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A rare analysis of George through the eyes of the confidant he doesn't confide in: his brother, Fred. Rated for a couple curses: some suggestive scenes.

Once upon a time there was a boy who could See...A fairy tale with a Dark Arts twist and H/D subtext.

Harry reflects on the events that lead him to his personal hell, and why he has given up hope.

(One shot) ``This is my dedication to our soldiers and their families who long for them to come back safely into their arms. We love you all. I want you all home, like your families want you home. I don’t want a child missing its father or mother. I don’t want parents burying their children. I don’t want brothers or sisters mourning for their siblings. ``For the soldiers- for every son & daughter, brother & sister, husband & wife, cousin, friend and loved one- we wish you well, and we hope for your return soon. This is for you.

One-Shot. Snape’s POV. Severus Snape watches over infant Harry after the Potters are attacked. He slowly goes mad as he realizes that he could have Harry as a son.

"Why, dad, why? Why did you turn?" "Because a great Dark Lord once said to me, 'There is no good or evil, there is only power and those to weak to seek it.' I have power, more power than that Dark Lord ever had!" He pointed his wand at the sky and shouted, "MERIDO," a form shot into the sky and twisted into two basilisks tearing apart a phoenix. "Behold, the new Dark Mark!" he said in Parselmouth, and his son understood every word. The son pulled out his wand, tears streaming down his face, ready to kill the new Dark Lord, not ready to kill his dad. One Shot

"You hear them whisper that Cissa Black is breaking down..." Dreams will never be enough to save you, but they are substantial enough to try.

Draco is approached by a mysterious girl, who teaches him a lesson.

James, Sirius, Peter, Remus, And Lily are in their third year at Hogwarts, and they love it. Pulling pranks, and having a good time all around. But trouble begins when they find an ancient stone. What is it and why has it come to them?

Permanent on stone is deception, Your lies are carved: Beloved husband and father.

'But then again, I always have had an...affinity...with the moon. It is my enemy, my ancient foe, my mirror that holds the key to unlocking my demons inside its thin smug smile.' Remus watches the moon and reflects.

Ron and Hermione are injured in the final battle. Will they survive? And how will Harry react?

There are things Petunia doesn't think of.

Draco recieves a letter from his father informing him that it's time to have the Dark Mark burned on his arm. This isn't welcome news to Draco, and he can only think of one way to avoid the problem.

It's Valentine's Day and Lucius is deciding who he's going to spend the day with and is going through all possible choices, except for one: his wife. But Narcissa is taking things into her own hands....

"So you work and you slave to get your child everything she wants, and then all on her own she finds her heart's desire. And she brings him home. And he's a wizard." A Muggle mother is faced with her daughter's choice.

Voldemort discovers lovechild. Dumbledore Godfather. Child moves to Hogwarts. Falls for the Enemy. Action/Angst/Love/War/Mystery all here!

Voldemort's just risen. Not so great, right? Exactly. Even so, Harry manages to get to the Burrow, before starting his next year at Hogwarts

"...Sirius thought it would be- er- amusing, to tell Snape all he had to do was prod the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and he's be able to get in after me. Well, of course, Snape tried it- if he'd got as far as this house, he'd have met a fully grown werewolf- but your father, who'd heard what Sirius had done, went after Snape and pulled him back, at great risk to his life..." This is just my interpretation at how things might have played out that night.

What if someone everyone loved and adored disappeared only to be found once again?

Harry has a suggestion to make, that came to him during one particularly boring Divination class. What is it? Will the trio go along with it? What's Ginny doing?

What if there were more persons present at Voldemort's rebirth at the graveyard than we knew about?

Peter Pettigrew learns of the events that took place at the Department of Mysteries.

Hermione seeks Harry out after a Gryffindor defeat in Quidditch, but their talk soon turns to more...sirius matters. (Set in sixth year)

Harry is in a world of white with a girl he knows but can't remember. She's taken away his pain and sorrow, then leaves herself. Who is she and where is Harry?

Harry goes to breakfast, expecting to hear about the latest gossip in the halls of Hogwarts. However, what he finds is that a fellow seventh year has received a black envelope, something that has caused all of the students to be struck dumb. What is a black envelope, and will Harry have the strength to face what's inside?

