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Merlin, what a waste of time. If knowing the future were as easy as looking at leaves in a teacup... Eileen took the final sip, then held the cup in her left hand and swirled vigorously. Three times, clockwise, the way Professor Mopsus had taught them. She drained the dregs, put the cup back down on the saucer, and critically peered inside. It looked like...clumps of damp tea leaves.

Sometimes, when I’m bored, or at another pointless Death Eater meeting, I think about that tapestry, the one in my aunt Black’s home. I remember the feel of it - it was soft, and the gold threads were so intricately woven, so perfect, it seemed. Of course, there were its flaws- the small burned names, and little holes, but other than that it really was very lovely. I remember, when I was a small child, tracing my index finger along the gold line that seemed to run forever…forever, and forever, for all eternity.

Ron Weasley's soliloquy of how his life has been being constantly in the shadow of Harry Potter. He looks back at his years in Hogwarts and what his life was like during and after the war with Lord Voldemort.

Padma Patil, Maya Lukes, Samantha Bridge, Emma Hart and Kiki Spratt are the Ravenclaw Girls, as they call themselves - they love gossip, boys...but the fourth year is when everything is going to change as they grow older and a shadow of darkness is cast over the wizarding world.

Zacharias Smith gives Lavender Brown some advice. She takes him up on it.

Random, madcap and yet so cute! Sounds like R/Hr? A piece of advice for 'em--Just Do It.

Ginevra Weasley returns home after several years of self-seclusion from the Magical world. Former Headmaster Dumledore is dealing with death issues and Luna Lovegood is being… herself.

Draco is obsessively stalking Harry's taxi. Draco gets run over. Draco and Harry contemplate eternal salvation.``Evanescence H/D songfic parody complete with pointless angst, random backstory, inexplainable POV shifts, Muggle trappings, and abuse of the English language.

A Gryffindor ponders what could have been after Voldermort's downfall. If his parents had been there, would his childhood had been different? By changing the past, could he bring them back? Would his life be different?

Harry Potter's capture ends the war, but it doesn't end the battle; Muggle-borns are rounded up and used as slaves for the ruling Death Eater party, while the rest of the Wizarding World is left in shambles. Hermione Granger turns to some old enemies in order to cope.

Writing is an addiction. Plain and simple. A story for every devout narrator.

YYHHP crossover, postHBP. Yusuke Urameshi was concieved by Atsuko when she was 14, but how that came to be was a mystery. When the truth is learned, he will have to face one of the Greatest Evils of the wizarding world, his father.

A fic inspired by the song 'Proud of Your Boy'. Ron promises his mum that one day she'll be proud of him.

The first war - a time of love and betrayal. After the fall of the Dark Lord, Severus Snape prepares to face the consequences of his actions - the funeral of the only woman he ever loved.

Ginny Weasley has exiled herself from the wizarding world for almost two years after the war between Voldemort and Harry ended, to save her sanity from the memories of that time. With Professor McGonagall's death, she is invited to the funeral, held at Hogwarts. Deciding to go, Ginny must give up everything she's built to keep her mind safe. But as more complications add themselves up, she enters a new war in the wizarding world in which she must depend on her scarred self, and Draco Malfoy, to keep her sanity.

Peter thinks about the events that led him to join Voldemort and betray his friends.

The height of the war, and an empty bed. Voldemort is growing in power, and the Order of the Phoenix must expand and make sacrifices. So many people he loves are fighting this war - who will Remus have to sacrifice? Remus-centric, Remus/Sirius, implied Hermione/Ron

Hermione is not vain for herself on any account, but she is so very vain and lustful for the head of desire that is Pansy Parkinson--and that it will stay.

As Hermione, Harry and Ron embark upon their final year at Hogwarts they discover that life doesn't really care much for their plans and the power that the Dark Lords knows not is revealed in a surprising way. HG/SS with HP/DM. Rated R for later chapters.

After the end of his fifth year, a self-deprecating Neville reflects on June, his parents, and his relationship with his grandmother.

Pansy hates waking up in the dark. In the darkness the nightmares hide, along with the haunting memories and the hidden doubts.

