Another ficlet focussing on an aspect of love--this one being obsession. Warning: female slash!

Harry has been taken by Draco Malfoy as revenge for killing Voldemort and his father. He wants to keep Potter as a prisoner until he is brainwashed into doing evil. Can Harry take it much longer? Will he realize what is going on? Song-fic to Linkin Park's 'Numb'

Darkfic. Nothing is what it seems, and what seems to be real isn't. Harry Potter explains his succumbing from savior to murderer and how four people, including his best friend, were killed by his own hand. Seduction and the edge of madness. HP/RW; HP/DM. Warning: smut (strictly R-rated, though), slash, Dark!Harry, and naughty *tsk tsk* language.

He had plans for them all, but underestimating one Terry Boot will get you killed. Story in the form of a series of long drabbles.

Takes place at the end of the fifth book. Neville reflects.

Originally titled 'Promises Of Things Yet To Come,' this drabble glimpses into the childhood of one Tom Marvolo Riddle. [Message conveyed: children are evil and will ultimately cause the fall of society]

Harry falls into another reality. One where his parents are alive, his arch-enemy is his best friend, and he is Voldemort's right hand man. Will going to see his parents solve anything and what does Dumbledore have to say about it?

The rain. For many people it means sadness and pain, but not for Draco Malfoy. His thought about the significance of the rain for him and Harry. Harry/Draco (mild-slash)

Draco is sent to the Mirror of Sys'y'lana for some much-needed therapy. He is forced to confront and analyse his relationships with his father, the Dark Lord and the Boy Who Lived and, ultimately, himself.

Following the life of one Damien Malfoy, son of Draco and Ginny Malfoy.

Draco Malfoy receives a birthday present unlike any other.

Once upon a time there was a boy who could not live...Sequel of sorts to "The Boy Who Could See." Another story living in the shadow of the Dark Arts with H/D subtext.

Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, and the streets aren't safe. Especially not for a witch walking alone...

Ron is trying to find a way to get over the love he once knew and can he do it with out realizing it? (One shot.)

Draco's made a deal with an angel--or is it the devil. With whose blood will he pay for his escape, his exodus? The time to use his dagger has finally come at long last.

Ginny has made a mistake, a bad mistake. She has chosen to spend her life with him... and he has vowed to make it miserable since she shut herself off to him. Will physical abuse truly cut her off from him forever? Read to find out.

What does it mean to forget? What does it mean to be forgotten? Is oblivion akin to forgiveness? Peter Pettigrew reflects on the irreversibility of one's deeds and the inescapability of life.

Molly Weasley has good days and bad days.

'[Professor Lockhart] read passages from his books to them, and sometimes re-enacted some of the more dramatic parts. He usually picked Harry to help him with these reconstructions; so far, Harry had been forced to play a simple Transyvanian villager whom Lockhart had cured of a Babbling Curse...'

The war is over, and it has taken a drastic toll on the entire wizarding world. Each person must pay the price in his or her own way.``For Draco, the price is too great.``Can he bear it, or will the cost of the war haunt him... Forever?

Sirius was told to "lay low at Lupin's" and he intends to do just that. But before he does, he has a brief encounter with a young girl who, like him, is without a home.

Parvati leads an adventurous life seeking out places among the wizarding world long forgotten by time and history. But only one has changed her life, and etched itself into her memory forever.

Have you ever thought what happened that evening we lost Padfoot? Have you ever thought how the Ministry's Phone Booth works?

Frank Longbottom and fellow Auror Alice Belby talk after Frank uses an Unforgivable Curse for the first time.

Yes, it's true, Sirius speaks from Beyond The Veil to Remus Lupin. He tells a captivating tale of what he's endured, and what may very well be his fate.

After seven years the final battle of the Second War comes to Hogwarts... And Hogwarts is ready for it.

Oneiros has crept into the mind of the slumbering for years untold. With him, he brings dreams. To a chosen few, he brings the mixed blessing of prophecy. But are these dreams a gift of the gods... or their punishment?

Moonlight and forests. Waking dreams and living grief. ````Short, complex and poetic, this piece looks at the days between the battle of the Ministry and Harry going home.

