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On the run from Death Eaters, Cho Chang encounters the last person she'd ever expected to see again. One thing leads to another, and Cho comes face-to-face with the ghosts of her past. How much will she sacrifice to go back in time, even for just one night?

Hermione reflects on life as a Muggle-born witch.

“Time to put up our walls.”

When Michelle steps out of the dark, a demon takes place at Hogwarts. Her reason is unknown, but Michelle will find out that she has what the demon is looking for... what will happen? I know, ohoh, I know!

Remus takes Harry to Godric's Hollow, in memory of Sirius.

In a dream, Harry has a chance to visit the veil and talk to the character in OotP who died. A songfic to David Gray's "The Other Side."

He lies awake listening to the sound of rain drumming on the roof. He lies awake knowing that there is not much time left, a few hours if he’s lucky. But Draco Malfoy doesn’t give a damn. Contains character torture and death.

Ron reminisces about his lost love and only chance at moving on.

Virginia creeper: native woody vine of the grape family, tall growing and popular as a wall covering in the temperate United States. It has blue-black berries and clings by disk-tipped tendrils, some branches hanging free in graceful festoons. The five-fingered leaves—brilliant yellow to red in the fall—are sometimes confused with the three-fingered poison ivy. ``````A boy fighting for the lives of all he knows and cares for--and a great many he doesn't. A girl trying to make her way in a new and unfamiliar world. An ancient magic binding them both. And above it all, a darkness surrounding the home they have grown to know and love, drawing ever closer, threatening not only them but all around them.

Severus Snape kept his personal life a secret to most people for almost twenty years. On a cold night in late December, his most guarded secrets are revealed to the Dark Lord and the Order of the Phoenix. To what end will the Order of the Phoenix protect Severus and his family from the Dark Lord, the other Death Eaters, and the Ministry of Magic.

She hated her sister. Perfect Lily with perfect friends and perfect grades and perfect everything. And her, left behind.

Several years ago, Draco Malfoy was sent to Azkaban from the cause of a certain Miss Weasley. But now he's back for revenge and will stop at no means to finish what he started. But time is running out. Emotions are churning. Anxiety and suspicions run high. The Dark Lord is waiting.

A fire doesn't always kill-sometimes it can even refine a person's destiny. Founders' era fic.

It was a bittersweet love, wasn’t it? When you were alone and could pretend that he really loved you, but was too scared to admit it, it was heaven. But when you went back into the real world, just for a glimpse of him, you knew it wasn’t so. He loved her.

In order to save her child, a mother has to sacrifice her own life. These are her thoughts, as she approaches the end...

This is my take on what happens in the 'last battle' between Voldemort and Harry. After the fifth Horcrux is found and destroyed by Hermione, Ron, Harry and Ginny, there is one more left to be demolished and Voldemort will no longer be immortal. Will Harry be able to reach the last Horcrux in time in order to defeat Voldemort? Are his instincts leading him in the right direction or is it leading him into more danger than he expected? Read and find out! I promise you won't be disappointed.

Have you ever wondered where Dementors come from? What kind of entities are they? What drives them? How much awarness they have? An unexpected meeting at the gates of Hogwarts challenges a young Dementor to muse about its existence....

"She stared at her reflection in the mirror and tried to imagine the girl she’d been back then, or even before that. She couldn’t. It was like trying to imagine an imaginary friend she hadn’t pretended to see since she was six. As far as her mind was concerned, that girl no longer existed, and she hadn’t even been real. But that girl had existed. She knew it, because she had been that girl..."

A short ficlet on the dark side of Ravenclaw. Set in the Founder's days.

Does a student make a Slytherin or does a Slytherin make a student? Thoughts of a Gryffindor, Ellen Mavericks, when her friend, Delia Pryde, that she had known for years had changed when they are separated by their houses.

A standalone about Ginny Weasley walking around at night. The war is nearing an end, but that doesn't always mean happily ever after. Ginny/Hermione is the main ship, but there are hints at Harry/Draco and a kinda standard Ron/Hermione.

While she lays dying, shocking and bitter revelations are made. Involves Psycho!Draco.

Remus at the funeral of his best friend.

