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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Twelve years of solitary confinement is a long time…

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.

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

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.

"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.

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 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?

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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...

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

'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…"'

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

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

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

A life is forever altered and another life is taken.

Hermione does what she must.

Blaise and Mr Zabini, while in Knockturn Alley, talk about Blaise\\\'s permission slip, hobbies and love.

One-shot AU. Harry, from ages 5 through 17 - every year he learns something new about life.

A love's brief history.

Harry’s monologue on being the focus of Voldemort’s actions and on death.

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.

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.

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.

A new year is due to start at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and we see the year progress through the eyes of James Potter, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.

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?

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.

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 story is about the three adventurers. It starts``off with a bet about who can find information on a certain subject the quickest.

'Go east, young man,' says Dumbledore. 'Come back broken, young man,' says Voldemort. 'Drat,' says Quirrell. A brief study of the most-neglected DADA teacher, the ghost that haunts him, and the blood of a unicorn.

Love is the force that has protected Harry Potter up to this point. But what helps you can only hurt you in this world of betrayal and death. There is salvation in one thing, in one place. It is the evanescent happiness... of death.

Molly Weasley has no secrets to hide, right? Wrong. Long ago, just a girl out of Hogwarts, just broken up with a sweet, lovable boyfriend Arthur, she is working in a pub when she meets a strange man with a charming smile. He seems... great. Little does she know how dangerous he really is. *T/M*

'He was always the heir.````And I?````I was always just the spare.'````Regulus struggles with living in his brother's shadow.

It's the last funeral in the White Tomb where all the greatest Order Members have been laid to rest. A one-shot songfic. Told through Ron's eyes in flashbacks. Very sad, you may need your tissues. R/Hrm

The prequel to

Harry is going home after fifth year and not all goes as it should. You'd think blood magic should protect Harry.

Harry Potter, abandoned at the Dursleys by his friends, finds he cannot cope with the events of the previous year. Unfortunately, the solution he turns to is one that haunts the shadows of the Muggle world.

I believed in him. I believed everything he told me to believe. I do not believe it anymore.

The day before graduation is at hand, and Tom Riddle counts the seconds before he is free of Hogwarts, free to fulfill his terrible destiny. Before his departure, one professor has one important final lesson to teach him.

Voldemort's chamber - the hallowed ground of evil, and the secret meeting place for his fervent followers. For it is here where the young boy Severus Snape first gives himself to his master. It is his first step onto a path he will spend his whole life trying to turn away from.

Even the sky seemed to be in mourning for him as there was no moonlight or stars twinkling in the velvet sky... only clouds that overshadowed Privet Drive.

On her first inspection of Azkaban since the downfall of Voldemort, Minister Bagnold learns more than she bargained for.

Rowena Ravenclaw reflects on intelligence, and the manner in which she is lacking.

"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."

One day, Sirius comes back to his flat to find the protective wards removed, blood on the carpet and his family nowhere in sight. He has to choose whether to be James Potter's friend first, or his wife's husband and his son's father. SBOC. A sequel to Till Life Do Us Part.

Voldemort is back, and thirsty for revenge upon The Boy Who Lived. But how does he get to him without anyone realising what he is doing? And how would an old, lowly caretaker squib help him in his quest?

"They had faced the Dark wizard Ahriman together, just the two of them… And won." A story of Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, based on a line from "Forget Me Not: A Story of Broken Promises" by RobinLady. Somewhat part of the Unbroken Universe.

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

Nobody ever told Neville Longbottom about the Prophecy that Sibyl Trelawney gave to Albus Dumbledore so many years ago. And nobody - especially not Neville himself - thought that he would be successful at much of anything. Everybody was wrong...very wrong.

Harry's returning to Hogwarts for his sixth year. He's mourning Sirius' death, having funny feelings (SLASH!) and why the heck's everyone so in to dragons?

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

Post OotP AU. ONE SHOT. Harry Potter broke the law, went to Azkaban, escaped, joined Voldemort, and then destroyed the same Dark Lord. He didn't do it because it was the right thing. He did it for vengeance.

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.

Ginny reflects on her life. Thinking of things she wants, and what she'd to to attain it. Will it cost her dignity, or family though?

Harry remembers his life and the impact that Quidditch had on it. Does fame and glory have a price?

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.

-About the Dark (Lord) and Love-``As JK said, the Dark Lord never loved or cared for somebody, but this doesn't mean that love had been out of his life. And love, like every human feeling, has more that one shade. This is the first Tom_Riddle_Great_Group's project.

Keeping friendships is hard for a young werewolf. One miserable night, Remus is surprised by the loyalty and affection shown by those he has only known three months; perhaps some friends are different than those he has known.

The prologue opens with the begining of Llyon's story. Llyon is a lost soul who is fighting for her clan. With the help of Ginny she becomes human and meets Harry Potter. Her life changes forever.

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

“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.

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.

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)

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.

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

Cloning, Death Eater parents, secret brothers and murder - all included in the very disturbing childhood of Draco Malfoy. Also, the explanation why Draco's so pale...

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.

"Virginia Weasley doesn’t dislike her name, really."

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Bellatrix worships her Devil.

A post-OoP piece in the spirit of \

There but for the grace of God go we. [Harry/Draco, the sequel to arcadia.]

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

Tonight

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

An unknown young man wakes from a coma into amnesia. Luckily, his lover is there to take him home.

The mutilated corpse of the charming Fleur Delacour leads to a grisly trail of murders centered around one Ginny Weasley. *Warning* This is not for the faint of heart.

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

How does Luna really feel about becoming a "hero"? One-shot. Not so much angst as reflection.

When Sirius Black challenges Severus Snape over a woman, the Potions master sharpens his claws - and his tongue, of course. Taunts, acidity, sarcasm and the shards of three lives...