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From the darkest of night, a beacon of light can still shine.

At the age of twenty-four, Ron Weasley no longer associates himself with the structured, semi-orderly universe of his years spent at Hogwarts School. Estranged from his family and friends over the course of the ongoing war against Voldemort and the Death Eaters, he is now little more than a common, back-alley crook, disillusioned with the government of wizarding Britain, and indeed, the possibility of organized resistance to the Dark Order – until a bizarre encounter in a dingy London street draws him back into the fray. Action, mystery, and the consequences of dangerous choices.

One year after the War is over, George still hasn't gotten over Fred's death. Ron swears George needs a distraction to get away from "last year." Then, George meets Kaitlyn Thompson. Kaitlyn is loyal - to a fault. After all, that's what made her a great Hufflepuff. Her older brother (who has problems of his own, mind you) swears she needs to get out more, and break up with her awful boyfriend. Kaitlyn disagrees. Then, she meets George Weasley.

Tonks wonders what Remus is missing.

"...for neither can live while the other survives." The words he so much wants to forget remain. The time has come has come for Harry Potter to face his destiny--will he be able to overcome his fears?

The war is over, but its repercussions are still being felt more than a decade after the fact. George Weasley finds himself drawn into the latest machinations of a former Death Eater: one who just happens to be an old family nemesis. Short companion piece to "George & Annie: an Unofficial Biography"

Hermione never wanted to be a jealous person; however she could not help it when it came to him.

It's the years 2000 and the war is raging. Much to his chagrin, Harry Potter is to receive an award at a gala. When he learns the identity of his hostess, he is shocked and angry. Perhaps, though, they can come to terms with each other.

Tom Riddle has never known his mother, but one afternoon, he sits down and decides to write a letter to the woman he has never known....

This idea came to me while reading an interview with Tom Felton regarding Draco's character and then it hit me; what if somehow, Harry, Draco, Tom, and Dan were to appear on a talk show together? I think it would go a little something like this.

Isabelle Andrews and Sirius Black dated all throughout their sixth year at Hogwarts, but rumors that stemmed from jealousy tore them apart until one day during October of their seventh year when everyone else was at Hogsmeade. Coincidently, this encounter left Isabelle and Sirius with a "very little" problem on their hands. Can these two seventeen year olds handle their mistake or will it ultimately tear them apart?

Harry looks back on his life, his destiny, and his love for...certain people. SLASH.

Lucius no longer matters. (Set during the first half of DH.)

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Love isn't what it's cracked up to be. Ginny, Draco, Harry, Hermione, and Ron all discover that very quickly in this story.

Hermione must carry on after Harry's death.

Harry finds his one-time teacher and present colleague performing an unfamiliar ritual.

Deathly Hallows spoilers ensue. This story is being written as a response to JKR's comment in an interview where she said if Snape could choose to live his life over, he would choose Lily over the Death Eaters. So, that said, this is obviously AU.

Harry receives a very special gift for his 16th birthday, which quickly comes in handy when things get really bad at Privet Drive this summer. But when he finds refuge at Snape's, everything starts to get complicated... This is NOT a slash fiction, but an adoption/guardian one !

One-shot. Post-war, Harry visits Draco in Azkaban. There's mutual incomprehension, then Draco has a revelation about the nature of friendship.

A series of vignettes which chronicle the heartbreak and romance of various members of the Order of the Phoenix, during the Christmas season of the First War.

Remus is trying to cope with Sirius' death. However, Sirius has a different approach. A R/S fanfic taking in the events of 'The Half Blood Prince.'

It's Harry's 17th birthday and he can finally do magic outside of Hogwarts. He needs a good spell to mark the occasion, but what?

Fred and Angelina's Wedding Day will always be known as their disaster day. Between a Dark Mark, Dobby, and Percy, no one will ever forget it.

The war is over, and Severus Snape is in Azkaban. With Chocolate Frogs. Could there be worse? Well, yes. Correspondence about them. Just what is really going on?

Harry ignores some good advice.

While Harry and company are off hunting horcruxes, it's up to Luna and the rest of the DA to hold down the fort at Hogwarts. But, that's not as easy as it may seem.

Sometimes love isn't enough. Some relationships come with an expiration date.

