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The cup was Helga Hufflepuff's most treasured possession. But how did she come to own it?

They ask me why I smile, why I try to hide the pain. They ask me all the time. But I wonder why they even care. They never did before.

Ginny walks with dark memories that haunt her. She can't forget him. She loves him and nothing can take that away, even if he is gone. He is with her everywhere. In the faces that she sees, the voices that she hears and the skin that she touches. It is all him, even in the face of her new lover, Draco

"He hadn’t wanted to be the only one there, not on his first time, not when he had no idea what to expect."

A songfic (and an oxymoron) Remus walks alone in London

Believing Harry to be dead, Ron moves to the States to start over.

Even though Ginny is almost fifteen, she is still haunted by the memory of Tom Riddle. He comes to her in her dreams asking her to save him, keep him alive, and then disappearing into thin air. Her dreams become reality as she begins to see him in the faces of strangers and even close friends. Can these people help pull Ginny out of the depths of dispair? Or will she give up and let the evil overtake her?

Draco can’t sleep, despite well-meaning interventions from both Hermione and Harry. Angst, slash.

We visit a Death Eater on his daily routine of torturing and killing, ok, so it was a bit of fun...

Had Sirius Black not lost been in a foul temper on the night December 23, 1980, Neville might have normal parents. But none of that would have mattered had Peter Pettigrew not attended Mr. Jugson's Christmas party as a spy, flirted with Bellatrix, and found that he liked sitting on the top of the fence. Flattery and alchol do wonders, but even mice have pride. One-shot.

Dental hygiene and the aftermath of the War.

Brown eyes staring——hair cascading——black blood pouring——stained rope pulling——bare neck snapping——frail heart breaking.

"A new day has come for me. A new life." In his sixth year at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy fell in love. He became a new person. Then she died, and he was cold and heartless again. This is his story about being in the dark without her, and how her best friend slowly brought him back into the light. Love, hate, betrayal, death, humor... this fic has it all.

"Dudley's gang had been chasing him as usual when, as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, he was sitting on the chimney. ...All he'd been trying to do was jump behind the trashcans. Harry supposed the wind must have caught him mid-jump." (SS/PS, 25, American Edition)

Draco reflects on his sixth year: his mother's faith in him, The Dark Lord's assignment, Bellatrix's assistance, and Snape's interference. Written for the 2006 springtime_gen gift exchange on LiveJournal.

Mistakes are always made and many have colossal consequences. One family blindly pledged their allegiance to Lord Voldemort and are facing the penalties that followed his downfall. If only Narcissa Malfoy followed her instincts and didn’t let her sister and husband persuade her into a life of darkness, things wouldn’t have turned out so wrong.

You talk to them you miss. Even if you hate them.

Inspired by the song "Mary, Did You Know?" I heard the song while at a celebration, and I got visions of this piece. It's Christmas, post-war at Hogwarts. Harry has defeated Voldemort only days prior, and most of the school had to stay for Christmas holiday for safety reasons. Lily, did you know...?

Ron and Draco talk about the night that Harry died. Draco is the only person that knows what happened that night and Ron wants to know, but is Ron willing to pay the price even if it is death?

Hermione misses Harry; can Sirius help her? Or can she help him? Takes place during the beginning of OOTP.

This is how she heard her sister is dead.

Ginny was the filthy one. (Ginny/Tom, Tom/Draco, Draco/Ginny)

Remus wasn't the only werewolf at Hogwarts in the 70s: there was another, a girl called Kerynn; but when Voldemort starts gaining power, and war breaks out in the Wizarding World, can the shadows that have dwelt within them both be kept hidden, or will they emerge?

"Becca, he says they've got the best potion master in the world and he could easily help her, the Dark Lord need only ask it. And he'd do it for free. Becca, it's the best chance for her." He grew quiet. "The only chance for her. If I'm right..." He didn't finish his sentence. When faced with the loss of his child...a man will do anything to save the infant's life...even join up with the wrong side.

"Forbidden fruit is sweetest." The temptation is always strong when one discovers knowledge that they should not see. And not everyone denies the sweetest of all fruits ... Some embrace it hungrily.

'Tom Riddle had always been as his name proclaimed him; a human riddle, a walking, talking, living, breathing enigma.' A young Minerva McGonagall reflects on her former classmate and wonders what she's supposed to think of him now.

Eight-year-old Harry writes a letter to Father Christmas like every year. Will Father Christmas listen to him for once? Completely AU, partly OOC, Abuse/Neglect!Dursleys, sick!Harry.

Hermione Granger knows what she is going to do for her summer vacation. She's decided to audition for the hit musical "Wicked." Will she get the lead role? Songfic to "Defying Gravity." Song by Stephen Schwartz.

Voldemort has risen, the war against the Death Eaters has begun. But beyond Diagon Alley, in the streets of Muggle London, wizards that have forsaken their kin, are fighting their own wars, unaware that they too will hold a key on the defeat, or victory against Voldemort.

Ginny knows that love can hurt, but it shouldn't hurt like this. So why does she let Draco treat her this way? Obviously, D/G.

