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If the past is a different country, could you do things differently there? Remus Lupin has visited it many times.

Young Severus Snape discovers that choosing a side can come with a steep price.

When there's no where to go, nowhere to run, what else is there to do, just end all the fun.

"I wanted to destroy something beautiful." ("Fight Club") And he very nearly had the chance.

A songfiction based on the events of ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and the lyrics to Garth Brooks' song, STANDING OUTSIDE THE FIRE. Harry reflects on the Mauraders after one of their deaths. SPOILERS

Sirius caught a glimpse of the moon. Sirius/Remus

The last time before, and the first time since Azkaban. Mature RLSB slash.

Harry Potter was unjustifiably tried in August for underage magic, but after successfully appealing, he rightfully returned to Hogwarts for his fifth year. Now, an unbelievable three months later, Harry is wrongly on CRIMINAL trial for a murder charge which could land him an Azkaban life sentence. Ultimately, Harry must defeat this unrighteous injustice before it steals his life away! Thus, with Umbridge as the fierce prosecutor, Dumbledore as his passionate defender, and Bones as the fair-minded judge, A GRANDIOSE SHOWDOWN TRANSPIRES!!!

A story retracing the events before the Potters died to when Sirius Black was sentenced to Azkaban - Remus Lupin, facing challenges, comes forward to the Ministry with certain suspicions of certain friends. It all began during sixth year when....

After Voldemort’s defeat, the magic world is mundane again. Hermione finds herself in a standstill in her life where even though she’s incredibly intelligent, there isn’t anything she’s interested in making a career out of. Attending a carnival with her flatmate, Ginny, she comes into a scary new power: She can see visions of people’s impending death when she touches them. Despite her disgust at the art of Divination, she is forced to come to terms with her new power, realizing it isn’t something she can just ignore. What Hermione sees in her visions will lead her to discover a new evil brewing in the magic world, one where only her insightful mind and another’s tenacity for sneaking around can save the day.

What happened to Remus after the fight in the Department of Mysteries? How does he deal with losing Sirius?

In canon, it is definite that Dean Thomas is a talented artist. But why? How did he become interested in art in the first place? This flashback to Dean's past tells that story.

This is simply a poem told from Harry's point of view. He reflects on his life and the lives of his friends.

Godric Gryffindor has been called too daring for his own good, but even HE is starting to think that charging into a swamp in search of a wizard known only as "Serpent-Tongue" is not the brightest move.... Not connected to Moon and Stone or Stepbrothers.

"She cannot even afford to live in the most humble of hovels. She is reduced to this. Whoring herself, living in an attic and eating little." A woman lives alone in a hostile world, fighting for survival. This is the story of her fall from grace.

By request this is a follow up story on the question Draco asked his wife in Love Bound in Green Velvet: Laura Dorsky's 7th year journal.

First in a series of songfics from the score of Les Miserables. You don’t have to know the story to understand this one, but it might help to see the connections. Remus Lupin ponders the loss of his friends after the events in the Department of Mysteries. Some indiscriminate time period after OotP.

Sirius and Remus were not a particularly happy couple during the time of Voldemort's first rise. Suspicion ran rampant between the two, each certain that the other was the traitor. Finally, the two separated - temporarily. But 'temporary' can end up being a very long time indeed.

Mrs. Black's portrait is a staple in Grimmauld Place. Everyone who visits there is influenced by her in some way or another; the warning against ringing the doorbell, tiptoeing around the house so not to start her screaming, and so on. But who was Mrs. Black, really? And what is her story that she has to tell? Travel beyond the drapes that hide her from the world and you will find your answer.

A smoky corner office. A pouting dame. Follow Neville as he tails Moaning Myrtle in her mysterious doings as a '20s-style detective. A short little ficlet.

Kiri McDonaldson does NOT want to come to Hogwarts. She doesn't, in fact, want anything to do with Wizards and Witches. So when she is finally shipped off to the world reknowned schhool of Sorcery, she's, well, kinda pissed.

Sirius meets Shaula in a secured room before his sentence is passed for Azkaban. They are of a similar background, and both followed good and evil with equal valour. Yet how did they both end up here, in the same place?

