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Harry's spent his whole life saying good-bye. Even now, as he locks himself away in Number 12 Grimmauld Place, he may have to say it again. Can love pull him through?

"He can't help but wonder if it is he that has changed her, if magic has driven part of his darkness into her." HG/SB

Summer came quietly that year, sweeping away spring and replacing it with hot and humid weather. It also brought a long so many changes in life, so unpredictably.

"Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day." ~Edwin Arnold, Somewhere There Waiteth

What is your greatest fear? The death of the ones you love? How about a diary? Ginny decides to face her fear. What will her diary hold of her feelings? Harry? Ron and Hermione's relationship?

Amidst secrets and deceptions, James discovers he has a few 'furry little problems' of his own. (Remus/Sirius)

A young man\'s foray into the unknown produces a Christmas gift of questionable proportions. But hey, it\'s the thought that counts, right? A Ron/Hermione story for the crappy gift buyer in all of us.

It's Hermione's sixth year, the War has begun, and``Dumbledore decides to increase morale amongst the students by``celebrating Halloween in various ways. During a game of hide and seek,``Hermione finds herself locked in a room with someone completely``unexpected, Adrian Pucey.

A few snapshots from the life of Nymphadora Tonks. Involving Sirius’s addiction to coffee, fetch with the Giant Squid, the birth of Harry Potter, and dungbombs. One theme runs true through her entire life, one thing she can‘t escape from. But, as Remus is so fond of saying, she’ll get over it. Won’t she?

There are a lot of different kinds of letter one can receive. Some are letters of great importance. D/H Pre-Slash

Ron has always been Harry's guide to the differences between the Muggle and Wizarding worlds, but he missed one crucial point. The boys are teaching at Hogwarts when Harry finds the difference.

Draco is acting strange. What's he on about? A fluffy fic, with a twist at the end. Written for a friend who was feeling down, to cheer her up. Draco/Ginny

It's Christmas time at the Burrow. Ron and Hermione finally admit their true feelings for one another.

When Dumbledore brings the Muggle tradition of Battle of the Bands to Hogwarts, Harry finds his opportunity to tell how he feels. The object of his affections likes Muggle music, or at least, Harry hopes so. An excuse for fluff and good music. H/D

"The young man sat before me, twirling his nearly empty glass of mimosa, telling me of all his troubles. I was used to this by now, after all, this was practically in the job description. ````And it wasn’t just him. Many people, all with different troubles, had sat in that chair. All dealing with sorrow and grief, all having a story to tell. ````As I wiped the bar clean, I watched as the young blonde man continued to twirl his glass, his slate gray eyes focused on something only he could see. He was dressed in all black, with a single flower that I didn’t recognize, in his chest pocket. Curious, I didn’t hold back from asking."

Ginny Weasley would have done better to retire early before her first Quidditch match. Now she's paying the consequences for her stupidity. Sugar Quill's Forbidden Forest Exploration Mission 2003.

After the war, all has changed. Ginny has lost everything and has to put up with being a servant at Morkdrage School of Dark Arts for Boys. What awaits her there? ``Friends, fear, love, hate? Whatever happens, she promised herself she would never give up... A story to learn, to love and to cry... *D/G*

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.” A late night stroll to clear the mind leads to an unlikely conversation between two friends, where walls that have spent years being built up are suddenly torn down.

This is a story about Crookshanks. I\'ve always had this crazy idea that he isn\'t all he seems. But he is a cat... right? When will Hermione find out about him?

It's their seventh year at Hogwarts and Snape is in love with Lily. Only problem is that James hasn't forgotten about her either...

Barriers Arc. A series of vignettes set against a background of civil unrest and impending war. ````Post-Hogwarts, Spring 1999. Harry and Draco affirms their love for each other. Evocative, sensual and erotic.

Harry's first Christmas doesn't go exactly the way his mum hoped it would. (Lily/James)

Sequel to Bound, Unbroken. Post Hogwarts. Someone's about to get married. Someone's not.

Hermione finds herself feeling sorry for Snape who has become an outcast since the events at the end of HBP. She is now of age and a full member of the Order and wants to help him with his spying duties. But Snape won't accept Hermione's help or friendship. But their paths keep crossing. AU in the sense that it ignores DH.

I stared at the rose. He couldn’t love me…so why was I wasting my time? I was saving both our lives by keeping this a secret. But life on the Astronomy Tower had, to me, lost its meaning.