Two days after the final battle, George reflects on what happened and attempts to cope with the results. Can he find the strength to carry on? Contains spoilers for "Deathly Hallows".

Regulus Black: start to finish.

Theory about why alchemy might feature in book 7 and who could be an alchemist.

A one shot following Severus Snape from the end of HBP to the final battle, with flashbacks to his past.

Voldemort comes after Harry to take his revenge.

Five women, each with a man on her mind, but not, perhaps, the men you'd expect.

Summary: Luna gave him a befuddled look. “Because you’re here, Draco Malfoy. Why are you here?” “For sun and sand,” he answered automatically. “And to escape justice.” He searched her face for a reaction, but she just continued to smile whimsically. “Who sent you?”

It is Harry's first Christmas and everything's going great. Or is it? Peter hasn't shown up, grudges are shown, and Lily knows the truth. It definitely isn't Harry's best first Christmas and it's Lily and James's LAST Christmas. VERY Dark and Angsty.

Ron and Hermione are to be married on this happiest of days. The twins would rather not be there when it happens.

Something was poking Sirius in the side of the head. It was sharp and uncomfortable and oddly familiar. Sirius Black gets a visit from an old friend. One-shot.

She kept her heart under lock and key as not to have it broken. But the irony was that, in the end, her heart was broken anyway. DHr, Oneshot.

"My name is Harry Potter. I am the boy who lived; the so called Saviour of the world. There is one person I couldn't save." After the war Harry must come to terms with the fate of his son, battle his demons and care for a broken family.

And so Harry Potter lived to a ripe old age, became Minister for Magic and had twelve children. What if at least one of Trelawney's prophecies actually came true?

An essay about the theory of magic, mostly from a physical point of view. Includes bits of the M-theory, 'programming' and various spells and techniques.

For the March2007 challenge. Fudge pays an unexpected visit to Hogwarts.

"After she finished work, Elspeth went down to the cemetery on Woodthorpe Road so she could see the ghost." A Potterverse story with a twist in the tail. One-shot.

You've seen the movie (or have you?). Well it doesn't matter, because this fic bears little to no resemblance to the fine picture. I present, therefore, for your amusement, your favorite characters from the "Smoke Two Joints" series taking a mad trip through Diagon Alley. Acid; LSD; Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Psilocin. Psilocybin. Plenty of Tetrahydrocannabinol, for good measure. Read the fic. Laugh it up. Peace out. ````Rated "R" for some profanity and extreme drug use.

It wasn't how Remus would have chosen for Harry to learn that some secrets need to remain secret. A trip into Remus' closet will reveal more than skeletons. (set after HBP -spoilers)

There was no turning back now, was there? Draco Malfoy was undoubtedly a marked man, and he was barely a man at that. Professor Albus Dumbledore was dead and the second war was about to begin. What was left for the young Slytherin? Did he fight with those he had sided with his whole life, or did he pursue a new path?

A companion fic to "An Angel in Disguise," because it features Jim!the Janitor and eight-year-old Harry. An essay assigned by a substitute teacher yields some surprising results.

When a mysterious dog appears on the Hogwarts grounds, Professor McGonagall is forced to seek temporary shelter with Professor Flitwick. Written for the hp_friendships challenge on LiveJournal.

Questions of mortality between Bill and Fleur, and why tomorrow is a gift.

"He is not drunk, who from the floor Can rise again to drink some more.......... But he is drunk who prostrate lies, And cannot drink --- and cannot rise!" ~Irish toast

Without the journey, endings and beginnings are meaningless. It doesn't matter where you start, it matters what you do after you start. We all know how Harry Potter started, how his legend began...with his parents. However, we don't know much about them, we only know their end - death. We have immortalized them in our minds, and forgotten them. We have reduced them to the mere parents of the boy-who-lived. So, now come back with me, and watch their journey. Watch them grow in another time. Learn about the generation history is so eager to pass over. Join me, and observe their journey unfold into the destiny of the wizarding world.

It's the holiday season, and Harry is alone and missing some holiday company. This is the script for Spell-Cast.com's 2006 holiday podcast play.

Irma Pince has a secret that she didn't know she was keeping. How does she react when Severus removes the charm that reveals that she really is Eileen Snape?

When Harry Potter dies, the Wizarding World is shocked. But death is yet another adventure, and as Harry finds out, a big one.