No matter how much you think you love that one person, you know it's not going to last. You think you'll never get over it, but you do, and it's so easy.

As she watches the pale morning sky -- still more black-eyed blue than gold -- filter through Tom Riddle's corpse, Hermione realises that she no purpose in life anymore.

A winter's night finds someone alone in the Astronomy Tower. "I didn't come up here to-I wasn't going to. Jump, I mean. That's not why I'm here." // "I know. That's not why I came." Sirius, James.

What cruelties can the world impose on two teenagers? And how dark can their lives really become? Draco/Ginny one-shot.

A moment can change everything. And for one boy life is going to change forever. Transform. And things will never, ever be the same again.

Ron's first impressions of Harry Potter were rather...unflattering. Nevertheless, he knew that he had found his greatest friend.

Ronald Weasley is the owner of the famous cabaret known as Jezebel. He is a coldhearted man, who never hesitates to sleep with his 'dancers' or pick a fight with an associate... at least, not until Hermione Granger comes along. Her parents have sold her over to him in order to earn themselves for money. She is the only dancer in the place who doesn't want to be there -- that is, of course, until her new master falls in love with her. Ever so slowly, she begins to love him back. But when his extravagant way of life is threatened, he must choose between life and love. Featuring Fleur as a bellydancer, Sirius and Remus as cops, and Harry as a pickpocket. An AU fic.

Hermione looks back at life after and near the end of the War and remembers that there was only one promise that Harry couldn't keep in his life, OF his life. One-shot fic.

It’s been seven years since the final battle with Voldemort, in which Harry made the Wizarding world safe once more, but at a great price; Ron. Life went on; Harry and Ginny were married, and are now expecting their first child. However, Ron’s death still haunts Harry, and he has never been able to explain what happened to anybody else. Ginny wants more than anything to start a new beginning with the birth of the baby, but can she get Harry to finally open up about Ron and give her family the closure they so desperately need?

Yes, we know what was happening to Harry in Umbridge's office and in the forest, but what about certain other people?

Harry thinks about how his life has changed since the events at the ministry and Sirius' death. Warning: Angst

Harry thinks about his and Draco's relationship. Slash.

Neville brings his parents to stay with him at Hogwarts, and Alice Longbottom begins wandering the corridors.

A day in the life of a typical wizarding family during the First War, when Voldemort paralyzed Britain with fear and every day was borrowed time.

Harry comes to stay at the Burrow the summer between Ginny's 4th and 5th years. After a Quidditch-related incident, Ginny realizes that she can get Harry's attention, and maybe even cheer him up a bit, by putting herself in danger. At first, her plan seems to be working, but when she has to resort to more and more dangerous acts, both she and Harry will have to face their greatest fears head on...

There are consequences to having your own free will, as Regulus finds out after Sirius runs away. Written for the Regulus Black Y!Group's cookie challenge.

Sticks and Stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you...right?

A sequel to my Operation Man Hunt, in which Ginny contemplates the meaning of the houses and what roles they will play in the ever closer war. Not the fluffy sweetness of my other fic, but still some Ginny/Blaise action.

Remus Lupin has a talk with an angry young werewolf in the Dangerous Dai Llewellyn ward and helps him to see that the curse doesn't bring only the worst of times.

Seven words, and she’d kill him. Seven words, that’s all he needed. If she waits, waits seven words; he’ll die for his cause. If she doesn’t… if she doesn’t, well then, he’ll just be another nameless death, one among thousands dead. But she would wait. He knows she will. She has to. ``Draco/Luna

In the beginning, there was depression. On a journey, there was friendship. And through the battle, they stuck together. This is their story.

Harry returns to Hogwarts, the scene of the last showdown between himself and Voldemort, and recounts how he lost the only people who meant anything to him.

Ginny takes a look at Colin's photo collection.

Dumbledore once told Harry that bringing a loved one back from the dead was not possible…but even Dumbledore doesn’t always tell the whole truth. Will his grief over Sirius's death cause Harry to do something dangerous? WIP.

Songfic. Harry reflects as he mourns the suicidal passing of a friend. Based on a song by Caedmon’s Call.

What would you do if you had a perfectly happy life and it was suddenly torn apart? If your brother ends up with the only deadly ailment not curable by magic? If your sister attempted suicide? This is the life story four Hogwarts-going quadruplets.

Hermione Granger is very good at noticing. She always has been. Only now, she's noticed something more important than Christmas presents...

Cho Chang thinks her life over and comes to some conclusions. She writes a letter, to Hogwarts, to explain her behavior, and apologize for it...

A vignette written from Ron's POV about when Harry and his friendship ended.

A chain of three gifts, presented in three very different scenes. This story takes place after HBP as the Trio pursue Voldemort. There is a significant role for Ginny and fatal consequences for one character.

The very banality of something can make its deviations all the more special.

History has a habit of repeating itself.

A shortfic about young McGonagall. Night after she and Voldemort graduate. Tom/Minerva

He did his best not to flinch when he saw his father in the hallway, his hand resting on Harry's shoulder.

How exactly was Hogwarts founded? What was their story? Well, here it is.

D/P. Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson are the perfect match.

