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It's said that Slytherins are the only Dark Wizards around... but what's the real truth? Read the story of a calculating Ravenclaw with a thirst for knowledge--legal or otherwise. One-shot, darkish!

Hermione Granger could see Thestrals, now.

When Draco is unhappy with the turn things take after he takes the Dark Mark, he devises a plan to rectify the situation.

Parvati leads an adventurous life seeking out places among the wizarding world long forgotten by time and history. But only one has changed her life, and etched itself into her memory forever.

The war is over, and it has taken a drastic toll on the entire wizarding world. Each person must pay the price in his or her own way.``For Draco, the price is too great.``Can he bear it, or will the cost of the war haunt him... Forever?

The Lestranges would do anything for Lord Voldemort. Anything at all. Bellatrix/Rodolphus, disturbing.

"I’m not a writer, but for some reason I feel compelled tonight, of all nights, to put my thoughts to paper. When the last of us are gone, when the witnesses have faded into history, those who fought must be remembered. "

Oneiros has crept into the mind of the slumbering for years untold. With him, he brings dreams. To a chosen few, he brings the mixed blessing of prophecy. But are these dreams a gift of the gods... or their punishment?

‘Under a dictatorship, active resistance can only be practised by those who pretend to collaborate with the regime.’ Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976

Moonlight and forests. Waking dreams and living grief. ````Short, complex and poetic, this piece looks at the days between the battle of the Ministry and Harry going home.

"Someone once said that man is inherently good, but I think he was a Muggle, so I never gave the sentiment a second thought." Introspective Draco. Non-ship fic. One shot. COMPLETE.

Hermione and Ron have another of their famous rows, though maybe he has gone too far this time. She wanders through the school corridors in tears, till she finds an unexpected source of comfort.

What would the wand of one of the finest wandmakers be like?

In the final moments of life, what will happen before death?

Draco remembers the past, reflects on his life, and decides he wants no more of it.

A story of Lucius Malfoy\\\'s parents, Mondis and Giulia, from their first meeting to their being parted by death, via a wedding, a talk with Tom, betrayal by Lucius and the fall of Voldemort.

Hermione sighed softly as she thought of the dozens of other cemeteries they had visited in the past week. It seemed that the entombment of the revered war dead would never end. "And now it's Fred's turn," she thought with a cringe. Fred's funeral from Hermione's POV.

A resigned and cyncial Narcissa contemplates her life.

Five-years-old Andromeda is okay with Bellatrix being older, because there's nothing Bella can do Andromeda can't do just as well. Isn't there?

"Only I saw her for what she really was--a freak!" Want to know the story behind Lily Potter and Petunia Dursley's falling-out? Want to know why Petunia hates magic? Want to know why there are no words in Portmeirion? Well, I want to know the answer to that last one, anyway, but you won't find the answer here! However, find out the answer to the first to questions and more in this story...

Yes, it's true, Sirius speaks from Beyond The Veil to Remus Lupin. He tells a captivating tale of what he's endured, and what may very well be his fate.

Draco Malfoy's finally got what he wants - an induction to the Society. But will a complication on his first mission ruin his chances of rising through the ranks? Or will he ruthlessly erase said complication and continue on his path of death and destruction?

After seven years the final battle of the Second War comes to Hogwarts... And Hogwarts is ready for it.

This song fic takes place during the time that Harry and Ron are at odds in book 4. Ron is feeling sulky about Harry being the center of attention, as usual. Song is property of Del Amitri, from the album "Can you do me good?"

Funerals and phoenix feathers and resolution. Harry and Remus say goodbye.

Ginny Weasley was taking a slow stroll around the Hogwarts corridors until she finds herself at a window, peering out. Everyone is enjoying themselves on this beautiful day except for one person.... HP/GW, implied RW/HG, NL/LL, GW/DT.

Lucius Malfoy was a Death Eater, had been one since he was a youth of seventeen. During his years as a Death Eater he had enjoyed the thrill of killing people, of seeing red. Torn between faimly, his blood and the desire to kill, Lucius struggles.

One morning Pansy wakes up as a man. She doesn't know why or how this happened. It just happened. This fic is about tender feelings, fear and helping each other. But I have to warn you, there's no happy ending.

"Ginny still thinks about him sometimes – she doesn’t really know why." Ginny Weasley ponders the question of Tom Riddle.

It's five years after Draco Malfoy graduated from Hogwarts, and his relationship with his father, as well as his unexpected feelings for Ginny Weasley, seem to change his mind about Voldemort's cause. WARNING: dark fic, character death. Also a tissue might come in handy...

The beast inside is something you can't deny. And sometimes... sometimes you don't want to. Draco/Remus.

Neville Longbottom always seemed an odd choice to be in Gryffindor House. A timid, meek, clumsy boy, Neville always seemed the object of ridicule. A one-shot fic of a tortured mind and its desperate attempts to prove its boldness.

