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The war ended once and for all on October the thirty-first, 1985. An AU exploration of what might have happened if Peter had not turned traitor.

Set in post-OoTP times, war has broken out and Harry is being headstrong and reckless (surprising, I know). NotSoEvil!Draco and Angsty!Ron comfort each other after Harry goes missing. Sadness and loss a-go-go, as well as character death, smut, and firewhiskey!

Life with the Potters is always interesting. What emergency could haul Deputy Head Auror Harry Potter from his bed in the middle of the night?

Draco, Ginny, and Harry's lives are intertwined. See how they cope after the fall of Voldemort.

A vignette. Cho learns a lesson about life and death, and how to cope with her grief. An emotional and realistic story that jumps from past to present, telling the story of a girl who is too often neglected in fanfiction.

Thoughts of a lightly crazy but predominantly normal Remus Lupin, before he received his Hogwarts owl. Slightly AU.

We could be the perfect couple. But we're not. H/Hr, TN/BZ, L/R implied D/Hr, D/BZ, G/H, Hr/BZ

Poor Harry Potter--his life is made so difficult by his wicked stepmothers and cruel, greedy stepbrothers, and the crude house-elf Kreacher. When an invitation to a ball arrives, Harry is so excited. But his wicked stepmothers squash his excitement. Luckily for Harry, he has a fairy godfather.

"If Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs, the four brightest blokes Hogwarts has seen in generations, can't decorate a bloody Christmas tree, there is something very wrong with this world."

Draco would have been the first to admit that he had a problem. A very large problem, in fact, and it came in the form of the one and only Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived, Gryfindor’s Golden Boy. Saint Potter. Draco’s problem wasn’t so much of a problem as it was an obsession.

A boy who has played the clown his entire life. A loud little girl who knows him better. How similar could they possibly be? A reflection on Neville by Ginny.

A simple reflection of the life that has paved Lucius Malfoy's road to Azkaban. A slight homage to Newsies, the 1992 Disney movie.

During HBP, Pansy Parkinson attempts to talk to Draco Malfoy. (D/P)

After the events of the Triwizard Tournament, Harry falls victim to horrible nightmares. Now, however, he has an angel to guide him through. A songfic [my first] to Sarah McLachlan's "Angel". Oneshot.

Setting: Dreary who-knows-where. Characters: Neville Longbottom with an abundance of Creepy Men in Dark Robes. Plot: Survival of the fittest- erm...sort of.

I always snatch the Snitch. I'm always a winner, golden and perfectly round and armed with wings, forever meant to fly, because I am

The Death Eaters abduct several thousand Muggle and Muggle-born children, Hermione among them. Somehow she must survive the horrors of the 'training ground' and escape. Mysteries arise as she finds help from an unlikely source. But will it be enough? (HG/TR - Rated R for violence and general darkness)

Peter Pettigrew reflects on his life - from the decision that led to his betrayal of his closest friends to the choice that he's left with seventeen years later.

Love. It's a hurtful yet beautiful thing. It's almost magical when it works out, but when the one you love loves someone else it's almost unbearable. Songfic to James Blunt's- You're Beautiful

No matter what, Harry always seems to end up alone.

Sybil Trelawney is tired of being underappreciated. She undertakes the bureaucratic system to alleviate her problems.

Really dark fic from the point of view of the last Marauder. Why does the wizarding world feel the need to force a boy into the role of playing the hero?

Ginny Weasley had been in love with Harry Potter, but when Harry died she thought that he was gone forever. But is he? His presence lingers and torments her from the inside out, or is she just insane? Either way, Ginny Weasley is haunted.

Frank Longbottom meets Mr. Crouch and his son at the annual Department of Magical Law Enforcement Christmas party and extends a fateful invitation.

'Honestly, I can't even tell you when we truly had crossed the line that separated blinding hate from...something else. But we crossed it, or rather I did, dragging her kicking and screaming along with me. And, I didn't just step over the aforementioned line. No, as a Malfoy, I bulldozed the line, creating a black hole to take up the spot that used to be occupied by my common sense. Hers too, I suppose.' *Song-fic to Hedley's 'Villain.'

Luna Lovegood has her eye on someone.

He's been watching her for years. Neville thinks about the girl he loves, Hermione, but she'll never know.