(Lupin/Tonks) Tonks witnesses a full moon, which, as it turns out, can lead to romance.

What happens when Halloween night is spent by Ron and Hermione carving pumpkins? Misunderstandings, tears, laughs- and of course, love.

Harry begins to notice something about Ron and Hermione, and only when he sees the truth does he understand what's been happening all this time... RW/HG.

Post HBP. Draco is in St. Mungo's, and none too happy to find Potter there as well. H/D preslash.

Please don't feed me to werewolves, but this is my first fanfic. Ever. A friend of mine told me to post it here, and so here it is. I hope you all don't mind, but being Canadian it doesn't quite fit into "American or British English".

Memories and Firewhisky - two things that should never be mixed! Just add Ron, the Weasley twins, Christmas dinner and a pair of boxer shorts and what do you get? A DISASTER!

Takes place during 6th year. Harry is still depressed over the loss of his godfather, and Hermione once again comes along to help him out. With so many conflicting emotions, could love be far behind?

One shot. Harry wakes up and decides to go down to the common room to sit in front of a well-known friendly fire, only to find Ginny already there. What does he do when she asks him to take her back to a place that brings back terrible memories for them both? Sixth year fic. H/G.

Ron is cold. Harry doesn't want to go home. Ginny is drunk. Hermione steals stuff from the Slytherins. Just how long will the Hogwarts Express wait?

In a place he considered his own, he lets loose a side which only he knew. Masks and walls meant nothing there, nor prejudices and status of well-being. In his place he can be who he wanted to be, and never have to worry what other people might think... it was also in this place where he learned the answer to a question he had been asking for so long...

"Remember the tinman found he had what he thought he lacked." Harry gives Snape a lesson in emotional expression. (SLASH: HP/SS)

In an alternate universe, Harry accepted Draco's offer of friendship. In an alternate universe, Harry was placed into the Slytherin house. So in their first year, Harry takes Draco and not Ron to see his parents in the Mirror of Erised. A story about Draco's finding.

Hermione has fallen for a Weasley. However, despite what most may think, their first name is not Ronald...

Pretty boy Diggory is in love. And he wants him. Slash! Cedric/Justin

The hardest thing is loving someone who doesn't love you. The hardest thing is loving someone who used to love you. Nothing's fair in love, or war. And words left unsaid are the worst of all...[Hermione's POV]

Fred's serious girlfriend gets jealous and turns to Malfoy for comfort. Harry battles with inner demons, Ginny takes up knitting.

There is more between Remus Lupin and Sirius Black than meets the eye.

The Muggle tradition of the Homecoming Queen hits Hogwarts. Who will be the first ever Quidditch Queen?

They have the parents, they have each other but Cordelia doesn't like the idea of her father's current job. Is there anything they can do to remedy that? The two schemers are back and now there's a whole new plan in the works.

Barriers Arc. A series of vignettes set against a background of civil unrest and impending war. ````Not even death ... could tear us apart.... Major angst. Raw and heartbreaking [so I was told]. Published in The Battlefields Zine Vol.01 2002. Yes, this is a homo-erotic series.

Ron and Harry believe they’re comforting Hermione… when things get a little out of hand…though this ficlet does take place in the “Shifting Perspectives” universe, it is a stand-alone one-shot featuring Trio love with a twist of Draco!

Ami is caught in a relationship with Harry, who is no longer innocent and sweet, but selfish, sly, and very cunning....

"I do not believe, in all possibility, that there could have been a relationship between Professor Snape and Harry's mother."

What if Hermione met her perfect match? ... When Hermione begins working in the Department of Mysteries, she's surprised to find Blaise Zabini, one of the "good Slytherins" is there as well, and not only that, but that they have more in common than she ever could have imagined. She starts to fall for him, but is surprised when everyone around her thinks he's her perfect match. Will their love last? Or will Hermione realize that perfection doesn't equal love? Based on a plot bunny by Nesserz.

He wants to know who she is loyal to. But what happens if he doesn't like the answer?

Two related cookies from Chasing the Snitch [Harry/Alicia]: First, Harry shows Alicia his new piece of real estate. Second, Alicia decides to learn French and Harry is helping. Both Alicia POV.

Sequel to "Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, and a ... Four Wheeler?" ````Harry carried through with his plan to sneak over to the Slytherin dorms...

As Hermione attempts to write a letter to Viktor, Ron's presence proves to be an annoyance and a revelation.

In Ginny's Point of View. Short story of what went wrong in her life.

