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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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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'

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

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.

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.

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

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".

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 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...

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

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

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?!"

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

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.

"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

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.

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.

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")

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

One thing that Freya has known since the Christmas holidays of her first year is that not all important memories are nice. But what kind of memories can a fifteen-year-old girl really have to hide? Can she keep all of her secrets to herself?

The Creevey brothers are babysitting Kevin, the You bust slug kid from the Quidditch world cup. Surely, nothing can go wrong there...

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

Harry and Ginny marry, yet he dies in the Final Battle (no chance for wedding night). Five years go by and she meets a young man very much like Harry...almost too much so...and can't help wondering: had her lost husband been reincarnated?

I took Eminem's lyrics and tune and tweaked it a bit; HP style.

Songfic based on Damien Rice's Volcanoes with a D/G pairing

"A fine line runs between almost everything in life. Sometimes we choose to cross that line, and other times we're pushed across it. And on occasion, that line is broken entirely, taking the choice out of anyone's hands. I didn't like any of the situations. If I chose to cross it myself, then that would mean that I was responsible for what I had done. If I had no choice in the matter, then at least I'd be able to blame someone else, and then, just maybe, no one would blame me. I had no such luck."

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)

AU fic... Prequel to Daddy's Girl. Sirius Black has a son named Ash. Sirius Black does not want his only son dating a Snape heiress. Will she be able to earn Sirius’ trust or will she die in an attempt to win Sirius?

"Looking back, even now, ten years after the war ended, twenty years since the war began, thirteen years after his letters stopped coming, and sixteen years since I met him, I still remember." A bittersweet Susan/Neville songfic to "Traveling Soldier."

Neville comes across an interesting plant in a very old herbology book. It seems that it may have the power to bring his parents out of their catatonic condition. He delves into study and preparation, only to find that the plant is extinct. The last known living plant was owned by... his mother! There is a way to go back in time, but it involves very dangerous and dark magic. The only one who can help him learn is Professor Snape. Neville takes the risk, with strict warnings not to try to change the events of time. Can he resist the temptation to change the past? What if he can't?

Draco picks out his gift. (Rating is for dark/disturbing thoughts.)

It was cold and dark that day, but it was not wet. The rain didn’t start until it was all over – it was there to wash the battlefield clean. The two sides faced each other across the march. Endless rows of hooded, cloaked figures were lined up against our ragtag ranks. All faded into the fog.

What was Hermione thinking when she was asked to the ball? What if Krum and Neville weren't the only ones to "spot her as a girl"? A missing scene fic from Hermione's 4th year. Very slight Hr/R. Companion piece to A Spark of Gryffindor Courage.

Not all students at Hogwarts are happy. Two of our favorite characters share their thoughts on life. NOT A PAIRING!! Song-fic.

Voldemort has returned. He wreaks havoc on the Wizarding World. When Harry loses the Dursleys, who he actually started to love, and starts to be estranged from Ron and Hermione, where will he go?

Remus's thoughts after Half-Blood Prince.

They were the Blacks, the elite, the strong. But when their world of darkened hallways and silver serpents was shattered, a new chapter of the family history began: one of rebellion, and one of sorrow and loss. This is a portrait of the Black cousins, and a chronicle of the years that tore them apart.

Pansy is forced to love that one she despises. One-shot. P/D

Tracey Davis decides it is time to end living a lie. The only problem is the reality she wishes for is seemingly impossible.

Albus Dumbledore has always wanted to protect those within his care. There are times, however, when you cannot protect everyone. Takes place after OotP, though no specific spoilers. Second in the Les Miserables series.

Set in the summer after Sirius' death. Perhaps slightly deranged from the tradgedy, Harry sees Sirius in himself, and in a sense, forgets James. HP/DT RL/SB

Cedric is gone. It is the summer holidays and Cho is dealing with her grief through dancing.

Harry Potter's sixth year has ended, along with a period in his life in which he knew - or at least could hope - that there would always be someone to help and save him at the last moment should things go wrong. His most trusted shield and provider of confidence has fallen to his death, and now Harry has to seek out Lord Voldemort by himself. Finding and destroying all the remaining shards of the Dark Lord's soul seems an impossible task. Where will he start? How will he find the strength to do it? And who will be there to guide him helpfully on his way?

As the war between Voldemort and the wizarding world rages on, Peter Pettigrew has finally shown his true colours. Not very long after declaring his support for Voldemort, he was captured and arrested. He now lies in Azkaban, awaiting his sentence to be carried out, and these are his deranged last thoughts.

This isn't your typical love story. He hurt her. He may not have meant to, but that doesn't change the fact that he did. Not everything is as it seems though, and everyone has their secrets and reasons. [R/Hr]

Someone remembers Bellatrix in a different light. One-shot.

This is the sequel to "Maybe Dreams Don't Come True".``It's from Harry's perspective this time; see his reaction to their new lives.

Voldemort is known as the terror of the wizarding world, and a terrorist in the Muggle world. Well everyone has their off days... Right? What happens to poor Voldie when he's forced to go out and deal with the Muggles that he despises so much, in order to get the food that makes his evil brain tick?

This is a prequel to The Flames of Hell In Your Eyes. You have life. You work out your strategy. You do what you've been planning to. But at what price? You have life no more.

In the fifth of my parody series, Harry tries to kill himself several times in rapid succession, stopped by government coverups, several very cool yet grossly screentime-deprived people, and Dumbledore's ACTING!

A typical day in the lives of Mr and Mrs H J Potter suddenly becomes far from typical when Harry makes a chance discovery.

Albus Dumbledore was firmly believed by many to be the only wizard that the Dark Lord Voldemort ever feared. What happens shortly after the headmaster's death? How dark can the Wizarding World possibly get? And is there some hope to be found, or is victory nothing but a distant and unreachable idea?

Ever since they were children, Sirius and Sam have been the best of friends. Now, Sirius is falling for her, but he doesn't want anyone to no. Sam is a loser and he could make the whole school population jump with a snap of his finger. Now he has to decide between his reputation and Sam.

This is a songfic to "Changes" by 3 Doors Down. An angsty fic about what Harry is feeling since the Dark Lord has risen again. PG-13 for suicidal attempt and language.

Draco lies dying on the battlefield. He thinks about his life choices and dying.

It's funny, what kind of people became Death Eaters. Mudbloods, half-bloods and purebloods all joined the Dark Lord's ranks, even though originally he intended to maintain the purity of blood, and kill any mudbloods or half-bloods, by now he was only interested in one thing: killing Harry Potter. It seems that over the years, a lot of people decided to try and help him do just that. Let me tell you about some of the people who joined Death Eaters. Ron's POV.

Lazing on a sunny afternoon... Evan Rosier and Rodolphus Lestrange find that what is momentary doesn't have to be trivial.

Padma Patil sits in the Astronomy Tower the same night of the Yule Ball. She reflects on what had happened and how badly he treated her. Songfic to Linkin Park's 'Easier to Run'. Companion Piece to Breaking the Habit.

Man creates his own world, of fences and gates, of space and place and time but it's all the same, all a way of measuring off what doesn't truly belong to him. Monster and demon and pet, we all need to eat the same, need to breathe in the same air and feel the same warm blanket of shelter draped around our shivering form.

A prequel to Ribbons in the Wind, this fic is set on the night that young Severus Snape lost the only person he ever let close to him. It is the beginning of his fall to the darkness.