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Harry is adrift in a sea of paralyzing guilt. An unexpected ally attempts to break through to him.

"Ginny sat slumped against the wall of a dark and barren corridor, her head lolling on her knees and a half-empty bottle of Firewhisky slipping from her grip." Unable to handle her memories, Ginny seeks condolence elsewhere. Viscous memories remind her why she is how she is. "...A wave of pain, the scent of you is bliss."

"'Pfft. Whatever. He's my enemy…or rival…or something.' (Or something, says a nasty little voice at the back of his mind.)." (our favorite blonde-haired badboy thinks about a certain green-eyed hero...)

Everyone feels alone sometimes, lost sometimes. No one knows what love is, but don't we all pretend that we do? Sirius is confused, while Remus seems to be an utter mystery to him. Here's their story, told by Sirius. It is set from Marauders' seventh year.

Ron has killed Voldemort after the Dark Lord killed Harry, and a certain lover is pouring his secrets. Angsty, sadness, and roses. Slash.

A young Death Eater takes on the task of burying a former colleague. Post-war.

This takes place, maybe, a few weeks after 'A Lighter Shade of Black'. And believe me, Severus Snape isn't pleased with how things turn out. It turns out that Albus Dumbledore was wrong.

Remus/Sirius at school. James wonders why Remus and Sirius have been waking up so early.

“I’m okay…”``No matter how much she remembered about that night…it had been her fault. Dead.``For her. She couldn’t drive the memory out of her head. She was scared to sleep,``because the same nightmare kept coming back to her, night after night. The final``battle; her worst fears come true.````Hermione has come face to face with her worst nightmare and survived. Now she``wishes that she hadn’t lived at all.

The summer is nearing its end, as Harry and friends enjoy the last few days of hot summer days. In the mean time... Lucius recieves the request to perform a certain deed by the Dark Lord himself. Draco is clueless, but he also has a life that he is forced to live. How will he be affected? Or better yet... Provoked.

What does a mourning mother do after coming home from her son's funeral?

Hermione misses her lover in the middle of battle.

Sirius always thought Remus would die before him. Now he's been proved wrong.``It's quiet and empty behind the Veil, and Sirius has only memories... And dreams.

Ron and Draco. Two betrayals, a love lost, and three words a thousand times unsaid. Warning: Angst and Slash ahead.

Tonight

It is said that the best way to deal with your grief is to talk about it. Harry has no one during the summer after his fifth year.

Wouldn't it figure that on one of the worst days of George's life, the weather would be unrelentingly cheerful?

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A post-OoP piece in the spirit of \

It seemed like such a good decision at the time... (D/G)

Many history books speak of Slytherin House and its members as though all they are is evil. Now it is time to look past that prejudice, to uncover the true story behind the legend… and to follow within the footsteps of three generations. One of them existed at the very beginning; another came into being at a turning point in the history of its House, while yet another lived on in the Dark Ages. Three generations with three stories to be told, revealing exactly that which history did not tell… [Stand-alone prequel to the Slytherin Forever! Series.]

It is Remus Lupin's sixth year. Following a joke played on Snape by Sirius, a joke that almost got both Snape and James killed, Remus is on trial. Locked in a cage at the end of the hall, watching his little sister and his best friends struggling not to cry, he reflects on his family life, how he became a werewolf... and the painful memory of the last time he was here, on the other side of the cage, watching his sister struggle with herself as she awaits her fate. Told first person from Remus Lupin's point of view.

Their families hated each other of generations. One chance look meant everlasting love. If only the war hadn't exploded in their faces. They weren't Romeo and Juliet-- for one thing, one of them was left alive. They were Draco and Ginny, and once upon a time, they dared to dream of happiness. Living a life that betrays all he once stood for, Draco Malfoy is haunted by guilt, uncertainty, and quite possibly Ginny Weasley herself.

After awful and painful experiences in the hands of the Dark Lord, Severus finds a moment of comfort in Lucius' arms.

It was supposed to be a simple assignment, but it revealed that which is far from simple and the aftermath is more than anyone could have imagined...(H/D)

Harry wakes up to find Number 4 Privet Drive in chaos. He and Aunt Petunia are the only ones whole...

