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Narcissa Black falls through the ice on the lake, Severus Snape is tormented as always, and Lucius Malfoy shows that there is such a thing as Slytherin loyalty. Everyone skates on very thin ice before the first war.

Harry Potter's life seems to be a fairy tale. His dreams haunt him after his god-father's death.

When Sirius's date dumps him much earlier than anticipated, all he wants to do is have a good sulk in the privacy of the boy's dormitory. How quickly he forgets that there will be one other boy there...one who's there every Friday night. Very mild slash. SB/PP

In January 1983 Remus Lupin pursues advanced studies of goblin rebellions and practises not to dream.

Snape stumbled upon one of the Marauder's secrets and it could be deadly....

What is a person's greatest weakness? Is it his need for companionship? His need for protection? For guidance? Why does the coldness in us always threaten to break loose at the most inconvenient times? A twin contemplates what happens when twins share more than they are supposed to. (Warning: twincest, slash)

To be scared of dying is a natural reaction, but you must always meet it with courage...

The first war with Voldemort - toward the close, the Order and the Aurors are worn, and recruits have a thorough fear of Voldemort, and aren't really up to much. Prequel to ‘Whispers from Beyond the Veil.’ Read in any order.

A poem character sketch in the point of view of the beloved Sirius Black. Please do not read unless finished with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

A look at James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Lily Evans on the day before their first day at Hogwarts... the Marauders before they were Marauders!

Harry has problems dealing with the battle with Voldemort.

Strange, thinks Ginny, that such a little thing can be in tumults of joy merely because of Tom's attention; but there is a lot more to compete for now that they find themselves back in the world. Ginny has nearly lost herself, but Tom is going to do just the opposite... read Stockholm and Icarus first.

Ron Weasley is an adult now, even if he doesn't much want to be. Ron/Remus, Charlie/Harry. Warning: character death.

Memories of love leave quickly when you stay in Azkaban... Very light slash of the Sirius/Remus variety, with added Dementor-angst.

A witch and a wizard meet at Worlds’ End. A Sandman crossover, and sequel to Sleep Spent.

Harry Potter is starting his sixth year in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However Harry's year is going to be far more eventful than he ever thought it might be. With a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and an event that would well turn our sixteen-year-old wizard's life over!

Neville Longbottom's world comes crashing down around him as his wife Ginny admits to having an affair with Harry Potter. Murder and resentment, anger and pity, suicide and hope for redemption ensues.

You've read it all right? You have your conclusions on who's who, and who's evil or not. Take a step back and venture behind the pages. See a new Petunia and the reason why she treats Harry as if he whould never be loved. Take a trip into, Behind It All. Meant to reach out and touch you.

Young Remus Lupin is curious... too curious. An``innocent venture outside leads him to his unfortunate destiny.

It's quiet in here. And dark. Moonlight has been blocked out by thick, black curtains. Certainly Madam Pomfrey's work. It annoys me; I like to watch the faint glow of the moon and the stars dancing on the ceiling at night. It must be about two or three o'clock in the morning. I smell the cup of tea that was brought to me a few hours ago and which I ignored on my bedside table. It's probably stone cold by now. I don't want it. I don't want any of this anymore. Voldemort is dead, yet so is Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived. How did it get to that? Ginny, supposedly sleeping in the hospital wing, thinks about the events... and the day after.

Lily Potter sacrificed her life to Lord Voldemort so that her only son, Harry Potter, could become The Boy Who Lived. This fic describes the last few seconds of her life and what thoughts crossed her mind as Voldemort murmured the death spell.

Remus Lupin has a particular interest in Luna Lovegood. Purely paternal, of course.

Unfulfilling curiosity. This is part of Dusk-till-Dawn. Scenario 58 –``Harry finds out that Severus Snape is gay. It gives him ideas.

It had always been easy for Sirius to hate Severus Snape.

Making love isn't the only way. Sirius Black/Severus Snape. Set during OotP. One-shot.

