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The war is over, but death and despair have been known to overstay their welcome. (Harry reads a newspaper.)

After a while of practising, Draco Malfoy never feels anything unless he wants to.

What really drives Harry to continue in the face of insurmountable odds?

Two and a half years after first coming to stay with the Potters, Sirius thinks he might finally be ready to be completely honest with them. Remus/Sirius. One-shot.

"Draco Malfoy sighed and turned the doorknob to his bedroom. There, his eyes met an unexpected sight." - summer after HBP. I'm trying to get all the Draco/Ginny out of my head before book 7 - I'm a H/G shipper at heart! I always appreciate feedback.

Could one lost love really have been the only thing that turned Severus into the angry, cruel, and sneering Potions Master that Harry met his first year? Starting in 1970 and continuing through the 80s, this story paints the lovely and often harrowing picture of Severus' life before he met Harry Potter. You’ll meet Severus’s most loyal companion, Marcella Lynch, from the beautiful beginning of their relationship first year, to the tragic end well after the wizarding world thought they were rid of the Dark Lord forever. This story is not an AU; it will work out to fit canon.

Mystique Montague, only at the age of 15, has been forced to marry a certain Draco Malfoy. Her parents have moved her from her hometown of Paris, France and enrolled her into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Like her mother before her, and all the females in her mother's ancestry, Mystique has a deadly secret-she isn't full human. Though to the eye you can hardly tell. As she tries to acclimate herself to her new surroundings and her fiance, Mystique slowly starts to loose hold of her instincts. Meanwhile, she starts to fall in love with one who isn't her betrothed and Hogwarts is under the tyranny of Dolores Umbridge. Will instinct or morals guide her, destroy her or destroy those around her?

Set during the Battle at Hogwarts. When Draco meets the devastating sixteen-year-old Ebony, he finds the strength to shed his dark side once and for all. She teaches him what it is to be a true Gryffindor- bravery. A dark and depressing little fic, but light always manages to find a way to shine through... Contains original characters, a brief romance and references to Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer and The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. Be warned, not your typical happy ending for one character in particular (NOT Draco!)

"The glass didn't just separate her from the weather." One minute, Hermione is sitting at her window watching the thunderstorm outside, wondering when she would see Harry and Ron. The next, she's sent off to Ron's house by an unexpected Death Eater. When she tries to help the Death Eater make the right decision, it ends in a way she never thought it would. Draco/Hermione. One-shot.

Hermione has a Charms project, Blaise gets involved, Ron is being himself, and Snape catches them all. A sixth year missing moment. Possibly.

Given how events in this story play out, it's hard to say whether it's a sequel or prequel to Erasure. In the course of saving a life, Harry unknowingly creates his worst nemesis - Lord Voldemort.

I didn't expect everyone to be wearing black at the end of the world, but perhaps I should have.

Luna Lovegood has for many years been puzzled by the incident which took place shortly after her mother's death. She had come up with a number of possible explanations, none of them very satisfactory, until a visit to Diagon Alley cast a sudden illumination over her past. A short songfic about love, loss and letting go.

It is the 1st of Septemeber, 2016 - eighteen years after the end of the Second Wizarding War - and George Weasley is utterly displeased with the lack of chaos at Platform Nine and Three Quarters.

Hermione loves roses.

This important question needs to be answered. Reputations are at stake.

Hermione takes a moment to reflect...

Harry has missed five weddings since vanishing after the Second Wizarding War, and Hermione has sat quietly at four receptions.

Remus watches.

Dominique and Lyssander with their childlike naivety make up their own game that marks not only the beginning of their friendship but the direction of their lives as well. Everything is acceptable. The only rule is that there are no rules to follow, and they both have to accept the challenges they present each other with -- challenges that shame their families, enrage their circle and make them feel happier than anyone else. But as they grow up, their innocent and cute little game becomes harsher, bending all moral prohibitions and stretching their endurance to the limits of their very existence. But in the end that's just another children's game, isn't it? "I love you more than life itself...I dare."

Years ago, the Dark Lord destroyed Harry's home and family and forced him to live with the dreaded Dursleys. Fourteen years later, life looked better and Harry was able to spend more time with Sirius, his godfather. But there was another family member who wanted to get to know Harry, and she's been waiting a very long time.

Monday morning at Hogwarts. A disagreement on a professional matter, a flaring of the tempers, two incompatible spells. As the cloud evaporates, Professors McGonagall and Umbridge find themselves unharmed. Alas, not in their own bodies.

