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A fifteen year old Severus returns to his ancestral home to carry out one final task.

Harry Potter ponders his life.

Theres a girl in my mirror``I wonder who she is``Sometimes I think I know her``Sometimes I really wish I did

Harry blackmails Draco; Draco is nervous and conflicted.

Harry's life has been destroyed and the chances that he will ever heal are against all odds. Draco has his own plans. Post-war.

Have you ever wondered why Snape is such a nasty git? Find out as we explore the Hogwarts with a child from Ravenclaw!

Draco Malfoy is a hard, sneering, blond yuppie son of a Death Eater when suddenly his world is turned upside down. His life, once completely devoid of emotion, will change drastically and he must choose his loyalty to the Dark Lord, or to the only person who was ever able to melt his icy heart. This is Volume One in a series of three Volumes, the series being The Dragon and the Dove.

SS-Lily. Why did Snape turn away from Voldemort? What happened at Godrick's Hollow? Why does Snape protect Harry? Snape sometimes seems not quite sane and I wondered if that were the case. Not a happy bunny.

Hermione can't cope anymore, she loves Severus but does she love him enough to carry on like this?

Harry and Remus discuss their lives and loved ones over a cup of tea in Grimmauld Place one morning during the summer between Harry's fifth and sixth years.

An Auror returns from the battlefield. Tonks/Ginny femslash.

Fire burns Harry. Do you know what you're doing?

Ever thought that Severus and Hermione are very similar? Well, this is an AU fic, assuming that Hermione's mum Catherine is actually a witch, and went to school with Severus. They become staunch friends and later more than just friends. But are they fated to be together? How come Catherine has to live pretending to be a dentist (of all things)? All is told, in 'Of Times that are past'.

Draco talks about his life and about how his father treated him. He really dislikes his father and will never forgive him for what he did to him. Songfic to Metalica's The Unforgiven.

It is the mid-1980s, and Alastor Moody has just lost his leg, his eye, and half his face. He is not the only one who has been scarred by the experience, however. There is another who has yet to come to terms with Alastor's loss: his dearest friend, Minerva McGonagall. Minerva is one of the strongest witches in the wizarding world, but perhaps there are fears that even Gryffindor bravery cannot conquer. And though Alastor and Minerva both have the hearts of lions, some pain may still be too much to bear.

After Harry's death fighting the Dark Lord, we learn about how it affected Hermione.

Peter Pettigrew / Evan Rosier. Before betrayal, came temptation. Peter feels lonely at James and Lily's wedding.

The annual Christmas celebration at the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black. Lucius/Sirius written for the slash_challenge Secret Santa Exchange.

This is meant to be an added chapter to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - a final chapter to tie up all the loose ends left by Rowling. Chapter 37 - Back to the Burrow.

She sees his face and cringes in disgust; she hates him. But she loves him all the same...or does she? She may be his wife but she does not belive she could ever love this man.

One-Shot: A young Weasley, an aged Potions Master and a rather intriguing Muggle beverage... No Slash, just two men meeting in a bar and sharing an enigmatic drink. Inspired by the song "Piano Man" by Billy Joel and illustrated!

"'Draco...' Ginny whispered. She moved over to him. She was shining in her white, long dress with drops of blood on. She was so gorgeous. So beautiful. She was like an angel of death."

Four chapters...four Slytherins, they don't have their own names, they don't have self-image, they don't have their own morals, all they have are the wars of their fathers. This is Draco...

How can you give back what a Dementor’s Kiss took away?

"Every piece of matter and antimatter will break under a critical pressure." The Trio's critical pressure occurs when Harry Potter rejects Ron Weasley's affections and finds solace himself in the arms of one Hermione Granger. A different look at the love triangle that exists between the Trio. Hermione-Harry and one-sided Ron-Harry.

During May of their fifth year, James and Sirius take an unauthorised trip away from school.

"Are you shocked to learn that I feel I share the blame for his death? If I had not pushed him so hard, if I had taken pride in his loyalty and his sense of fair play, that sense of loyalty - to me, and I know how little I deserve it - would never have driven him to become a school champion." A Slytherin father mourns the Hufflepuff son he never understood.

