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Paintings never change, but the people who look at them do.

Tom Riddle is a child to be pittied. But there are certain actions he must be accountable for; certain actions that cannot be forgiven.

"He deserves for me to love him the way I love you" Ginny POV Remus/Ginny slight Harry/Ginny

What does Snape think about when doing rounds? Snapshots of introspection and the people he encounters, along with a twist in the tail theory concerning just why Dumbledore thinks that he can be trusted. (With Footnotes.)

There's nothing left anymore, nothing anywhere. That means you've got nothing left to lose, and it's a great bloody New Year. (Warning: Dark)

The War is over, and Harry feels that Draco is drawing away from him. Short songfic to 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'.

In his fright, a five year old Draco Malfoy runs to his parents for comfort. Features young!Draco, nice!Lucius and a battle of the wits.

Before the Order of the Phoenix settle into Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin learn that some things never change while others do. (SLASH: SB/RL)

Sometimes life seems impossible when you're expected to live it. (Companion piece to "Mad".)

Remus Lupin is alone, isolated by his curse. He has only his friends to to share his troubles with, but what if he had more than feelings for one of his friends? Low self confidence can be raised by those who love you. You just have to be strong enough to accept their help... (slash RL/SB, very short)

The Boy-Who-Lived is finally dead. So, why is Draco Malfoy depressed about this fact?

It's a few weeks before school is over and Professor Dumbledore decides to lighten up the atmosphere - by declaring that all students and teachers are to cross-dress for a whole week. This is the beginning of a very "wicked" plan, brought by who else but Harry Potter.

Ginny is older. She's facing problems that no one realizes. She turns to Charlie and Tom and makes a decision about life. A follow up to As Long As I Love You, actually.

Harry is in love with Hermione. So is Ron. How far will Harry go to get the girl of his dreams? Maybe Harry isn't really in love with the person he thought he was.... At the end of this fic, who will be with whom?

A new girl at school teams up with Luna, and it's a disaster waiting to happen. They start trying to pair off the students, but they're almost always too late. Until one of them decides to try another pair. Luna and Harry. What will come of their friendship, and, more importantly, Harry's feelings.

After sixth year, Ginny is having trouble getting over Dean Thomas when he breaks up with her. She decides to go away for the summer and stay with her grandparents in a small town to mope, but will someone interrupt her heartbreak?

Falling... endless black.... What is going on? I just fell, why am I going this far? I just went behind the veil.... Where am I? What happened? Stop. Aching.... Where am I now? This place is so strange.... Why does it have a familiar feeling? I know I have been here before... but when? Why would I have visited this place before now? Who is that? That shadow approaching me.... It looks familiar too.... Who is that?

A diary written by an observer of humanity's final days. Details methods used by Voldemort to destory Muggle and Wizard alike. The final battle between Voldemort and Harry Potter is chronicled here, as is the final fate of mankind.

Harry/ Ron, home at the Burrow.

Severus Snape reflects on the questions in his life. Why did it take the turns it did, and why was it so intertwined with the Potters? It turns out that some promises, like some scars, never quite go away. Takes place towards the end of OoTP.

Gryffindor has just won the Quidditch Cup! And Weasley is still our King. Ron/Hermione

Songfic to "On My Own" from Les Miserables. Ginny is the main focus of the story, with her thinking of Harry. Hermione stars as Cosette. I went to see Les Miserables at the Fifth Avenue and this popped into my head...I think it works.

Lust, Envy, Pride and Mr Potter. How Harry and Ginny cope with three of the seven deadly sins.

Draco is gone, but Harry doesn't care. Not at all.

Dean can't help Ginny, no matter how hard he tries.

One man's dream is another man's nightmare. Neville spends his time locked in a dream world, but what do the dreams hold?

Life has never been easy for Severus Snape and it's about to get even worse. His relationship with Dumbledore is going from bad to worse, Harry's bent on revenge, Draco's turning from a spoiled brat to outright evil, and an old friend Severus hoped never to see again is going to be the new DADA professor.

His name would never pass her lips, though his name was always on the tip of her tongue, he was always in her thoughts, on all those nameless nights. Tom/Ginny.

The final battle has had a devastating effect on Draco. As he is dying, he begs his lover to kill him. Will he?

For as long as he could remember, Draco Malfoy had wanted a scar... But such considerations are superfluous as the Slytherin Duelling Association meets once more. Can the King of Slytherin House retain his title? Will his girlfriend ever pay any attention to him? Will Crabbe and Goyle stop reading that bloody dictionary?

Hermione, womanly pursuits, and death by degrees. [Post war, dark]

Some potionmakers with their familiars hear about a theft of a precious archemical manuscript from the greatest wizard library of France, and decide to investigate...

It's a certain Potter boy's seventh year at Hogwarts. He's observing a certain red-haired girl and pondering Voldemort's rise to power.

Hermione and Ron are in love. Or so they thought before a huge fight. Will Hermione's note save their relationship?

Remus’s story; from reading The Hobbit, to bite, to Hogwarts, to friends, to Animagi, to the SB/RL slash (there’s the warning), to getting The Lord of the Rings. The story of Remus Lupin in eleven short stories.

