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"Regulus can't bring himself to let go of the horcrux. It masquerades as a heavy locket, and its engraving presses against his palm as his fingers tense around the metal, his skin accepting the imprint of its patterns." Regulus meets Sirius for the last time.

A lone wizard watches an ordinary Muggle home, pondering the inevitable path that led him to this point.

The Second War is over and Voldemort has been killed but Harry pays a horrible price, the loss of his best friend.

When Charlie Weasley takes his nieces to a Muggle park to see a dragon themed play structure, he finds more than just slides and swings. What can happen over a week while visiting the same park and the same woman? A lot.

After the Quidditch Final in Half-Blood-Prince, Neville finds himself discussing relationships with Katie Bell of all people. Shameless fluff, absolutely no plot.

Draco Malfoy loves his wife, but there is a lie between them that is tearing him apart. Sequel to Not Enough.

There was only one thing going through the mind of Severus that night as he aimed his wand at Dumbledore: He will be forgiven.

This story is a Romeo and Juliet version of Harry Potter.

Harry reminisces about his relationship with Ginny - it has been innocent, tumultuous, and overwhelming. He remembers their first kiss, their break up, the getting back together.

They say that Karma balances the universe. The good and the bad of the world - and of our lives - will always be equal. If that is true, then what has Draco done to deserve this hell? Wherein Gryffindors aren't so headstrong (mostly) and love isn't as hard to find as they think.

For Harry Potter's twenty-eighth birthday, he received three pairs of socks, two ties, and a summons to his bosses' office. What happened next could only be expected of Harry Potter.

In mourning and alone, one person comes to Narcissa's side one snowy morning, telling her what she wants to hear in her time of grieving. . .

The trio's search for the horcruxes leads them somewhere unexpected...a little town in Southern California.

A conversation between Severus & Lily the summer before their friendship ends evidences his inner conflicts and unresolved feelings for the red-haired witch.

The promise was broken. A reflection on the Snapes.

For several long seconds, George's mind refused to comprehend what his eyes were telling it.

Disowned by his family, Sirius finds unexpected solace in familiar places.

Hermione finds herself having an odd conversation with a dead man. Post Deathly Hallows

Valentine's Day. Lucius plays a joke on Narcissa. She plays one back.

Ginny Weasley is supposed to like pink.

Sirius is unwillingly risen from the dead and sent to Grimmauld place. But when an unexpected turn takes him to a somber place, he is wondering how much, and who, he has missed.

Neville is a little wary about Luna's plans for attire at their wedding. (Alternate title: Proper Wedding Attire)

The soul's age is measured not by years but by depth of experience. Just hours after Harry brings the terrible news of Dumbledore's death, Tonks and Remus experience the truth of this. One shot, missing moment from HBP. COMPLETE.

It's Ron's first disastrous day working at Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. If things weren't bad enough, a very peculiar customer shows up.... post-DH, pre-Epilogue.

A Founders story, casting Salazar, Rowena, Godric and Helga into the real events around the turn of the last millenium. Salazar plays a monk expelled from his monastery for his ability to speak Parseltongue, Godric is a wizard from the Danelaw, a dangerous person at a dangerous time, Helga is a witch captured in the north and sold into slavery far to the south, while Rowena is the wife of the powerful but Dark wizard who draws them all together. The founding of Hogwarts!

Remus remembers the bookworm he wanted to love and refused to marry.

Angelina married George, instead of Fred.

Ron just dumped Lavender. (one-shot)

After the events on the Astronomy Tower, nothing feels real to Remus Lupin. Nothing that is, except Tonks. HBP Spoilers.

"Granger, I understand the incessant need most people have for getting absolutely besotted with the holiday, but I don't quite think this is what is expected." DHr fluff!

Years after a wartime fling, Dean and Luna meet in China, and a long-forgotten flame is reignited.

They reminded each other of the seasons. A look at Draco and Ginny's relationship.

CHOMP.

Ginny goes to a Ministry-run bachelorette auction and is won by the person she least suspects-but secretly hoped for.

Vernon has a surprise encounter. Dudley needs a job. Fred and George have a new business. General chaos ensues.

It hasn't been a very good year at all for the Malfoy family, but Narcissa is determined to put her best foot forward and keep up appearances in her annual Christmas letter. Warning: contains high quantities of self-delusion, and far more underlining than necessary.

"Happiness and hope are fragile things. They can come as easily as they go and disappear without a reason. They can keep a person hanging on, searching, or they can lead them to their end." The war is over, but a shadow of gloom and despair lingers over the wizarding world. When hope and happiness seem like long-lost concepts, what do you have left? Ginny is content with half-living like everyone else, but a couple encounters with an old enemy may be just what she needs to put the fire back into her life and remind her just what she is missing.

Harry will keep his promise to deliver Snape's portrait to the Headmaster's office--but only after enlisting its help with an important assignment. Even Snape's image can be a handful, but Harry isn't worried. There are so many ways to dispose of an obstreperous portrait . . .

A British witch who is using unauthorized magic in New Orleans is Draco's new assignment. What happens is a surprise to both of them.