Hermione and Ron have another of their famous rows, though maybe he has gone too far this time. She wanders through the school corridors in tears, till she finds an unexpected source of comfort.

In the final moments of life, what will happen before death?

Hermione sighed softly as she thought of the dozens of other cemeteries they had visited in the past week. It seemed that the entombment of the revered war dead would never end. "And now it's Fred's turn," she thought with a cringe. Fred's funeral from Hermione's POV.

Draco Malfoy's finally got what he wants - an induction to the Society. But will a complication on his first mission ruin his chances of rising through the ranks? Or will he ruthlessly erase said complication and continue on his path of death and destruction?

"Ron woke up that Saturday in the middle of the day, with butterflies fluttering about in his stomach. No…they were not butterflies; they were carnivorous steel birds nibbling on the insides of his fragile heart. A bit exaggerated, yes, but that’s what it feels like when it is Valentine’s Day, and you are going to tell the women you love that you worship the very ground she walks on..."

A story of Lucius Malfoy\\\'s parents, Mondis and Giulia, from their first meeting to their being parted by death, via a wedding, a talk with Tom, betrayal by Lucius and the fall of Voldemort.

‘Under a dictatorship, active resistance can only be practised by those who pretend to collaborate with the regime.’ Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976

The Hufflepuff story of what went on the night they stopped looking up to Ernie.

"Ginny still thinks about him sometimes – she doesn’t really know why." Ginny Weasley ponders the question of Tom Riddle.

This song fic takes place during the time that Harry and Ron are at odds in book 4. Ron is feeling sulky about Harry being the center of attention, as usual. Song is property of Del Amitri, from the album "Can you do me good?"

The beast inside is something you can't deny. And sometimes... sometimes you don't want to. Draco/Remus.

Songfic to Pink's 'Family Portrait', as Draco Malfoy reminisces and learns to cope with his family. Some implied Draco/Snape. Links with my other fics 'Blame it on the Weatherman' and 'Weird'.

Some things never change, and one of those things is the way that Molly Weasley feels about her children. But some there are some events in the wizarding world that are beyond her control, and sometimes change is inevitable.

Sequel to Music of the Night - Voldemort's Other Side. Learn more of why Voldemort became what he now is, and how. And learn too, of what the Chanson de Nuit does when it possesses you.``Welcome once more to Voldemort's mind.``This time, there is no escape without death.

It's almost Christmas, and Ginny is remembering Harry's promise to be home for Christmas and thinking about what the past has held and what the future may bring. Author's Note: This was written prior to DH so I did not know what would happen at the holidays. Therefore it is AU due to what occurred in DH.

Hogwarts, seventh year. A sequence of vignettes around Ron's inability to ask a girl to the Graduation Ball. Among those helping out is Luna, who, as always, has an unorthodox way of giving a hand. Will Ron get the girl with Luna's help?

Neville Longbottom always seemed an odd choice to be in Gryffindor House. A timid, meek, clumsy boy, Neville always seemed the object of ridicule. A one-shot fic of a tortured mind and its desperate attempts to prove its boldness.

It's five years after Draco Malfoy graduated from Hogwarts, and his relationship with his father, as well as his unexpected feelings for Ginny Weasley, seem to change his mind about Voldemort's cause. WARNING: dark fic, character death. Also a tissue might come in handy...

Severus Snape, gayer than the plant that won the lottery? I'm not sure, but at least he's wearing a skirt... maybe he's just Scottish.

Ron Weasley eats a Chocolate Frog, feels rejuvenated, helps Harry move, becomes a member of "Weird Sisters," writes a song called "I Wanna Be Sinister"; the adoring public misinterprets the lyrics, and then Ron gets made the Minister of Magic. Based on the Snickers commercial. All the Yanks know what I'm talking about.

Ron and Hermione have nothing else better to do, so what do they do? They have innocent quarrels!

Harry's lifeline without an ending, the way Ron used to be, a brief Draco/Hermione romance, what it means to be a lion, and tales of what blood means. All these stories told in a few poems of my own creation...

Narcissa does not let her facade crack, because the appearance of disinterest in what others are saying is the only mask left for her.

The war has ended, and Pansy finds that she has never been so scared for Draco Malfoy as she is now.