Deathfic. She swore to never use the Killing Curse unless her love ever married another...this is the end, and she's put it off long enough. Her love has married and had kids, and still she has hung on...she must give it all up now.

Some things never change, and one of those things is the way that Molly Weasley feels about her children. But some there are some events in the wizarding world that are beyond her control, and sometimes change is inevitable.

Songfic to Pink's 'Family Portrait', as Draco Malfoy reminisces and learns to cope with his family. Some implied Draco/Snape. Links with my other fics 'Blame it on the Weatherman' and 'Weird'.

The Hufflepuff story of what went on the night they stopped looking up to Ernie.

Before she was a mother, mom had her own adventure. Maybe she didn't save the world... but hey, how many of you can say your mom turned somebody into a giant worm?

After everything she had been through - the yearly life-threatening adventures, the battles, the war - she didn’t think it would end this way.

When a new charcater comes to Hogwarts, some things are changed around. Young, smart, and a genius, Artemis Riddle is transferred. Harry, Ron, and Hermione don't expect much, but what they do get is something of a surprise.

"You stand before the window, gazing outward, ever outward. I cannot know what you see." *Draco/Boy!Blaise of a very mild variety*

Peter Pettigrew is dead by his own hand. Remus Lupin shares the news of Wormtail's death with Sirius Black and the Potters, and ponders how he feels about it.

Fred always joked that he and George shared a soul. George never joked; it was too close to the truth.

What has a day in Ginny's life been like since her Fifth year? She sits down one stormy night to reflect on the trying emotions of the past year: from Dumbledore, to Bill's upcoming wedding... and of course, to Harry and the second war with Voldemort.

What if the Whomping Willow could talk? What has it seen? What has it ( intentionally or not) done? What has it had done to it? A poor, mistreated national artifact tells its tale.

Ginny is battling against the Dark Lord. She is literally blown away and now must find someone.

Ginny promised herself this was the last time. She always did.

Young Regulus Black has been given an important task by the Dark Lord. But it was one that leads him to question if what he has believed to be right really was. (We look deeper into the character mentioned so brieftly in OotP.)

Harry's lifeline without an ending, the way Ron used to be, a brief Draco/Hermione romance, what it means to be a lion, and tales of what blood means. All these stories told in a few poems of my own creation...

Two boys. Two intentions. One aim they never would of thought could be the same. It's the penultimate year in Hogwarts and lots of things are about to change. No slash.

We all know (or at least, suppose) how Severus Snape felt about his father being abusive towards his mother. But how does his mother feel about it? Murder-fic. PG-13 for blood.

Draco Malfoy knows exactly how to win someone over, and he also knows who the perfect candidates for Death Eaters are: the weak, and the easily swayed. One of Malfoy's past recruits reminisces about his relationship with the Slytherin and the impact it had on his life and the wizarding world as a whole.

Every night Ginny Weasley is visited by the dark lord in her dreams, every night these encounters get worse and worse until....

Narcissa does not let her facade crack, because the appearance of disinterest in what others are saying is the only mask left for her.

Lily, Harry's room and the early morning summer breeze.

Hermione didn't want to believe in fate. Didn't want to believe everything had all fallen into place, that as humans they were helpless against what had been decided for them. That Harry was helpless against his fate. No, she still wouldn't accept that.

The eve of the final battle, Hermione reminisces over all the people who have been lost so far.

It is seventh year and another battle has been fought between the light and the dark.... Who are victors and who are losers?

After James and Lily are killed and Sirius narrowly escapes Azkaban, he and Remus take on the job of making Harry’s life with the Dursleys a little less miserable. Written for the Raising Harry Ficathon on Livejournal. Totally AU.

AU/Quarte universe. Everyone goes off to the final battle between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix... but what happens if the Order loses?

Why does Petunia have such strong odious feelings towards magic and the wizarding world? A question I hope to answer through this collection of memories that begin in Petunia's early childhood.

A terrible childhood experience might just change the look of life for Cho Chang. (Takes place during book 4)

You-Know-Who [not Voldemort] is dying, and reflecting on how much he loves Harry, and that he wishes he could have told him that.

“Don’t do this, Harry!” Hermione would plead, words falling into the well-worn track. She knew as well as he did what was coming next, like a gambit in wizard chess. Two more moves to checkmate.

Horror and mystery abound.

I put it to you - if Draco and Hermione were destined one day to become lovers, their attraction to each other must have had a start somewhere, and this story tells that tale. You will learn how when they were only stubborn ikle first years, Draco and Hermione formed the beginnings of an understanding. Now mind – there is no hand holding or even any words spoken between the two in this tale but you will observe how Hermione’s curiosity crosses paths with Draco’s closely guarded “talent” and how both of them are somehow linked through a small fuzzy, foul-mouthed magical animal. Yes, I know – I didn’t see that coming either.

It's been a year since the end of the War of Darkness, and the Rending of the Veil. Relations between the Muggle and Wizarding worlds are just beginning to calm, and slow progress is being made to restore the barrier between the worlds. Magic is at its weakest--and strangest--and a few old heroes are back to restore the balance.