The Marauder's summer break is interrupted when an ancient artifact sends them into the far future. There, Europe is ruled by Emperor Voldemort, and they're thrust into an adventure to stop him before that can happen, finding themselves in the process. But they never realized how challenging it would be, that Voldemort's story is more complicated than they thought possible, and the effect that time has on everything.

It's 1981 and Barty Crouch Jr. is desperate for word from or about Regulus Black. Hint of Barty/Regulus.

Draco's always looked out for number one, but a bushy headed Gryffindor, an escalating war, and old secrets long buried but not forgotten make this harder than one would expect.

Narcissa and Lucius spend a day outside.

The feet really are the most important parts of the body.

A missing scene from chapter 24 of HBP. What goes through Snape's mind as he waits in the bathroom after sending Harry, who has just cast the Sectumsempra spell on Malfoy, to fetch his bookbag? One-shot.

After graduating from Hogwarts, Cho Chang didn't know what to do with her life. She was broke, she was friendless, and her emotions were a mess. She's never been anything but a burden, and her chances to do the right thing slip through her fingers like sand through a sieve. When opportunity stares Cho in the face in the form of the Order of the Phoenix, though, she's willing to risk everything for a chance at self acceptance and her dreams of a better day.

Snape arrived unannounced -- much as Sirius had, months before -- with nothing but the clothes on his back.

Ginny flees from the final battle to the safest place she knows: Hogwarts. When a Death Eater follows her, Ginny wonders if the old castle really is as safe as it once was. ONE SHOT

Massive destruction, the final confrontation between Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort. Inspired by the deleriously awe inspiring song 10th Man Down by Nightwish.

Harry and Hermione are out running from Voldemort in their tent. Harry can't hide his feelings for very long...

A look into the life of the Order, and the lives involved in the first war. Their love, their losses, and the trials of their youthful union, parenting and friendships. Not Chronological.

Harry spends his last weeks at Hogwarts thinking about Draco Malfoy... (Harry/Draco pre-slash, if you squint)

When Hogwarts embarks on a production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" during Lucius Malfoy's seventh year, he finds himself unwillingly cast in the title role and drawn to the quiet and clever -- and therefore, boring -- Narcissa Black. Cameos by Bellatrix Black, various teachers, certain members of MWPP, Severus Snape, the Weasleys, and Lucius's future long hair.

Harry and Draco both go to Auror Training. What happens? Are things different now that both boys are men, or will it be Hogwarts all over again? And will things be better or get worse when they are paired up by an insightful teacher?

Harry receives a song from Ginny (written by me) in the mail, and while departing on a train to Ireland, meets an equally depressed young woman who helps him realize that there is a whole chunk of his life left to be played out.

Ginny Weasley is alone at Hogwarts in her sixth year. She is on the verge of disappearing to aid her family in the war against Voldemort, but she finds that the teachers of Hogwarts who are still loyal have different plans for her. [A non-DH-compliant Ginny's POV of Book 7]

They knew nothing of him; only the memories of his victims, the recollections of Dumbledore while in his youth. They knew nothing of his pain, his corruption; that everything soiled and wicked has to be pure before it spoils. Of course, Tom Riddle's life could never be written, or recalled by tongue-only he could properly tell the tale of his life; him and him alone, from his birth to the prophecy, to the confrontation of the newborn wizard, and ultimately his fate-Harry Potter.

With the wizarding world in chaos as the Dark Lord executes his final plans, one girl has trained her entire life learning ancient magic for guardianship. Now she has been charged to protect one of Harry Potter's most iniquitous enemies, Draco Malfoy.

A storm is brewing outside Malfoy Manor.

Tomorrow, the doors will open and the people will rise and you will see me standing next to James. And I will look you and smile. And you will walk down that aisle one step at a time. And you will know that this is right. [Sirius/Lily. Part Three of The Heart’s Progress, a series of vignettes]

In which Harry returns Draco's wand and a tentative friendship is formed.

When Harry left her to do the last thing Dumbledore asked of him, all Ginny had left was the hope he would return. That, and an old jersey.

"Apologies. I don't do rhetorical questions. You'll have to check with Pettigrew on that one. Every question's a rhetorical one with him, if you take the strict definition of the word, because he can't answer any of them." James Potter and Sirius Black get up to some fun. Which means anything but for poor beleagued prefect Lily Evans. And who exactly is responsible for those knights on the fourth floor, who don't usually sport pink tutus and peg legs? One-shot.

Regulus Black expected to die when he betrayed Voldemort, but things don't always go as planned. AU.

Having made tentative admissions that all their sniping was a smokescreen for something other than animosity, Remus and Tonks test the romantic waters with a first date. Sequel to Under The Table.

"Why, dad, why? Why did you turn?" "Because a great Dark Lord once said to me, 'There is no good or evil, there is only power and those to weak to seek it.' I have power, more power than that Dark Lord ever had!" He pointed his wand at the sky and shouted, "MERIDO," a form shot into the sky and twisted into two basilisks tearing apart a phoenix. "Behold, the new Dark Mark!" he said in Parselmouth, and his son understood every word. The son pulled out his wand, tears streaming down his face, ready to kill the new Dark Lord, not ready to kill his dad. One Shot

Harry reflects on the events that lead him to his personal hell, and why he has given up hope.