This fic explores the repercussions of being levitated by people in masks.

Written for a "Veil of Possibilities" challenge, and definitely AU. Sirius is guilty of all he was charged of, and is at Hogwarts tormenting Remus. The Sirius we know is travelling through the realms connected by the Veil, and has to help Remus get free.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ``Over many a quaint and curious spellbook I'd not read before, ``While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,``As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the dorm room door.``"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "rapping at the dorm room door--``This it is, and nothing more."````But it isn't...and we all know it. A parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

Lycanthropy isn't as it seems.

Dumbledore does a little maintenance on Foreign Relations...

The most interesting events in the history of Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, happen after nightfall. Hermione, the Head Girl, has faced several life changing events. Now, she is trapped between two worlds, each pulling away at each other. Yet, she finds herself lying to her boyfriend, Harry Potter, and sneaking away and confiding with the only other Death Eater at Hogwarts — Draco Malfoy. With graduation just six months away, Hermione must make sense out of her once simple life. But once she turns the light off, can she get out of the dark?

A collection of my HP-inspired poems.

Someone gets an unexpected visitor

Luna and Parvati. Bittersweet nights. Memories.

"Ends and beginnings--there are no such things. There are only middles." ``A Post-Hogwarts POV-piece.

Harry and Draco's tight-knit relationship has ended, but not for obvious reasons. The two boys are left dazed and confused and neither know what to do. In a desperate attempt to make things right, both resort to suicide as the way out. Letters are written but never read, good-byes are said but never heard, but will they go through with their plans, or will the other be just in time? HP/DM

Wormtail is a selfish, cowardly rat, isn't he? He'd agree with you.

The battle is over and Voldemort has been defeated, but what happens when victory comes with too high a cost?

Sirius' girlfriend starves him of affection. He comes home angry and takes it out on Remus. Remus resists, but he knows it's futile. Sirius always gets what he wants.

"No deprivation is any trouble if you do not miss what you have lost." Lord Voldemort remembers an early victory.

He loved her all his life, and when she found out, it was too late

At their weekly day together Neville's grandfather contemplates his magicless grandson and considers the future.

There is an attack on Hogwarts, and Bill Weasley is summoned by the Order to come in and aid in the fight. When he gets locked in a duel with Fenrir Greyback, what will be the outcome? (Missing Moment from Half Blood Prince).

The kitchen at Hogwarts is the setting for a midnight snack, a bout of fisticuffs, a tonne of profanity and revelations.

After the final battle, a twin remembers her sister. Warning: character death.

Bellatrix is devoted to her Master. But she can never satisfy him.

It's the trio's seventh year at Hogwarts. The final battle is coming closer. Yet Harry seems to be disappearing a lot. And what does the new American student have to do with Harry's Past?

Sirius longs for James; Harry feels as if he owes him. Remus tries to get to the bottom of it, but doesn't know if he can bear it.

Sixth year is going to be rather difficult for certain students at Hogwarts! Harry has to deal with the prospect of murder: kill or be killed; Hermione's having trouble with her feelings for a special someone; Ron is, well, Ron; and Draco has to deal with the lure of evil. The one thing they all have in common is... Restless Nights!

The war has ended, but no one has remained unscathed. Least of all Harry. Going on a bloody trail of revenge, he finds himself at the Lestranges's door. But soon enough, he's in over his head in a situation that's a little too close for comfort. How deep is hate? How consuming is revenge? How redemptive is love? And if you've crossed the line, can anything - or anyone - pull you back? Post Hogwarts, some Bellatrix/Rodolphus. Rated for some violence, very little language, and character deaths.

"The war, the prophecy, everything, it was bigger than me, but maybe it wasn’t bigger than the three of us,” Harry said slowly, so quiet he could hardly hear himself.

At first Harry dreaded coming. He hated the sterile smell of the place, the squeaky, rubbery noises, the cheerful politeness of the staff. He hated the way he sometimes heard screaming. . .

