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He went into it with the idealistic fervor of a crusader—only to find himself no better than a sinner, and a coward. A Severus Snape vignette.

Having the courage to let go is harder the holding on to a hopeless dream.

A monologue narrated by a man who finds footprints in the rain... Warning: Pure-Angst ficlet.

People live and people die. Those who remain remember those who have gone before. Hermione has never told anyone at school about the summer before her third year, but she has not forgotten. One July afternoon during the summer after her fifth year, Hermione finds herself overcome by memories of the loss she never spoke about. Once again she relives the fifteen minutes she couldn’t escape.

Other prophecies are abroad. Voldemort still plans to destroy the prophecy, bend it to his will. Harry Potter realises with the arrival of a transfer student that the Dark Lord affects all, not just England.

It's been two years since Harry died and Ginny is left raising their daughter alone. Life has moved on for the both of them, but Ginny sits and remembers what did happen those first few weeks after Harry's death, how her daughter saved her life at such a young age. Song-fic to LeeAnn Womak's "Stronger Than I Am"

Alone in the Forbidden Forest, the centaur Firenze observes the heavens and must make a choice. Will he betray the herd, or his own heart?

On New Year's Eve, Poppy Pomfrey mourns the loss of a friend.

But after the parades and parties had ended and normality restored, Harry threw away the presents and the letters of thanks, feeding them to the fire that burned within him. And he came to realize that nothing had changed. Harry and Draco gen, post-war.

The product of an overwrought 16 year old. A songfic to Wherever You Will Go by The Calling. Harry's last day on earth and how he copes with the fact that most of his friends are dead, or traitorous and how he copes with the knowledge that to defeat the Dark Lord he has to leave his wife and son behind.

One simple mistake ruined Sirius's world... Now can he stop Harry from making the same mistake?

He threw at her face when she told him that she is in love with him. Now, after three years later in one hour the Dementors kissed is going to be performed on him, but what is she doing in his cell?

When Lupin left to join the werewolves on his mission from Dumbledore, his life started spiralling slowly downwards. Because the danger of life in the pack isn't only the suspicion and brutality of other werewolves - it's what slumbers inside, waiting to take hold. The longing to be wild, and free. And once woken up, it won't be silenced again...

A vivid description of the events on October 31, 1981 in Godric's Hollow.

The war has been won, but at a price: Harry Potter, hero of the Wizarding World, was among the dead. The world is in mourning, but none more so than Draco Malfoy; sometimes it is harder to be the one left behind. A HD songfic. Warning: character death.

Draco and Harry, alone in a dark alley after Hogwarts and the rise of Lord Voldemort, catch up and chat a bit. Of course, this isn't exactly teatime at Buckingham Palace, especially due to Voldemort's consolidation of power. Resistance falters, and it seems there's nothing left for the two.

Crabbe plans to brew an illegal potion. Will he get away with it, or will his nefarious plan fail?

'What Carina Saw' is the story of Harry Potter through another Gryffindor student's eyes. Carina is one of the 'unmentioned' roomates of Hermione. She knows a great deal more about the Dark Arts than many of the other students at Hogwarts, but surely she can't be all bad. The sorting hat placed her in Gryffindor after all.

You're never too old for a heart-to-heart talk with your mum.

Martha Green has rented out the studio behind her house to an old Mr. Riddle yet can not seem to figure him out. This is her view of his life. Post-Hogwarts.

While sitting in a chamber in Azkaban, Sirius Black tells the story of the Potters death.

This song-fic takes place during POA. The dementors are attacking Harry and Hermione. What was Harry thinking? Song is property of the Pat Mcgee band, from the album "Save Me."

Remembrances from within Azkaban.

Did you ever wonder what Sirius was thinking when he returned to his boyhood home? I did, and this is what I came up with.

Draco Malfoy is in prison. Draco Malfoy is in prison, and he has a diary. A journal. A diary. Does it matter? Draco Malfoy is in prison, and he's beginning to think he's going mad. But maybe he's not, because if he was, wouldn't he think he was sane? Draco Malfoy is in prison, and he's got a book to write in. But what is there to write?

They were more than friends, more than lovers. Then all of a sudden, they were torn apart.

How much of the past can excuse the choices a person makes in the present? This is the story of a young boy...and the monster he became.

I think back to those days, the ones where I made the life changing decisions. And I play my favourite game, and wonder what if...?

Do you remember in the First Year when Hagrid compiled a photo album for Harry? Well, Remus Lupin was one of the people he wrote to for pictures of Lily and James. This brings back a wealth of memories he has tried hard to forget....````Pre- OotP Marauder story.

Draco reminisced about the time he realized that he loved her, but she was already with someone else.

The Blacks are strong - together. Fate seems to be picking them off, one by one. How did Narcissa see her cousin, Sirius Black? Was he a cousin, an enemy, a criminal, a mad-man, a shame to the family? Narcissa's view on the crumbling Most Ancient and Noble House of Black

While Severus recovers from an ambush, he and Remus confront each other over their past.

