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

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?

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

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

After the war, all Theodore Nott has left is his childhood home and a ghost that won't let him forget.

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.

Remember when Harry and Malfoy first became enemies? How Malfoy asked Harry to join his side? What ``if Harry did?

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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.

What would it be like - losing your magic?

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?

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

After the events of the Gryffindor v. Slytherin Quidditch match in Draco’s fifth year, things seem different; Ron Weasley has the Slytherins under his thumb, the school dungeons are filled with Muggle born students, and Harry Potter is nowhere to be found. It’s a brave new world, and one in which Draco must learn to be careful what he wishes for.

From one war into another, Hogwarts remains a sanctuary. Harry/Draco.

Slight songfic to Evanescence's "My Immortal." It's the very last battle, and Minerva discovers that it's hard to lose a student, but even harder when they were like your own child. It's always hard to say goodbye. Slight AD/MM, character death and sadness.

That was when she said it. Those four words: "That sounds so... boring." Iphy apologised afterwards, but as Hermione puts down the phone she cannot not stop hearing that harsh judgement passed on her life.

A sleek white cat stalked the corridors of Hogwarts. Its soft paws made no sound as it padded across the hard flagstone. It knew what it had to do. He would be there. Waiting for her. Master… no! Not master. Friend. Cats have no masters. He is a friend.

Three sisters come to bury their dead and their memories. An emotionally-drained young woman sickened by her choices, an entirely too well-educated one who has none, and an idealist who'd rather damn them all.

Remus Lupin has been there since Harry's third year, always calm, quiet, and peaceful. He's always been there, in the shadows, never in the spotlight. Here we'll take a look at Remus' mind. His memories, experiences, thoughts. Was it always that way?

Hermione Granger had always been different from all of the other little girls her age. Other girls liked to shop and wear nail polish while Hermione preferred books to dollies. Her father was proud of this and her mother worried, but maybe things were like this for a reason. Perhaps she was supposed to be different. Strange things start happening around Hermione's eleventh birthday and she will soon find out why.

On a spring evening, strange light illuminates the sky and Harry sees his mother.

A poignant glance at the sparks of childhood enmity between Severus Snape and James Potter. Short-short story, companion to "Pretty Hate Machine."

She doesn't want to be here. But it's not about her.

A year after leaving Hogwarts, Peter Pettigrew makes new friends. Can he keep his old friends? Will he have to choose? (A 'Stag Night' Cookie)

Draco sees Harry through an artist's eye - a beautiful blend of light and shadow. When Harry discovers Draco's fixation, what will his reaction be? A story of lust, obsession, love, and beauty in the highest sense - a story of light and shadow

All Aurors spend at least an hour in Azkaban as part of their training. None of them enjoy it. One of them had better get used to it...

She knows what's coming... she knows that her child is being cradled in Death's arms... and yet, she can't convince herself that it's real. Will Lily Potter finally come to grips with her son's fate... and her own?

Evan Rosier finds himself in need of some company the night of his twenty-first birthday, and Lucius Malfoy reluctantly decides to oblige him. Drunken inner ramblings and bitchiness abound.

Kreacher may seem vile and lowly but he's still capable of thought. Maybe, there's a reason for his existence.

When Harry loses his sight in a battle against Voldemort, Draco doesn't know what to do or how to act around the injured wizard. However, eventually a plan comes to him. H/D slash.

Ginny feels like a ghost.

Upon her passing, he reminisces, and mourns as he realizes that she's no longer there, and must accept it as it comes. Short fic, inspired by sad music.

This is the story of Remus Lupin, condensed considerably, and to the lyrics of the wonderful song Unwanted by Avril Lavigne.

Harry thinks he's seen everything, but in his fifth year his views on the world will be challenged. Voldemort is still after him, but there are some new players in the mix. Are they good or evil? And what does Draco Malfoy have to do with it?

"It was a miracle I had even been aloud into school with my ‘condition’, as my parents had called it, but to have a large tree that attacks you to protect me during the full moon, and for the nurse to look after me in the mornings, that was more than I ever could have expected."``The first time you meet a group of people can influence the rest of your life. Remus was terrified but ecstatic to be starting his first year of Hogwarts, but he had no idea how much a train ride could influence the rest of his life.