Most crashes are dramatic and sudden. Then, there are others that are soft and take time, like that of the fall of the House of Nott. After the birth of her son, Theodore, Ella Nott learns of her husband's true work. But that is only the beginning. There on, the Dark Lord vanishes. And then, only time can tell until her time is up. Such a fall will never come around for centuries, as that of Ella Nott and the Nott family.

So now, less than a month after dying, how is death feeling for Sirius Black? And what is going through poor Harry's mind?

A dark, disturbing, odd little fic. Harry loves Colin, and Colin loves Harry. It's perfect, surely? (Warning for extreme angst and weirdness!)

As Ginny's sixth year at Hogwarts comes to a close, she gets a strange feeling and hurries to save the Wizarding Community. Unfortunately, something goes wrong...

Wormtail probably had his own reason for betraying his friends. Maybe his friends attitudes made him or maybe it was something else. Yes we all think he's a scumbag, but maybe he had his own reasons.

Ron is not made for waiting around uselessly. Remus/Ron

Ron knew that his feelings for Harry were wrong, however he``wanted to know if there was any chance for him to get in Harry's life.

Ever wonder why Voldemort gathered so many followers? Draco's reasons for joining the Dark Lord.

After the war, someone has to live with the guilt of surviving and finding new happiness.

Harry participates in the final, public destruction of Voldemort.

Snape is haunted by memories, and has a meeting with temptation in the form of Bellatrix Lestrange. Because no one can remain impassive forever, and it is not only fools who can wear their hearts on their sleeves.

Year six in Slytherin house brings about some unexpected changes, but as the war approaches, will these changes be enough? Story of Sixth Year, as told from the viewpoint of Theodore Nott.

When an Auror is sent to the States to track down some runaway Death Eaters, he finds he may be in over his head. Set sometime after HBP

If you're wondering what this story's about, I'm afraid I don't know... just a random story where Harry loses his temper a little too often and insults Malfoy a whole lot.

There is a time before a house-elf is given a name. Winky thinks back on her past, and remembers how she learned to be a good house-elf. My thoughts on why house-elves are so servile and self-abasing.

Written for hd_remix 2007, for mizbean's story "Walk On." Mostly because I loved it, but also in part because I have a huge soft spot for Harry/Ron, even when Harry/Draco is the OTP ;)

Takes place right after 'Promise'. This includes Ginny's conversation with Dumbledore, and the Twin's newest Wheeze. Ginny battles with her inner demons.

"She edited her letters while composing them in her head, learning to give just enough to inspire verisimilitude. She learned to tell stories, in writing at least, and by the time summer came around, she'd told the same ones, over and over until they came automatically to her lips."

When she was younger, Bellatrix used to visit funerals of those killed by the Dark Lord. She now feels they may have an influence on her loyalties.

To Alice, Bellatrix is an enigma, and Bellatrix covets this. (femmeslash)

What if T.S. Elliot got it wrong? What if it was the brginning of the world we should be worried about? Rate for intresting takes on the Bible.

"Orphan. Hermione never considered that word much before. Until she became one herself." The death of her parents' death turn Hermione into a catatonic person, who doesn't care, doesn't know, doesn't realise anything going around her. She only knows one thing.``Nobody's home. Pure angst.

A songfic to Metallica's song "Sad But True". Peter Pettigrew's PoV shortly after Sirius's death.

Let it never be said that irony exempts heroes from its clutches. This fic follows through the eyes of one who is overtaken by hatred and does something that he will regret forever. If the dead have regrets. A post-Hogwarts darkfic.

Sirus Black was determined to overcome the dementors for ten years. All he could think about were three souls; two living, one dead.

And it’s like this that I’ll remember you. Always. A woman, now as small as a girl, who prays the sky for something that, even if it came, you couldn’t recognise. Your conscience has already convicted you. Without appeal. Murderer.

Hermione accidentally kills Draco, but then she accidentally brings him back to life. What happens when Voldemort becomes interested in Draco's new skeletal form? Soon it becomes clear Hermione has one choice left: kill Draco again. Post HBP. DMHG

Ginny Weasley had been in love with Draco for years and then he simply just disapeared. She had almost forgotten about him when a reminder comes in the form of a single green envelope with a promise of more to follow. Now she faces a dilemma: Continue her new life or try to rekindle the one she lost.