Ron thinks about the fatal little things. Hermione doesn't have a solution. A picture of a dysfunctional relationship - when love just isn't enough.

Charlie wakes up one morning and chaos erupts in the Weasley household.

It's a new year, and the professor of Muggle Studies has decided to make her class much more interesting, and surprisingly, fun. Unfortunately, Draco is forced to take her class after beating up and laughing at a Muggleborn first year. Will they survive? Will Draco learn a lesson? Does anyone know why Bill Weasley mysteriously shows up often?

different...

Ten years after the end of the Second War, things are much different than any of the four friends, Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione, had imagined they would be. With Harry gone from their lives, the three try to continue living as best they can. However, this life isn't as glorious as others make it out to be. When Harry and Ginny both find themselves in Italy at the same time, they attempt to fix the past, but someone else is already making plans for their future... and those plans are far from picture perfect.

The soul of a proud man drowns...

When war forces the Patil twins to face each other from opposite sides, one of them discovers she never really knew her sister.

Harry is the hand print on the pane and you the hand and how if you give up now, stop reaching out, he’ll fade away just as his handprint did.

Lying in the hills of Ireland, Ginny thinks of an old friend. He re-enters her life, and helps her remember what could have been. Draco/Ginny. One-shot.

Katie Bell is dying. Professor Snape is called upon to save her from a curse that has no cure. Where lies the boundary between Dark and Light Magic, and do the ends justify the means? An extrapolation from HBP.

Confusion of sorts leads to an interesting, if wholly unexpected, situation for Professors Lupin and McGonagall at Grimmauld Place.

And you thought Plot Bunnies were metaphorical! Watch as two unsuspecting fanfiction writers get sucked into the shady world of Harry Potter fanfiction Plot Bunnies! No... this fic ISN'T supposed to make much sense.

Neville thinks on his crush before going to visit him for the summer.

Draco dreams of Harry Potter every night, but why the sudden change of heart? What has Blaise got to do with it, and why would Draco want Harry when he already has a boyfriend? Very dark fic, includes non-con.

Remus Lupin needs a friend. And Hermione Granger loves heroes. Rated for pain; there is no romance.

Pansy thought she needed Draco Malfoy. She thought she was ugly. She thought she was worthless. But she was wrong. Now if only Blaise could prove that to her.

''Remus began crying with the stabbing pains in his heart; it felt as though a knife was ruthlessly cutting a hole through it. A hole which only Sirius could fill....''

Things are always bad between Sirius and Remus around the full moon, but things have been getting worse. But Sirius can't run, he knows he can't. He has to face the Wolf. Ever get the feeling you've been trapped?

How far will Draco go to escape home?

One-shot. My first slash story. This was a Magical Music challenge from Lady Silver. Butterbeer, hot boys, karaoke and lap dances. What could be better?

A possible explanation behind Percy Weasley's behaviour in OotP.

Ginny has a wall around her heart. No one can tell that it's there. It keeps her from getting hurt again. It also keeps her from loving. Includes Dashboard Confessional's Carve Your Heart Out Yourself.

What if you could re-do the past, change certain events and live happily ever after? After a brush with horrible tragedy, Harry decides to do just that. But soon he learns that the past isn't that open to change. And that one tiny mistake can send the whole thing crashing down. WARNING. This is NOT a happy fic. Harry/Girl!Blaise, Draco/Practically every female, and Ron/Pansy

“Remus pours the tea.” A tale of friendship and comfort in the beginning of the darkness following GoF.

I can never do anything right. Everything I say comes out wrong...

James is tried of keeping secrets from Lily. One night he asks his friends for permission to tell the biggest one of all. Remus might be friends with Lily, but there's just some things he doesn't want her to know about him.

Peering into his soul, Harry realized that he had become Judge, Jury, and Executioner for those who had died at his hands…and the majority had been pure souls...and he just wanted forgiveness... Based in the realm of The Simplest of Emotions, join Harry as he returns to Godric's Hollow after many years...

This is what happens when the characters get just darn fed up with it all.

They say love is equal to madness.

In a fic I enjoyed very much, Remus mentioned that he "always assumed the werewolf who bit him had a sick sense of humor". This is my musings on that, as well as how being treated as a werewolf in wizarding society would lead to that.````In this fic, the werewolf who bit Remus tells us about the night of the Bite, and philosophizes a bit--very bitterly--abt being a werewolf.``It's creepy--it's GOOD, it surprised me how good, but it's creepy--which is the only reason it is PG. There's no actual violence, no gore, it's just got an insight to a creepy side of human nature.

Ginny returns to the Malfoy Manor and a confused Draco, to find herself uttering the confession that might change everything she said before.

This is a songfic based around the song Dry Your Eyes by The Streets. Ron and Hermione fall in love, but after a disastrous stay at the Burrow, Hermione makes a decision.

Harry was supposed to get killed by Voldemort. Draco wasn't supposed to know. What went wrong?