Potter has a dream and tells Draco about it.

Oliver seems to be the only one who notices that all is still not well with Ginny Weasley. A disastrous Quidditch practice provides a chance to help.

The Harry Potter universe has many examples of the false economy of isolating and imprisoning decent people "for their own good". Sibyll Trelawney is a case in point. What if she was a valuable resource that was squandered by Dumbledore?

A dangerous new weapon is introduced by the Dark wizards to destroy Muggles. But how could a weapon be disguised as such a harmless object?

How are you supposed to grow into a functioning adult when for years you rarely see the sky? Marcus struggles to identify himself either within or without circumscribed Slytherin traits. Oliver helps. This is a character study, a critique of the Hogwarts house system, and against all odds, a love story.

Stemming from a line that popped into my head one evening after an Armchair Chat, describing Draco lying in the snow, dying. A rather dark little piece on role-reversal.

You can't always get what you want.... Ron loves Harry, but Harry doesn't exactly feel the same.

Harry didn't have any friends before his days at Hogwarts. What if things were different? What if he did make a friend? What if that friend...was me? Haven't you ever wished that you could actually meet Harry Potter? I have. There are things I wish I could say to him and now, I can! So ladies and gentlemen, I proudly present...My Wish. Rated PG for mild language and mild violence. Brief Harry/Ginny and very, very brief Harry/Cho.

When Bellatrix Black awoke in the middle of the night, there was only one who would understand and ease her worries. The teenage Bellatrix and Rodolphus have a nightly talk about their dreams for the future.

Albus Dumbledore once said, "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here." Three very different men are unable to move forward in their own situations. Perhaps the magic of a simple melody can be powerful enough to help them. One-shot.

After it is all over, a man remembers...

The Potters were the only family Sirius ever cared about. Last night they were killed along with Voldemort and he is the only one who knows who was responsible. This is Sirius' version of the events that end with him going to prison and Peter getting away.

Marauder-era fic. Sirius and Remus being the central couple, they are both pursuing other people in an attempt to hide from their feelings. Quite angsty, actually. SS/RL, RL/SB, SB/LE, LE/JP

Ten years of Draco's memory is missing. He's been convicted for being an accomplice to the murder of Hermione Granger. He has to wade through lies and half-truths and general suspicion to find out what's really happened.

Peter Pettigrew is forced into a role he does not believe in. But how is one supposed to decide when the lives of your friends are weighed against thousands of innocents? There's a fate worse than death.

War is the great equalizer. Harry Potter employs any means to catch his enemy. Harry/Draco angst written for Contrelamontre's 'Air' challenge.

Barty Crouch Jr. must have been feeding Alastor Moody, right? Tonight the gift is lemon cake and conversation. (BCJr/AM)

Coming back from a DE meeting, Severus Snape has some regrets about his life. Songfic set to Godsmack's Voodoo.

Tale of a girl who survived being at the hands of the Death Eaters in the Second Wizarding War and her aftermath. -Contains poem by bloodredsoul (who I love *huggles*) called Dark Stars- Warning: This is DARK, like all my other fics. Don't read if you can't handle it.

Ever wondered how Trevor made it from King’s Cross to the Hogwarts’ boats in his first year? Suspected fiendish plots, but been unable to pin-point the culprit? Look no further – the answer is here! Read all about it in the words of both the man – er, toad – himself and also the vile toad-napper.

How Stan Shunpike learned to survive Azkaban.

POST DH/EWE. Severus Snape escapes death by an enchantment that takes him back to 1848, and he starts a new life. Hermione Granger discovers a magic writing desk, the sole link to his former existence. They write to each other, healing the ravages of war.

Inspired by the song Perfect by Simple Plan. In the Malfoy family, a son is never good enough for his father. Why should this duo be any different?

"Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad." (Remus/Ron)

"He wasn’t meant for this… for this dull, endless, lifeless existence." In the aftermath of war, Harry is barely existing in a haze of grey depression.