Two different ficlets...story of angsty love about Harry & Draco.

X-Files/HP cross-over. As a newly trained Auror working for the elite Magical Investigation Bureau, Hermione is given her new partner and her first assignment. However, things aren’t turning out precisely as she planned… SS/HG Mulder/Scully

The Dark Lord has been vanquished, and a new era has dawned for both the Wizarding world and for Draco Malfoy. This is a story involving humor, drama, mystery, and yes, a bit of romance.

A month after the War and the defeat of Voldemort, a mentally unstable Harry falls asleep on his couch in muggle London until he is awakened by an unexpected visitor. Warning: character death, H/D slash.

Andromeda counts her life by moments.

Harry and Ginny have a conversation that's only sort of about football.

It could have been over. The dark side could have been defeated for good.

So...Ginny Weasley killed herself and Tom Riddle is free of the confines of her head, he is walking, she is soaring, and he will not ever walk again...

Remus at 12 Grimmauld Place. Post-OotP. "Wide, rough scars on the wooden floor, still matching the shape of Buckbeak's talons. Soft velvet, worn and folded in blue layers on top of the cupboard - old curtains, the ones Remus sees in Black family portraits. No scent of Sirius here - not even on the stiff shirts in that chest of drawers, too formal for Sirius' tastes, no doubt only donned at his mother's command."

In which Ashlin is jelloid, and Holly is worshipped by a leech with a flamenco skirt and a trout that gets eaten with a tomato and expensive red wine. In Swedenland.

Remus wrote a letter to Lily Potter expressing his feelings about their former relationship. Unfortunately, the events at Godric's Hollow occurred before he had a chance to send it.

She wants to have a normal life but he just won't let her. He is needs her too much to forget about her. Harry and Draco get put into this mess unwillingly. What happens when old habits are just too hard to break?

They were on their way to a party, but instead, four famous heroes find themselves ghostbusting.

Why did Sirius send Snape to the Whomping Willow? Here's one scenario. Rating for language and adult themes. Slash. WIP.

n the aftermath of the Final Battle, in an attempt to mend things, broken pieces are gathered. Sometimes they cut. (Percy/Oliver)

Draco, you caused everyone plenty of problems. It makes me sick every minute that passes by. It's better for me to shoot you on sight. But you couldn't fight right now, so let's settle everything in a game of Roulette

"When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between." - Sir Walter Scott A Remus/Sirius ficlet.

Harry listens to Dudley's old "Disturbed" album and feels like the words are relating to him. He thinks back to Sirius and remembers how horrible it felt to lose someone. Angsty and depressing. Songfic.

A morning, post-OoTP. What's Harry doing? What's he thinking? What are the ramifications of the prophecy? Who's mad at him now?

Ginny wards against the dark in an unusual fashion. A one-shot in the same story arc as Initiate. D/G

Snape and Draco return to Spinner\'s End, where Snape is able to offer a little help, and a little hope. (Gen fic - *NOT* SS/DM)

His light shines in the darkness, and it will not be overcome. Rufus Scrimgeour-centric.

A year after the Battle for Hogwarts, Hermione remembers her dead.

Thinking about the man who ruined his life, a boy wonders how you can love and hate with your entire heart at the same time.

Draco likes to play pretend. Response to SBBO's 'Disorder a Day' Challenge.

Rookwood arranged his daughter to marry the Malfoys' son. Everything seemed to be going according to plan until she meets the boy who lived. HPOC DMOC

We all know that Hermione does not take the quick bout of Lavender/Ron well. But nobody knows how close to heart she actually does take it? A little reflective one-shot.

Voldemort was defeated, and the entire wizarding world rejoiced. No longer are they living in fear, and horizon is no longer dark; the future is looking hopeful and promising. And yet, not everyone is able to be optimistic -- unable to do naught but dwell on the devastation suffered, Ginny Weasley finds herself withdrawing from the world around her, distancing herself from everyone she knows in the belief that they can't and won't comprehend how she feels, not when prospects are finally starting to look so bright after so long. What will happen, though, when she finds that the last person she would ever suspect of empathy proves to be the only one who understands?

A wolf howls to find their pack, for a lone wolf is unlikely to survive for long. Remus Lupin walks through number Twelve Grimmauld Place and reflects.

