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

"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.

"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.

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.

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

Sirius Black's thoughts when in Azkaban.

Barty Crouch's thoughts on his father and Voldemort.

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

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)

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?

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]

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

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

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

Albus returns victorious from facing Grindelwald, but the other wizard's words still haunt him. Written for Grey Mist's challenge in the Genficathon: Dumbledore confronts a Boggart, set prior to the start of the series.

What was going through Lily Potter's head when she died? What happened to her after she died? This is a story of Lily Potter's thoughts during, and after her death. Slight JPLE. One-shot. Lily's POV. Thanks to my beta, Eddie.

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.

Slughorn deals with one of his most brilliant students. This is a series of drabbles inspired by some truly excellent writers. There are Half-Blood Prince spoilers. *Very* mild squick. You have been warned.

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

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

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.

In retrospect, Harry should've known that Umbridge's field trip to the ancient springs of Jusenkyo would end badly for everyone. Having fallen into the Springs of the Drowned Emo and Drowned Emu, Harry supposes he's luckier than, say, Snape (Spring of the Drowned Unicorn) or Zacharias Smith (Spring of the Drowned Flea Circus), but there are more problems in the upcoming year than just the curses: Voldemort takes advantage of his own cursed form to infiltrate Hogwarts as Luna's new pet bunny. And there's really no way to explain Lucius Malfoy, the benevolent Buddhist monk. (AU OotP; Ranma 1/2 crossover)

It is Ginny’s twentieth birthday, and she wants to play a game with Harry.

It is hard, if not impossible, to break down the barriers our parents have erected for us. (Cedric/Oliver)

Find out what happens when the students of Hogwarts put on a theatrical production at the school! Who will get cast? What will happen to those that are superstitious of the curse?

Draco finds himself in the middle of a grey, barren land, his only company are several horrifying dead bodies. He trudges along, finally taking a rest on a stump. After pondering his whereabouts, a sweet and gentle voice sweeps through his ears... "Come back to me..." Abandoning his resting place, and his wand, he sets forth after the voice, only to discover that it belongs to the one he hates most. But as he wraps his arms around her, he questions himself. Does he really hate her? About to discover his true feelings for her, his life is cut short by a venomous voice.... A Dramione Fic

"You can breathe in the magic the city makes, but the song from a gypsy heart will mystify you forever." Draco remembers these words from long ago, when he finds himself captive of a traveling caravan of Roma people as they make an epic journey through the Black Wood. Though they are faced with the perils of the forest bandits and the ever present "Gypsy Hunters," Draco soon learns that they always have the music and each other.

“I’m also a survivor, and that’s because of Blaise. The stupid git had saved my life…” After war, sometimes there’s nothing left except the people you never expected to be there in the first place. RWxBZ

Too much blood covered the streets. Everywhere she looked there was blood. Blood was dried up on the streets, on the dry grass, on her clothes, even on the skin of her body. Too much pain inflicted on everyone’s hearts. She could hear no laughs anymore. Who would laugh when destruction was everywhere? No one dared to laugh anyway. They didn’t want to be found. Too many bodies lying dead on the ground. Everyone was dead. She saw only the weak shells of people desperately trying to live.

Peter's naive view of the world leads to trouble when he betrays the people he loves. Lucius shows him the price he must pay for his actions.

Suffocation never sounded so bad...

Draco reflects his past during the final battle, and regrets the mistake he made in his decision between the Dark and the Light. Character death, HBP spoiler, DM/HG.

Hermione helps a young girl at Hogwarts deal with her homesickness. (Set during OotP)

Colin keeps trying to hold his world in a photograph.

When Oliver Wood's daughter, Olivia, goes to Hogwarts, he wants her to play Quidditch. But does she want to? Olivia makes new friends and has to make her own choices too. But what will Dad say?

We hide behind these masks of our own making, all the while yearning to see just a glimpse of each other's faces.

After years of avoiding this confrontation, Snape comes face to face with the one person he does not wish to look at -- himself. A look at just what Severus thinks of himself and his life, past and present.

Remus Lupin is alone without Sirius. A dark, pain riddled fic. Rated for self-mutilation. Mild slash. (nothing active)

Draco begins to see that working for Voldemort is draining all of his feelings from him, leaving him cold and emotionless, but he can only think of one way to remedy the situation.

Any press is good press...right? D/G, one-shot. Written for the 2009 Draco/Ginny Fic Exchange at Livejournal. Nominated for Funniest Fic.