The war is five months new, has settled over everything like a layer of dust. Pansy is five months, too, with child, but it is fear that grows now like a balloon in her lungs.

Everyone's got a story. Even Severus Snape. A one-shot Snape-centric fic.

Songfic. Harry has a dark secret that he has to tell Cho, but how can he? Cho/Harry post-Hogwarts

Fred and George have always been the perfect duo, but one harbours a secret resentment for his twin. What happens when one of Hogwarts' favourite jokers wants out?

Draco waits in prison for the dementors to come for him. While he loses all hope of rescue, he thinks of Harry.

Written for the ARWSLL Christmas Challenge, this little ficcy features the feature Mrs. Lestrange, some flashbacks, Kyra Montague, and realizations...

"It is funny how I was the one who knew all your secrets, who knew who you really were. Yet every one of them knew before I did. No one told me I had to find out for myself. And you of all people didn’t even tell me." Told from Ginny's POV.

Oh, I knew—I knew from the very beginning that this was a terrible idea. That filthy Mudblood and I paired together made a terrible Head Boy and Head Girl. It was the one thing that we ever agreed upon. Did anyone listen, though? No, and look where it got us. Hermione Granger is lying dead in our common room. *Warning* Death fic.

Past meets future and slaves are made. *tom/voldemort*

This is a short story about Snape after he returns to Voldemort. It is slightly suicidal.

Second part of the 'Colours' Sequence, but stands alone. "Lucius’ eyes had been blue, as blue as the sky was when there were no clouds and it was winter and so cold your tongue turned into one big icicle inside your mouth if you weren’t careful. Draco remembers his eyes, but that’s probably because he sees them every morning and every night in the mirror when he’s brushing his teeth, washing his face, shaving off the few hairs on his chin that might have been a beard if he hadn’t been a Malfoy."

Hermione returns to Grimmauld Place and finds herself being drawn to the person she least expects.

The broom sat quietly in the window of the shop, waiting.

Who will Harry turn to when he loses everything? (Harry/Lucius)

By using a Pensieve, Harry Potter finds that he can travel into the past and change certain circumstances; what he doesn’t know is that each change will greatly impact his life. Every trip into his memories digs him into a deeper hole until the worst occurs – he is trapped in an alternate future where Voldemort has the ultimate weapon. And the only way out is to either kill Voldemort...or be killed, without a chance to change what he had done. Today’s lesson: Never tempt fate.

How do you get an injury? ``It gets inflicted. ``How do you get a scar?``First you let it bleed.````" Even if she was lying with a pale face, floor filled with blood, she was still so beautiful..."

There is more than one hole in George Weasley, other than the one of the side of his head. Ever since Fred died he'd been different, so his often neglected fiancée Angelina suggests he adopts a child for two weeks to see how he would fare as a father. George does just that, and adopts Holley, who had also lost a twin. They both expected nothing of the experience, but soon learn truly what love is. And how to heal that hole in both their hearts.

I laugh silently. It's so ironic that I finally stand on a stage with the career I've always dreamed of and sing a love song to you, of all people. I've tried to hate you, Sirius. God have I tried. I want to and I should; yet I cannot.

While the world is in Mourning, Wizards gather to commemorate a great man. Speeches are made and a song is sung by Elton John himself. Tears are shed at the funeral of Sirius Black.

You've waited for twenty years for this moment.``Twenty years for the perfect man.``You gaze at each other for a few minutes, and you drink in his beauty. That scar, that beautiful scar on his forehead, his striking eyes and his thick silky hair. You move in to kiss him. Just one kiss. A soft, sweet reminder of the love that you share.``"A penny for your thoughts?" he asks. You smile. ``"I'm just thinking about how much I love you," you reply, turning to face him. He smiles that sexy smile in return.``"I love you, too, Ginny," he whispers.

Written for the hd_fqf on Livejournal, "During the war, Draco is fighting against the Order and for the DEs. In the battle, when he's about to get killed by an Auror, Harry saves him."

Sirius is gone from Harry's life forever, taken as quickly as he was introduced. Neither can handle it any longer. Hear what they have to tell each other even though they are unsure if the other can hear...