Sirius doesn't like Remus' watch. Remus has work to do, but keeps getting distracted. What time is it, Mr Wolf?

In the Summer before their Seventh Year Remus and Sirius (being the worldly, all-knowing chaps they are) give their good friend, James, some simply advice when dealing with females: "Don't Mug Yourself". Based on and some dialogue from The Streets song by the same name. Rated PG-13 for language.

Everyone expects Harry Potter to be the one to challenge He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named but what if he isn't? There's more to life than the fight for good and evil as one girl knows. Who would have thought it would be poor little Ginny Weasley? Well things have changed and this is what everything leads to...

Their 6th year at Hogwarts has started, Dean is happy with Ginny, and Ginny is happy with Dean. Seamus, on the other hand, is not happy, and you know what they say about misery and company.

Two fans of The Boy Who Lived set out on a pilgrimage to get a glimpse of their idol.

Of course Mary Poppins attended Hogwarts as did her best friend Beatrix Potter. Here for your entertainment is a day in the life of the two Hufflepuffs in the year 1881.

The war with Voldemort is over. The good guys won. Now Harry has to face his oldest enemy and has to make the most difficult decisions.

Pansy thinks too much.

A tattered black veil stands before them. Remus Lupin needs to travel to the other side to save his past, but the journey comes at a price. It is a price that Severus Snape must be willing to pay. SS/RL

Four words... Sirius, naked, invisibility cloak.

Severus Snape is denied the Defence Against Dark Arts position yet again and finds himself in the company of a face from his past.

They made their way back to the orphanage, the streets jammed with holiday shoppers even with the war on. He let her chatter, trying to find something in her to hate, to be contemptuous of, so that he could finally break the last tie holding him to the muggle world and move forward towards his destiny. Instead she just smiled and talked and held his hand, pointing out decorations and asking, "Aren't they pretty? Oh, aren't you so glad it's Christmas again?"

The light was ripped away from him, and the darkness was all he had. He was betrayed, abandoned, and he would make them pay. For he was all alone, and no one had ever been there for him. And because of this, he would give into the darkness and become Lord Voldemort.

Snape has just thrown Harry out of his office, after catching him nosing into Snape's past. (OotP, chapter 28) Snape now has to put back these three terrible memories into his own head and relive these three events that have played a major part in shaping him into the man that he has ultimately become. This is a story of love and loyalty, friendship and betrayal, and death and desperation.

A dark-cloaked figure pays homage to Lily's memory.

We all know what happened to Neville, but how does he feel about it? A short story of his thoughts.

After an uneventful summer Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, dreading his sixth year. Voldemort is still at large and the Order of the Phoenix is broken by betrayal and distrust. In these dark times trust might be a valuable thing to those who never knew it, and love might be the key to freedom. It is up to some to make a difference... before it is too late...

They say the good die young. Once upon a time, Gregory Goyle was as decent as a Slytherin could be.

One.``She swallows hard and brings the glass back to the table sharply. Water sloshes over the sides and her hands scrabble frantically at the packet, waiting for a release from the torment. An end to it all.

Harry and Draco as Aurors? Okay, I guess that's alright. But partners?! Throw a Muggle into the mix and things are gonna get ugly!

Lucius reflects on his wife, Narcissa, and explains why she reminds him of a white rose.

HBP SPOILERS. Bill is recovering in the Hospital Wing. Fleur takes care of him.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione move to darkest Oregon in the Heart Of The Country to get away from city life.

“Dean Alexander Thomas, you stand accused of the murder of Seamus Frederick Finnigan. How do you plead?” “Guilty.”

A mini-series of Peter Pettigrew's thoughts and emotions before and after the Potter's deaths. There is a twist; this story tells of what might have happened had Wormtail confessed to someone about his heinous acts, and what the consequences of these actions would be.

Draco Malfoy, alone and destitute, sinks into the grip of a welcomed addiction.

Jane Wallace- a smart-mouthed, opinionated, and high-maintennance Manhattan socialite, loved and loathed by all lives with her supermodel aunt, Maggie in the Upper West Side. She lives a semi-charmed life, a Hogwarts students with high marks, no less, that is, until someone turns her perfect world UPSIDE DOWN!

Many years ago Lily and James Potter kept a secret, and that secret was the existance of a little girl.... Sorcha Bella was a normal American witch with no definite plans for her future, believing she would never leave the States....

Voldemort has never felt remorse before. However, when he visits a special person's grave he makes an interesting decision. A decision that will change his life… (T/G)

It was his battle, yet he never hurt me, and he could have. H/D slash. Prequel to More Than Enough.

Each person stares at me with a look of utter hatred on their faces. That is how I know I should die, because they are happy to see me leave this earth. I wish they did not think that I had done those things. I never did. ````I regret everything. I don’t have anyone to blame but myself; I know that, but it doesn’t change the disgust I have for myself. I deserve my fate. If only I had not been too weak… If only I had not given up, if only I had had the strength to choose my own path. If only I had had the strength to stay with her.

Remus asks Sirius to make a choice, but can either live with it? Post-OotP. sirusxremus (hints of tonksxoc, harry+ron)