Nymphadora Tonks was raised by a mother, who always insisted upon the innocence of Sirius Black. It makes sense that one day Nymphadora would choose to join the Order of the Phoenix... Written as a combined response to AmeliaBlack's "The Life of the Phoenix" Challenge, and MagicMuggle12's "One Line of Dialogue" Challenge on HPFF.

"Quite the double act, Sirius Black and James Potter!" Sirius Black is dying but has an important discovery to make before he can be left to rest in peace... A story about love, but mainly about friendship.

A take on Lucius Malfoy.

Lead up to Ron and the twins breaking Harry out of his room at the beginning of HP & the Chamber of Secrets.

Kiera Piperel lives the life of an average 6th year Ravenclaw. She's a Chaser for the Quidditch team and her schoolwork is a priority. However, as the Chamber of Secrets is opened, will her life ever be the same?

"You had a choice," Remus said, looking her straight in the eye. She looked back at him defiantly and smiled pityingly. "No, I didn't, I never have. And neither do you. You'll join us sooner or later. It is inevitable," Bellatrix Black is in her fifth year at Hogwarts and Lord Voldemort is gaining power around him quickly. Can an unlikely comradery with Remus Lupin stop her from being caught up in The War?

"We are not putting him down like a sick puppy, werewolf or not!" the other voice shouted, surreptitiousness forgotten. "He is our son!"

This story follows the Bleekers, a family who went into hiding when the war started and now that it's finally over, try to go back to their normal lives. Unfortunately, the world and people they left behind are torn and broken and putting it back together might be more painful than anyone may have expected. Our favourite canon characters also appear. All thanks to Catnip at ff.net for beta reading!

Memories are all Ron's got left. AU, Remus/Ron, written for the inaugural fest at remus_ron_slash on LJ. Prompt: Ah me, in that dead Past I love to dwell Whose gladness haunts me ever, day and night! (John Gambril Nicholson, In Absence)

Gilderoy Lockhart is used to stealing people's life achievements. But one particular instant is one that truly haunts him, and he doesn't even have a face to associate it with.

Remus dreams of Sirius, but does Sirius dream of him? Very short ficlet.

He loved her and she hated it. But that was them. Always toeing the thin line between love and hate...

It is December during OotP, and Fudge still refuses to admit the Dark Lord has returned...but St Mungo's is filling up with Muggles gone mad, and many of them bear a scar on their foreheads resembling that of one very well-known boy...

Voldemort has started a diversity campaign to pull the wool over the eyes of Wizarding public. Draco does his part by starting a Gay Straight Alliance at Hogwarts. So Harry decides to seduce Draco to discover the secret plans of the Dark Side. This should all go as planned, unless Harry gets too romantic and catches feelings for Draco… H/D

"Love Yourself" "Don't forget to love yourself" *~* After a tumultuous sixth year, Draco Malfoy is returning for his seventh. He's troubled by his past experiences and apprehensive about the future. Returning to Hogwarts is the beginning of the rest of his life, though how different it may be is still to be seen.

Regulus Black finds himself on the run from fanatics of the newly-established Church of Dumbledore, unable to realize who he is due to a mysterious past involving a hook-nosed headmaster. AU and virtually magic-less. Regulus/Severus/Lily.

I've lived in Cancun all my life and it took me twelve years to notice there was a whole magical world just minutes from my house. All I found there was hate. And when one of the girls I hated got kidnapped, I couldn't just leave her to die. Could I?

Beyond this veil woven with salt tears, this mysterious shadow trapped in flight, he waits for me. I so desperately want to just reach out, even for an instant, and touch him. I just want to let my fingers rest on his pale white hand, here, in this moment.

Peter wants to be one of the Marauders. One-shot, gen.

Harry and Draco each write a letter. Neither one gets where it's going. A sort of prequel to Moret De Savior.

James' mother, his only remaining family, is murdered and James decides to join the Order of the Phoenix with his friends. Following the dark episodes they face, with the fear of death always looming over them...

Snape reflects on his actions at the end of HPB.

Gilderoy Lockhart is five years out of school and still a nobody. He's so worthless that even his best friend, who rules the press, can't seem to make a story out of him. A despicable idea comes to mind, one that he's been resisting... but it's foolproof, and he's starved for attention. She wants a story? He'll give her the story of a lifetime.

Neville and Ginny try to guess Dobby's age during the hardships of the war.

She falls into his abounding grace.

'Then I will laugh because I will always be that Slytherin. I will forever be the Slytherin.' Written for The Minor Character Challenge at the HPFC forum.

An attention-seeking prank goes horribly wrong, and two brothers must decide where their loyalties lie. Genfic, Sirius and Regulus.

