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I did it. I finally fought the War with my friends by my side and we won. I defeated the Dark Lord. But look at the cost. The way it all ended, just so one man could die. The aftermath.

Philip Shoskey is an ordinary man trying to overcome the loss of the love of his life, Terry Rosier. However, after a surprise meeting with a man long thought dead, some of Terry's secrets are exposed, and hold roots that will change Harry's life forever. (Despite how this summary sounds, the OC's are really, really minor characters in the plot. James, Harry, Remus, Tonks, Dumbledore and Snape really are the main characters.)

Would Moaning Myrtle truly have been better off if she had survived to adulthood? A brief and bleak look at Myrtle’s career in the Ministry of Magic.

Mrs. Figg had a thing for cats.

Sirius and Ginny's pasts have both been tainted by Lord Voldemort. Sirius is haunted by nightmares as a result, and Ginny, battling with her own demons, talks to him. With little help from Dumbledore and a bottle of purple potion, sweet dreams result. Takes place in the summer of OotP.

If Snape hadn't transferred his grudges onto a student, and Harry hadn't hated his professor as a result, they wouldn't have been friends or allies, but perhaps there would have been a grudging respect between them.

Severus Snape is dead, brutally murdered and the only person who could have killed him is his lover, Hermione Granger. She found him dead and it has cost her sanity, for even she doesn't know if she killed him or not. Told from Hermione's POV, very dark.

Many pilots during the Second World War claimed they owed their lives to gremlins – small creatures living in and taking care of their planes’ engines. These unseen and unheard great heroes saved nobody knows how many lives of their Masters. Here is a true story of one such “gremlin”, whose mission followed in the steps of the most famous Hogwarts Headmaster...

Dragons' Heartstrings is a fan fic in soap opera form, based on Harry's life after Hogwarts. Packed with Gred and Forge style humor, random jokes, and satire, Dragons' Heartstrings pokes fun at the dramatic quality of soap operas as well as the far-fetched ideas of some other Harry Potter fan fictions.

Mortie Wimsey and his best friend Blaise Zabini go for a stroll around the school grounds. They see a bright blue light emerging from a cave and decide to have a look inside the cave. They see there something totally unexpected...

"I’m seventeen and I’m crazy." Luna Lovegood muses on birthdays, Them, and relative insanity. One-shot.

"He watched it bleed its color day by day and remembers that once, his world hadn't been so blank." The Dementors took many things from Sirius.

AU. A fishing boat drifts into a dragon preserve off the coast of Alaska. This is a story of what might transpire.

Hermione Granger, once the youngest minister for magic, is now a \'to be caught dead or alive\' fugitive, thanks to her overintelligent brain. Aurors are looking for her madly, and who else could capture her better than her best friend?

He stared at the tombstone. It blended in amongst all the others; there was nothing special about it. Nothing to set it apart as the tombstone of the Boy Who Lived, who wasn’t so much alive anymore as he was dead and buried. First of the End Of World oneshots.

A story inspired by the title (provided by April in a plot bunny thread). It's about how there's a spark of good in the worst of people and a nasty streak in the best of people.

It had been alright in the end. Perhaps it was better this way, after all, with Ron and Hermione like sheer myths to him. Perhaps it was better to see his life with them as a fairy tale story that one day the reader had stopped reading. Perhaps it was better that though the first to die, the innocents would not be the last. Harry was prepared for this day, hour, very moment. Inspired by the song "We're Forgiven". H/Hr

"His lycanthropy was a curse, not a part of him. If it was placed upon him, surely it could be taken off. I had to find a cure. I would devote my whole life to finding a cure if I had to." ``Lily desperately contemplates why Remus would end their relationship...

A little one-shot of how life is, from Pansy Parkinson's point of view, and the role sour oranges have in her life. Angst-ridden but nothing particularly explicit. Self-injury implied. Pansy/Draco.

Draco Malfoy and Cho Chang are both a little lost. And it takes them to find each other to find themselves again. A love story, of sorts, that spans from the beginning of HBP to...well, forever.

The fire was dancing in front of her eyes, projecting its sparkling light over everything in the room. Through the window, she was able to see the raindrops spattering the landscape. Her eyes filled with tears as she stared ahead of her, though she was not really seeing.

"There was a time when she was happy. It was a long time ago, but it was sweet. Brief, but sweet." Happiness is paid for dearly. The tormented soul of Ginny Weasley yearns for Raven, who was once known as Tom Riddle. She reflects on her history and contemplates her present. Small price? Maybe. If he's such a narcotic, then what happened to her? An addiction...can be quite deathly.