Three days after Voldemort's defeat, in the dead of night, Ginny finds her way to the boys' dormitory. (Harry/Ginny)

"I always wake up and reach for you. But I only see Harry, pale and cold in the moonlight. Body clenched tight into a ball, his backbone a rigged curve, afraid to feel, to be felt. He thinks I hate to touch him." Implied H/Hr/R.

Bellatrix Lestrange was desperate.

Following the events in the Department of Mysteries in "Order of the Phoenix," Hermione pays Ron a visit in his sickroom, only to discover the Ron she's always known is lost in the mind of a madman. Can she help bring him back?

Someone reflects on her lover's death. She finaly realises that she didn't know what she had until it was gone, and now she has no one. Angsty and upsetting.

After the death of a hero, there has to be somewhere to lay the blame...

Lily and James Potter. The perfect couple. You don't see how she puts on too much makeup when she leaves him at night, or how he drinks a bottle of firewhiskey after she's gone. A look into the anguished mind of James Potter, father and reluctant husband. Slash content.

Harry deals with the death of a loved one, his sixth year at school, new-found love, and the Dark Lord. Should be interesting...

My name is Draco and I was told writing was therapeutic. I guess they didn't take some things into account.

A tear-stricken Remus looks back on life with, and without, Sirius Black...``OotP Spoiler!!! Angst-fic. Slash. Song-fic to Delta Goodrum's 'Lost Without You'.

Cho is in the library being lonely. Hermione is in the library being Hermione. ~*Pre-Slash*~

Draco hates a lot of things and he will gladly list them if asked. The list will be long and meandering, switching quickly from one seemingly unrelated item to the next. Slash. boy!Blaise/Draco.

Did you ever wonder what The Boy Who Became Lord Voldemort was like as a child? Who the first victim of his madness was...

Marietta likes Cho. But will Cho ever like her back?

Ron had always thought that when he finally got around to telling Hermione that he loved her, she would be happy. And that she’d smile and kiss hum or hug him or say that she loved him too or… something. He certainly hadn't expected they'd be locked up in a dungeon, threatened by Death Eaters and locked away from their friends, who were probably still in battle. And when Hermione responded in the entire opposite way, he at least felt certain that things couldn't get much worse. But nothing ever went out the way he expected.

Remus is in love with Sirius. What will happen in the future?

All is not as it seems, and love has grown cold in a world turned upside down by madness. Severus would do anything to gain Minerva's forgiveness, but will her pardon come to late to save him?

The story of Narcissa Black, and how she came to be the wife of Lucius Malfoy and mother of Draco. This will take us back to her days at Hogwarts, and all that in between then and now, and who she really is behind the guise of a Pureblood socialite with a cold front.

Years after the war has ended and with Voldemort long since dead, unlikely companions mourn their losses.

Five years ago the Dark Lord Voldemort was defeated in battle by Harry Potter. Harry lived. However, one should remember that sometimes, there are fates worse than death.

It is the eve of the final battle against Voldemort, and two lone figures stand beside the side of Light's first great casualty. But who is it that has passed on? One shot.

The war is over, the peril is gone. What happens next in Harry's life? Why is the Boy Who Lived feeling as if he shouldn’t?

Harry seeks comfort from the only man whose loss is as great as his own. A vignette about a hug. Harry, Sirius... and James.

Someone is seeking closure after the death of their hero.

Hermione questions what could have been, on the day of her wedding. Written with inspiration from Evanescence’s My Immortal.

Not everyone is cut out to be a parent.

Spin-off from "One Fateful Night". In "OFN", we learn that Ron commits suicide, but why? This is the answer.

You know, some memories aren't that important; you forget them, or they just slip away from you. Some memories you want to leave, you push them away, lock them out, and any other thing possible to make them disappear. And some memories stick. You can't make them go away and you don't want to.

A very elderly Draco Malfoy pays a visit to the grave of Harry Potter to have a little conversation with him. NOT slash, although you may think it is at first.

This was where he lived, he knew. And he would have to come here, to sleep. Unless, of course, he had found someone else, whereupon he wouldn’t need to come back here. But Remus liked to think he meant more to him than that.

