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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.

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.

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

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

"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

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...

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?

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.

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

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.

"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.

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

Hermione pauses every time she uses the Time Turner.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

Ginny feels like a ghost.

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

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.

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.

Two roads diverged in a wood.

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!

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.

Draco doesn't know what to choose.

Severus starts regretting a past mistake.

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.

Theodore Nott, in the Fifty Galleons universe.

On war and werewolves

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

"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...

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.

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

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.

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 and Hermione experience the pros and cons of memory charms.

A collection of Ron-centric drabbles

"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.

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

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

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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.

Regulus' thoughts on his way to Hogwarts and during his Sorting.

Hermione tries to get Harry to stop isolating himself from his loved ones - after all, cutting himself off from them is only causing pain. One-shot, H/Hr.

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.

"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."

"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.

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.

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

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.

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…

Sirius explains to Remus exactly how he and Snape first got together--and how they split up. Companion piece to I Dream of You in Shadow.

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

Some people suggest it was just selfishness on Snape's part to stop his Occlumency lessons with Harry, but perhaps Snape's reasons run far deeper. A Snape's POV response to the OotP chapter "Snape's Worst Memory."

Just how many extra hours did Hermione log during her stressful third year? How did she survive her insane academic schedule? The answer: Well, she wouldn’t have survived had it not been for … close friends.

One night Mars is unusually bright. In the Forbidden Forest a centaur struggles with future and fate to follow his conscience.

A year after Harry dies fighting Voldemort, his husband, Ron Weasley goes through Harry's old things. But what Ron finds changes his life forever.

A very young Severus Snape takes his first steps into the Dark Wizarding world.

Extremely short ficlet on the frayed relationship of Ginny & Harry. Edited for Post DH effect.

R for later chapters. In the year 2004, the next generation is born, and ready or not, they’ve got to finish where their parents left off.

Nymphadora Tonks receives a visitor in the hospital after the attack in the Ministry. All she can say is 'Oh'. Part one of a trilogy of one-shot R/T fics on the topic of healing and carers.

Voldemort reflects on his childhood. Then his years at Hogwarts. And finally, his rise to power. Entrances made by Voldie and Bellatrix.

Crossover: Harry Potter/The Sentinel. While waiting for the release of Book Five, a certain detective gets caught up in a very strange, yet oddly familiar, universe.

Even though Remus feels that he has been to enough funerals to not be affected by Sirius's death, a visit from Harry right before the funeral shows him he might be wrong.

This is "Bella"--a cold, cruel, calculating shell of a woman. Where Trixie was warm, if a little indifferent and aloof, this stranger is hard and angry; the result of thirteen years in Azkaban and almost thirty with that brand on her arm...

The tragic event of March 11th of Harry's seventh year starts a vicious cycle of death and despair for several students and quickly spreads to the rest of the wizarding world. But even after the Final Battle, the war rages on. With people still dying and turning up missing there seems to be no end in sight. But Snape has a secret that may change all that, but at what cost? In the end is he a Killer, Hero, or just another Victim?

Someone thinks about shadows.

During his first Quidditch game at Hogwarts, Regulus must balance his loyalties - in true Slytherin fashion.

Draco dreams, and has to decide where his allegiances lie—with Harry, or Voldemort.

On and on does anybodt know what we are living for?