Hermione pauses every time she uses the Time Turner.

The sound of flying cutlery caught the woman's attention and she looked up to see the twins with identical mischievous grins charming silverware to set itself on the table. She heard a squeal and saw Hermoine as she dove away, giggling like mad, and she turned when she heard her mother's bellow as she berated the scheming pair. Then, as suddenly as they appeared, they vanished, leaving a cold and silent kitchen suffocating her.

Harry tells his friends that he's sleeping with the enemy. Love is the ultimate treachery.

"I am a rock / I am an island / And a rock feels no pain / And an island never cries" A Snape songfic inspired by a Freelancer Music Video.

Draco thinks about how easy it would be to end his life. Rated PG13 for sucidal thoughts.

Sequel to The Last Hour. You are a young girl whose life was once riddled with pain. You are a young girl who nobody mourned. You are a young girl consumed with hatred. You are a young girl. This is your second chance.

Did you ever wonder how the fall of Lily and James came about? Why did Sirius convince them to make Peter their secret keeper? How was Dumbledore unaware? How did the last battle fought? This is an account of what happened when Lily and James Potter found out their baby son was to save the world from Lord Voldemort.

"You many recognize [werewolves] by these marks: they are pale, their vision feeble, their eyes dry, tongue very dry, and the flow of saliva stopped; but they are thirsty." ~Montague Summers, The Werewolf

A one shot from Harry's point of view about the war around him and those he loves. (H/D)

Severus starts regretting a past mistake.

Two roads diverged in a wood.

Draco doesn't know what to choose.

An angsty Cho Chang monologue. On why she cries. Mentions tradition, angst, family, confusion, Cedric and Harry. A chance for Cho-fans to read an interpretation of what she went through, and Cho-haters to take a look from her point of view.

My vision of the last 30-45 min. of Lily and James Potter. She has questions, he answers--again, my vision. Songfic loosely based on the song Moonlight Shadow from the game Dance Dance Revolution.

This is sonfic based on Three Door's Down's Kryptonite. It's written in Remus Lupin's point of view. His reflection on his curse. Not meant to be slashy!

Minerva McGonagall was not present in the Department of Mysteries. However, her understanding of the death is just as painful as everyone elses. Three parter, spoilers for OotP.

A musing that ends in the unevitable death of two mystery characters is kept secret as the two share a moment in time.

Just lots of talking, really. Remus and Severus have a conversation after James and Sirius, the buggers, make a fool out of Severus yet again.````Set after the scene Harry observes in Snape's Pensieve. Very light slash.

Harry's gone and he probably won't come back. He left everything to keep her safe. But he didn't think of the effect it would have in the one person he loves the most in the world. Now he's coming back for a little while to try and fix things.

Ravenclaws don't do revenge; it's not their thing, really. Ravenclaws don't like Death Metal; as everyone knows, Ravenclaw is a house inclined towards peace and love. Ravenclaws don't break rules, don't experiment with soft drugs, don't mess with gender roles, and don't believe that playing on other people's stupidity is really fair.``At least, that's what they want you to think...

Theodore Nott, in the Fifty Galleons universe.

Ginny is totally in love with Draco Malfoy. But what happens when they get together in the dungeons.

Harry knows he is about to die. There is no one left to save him. But help comes from the most unlikely of places, a Death Eater, and his enemy. A boy who he thought hated him.

On war and werewolves

Draco loves Harry. Harry doesn't know. Draco decides that for Harry's good they can never get together and takes it to the extreme to make sure that never happens. But what happens when something happens? (Not another Harry-comes-behind-Draco-before-he-jumps fic!) DM/HP slashy goodness!

At the end of "Phoenix", Lucius Malfoy is arrested as a Death Eater. What happens to Draco now that his father's identity is made public? Set within Azkaban itself.

In the aftermath of tragedy, Remus Lupin sought an escape. A man with nothing to lose and nothing to leave behind, but on a moonless night in a gypsy camp, he learns how to grieve—and finds out things he never saw in himself in the process.