The war is on in earnest. Sirius and Remus have learned not to trust anyone--not even each other. One cold November night in 1980, Snape arrives with a visitor and Sirius finds comfortable certainties shaken. (Sirius/Regulus pre-slash AU).

Harry promised Hermione and their daughter that he would be home for Christmas, and Hermione believed because *that* is what love does. And so Hermione waits . . .

The world, as viewed by a victim of the Death Eaters

Based on the Kelly Rowland song 'Stole'.

Two lost loves, one true love, and new a star.

Because everything has to depend upon something.

She has denied her happieness, but the love is forever. (S/B)

The final Christmas prior to Harry Potter's birth veils a tense aura over the entire wizarding world. Darkness is spread over the wide realm of magical creatures as elves crumble away from wizard kind. The languishing urge for freedom and revenge enters the magical minds of house-elves. Service to households and schools are abolished by wizarding law, and secret-dwelling headquarters are incinerated. Weak as house-elves may physically be, the defiant nature of one hero develops the firmness of elf mentality and courage. The falling snow dissipates as a heated conflict erupts between house-elves and the society of wizard kind.

It's not easy being Severus Snape. Picked on, invisible to the girl he fancies, and a loner, getting through seven years at Hogwarts is no easy task. But the winds of change are in the air, and with one fateful decision Severus will change not only the course of his own life, but the lives of the entire wizarding world as well.

She sat alone in her sanctuary as she had so many nights before. A knock at the door alerted her to some unexpected visitors...

It's 1979 and Bellatrix waits for Regulus.

AU: Harry and Ron visit the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor's office to tell him where the Chamber of Secrets is. Everything Gilderoy Lockhart writes about himself is actually true.

Sixteen-year-old Sirius Black returns home for Christmas after the infamous Whomping Willow Prank, and realises that the family he has is not the one that he wants to belong to any more. An outtake from From Ashes, but it can be read alone.

Hedwig, then a nameless owl, lived at Eeylops Owl Imporium a month before Hagrid purchased her. She had come from a wealthy breeder's house and only wanted to be loved. Well, today is her lucky day. The day a giant saved her.

Coda: (noun) In music, it is a few measures past the intentional ending of a composition that brings it to a formal close.

The last thing fifteen-year-old Harry Potter needed was a weird little witch with bright green eyes and his last name. When she starts ruining his life at Hogwarts, he discovers more to this crazy kid than he ever wanted to know.

Blaise Zabini - the male one - well known for beating before asking. This is is childhood, before he befriended Draco Malfoy and fell in hopelessly in love with the same girl as him, before he attended Hogwarts - before he got violent.

Telling tales to stay execution. It’s not easy being Malfoy. It’s not easy being Draco, either.

Ok, so it´s before Harry Potter´s sixth year at Hogwarts and he finds himself in another place where he can be himself. Will he go back to Hogwarts?

When your best friend never notices you the way you want. When he goes for the one person you can't stand. What do you do? Companion piece with Don't You Know and I Always Knew.

Nissaya's been alone for most of her life. No recollection of her family, or where she came from. But an acceptance letter from Hogwarts late in her young life brings the chance to learn the truth about her past from an unexpected source, as well as a chance at friendships, love, and the secret that she will have to deal with thereafter.

In which Draco is obsessed but won't admit it and everything is slowly sliding in a direction he'd rather not think about. H/D slash.

Growing up a Malfoy. I wanted to explore Draco Malfoy's character; this story doesn't have much of a point...

Ron goes to Harry's house to forgive him for something that happened about a month ago. Harry can't take it. And then neither can Ron. Two years later, neither can Ginny. Rated PG-13 for mild violence, no language. Would actually rate PG-10. But there's no such thing!

A mysterious stranger seeks out Hermione whilst the centaurs are hiding something. And introducing Dobbiére the house elf.

Libby has spent thirty years working in lycanthropology. Never, in all that time, did she expect one of the people she's helped to come and thank her, nor that they would ask to join the team... even less that it would be the one person she set out to help.

Lose one protégé, and then it’s time to find another. Draco/Pansy, Bellatrix (Pansy)/Rodolphus, Voldemort/Pansy.

