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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.

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

"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.

All you see is green. And suddenly you forget what hope is. - Harry are walking to the forbidden forest.

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.

And they called me the smartest witch of our age. I who never realized the most basic of facts; humans beings, for all our charms, are mortal. We die. You died.

The great war is over and the golden trio have now become two. Hermione sits beside the lake trying to forget the death of the one that had become her boyfriend, however, she finds herself staring into a deep red orb trying to remember what she had forgotten about HIM.

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

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...

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

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.

(The Trilogy of the Serpent – Part III) - Like a Phoenix, a new society emerges out of the ashes of Voldemort’s defeat, after justice and revenge have run their parallel courses. An ancient wound will be healed, together with so many fresh ones. Hogwarts never felt so empty, and yet was never so full of new residents and unexpected promises, even to the disenchanted eyes of Professor Severus Snape, ghost.

A rather sad songfic of H/Hr, from Hermione's point of view whilst watching Harry die. (I told you it was sad).

The first half sits slumped. Mouth agape, eyes drooping. Trying everything in their power to stay awake. Those who aren’t half asleep are plotting a mysterious death of their teacher or how to get out of the class. They sit and tap their fingertips together, plotting, praying he chokes on his food or falls to his death. Or sneaking out of this cold place. Wasn’t Hell supposed to be hot? A blaze? A humongous fire pit? It is underground, though. That and the teacher are the only thing that make it qualified for anything close to Hell. Sometimes they like to think of him with horns sprouting out of his head. His train of his robes a tail. His wand a miniature pitch-fork. Strutting through his cave, around stalagmites.

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

Susan/Lavender femme slash. Susan saves Lavender from herself, but will she always be there? Self-mutilation warning.

Ginny survived the war only to see that there is nothing left that she holds dear.

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....

What happens when she is the only one left in the castle? Will she fall into darkness or will she wait for her friends to help her? For her, the line between good and evil was never clear, and now she decided that it doesn't exist. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and she's just about as desperate as she could get.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

If these walls could talk they'd tell you to shut the heck up. Set in the Pandora's Box universe.

Jasper Fforde's literary detective, Thursday Next, is called in to deal with a problem at Hogwarts concerning a certain Potions Master ...

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?

Nearly Headless Nick finds a solution to being rejected from the Headless Hunt.

What was Peter Pettigrew thinking as he planned the murders of some of his best friends? Why did he become a Death Eater? How long did he hate the other Marauders? Or was he just scared? Find out the importance of friendship... and what the lack of it can do to a person.

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.

"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*

The first thing it knew was the hunger. Life from a Dementor's point of view.

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

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)

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

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.

Ron Weasley is tired of living in his famous best friend's shadow. So here is his chance to tell his version of events, through those years at Hogwarts, in Ron Weasley (and Harry Potter) and the Philosopher's Stone ... with an appearance by Hermione Granger.

Mummy's gleaming secret like beads of milk, pretty maids all in a row...

Narcissa has a night to remember.

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.

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)

Life is full of tests.

Blaise wants to show Susan that not all kids are like their parents.

I am transported to Hogwarts and witness a series of wacky events throughout the progression of the day. (The result of being too sick to sit up straight and half unconscious from cold medicine.) Total insanity.

Shaking, she reached out towards his fading figure, her fingers spread, as if to pull in a dream that would never be realized. Merope/Tom, Merope/Marvolo, rated R for incest and implied sexual abuse.

A rare glimpse into the past of Argus Filch.

1979 and 1981. Two Halloween nights, two destinies. James and Lily contemplate the meaning of life and death the night of Harry's conception.

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.

Albus Dumbledore takes an interest in whom 17-year-old Severus Snape spends his time with. Gen. One-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ).

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.

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.

AU. When an illness sweeps the entire world, Sirius must fight to protect the people he cares about as the dead begin to rise. Remus is on the other side of the continent, working desperately to develop a means to put the dead back where they belong. Sirius is trapped in the heart of London with a widower and a group of frightened children. Can they survive until they find one another?