Fourth fic in what I am now calling The Songfic Chronicles. Another GC one, but I promise it's the last.

Draco Malfoy thinks back on his life and how Harry Potter has affected him. Contains elements of slash.

Lee Jordan and George Weasley (a.k.a. River and Wrackspurt) have been anonymously broadcasting a radio show on the Wizarding Wireless Network for nearly a year and a half, dedicated to educating the magical world about popular muggle music. This particular show, dated April 1, 2001, is a poignant tribute to someone near and dear to them both. A one-shot companion to George & Annie: an Unofficial Biography. No slash.

During the summer before his sixth year at Hogwarts, Draco's whole world falls apart. His mother is killed, and he is left alone to cope with the devestation that this brings. He has decided he has nothing left to live for, but can he be persuaded otherwise?

Draco brought out a silver dagger with a snake on the handle from inside his robes. Harry risked himself a glance at it, but a glance was all it took for the green eyes of the serpent to strike him like venom, bewitching him. Harry often had the suspicion that it was cursed to do that.

The Driver faces perhaps another of his most perplexing challenges: Coming face-to-face with a hugely talented and successful wizard singing star. But beneath her beauty lies a problem - she always gets what she wants.``He aids her boyfriend cum manager who always get pushed by her demands by giving her some payback of his own style.``Warning: Contains spoilers from The Hire

This is what the dementors can do. A look into the mind of Sirius Black at the start of his time in Azkaban.

Ginny confronts Harry about something they have in common: Voldemort.

When Voldemort discovers betrayal within his ranks he sets out to uncover the truth. When the truth is revealed it will show lies and deceit from the people Severus Snape trusted the most and force him to decide where his loyalties lie.

Follow up to There is a single candle on the table. James and Lily decide on a Secret Keeper at late at night.

Night and Day... two forces in our lives that seem to intertwine with each other and yet repulse each other... total opposites. Watch how the mere change from day to night can turn a person's life upside-down.

It’s Draco’s 18th birthday and Harry’s going to give him the present of his life, if only both can live long enough. MAJOR ANGST! Birthday fic for Shu! Post-War Harry/Draco Slash!

A loving mother thinks it's time to finally tell her daughter the legend of the girl with neverending tears... Cho Chang, a.k.a. Leaky Lue. What was Cho really like during school? After school? And was this really a legend?

A former Hogwarts student reminisces a terrifying time when childish taunting resulted in tragedy.

Choices were made in the past that can never be forgiven. A lifetime of loneliness and regret forms barriers between him and the world. Friends once lost will be regained even if only as memories surfacing in the mind. A lack of oxygen forces three characters to face the past and attempt to find a way to move on. Post-OotP

Severus Snape returns to Hogwarts and finds himself once more a student.

"It's no fun being an impatient painting in a dreary house devoid of other pieces of flat art."

Remus is tidying up the library at Grimmauld Place, when he discovers Sirius' old photo album. The pictures bring back memories, both good and bad, and Remus remembers his friends and thinks that maybe marauders just aren't meant to stay on earth. Song-fic to Whitney Houston's 'My Love Is Your Love'

In which there is a different sort of Death Eater centric plot, two muggles find themselves completely powerless against Wizarding law, and Hermione makes a desperate decision whose consequences everyone must face. "I made the best choice that I could under the circumstances, and now that I need you to support me, you can't do that?!"

Anne makes the mistake of introducing Theo to Shakespeare. Warning: may contain fluff.

Written for the LiveJournal hp_gen_ch's January Founders Challenge. The Chamber of Secrets was Salazar's idea.

"I realize now that I have done something worse than attacking him outright. What I have done is unforgivable." Harry tries to get back at Draco, but finds out more about him than he wants to. Much unhappiness ensues

Harry is sick of Draco never talking to him. Then when Draco finally does, Harry gets a rude awakening.

The final battle... with a little of both Harry and Voldemort's 'touch' and some help from the forces of nature and the forces of the impossible.

A battle over two thousand years old is finally laid to rest.