We all know about Hogwarts, but what about the other schools in the Wizarding World? This story takes place in Salem Massachusetts, USA where four young witches discover that even though they appear different they have one thing in common, and become true friends. slightly AU.

Romance, high drama, bitter angst - this fic contains none of those. Quickly chronicles Draco's writing career from the age of ten to the age of seventeen. Watch him as he learns what a pronoun is and why it doesn't bite.

Hermione never thought growing up would be complicated.

'With nothing left to him, this boy-lover-has-been must follow; in an instant, his love, his insecurity has turned him from a prince to a pauper, from a would-be savior to a slave.' Regulus visits Narcissa, seeking redemption.

A post-DH AU in three parts. Even in the best of all possible worlds, happy endings aren't for everyone. Both of them prefer this ending, really; not much for the storybooks, but most stories are tragedies, anyway. Leave those endings to the tales they'll read to Teddy.

Neville has the most unlikely of admirers. (Written for 30 Days of Neville at xnevillelovingx)

Pettigrew is captured and Harry gains the family he deserves: his godfather. But as darkness begins to grow, Harry discovers that his new found happiness is short lived. POA AU. HP/GW and RW/HG

There is a new girl in Harry's life, and Ginny needs Hermione's help.

Harry's been having dreams and they aren't dreams that any normal person would have. What happens when you mess up on a spell once and you can't help but mess it up again? Continuation of "Oh, Dear Christ!"

Companion Piece to A Startling Devotion. What it was like through his eyes.

'Lily Potter is falling...' What happens after death. Lily thinks back. Lily/James, hints of Remus/Sirius.

It's just days after the deaths of Lily and James Potter. Frank and Alice Longbottom are in danger. This story explains some things about Neville and his parents.

Harry Potter doesn't care about Draco Malfoy. He really doesn't.

With the second war against Voldemort still raging, Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for their sixth year. But what was once thought to be a simple ten months turns into chaos as Harry's nightmares return, five transfer students arrive at Hogwarts and a new competition starts.

Wormtail returns to Godric's Hollow.

"My heart is sick of being in chains". Ginny has tried to forget Harry, but in the close quarters of 12 Grimmauld Place that becomes harder and harder to do.

Outside the gates of Hogwarts, Severus Snape pauses - and chooses.

The war for Hogwarts has started. This is the journal of an escaped Death Eater on the run. Sixth year, do not expect a happy ending. Rated R for strong language.

Ever wonder why Lucius is the way he is? 'Being evil is about having hate and ambition and meeting them in the middle...' One-shot, Lucius. Warning; not for those who believe there is no such thing as pure evil.

Sirius Black has just lost everything in his life worth living for... now all he wants is revenge. (Takes place after the Potters' Death)

Rita Skeeter, Roving Reporter. Yeah right. Rita's ruined, and in the wizard prison Culparrat, all for the little crime of revealing the magical world to the muggles, even if it was only in a fiction book. Now it's the day before she is released, and she is thinking back to years before when Lily and James died, when she had best friends, and when she was free.

"...he should have known, from the first summer morning he woke to notice the faint black lines rising towards him on his arm, that he was not merely imagining it..." -- Kenneth Avery on the night of Voldemort's return.

Harry struggles the year after winning the Triwizard Tournament. All his waking and sleeping moments are spent worrying about the Terror that is Lord Voldemort; but what if there was another Horror... behind the veil?

In a world where war is waging, Draco is a poor and lonely soul. He wanders and stumbles upon an ending. This ending opens the beginning to a life with someone he'd only been with in his dreams... (H/D slash, poem-fic)

Written for the HP_Remnants "After THe War" challenge on LiveJournal with the prompt "And the picture frames are staring down/and the ringing from this empty sound/is deafening and keeping you from sleep", a lyric from a Dashboard Confessional song. Although this is by no means a song-fic, I did listen to the song several times while writing.

Even in dreams, Draco knows he is incapable of the task he has set. [Draco/Terry Boot, Harry/Draco, Harry/Terry, PG-13.]

A short, vignette type story. Based on the idea that both Harry and Snape are a little insane. Reference to DM/HP, but not a romance fic.