Ginny's all tied up for Bella, and Bella won't say no to such a pretty present.

The children have been brought back from the Ministry. Ginny lies in the Hogwarts hospital wing and thinks about the upcoming war.

After an incident at St. Mungo's, Neville takes responsibility for the care of his mother and father. A story of a son's love for his parents.

The rain falls. Cleansing me. I stand, face uplifted, letting it soak through my thin robes. The rain and my tears mix. I could drown here and I would not care. I have nothing to live for. Everything is gone.

It's seventh-year and it's been a wild journey... but is it really over?

He knew it not for what it was but for what it represented. A mother tells her son a bedtime story.

I hate him. I hate the feeling that I always get when I think of him. I hate the taste of sour cherries and nutmeg that he always had.

Blaise raises the sword again and runs it slowly from Draco’s left shoulder, across the grey silk of his shirt, and slices off the top button with the tip of the blade. The perfect shell button hits the floor with a barley audible tick. As cool steel hits warm skin for the barest instant Draco lets out a hiss, not of pain, but of surprise. Blaise grins. Draco knows this game. They’ve been playing it all summer. He is tired of it. boy!Blaise/Draco

One night, after a particularly trying detention session, Harry falls asleep--and awakens into his happiest dream since Voldemort's return.

Ginny is musing. She lives for him, but he lives for his friends. It's all for them.

"Perhaps you're thinking this is too hard? Too dull? Not the glamorous Dark-wizard hunt you signed up for?" Moody has some valuable lessons for Trainee Auror Tonks.

You were my hero, my savior. I loved you so much. Maybe too much. One-shot sequel to Afraid.

Harry and Hermione's daughter telling us about her mother's lonely Valentine.

Excerpts from Hagrid's diary starting when Harry's first Hogwarts letter arrived at Number 4 Privet Drive, up to the day Hagrid took Harry to get his school supplies.

Oliver Wood sits alone in the bar and remembers his team.

Every Friday I clean Mr. Harry Potter's flat. Every Friday I go home sad.

A series of quiet epiphanies. Post-GoF, Sirius/Remus slash. "Even the sunlight's older here, faded and cooled with dawn; the floorboards feel odd under his human feet, and his skin is too thin, too sensitive. So long as a dog, and he's almost forgotten - this muted scent of dust, of Remus, of books lining the creaking shelves."

Young Severus Snape enters to Hogwarts for first time. How will his schooltime go? Warning of school teasing! Please read and review!

After undergoing an unexpected dark transformation, can Harry Potter resist corruption while he seeks vengeance and justice or will he end up unleashing an evil worse than Voldemort's unto the already afflicted magical world? A story of deception and the blinding quality of love. Vampires, OC, dark!Harry

A dystopic story set after Harry Potter wins the war and becomes Minister of Magic. He does his best and is completely oblvious to what is happening around him. Hermione goes missing and Ron finds her; that's when their troubles begin. Ron tries to understand what is happening, while others make plans to strike back and escape. They forgot to take Luna into account, however.

Where Ginny is disobedient, and it's Ron to the rescue. The hidden dangers, and rewards, of a sunny summer afternoon.

After his Lord's downfall, Lucius Malfoy isn't just shaken. When a certain Diary finds its way to his hands, we have a Lord Voldemort-starved Malfoy who thinks he has very little to lose and a projection of 16-year-old Tom Riddle. Diary Riddle wants to find out more about this man who had dazzled his future self. As he walks through the maze of Lucius, he finds himself becoming increasingly attached to the Malfoy and deeply in love with him. Also Lucius is affected by closeness he had never even dreamed of having with his (secretly) beloved Dark Lord. The pale reflex of what he could have had with Voldemort tortures him, but he finds himself incapable of putting the Diary away, like he had never been able to unravel himself from that love.