Sonfic to Usher's "Confessions Part II." Draco cheats on Ginny and now he has to tell her. One-shot.

Do not stand at my grave and weep / I am not there, I do not sleep / Do not stand at my grave and cry / I am not there; I did not die.``The death of a rival marks the end of hate.

I know that Riddle is only using me by now... It’s like what Dad says those Muggle drugs are like, it’s addicting. I can’t stop, even though I want to. I’m addicted... Ginny reflects on the diary and life as the youngest Weasley

"'…I hope you realize I can’t be there for you like he is…”````Those words keep ringing through my head over and over again. I know he couldn’t have been able to tell, but he’s crushed me with those very words. It isn’t just those words, though; I know it’s not. I remember his exact tone of voice. It was hollow, empty, and unfeeling—so different from the one he used before luring me into his lusty trap. Typical Slytherin…"````Harry contemplates the past night's events with extreme regret--and now he has to figure out a way to tell Ron. ````Slash. Harry/Draco, Harry/Ron.

I hate you so much for leaving that day. For flying off into open sky without even a look back. Leaving me crying my heart – no, my soul – out to Ron because he was the only one who could keep me still. (H/Hr - sequel to Leaving Forever)

Harry has seen blurs of color for a long time but now finally he can see them clearly. Along with the images, he feels something. What is it? Harry doesn’t even know. He hears sounds and on top of his growing unease, he know that something is very wrong....

Gregory Goyle makes a midnight visit to the Gryffindor tower, only he bumps into Dumbledore on the way. Non slash, sweet story. Goyle/Gryffindor girl of your choice

What is this light that hurts my eyes? Is it the end, finally? No, obviously, no. It’s the day, the sun is risen, and another agony begins. Wake up, my sinner, wake up and smile.

Beware, you who fight evil, lest you fall into darkness. Beware, you who invite the abyss into your heart. Ginny. Lucius. Harry. Guard your soul. (Warning: graphic torture)

Every night I felt your presence. Your cool breath on my neck, your soft whispers in my ear. And your touch. Fingertips grazing my skin, making me shudder in despair because I knew I couldn’t stop them. I always gave in to them.

Post OotP Songfic. Remus visits Sirius' grave on a weekly basis. Weeks after Sirius' death, Remus is still grieving.

Hermione meets a remarkable boy named Charles during the summer holidays. He claims to have The Sight. At first, she doesn't believe him, but then strange things begin happening... Set between Hermione's third and fourth year at Hogwarts.

George's birthday is never truly happy. Will this year be any different?

Every day is a struggle and her resolve is slowly being destroyed. Can she survive her own hell?

'It was the noise that was missing. The voices of her family.' Ginny finds herself alone in her dormitory.

"I've been there since the beginning. From the times when I sat there, faithfully upon his head, to times when I sat faithfully upon his shelf. I have seen horrors of which many have yet to dream of, let alone experience, although I have no eyes, as such. "

A sixteen-year-old, red-haired girl drinks a coffee at King's Cross. Mystery. Part of the "Fifteen Minutes in London"-series.

"/In Flanders' fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below./" ~John McCrae, /In Flanders' Fields/

Harry’s in deep trouble. He’s also in Hull. Factor in an evil, fuming faction, a nemesis, and some Ancient Greek Thugs and you’ve got yourself a fic. A completely irreverent jokelette about villains, creeping around, and sexual tension that could (loosely) be called a ‘thriller’ but really, you’d have to be mad. [H/D]

They are 'The Trio'. It's always been that way. So what happens when Voldemort takes Ron captive, and the other two have to consider the possibility of a life without him? One shot set in 6th year. Ron/Hermione with Harry/Hermione friendship.

Ginny Weasley reflects on her relationship with Ron, and why it's always been so hard.

After the long, trying night Harry had at the Ministry -- and then with Dumbledore -- he lies in bed and thinks of everything that's happened so far and what it all means. (OotP spoilers)

While Slytherin and Ravenclaw competed in a Quidditch match, the Hufflepuffs decided to have a “friendly” game of tag. No other house would ever think of putting the word “friendly” in front of a sport, or an in-class discussion. Or a meal time. The other houses were in love with hatred. Hufflepuffs could easily be seen as the Hogwarts hippies. Kindness, peace, togetherness, man.