Who would have thought that Hermione Granger would find joy in such nothingness and uncertainty? She liked that about herself. She liked that there was this untouchable part of herself that she did not particularly understand. There were questions with no answers, and when they had first crept into her waking consciousness, they disturbed and frightened her, but now... well, now was different wasn’t it?

Sometimes, reading other people's minds is not fun. Sometimes it leads you further than expected. Just... Be happy you lived to tell the tale.

Fred Weasley is on his way home from a normal day at work when he comes across something that changes his life forever... and forces him to grow up faster than he would have liked.

"I love the smell of coffee in the morning. Oh, I don’t drink the stuff. Gods, no. But he does. Did." -- A Remus monologue in which he doesn't quite say what he means. Between-the-lines RL/SB, if that's how you choose to see it. OOtP-compliant.

Really what the title say, the story of the Sorting Hat, what it thinks about its job and how it got it.

It's snowing. There was once a time when this was a joy to her... but Hermione Granger has loved and lost, and winter is no longer the joy it used to be.

Pansy doesn't have the best of luck with men....

As taken from "The Tales of Beedle the Bard"

Hermione writes Cedric a letter confessing her feelings. Spoilers for Goblet of Fire. Mainly movie-verse but with a few elements of the book.

I think I hear laughter coming from the grand ballroom - laughter and faint strains of chamber music, glasses clinking and healed shoes on the polished marble floor. It must be a memory, a ghost of Christmas past, because when I step into the room it is empty.````Draco goes home his sixth year for a very different Christmas (little hints of one-sided D/H).

Cold. Oh so very cold. Brick, stone, bars, locks.. they want to keep me in and I want to get out. I want to find him.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright. [Harry/Draco, Draco/Terry Boot, Harry/Terry Boot. A study in avoidance.]

A one-shot song fic to "The Lucky One" by Alison Krauss. Peter had never been lukcy. He always needed help. He never had good grades, never got the girls... unlike Sirius. Sirius has always been the lucky one... and to Peter, he always will be.

Okay, anyone who was read OoTP knows how Harry's taking Sirius's death so far, but what about Remus?

This story chronicles the events leading up to Snape becoming a full-fledged Death Eater, beginning with the end of his friendship with Lily Evans in his fifth year. It will be installed in four parts, maybe five if I get over-ambitious. I used to write HP fanfiction weekly, but I haven't written in years, so reviews and the lot are very very appreciated! And yes, the title is taken from a Brand New song. The song lyrics do not play a part in the story, but I thought that the title fit very well--read on to see what I mean!

Sirius stands at the kitchen table absentmindedly stirring sugar in his tea. Remus walks in the room behind him and says a sleepy good morning, but Sirius doesn’t hear it, his mind is on the wintry scene playing outside the window. It was snowing, and if there was one thing in this life Sirius loved (besides one Remus J. Lupin) it was snow.

The sky was overcast. A slight drizzle and breeze filled the air as I made my way to the Hogwarts Memorial. They say 'Hogwarts Memorial', but really it's just a fancy name for the large assortment of graves that stand upon the grounds where the Final Battle was fought. I would know. I was there.

Only on her wedding day, did she finally find peace...

Elyssabeth Malfoy is the ill-favored daughter of Draco Malfoy. She had been home-schooled for four years along with her adopted sister Kathryne. It is only in their fifth year that they are allowed to attend Hogwarts. Finally away from the seclusion of Malfoy Manor can Elyssabeth escape the bonds that have held her for fifteen years? Death Eaters, a secret alliance, romance and angst galore as Lys and Kat attempt to fight the past and win their freedom.

A fifteen year old named Viviane Devereaux survives the destruction of her school, Aquitaine, but where can she go next?

The wood splinters before your eyes. You know they are there. Frank/Alice, R for a scene of torture.

Harry met Dumbledore and decided to turn back. But what of the others, who crossed that threshold? They each had a story, and someone to welcome them to their end. This includes many different short scenes.

Blaise Zabini talks to his lover about his past at Hogwarts, and how she changed the course of his future. Blaise/OC