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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!

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.

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?

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.

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

Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville are back for their sixth year while Ginny and Luna return for their fifth. Something happened over the summer, something that brought them closer than they thought they could ever be. People who were thought to be dead keep showing up in their lives. And what is Harry's exact role in defeating Voldemort - and what do Fred and George have to do with it?

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

How can he remember? Sirius does the only thing he can in Azkaban to remember something important, only to forget later. WARNING: self-mutilation and character death, unrequited Sirius/Remus.

"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."

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Hermione makes a startling realisation concerning Snape. Of course, the whole gang gets dragged in, and Madam Pomfrey is left confused. Snape/Luna if you squint.

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)

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

'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.'

She brought him into the fold, and everything fell into place from there. A tale of love and redemption.

Andromeda counts her life by moments.

She can splay the world with the tip of a quill and watch it writhing, glistening and bare, on a clean tabletop. Only now, she can't quite put it back together again.

Remus knows that Sirius lied, even if Sirius doesn't know himself.

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

Even Sirius Black can't escape from some things. Like how sad life is: "He watches the engine, charmed to emit iridescent silver smoke stars, kick in, then he watches the headlights get smaller and smaller as Hagrid, his godson, and his very favorite thing in the world, his breathtakingly illegal motorbike, disappear into the night sky."

Harry, lost in his private world of grief after Sirius's death, finds understanding and consolation in the unexpectedly wise words of a Ravenclaw. H/L.

In which Bellatrix is not beautiful, and Andromeda doesn't feel real.

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

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.

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.

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."

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?

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

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)

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

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.

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

But by now, Ginny knows better.

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

Remus loved Sirius, loved him with all of his heart. Unfortunately, Sirius never saw things the same way. Only now that Sirius is dead can Remus really pretend that Sirius loved him.

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?

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.

It is better the tales of our nights of burning passion, of wild, unearthly desire, are left to smolder in this glorious cacophony of flames, and rise in ethereal smoke to the sky... Sirius/Ginny one-shot

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.

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

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.

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.

Sirius Black is trapped. Trapped inside a house he despises and a life in which he is confined and helpless. His Godson is at Hogwarts, suffering under the tyranny of Dolores Umbridge, but his cry for help is unanswerable without giving away Sirius's position. Alone at night, and no closer to an answer, Sirius retires to bed, the words of Harry's letter revolving in his head. Sleep brings no respite from his worry, but perhaps dreams hide an answer somewhere in their depths...

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

The Blacks and the Weasleys will once again be reunited. Ginny will have her freedom, all from pain and blood. One-shot. ``WARNING: contains non-descriptive femmeslash, character death

Blaise Zabini, a teacher at Hogwarts, going to Edinburgh for the summer holidays, gets an errand from his fellow teacher and friend, Firenze. In Edinbugh he goes to an apothecary's to fulfill Firenze's errand, but his purchase gets mixed up with a mysterious flask....

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 ...

A character exploration of Peeves and why he is the character/force of destruction that we all know and love.

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.

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.

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)

Remus Lupin had a secret. A secret which no one shall ever know the truth about. (One-shot, MWPP,Remus/Lily)

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.

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.

"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.

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*

Harry is having a rough time, and Ron is there. Not slash unless you wish for it to be.

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)

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.

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.

"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)

Sirius thinks it amazing how many things go unnoticed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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)

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.

Cormac McLaggen claimed he missed Quidditch trials in 1995 because he ate doxy eggs for a bet. But was the timing of this "Fear Factor"-esc challenge more than just coincidence? And what do the Weasley twins have to do with any of this?

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.