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Potter might have been destined to take on the Dark Lord, but it would be the choice of his heart that would kill him. For a choice will always destroy more than a destiny.

Arrogance was my downfall; now I chose to tell the truth of my death, and the death of my husband.````From the desk of the author of Black Lily and Black Aeon, comes this addition to the ending of Black Lily.

Faced with the unexpected, Ron rethinks his priorities; a war story.

Ron's hot-headed temper has sunk him in some equally hot water. Malfoy has gotten his come uppance.

Ginny is angry at Harry because she's realises that he is too self-absorbed to notice anyone else in the school besides his close friends. Harry is upset that Ginny is angry, and doesn't understand why he cares what she thinks so much. Meanwhile two Ravenclaw girls decide to form a band, and somehow Draco gets roped into being the lead singer. And when the band gets very good, Ginny finds herself somewhat attracted to``blond lead singers.

Where has the real world gone? This is only a facsimile, a nightmare. It has to be.``Contains very mild slash.

No I would not sleep in this bed of lies``So toss me out and turn in``And there'll be no rest for these tired eyes``I'm marking it down to learning ``I am...``If you've ever been broken-hearted, or ever felt like you wouldn't love again, then read on.

Pansy reflects on her relationship with Draco Malfoy.

Wind can blow out a fire, but it can also make it flare.

Saying goodbye is never easy, no matter on which side you find yourself.

This story sketches the complicated Muggle and wizards relations in one of the more troubled parts of Europe. The Muggle politics can be more dangerous to the wizarding world than Voldemort and Death Eaters. Read how the Headmaster of Durmstrang Institute copes with the history, the presence and the future of his school and of his students.

The seventh year begins, and the war has just begun. The Dark Lord continues to rise, and gain power, slipping spies amongst those that are doing what they can to fight against his power, his rising influence, causing each attempt by the Ministry to fail drastically. It seems that the protection of Hogwarts is not enough for the young boy who lived, Ron and Hermione are no longer neck and neck, Dumbledore can no longer fight as he used to, and Draco has become the miniature version of Severus Snape. With pooled forces, and the dramas of war, can good hold up against evil? Can those who fight for peace keep from crumbling and falling to their knees before those who want nothing more than bloodshed...?

A rat and a Ministry witch travel east across Europe, both being drawn inexorably towards their brutal destiny- each other and the Dark Lord. What happens to Peter Pettigrew and Bertha Jorkins in the summer between PoA and GoF. What really DOES happen at the wayside inn? Only two people, and one formless spirit know.

Hermione thinks about how her life has been, the matters of family, friends, and the matters of her heart. Background of some parts of the story also come from "Reflections (3)", another of my stories

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings/ look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!". In the desert there is only one law, and this law is: sand. Ginny/Bill.

How do you live when you feel destined to die? Don't ask me. If I knew that, my life and death would be a lot easier.

Before her monthly transformation, Deirdre reveals that she isn't quite the innocent little pixie everyone thought she was. A game of chase in the dark, some hot moments (nothing graphic), and a light-hearted game that not even a Slytherin could say no to (if anyone would ever want to invite one.).

Sirius drinks Polyjuice Potion to get out of Grimmauld Place for a bit. Remus goes along. There may be some banter, possibly some memories, and quite certainly there's a fight.

The third love in Harry's life is Luna. Was Luna. Sometimes the ending really is the beginning.

Lily is sitting at a cafe one afternoon and looks up to see a tall, dark stranger. Not really fluff, interesting...

Draco has some things he needs to get off his chest.

Prelude to chapter \'Spinner\'s End\' in HBP. Bellatrix calls to \'comfort\' and calm Narcissa, and has exactly the opposite effect.

"His back was to me, but somehow I knew it was him. And what surprised me even more was that somehow I knew he should not have been there. After all, it isn't every day you run into supposedly dead ex-boyfriends." Bertha Jorkins is on vacation. Now if only she can remember why Peter is supposed to be dead...

Short little fiction piece. A study in the character of one Remus J. Lupin. What may have happened the morning following Sirius' death. Implied RL/SB.