But really, she was already an angel to him. A broken angel, but an angel nonetheless. When she was feeling like herself, she would tell him things. About her repeated dream. That she was an angel, she was flying, laughing and glowing in the clouds. But then, the ghost of her past would catch up with her, and everything would rush back.

A songfic to Rodger's And Hammerstein's Cinderella, "Stepsister's Lament." An otherwise more or less normal day for Hermione until she walks into the Great Hall to find Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley enjoying the company of each other just a little too much for Hermione. Appearing as both Stepsisters, Hermione is the star of this story. Ah, curse them teenage hormones.

He would only give, never take. If Albus Dumbledore had wanted to be worshipped, Minerva would not have admired him so much... but working for the good guy isn't always easy.

Hermione suggests to Harry that he writes to acknowledge his grief after his loss. He thinks, and he does.

Mars is bright tonight...

India, where all magic is a call. Melting into a haze of dust. Non-incestuous Parvati&Padma.

I would sacrifice the last remaining shred of my dignity just to have you by my side again. Just to have the chance to tell you the truth.

Because mommy always said not to play with matches. Post OOTP. SLASH.

A different take on Tom Riddle, and what caused him to go evil. "Many people wonder about the mind of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named... they muse that it must be like the mind of a demon, evil to the very core... They could not be more wrong."

Cats have nine lives, but humans are only given one. Ginny, alone at the Burrow, muses on this.

What made Severus Snape turn from the Dark side to the Light? Was it something James Potter said? If so, why hasn't he gotten over it after all these years? What is his middle name?``Oh-- and did you know you can hack into a person's Pensieve?

A teenage boy says all the things he always wanted to say to his greatest enemy. An inner monolouge from Harry to Voldemort. (Think of it as a letter Harry never sent.) Songfic to "Won't Back Down" by Fuel. (rated for mild language)

Sequel to 'Leaves in Autumn'. One person's thoughts on the afterwar, and how it has affected life. Recollections on one hero's life, loves, and the matter of last words. SLASH

Regulus has got a secret. And the one person who'd kill to find out - is the one person he'd die to keep it from.

When Lily Potter announces to her sister, Petunia Dursley, that she is pregnant, Petunia reacts in a way that could destroy the wizarding world forever...

A seventeen year old Sirius Black stumbles forward in time, to a future where the Potters' Secret-Keeper had to be tortured into giving them away, Lily Potter never had the chance to sacrifice herself for her son, and Voldemort rules the world...

October 31st 1981 was a horrible and great day in the wizarding world. Lily and James Potter are lost, but Voldemort, the most feared wizard for over a century, is gone. The story of that fateful night and the surrounding events.

Memory. The smell of oranges on skin. Can the familiar be trusted? GL/DD slash.

He loved her and she left him. He cannot bear the pain anymore, and he will end it on his own terms. If it means ending her as well, so be it. Draco/Ginny. Rated R for possibly disturbing contents, suicidal themes, and brief sexual references.

A character who for the most part is neglected has to face the war and what it means. She must bear it all with silence and simply continue.

After many hours of brooding, Harry finally decides to reveal his love for Hermione. However, a shock confession from Ron changes everything. What will Harry do next? Is anyone, even Ron, worth the sacrifice?

Once, she told me the sun was still burning.

James and Lily Potter have died. Remus Lupin, a Hogwarts Marauder and one of James's best friends is feeling sorrow, horror, and disbelief. What was Lupin thinking about after the Potter's death?

Telara always knew she was special to her adoptive family. But she never knew how special she really was until Albus Dumbledore took her back to England and the wizarding world. Now she faces her biggest challenge ever. Fitting in at Hogwarts? No – she can do that. Will she be able to help Harry Potter win the war against Voldemort? For everyone’s sake – let’s hope so.

How did Tom Riddle get the idea to search for relics of the Founders to use as Horcruxes? Why did he kill Dorcas Meadowes personally? And who is this Dorcas Meadowes, anyway? A story of the pursuit of knowledge, the quest for power, and love (or something dressed up like it) gone awry. Post HBP. Tom Riddle/Dorcas Meadowes, Dorcas Meadowes/OC.

Eighteen-year-old Petunia Evans wants to marry Vernon Dursley. Will her abnormal family fuin things for her?