A group of Death Eaters meet in a bar a year after Voldemort's fall, and form a plot that could change all their fortunes. But is there a traitor among them?

... if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember... the power of one... Neville Longbottom was just like his Uncle Peter, nothing special, until he too was faced with a choice...

A stream-of-consciousness oneshot from Remus's point of view, reflecting on Sirius's death. Inspired by one particular verse of the song "Diamonds and Rust".

Post-final battle. A wounded Harry wanders away from the fresh battlefield, searching for help. For someone, anyone...

She sits up until the late hours of the night praying and waiting for Daddy to come back home. It’s been fourteen years and still she waits and waits and prays and prays for him to come back to her and Mommy. Maybe then Mommy wouldn’t be so sad all the time. Maybe then she wouldn’t be sitting alone at the table eating dinner while Mommy had to work three jobs just to pay for the small two-roomed apartment. Maybe then she’d have a family.

Understanding is about point of view. How do two people, caught up in a world that demands self-sacrifice and hardened hearts, find common ground? Remus Lupin and Annwyl King are two such souls. Their personal fencing match quietly plays itself out in the shadow of larger events. ``Co-written by MadEye1200 and Sandy Phoenix, this is a missing moment from chapter nineteen of Harry Potter and the Labyrinth of the Mind.

Draco finally gets frustrated with the way his father treats him and decides to leave the house. But first he leves a note to his father, telling him what he did wrong as a father. Songfic (Avril Lavigne- "Unwanted")

What if Voldemort hadn't really thought through the implications of the spell to create his body? Suppose the vessel and the contents were too much at odds? Not exactly AU, but possible alternate progression.

Every time the thunder would roll, she felt it in the marrow of her bones, as if nature understood the deep agony she held inside of her and it was being reverberated throughout the environment as well. Nature would wail with the wind, bellow with the thunder, weep with the rain, and showcase rage with the lightning.

Tom finds himself in a war that isn't his to fight.

A bit of insight into Harry's state of mind after the war. AU.

Hermione used to be happy. Now she can think of only one thing. WARNING: ANGST, CHAR. DEATH, RAPE.

He put her up on that pillar and she had to get down, and graveyards always have perpetually bad weather.

Things begin surfacing for Ginny at night. When no one is around. What happens when a new power arises, calling himself the Dark Lords heir? And how will Ginny play into all this?

A sweet songfic about the Weasleys. Particularly Ginny and Molly. Lyrics are from the Blake Shelton song The Baby. One-shot

Before a great evil governed the wizarding world... he was eleven years old, and got the Hogwarts Letter.

There's never a dull moment in the Old Farts Retirement Home. If they've lived this long, one can assume they'll live longer, happier lives. That is, unless they can survive each other. Featuring ForgetfulButStillEvil!Draco, SuckyChessPlayingHero!Harry, Hermione as herself except (much) older, Insane!Peter, and Ron!

Draco tries to regain a love, a lost perfection, a time of happiness... a memory (slash, stream-of-consciousness).

Regina took the small box from Fred, slid her finger under the paper and carefully unwrapped it. She slipped the lid of the box off and stared at the exquisite dragon hair clip with matching earrings. The dragons were made out of jade and edged with gold. The hair clip was large enough to hold Regina's hair in a high ponytail but small enough to hold a small amount of her hair away from her face. She pulled the earrings from the box and removed her small gold studs to put her new earrings on. The dragon earrings dangled about an inch from her earlobes. They swung with each turn of her head.

Percy Weasly must undo the wrongs he made before it is too late!

Ginny needs help but she won't admit it. Harry tried to be the savior... again. And Draco just HAS to be in here!

This is the Matrix...a world created and destroyed by the same people. Aurors and Death Eaters protect against reality, but how far does the rabbit hole go? A unique parody of Harry Potter and the Matrix series.

Two stragglers collide in a Hogwarts hallway (though not quite by chance), begin a hesitant romance (though not quite by choice), and may spark the ending of a rivalry that's been going on for centuries (though not quite on purpose). Pre-Yule Ball fluff. (Kenneth Towler/Patricia Stimpson - both minor OOtP characters)