Harry Potter has gone into hiding, but finally decides that he must begin the hunt for the Horcruxes, but at what costs?

"If this is death, he thought, it’s not quite as final as everyone thinks." As he falls through the Veil, Sirius watches the people he loves come to terms with what has happened.

When the morning came, they buttoned on their cloaks and rode to their deaths.

Albus Dumbledore sneaks out at night in his seventh year upon the prompting of a friend and reluctantly discovers his own power.

Harry deals with the death of Severus in his own way.

In the beginning Harry is stranded in an unconcious state. He has almost lost hope, but then slowly regains it though the story.

AU. In a cold dark prison cell a young man sits alone, reflecting on his actions. Tomorrow Draco Malfoy will be resentenced for his crimes. As he waits he tries to justify what he did, but he knows in his heart that he deserves all he gets.

"The deserts of Arabia. A vast land, long dreamed of and romanticized by the poets and the stargazers as the cradle of civilization... it was said that once, a race of men existed who could control the powers of the desert. Strange men these were, men who were granted the wisdom of the desert and the knowledge and power of the sands. Most of them were wanderers, moving from one desert town to the next, awing all the town-dwellers with their mysterious demeanors and apparent ability to control the forces that shaped the earth."

The events of the astronomy tower, from Severus' perspective. Spoilers for HBP

How do you deal with a loss that is not just in your heart, but in the very heart of your home? ``Warning: Character Death

Dumbledore's nephew is in love... with a feisty redhead who happens to be working for the wrong side. What is Tom Riddle's plan? And what does this woman have to do with a prophecy about a boy to bring about the downfall of her master? A very twisted Romeo and Juliet.

It’s Halloween, the day of the dead, and after the war there are plenty of dead people to remember. An ancient school, an old battlefield, and a new graveyard. Old enemies meet again, but nothing is quite the same. DM/CC pairing.

Everyone understands Lavender Brown. They understand her obsession with passion-pink-lipstick, they comprehend that she gossips and creates scandals. The only problem is that nobody really knows Lavender… they can’t, because she doesn’t even know herself.

Everything in Harry's life is perfect. He's halfway through his seventh (and final) year, and life is great. Then the Dark Lord prepares to take the final step on his rise to power and no one is there to stop him.

"Harry thought she looked like a picture he'd seen in 'Holidays With Hags'..." What it's been like to grow up as the fat, ugly Slytherin.

Every man tends a secret garden, and Neville Longbottom is no exception. He is a good boy, a diligent boy, and he does his best to tend it well in the moldering house of his grandmother, but every secret garden has a dark place where even the hands that tend it dare not venture.

Neville doesn't have much confidence in himself. He is in love with Luna, but he afraid to tell her.

See why Luna is persecuted so much! See what the Ravenclaws do in their spare time! See what happens when Dumbledore tries to put his foot down! Lawsuits! Northern Ireland! Gratuitous bad language!

Four years ago, before they knew about the Prophecy, or that children can’t do things, James and Rose modified the Twinbond they’d been born with into something more. The reason they did so, and the method they used has been their secret ever since. Here is the story behind that decision, and the reason James won’t let any evil go.~~~Warning: True Evil abounds, and some parts of this are truly disturbing, and entirely too real.~~~

Narcissa Malfoy wanders through her garden and wonders of what has she become, and if she could ever escape her prison.

You think muggle-borns are opressed? Wait until you meet Joseph Bloauiex, human/goblin mix!

A re-telling, of sorts, of the journey through the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack in which Harry decides it's not a good idea to visit Hagrid when a mass-murderer is on the loose.

'The mouth snapped at him, thick saliva dripped from the elongated fangs and the yellow eyes gleamed at him in hunger.' Remus Lupin's past.

Silvius Malfoy, father of Lucius Malfoy, looks back on his childhood, his corruption, and his children.