Why is Petunia Dursley so... well... Dursleyish? Why does she hate the magical word, and prtend that she never even had a sister? Well, once she was a child, you see. And children have dreams... "Petunia wanted magic more than anything in the world, she dreamed of it and she ached for it, for the magic and for the brave, beautiful characters who wielded it in her books and her imagination."

Everyones favourite fanfiction authors Siofra the Elf and Gwendolyn James, along with their friends, have been dragged into the past to relive one of their favourite scenes from the Harry Potter movies. Hilarity and craziness ensues as the time draws ever closer...

"Jealousy is quiet at first. It sneaks like a whisp of smoke into a girl’s heart. It’s nothing too serious, she thinks, but later that smoke manifests itself into a flame and then into a blazing inferno that she can’t quite ever put out." Ginny Weasley has a revelation about her place in Harry Potter's life.

Huge OoTP spoiler. Harry misses Sirius. He pays him a visit beyond the veil.

This is the sequel to Salvation. its pretty much just Draco's view of the story and what he was feeling.

Remus wakes up with Sirius.````"In the morning he woke up and it wasn't real."

Sirius struggles to keep his sanity in Azkaban, but one group of memories in particular wears away at him. Will he win, or will the Dementors break him?

"Never again waking up to find someone who smiled at you and pulled you closer when you met their eyes." The days are bad, but the nights are hell; Ginny never understood how much loneliness would hurt.

Told to kill, Draco refuses. But his father has a trick up his sleeve and in the end, it really doesn't matter if he's commited the crime or not. He'll still be punished for it. (songfic)

The last time. I swear to Merlin this is the last time...tonight I’ve got to say it, got to tell the truth. We can't keep doing this.

At the end of the day, all anyone wants is to be loved. And many people have that. Many people lose it, too. But not all at once, not like Harry has. What would you do if all that mattered was gone? If there was no one?

The biggest child of the James Thickey Ward at St. Mungo’s is about to learn something astonishing and possibly dangerous. But – will he remember about it tomorrow?

Why the stately Ms. Emmeline Vance would want to belong to the Order of the Phoenix is a complete mystery to the Marauders and their friends. What could have happened to make Emmeline long to Catch a Death Eater? A painful subject, concerning the charming Tom Riddle, and the first time the Chamber was opened.... Poor Myrtle.

Harry doesn't eat anymore. Harry barely speaks anymore. And Harry isn't himself anymore. [Multi-Chaptered -- HP/DM]

Ginny Weasley lies silently on the ground in the Chamber of Secrets, the conduit for Tom Riddle’s resurrection. An instrument, a medium, a tool. How can a young girl, sensitive and impressionable, not be affected by that?

Lucius has always been charming and witty, and even silver looked good on him. After a night of cuddling with a hippogriff who wanders onto the Malfoy property, he finds out that there is more to life than hourly manicures. It is up to Lucius to find his way to his hippogriff again, with the help of Voldemort, Draco, and some very dead Italian designers.

The war is over and The-Boy-Who-Lived has survived, but is in a critical state at St. Mungo's. Draco waits and takes his time to look back on his involvement. Draco's POV and told primarily through flashbacks.

Hermione tells her story and the history of magic class doesn't know how to reply. Hr/DM, Hr/VK, PP/PW, PW/other. HR/others

One Christmas Eve, after a particularly unpleasant Occlumency lesson, Severus is visited by a ghost. Lily is furious over how he has treated her son—and determined to make Severus see just how much Harry needs him. Loosely based on "A Christmas Carol".

A poignant look into Hermione's life following the worst tragedy of her life. What happens when the love of her life is taken from her? Will she have the strength to go on or will she drown in her grief?

They seemed like a fantasy, a dream. Their friendship seemed so far away, so unrealistic. Guilty, Peter thought, all this because I am guilty.

During her fourth year, Ginny mourns for the one that never again will be.

This is a companion piece to the songfic "Unwritten" since so many have asked me for a sequel. Three years have now passed since Harry and Ginny found one another again. As they celebrate the anniversary of their reunion and the rest of the world celebrates the anniversary of Voldemort's defeat, their greatest hope yet prepares to enter their lives.

After his escape from Azkaban, Rabastan Lestrange takes a look at what his life has become.

After his father's arrest, Draco's world becomes less certain. Draco-centric, slight Draco/Pansy, allusions to Draco/Harry pre-slash.