Ron and Hermione are getting married. Harry is the best man. But how can he be the best man for the job when all he can do is think about Hermione? Can Sirius and Ginny help Harry see that it's time to move on or will the marriage ultimately end their friendship?

He places the tip of his pencil back onto to thick sketchpad, watching its gray strokes outline the forest blocking the horizon, the sparse birches lining the lake, the Whomping Willow lying tranquil, the randomly placed stalks of long grass…then he looks to the sky. It is this that drew him outside on a late autumnal weekend. If anything surpasses the English lexicon, it is this. The sky.

Two years after leaving school, Draco and Hermione meet again, and she catches his attention abruptly, making him vow that he will seduce her. But is Hermione interested at all or is 'Malfoy' still a nuisance to her?

After Voldemort wins the war, Hermione is forced to run to escape the memories left behind of dead friends and family. Unaware of the happenings in the Wizarding World, she is contacted one day by someone she never expects, and her life is thrown for a loop.

To this day I remember everything. It's been four years since the defeat of Lord Voldemort and four years since his disappearance.

It's Christmas time, and Ginny, Harry, Hermione and Ron are spending it at the Burrow. It has been a year since Harry and Ginny split up, and this is a bit of a fluffy story about their reunion.

Every Wizard and Witch in the world has to ask a GOBLET if they're allowed to get married!?! What’s this? Why would they ask a GOBLET, is that what you asked? Simple, it’s proper etiquette to ask your Mother for permission to get married.

Lily Evans always thought she understood her place in the magical world. She had her ambitions, her friends, her teachers, and the "Persistant Git" - James Potter. Life wasn't perfect, but it made sense. That was until everything changed. Now, Lily has to choose: the expectations of her past or the new, great expectations of the future?

With a visit from an old flame and explanations finally given, can Harry decide whether he’s strong enough to forgive? AU? Rated for language and reference to sexual situations. Slash.

It’s a cold winter day and Hermione’s plans to stay home reading are interrupted by an invitation to have lunch with Adrian Pucey.``Accepting the invitation simply to protect the poor owl from being sent back and forth in the cold, she thinks about Adrian and her feelings for the charming wizard, soon realizing that calling their meeting a date isn’t so bad after all.

Harry Potter is in his 6th year of Hogwarts and is beginning to develop "feelings" for one of his close friends. He thinks that he is the only person who knows about these feelings, but he's wrong. His enemy knows, and Lord Voldemort realizes the easiest way to defeat your enemy is through his heart.

When Draco unexpectedly tells Hermione about his feelings for her, Hermione is forced to confront her own feelings and look past his slimy exterior. But is he really any different inside?

Something happened to Minerva McGonagall in her seventh year at Hogwarts to change her into the strict, no-nonsense professor she is now, and Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is finally going to find out what. AD/MM.

"You want to know what the story of your life is, Padfoot? It's not failure. It's feeling sorry for yourself. It's believing that you're responsible for everything. It's making other people's lives all about you." A look at Sirius' life from the person who knew him best. (R/S slash.)

Ginny can't forget what they had, and before she moves on, she has to know if he remembers.

After over 15 years of hiding, Harry and Ginny return to Hogwarts with their family to teach. Hermione's POV

Ginny lives a blissfully insane life, dancing beneath the blossoms of cherry trees. But what of her sister in law, who daily becomes quieter, so much like a dying tree? The sequel to Cherries and Stones.

"Sometimes, late at night, hed whisper a name. Not your name, of course, but you close your eyes and hold him tight and in that moment, in the dark, you can pretend that your life isn't the pathetic shambles it really is..."

Harry seems to have shunned his friends and kept to himself. With Dobby's help, maybe Harry can step back from the abyss and finally have something good come into his life.

Harry freaks out about his Potion's book and what it's doing to him. His conscience gets the better of him and he has to tell Hermione what he did to Ron, and then calm her down when she goes ballistic.

This song fic takes place during the summer after book 5. Harry is stuck at Privet Drive, again. What thoughts keep him going? Perhaps those of a certain bushy haired girl? Song is property of the Pat Mcgee band, from the album "Shine."

Simply, this is Harry/Draco fluff. Nothing bad happens in it, Draco eats grapefruit, they snog on the Quidditch pitch and a good time is had by all. If you are looking for angsty!Harry or goth!Draco then steer really, really clear.

My take on a missing scene from GoF: How exactly did Viktor ask Hermione to go to the Yule Ball with him? And why did she say yes?