Reflections on a death of a true brother, feelings of hatred, love, saddness, angst, suicide, longing, grief, and pain all in a letter that tells about a tragic event... *OotP Spoilers*

Neville's parents have always been a particularly soft spot with him, but he's finally ready for them to meet someone from school--his girlfriend Luna. Who knows, maybe she'll understand them a little better than he does.

Ginevra Weasley and Blaise Zabini came from two completely different worlds. They were both left in the shadow by those who would be greater than them. This is the story of how these two girls banded together to form a society that would come to shake the Wizarding world in an adventure that would be repeated through out the ages. Joining them on their quest is an assortment of people from an assortment of houses. In the end they will be the last line of defenses left between the mortal and immortal coil.

The Aurors, with Harry, raid the Malfoy Manor, much to the dismay of Mrs Malfoy.

Thinking is vastly overrated. Denial is divine. Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks, post-OoTP.

Sequal to Dear Harry. Draco's been getting headaches lately as he's tried to remember his past, but what happens when a dream finally sparks his mind?

"If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back... that he really was..." ~Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix, pg. 808~ What if Sirius wasn't dead and could hear Harry calling for him? What if there were things he wanted to tell him... things that never got said?

Hermione has had enough, but it's not over.

Following Harry and Cho's fight on Valentine's Day, and further problems, Cho reflects on their relationship.

Lies, told in the heat of the moment. Love, only found in an illusion. Death, and then ærist. [Tom/Ginny, Ginny/Hermione, darkfic, film noir, femslash]

Sirius Black is dead, committed suicide. Everyone thinks he's dead, including his love- Sarina McAllister. But then fate decides to test her, and she meets a literal carbon copy of Sirius named Sean Blakell. Even though he reminds her so much of Sirius, she's not sure what's right or wrong any more. And without her sense of right or wrong, dark or light, black or white, Sarina is falling and she has no one to hear her scream.

"The droplets cascade down his face like rain water tears, as he remains, unmoving, fingers clasped tightly around the window ledge." A short Vignette, Draco/Harry, with a little Draco/Ron, mostly Draco-centric. Detention with Snape. R for non-explicit slash, extremely mild violenceand thoughts that aren't all about rainbows and daisies. Reviews greatly appreciated.

Draco hates his life. He has been writing in his diary for a while now; all his dark and secret thoughts, the thoughts he doesn’t want anyone else knowing. One night he realises that he no longer wants to live. What will happen when Harry finds Draco's diary on his bed? Will he save the young Slytherin, or let him die? What are their feelings regarding one another? Slash. DracoHarry.

It is six years after Harry Potter has left school, and the war is still going strong. The Order and the Death Eaters are getting closer and closer to the final pitched battle that will decide who wins the day and goes on to rule England. But complications have arisen. Draco and Pansy Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle - the so-called 'Gang of Four' - have gone missing, suspected of betraying their own side. But when a select group of witches and wizards receive in invitation to meet with this Gang of Four, none of them can guess how much this meeting will change the future...

Hermione Granger's POV on the mess that has become her life. Songfic to 'Colours of the Wind' from Pochahontas, ties in with 'Family Portrait', 'Weird', and 'Blame it on the Weatherman'.

Narcissa is worried for Bellatrix. She's also furious, because Bellatrix, a recent escapee from Azkaban, is currently having tea with her, as if it were a normal occurrence. And Narcissa isn't sure she can have that.

Luna Lovegood is spending Christmas apart from her Daddy, so some of her housemates are seeing to it that she has a good time.

Hermione makes a shocking discovery about Ginny...and herself. What could it possible be? Ohh dear, a certain Slytherin is involved.

Xavier Parkes is just testing his latest technomagical invention, a Time Viewer that can show any event at any point in time. When he decides to watch Harry Potter's final defeat of Voldemort, he discovers that Harry did not defeat Voldemort single-handed, as is told in the history books.

Sometimes, even Harry Potter needs to be shown that he doesn't always have to do things alone. Takes place immediately after HBP.

A story of grief and sorrow inspired by a sad song. A nightmare that one boys wakes from to find it is real. A man's grief, and what happens when it is let loose.