My take on Draco Malfoy's childhood, growing up in Malfoy manor.

Two werewolves meet in a bar and compare notes over a beer in this amusing HARRY POTTER/BUUFY crossover. Guess who the werewolves are?

“I am She-Who-No-One-Remembers-To-Name. I live in the shadows.” A few days before the unfortunate deaths of James and Lily Potter, Dumbledore acquires an unexpected responsibility. An infant appears in the great hall, and suddenly, Harry Potter is not the only child from whom “we can expect great things.” Now a young woman tries desperately to explain that dark is not always evil, and that power does not always corrupt. This fic is AU and covers from the year that baby Harry defeats Voldemort to the end of OotP.

Forty-two nights in eighteen scenes. R/S slash.

It is with a sudden finality that the classroom door shuts, relegating Lily to the stony realm of the authoritarian Minvera McGonagall. “You weren’t really lost, were you?” is all she asks.

Madam Pomfrey visits the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library and is reminded forcefully of her own schooldays. [A short piece written for the FictionAlley "What's Your OTP?" challenge.]

Rick Jordan is the new Hogwarts student. When he arrives, he becomes the most popular boy in school and everyone seems to forget about Harry Potter. But when Harry discovers a secret about Rick that may change everyone's opinions about him, tension starts heating up between the two and when he tries to tell everyone about it, they ignore him and start to think he's just jealous!

Seventeen year old Theodore Nott just wants to play Quidditch. Instead he\'s going to be made a Death Eater.

The last thing we do: will it be something that is filled with confessions, or regrets of never making them? Will it harbor feelings, whether loving or hostile? As Luna Lovegood reflects on the death of her first love, she knows that the last thing she'll do is never forget.

My whole life was painted in gray hues. So vague and ambivalent. Unstable and unsure. I used to be so happy and content to be gray. But now, I’m wishing my life would have a splash of decisive color.

She could walk through the graveyard without blinking, bypassing the graves of fallen childhood friends. She could walk through the halls of Hogwarts without missing a step, tracing back a path to her first day as she rushed through the school. She could even make her way to the Forbidden Forest and trample through it, ignoring the splashes and stains that still marred the aged trees and wasted ground. But on this day, Harry and Ron know they have to be the rational ones, and they know that they must make Hermione face the one thing she has been avoiding since she walked towards Hogsmeade five years ago, covered in blood and sweat and refusing to turn around and see.

Harry and Hermione have married and moved back to live with Muggles. When Ron comes to visit them, Harry begins to suspect that his best friend is having an affair with his wife. Inspired by the song "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers.

“I’m going to tell you what you might call a fairy tale, but it’s a real story, my life story … so far.”

What distinguishes one woman from the next? Severus Snape will attempt to discover the answer. There will be more than just potions brewing in the dungeons.

There are few things worth dying for. One of them is immortality.

We all know that while Harry's at the Dursley's Voldemort can't get him... but he can get close enough. You may assume that because of the title this is fluffy, stereotypical, and involves Harry meeting a wonderful yet strange girl who gives him a pet snake on his birthday... If you thought that you would be wrong. Very, very wrong.

What if Voldemort had made Lily a very different kind of offer? How far would she go to protect her child?

What would happen if Sirius had decided to stay Lily and James' Secret Keeper? Would anything be different? Would Lily and James still die? A story on what happens when a group of friends are betrayed, and left to face a fear they never thought would haunt them.

There is one standard definition for murderer: a person who kills a person or people. That is what he did. Now he's trapped in a prison, known as a traitor; now he's trapped because he's a murderer.

Severus Snape has bad hygiene -- in the opinion of Sirius Black. Who pointedly tells him so. Severus Snape has dirty blood -- in the opinion of Regulus Black, who unwittingly tells him so. One telling leads to the other -- and both have surprising repercussions once they all start school.

"So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth." Yeah? Well, nobody told me that before recruiting me to help save the world, did they? Then I got caught in their magical world, got scars all over me, and found the only one who could be even better at sarcasm than me. It was then too late to run away.

In the end, they tell them that they won, but the world is nothing like it ought. Post-war Ron and Ginny. Warning: incest, character death, dark dark dark.