Draco's life takes an unexpected turn as he's driving home from work one night...

Sirius receives a letter from Andromeda informing him of his younger brother's death.

By now everyone's heard about Sirius's death, and everyone is quick to comfort Harry. But no one seems to realize that someone else is hurting too.... This is Remus Lupin's side of the grief. Songfic (Michelle Branch and Evanescence).

Severus Snape is haunted by a memory that he'd rather not remember in the most eccentric manner.

The war is over.

After a particularly violent fight with Draco, Hermione disappears. Naturally, Draco is the main suspect. But what if he's innocent? No one seems to buy that, and that worries Draco. But when Fudge tells Draco he could be looking at Azkaban, he panics and decides to go find Hermione himself. Following a dream of a memory, he sets off to find a girl he hates and to save himself. Will he get there in time?

One year before Albus Severus is set to go to Hogwarts, Harry has an argument with his wife. He goes to the Leaky Cauldron where he, yet again, meets none other than Draco Malfoy.

It is the end of the war, and Draco has lived to see it, but is it possible that he wishes that he didn't?

Draco reminisces his past relationship with Harry, and recalls how he takes it for granted. After all, Malfoys aren't supposed to love... right? Harry/Draco, slash. Post Hogwarts.

It's a hot summer's day, which is unusual in September, and all most of Hogwarts is thinking of is where to get a good suntan and how many items of clothing they can get away with taking off. But Max McKinnon, Raven and Blaise Zabini have other priorities: Harry Potter is going to get a good kicking, and if Slytherin House is ever going to ally with the winning side this must be stopped...

In the wee hours of August 7th, Ginny writes to the ones she loves to tell them that she won't be coming back. Harry doesn't understand, until he reads between the lines.

They fought united. For one cause. For one man. One man lost to the blood and death of war. They fought united.

Minerva McGonagall is in love with Albus Dumbledore, but he is married and not in love with her. Working on a project, she travels sideways through time, and falls in love with someone who actually loves her back.

Everyone dies alone. (Takes place at least ten years after Hogwarts graduation.)

As Harry is about to begin his sixth year, a group of first years discuss the famous Harry Potter. They wonder what this hero is like, but are they ready for their answer?

As each of us die, we leave behind glimpses of our lives that linger in places we have been. Those memories, those pieces of our lives, are the most powerful form of magic there is. We ourselves are not important. It’s what’s inside of us. What lives on when we are gone.

Hall Randall, a werewolf, was hunted down by muggle men but what will he do when he met Remus, the boy he bit? You need to read The Plague to understand this story fully.

Someone's writing a letter to Harry, contemplating things long past, and confessions about true feelings.

Narcissa talks to angels. Darkfic. Drug abuse. Songfic, "She Talks to Angels," by the Black Crowes.

Everyone has heard the series of events that occured that faithful night when Lily and James were murdered. But this is the true story down to every last detail.

What goes through Tom Riddle's head at the time of his first killing? It seems that ickle Tommy has a liking for blood....

Under the influence of Voldemort, Draco and Blaise must gather ingredients for a dark potion under Dumbledore's nose and will go to any length to get what they want. Cho's trying to deal with her dying father and the Trio get caught up in the chaos. Betrayal, deceit and countless heartbreaks will ensue.

Bellatrix reflects on her two visitors, Harry and Voldemort. (Dark fic, implied violence, possession, and necrophilia).

Yes...it's yet another Lie-Low-At-Lupin's fic. Yes...Sirius and Remus finally acknowledge that they have always loved one another. But no, it is neither fluffy nor happy; their reunion after so many years of separation is anything but, and the feelings they have both suppressed for so long are strong enough to destroy them.

Seamus’ POV realising that he never really saw Harry. All he saw was the hero. Memories of a room mate. Can be companion to ‘Martyr’, one shot.

Saying goodbye to his last best friend was difficult enough the first time. Having to let go a second time was going to be just about impossible.

"Ring around the roses, / A pocket full of posies. / Ashes, ashes, / We all fall down." -- The children sing, and Remus lives. Four interlinking drabbles with slight James/Lily and Remus/Sirius.

The impact of chess on Ron Weasley's life.