As thoughts about the past and worries about the future start to overwhelm James on his last day at Hogwarts, he decides writing a diary.

"That led to the question someone, no doubt, would ask: Why did I commit all these dreadful acts of terrorism?" While weak, powerless, and in exile, Voldemort ponders the answer he would give to this question for the benefit of history -- and it is both more complicated and much simpler than one might think...

As Harry’s hand reached out and grasped the glass doorknob, he knew one thing was for certain – this night would be bad. And tomorrow would be beyond imagining.

Harry Potter on estate life, and what it feels like to go back to Privet Drive after the fifth year...

Harry and Hermione experience the pros and cons of memory charms.

A collection of Ron-centric drabbles

Draco's task is to kill one Muggle. Will he succeed?

Sky Monroe has always been alone. Alone with no memory of her past and no friends. Until one day, a stranger comes along and sends her off and her greatest adventure: A quest to find out the truth and a whole lot more including the presence of evil...

Does killing an enemy kill part of you? Are good and evil opposites, or are the two sides really only a heartbeat apart?

"And in the mirror he read his truth and counted all the new-old ways he'd failed." Remus Lupin reflects on the many ways in which he fell short.

Some may mourn the death of heros. Some may not- but Draco bitterly remembers the roads Harry Potter closed for him, and the fourth dimension that every hero hides from the public eye, only to be brought out in the face of the enemy: hatred.

Far away across the field/ The tolling of the iron bell/ Calls the faithful to their knees/ To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

"My hands are stained." On Harry's first day at Hogwarts, Snape ponders damnation and redemption.

Years ago Severus Snape met the love of his life. But Vernon and Petunia Dursley aren't the only Muggles who hate magic. And prejudice can go both ways. Love hurts and the loss hurts even more.

This is a last goodbye to my 'Subplot/Unplottable'-universe and therefore heavily AU: After serving Voldemort as a nameless fighter, Snape returns to Hogwarts.

(Slash; Sirius/Remus) Short, improv. Before, during, and post-Azkaban. Forever is never a promise, no matter how hard one wishes.

Snape has an unwelcome nighttime visitor.

His heart constricts along with her long tail and for a moment, just that minor second, Tom understands affections and perhaps the need to weep, bleed, and protect. This is all, of course, before he becomes another creature...free of the traditional views of love.

Druscilla Morgan is sent out into the magical world after living a secluded life on an island with her grandmother… Strange things are happening, and she knows nothing about her past… and but she doesn’t know may indefinitely be her downfall…

"Tom never left you, not completely. He’s just been… dormant all these years. Waiting for his chance. Hurting you in whatever way he could. Tom was a memory, right? A memory trapped in a diary. Now he’s a memory trapped in you, and he won’t let you forget.”

Remus Lupin has seen life and he has seen death. But as he confronts the latest of his griefs, he must come to terms with the duty that has befallen him in the wake of tragedy.

"She was all that he ever truly had, and then she was gone, away from his cruel words and cold stares. He never realized he needed her more than anything. Could he even have her back, hold her again and be complete again? Hope fluttered in him, and he wondered if he dared to acknowledge it."

When the war is over there have been betrayals of the worst kind. The only thing Draco wants now is vengeance for the death of the girl he loved.

Kristus Vesanus has never lived an ordinary life. He spends his days in fear and doubt, away from magic, even though that is the heritage he was born into.

There are a lot of secret activities going on in Hogwarts. Some are plotting death and destruction, while some are snogging some others. Some are patrolling without being of much use, while some are actually working for the welfare of the school. Some are lying awake in their dormitories while some are lying awake in Hogsmeade. Some are giggling mindlessly about mindless things, while some others are actually trying to sleep. Needless to say, very few people actually get the much required beauty sleep at Hogwarts. So there's lack of sleep, severe headaches and lots of impending doom in this sixth year story.

It's another regular day at Hogwarts, but what will happen next is anything but ordinary for the five people who watch it happen helplessly. This is a story from Hermione.

Flora and Fauna are about to start their third year at Hogwarts. All goes well, until the Chamber of Secrets is opened.