Sequel to The Christmas Owl. What happens after Harry gets his letter. Told from Draco POV, with hints of HP/DM if you look for it.

A fic about the chain of events leading up to the Final Confrontation (duh duh duh dum), and life after death from the Hermione's perspective.

I know you can’t hear me. I know you think I’ve left you hanging. But, I’m still here. I'll always be. Harry might not have expected a response when he told Sirius what he felt in A Rush Of Blood To The Head, but there is one anyway. Read what Sirius desperately wants his godson to remember. Based on 'Amsterdam' by Coldplay.

"I did something awful last night. The last thing anyone would ever do in a situation like mine. I gave up. I packed my bag. And left." (h/h)

The Bloody Baron has haunted Hogwarts for centuries, always silent... but why? What caused the bloodstains on his robe?

The night before December's full moon at Twelve Grimmauld Place. A continuation of sorts, from "This Is What We Do."

Wickedly good start of a story about a relative to Voldie, a love interest to a Weasley, and a spy, all in one.

He had a mass of them, coiled around his bones and tangled in his nerves

They're just kids, thrust into a world where death and destruction are becoming far too common. And while they struggle to survive and somehow grow up, they discover true fear, and the courage inside us all.

Written for the Second Gen Ficathon. My assignment, from lostlikealice, was Trio-era. Parvati and Lavender (and anyone else) after the end of Lavender/Ron.

What do the eyes of a dragon hold? Mystery? Self-doubt? Longing? Hope? But whatever the price, Harry will find out. HD slash

"Feh, never thought he could get more corny than that time he gave me a rubber duck for my birthday. I ask you, what is the point of a duck made of rubber? “I just want to see you bathe with it,” he said. So I did and enjoyed his grin while he watched me bathe with a floating duck in the water." Harry/Draco slash.

Centuries after the war ends, one man mourns the barbaric death of his two best friends.

Seven moments in Severus Snape's life explored through drabbles focusing on seven spells and seven interactions with Lily Evans.

Draco sits in his bedroom, on the night of his initiation as a death eater. As he waits for his grand entrance, he begins to have second thoughts about his parents' plan. Songfic, based on "The Whole Shebang" by Grant Lee Phillips.

When all is said and done, when the fighting is over and the drama is done, two mothers with nothing more in common than loss come together on a rainy night in Surrey. Petunia/Molly femmeslash.

The Fates have chosen...Judgement Day is near, Ragnarok is on our doorstep. Modern magic is no longer enough to win the war - an ancient power has reawakened and the deities have chosen sides. A tale of loyalty, of devotion and of love.

By the end of Order of the Phoenix, Harry's world was rocked once more. His godfather, Sirius Black, has slipped through a veil in the Department of Mysteries, and is presumed dead. Lord Voldemort has made his presence felt in such a way that even Minister Fudge can no longer deny his return.````Now, a new school year is beginning, bringing new danger and mystery. Creatures, described as 'demonic' have been spotted throughout the wizarding world, striking fear into many, yet striking only directly at Voldemort.````How will Harry handle a new year without his godfather? What are these creatures, and whose side are they really on? And just who is Cat Black?

Harry is feeling more and more isolated from his friends, which is begining to suit him just fine. A guardian angel tries to right his path.

(The Trilogy of the Serpent – Part I) – In the summer following her fifth year at Hogwarts, Hermione begins reading a book she shouldn’t read. As a consequence she discovers things about herself, disturbing things: she is not a Mudblood and she is a born Animagus. Her Diary of Nightmares and Bad Luck becomes the mirror of her fears, of her transformation into an age-old monster she will have to tame. She will find help and love in the unlikeliest of people. She will find her wizard family, at the end, and more ...

While trying to wrap his mind around a sudden accident, Remus also tries to make sense of the past and the future.

There's a great deal that wants doing in the first hours after the Great Victory. Perhaps the most important thing, at the end of the day, is the work of the Magical War Graves Commission.

Like any child, what Sirius Black fears most is what lurks hidden by shadow, around the corner, or in the closet.

One can’t escape the past. The other is tortured by the present. In a time of darkness, Snape and Draco turn to one other. Slightly slash-y.

After the battle for Hogwarts Draco considers what it means to be a Slytherin. A short fic