She should be laughing at him. "Severus, such sentimentality is reserved for us emotional Gryffindors. You know that." Yes, Lily should be laughing at him. Yet, he was here, standing over where her life should never have taken her.

Voldemort has finally thrown over his nemesis, Dumbledore. The wizard world is sent into chaos, and Harry has gone into hiding. A Muggle comes into play, in away that will change the wizarding world as we know it.

Of the heroes and demons we create from other people. Ginny Weasley traverses cloudy frontiers and encounters diaries, beanstalks, and clenched fingers on a Hogsmeade afternoon.

We are past the times of Voldemort and the Boy Who Lived. Now we join Harry in heaven, and watch him through his Mother's Day escapades.

The Dark Lord is back and as he rises to power what will one student decide?

Lily is bored. She needs something exciting in her life. One day just that arrives in the mail.

Regret, Hell, Hatred, Guilt, among other things in a confrontation.

Canon-compliant. Lily and Snape's relationship, in retrospect. One shot.

A mystery vision visits Sirius after a nightmare.

Petunia Dursley and Harry Potter have never spoken about his mother, Lily, but the finding of something from the past forces her to finally talk as well as reveal something that not even Harry could have imagined.

It's all just too much for Harry...

Memories always are sharper at night, griefs harder to forget, and comfort simpler to find.

The Department of Mysteries is exactly that. It is a mystery. People go missing all the time there. Sirius Black disappeared and everyone thought that he was dead, but is he, really? A story of where Sirius Black really went when he fell in the Department of Mysteries.

Sergeant Patrick O'Malley replied to a report of rowdy neighbors one summer afternoon. It was a beautiful town and a beautful house that he was called to. What he found on the inside wasn't so beautiful.

After tragedy struck once again in his life, Harry Potter went away leaving Ginny and everyone he loved behind. Now, after four years, he is forced to come back home. Will he be able to forgive himself? Will he be able to ask for forgiveness?

"I see nobody waving at me as I enter the Grand Hall. Nobody greets me as I stand there, plain as a black rose on white snow. But, the houses no longer exist as I stand there. I see my love trying to eat with my friends, my friends trying to appease the ragings of his soul. Others sitting with one another, comforting, touching, feeling. What I would give for one more chance to feel again, to be not so numb, transparent, imaginary. "

Celebi Dumbledore, the granddaughter of Albus Dumbledore and niece of Voldemort, finds herself inlove with Harry Potter. Voldemort and Draco Malfoy, Celebi's fiance, finds out about it and sends many challenges ahead.

Groceries, Malfoy Style. Out ingredient shopping on a miserable Sunday, Draco Malfoy meets the always charming Sirius Black. Watch each weigh the pros and cons of killing the other, all the while attempting to come to terms with the mutual ties that bind. You wish your (semi) in-laws were this cool. (Contains direct and indirect mentions of h/d, s/r slash.)

Blaise Zabini is the average girl. Few problems here and there. No big deal. Only thing, she decided to keep a diary. She's... thoughtful... to say the least.

A chance meeting. An empty classroom. A broken heart.

The Wizarding world was doomed. That was Snape's first thought as he saw Lord Voldemort's latest acquisition -- an ancient, dark mirror. Voldemort has plans to trap Harry Potter with it -- with Snape's reluctant help.

Harry Potter was never seen without this mirror. No one even dared to ask why he always had it with him. No one even tried to touch it. Not even Hermione, Ron or Professor Dumbledore dared to ask Harry to keep this mirror in a safe place. No, Harry liked this particular mirror to be with him at all times. He always placed it inside his robes, near his chest, to make sure that it was with him and safe.

Three boys worked hard, very hard, to become Animagi - they did it for Remus.

The war is over; Voldemort is gone for good. So what is Harry doing back at Four Privet Drive? An interesting look back at his years at Hogwarts for Harry. G/H and R/Hr.

This is a short one that describes Draco's and Harry's relationship (m/m slash). Sworn enemies - but lovers? The Boy Who Lived and the son of one of the greatest Death Eaters of all...

Petunia's justifications as to why she hated her younger sister and her son.

Practical lessons in Potions always made Neville panic.

Minerva McGonagall reflects as she sits on a stone wall, waiting for Dumbledore to tell her whether all the rumors about Halloween 1981 are true.

In my private moments when I am absolutely certain I will not be bothered I allow myself to remember, occasionally.

Harry is in the middle of a depression and does not know whom to trust. He meets a new student Ari who is there for a purpose, with her mother as the new DADA teacher. What does it mean to be a Magi? This question will haunt Harry and Ari until the end.

Two men meet in a train station in the south of England.

Remus mourns for Sirius and holds onto everything they shared. "And most of my memories / have escaped me / or confused themselves with dreams..." [mild slash]

A dark journey of the mind.

"I hit my shin against the bookcase in my office yesterday, and now there’s a horrible purple-green bruise where the desk corner banged my leg. I greatly dislike bruises. No, Severus, you don’t 'greatly dislike' them, you abhor them." The journal of Severus Snape. Sarcasm, reminiscing, and a good helping of angst.