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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.

Love is an incredibly complicated thing, an organism with its own schemes. Controlling it is like playing with fire. Merope decides to build her own pyre.

"Harry was back with the Mirror of Erised, his back turned to it. He stared down his enemy with a look of hate, all of these memories rushing through his mind. He wished that he didn't have to be there, that he didn't have to have his friends hurt, that he didn't have to battle, and the he didn't have to be the Boy Who Lived. It was too much for him." A oneshot of what Harry now sees in the Mirror of Erised.

Albus Severus Potter has just entered his first year of schooling, with the help of his friends can he survive the pranks, work, and secrets of which being a Potter includes?

Vauxhall Orphanage housed many children. One of those children was a boy with jet-black hair by the name of Tom Riddle. During the course of a summer he met a velvet-clad stranger by the name of Albus Dumbledore, and it was through him that Tom learnt his true wizarding identity. This started off the chain of events that led to Tom attending Hogwarts, and this story follows that fateful journey.

Based on the short story, 'Belinda Buckle Fancies You' in David Lawrence's the 'Chocolate Teapot.' In which Harry writes a love letter, Pansy sulks, Neville falls from his chair and Snape hands out detentions. Set during HBP.

Severus never meant to get into the cult scene, really. All he wanted was a pretty pair of shoes. One shot.

After a conversation with Molly Weasley, Tonks comes face-to-face with her new Patronus. What happens when Remus sees her new Patronus, too? No one always has a happy ending in the very beginning of a story.

A healer assigned to assist Snape in his efforts for the Order gives her side of the story.

Ron tries to find a way to escape the excessive heat and Pansy Parkinson. Not necessarily in that order.

Sirius and Remus are very confused. Suddenly, all they can think about is each other. Is it a love potion, or the full-moon, or something else entirely? Could it be love, or just a fleeting surge of hormones? Only time will tell...

Ginny knew that Harry loved her, it didn't matter what he said. PostHBP

Severus Snape has many jobs, but is still, not least of all, a teacher.

On the continuing adventures of the Ravenclaws: After discovering the diary of Rowena Ravenclaw, life has returned to normal for Alastair, Ash and Tess. Of course, Alastair is keeping secret a crush on Tess, and their lives are about to get rocked by the arrival of a new student who may be more (or possibly less) than she seems...

In the final battle, Harry spares Draco Malfoy's life. But the consequences from this are far more than could be imagined...

Demelza was married and Ginny was heartbroken. It was just an affair. No one was supposed to fall in love. Three scenes from Ginny's ill-fated relationship with Demelza Robins.

The Prime Minister of Muggles receives a visit from Rufus Scrimgeour in the wake of Dumbledore's murder.

Hermione's disastrous attempt to brew a complex and forbidden potion backfires. As a result, Harry's world is turned upside down and he discovers a disturbing plot by Voldemort to use Harry once again in his cruel schemes.

It was insane. It was stupid. But he had to do it. Severus Snape knew he would never be able to live without knowing. It all came down to her. Lily.

One-shot: Snape has come back into Harry's life after 16 years, and Ginny doesn't know what to do to save her family. Epilogue compliant. 10427 words.

Two months after the battle that claimed the lives of both Tom Riddle and Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley is as lost as she was that fateful day. Will she be able to imagine a life without Harry in it? Can she carry out his legacy, or will she simply dissolve into a shell of the person she was before it all took place?

After a disastrous game against Hufflepuff, Harry goes to drown his sorrows in Hogsmeade. Unfortunately, he left his better judgement back in the showers, and end up making a mistake that will follow him around for as long as he tries to deny it. Having to come to terms with new discoveries about himself, Harry's in for a very difficult sixth year.

Lucius Malfoy rots in Azkaban, the news of his son's death fresh in his memory. But when Narcissa gets permission to visit, she brings news that might help heal his soul. Not fluffy, but a love story none the less.

The Philosopher’s Stone speaks of a gray lady—-the Ravenclaw ghost. Legend has it that a gray lady has lost love and is doomed to spend eternity on earth to mourn him. This is her story.

This essay follows Draco Malfoy through his experiences in Deathly Hallows and attempts to speculate as to his motivations and virtues, or lack thereof.

Dumbledore's last moments on the Tower, as seen through the eyes of Draco Malfoy.

The thing he’ll remember most vividly is the leaves. [Sirius/Lily. Plenty of Angst. Part One of "The Heart’s Progress", a series of vignettes]

Luna is comforted in the Department of Mysteries.

One month post HBP, Severus sits writing a mad assignment for the Dark Lord. To be read with Vivaldi and a glass of cognac.

Adhara Jocelyn Black has always been torn between her loyalty to James Potter, her cousin Sirius's best mate, and Lily Evans, the sister she has never known. But in her seventh year everything changes. Join Jocelyn, Sirius, Lily, and the rest of the Marauders as they battle for their lives... and loves...

Post HPB, Minerva puts Albus' chessboard back in order, and comes to some conclusions about the rules of war.