Harry has a twin, non-cliche. Harry, the true boy who lived, is slightly neglected, but only because of a misinterpreted prophecy not the fame going to his parents' heads, and the twins act like twins are supposed to... THEY DON'T HATE EACH OTHER!

Aikera wasn't given a choice. The Sorting Hat didn't give her time to object. She never wanted to be a Slytherin. She wasn't her father, she wasn't like him at all.

Salt is the perfect chemical. It has a pure formula as do all known compounds, and beyond that, it has an extraordinary shape. The individual salt molecule is an exact cube; flawless dimensions, precise 90° angles all around. Er... interesting take on Harry and Draco's relationship. H/D slash.

A week after the Battle of Hogwarts, the Harry Potter confronts Draco on an abandoned Quidditch pitch. Potter is always one of the Good Guys. Always the same.

They say a hero dies fighting. Most of the time. Sometimes things don't happen the way they ought to. One-shot ficlet in honor of Sirius. (Yes, I know it's about a book late.) No redeeming humor.

Hermione attends Hogwarts Reopening Ball after leaving the Wizarding World twenty-five years earlier. Perhaps she would be happy if a voice from the past hadn't filled her in on what she had missed in her absence.

Luna is always one for being the center of attention, and her classmates are always ones for finding ways for making her such. And when Luna waltzes into Potions class one day with a live duck tucked under her arm, Professor Snape can't help but ask for the reasoning behind it.

In this short story, Voldemort's war has taken a costly toll on poor Harry. This fiction piece is set five years after Harry's seventh year. Sometimes everything isn't what it appears.

When an Auror approaches Harry and Neville and shows them a way out of a perilous situation at the end of the war with Voldemort, they accept his help with some trepidation. It is their refusal to accept his "job" offer that sets this story in motion. The story is split into two "parts", one featuring Harry and Neville and the other focussing on Hermione, Ron and Ginny. This story can be seen as three separate love stories that are intertwined and held together by mystery and suspense. While Harry and Neville deal with their new "job", Ron and Hermione have to learn to live and love in a strange new post war world. There is swearing and some violence. Very little sexual content.

When Peter Pettigrew "died," where did Sirius go before his arrest? Did Remus really believe that Sirius had betrayed his best friend and murdered another close companion? Could Remus still trust Sirius against overwhelming evidence?

Ron's POV again. Takes place just a few hours after "Coming Home to You." After the final battle, Harry finally gets to see Draco again. This is the final story, the end. Story 4 of the series.

Ginny performs a final service for a beloved friend. D/G. [Initiateverse one-shot]

A little bit AU. Drunk!Sirius is an utter asshole and enjoys hurting poor Remus.

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, meets a relative and captures a criminal...

She has one light in a world gone dark. Alastor Moody/Penelope Clearwater

Professor Blaise Zabini investigates the disappearance of a man who is thought to be seized by a Lethifold...

She has nightmares about a dead soul welcoming her home. A blank canvas on her wall holds the secret to a Death Eater's life. Hidden away at 12 Grimmauld Place over the summer, Hermione learns that those who walk its halls never really leave.

All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

As his son prepares to become a Death Eater, Lucius Malfoy reflects upon Draco's life.

'In all this, there is someone who is needed to capture the birds used to deliver these messages. Someone who can fly fast enough to catch up with the speedy owls, who is willing to risk freezing to death on a broomstick, just waiting for an incoming message. There is someone needed to pass messages between the Wizarding front and the Muggles, from base to all other camps. The members of the Sky Watch.' On the eve of a new war, Hooch recalls her role in the defeat of Grindelwald... and the price she had to pay.

When Pansy turns up, asking a favour of Seamus, it stirs old memories. Written for the rarepair_shorts Spring 2010 exchange. Pansy/Seamus. Oneshot.

Songfic to Death Cab for Cuties "Tiny Vessels". Draco's reflection on his relationship with Hermione. Slightly angsty.

My Prisoner of Azkaban parody appears, bringing with it Snape's ACTING, a furious audience, and no plot whatsoever! Because we have trees!

Remus is bitten by a werewolf while he is at Camp Green Lake. Will anybody believe him? (Not compatible with HBP.)

Harry struggles to come to terms with his past, present, and future moments after the downfall of the Dark Lord. (Songfic.)

A "Bonding" schedule with the in-laws? What could possibly go wrong?

Mia and Sirius met when they were eleven. As the years passed, their roles in each other's lives grew and changed. What does the future reserve to them?

Rated R for language. Basically, what happens when Snape's cover is blown in a room full of his fellow Death Eaters... exciting! Takes place before the start of "Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House."