Sirius faced me, placing his hand on my shoulder. “I’m leaving for a very long time. And I don’t plan on coming back to see that miserable old hag that calls herself our mother ever again.” The story of the day Sirius Black left number twelve Grimmauld Place through the eyes of Regulus Black. One shot.

Inspired by the 1990 game "Alone in the Dark" and its soundtrack... A certain Slytherin sees to the fact of Lavender Brown and Seamus Finnigan taking a one-way trip to a haunted house... Will they make it out or be added to the long list of souls it already claimed?

When there is``Pain everywhere,``When hope had died``And virtue faded,``Will you brave the odds``Or will you stay and``Hide?``Will you know how not to``Lose,``Or will you fear the truth?``When hope has died``And virtue faded,``Will you know``How``Not to``Lose?

Harry has returned to Hogwarts with more than a lot on his mind. To start with, he's just received a gift from Hermione, and that with the combined effects of last year draws them together. But will Harry realize his feeling for her before it's too late? Ron explains his distance the previous year, but how did he end up with so much money?

What did Sirius Black do after he gave Hagrid his motorcycle? What was going through his head that night after seeing Lily and James dead on the ground? What did he do to track down Peter? What made him laugh like a maniac?

Love is a funny thing. It contorts your world entirely. You become it’s prisoner and it rips out your heart, and claims it for it’s own. Then again, it makes things come to focus, heightens your senses, and comforts the soul. It changes you. And when you know that the person you love with all your soul doesn’t feel the same way, you are ruined completely. My name is Colin Creevey...

If this were a writing exercise, it would be called "write the end to a five-book series in under twenty pages."

It had all pretty much gone downhill since he'd graduated from Hogwarts. Who would really want to spend their life with a poor old werewolf? It didn't matter anymore... nothing did... there was nothing that would change. Remus/Lily. Songfic to 'Paradise'

What exactly can a single strand of hair reveal? First reading A Merciless Affection by Verity Brown is strongly recommended, otherwise the following may not make any sense to you. Verity should know that I just can't resist a challenge.

He watches them come in, he gives them their drinks, he takes their tips. They all seem to be perfectly normal, and he will never know they're not. POV piece, rated for drinking.

What if you've spent most of your life fighting something, and you finally win? Ginny offers words of wisdom, and Harry discovers that there's more to life than Voldemort.

A severely injured Draco contemplates the choices he has made, while Ron watches on.

Minerva McGonagall watches the Sorting of 1971, and sees choices. AU.

This is a background story of Bellatrix's Death-Eater initiation ceremony. It basically chronicles why Bellatrix turned out to the way she did and the various things she did in order to accomplish her goals.

Draco has been visiting Harry's grave since he died. He is sorry, so sorry that it wasn't he who died instead. ````Can Harry comfort him from beyond?

Just a couple of weeks after so-and-so's death, Harry is back living with the Dursleys, and thoughts of what have happened since his time at Hogwarts begin to sink in before he begins his sixth year.

Some weeks after the events in the HBP, Remus Lupin is captured by Death Eaters. He wakes up after the full moon in an unknown cell, bruised and hurting, when his former lover comes to heal him. RL/SS

The terrifying and awful past of the Grey Lady of Ravenclaw as told to Ginny Weasley on Halloween.

She screams. She rants. He listens and consoles. He gives, she takes. This is the way it has been for some time now. Enter Harry's world after the war, he is, oh, so alone, see who torments his dreams and nightmares.

Snape is settled at Hogwarts, teaching Potions. The war is over and Lupin will never come back.

Department of Mysteries. From detached thoughts, odd memories, and obscure facts, a strange picture is forming: a picture of something completely different... Can it be a key to that ‘kind of the heart of it all’ J.K.Rowling mentioned? Centres on Sirius' falling through the archway; though, is not truly about it.

Hermione struggles with her mother's death.

Regulus finds that Hogwarts is not nearly so great as he'd been lead to believe. He spends most of his time alone and listless, until a chance encounter changes everything.

Things arn't always what they seem, from a certain point of view. Alt. POV, GoF.

Grasping the cold steel handle of the jagged blade, she inhaled deeply. “It…could all be over. It could all….be over.” She took a deep breath. That dagger looked so friendly right about now. It seemed to grin at her, daring her, taunting her, saying, “You know you can’t go through with this. You know you can’t go though with this.”```` But inside her head another voice spoke. Calm, cool and collected it said, “Ending your life won’t making anything better and you know it! So suck it up, get some pride and put that damn family heirloom in the china closet where it belongs!” Both voices belonged to her and her alone.

After the war, Hermione visits Snape. He doesn't know who she is. Written for the Fandomcommerce exchange on LJ.

Remus spends some time in the company of old friends and remembers the good old days as he comes to terms with the present.

"She would march through the tangles in the rain and the snow, oblivious of the cold, of the damp, of the pain and blood, missing all the lost beauty and innocence..."

I would sketch people coming by or if I was lucky, the neighbors. My favorite subjects were the occupants of number four.

Petunia hates Lily. She hates what Lily is. She hates magic. Yet, she's found a different, more dark brand of magic that she is contented by and begins experimenting with it in the summer holidays.