A walk after one of Remus' transformations including a discussion with a complete stranger, a pitiful site and an odd reference to twilight.

Take a deep breath, count backwards from ten... and above all else ... don't worry! It will all be over soon. The world, that is. Yet for Harry Potter, the end is just the beginning. Enemies close in on all sides, and Harry faces the greatest challenge of all... Time. The Boy Who Lived will do so again, as an ancient legend will rise from the dark, murky depths of time, screaming with enough power to shatter the world.

Most of the time, I can live with it.

James Potter and Lily Evans: Completely different, but completely in love. Their truimphs and losses, victories and pranks, from first kiss to last.

Fred survives the Battle of Hogwarts, but at a price: he is blinded. A guilty Percy declares himself his helper. Fred could barely stand Percy being a git, but this helpful, overtly friendly Percy is driving him mad.

Even if we think we are prepared, sometimes the most unlikely person makes us realise otherwise, as Regulus finds out. No ships.

What happens when Sirius Black falls for a girl who makes all his charms and tricks worth nothing? And what happens when that same girl causes turmoil in the close friendship between Sirius and James?

Two years have passed and darker times threaten to encroach as the war rages on around the Order. A storm is on the horizon as Voldemort's forces continue to grow stronger and Harry hunts for the remaining Horcruxes. Hermione's keeping secrets from her closest friends and she trusts no one while Remus' very soul crumbles. They are all searching for a way to rise from the ashes.

Harry survives the final battle of the Second War, but is left comatose and apparently brain dead. Now Ron must decide between two difficult choices: to keep his best friend alive by magical and mechanical means...or to give a hero the true and noble coda he deserves. (One-shot exploring euthanasia in a magical context.)

"Her hand instinctively went to her shoulder where she lightly fingered the map of dappled scarring." Ginny-gen fic.

“Luna, where are your shoes?” Luna x Dean

“Pack, he thought, and may well have mumbled as much aloud.” Ginny/Fenrir Greyback

Ginny Weasley does not feel quite herself in the summer after her fifth year. Or at least, she feels as though she has changed. She is not the same girl who attended Hogwarts ending just over a month ago. Puzzling over the Second War, which she is allowed no part in, and what exactly she wants to mean to Harry Potter, who never comes to see her, she begins to brew love potions in a desperate attempt to allay her boredom...

Years of battle, years of pain, immense losses, and the burden of the world on his shoulders. But now he has reached the end of his task, the end of his journey. It is time for him to go home. SONGFIC

A one shot from the point of view of Hermione's parents.

It has been 10 years since the final battle. Harry has left, not keeping in touch with any of his friends for the past 10 years. Now he is returning home to face the friends he turned his back on for 10 years. Author's Note: This was written prior to DH, so I did not know what the final outcomes for everyone would be. This was my take on what could have occurred and therefore is not DH cannon compliant.

The day after the battle at Hogwarts, Luna visits Neville in the hospital wing.

Ginny Weasley, newest member of the Holyhead Harpies, attends a charity function. Ginny Weasley x Viktor Krum

Harry and Remus talk on the eve of a major event in both their lives. Right now a one-shot, and slightly generic perhaps, but I will write sequels if anyone wants me to!

There is always a next battle. (DH Spoilers!)

Harry goes on to find the missing Horcruxes and try to defeat Voldemort, only to discover that he can't because they are both the direct descendants of all 4 house founders.

A Dark artefact falls into the hands of a Muggle cricketer ... and the trail leads Harry and his picked band of Aurors through Spinner's End and the Hangletons, to a final confrontation on a village cricket pitch, where they hit the Forces of Evil for six. (All Kingsley wants is for the forms to be filed correctly.)

Some familiar characters exercise their magical powers for the first time.

Lucius Malfoy tries to talk his way out of prison and regain his place in society. Can this smooth-talking Slytherin really convince them to accept someone with such a questionable past? One-shot.

Sequel to A Pale Shade of Night. Lord Voldemort throws Britain into chaos and courts madness in his desire for immortality. With the Order crumbling and Darkness swelling on the Continent, a bitter soul hunter takes matters in her own clawed hands.

A month has passed since the death of Lord Voldemort. A chance meeting on the street forces Remus Lupin to confront questions he cannot answer.

My thoughts have become a swirling caricature of sanity, even I admit, but they don’t know. None of them out there know; know that I have you; know that you’re mine. They don’t know that I can keep you alive. Songfic of sorts to the song Sleeping Beauty by A Perfect Circle. Femslash and implied necrophilia.

Ginny has a big problem and she talks to Hermione about it, but can Hermione help? Can she solve Ginny's problem? Can she solve her own?

Buried his mind there, didn't he? For fives years, he did. Five years. And he was insane. It was deep, and it was hidden, under layers of papers and TVs, shows and Muggle beer, clinging onto the poles of the bar like a sailor to the mast of a sinking ship, yelling on about how we all are castaways of circumstances in the end, as though he'd already reached it.

The first victim of the Death Eaters. Who she was, why she was hated... how she triumphed over her enemies.