What Sirius finds beyond the veil is not death but life and penance in an odd friendship to a boy from his past...

I left the Burrow at dusk, the air still smelling of the verdant musk from an unusually hot and humid day. I could feel the family’s eyes on me as I exited the door. What did they think was going to happen? I refuse to tremble and weep. If I started I would not stop.

Severus Snape recalls his relationship with Sirius Black through their third and fourth years at Hogwarts, as told to Remus Lupin during Harry's third year at Hogwarts.

It is the middle of the night, and every student, teacher and creature of Hogwarts is fast asleep. Only one young wizard is aware of the danger waiting to pounce on the school. And with that feeling in the pit of his stomach telling him he's probably going to die, Harry Potter isn't about to wake anyone up and drag them to his final confrontation with Voldemort.

Lauren and Susie think they've got life sorted out: they're popular, they'll be on the Quidditch team next year, and their fathers own the wizarding world's most famous joke shop. A trip to the Hogsmeade cemetery with a Muggle-born friend throws a new perspective on life, the war against Voldemort, and the events that made their parents who they are. A sequel of sorts to Under the Stars.

A tale of murder involving (girl!)Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson and none other than Draco Malfoy. A post-Hogwarts songfic to "Rinse" by Vanessa Carlton.

A look inside the mind of an anonymous Death Eater. Read, if you will, though some may regret it.

Ginny falls for the wrong guy every time, but its always for the right reason and it always ends the same. Song fic to Pretty Girl (the way) by sugarcult.

Who would be brave, or stupid, enough to go into Azkaban and interview the Head Dementor? Unfortunately, the Daily Prophet doesn't give their reporter a choice. Read the article, and its ramifications...

Harry reflects on the past year, on both a personal level and the changes in the wizarding world. However, what appears to be a normal Christmastime in the Weasley household, takes a sudden sinister turn as night falls.

One-shot. Pansy watches dust settle, and thinks about light and darkness. Character death.

After an Order meeting towards the end of Harry‘s fifth year, Moody speaks with Dumbledore, yet cannot see what is tormenting his old friend. Moody is half-blind, yet acknowledges this, and even his eye cannot penetrate the barriers of the mind. [OotP Spoilers]

Slightly AU. Harry gets a new identity. And a new job. A mysterious killer murders at the stroke of midnight, leaving almost no traces. Who can it be?

Nobody understands anymore

So what happened to Sirius Black after he stepped through the doorway and left Harry's world? Who does he meet there... and will he ever come back from The Land Beyond the magic?

Jacquelyn Randolf wants this Christmas to be the best Christmas for her and her orphaned brother and sisters. What happens when she gets her wish? How does Hogwarts and Harry Potter fit into all of this?

What is Hermione's response the summer after the Tri-wizard Tournament and Voldemort's return? It's a little more complex than "when in doubt, go to the library". This may lead into an AU, given sufficient response.

Sometimes Neville Longbottom secretly hated the world.

Hermione comes home one day to much more than she had expected. Two Death Eaters who switch sides every five lines, death and betrayal. If you think Snape is a cuddly, fatherly person you should probably skip this fic... unless you want me to prove otherwise.

Remus and Velma have been next-door neighbors, and friends since they met each other, though their personalities can differ. But one summer night, the summer before the first year of Hogwarts, Remus accidentally transforms into a wolf in her backyard. Will Velma ever forgive Remus? And what is he going to do?

Mistakes of the past become nightmares of the future. Snape views a memory in the Pensieve he would rather forget. Snape/Lily.

Draco had always felt alone until he met her. Years later he still needed her even though she's gone forever. Draco mourns the loss of the only thing that ever mattered to him.

A lonely man broods... has he chosen loneliness, or was it forced upon him by society?

A hero's gone. Ginny Weasley isn't sure how to cope.

Vinyl isn't just something to wear. Music, mayhem and Muggle love abound during the summer of Harry's fifth year. To be played at maximum volume...