There are so many things Sirius should have done. Remus/Sirius in 1981.

Regulus Black on Voldemort, Horcruxes, death, and his arrogant, insufferable, beloved brother.

A look at Alice and Frank Longbottom's life together while they helped the Order fight Voldemort. Cameos from Baby Neville, Augusta, and Moody.

So Harry Potter has played Hero one more time. This time everything he has known is suddenly shattered (including Hogwarts) with the exception of him and Draco Malfoy? What will 'they' do?... if there even is a 'they'

Harry feels compelled to address a letter to his deceased godfather. A small mystery follows. A quick fic that turns out to be a little sad.

At the age of nine, Harry runs away and joins the circus.

Maybe his body destroyed his heart in an act of self-preservation. He's always had a ruthless immune system. Dark Draco, with some ambiguous Harry, Ginny, angry Ron.... also, bruises. Draco should keep his cold hands to himself.

It's the war and people are losing hope.

Neville finally falls in love with a girl. But will their love lead to disaster, even death?

Seamus, Neville and Dean have just arrived at Hogwarts and should be tucked up happily in bed. But it is the middle of the night and each of them is wide awake, brooding upon their fears and insecurities.

I don’t regret what we’ve become, what these years have made us – not in the least. But I want a happy ending.

The meek shall inherit the earth, and the faithful will follow you to death and beyond. An alternate look at Hufflepuffs.

A distraught orphan contemplates murdering the man who betrayed his parents.

Draco is sent on a mission that determines whether he will join Lord Voldemort's inner circle or not. Only one problem: It involves dealing with Muggles, to be more specific, the Dursleys. He approaches his first mission with gusto, only to find out that it's not what it seems, he'll have to dig deeper into the inner circle to find out secrets about the Boy Who Lived.

Harry has had to put up with a lot of loss in his life, there's always been someone to help him through. But when he loses that person, there's no one else left, especially when he feels he has some unfinished business... (Implied H/Hr.)

When Bellatrix and Neville meet for the last time

Dumbledore offers Remus the Defense Against the Dark Arts job at Hogwarts. Remus suffers some personal turmoil over accepting it.

"Some may judge me to be dumb. Some may say that Herbology doesn't prepare them for what they will face on the battlefield. I agree. But it's not only Herbology I teach them. It's patience and an eye for details; trust in their abilities and love for their chosen professions. Not something that will help them during the fighting. Because that's what I'm best at, working behind the scenes, preparing the warriors for the time after the war." Professor Sprout muses about her place in the world.

Remus Lupin remembers his greatest love and greatest regret. During the first war against Voldemort, both sides took extreme measures to guarantee their safety and success. Here is one.

When Lucius is killed, Draco can't help but feel it's all his fault.

In every life, things will be lost; time is one, innocence, another. There comes a time when one must decide whether to face their demons, or bow to them. The war was a cruel one, as if a war could be anything but cruel, and love does not always conquer all. Love can fail, and love can break a person in more ways than one can possibly imagine. Five years later, Virginia Weasley stands at the door. It bears the name of someone that she used to trust, obscured by the passage of time, pain, and the slow, cynical, whisper of betrayal. In every life, things will be lost. The choice is before her; if she does not enter it, her soul may well be one of them. A continuation of When it Rains.

On Harry Potter's fifteenth birthday, someone close to him bares her heart and her worst fears to her diary. An in-canon character examination of Hermione.

It was the end of the first war that Snape made a promise to those he held most dear but who have since passed.

When she dances, the world stops for a moment to let her breathe. She knows she's not alone. Not by a long shot. There's life everywhere. If only people know where to look for it, then things would be so much better. A Ravenclaw should know better, but she doesn't. A Luna fic.

How will Harry and Ron cope with their greatest loss, and deal with their new empty space inside them? She was their best friend....

"Zoë, want to play a game of chess?" Ron said, gesturing to the seat across from him. ``Ron has a conversation with his niece, Zoe, about life, Hogwarts and chess.

The Weasleys are being evacuated for their own safety as Voldemort's reign grows stronger. One day in the summer of their seventh year, Harry, Ron, and Hermione find themselves fighting for everything they hold dear...