Whatever Remus may tell himself, he has always belonged to Sirius. A study of love that surpasses romance.

Hogwarts, but not as you know it. Harry, but not as you know him.

Narcissa has a problem. No one seems to care, except for Draco. What is behind the problem?

Hermione learns the concequences of wandering around 12 Grimmauld Place. Implied Regulus/Hermione.

This is my interpretation of what occurs on the other side of the veiled archway in the Ministry of Magic: Department of Mysteries. OotP Spoilers

"He can’t come back, Harry." I was choking on the words even as I said them. Not wanting to believe them any more than Harry, and hating them for being true. But I had to say them. “He can’t come back because he’s dead.”

Draco returns to the Manor to find it quiet - which is so different from when his father was present. What does Potter have to do with it?

The war is over and the Light side has lost. Hermione Granger reflects on the men she loved and lost.

Percy heads home for Christmas... The house was dark, and appeared as if none had been there for months upon end. Dust was gathered on the window pane, and the weeds had overgrown the already overgrown garden.

The Marauders and the Blood Medallion is the first book in the saga of The Adventures of the Marauders. This saga tells about the adventures of James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew.

On the eve of the final battle, Peter Pettigrew reflects on how things came to this.

Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, Remus Lupin has been hired to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Severus Snape is having some thoughts during the first staff meeting of the autumn term.

A married Ginny recieves a letter from Harry, who everyone had thought lost forever. He wants to meet with her, but she's happily married to Neville, with children. Should she follow her heart or stay true to her wedding vows? Neville/Ginny

This originally was written as a Mother's Day gift to my readers in 2005. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first and probably only story about Snape's infancy. Read, enjoy and review!

Carry Smith thinks she is an ordinary girl, until one day she discovers she is a witch. This story is the journey trough her first year, all her trials and tribulations, and the prophecy that will change her life.

One-shot, intended as a supplement to OotP, a "missing scene" if you will. Years after their affair, Bellatrix finally exacts her revenge on Remus in the Department of Mysteries.

Remus thinks about letters from his past and writes one of his own to Sirius.

Harry Potter is all grown up now and has doubts about his various attempts to bring peace to the wizarding world.

Pansy reacts to Draco's relationship with Astoria.

Tom Riddle takes us back to Hogwarts in the early 1940's. He writes a narrative about what really went on when the Chamber Of Secrets was first opened.

"Patta cake, patta cake, baker’s man, bake me a squib as fast as you can. Pat it and prick it and mark it with V..."

Sirius is taken to Azkaban, leaving behing a wife and young daughter. This is the story of Selena Black and her thirst for avenging her mother's death. While she is more than happy to go after her mother's killer, she is surprisingly lacking in want to do the same for her father - find out why and more!

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1

Draco sits in the Infirmary after the CoS Gryffindor/Slytherin match, waiting...

Draco is in love. But where goes the line between love and madness?

Draco, for no discernible reason, has decided to walk to San Francisco. Yes, we're pretty sure he's crazy. Harry joins him, thus proving himself doubly insane. Much bickering, hitch hiking, and general slashiness to ensue.

This is the last battle between Godric and Salazar. Who will come out victorious? Was it maybe someone else who destroyed Salazar other than Godric? Read, and find out.

Songfic. James did something horrible, and Lily found out. How can she forgive him, but most of all, how can he forgive himself? Prepare to cry.

This fic is my interpretation of what led up to Umbridge's decision to send the Dementors to Little Whinging in the summer before Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts.

Padma reflects on Parvati, her brother, her mother and father, Mandy Brocklehurst, her former boyfriend, Voldemort, her best friends, and Hogwarts all in a hazy afternoon, during the summer holidays.

“Was it not enough Albus? Was our service to this world not enough for you?” She shrieked. “You have betrayed me Dumbledore and you have betrayed that boy…you have betrayed those who were most loyal to you, curse you!” Minerva McGonagall's voice shook.

Hermione receives a letter asking her to volunteer for war. She reluctantly agrees even though she is terrified that she'll never see her family, friends or love again. One-shot. Hermione/Draco.

Mrs. Granger takes her daughter for tea the weekend after she returns home from her fifth year of school. Hermione finally lets her parents know what's really going on in the wizarding world.

"Tragic romance is no new thing to the world...The story is so old, no one can remember exactly how it started. But these two, they have decided to write another chapter." Not all love stories have a happy ending... NOT a song fic. D/Hr.

It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall, and as he did all he could see was the mermaid. He knew she was the mermaid, although her form shifted like the tides, and some numbed part of his brain was telling him about shock and hallucinations, but all he could see was her, and he was still falling.

Timeframe - post-Hogwarts; pairings - Hagrid/OC, implied R/Hr; Hagrid and Catherine are trying to adopt a child. Wait...Hagrid, a father?

Minerva McGonagall reflects on her life, both past and present, and wonders if anyone still cares enough to keep the wizarding world safe. And she wonders if anyone still cares about her. What little joy she has left in her life rides on a thin string, and she struggles everyday to keep that string from breaking.

Ted thinks he ought to get used to the feeling.