Remus searches to save Sirius. Inspired by the quote: "Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."``-Josephus Daniels

Young and in love were Harry and Ginny. So happy, it was bliss. But unfortunately, Harry had a destiny to fulfill and he had to leave her...for ten long years. Ginny gets fed up with his absence and soon gives up on her heart. When it seems that all hope is lost, an old enemy returns from years of darkness to seek the light which he happens to find in a brokenhearted Ginny. Romance, angst, and confusion consumes Ginny's life until she is left to make a choice. Does her heart beat for Harry or for Draco? Only her heart holds the answer. But one thing's for certain...love will endure. P.G. 13 for language, adult situations, and violence.

What really happened that Halloween night? It was a night of murder and mayhem, but who killed whom? How did Voldemort mark Harry?

It's Remus' sixteenth birthday. The Marauders have a little gift planned for him, but all he wants is to be something instead of the nothing he thinks he is.

An Oliver-Percy remorse. All six-year-old Percy Weasley wanted was to learn how to fly. All seventeen-year-old Percy wants is freedom. One-sided Oliver and Percy slash, takes place during PoA. Features a missing Weasley son.

Brethren... two brothers separated by much more than a difference in blood, they re-meet in a time that is both dark and ultimately life-changing for them both. Will the bonds be forever broken or can the past really be forgotten?

He thought he had left behind his true home forever, until a familiar face teaches him otherwise. Maybe it hadn't been home at all. Closure. Post-OoTP.

The troll wasn't let loose and Hermione was never given that encounter to bond with Harry and Ron. She has no friends. With her gamble to create a life in the wizarding world failed, she isn't thinking straight. She looks over the ledge of the tower, but is interrupted by someone. A gen fic with NO PAIRINGS and the two starting the basis of even more hate. Rated for swearing.

The ground was muddy and soaked by the heavy rain. Thick raindrops hit her face, wetting her clothes, but she didn’t feel it. Numbness was all she felt. She saw it happening, disbelieving. She saw how the light emerged from the tip of her wand and formed a mist around the sixteen year-old boy who stood a few steps from her. The dark trees around them made this night even darker than it already was.

Moaning Myrtle has kept quiet for over fifty years ever since her death... it's time she's spoken up for what she wants to do and what her thoughts on Harry Potter and other things that has happened in her life...

"She shouldn't have died like that." "She shouldn't have died at all!" * Everything can change in seven years. Hermione's dead, and now Harry must confront everything he thought he left behind.

A dark secret from Ginny's past has prevented her from having an intimate relationship with everyone she's ever dated. Will Neville's patience and understanding give her what she needs to take back control of her life? An angsty N/G love story.

After an uncomfortable encounter in the Library, a young Severus finds himself wondering what exactly he feels for Lucius Malfoy, unaware that Lucius might actually be contemplating the same thing.

How do you pick up the pieces when what you thought would be, will never come to pass? One character must come to grips with reality, and deal with the loss of a love.

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - Kenyan Proverb

Shortly after Regulus's death, Sirius reminisces about his brother.

A little over the week after the final battle with Voldemort Ginny Weasley, the only survivor, wakes from a coma like state to find that everyone in the Order was killed, including her entire family, Neville Longbottom, Hermione Granger, and Harry Potter. She walks that night, trying to come to terms with what has happened.

Grief can push even a good man to extremes. How far will Lupin go?

A time-line without dates. Events that shape and demonstrate the development of a boy. Lists his surroundings and actions as they are known. They say with these two things you can understand a person.

On the eve of war, Hermione finds out what Draco has been hiding all year.

Memories still linger in the halls of Hogwarts, replayed, untouched, and unbroken.

The wizarding world has finally defeated Voldemort. Everyone believes that Voldemort is dead. But is he really dead if he lives in your dreams. "Why, Why are you haunting me, Voldemort?"

Ron knows that now, when members of the Order of the Phoenix look at him, they look past the red hair and freckles and think not Weasley, but Sirius Black. And now that he's dead, Ron wonders if history will repeat itself.

Alone on her twenty-first birthday after a fight with Ron, Hermione Granger runs into a stranger from her past in the seediest part of London. Who is he, and how has her life taken such a turn for the worse?

Possibly the fluffiest-ever take on the apocalypse. The Earth's orbit is about to take the planet through the middle of a massive asteroid swarm, and the world has a few months to face certain death. Call me strange, but I actually see the ending here as quite optimistic. In a way.