It was midday when he saw the young man on the road. A two-shot in which a teacher is found and a lesson is learned.

But by now, Ginny knows better.

A fluffy post-HBP ficlet. Remus/Tonks, with some mention of Remus/Sirius. Remus is haunted by memories of the past, but Tonks is there to lead him home.

At a celebratory Halloween ball, unlikely companions discover more in common than just the battle scars...

"She didn't want to die. Not yet, at any rate. And to die in such a way, where no one would know and most likely won't care, would be worse than dying in an accident, she thought. There'd be no fuss over her death. She was just another casualty of life, they'd say. Unimportant, unknown, and unloved." Presumably in 1994, a Ministry of Magic worker by the name of Bertha Jorkins went on a holiday to Albania to visit a relative. But she picked the wrong time and the wrong place - as always. Encountering more than just a couple of non-English-speaking locals and some very strong alcohol, Bertha also loses many things - the most important being her life. A sad, chilling account of sibling rivalry, loneliness, deceit and murder.

Before the end, there's always a beginning. H/D

Lupin's thoughts as he remembers Lily and his relationship with her. He is a lonely, broken man, thinking that two of his friends are dead effectivey at the other's hand. Memory is what he lives for now.

A brief look into one night of the post-Hogwarts lives of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Stress, mundane burdens, moonlight, important things like love, and those unfortunate things you just have to do to keep food on the table. SLASH.

Harry gives Sirius' eulogy at a small gathering of friends.

A Slytherin student has found a potion which helped him create a Hold to destroy his dark feelings. He tells Harry Potter the story of his life, his love for Malfoy, and his self destruction.``Do not expect cuteness and pink flowers. Please do not commit suicide as soon as you're done reading.

Nemesis: (1) A rival that cannot be beaten or overcome, (2) The Ancient Greek Goddess of Divine Retribution. Draco's pondering on his and Harry's relationship, and his questions based upon that. Is it really only a rivalry, or something deeper than that? Is Harry really just his enemy? His conclusions made on these questions, and his feelings about the illustrious Boy Who Lived.

To his horror, Knight Bus driver Ernie Prang is 'invited' to become an informer for the Ministry at the beginning of the second war. As the months pass, Ernie finds that he is forced to decide which roads are the most dangerous ...

Harry never understood why he was the way he was. Questions filled the thoughts of a fifteen-year-old Hogwarts student who happened to be the savior of the magical world.

They'd have you believe war is romantic, with soldiers ready to lay down their lives for Queen and Country, and love found in even the darkest of times. But for those caught up in battle--those who watch their lives and loves break before them--it means picking up the pieces, rebuilding what you can and learning to move forward again.

The end of the war has come at last. Voldemort has been defeated, but at a terrible cost. The evening after the final battle, Ginny stands outside of the Burrow and thinks about what she's lost, and Harry, and the plans they made for after the war. What will she do now that life must go on? *song-fic*

"Why? Why keep on living? You answer those questions for me because I really cannot. Yes, you. Both sides seem so alike now. This is the only truth—my only truth—and others do not see it, much less make it retreat. They are blind—blind with a slight blaze of glory from me. I’m me, and no one person can know what I am feeling. Yes, people can help me, but no one can save me, only myself." A slight gaze into Harry's mind two years post OotP.

Where Azkaban is like death to a Malfoy, and throwing rocks at a Giant Squid is a perfect way of dealing with it. Unfortunately, a Potter does -not- think so, and when you try and prevent a Malfoy from standing upon his dignity, you are helpless.

The events in the Department of Mysteries, at the end of Harry’s fifth year, leave Albus Dumbledore with the broken pieces of the past year. Before he starts cleaning up he has a conversation with his reluctant Potion Master about hate and consequences. But they are not alone in the shadow a third person is watching and wondering why Albus trust him and why Snape chose Voldemort.

Life is full of tests.