The war is over; they have won, but the price was high. All the graves are visited frequently, except one. Only he remembers what his loyal companion did.

'...But then Hermione's head shook side to side, more hair falling out of her braid: "It's not that I hate being here with you, Harry--" He wasn't sure if she meant 'you' as in him or 'you' as in him and Ron both, but he didn't ask. "...It's just, I miss my family." She sniffed, her voice tight.... "I just need..." She sniffed again. A small rub of her back by Harry's hand seemed to coax the rest of what she needed out of her. Voice breaking and muffled, she said, "I just need to be with the people who love me."' Hermione misses her family, and Harry is all she has.

Seeing is believing... and sometimes the hardest thing to do to open your eyes...

Draco is being tormented by something, and there's only one way to end it. But is that price too high, even for someone like him? Warning: Angst, DeathFic, Squickyness and (Good) Draco

This story is loosely based on the film It's a Wonderful life. Mostly the idea of what would happen if someone was granted the wish that they had never been born.

Hermione and Ron have just had their first son, but he looks nothing like either one of them. In fact, he looks a lot like Harry. Ron remembers his fallen friend as he holds his newborn, and wonders whether Harry ever forgave him that last night they saw each other. *song fic to Creed's With Arms Wide Open*

Draco defeats Lord Voldemort, but no one remembers him for it. Would he forever be a Forgotten Hero ?? Or will something happen to change his destiny forever ...

I'm here to save your soul, to change the world, to be the best. Look at me, I'm Super Girl, and it doesn't matter how much it hurts me to be there for everyone when they forget about who I am. A Hermione monologue.

The war against Voldemort has taken a little something from everyone. But for her... it’s taken her soul. And now the only things she has left are smudges of lipstick and fading bruises.

Harry's sixth year. After a long, miserable summer with the Dursleys, Harry returns to Hogwarts and sees life in a very different light. His parents are dead. Cedric is dead. Sirius is dead. All thanks to Voldemort. With this in mind, Harry begins to become obsessed with wanting to murder Voldemort. It's all he can ever think about. So he begins to lose interest in everything else--even Quidditch, which he quits. His grades also continue to drop. His friends try to help him, but are unsuccessful. Even the new DADA teacher tries, but fails. What happens when the only person who CAN help is your most hated enemy? H/D; R/Hr; G/N.

"Are you a genie?” She wrinkled her nose. “ I prefer the term ‘wish goddess.’” Harry has discovered what could be the most valuble magical item he has ever heard of-- in the Dursley's attic, no less! But does this finally mean that he can bring Sirius back? One-Shot.

Snape gets an unpleasant blast from the past.... Can he accept things and move on?

Harry and Ron are learning how to fence. But when Ginny and Hermione take up their swords, they may learn more than they bargained for.

Harry should be perfectly happy after the defeat of Voldemort at the beginning of summer after his Sixth year. But something sinister has plans for our hero and his friends. Bad dreams, confused hearts, and revealed relations star in this story as well as a smattering of Lupin and Sirius!

AJ is a fifth year Gryffindor. Her relationship with her boyfriend Ron is a little patchy to say the least, so what will happen when a huge mistake results in a rather West Side Story situation? Rated for one naughty word.

Maybe Harry Potter is merely fulfilling his duty as an Auror to the best of his abilities, but maybe his friends are right to worry about him. Catching the last Death Eater still alive is more than just work to Harry, and everyone knows it.

Pain isn't a single thing. It spreads like the plague and the suffering doesn't end with just a single person. It eats you up inside until you can't take it anymore, until you want to cry and scream. But what if you can't?

Leaving school is like falling blindly off a cliff while someone assures you there will be a net to catch you. You don't know where you'll end up, because everything that was familiar is ripped away from you and you're just expected to walk away from all that you knew and start from scratch. The people you saw everyday you might never see again. This is a fic about friendship that stays strong even after shutting the gate on Hogwarts.

Harry Potter finally gets at Bellatrix Lestrange for the murder of Padfoot. Will she die or will Harry let her live?