It's Harry's 7th year at Hogwarts. The unicorns have come to human form and are here to save them all. But what they don't realize, is that the world is in more danger than they thought. Evil comes full force, Malfoy returns and needs help, Ron gets a little cheeky, and many romances are formed. Harry has girl trouble to the highest extent but that's not the height of his troubles. Will he even make it to the end of the year?

The afterlife bears a surprising resemblance to a railway station...

A short piece looking at Harry's girls.

The invention of the Wolfsbane Potion was accomplished by three of the most unlikely people imaginable: Remus Lupin, Severus Snape, and Mariella Goring. Two halfbloods and a pureblood. Two Gryffindors and a Slytherin. Two Order members and one Death Eater. Two lost souls hoping to atone for one terrible day, one terrible death, and one hopeful spirit seeking to do some good in the world.

Draco isn't really sure how Pansy convinced him to come here. Well, yes he does know. But that doesn't make it any better ... Warning: Trio love, gay!fanon!Draco and drunken!slutty!Pansy. You have been warned.

Luna tells a bedtime story to her daughter of lawn-gnomes striking back at two children.

The Second War has ended, and several months have passed since the Final Battle. It is now the night of 31 December, and while the rest of the world is out celebrating the dawning of a Voldemort-free year, one young man is preparing to end his life. He has lost everything he cared for, including the love of his life, and can see no reason to continue living. Will someone come and save him before it is too late?

Remus and Sirius celebrate Peter Pettigrew's birthday in absentia.

We all fear what we don't understand. (Remus/Tonks, Post second war)

The story behind Harry's absolutely very first broom... whose idea was it really?

Underneath this smile, my world is falling apart. The cloud I have been floating on has transformed into an island and I'm sinking. You're the one that loved me and now by stopping, you've condemned me. You gave me all this love and now you say you want it back.

The first war has been over for almost a year. Everyone has started recovering until the five year reunion for Hogwarts class of 1978 brings back some old memories for one of the last surviving Gryffindors.

It is a few years after Neville Longbottom's graduation from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The wizarding world is back to some semblance of normalcy. Neville is well-suited to his job, he has his own place, and enjoys the rather new sensation of what some might call confidence, from time to time. Now all he needs is "the girl."

"You never go further when you no longer know where you are going." - Goethe After two years travelling in disguise, with all six Horcruxes destroyed, Harry and Ron are finally returning home. Harry and Ron do not know much of what happened to the lives of the Weasleys and Hermione. Nor did they know they were finally returning... Harry, more determined and ready than ever to kill Voldemort, will come to find that things happened while they were away... things that will change the course of the plan he had engineered over the past two years... But, can feelings and people, as situations and events, change so drastically in the time-space of two years?

Another morning in Slytherin House, seen through the eyes of Blaise Zabini.

'Yes, Narcissa Malfoy has feelings. That would come as a shock to many of the gossips and ignorants of the wizarding world. But then, there are very few who are neither gossips nor ignorants, very few who have seen enough and been intelligent enough to interpret it as I have. Oh yes, I have feelings. Far too many, in fact.' Narcissa tells all.

When Harry comes in from a discouraging Quidditch practice, his departing action may cause things to change.

Prequel to Almost. After the final battle, Hermione has to make a choice. Maybe, if she is to get on with life, she must start by saying goodbye to the one person she loves the most.

Theory about what may happen in book 7 based upon JKR stating in an interview that she is a Christian.

At the end of August 2013, Harry and Ginny Potter are invited to Hogwarts to investigate a spate of anonymous letters and vandalism. But poisonings and brutal murder convince them that things are more serious - and then their son Sirius gets involved... See Harry and Ginny as Quidditch man and wife! See the conflict between the Professors! See the mysterious Ancient Runes Teacher! Learn what happened to Hermione's old dorm-mate, Mary-Sue Moonchild! And learn how the Ministry persuaded Professor McGonagall to nationalise the Hogwarts House-elves!

