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This is an AU fanfic; what if, basically. Don't want to give too much away, but it'll be messy, and plenty of people die. Sorry.

What happens to a dream deferred?

A deeper, darker look into the life of the girl we now know as Moaning Myrtle.

Draco Malfoy comes to the Boy-Who-Lived, asking for help. When they realize that, after denying it, they really WANT to be friends and put the past behind them, it turns their worlds upside-down.

Hannah and Neville hire Lee Jordan to help with the pub. Written for the Rarepair Shorts Number Game Ficathon 2009 on Life Journal.

Once upon a time there lived a princess. She lived in an odd-looking castle far away in a land called Ottery-St. Catchpole with her father, the king, her mum, the queen, and her six older brothers, the princes.

After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, and Molly deal with Sirius' passing.

'From across the grounds, amidst the throes of battle, Draco felt a feather light brush of lips against his cheek. A blown kiss that he knew could only mean one thing. His beloved was gone.'

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

Of Harry stupid Potter, Parvati stupid Patil, the Yule stupid Ball, a most disgruntled Ginevra Weasley, broken feet, erected towers, magazines for witches, double meanings of flashes of green light, and complete loads of rubbish.

Hermione and Ginny have an explosive talk about Harry's horcrux search in which Ginny proves herself to be an airhead and Hermione turns out to be wrong. HBP Spoilers.

Blaise Zabini, a seventh year, has kept a secret for years now. But now that everyone in Slytherin House knows, and now that everyone hates her, what is she to do? Warning: Contains cutting. DM/BZgirl!

Emery Miller is a halfblood orphan living in a London wizarding orphanage. On a trip to Diagon Alley for supplies two weeks before her first day at Hogwarts, the eleven year old meets a slightly loony blonde woman. Two weeks later on the train, she meets the slightly loony blonde's twin sons and the rest, as they say, is history.

It's graduation day and Draco is lost in his own thoughts. Ginny's the only one that can find him. A bit of angsty D/G fluff : )

Harry and company have gone into hiding after the end of their sixth year and are currently waiting to make a move on Voldemort. When the opportunity arises, they must fight more than the enemy; each other.

For every 99 times, you looked me in the eye and swore you weren't lying. Well I was so blind, I never saw the signs. I'm getting out tonight and you're not invited. Lily Evans is heartbroken. Her boyfriend was using her for a bet, and stupid James Potter still won't leave her alone! But sometimes we find the things we need in the most unlikely places.

Dudley taught me to run. Run like the angel of hell is behind me, because at five I thought it was and at seventeen it might have been and now...maybe I never learned to stand still.

I'm dying now and it's not what I thought it would be. It is all the regrets I’ve ever had knocking down the doors of my mind, screaming all the things I should have done. It is all the mistakes I ever made, crying for the apologies I never said.

Draco has one last chance to reveal his true feelings to Hermione. Will he forgive himself or allow his regret and shame to destroy his possibility for a happy future?

Set in Harry's second year and Ginny's first when the Chamber of Secrets is opened. Ginny wakes up in the middle of the night with her hands covered in blood, and finds her peace with Harry.

Cho reflects upon Cedric's death, Harry, and herself. A short one-shot.

The psychological murmurings of a terrier-phobe. Vague``spoilers for OotP.

Devastated by Sirius' death in in final battle, Hermione fled Britain, only to discover six years later that he was not dead at all. When he's recently recaptured by the Ministry, Hermione must confront her past to save the man she loves. HG/SB, HG/CD

in a midsummer day, a meeting that brings back Tom Riddle's forgotten memories.

Hermione receives a letter from Viktor Krum and Ron isn't too thrilled. Fighting ensues. R/Hr. One-shot. Set during Half-Blood Prince.

Remus tries to make sense of an Order mission gone wrong by asking Sirius about it. Bad idea. Very, very bad idea.

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

"I wish you could do magic!" Janie had shouted in a fit of temper. How exactly should a muggle mother respond to her daughter – especially when she wishes the very same thing?