Can we think that Dumbledore was doing nothing but waiting during the ten peaceful years while Harry Potter was growing up at the Dursley’s? How could he protect Harry and prepare the members of the Order of the Phoenix for a new war that he dared not even tell them was coming? And what were Voldemort’s Death Eaters really doing in secret behind their facades of reformed, upstanding citizens? This chronicle begins on the Halloween night when Harry’s parents were killed and shows us the behind-the-scenes operations of Dumbledore and his little band of fighters until J. K. Rowling takes up the story of the Order of the Phoenix in Book Five.

Today is Ginny's nineteenth birthday, August 11, 2000. Later, there is going to be a party at the Burrow. But for now, Ginny is alone, sitting outside Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlor, eating a blueberry ice cream cone under the shade of a pink umbrella. A chance encounter with an old friend makes Ginny feel for the first time since the war.

It was a complete and utter shock when Lily laid down her fork in the middle of the meal and announced that she was in love." Lily II/Teddy for the Father-Daughter/ Weather Challenge on HPFC.

He would only give, never take. If Albus Dumbledore had wanted to be worshipped, Minerva would not have admired him so much... but working for the good guy isn't always easy.

Cats have nine lives, but humans are only given one. Ginny, alone at the Burrow, muses on this.

Regulus has got a secret. And the one person who'd kill to find out - is the one person he'd die to keep it from.

As irritating to his students as always, Professor Slugborn - who is really far too jovial to be the head of Slytherin - has instigated a ball for his new house. Problem is, they have to invite dates from [I]other[/I] houses. When it's pointed out to one Millicent Bulstrode in a less-than-flattering manner that she's far too intimidating for anyone to ask her to the ball, yet too traditional to ask someone herself, she vows to take manners into her own hands. Ernie/Millicent one-shot, featuring joint Blaise-Pansy snark.

Madam Pomfrey visits the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library and is reminded forcefully of her own schooldays. [A short piece written for the FictionAlley "What's Your OTP?" challenge.]

The summer after the war, Draco returned to the Manor. Life was back to the way it used to be. All but one little thing. No one had seen him crumble from the inside.

The Archive of Ages depicts the events that led to the end of the wizarding world.

Severus Snape has bad hygiene -- in the opinion of Sirius Black. Who pointedly tells him so. Severus Snape has dirty blood -- in the opinion of Regulus Black, who unwittingly tells him so. One telling leads to the other -- and both have surprising repercussions once they all start school.

Christmas is a time of peace and for them, it had finally come on a field on the Night Most Divine. DHr, HG, Oneshot.

Ron has an accident in his closet while getting ready for his date with Luna...then Harry and Hermione make a trip to the closet after having a jinx fiasco.

Broken hearts happen to the best of us. AU.

The title sums it up perfectly, in fact :).

"'Pfft. Whatever. He's my enemy…or rival…or something.' (Or something, says a nasty little voice at the back of his mind.)." (our favorite blonde-haired badboy thinks about a certain green-eyed hero...)

Snape--good, evil, or complex?

Wouldn't it figure that on one of the worst days of George's life, the weather would be unrelentingly cheerful?

On an early spring morning of his fifth year, Neville gets a surprise visit from a classmate while in the hospital. He realises something very important about her.

When Harry returns to The Burrow for the Weasley-Delacour wedding Ginny finds herself fighting emotions she never thought she'd have to fight again.

Harry is severely injured during the hunt for the Horcruxes. In three parts, from each member of the trio's point of view.

The war is over; they have won, but the price was high. All the graves are visited frequently, except one. Only he remembers what his loyal companion did.

It has been three years since Dumbledore died, Harry has long since gone into hiding. Voldemort rules supreme, whilst Ginny Weasley works as part of the insurgency against him and his Death Eaters - one of whom just happens to be Draco Malfoy ...

Luna Lovegood goes in search of Crumple-Horned Snorkacks.

Wars make people do mad things. But if Seamus ever finds out about this, he’s dead. Dean/Luna, throughout Deathly Hallows. Charcoal, driftwood and fishfingers abound. Oneshot.

Ginny is trapped in a state of romantic denial. Harry is ignoring any memories of romance. Neither wants to admit any feelings for the other. But when a locked door and and a writer's imagination force them together, who knows what can happen? Sort of written for SIYE's "Baby, It's Cold Outside Challenge," but not really.

A missing moment from HBP. Bill and Fleur in the hospital wing after Bill is attacked.

What happens to a person when they feel the world is crumbling around them, but are powerless to stop it? Is there ever such a thing as true happiness, uncontaminated by melancholy memories and grief? This is Harry's tale of friendship, uncertainty, love, adventure and tragedy. And index of misery just trying to find hope among the darkness... Implied Harry/Hermione

The war has ended, and now life will try and return to normal for Harry and his friends.

In the darkening setting of the wizarding world, the professors have a great responsibility for their students to educate them and prepare them. At these times, what do professors truly take the innocent Hogwarts song to mean? What is the value of education?

Another year at the premiere social event for purebloods.