War rages in wizard Britain, yet Severus Snape has never been better off. As he rises in the Dark Lord’s inner circle, he seems ever closer to fulfilling his grand ambitions. But he is haunted by memories of his childhood friend Lily Evans, now married to his sworn enemy. As the stakes get higher, Severus must once more decide where his true loyalties lie. Either choice will mean betraying one of his friends – and the consequences could be fatal… [COMPLETE]

There are seven Deadly Sins. Each one drives the sinner into evil and destruction, of themselves and of others. The Death Eaters are all guilty of Sins. Some are most guilty of one in particular, and this is what led them into the life they chose. Lust, Pride, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Gluttony, Envy....The downfalls of the Death Eaters.

He would always remember ringing the doorbell and knowing that James would be grinning when he swung open the door.... A fic about the problem with Remus Lupin. (Rated for mild language.)

Have you ever realized that all you know about Hermione is what she said about herself and what she did in front of others? And that the trio is much too lucky for it to be natural?

Three hundred years. Three Muggle Prime Ministers. The same difficult decision. Written for omniocular's September AU challenge, prompt 106: The Muggles actually know all about the wizarding world and are keeping tabs on them. The wizards have no idea and think themselves superior until war erupts.

A Draco Malfoy characterisation. Draco attracts attention because it keeps him from feeling lonely. So what happens when there's no one around for him to attract attention from?

Snape, a man who hides everything in his mind. Deals with a modern and poignant theme: addiction.

After the cursed necklace incident, Katie Bell has some trouble coping with life until she meets Marcus Flint. More of a Katie-centric gen fic than a shipper fic.

In which Lily tells James she's pregnant.

A closer look into exactly why Ginny hexed Zacharias on the train. (one-shot ficlet.)

It is our choices that define us, for better or for worse.

Sometimes, young love can be ageless. Years have passed since Tonks last called "Wotcher!" at Bill across the Gryffindor Common Room, and those years have led them to different points in life -- different points on the globe, even. Still... there are people you never quite forget, people that leave a mark. People that still, after five or ten or fifteen years, can make you feel like seventeen and just in love. And home.

A foray back in time to retrieve a Horcrux means that Harry has an unexpected encounter with someone he didn't intend on seeing. Suddenly, Hermione's rules about not meddling with the past become a lot harder to keep. Gen, Harry, Dumbledore. Oneshot.

Told in a diary point of view about two lives of two friends, November Whitley and Mary Warren. But the two friends have secrets, sinful secrets, especially about the people they desire. And you know teenage girls when it comes to Temptation. Temptation always wins.

Angelina got a terrible feeling in her gut and tears pricked at her eyes. Why? Why couldn't they leave us alone? It was no longer about Muggleborns and blood purity. It was about nothing at all, nothing but fear and destruction. Now they were destroying their own world, too! Angelina felt an utter hopelessness and would have collapsed right there under the complete madness of it all, but then she caught Fred's eye. In that moment, she was so filled with love that she felt capable of anything. Co-winner of the March, 2007 FA challenge.

Narcissa in invited to Malfoy Manor for dinner on Christmas Eve.

Luna observes Seamus and tells him that it\'s okay.

Always he had been there, to cry, and to bear witness. But time withers the ablest of bodies, the strongest of hearts, the noblest of spirits. Two centuries after the final battle, a solitary figure searches for solace in all that remains of his past: the shattered memories of yesteryears.

A short one shot of Draco's life as a death eater and a hunted and marked man.

Draco is happy with this life.

Hermione Granger decides to transfer to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. There, she learns that they not only make and enforce laws, but they also study magical criminology and forensics. As a joke, Blaise Zabini assigned school rival Draco Malfoy to train Hermione in the field...but he forgot one crucial thing that Draco remembered, and now he's stuck with her too. Bargains are made between the three, and strange things keep occurring as they attempt to solve a cold case that happened 20 years ago. It's a Draco/Hermione/Blaise and ALL combinations of the pairing.

Have you ever known something you shouldn't? Have you ever loved someone without knowing why? Maybe there's a reason.

War has come. Harry faces his destiny alone. Draco has chosen a path that leads him away from his lover. Voldemost seeks to conquer the world. But there is hope, a kind of hope only love can offer.

Six months after the fall of Voldemort, Harry and Hermione get married, Hermione is expecting and has a daughter. The Trio goes to the U.S. along with Ron's new wife, Luna and they try to rid the States of its main Dark wizard.

After Dumbledore's death, things change ... sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worst. After HBP, before DH. RLNT.