Green for serpents and red for lions; green for cunning and red for courage; green for cold stone walls and stiff-backed seats, red for a crackling fire and plush armchairs with velvet covers. Green and red, dead.

Draco can't help remembering the past and Neville can't help giving second chances. (Written for elpin at hp_spring_fling)

Songfic to Standing in the Rain by Billy Talent. Tells the story of Pansy after school. She's sunk to a new low. But Pansy's not your conventional whore.

In the world of magic, cruelty takes on physical incarnations: monsters, dark arts and Voldemort, all terrifyingly real, yet comfortingly separate from the good. But in the world of everyday, non-magical life, evil is much less easy to define. Cruelty and hatred hide beneath the plastic exterior of everday life, and no one is untouched. Take a look at the reality that lies behind the mask, and see for yourself what it really means to be normal.

// Funny in a certain light, how we all look the same / And there's no one in life you can remember ever stood for you, so / Shame // Draco remembers. And hurts.

She knew he wasn’t ready, knew he was too young. Yet there was nothing more she could do to keep him from making such a choice. But when he’s given a suicide mission, she does what any mother would do. She makes her decision, and she does it for her son.

How does one become a Quidditch Hero? Trace the inception of Oliver Wood's dreams of glory by meeting the person who inspired it all: his brother.

Sirius doesn't think girls can prank. Sirius is about to be proven seriously wrong.

After Hogwarts, Ron and Ginny sought employment with Lupin in The Hotel of the Wanderers in Tibet. Ginny still pined for Harry, and felt trapped and stuck in her life. Daniel, an attractive, young, Californian, guitarist and university student visits Lupin seeking help in ridding himself of his lycanthropy. In the process, Ginny learns the universality of heartbreak. (Daniel is a character which most readers should instantly recognise from another source. For those who are fond of cross-overs).

When the girl of your dreams is slipping through your fingers, do you try to cling on or should you just let her go? Based on the poem, Neutral Tones, by Thomas Hardy.

Detective Harry Potter moved thousands of miles away, to the United States, to escape the emotional turmoil caused by his divorce. He should've known escaping wouldn't be easy -- with him, it never is.

She didn't laugh anymore. Her tinkling laugh in the morning just because her father had forgotten to shave a spot on his cheek was gone. She didn't smile the way she used to do before it happened either. She didn't behave like she used to before; she wasn't the merry singing little girl she had been before. Before him.

Part 1 of a series. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are heading for Elizabeth City by air...but they have to fly through (dun dun dunnnnn...) Chicago O'Hare. Will they manage to survive...the Layover from Hell?

In the midst of the horrors of the Second War, Ron dares to dream of after.

Some friendships last minor squabbles. These outlasted prejudice, betrayal... even death.

As Albus, James, and their faithful friend, Leo, go to Potter Mansion to enjoy their Christmas break, they learn that you can never be too young to learn how to conjure a Patronus. Especially with what they are going to find lurking around.

In the summer of sixth year Voldemort decides it's time to shuffle The-Boy-Who-Lived loose the mortal coil. Unfortunately for Harry the afterlife isn't interested in letting him stick around. Sent back with an unwanted guest in tow and a score to settle, Harry finds himself changed and filled with vengeance. Voldemort told him he'd write the book on "worse things than death" with Harry, now he's back to write the epilogue. A Harry Potter noir fanfiction.

There is a motive behind every action, no matter how big or small. What was Peter Pettigrew's the night he betrayed the Potters?

"To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die." ~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground (st. 6).

In every frozen heart, there lies a weakness, a spot where, if touched, the warmth inside will spill out. But every spill carves a deep hole and the recovery may be worse than living with the icy pain. Ginny/OFC - femmeslash

Am I really a hero? That's what they tell me. They say I'm a hero, a savior, but I'm not. I am survivor. I'll tell you who the real heroes are, because they aren't here anymore. They are the heroes.