In the midst of the Wizarding War Draco Malfoy finds himself completely alone. Panicking, he turns to Harry Potter who rather unwillingly saves his life. Draco Malfoy is thrown into the dungeons- a Prisoner of War. Years later when the War is over, the world no longer has a place for Draco, his existence has been forgotten. Harry and Hermione give him a chance of a new life. So with the new identity of Magnitude Halfpenny he begins to learn to forget the life he lived for nearly eighteen years until his new world is turned upside down by the very people who created it... (Not OC)

There’s no time for resentment, no time for sorrow… life is destroyed by those who don’t deserve it and love is taken away from those who cherish it. We’ve wasted so much time. We had a second chance. It was taken away from us. Now I’m just waiting for a third chance. - An alternating POV fic recounting events from Halloween '81 to PoA. (R/S)

Things that are broken can be mended but the cracks will always remain. What will the pressures of war have on the relationship between Remus and Sirius?

R for some violence to animals. In Hogwarts, during MWPP time, there are secret meetings in the dungeons for upcoming Death Eater trainees. James wants to make the Order and nothing is quite what it seems.

"Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you can't see." Or: sometimes boys aren't too bright. (George Weasley/Lee Jordan)

Set in the summer after fourth year, and written before OotP (though edited after), this fic gives a glimpse of Cho Chang following the death of her boyfriend. Tears, fears, guilt and blame, as Cho tries to get a handle on what has happened.

Only months before Draco's upcoming initiation to the Dark Side, an unexpected situation in a dark alleyway causes distortion in his plans. Draco is forced to rethink his options of how he is to get through the war on the winning side. Because only one thing is for certain: he will live to see the end of it.

Voldemort is gone, the wizarding world is safe, but Harry Potter wakes up one day to find that it's all been ... a dream?

Cho Chang is very deeply affected by the death of Cedric Diggory, and this story isn't really a novel, just a view into Cho's distraught state of mind after Cedric's death.

"No one knew Remus Lupin loved her too." James wasn't the only one to love Lily.

As the end of the war approaches, Harry thinks about what little is left of his life and himself that is worth living for. A one-shot first person narrative. Brief, one-sided mention of H/G

Barty Crouch Sr. reflects on his wife, his son, and the world he has built for himself.

On the eve of Harry's election to Minister of Magic, Draco must decide if being with Harry is where he wants to be.

Over 100 years before the Canon: Same Hogwarts. Different teachers. In J K Rowling's canon we only really see Hogwarts from the point of view of the students, glimpses into the lives of the staff are rare and tantalising. Behind the Staffroom Door is a story set some hundred years before the main action of the canon. Its main character is DADA teacher, Peregrine Proudfoot and how he deals with running the school for a very ill Headmaster and handling staffroom politics.

'... many thought he was an attention-seeking little monster. Others gave him a wide berth in the hallways because he was supposedly a raving lunatic. The little boy’s green eyes full of wonder became the young man’s green eyes full of sadness. And worry. And fear.'

"To Hermione Granger, life was like a blank piece of parchment—like Transfiguration homework before it was completed—like an essay." The companion to You’re Dead. Hermione knew that Sirius’s death had affected more people than thought. All she could do was help Harry grieve and give him more knowledge. But for once in her life, she didn’t know what to do with Ron. She couldn’t correct him. She couldn’t help him now.

I hate looking into mirrors. I've never liked it. Even as a young girl I would never be able to look directly in the mirror, which is why I use my wand to fix everything.

Hermione Granger's death. Totally canon-compliant, and a little sad. This was what I thought Hermione's death would be like after reading about Harry's "death" in Deathly Hallows.

We all know what happens when a wizard travels through the barrier between platforms nine and ten at King's Cross station. What we don't know, is what happens when a Muggle accidentally stumbles onto platform 9 3/4. How will said Muggle handle the situation when a rambunctious prankster crosses his path?

Sometimes, you are so desperate for changes to happen. Sometimes, you just don't see a way out anymore. Sometimes... desperation will transform the world into a better place.... (T/G)

Summer 1980. Two young men meet in a pub in Knockturn Alley. For ten days, their lives are entwined. But when the Dark Mark burns, no one can fight the summons. Regulus/Peter.

Harry has to go back in time to retrieve a Horcrux from Grimmauld Place. But can he really keep from changing future events?

James and Sirius made a promise to Remus; Remus also made a promise. How does this change things if both those promises were broken?

The tight circle of trees surround you, moving in. They point their crooked branches at you as if they blame you for the frost that has covered this whole godforsaken place. You killed us, they whisper with their leafless branches, you killed us, like you killed him.