In which Hermione is infused ``with the Christmas Spirit, and Draco soaks some of it up. Includes silly songs, blushing, and serious library time.

Four Seasons is a tale chronicling the ups and downs in a lifelong romance. Set in 1998, 7th year Draco Malfoy and 6th year Ginny Weasley cross paths in the summer festival of Beltane in Hogsmeade. Years later, they meet again. This time, things get more complicated as they struggle to sort out tangled emotions.

Snape's in love with McGonagall, McGonagall's in love with a student. Meanwhile, Draco is hatching crazy plots, his ultimate mean being attaining pleasure from Harry Potter. More love triangles than can be counted.

Hogwarts presents Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with James Potter and Lily Evans as the leading roles. For the sake of the entire production, the two are forced to cope with their seemingly endless list of differences. Can they find the true spirit of romance in and out of the play, or will Hogwarts never see love between its own Romeo and Juliet?

What really happened after the events Harry saw in Snape's Pensieve? How did Lily and James eventually end up together, whatever came of Remus and Sirius, and where did Peter go wrong? A story of an unexpected adventure with the Marauders, dragging Lily into the fray as they fend off grave dangers in this once in a lifetime journey - oh yeah, and snogging too! But what happens when a strange visitor appears with a message of warning for each of them, and how do they react? The final years at Hogwarts - Marauder style...

Remus returns from a year in France to discover Sirius's hasty engagement to his pregnant girlfriend.

Harry's been having a very bad day all in hopes of surprising the woman he loves. Could her answer make all his bad luck worth while?

Problems for Draco cause Harry to open his eyes to love.

Draco wakes up in a hotel room with a wet spot in the middle of the bed. As he discovers the events of the night before, strange things go through his mind. Draco tries to cope, while Harry and Ginny fight right next door. ``Songfic to 'Right Next Door (Because of Me)' by the Robert Cray Band. ``First fic in my Songfic Series.

Saying goodbye is the hardest thing she'll ever do. She's running and he can't chase her.

When Hermione begins looking for a job, she is surprised to find more than just a paycheck on the other end. Romance and truths are established.

After a rather strange meeting in the holidays, Hermione and Draco spend the time till school restarts together and get to know each other. But can the friendship resist the Hogwarts' clichés and gossips or will they forget about the summer they had when they go back to school and go back to their normal lives? Hermione never liked having secrets, but can she ever tell her friends about what happened? And there's one thing Draco and Hermione had no time to talk about before going back to school: Was it a friendship or a relationship they had and may still have? And should they keep in touch, there are still so many obstacles. Draco/Hermione, Hermione/Seamus, Harry/Ginny, Harry/Cho, Ron/Lavender.

It's James' and Lily's wedding day. Sirius, Remus and Peter aren't being very helpful (least of all Sirius!), and Lily's dad will never fail to embarrass.

The night before her last Christmas at Hogwarts, Hermione's thoughts lead her to an unexpected conclusion. Very fluffy.

"Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge." 1 Ruth 16

In which Hermione receives a shock, Harry and Draco play different and more interesting games than was previously thought, and Detention with the Potions Professor is a different sort of torture...

And she’s back! Ginny is very out of character again, of course, but I’ve added a bit of Harry, Ron and Hermione to make it more Hogwartsy and her new friends feature as well. No Draco, I’m afraid, but there is a little romance. If you haven’t already, I suggest you read The Many Faces of Ginny Weasley before going any further with this story; it will make it all a lot clearer.

Of Pensieves and books and boys and girls.

Harry leaves notes for Sev on his homework. "I just want you to know who I am." -- Iris. Preslash, written pre-OoTP

The problem with Muggle transportation is that it gives you too much time to think. (Ginny travels to Little Whinging, post-HBP)

In the aftermath of Cedric Diggory's death, Harry is afloat in a sea of self-doubt and grief. But one night his escapism goes too far, and he is discovered by the most unlikely of allies. By firelight and silence, one of the strangest friendships in Hogwarts is born. *Eventual Argus/Harry Slash* Now, don't get squicked by the rare pairing--it's built up slowly and carefully. Featuring Contemplative!Harry and ManOfFewWords!Filch.

A thrilling Oliver Wood romance between him and the main character, Scarlet.

A short Nymphadora Tonks / Remus Lupin songfic to "I Love You...Too" by Tokyo Rose. Rated PG-13 to be safe.