I look into the mirror, and I don't recognise the girl staring back at me. It seems to me that I am much older than my birthdays tell me, and I most certainly look it. I can look at other girls my age, and see no reflection of myself in them. I've seen too much. (Hermione, post-war)

Rosalie Edwards thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband and three beautiful daughters, but her husband's secret past is going to turn their entire world upside down. **Written in response to NevilleFan's "The I Heart Muggles" Challenge on HPFF**

A boy should never have to pay for his father's mistakes. When a five-year-old Remus refuses to come in for a bath, he gets more than he bargained for....

A chance encounter leads to an unexpected offer. This is a crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Ron has a mental rant about Malfoy. Why does he have to be so perfect?``(If you're offended by the words 'bloody', 'hell', or 'bastard', don't read it.)

In a post-war world of imperfections Ron copes with the ambiguities of doing what needs to be done. Draco becomes a problem. Non-graphical references to torture and death. Mention to Ron/Hermione, Ron/Snape, and Ron/Draco.

Tonks arrives at Grimmauld Place with a full heart... and leaves with a broken one. Angsty R/T oneshot. [HBP spoilers]

With death comes redemption, but it is all meaningless to a new mother whose days were colorless until a rainbow burst into life across her sky. It is a different kind of love...the kind of love that is all consuming. The kind of love that brings agony. The kind of love that eclipses reason, being, and all life before it. The kind of love that is unconditional. The love for a child.

Alicia's going through some tough times, but who will stop her when she decides to end it all? Mild George/Alicia. Rated for suicide themes.

"There was no point in worrying yet.... what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did." -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Years after Voldemort is defeated, the troubles of the Wizarding World are far from over. A multi-ship, multi-character, post-Hogwarts soap opera. Rated R as a precaution.

Is anybody out there?/Does anybody see?/ That when the lights are/Off something’s killing me? Fire and Ice...depending on each other? Songfic to Ashlee Simpson's Catch Me When I Fall

Tom Riddle has cast one final curse, sending a fallen warrior into an ultimate darkness. Only through a mythic journey of redemption will he be freed. This is a REVISED version of a story originally posted on other sites about a year ago.

Neville is in the library one evening and hears a girl crying. Can he comfort her?

When it comes time for Kalli to face her parents, Harry gets caught in the crossfire. Can Kalli save him without losing herself in the process?

"He had always been able to feel the eyes on him somewhere between his shoulderblades, like a hot coal under his skin. People watched Harry as though they’d never seen him before, like he was some strange, unknown creature that might vanish if they so much as blinked, like a vapour trembling in the midday sun. If he thinks about it, Harry can tell you how many people are watching him at any one moment, how many eyes are trickling down his back and fingering idly through the locks of his hair and across his weather-tanned flesh, and he’ll be nearly right nine times out of ten."

Short Narcissa suicide. "Perhaps this place was only in her mind. But what was the difference? She was here and she would never leave..."

The song of a witch in the wake of Harry Potter's death. A parody of Don McLean's American Pie

Well now, it's been a while, but the parody kings of fanfic are back, with another random fic of pointlessness. From the team that brought you 'You Asked for It', 'Okay It Had to Be Done', and that sandwich you had the other day, be sure to check out this exciting fun-filled piece of excellently written work, coming to a monitor near you. Especially if you can read French.

Two investigative reporters from The Daily Prophet newspaper take on various disguises and infiltrate St. Mungo's Hospital to unravel the mysterious details in an arrest of one of its Healers. The trail of evidence leads them into the heart of the Ministry of Magic itself!

Remus John Lupin is a four year old wizard who is like most other boys his age until he ventures into the forest where a bloodthirsty werewolf awaits him and his cousin ...

December 1979 has defeated Remus to the point of taking up quarters at Sirius's, whom he can't expect back from an Order mission yet.

Hermione wakes up in a world of her own imagination, and realises that she is trapped in a horrible place of her own making.