Cenau doesn't want to die in the Amphitheatre, but escape seems unlikely. Can her friend Rhea help? A story of the early days of magic, before even the founders. The settings are fifth century Rome and Britannia.

While there is plenty of fanart depicting Snape seeing Lily in the Mirror of Erised, there is also a canon scene in which Snape does, in fact, see Lily in the Mirror of Erised.

Danielle finally finds the courage. Second part to By Heart, but it can stand alone. SBOC

“When I look at you, or hear your voice or name, or even think about you, everything spins and it’s like my whole world has been turned upside down." Written for The "Inspiration of a Title" Challenge at the HPFC forum.

Hermione writes a Christmas card to her parents in December of 2007.

It was dark, cold, disgusting, hopeless, sorrow, there.

The night Lily and James Potter died. Someone arrived before Hagrid. "...he was really sorry he'd done it, sorry they were dead." - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling

He has feared it all along - for longer than she has, he has feared this day, this argument, this goodbye. In the past months, she has come to fear it too, and all summer they have merely been waiting. Pretending, and waiting. While everyone else had spent the past weeks celebrating that yet another lot of them were out of Hogwarts, ready for the world they had been planning for years now, the two of them had desperately been trying not to see the end. Andromeda leaves the only life she knows behind.

[somewhat AU] Ever wondered why Voldy has become what he is? This is a tale of hope after destruction, of forgetting and remembering, but most of all a tale of love.

"If Ron was still alive, he would have slung his arm around her shoulders. Would have held her close, dried her tears, taken her home and tucked her into bed. Would have kissed her forehead and told her that things would be better tomorrow. But he’s in the box before her, and she wishes she were dead." An AU-sequel of sorts to "Gone"

Ginny is lonely and her only friend is a diary that talks back. She writes about some very unusual happenings her first year at Hogwarts.

Near the end of his sixth year, Harry has had enough. He is sick of his messy love life, Voldemort's evil plots against him, and the pressure on him to be the hero. So, it's time for a long overdue vacation: Las Vegas.

Harry finds that one year is not long enough for him to forget. It's just a day. But Sirius is still dead.

Triptych - art consisting of a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on three panels. Though you can return to somewhere you have been before, it has very different meanings when your life has changed completely. Harry and Ron find that beauty is beauty, no matter what happens inbetween. Pre-slash if you look at it that way.

PREQUEL TO "BLOSSOMING". Narcissa basks in her happiness and new found love, before it all goes tragically wrong. Very short ficlet, a little sappy.

Ch. 1. As an espionage, Lily Evans enters pureblood society. Yet, what's real -- Muggleborn, Order member, the Light Side -- and what's not -- society wife, Death Eater, the Dark Side -- becomes blurred. Will reality prevail or will fiction become reality? WORK-IN-PROGRESS. ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

17th July, 2016: Draco and the family take a much needed vacation to the beach, where there are Muggles and cars and all sorts of other dangers. Lucius and Narcissa receive a letter.

There was nowhere to hide. All she could do was keep running... Companion piece to Crystall Ball, though it can be read alone.

Struggling to deal with the events of his fifth year, Harry is at a loss to explain why his friends haven't written. An isolated Harry wrestles with guilt and depression, unaware that a more sinister plot is playing itself out. An AU one-shot following the events of OotP. Heavy Angst.

Draco's choices after HBP. Which side does he belong on?

What would happen if two Jedi Padawans suddenly ended up at Hogwarts? How did they get there and how would they be able to cope with it? And most importantly could they get back? Harry Potter and Star Wars Jedi Apprentice crossover.

'Just shove a bezoar down their throats,' he scribbled in his book. It's not just your choices that make you who you are; who are you to argue when the world wants the worst of you - or so it seems...

Songfic to Hanson's 'Weird', ties in with 'Blame it on the Weatherman' and 'Family Portrait'. Ginny's POV, as she deals with her own issues and is discovered in a difficult situation. Warning: Contains self harm, so don't read if easily offended by this idea.

A holiday shopping trip reveals to Draco that all may not be lost after all. Immediately precedes "A Change of Opinion".

During Harry's conversation with Scrimgeour, Percy holds a heated discussion with the Weasleys. Twenty minutes later, he's still intact...

After Ari's first big fight with Abby... Ari is fourteen and curious about the father she's never known. A storm is brewing as Ari moodily considers what's happened that she knows of.

A story of the magical world's First War with Voldemort, but told with a different twist. Friends from childhood, Lily Evans and Riona Dyrdra are young women who are led to two completely different sides of the war and must decide what they must sacrifice - including the loves of their lives and their own friendship - to save what's truly important. Then the ancient enigma Swyn Llyfr appears, placing Lily and Riona's fates as well as those of every wizard and magical creature, in the hands of the greatest dark wizard of all time.