In a battle with Voldemort, Kalli loses one of the most important people in her life. How will she deal with it, without the love of her life?

Winter came, and with it came the dark. A look at Moody between the first war and the second.

James has never understood Muggles, and now, hiding with his family, he has to pretend to be one. He doesn't quite like it.

While on a plane to South America to find Voldemort and the remaining Horcruxes, the trio's plane crashes and they are stuck on a deserted island...The same island Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on! What mysteries await the brave teenagers on this island, and what surprises await them by finding more in themselves? You probably won't understand if you have never seen the show LOST on ABC. Hope you enjoy!

Sirius reflects on the war, and worries about those he's supposed to protect. Part of the "Friends and Brothers" AU, set during the same night as "Protecting the Innocent".

A young witch escapes a tear filled past to America, but a mysterious man continues to haunt her...

'... 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.'

“You want to know that face that you’ve never truly seen. You want to fall into that gleaming, silver gaze. You want him.” Harry sees Draco flying and discovers unknown feelings. Draco/Harry angst

Stories tend to move in circles; a chilling account of one possible circle, with an important message from Hermione. One-shot

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

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

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

"Always, just after sunset, Ginny watched the butterflies dance..." D/G.

George is left behind after Fred dies in the battle of Hogwarts. In the months to come, he contemplates suicide, why he is the one left behind, and what he should do for his future.

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

The death of the ones we love often kills us from the inside out, and we are haunted by the memory of what was, and by what will never be again.

Harry muses on Draco, post-OotP.

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.

One-shot. Wormtail loved his friends. He didn't want to hurt them. And when the pain had subsided, he was only vaguely aware of the Dark Mark burned into his skin...

The Marauders find themselves sitting around bored and decide to pass the time with some friendly fun.

Remus's pov on Sirius and the aftermath of his death.

This is a one-shot. In it, there is this new thing called powersnot that Harry and some others want to create; it will fight Voldemort to the death, which says something, since powersnot almost never loses its battles. A bit of light fluff included, nothing serious or big. This is a silly fic, but most people (so far!) like it and find it funny and cute. Read and be the judge!

Hermione is dead. At least, emotionally. She has also chosen to let Ron think she loves him, though it is impossible, given her lack of emotion. What happens when the girl must become logic because the boys have enough emotion between them? A look at the points of view of Hermione, Ginny, Harry, and Ron to this situation. Set in the Hogwarts years, written between OOTP and HBP, when we didn't know what was going to happen relationship wise!

Teenagers Molly and Arthur chat over the Christmas holidays; he tells her a secret from his past that's been hidden away for years. Rated for sensitive issues.

"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.

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.

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.

Draco Malfoy knew that this day would come, that this moment must pass, yet that did not seem to make it any easier. And now he stands in the centre of a dark room, surrounded by anonymous masked figures, waiting for the inevitable, as a tall and ominous being approaches.

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?

My name is Narcissa Malfoy. I live in an atmosphere of terror and neglect. In the end, what will I choose, to be cold and unfeeling like my husband, or to feel utter pain, just so that I can feel?

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?

It's cold and wet. A bedraggled figure wanders through the town.

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.

Gryffindor isn't the only brave House or the only one to pay the consequences of bravery under the Carrows' regime. (Angst, violence, torture.). Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Neville Longbottom and D.A. Rating: R

It's amazing what little things can trigger memories and tears. Three people remember a man who meant much to them. A man who died too soon.

Rachel woke when it was still dark outside her grimy window. She sat up next to the still-sleeping Ian and looked around, confused. Then everything hit her, physically hit her, so that she fell back onto the bed and bit her pillow to stop keep herself from screaming. This fic also goes as a sort of background story to my fic Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House. (If you haven't read RttRH, consider this a sort of trailer, like what makes you want to see the movie.) Very angst-y.

March 2007 Challenge fic. Prompt: Gideon Prewett gave Gregory's Unctuous Unction to Professor Grubbly-Plank. What are the Prewett brothers up to, and how much trouble can they get into?

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

The origin of Harry Potter, told as it could have been.

In the aftermath of Voldemort's defeat there comes a time for healing.