After the death of Hermione's parents, Ron and Harry contemplate what to do next and how to help her cope. Filled with drama, angst, romance, and some suprises. Also includes many appearances of members of the Order of the Phoenix, and details of the fight against Voldemort. This is for anyone who believes in the power of friendship and love.

“What do you like?” Petunia had asked her once. She had smiled sweetly at her older sister. “Knowing Mum loves me better.”

Ron frowned suddenly. There was something stuck between the trash can and the wall, next to the door. Why hadn't he ever seen it? Ron finds a note that reminds him what happiness he may have missed.

She was nothing but a cheap fortune-teller, a simple housewife who made a few extra pounds by telling people nice stories. Eva dealt in dreams, not witchcraft. But then a chubby boy named Peter entered her tent.

I am who I am, I am only different when it comes to you. (H/D)

Gypsy thought her parents were dead. The summer before her fifth year, things change drastically...

Moaning Myrtle tells a ghost story. Her death is not Hogwarts' most tragic by any means.

Lupin's thoughts before he leaves Hogwarts at the end of Harry and the others' third year, as he reflects over his students and over his own days at Hogwarts.

Sirius has come to accept one life when he is back in Grimmauld Place. He knows that he is supposed to be nothing but the perfect pureblooded Black his parents expect him to be. But he cannot accept what he is supposed to be and what he is supposed to become...

"red mouth like a venomous flower". You think that you've won. Takes place during OotP. Minerva/Dolores.

Some people say that you see your life flash before your eyes just before you die. Remus disagreed. He saw the lives of those around him. Harry's Posse. The Six.

"I’ve woken up early again.Too early. It’s four in the morning. I sigh and stare blankly at the curtains for a few minutes, trying to recall the dream I’d been having. It was something to do with Lily; but the more I thought about it the less I could remember." James Potter wakes early one morning and makes a vow to himself and his family. J/L one shot

It's amazing the things you can survive, and the things you can't. I knew this wasn’t over, and when it was, the two of them would be walking away, and I would not.

Sitting on the steps of his childhood home, Grimmauld place, Sirius ponders his memories. Good and bad.

One-shot. Song-fic to Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Harry is going to Godric's Hollow with or without anyone's help. A half drunken Draco follows him to see what he's up to. The two have some decisions to make on this lonely road.

Ginny Weasley reflects on the last month's events...and decides they're too much.

Peter's thoughts at the moment of ultimate betrayal.

George grieves after the death of his twin brother. A story of Fred, George and a carousel.

No one should ever have to feel like this. Some go through it on a daily basis. Learn first hand. This would be your worst nightmare.

Harry wants us to share the title of Triwizard Champion. That actually sounds quite nice, because it would mean that we're unified and in this together for our school. Even so, I still want to make absolutely sure he knows what he's asking me to do before I tell him yes or no. (Cedric genfic)

Despite the lovely world that he now resides in, Sirius Black can only watch as his friends and loved ones fight for their lives. Discontent and depressed, he seeks James for advice. Prongs, an angel, and another world promptly teach him a lesson he will never forget. Companion fic to "Dear Sirius..." and "Dear Padfoot..."

Late at night in July of 1981, Albus Dumbldore received information that the Dark Lord intended to attack the Potters. Two scenes.

Dogs are pack animals by nature. This doesn’t exclude Sirius Black. After 15 years of being apart, the Black family reconciles. But for how long? And do they even know about it?

Remus is all that is left; all the others have left him. Peter to join Voldemort, James because he died for Lily, and Sirius because he died to save Harry. How does he feel about being the last one? How does he feel about the others for leaving him behind, their friend, the one they made a certain promise to that none of them kept their word on, This is how he feels now that he is all alone…*SPOILER*

Lord Voldie is the bad guy. He's the most evil being in the whole of the wizarding, and Muggle, world. Or is he?

She came in the dark and begged for his help: to protect the Light in a time of Darkness. A speculation of the devastating move that put our hero Harry in jeopardy.

Seamus is sick of everything being about Harry. Finally, it gets to him and sends him over the edge.