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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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...

Hermione struggles with her mother's death.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

"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.”

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

"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..."

"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.

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.

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.

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

“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.

Pansy reacts to Draco's relationship with Astoria.

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Ted thinks he ought to get used to the feeling.

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.

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.

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.

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

"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, 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.

It's Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. A long-lost (but not forgotten) potion reappears in the worst possible way, forcing Snape to fight through painful memories in an attempt to redeem himself. From Snape's POV.

How does Molly Weasley really feel about her clock? What tortures has it put her through? Set on the night of the battle at the Ministry of Magic

Harry's annual escape from Privet Drive is a bit more harrowing than usual.

During a snowbound winter, Sirius' desire to protect Remus grows stronger.

Sirius Black put up with his family for sixteen years. But one day he ran away. It was freedom, it was liberation, but in a way it hurt. Because some things are painful, even to a sixteen-year-old boy.

You realize that the shadow of your father isn't quite as big as you always thought it was supposed to be. You realize that it would be all too easy to step out of it. D/G.

After the final battle at Hogwarts, Neville reflects on the events of the past and begins to lose himself... until someone unexpected is able to pull him back. Short and sweet.

She would never do that. She couldn’t. After all, it was him.

Pansy is in love with Draco, but Draco is with Harry. What do you think she will do to get them back together? Will she go too far?

"Your parents, you have been told, are heroes." Neville Longbottom reflects.

A take on Percy's point of view during the events of Christmas in the Half-Blood Prince.

How do I explain? ``How do I put words to something with no words?``How do I make you understand? ``How do I show you war? ``How can I ever show you death?

Seven years after the final battle, Snape considers a few personal demons.

Sequel to A Moment in Time. Whatever happened to Draco after that moment? And what about Hermione?

Did you ever wonder what Remus Lupin said to that unfortunate man who'd been bitten by the werewolf and was sharing a ward with Arthur Weasley at Christmas in OotP? I did. This story is the result of my wondering.

"I remember you," the Dark Lord said. "I remember you, Ginny Weasley."

Draco loves Harry, Harry loves some slut. Depression, angst, suicidal thoughts, love, sarcasm, slash and a lot of questions. HPDM. ONE SHOT!

Evil did not begin with Lord Voldemort nor will it end with him. Prophets ranging from an ancient priestess to the current Sybill Trelawney foretell a darkness greater than all others. A final, twelfth prophet holds the key to helping Harry and the Order of Phoenix overcome Voldemort and the new reign of darkness-- but where could this missing prophet be?

Hermione and Ron are meant to be together, but will they forever miss their chances to be together? Ron already has, and seems to have given up forever (see my fic A House That Might Have Been). Will Hermione have the courage to voice her feelings for a second time, or will she marry Krum? Sweet companion piece to A House That Might Have Been.

Nearly Headless Nick is a ghost because he was afraid of death - how about the others? What do the Hogwarts ghosts think about death, their own in particular? Is there any hope for them?

Harry's had a lot to think about over the summer before his fifth year, and for the first time, he puts his thoughts on parchment.``"I guess that writing your feelings out does ease the pain a bit after all."

Hermione initiates; Ron concludes; Harry assists; Draco suffers for his sins.

Set on September 1st, 1971, this ficlet recounts Sirius and Remus' first arrival at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Read about the fears of a young werewolf who longs for acceptance and a pure-blood boy who just wants to find a place where he belongs.

Sequel to 'The Devil You Know'. It is slowly approaching dawn and Harry Potter cannot sleep. An unexpected guest appears with an offer, the answer to all of Harry's problems. How can he possibly refuse, even when the price is everything he has to give?

Harry and Draco live off of each other. Silent understanding passes through emerald/grey/green/blue eyes.

Harry blames himself for Sirius' death. Finally, he decides to do something about it.

Companion fic to "How the Lion Became a Weasel" by Starry-eyed Writer.``Ginny blames Harry for Ron's death, and seeks revenge. With the help of shy, quiet Neville, will she reach her goal?

Peter wages a losing battle with his own fear. Set in early 1981.

What would it be like - losing your magic?

Harry and Remus write to Sirius after his death. Slightly AU? The two most important people in Sirius's life try to gain some closure that might not come. Story starts strange but a plot soon emerges.

A young Severus Snape is learning Occlumency from Dumbledore under the watchful eye of the portraits on his office wall.

Severus picks up a little girl after an attack. Is her happiness due to shock, or is there something else involved?

Inspector Weatherby, witch, comes face-to-face with the masked terrorist known as 'V'. One-shot with a surprise twist.

"Absence makes the heart grow fungus" - when two people have been forcibly seperated for over a decade, and reunited only briefly before being seperated again, it's not easy to pick up where they left off. Remus/Sirius, during OotP.

What's it like for Angelina Johnson to be one of the few black students at Hogwarts? Well, to be honest, she's never given it much thought. After all, there's much more bigotry in the wizarding world against Muggle-borns and half bloods. But after befriending an angry young African American Muggle-born student at the Salem Wizarding Academy in the U.S., Angelina learns an important lesson about her heritage as a black witch.

Harry has fallen ill at the primary school and is waiting for someone to take him home. Who cares enough to save him? Completely AU, partly OOC, Neglect!Dursleys, Sick!Harry, childfic.

A lone wizard wakes on the last battlefield, but even surviving the main event can't prepare him for the shock of one confrontation. One-shot (for now). Darkfic, angst, suspense (hopefully), character deaths, implied slash. HBP-compliant, so 'ware the spoilers.

This is a story of a girl, Kat Meyers (not American), who has been friends with the gang for all their years of Hogwarts. Over the summer before fourth year, something happened to make the outgoing girl stop talking and smiling and being the friend Harry used to know. What's happened and what's with the pointe shoes? Could it be something to do with Voldemort? Is Harry really the only one Voldemort's after?

They say that hindsight is 20/20. Here is a tale told in hindsight. Begin at the end and see the mistakes, the confessions, the forbidden. Power is in passion, but knowing the outcome, what is changed? BZ/HP. Implied DM/BZ. Implied DM/HP.

He likes his whiskey. He longs for the strong taste that takes him away from his life, giving him a place to get away. And he finds himself addicted; addicted to what isn't.