Ron and Harry are rushing back from a hard potions lesson; they're late for dinner and starving. But there's no way either of them is going to dinner when there's that irritating cricket hanging around. Maybe Neville can help? Err... maybe not.

This a story about two sisters, about how and why they are who they are. But mostly, it's just about the forgotten one.

Super short, POA missing scene, one shot. Dumbledore and Sirius in the North Tower when Dumbledore discovers the truth about the Fidelius Charm; sort of a companion piece to "Last of the Blacks". Sirius seems to be a thing with me recently.

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." (George Bernard Shaw). Ginny revisits some old haunts and finds lurking ghosts, disturbing mysteries and twisted truths. She can't escape it twice. Dark Angel crossover.

The Second War is over and everyone is rejoicing, right? Wrong, because somewhere out there, there is a boy, whose spirit was crushed by this terrible war. Who is this boy, and why is he so broken? D/H

Murderer. That word rings through my ears. Murderer. Murderer. Murderer. He killed people, so he was a murderer.

Shadow. His shadow. It fell over her like a funeral veil. The one that would inevitably enshroud her. Tears of pain poured from her eyes as she struggled to move. About three feet away lay Lucius. His body lay stiff. Stiff for all eternity. Draco’s eyes burned with a searing hatred as he dropped his wand.

Today the clouds are gray. Silly, silly little Mudblood..."How many of the twenty-six did you kill?" Sticks and stones, Malfoy. This is the story. [Oneshot]

It was the man closest to him that would become his downfall. Betrayed with a kiss.

After two years of a dead marriage, Ginny is leaving Harry, wondering how things got so bad. Another songfic -- this time to Evanescence's Missing.

Harry conveys a message to Snape in Umbridge's office. This story tracks various Order members (mostly Snape) from the time he leaves Umbridge's office until after Dumbledore has filled him in on what happened in the Department of Mysteries.

Harry's life is quiet, but soon, his career as an Auror will lead both him and Ron halfway around the world to investigate a mysterious school known only as the Skat-Hatokha Academy of Magic. But from the beginning, something seems off. No one in the wizarding world has heard of this school, the board of directors can contact you, but you can't contact them, and the accepted students have all been in some trouble with the law and take their right to remain silent very seriously.

Even now, years after Tom is gone, Ginny feels him everywhere.

Ever wonder what made Dumbledore really trust Snape? For Snape, the decision was simple and easy, and it involved Sirius Black.

As the smoke settled after the final battle, Hermione began to count.

Harry has failed the Prophecy and Voldemort reigns over the Wizarding World. Colin Creevey holds the entire fate of Wizardkind in his hands... and camera?

Harry's first time out of the British Isles left something to be desired. In fact, as the locals would say, so far it sucked. Written for HP 10K Awareness.

Loyalty to oneself above all.

Demons. The inner kind, not the kind that you can exorcise quickly, but the kind that haunt you, paralyze you, pull you into a different world. Ginny talks about her inner demons.

Sirius is finally done with school, but he as one major thing from Hogwarts that won't leave him alone. The moody Christen Nelson, and her Muggle family.

Remus and Sirius go for a walk. With close to fourteen years between them, they try to cover the ground they've lost, but find that they can but move forward. [nonslash, friendship, set between GoF and OotP]

Sirius is left alone after Remus' suicide to contemplate his relationship with the werewolf. Counter-story to "I Am A Rock".

When Harry reveals to Ron that he and Draco have become friends, sparks fly, Hermione gets caught in the middle, and Mrs. Weasley is Not Pleased. Takes place about six months after "New Beginnings".

Snape/Lily school days fic. In which Snape wonders what the fuss over kissing is all about.

A day in Harry's life goes all wrong, but all he want is to be like everyone else...

The rain evokes memories from long past, and the very nature of love is called into question. If love is happy, perfect, and sweet, then how can his heart hurt so much?

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs growing up through the eyes of an outsider.

15-year-old Muggle Roxette Summerson lives in a Children’s Home. However when a mysterious stranger introduces her to the magical world and an enigmatic character named Voldemort, Roxette knows she is about to kiss goodbye to her peaceful life. For some strange reason Voldemort makes this ordinary, boring Muggle girl his personal assassin and Roxette is given her first target: Harry Potter. But Harry Potter is in hiding and Roxette finds herself looking for someone who doesn’t want to be found. But she’s not alone. Roxette befriends a pair of teenagers from another world – Elyon and Cadia – and then there are those two mysterious boys who seem to be helping them. And throughout all this, Roxette is discovering powers she never knew she had.