This is from the point of view of Peter and Sirius on the night James and Lily are murdered.

It was hard to imagine a time and place where Hogwarts did not exist. Disarray was sweeping Britain. Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, and Slytherin were determined to stop the horrors that were beginning to ensue.

A traitor reflects on his choices and actions after the final battle at Hogwarts.

Faolan Brone wants the same thing as any other five-year-old boy: a real home with a real family. There's only one small problem.

Cedric Diggory's greatest desire is to be loved by his father.

A murder he committed scarred his daughter, and now she's slowly drifting away from him. What is to happen of his family? Sonfic to "Hold On" by Limp Bizkit.

After Ron and Hermione are captured by Death Eaters, Snape has to make some important decisions about the costs of war.

"You know how you feel when you fly? Like everything in the world is right? And I know that you know pretty well what it feels like to be in the presence of a dementor. Well, Potter, imagine going from one extreme to the other randomly, never knowing if tomorrow you will wake up on cloud nine or more depressed than you have ever felt in your entire life." Severus Snape is so misunderstood, but if people only took the time to listen, they could see the man behind the madness.

What happens when two people suddenly find each other in the midst of a whirlwind of chaos? The answer is Serendipity. Don't always believe what is right in front of your eyes.

Forever he painted his world in shades of grey, that color even more bleak and haunting that the sound of his beautiful, horrible music. Forever this grey surrounded him, so wretched, so despairing, and yet so wholly, horrifyingly, breathtakingly him. Draco was grey, in every sense of the word, from his mood, to his physicality, deep in his soul. The color could not be uprooted, so deeply was it entrenched in the muddy soil of his past life, thriving in the darkness that had, and maybe still now, consumed him, and growing to be a creeper so large and thorny that he was caged inside of it, perhaps inescapably.

Percy Weasley is doing what he must to protect what is left of his family, even if it means betraying Harry Potter

Everyone has skeletons in their closet, and perhaps Professor Snape has a few more then most people. This is the story of Severus Snape and the past that haunts him.

Because of him, Sirius had died… Or had he? What exactly does the veil do? However, he most certainly would never see Sirius again, and Harry wasn’t about to let anything like that happen again.

At the final battle, a grief-stricken Snape looks back over his relationship with Lucius Malfoy.

An eerie, nagging feeling comes to light as her day progresses.

We all have an element that we are most at home with. Even to the day of our final rest.

It's the seventh year at Hogwarts. Several students are missing, but there are others that will pick up the slack. Particularly in Slytherin.

"Nobody else did this penance to the dead. It was the price he paid for living still. " Long after the war is over Harry still remembers them.

A night that comes and passes every year is back again, at a time when age has stolen them away. The past plays a part as time ticks.``"She seated herself between them, the fabric of each of their tight-fitting clothes touching. She gripped Ron's elbow and kissed Harry's cheek, as the quiet bells of the old Grandfather clock struck and the Witching Hour ticked into place."

Just a little songfic to Evanescence's song "Haunted." Harry reflects on the day after The Last Battle.

Sirius is acting strangely and Remus tries to pretend it isn't happening... until events force him to confront what's going on. Remus/Sirius.

In frightening war times, when you’re longing for comfort, you would never believe where you would find it... This is a story about a woman who decides that she has got to live carpe diem, even in war times! It’s a quite unexpected pairing ;-)

Harry saves Sev's life, but when Minerva asks Severus to postpone the Quidditch match for Harry's sake, it causes the two colleagues to put up a fight in front of the whole school. Who can bring them to reason, and who saves them from Poppy? Completely AU.

Hermione's been broken, and Ernie can't fix her.

The war is finally over, but at a terrible cost. Can Ginny Wealey do something about one of it's victims?

Hermione is noticing that Harry slouches as he works on his Potions, and she watches. I guess it's another in my series of dark monologues.

The Dark Lord has a rendezvous to meet... With whom?

Tears, he was told, were signs of weakness. And that was not the path they wanted for him... Yet they never did know what path he wanted for himself. And finally now, they would learn about, from his letter to "no one in particular"

Every head in the Slytherin common room turned when they heard the tell-tale crack of knuckle against bone. Draco stood before the entrance portal that led to the hall, a bloody fist clenched, arm shaking as he stared down at Blaise Zabini. The boy was on the floor, trying to hold back the blood dripping from his nose.

It was finally here. The Second War. The fight between good and evil. Harry thought he had been prepared for this, but the echoing words of his prophecy filled his mind. ...and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... He let out an involuntary shudder, his heart beating in the back of his throat. Pre-HBP.

Lucius has been planning his Ministry take over for years. His plans never fail.

Her biggest fear is knowing that she wouldn't change a single thing. *femslash*

After her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Ginny Weasley is plagued by nightmares.

One night Tonks finds herself in a strange place and she's not alone.