Cedrella Black has a very important choice to make: follow her heart and be disowned, or follow family tradition and turn her back on the love of her life? **Written for Magravine's "Slytherin Challenge" on HPFF**

A three-part oneshot about Lily and James, and their love.

Six years after losing his friends Remus Lupin is recovering from another solitary transformation, when he is found by someone who is looking for a teacher. Can the two of them possibly trust each other? (Only a possibility to interpret as implied RL/SB, with Sirius obviously absent.)

A bumbling Death Eater's botched spell drags him - and a kidnapped Ginny - into a series of alternate cinematic dimensions. Naturally, Harry's saving-people-thing kicks in, and he follows them in to bring her back. Rated for innuendo, some violence and mostly mild language.

War comes everywhere. Even to Hogwarts. Young Toby Collier feels the pull of duty to his compatriots more than the pull of magic, but during the First World War, the first fully mechanised war, duty is dangerous.

A freak confluence of events traps - traps, I tells ya! - Harry and Ginny together at - conveniently - Ginny's romantic little cottage in the Highlands. Coincidence, or something far more sinister? (Written for the SIYE Cold Outside challenge.)

Harry dreams in colour, even if it's been said that dreams are only in black and white.

Fifteen-year-old Teddy Lupin has always longed to meet his parents, so when he stumbles upon a new model of a Time Turner, he decides to travel back to August of 1997. But in the past, Teddy finds more questions than answers and begins a desperate quest to reunite the parents he never knew.

This is the story of how a Hogwarts toilet and one particularly soggy pumpkin pastry changed the world.

The story of a girl. It's her first year at Hogwarts. She will learn of her long lost family and the many friends to be made. But who is the misterious boy with blonde hair? He seems to be her twin! What is this?!?!

Nicolas Flamel's last thoughts before he dies. Written for the 'I'm about to die'-competition at the HPFC forum.

Amelia Bones was a middle-aged woman who lived alone, a very gifted witch, and all the evidence was that she put up a real fight.

Harry and a Slytherin girl start thinking along the same lines.

The Malfoy family had been loathed for centuries, and for good reason. They were powerful - respected. Now, they were ignored - forgotten. Some call it progress, Scorpius called it blasphemy against Wizard Tradition. After all, "Progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged." And he would stop at nothing to instill old values again - not even the unforeseen destruction of Wizard Kind. Note: RemusJLupin should get all the credit for the summary.

It's the day of the Third Task, and Cedric spends the day with his parents, and has a talk with his dad. **Written in response to Redherring's "Parent and Child Challenge" on HPFF**

With Albus Dumbledore as his new guardian, Gabriel Lenoir comes to Hogwarts with a heavy heart and a dark secret. Severus Snape has never expected to fall in love with a student, especially not a fifteen-year-old with the ability to speak with the dead. All they had to do was wait two years. In two years they wouldn't have to hide anymore. But the door is open, and who knows what might come in.

This is the story of Vernon Dursley and Petunia Evans; how they first met and eventually fell in love. They are not the horrible adults the books describe, but just your average couple. PS/SS takes off where this story ends. One-shot.

Laura Finch was just your average Slytherin: prideful, ambitious, and eager to make her way in the world. She didn't know her true identity. She didn't know the role fate would have her play. She didn't know what the strange dagger in Professor Smith's office was, or how evil an object can truly be.

Post-war: Draco is blinded by some fellow Death Eaters and flees to the safest place in the wizarding world: Hogwarts. He doesn't know that Harry Potter is there as well. As a teacher.

Harry Potter has lived with his aunt and uncle for fifteen years and fought the forces of Voldemort on many occasions. As Harry prepares to start his sixth year at Hogwarts he will face truths about himself he didn't know, power he doesn't understand, and training in hopes of destroying the most powerful Dark wizard in history. What will Harry do when he discovers the secrets of his life? Can Harry and his friends overcome the Darkness that is threatening to surround and consume the world they love so dearly?

Arthur Kirkland (England) receives his Hogwarts letter. Sorted into Slytherin and facing the rise of Voldemort, he must choose either to face death with the Order of the Phoenix or to stand aside and face his own destruction. (Crossover with Hetalia)

Ron and Harry try to figure out what to get Hermione for her birthday.

One Hogwarts evening, Potions Master Severus Snape is paid a visit by a rather enigmatic relative, Silky Soot. Only house-elves could possibly know what she's up to...