We all know that Hermione Granger is afraid of failing her tests and riding a broomstick. But really, those are not her greatest fear.

What does one think on the day that they are finally “released” from the clutches of the dementors? How does one find a way to carry on when all has been taken away? The moment during OotP when Voldemort’s truly loyal supporters are finally broken free. PG.

A brief autobiography of Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris.

Tom's diary was capable of doing more than Harry ever had the chance of finding out, but Ginny knew.

Xanadu can be found where ever you happen to look for it.

Near the beginning of his sixth year, Harry catches Crookshanks swearing in Parseltongue. Investigation leads to a long talk about Sirius, Slytherins, the prophecy, hunting, history, and house-elves. Absolutely nothing to do with the Time's Riddle series.

Mr. Weasley gets the family a new... Well, I dunno if one would consider it a pet. All humor and tormented Weasleys, Harry and Hermione at the Burrow. If you've played "Chamber of Secrets" on PS2 or Game Cube then you pretty much have got the idea of what this is about. (Think about what Harry has to defeat in the beginning before degnoming.)

The strange tale of Albus Dumbledore's legacy...

Remus Lupin was left with so many questions after Sirius was taken to Azkaban. His main question is why their relationship had begun to fall apart. SB/RL one-shot.

He used to know her; once upon a time. But the Ginny he knew is gone, and now he's talking with someone completely different. She remembers, though.

Harry has destroyed Riddle's diary, but Ginny cannot help but write one last cathartic letter to Tom that she knows will never reach him. She laments the loss of her innocence, and looks pessimistically to her future.

"You didn’t love him, you didn’t ever fool yourself into thinking you loved him. You didn’t even really like him, but you needed him."

The final showdown is over and Voldemort has fallen at the cost of many lives. The victory is bittersweet and Draco Malfoy is there by Harry Potter's side to witness the demolition of a happily ever after ending.

When it feels like the end, Harry and Hermione have only each other to cling to. One-shot about life, the universe and endings. Rated for language.

Harry and Hermione go on a humorous and revealing adventure a while before going to their seventh year at Hogwarts. Is it possible for them to meet two wizards their age in a similar search for Voldemort? What kind of suprises await them?

I can’t believe I’ve lost him. I just can’t.... Preparing to leave, to spend the remainder of the summer before his final year at Hogwarts somewhere else, Harry takes a few moments to speak to the only one he can tell anything without feeling ashamed: his diary. A sort of companion piece to The End of Innocence and The Beginning of the End, but not a sequel.

Megan Jones is a young woman trying to make her way in the world hampered by the very things that haunt many a young woman in her late teens. There are crushes and romantic entanglements to sort through, an unhappy family life, the thirst to prove herself and the obligatory identity crisis. Oh yes, and there's the bit about her secretly joining the Dark Side....

How did Peter Pettigrew come to be in Gryffindor?

Songfic to Linkin Park's Runaway. Again, try guessing who's POV it is told from.

And things get worse for poor Winky! A cross-over of elves from six different universes: Harry Potter, LOTR, Artemis Fowl, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Santa Claus and the North Pole, and featuring Elfquest's Winnowill!

Draco relives his memories of the past few years leading up to Voldemort's demise.

Demons are unleashed upon the world, and Harry Potter is there to meet them. But he isn't the only one in his lifetime to have done deals with the otherworldly denizens... Canon pairings, swearing and scenes of a violent nature. Set in 4th Year.

After the Final Battle of the Second War, evil is defeated but Hermione is left alone. Fear of Flying follows Hermione's emotional discord after losing her friends, faith and the will to live.

They call them 'freak accidents', and they are. They are all the more horrible because the person who dies woke up that morning. Told from the POV of an OC, post-war.

There is more to Daphne Greengrass than what can be seen; there is also more to the House she is loyal to.

There are many paths to the same destruction, and many ways ruin a life. A young witch looks to her mentor for guidance and finds he is more than willing to provide it, despite the costs. Will she fight the ties that bind her to him, or will her desires lead to her own corruption?

Colin has been friends with Jessica Nott since their first year, but she has a few things to tell him about her future. The finally finished follow-up to "Thinking".

Harry Potter has always thought no one cared about him as he grew up. Nobody watched over him. Not once. Little does he know this is a lie. One-shot from an interesting point of view.

In an abandoned chapel by the sea, Tom Riddle spends his last moments on earth as a mortal man. Snake's blood, dark arts and heaven and hell tell the story of how one human being became something more than human.