Four boys. James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and Remus Lupin were not always inseparable. It was a chance meeting helped along by books, robes, and lots of candy.

Ron is finally facing his feelings, scary though it may be. The Christmas Hogsmeade visit presents an opportunity he cannot pass up. His adventure leads him to turn a corner. A look at an R/Hr date from a confirmed H/Hr shipper.

Draco needs this moment to say goodbye to Harry. Will he find freedom in release? H/D, death-fic.

Lupercania 1978. MWPP. In which two seventh-years perform a werewolf ritual.

"Who's this, then?" Marvolo leered at Amycus, and the other, younger man next to him giggled. It was a funny kind of giggle, but what was even funnier was that the giggling man's eyes were pointing in two different directions. Amycus found this fascinating, until it seemed that one of the eyes was fixed on him; then he looked at the table again. -- A young Amycus Carrow meets Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt. Runner-up in FictionAlley's Lusty Month of May Challenge.

Sirius Black is hopelessly in love with a girl who is the daughter of the Blacks' rivals. Will Sirius and Celeste risk everything and face the wrath of a horrible matriarch, or will they realize that not all is fair in love and war?

"Are you awake?" the brunette whispered towards the lanky form in the cot. The boy rolled over and looked at her with a twinkle in his eyes. "No, I'm just pretending." He grinned, running a hand through his black hair as he sat up fully.

I'm lost. Traveling in a world of chaos and darkness. There's a light out there. I can see it, but it's so distant. I can't get close to it; no matter how hard I try. I'm lost, Moony, find me.

This is the sequel to Behind Blind Eyes, so it's probably a lot like it. Anyway, it's Ginny's story, and it would probably be a good idea to read Behind Blind Eyes first. Ginny hadn't seen him since the funeral. She hadn't even said good bye. But she hadn't moved on. She hadn't forgotten. But now he was almost gone, and she was the only one who could save him.

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity and his friends Justin Finch-Fletchley and Trevor Entwhistle visits the city of Fez. There, due to a mistake, he finds a vial the contents of which are not what is written on the label...

Hermione muses on Neville's similarities to Clark Kent.

Cressida is a shy fourth grade loner. She has just gotten into her first ever fight, verbal or physical. However, it is just the first step down a path to new friends, who drink Firewhisky behind the Herbology greenhouses and sneak in Dragon Puff Cigarettes. But, perhaps best of all, they get sweet revenge.

Sirius Black's thoughts when in Azkaban.

Hogwarts in war. Harry in forward motion. Draco on repeat.

In a slightly different Universe, what is Draco Malfoy's life like ahortly after the Final Battle? (AU, if you can't take a hint)

Barty Crouch's thoughts on his father and Voldemort.

Train: a connected line of railroad cars with or without a locomotive (from Websters). Harry and Draco are in search of something they've lost, and they make their journeys by train. [warning: rape, non-con]

Deep within Voldemort's Stronghold is Ellie Voss, who is she? In an act of desperation Harry Potter makes a daring move and takes his chances in the worst of places.

Can one person and fate make the difference in Severus' life?

Teddy and Cedric make a vow to reform the Centaur Liaison Office, but the price may be more than they can bear.

Severus Snape is summoned by the Dark Lord for the second time in one night. Harry Potter asks for the impossible and then has to deal with the consequences. AU after OotP, with some elements from the last two books thrown in.

Little Neville Longbottom sees his parents for the first time since they were tortured to insanity.

Post OotP, Sirius is dead and the inhabitants of Grimmauld Place each have their own ways of dealing with their loss.

Set Pre-POA, no spoilers for HBP. A chocolate frog card sends Remus into a memory of the time of the first war, reflecting on the things we keep (and those we don't), friends lost (to death and otherwise), and Shakespeare.

The war is over, but the aftermath is just as bleak.

Headmaster Dumbledore fears the Potions Master's ability to draw conclusions (CoS missing moment with events of DH in mind).

Illusions make your days pass in an oblivion... Femmeslash warning!