Twelve years of solitary confinement is a long time…

The full moon will soon rob Remus Lupin of his ability to speak--and there is something he has made up his mind to tell Severus Snape. He finally has the courage to confess; will Snape be man enough to listen?

When hope is lost, trust are found. when lives are wasted, romances begin. this is the story of how to unlikely people set aside their differences and took comfort in each other. D/Hr.

The Archive of Ages depicts the events that led to the end of the wizarding world.

Harry is dead. Can this be true? Ron and Hermione have to play detectives, and each clue they solve only seems to make things less clear. Where is Harry's body? Who is Jollina? And why are the Death Eaters trying to get through the veil?

Hermione\\\'s second and third flying lessons, told from her point of view, set during PS/SS. No relationships at all.

The summer after the war, Draco returned to the Manor. Life was back to the way it used to be. All but one little thing. No one had seen him crumble from the inside.

Harry Potter has gone through so much in the 4 years he's been at Hogwarts. He's never had a chance (or been allowed) to grieve, but what if he finally had to?

Cedric Diggory's reaction when his name is picked from the Goblet of Fire.

After entering his first year Harry discovers a secret along with his godfather, Sirius Black, that no one has ever been told.

Sometimes one must look through the wave of green in order to truly see. Lily's last seconds.

Christmas is a time of peace and for them, it had finally come on a field on the Night Most Divine. DHr, HG, Oneshot.

Harry slips out of Draco's bed in the wee small hours of the morning, determined to end it. Will he be able to stay away?

A life is forever altered and another life is taken.

Each small shot glass glittered in the low lamp light of the tavern, the alcohol dancing in their cups and sparkling at him in a mocking fashion. He glared blearily at the row of glass cups, wanting to take each and everyone and thrust them into the fire. Instead, he counted to make sure that they were all there, waiting to corrode his memory for that night. Like they did the night before, and how they would tomorrow night, and would continue to do every single night until his liver was finally washed out of existence. Rated for severe alcohol abuse, images and description of war-time atrocities, and language. Includes alludes to past Harry/Ginny.

'But I wanted to tell you were that I loved you. I yelled. Screamed. And fought against them. And somehow I came free. I grasped your hand.``“I love you,” I said. “Promise me…"'

After OotP, Harry is trying desperately to cope with Sirius' death and the prophecy. Every moment of every day, either one or the other occupies his mind. His life is thrown into even more turmoil when Barry Hope, the unexpected heir to Sirius' fortune, comes into the picture and reveals a past to his godfather he could never have imagined.

Cho Chang muses on why Hermione Granger isn't a Ravenclaw.

A short one-shot from Lucius's point of view about Little Ginny, corresponding to my fic Ashes to Ashes. Lucius is a disturbed man, and it only gets worse with age...

Two men with everything and nothing in common. Two pairs of eyes meeting across a crowded room. A dangerous, unvoiced desire that will, in the end, destroy one of them. Vernon Dursley and Lucius Malfoy, slash implied.

He hated this - he hated that Potter had reduced his proud, powerful father into going into hiding. He hated that he had to support Narcissa's act of the weak, grieving, disillusioned wife who still believed her infamous husband was innocent. But Draco knew it was a fool who called his mother weak. Irritating yes, petty certainly, but not weak. At least not where his father was concerned.

Hermione visits Draco after the war. Thoughts on war, politics, religion, and the prices some people are willing to pay to save everything they know. A follow-up to "Hero, Anti-Hero".

Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy have only one son, right? Sure, that's what they want you to believe. Draco has a younger brother named Cassius, who Draco has no memory of due to a...shall we say, convenient...Memory Charm placed on him when he was nine years old. Lucius and Narcissa never talk of Cassius, and Draco was raised as an only child. What happens when Draco is tortured with the Cruciatus curse and some memories come back to him, bit by bit? How will he react to this secret?

Hermione's one true love has been ruthlessly taken from her... and she doesn't know how to cope with the great loss. Who is the man she has loved and lost? Read to find out! *Warning: quite depressing, as is everything in this House...*

This is simply a monologue of Severus Snape. It takes place directly after book 4. It is dark and has some profanity and hints of slash.

Pansy Parkinson is a lonely girl. She's depressed about life, love, and just everything in general. Then, something happens that could change her life.