This is how my mind filled in the missing details of Dumbledore's conversation with Mrs. Cole. Rated PG-13 for subject matter.

There are ways and ways of saying goodbye. Written in response to OotP.

"And so into the drawing Dean poured his emotions, his hopeless anger, his terrible sadness. Unrequited love pushed his aching, graphite-blackened fingers on. And the picture before him developed, and became Seamus." Seamus/Dean slash. It's night, and Dean is drawing Seamus.

Nearly ten years after tragedy drove Hermione Granger from the magical world forever, she is forced to open up old wounds and return to her former life, only to find that the loose ends she left behind have twisted themselves into a mysterious path toward the future: the Rule of Three.

After a particuarly bloody murder, Severus Snape, Mordred and Alison Lestrange, Kenneth Avery, Rolly Wilkes, Evan Rosier, and Florence Jorkins try to deal with what they've done.

Black owls bear black news. A sequel to Quietly into the Night.

The Fates contemplate the future of Severus Snape as the boy waits to be Sorted.

This is not a fairy tale, but Remus Lupin almost wants it to be. Remus/Sirius, post OotP.

JKR mentions the Muggle raids in her books, but has yet to ever describe one. This fic is about an unsuspecting Muggle who has no idea of the wizarding world. Death Eaters (led by Lucius Malfoy) raid her quiet home. Will she meet the fate that so many unfortunate Muggles have, or will Lucius be merciful?

She realised that he would always have a hold on her. A cold, punishing hold that tightened with each ``shallow breath she took. And he knew it. Dark fic. Sequel one shot to 'Cantus Inaequalis'.

Hermione is listening to Something Corporate after a fight with Ron and reflecting on how both Harry and Ron have changed. Angst. Songfic.

He could feel the warmth of the blazing sun on the back of his neck and it was this pleasant feeling which managed to rouse him from a peaceful slumber. He opened his sleepy eyes and became aware that he was lying on his front, the gentle smell of grass invading his senses.

Twenty-odd years post-Hogwarts, nobody has quite found themselves a 'happily ever after'. Short, intense, and surreal. Cho/OC, Harry/Cho, Harry/Severus.

The Weasley family went to Egypt in the summer before Harry's school year. Ginny went too. But she still had not recovered from what had happened. It was her fault. But she did not have nightmares.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand before you do as the Devil pleases and give you the thing you love Sad, angsty "lay low at Lupin's" songfic. R/S

Black and Lupin have escaped from the Potions Master’s clutches. Vengeance and an Order of Merlin have been snatched away from him by none other than Albus Dumbledore. How on earth can an embittered Severus continue to work with his Headmaster? An insight into a frustrated wizard’s mind, bridging PoA and GoF.

In his fifth year at Hogwarts, in the aftermath of the 'Willow Incident', Sirius Black returns to Grimmauld Place for the Christmas holidays. Once there certain unpleasant discoveries are made, causing events to spiral swiftly out of his control.

Unspeakables and Death Eaters have always been placed at opposite ends of the spectrum, their families being placed, sometimes unwillingly, with them, even whenever their heart pulls in a harder direction.````Sometimes it takes experience to learn that the world is made up of shades of grey. (Moon/Nott)

Most people think that it was the biggest mistake she ever made, but Ginny Weasley would like everyone to build their own opinion after hearing the true story. Sometimes you have to do something wrong in order to achieve something that is right.

Harry spends his first Christmas after losing a loved one at the Burrow with the Weasley's. Grief stricken, he encounters Father Christmas.

"Ron pondered telling Harry that he really would have to kill him if he became a Christian, but he thought that Hermione would say this was insensitive." When Harry runs away in Godric's Hollow, Ron follows him to a very strange place. Takes place directly after HBP. Trio friendship, with a smidge of Ron/Hermione and some past Harry/Ginny.

A sequel to my fic "A Summer's Day". What happens after the funeral, and Mrs. Granger's harsh words?

Veritaserum. It's highly illegal. So why did Hermione make it? And why does Ron want Draco to take it? Startling revelations abound!

In the years after the fnal battle, all Ron Weasley has left to do is sit alone and wisper "I was there."

Remus loses someone close to him, but what will he do to cope?