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"It hurt to remember, but it would hurt even more to forget." Slight Remus/Sirius, post-OotP.

Rosmerta works at that pub day in and day out. No one knows the grief that she feels. But you'll soon find out.

I push back the fear that always comes with meeting your gaze, push back the fear that you will remember that I am your enemy, the spawn of he who destroyed all that you loved and possessed with one blow. Your wand is no more, your lightning bolt scar faded, glasses no more accentuating your emerald eyes, your heroism, the beacon of light you represent, gone with your trademark. Everything has been taken from you, all is hopeless, the world is lost and has changed, transformed to live without you, and yet here I stand, your only visitor in this asylum, wondering if I dare to touch you and try and change something within you that I am not sure exists anymore: your heart.

In another life, Regulus and Sirius are friends as well as brothers, watching each other's backs, and fighting to keep each other alive in a world at war. Written for the Alternate Universe 100 community on LJ.

A dull evening in a gloomy village pub in Sweden is interrupted by a very special girl.

Coralie Roberts is a nineyear old Muggle. She is a witness to the horrific scenes in the camp during the Quidditch World Cup. This is her lost diary. Set during GoF. Oneshot

In your eye lie the dawn and the dusk; Your scents are those of a stormy evening; Your kisses are a philter, your mouth a bottle Who make heroes weak, and children brave. Did you rise from the dark abyss, or fall from the stars? - Charles Baudelaire Daphne Greengrass is standing at the end of a fading bloodline. Theodore Nott has never known anything else than prestige and wealth. Two very different Slytherins cross paths as the Second War begins, and their lives turn to shambles.

One night will always be remembered in the world of Harry Potter. There was one night that started it all --- a Dark Lord was defeated, a friendship was broken, and a child was left an orphan, yet hailed as a hero at the same time. The night of All Hallow's Eve is recounted once again in this tale.

During his sixth year, Draco Malfoy hears a voice in his head. He doesn't know who is talking to him, nor how to stop them. The voice seems to know everything he does... who is she?

Madeline Aborath is a direct descendant of Godric Gryffindor who wants no part in the war against Voldemort. Instead, she is out to obtain what she believes is hers. The Treasures of the Founders. However, will her quest interrupt that of the Trio's?

Can people who aren't ordinary after a war still have an ordinary day? Hermione is trying to find out.

A first year, (not any of our regular characters, just a character) gives the account of his first trip to Kings Cross.

Arthur pays his distanced son a visit, with saddening results. Percy is obsessed with his work; he wants nothing to do with his family or his past. Yet there appears to be a justification for his actions, layered beneath an outer display of anger and condescension.

In the year of 2002, Cornelius Fudge retired as Minister of Magic after thirty years of outstanding work and Charlie 'Chuckles' Dented was instated into the esteemed position. Jayden Briggs is a man who condemns all half-breeds only because they are different from what God intended. Marcus Flint and Percy Weasley are stuck in the middle. A satire on society.

An alien female elf tempts the Marauders and their shadowy companion. Cross-over with "Elfquest" during "Dreamtime".

Looking into the past helps them forget about the future.

I haven’t been here before. I’ve never had a chance.``But I had to come. There isn’t anything here anymore. The house was destroyed. But I walk over to it. It’s just a vacant lot. -- Harry visits where his parent's house used to be, and remembers...

So. London. A town full of people and life and a thousand strange tales, and a place to be when days suddenly became too empty. With Hogwarts closed and without even the pretence of friendship that was offered there, Luna left for the capital with few hopes and fewer expectations. But it was a little bit closer to everything, and there was a slightly bigger chance of having news of Ronald, Hermione and Harry. Most importantly, it was less lonely when there was something she could open her window to.

It's the summer after OotP, just before school starts again. Ron struggles to deal with his feelings surrounding Sirius' death.

Dolores was always the unwanted, unattractive child among a beautiful family.

The night of Draco's initiation has arrived.

Harry looks into a Pensieve and discovers Luna was tortured during her stay at Malfoy Manor. He decides to make it up to her.

It's been said that if walls could talk they would tell stories. What would the walls of Godric's Hollow say about the night Lily and James were murdered?

She remembers a sweeter time. A time when she was whole. Then came the darknes and with the darkness went her soul.

What if Tom Riddle himself isn't really evil? What if he had made a mistake that had led to Voldemort's rising?

Dumbledore sits, surrounded by many, and contimplates the meaning of Fate. And yet a fear is growing inside him...````He fears the very worst. Has Fate come to take away the Boy-Who-Lived?

Hermione Granger couldn't remember why, but the phenomenon of cutting and cutters had fascinated her as a child. She supposed there was always some smidgen of depression hiding deep in her soul. Maybe that was why she had to be so perfect in school. Maybe she was overcompensating for feelings of emptiness inside. She never wanted to know, so she never asked herself.

This is a Canada fic. Cassy is a first year in Canada who finds out she has secret powers of apparation.

After being left in tears from another row with Ron, Hermione resorts to drastic measures. Will anyone save her before it's too late?

The-Boy-Who-Lived and The-Girl-Who-Shined lived a lie until their seemingly perfect little world was flipped upside-down by one event: the death of Ginny Weasley.

Harry misses Lily most on Mother's Day

"It's too late"... Remus looks over some memoirs... A story of mourning, grief, unrequited love, and a letter that came 16 years too late.

During his seventh year, after the final battle, Seamus sits with his girlfriend and has plenty of time to think about what has happened to him, her, and their friends.

The Samuriess are an intense cult that faded out in early history-or so everyone thinks. For thousands of years they have been waiting, and they have chosen this age to return. And they want Ginny Weasley for a warrioress...

Prequel to Twelve Years Later

Tied for first. Oh, my God. Dad is so not going to be happy with me. ``````A short fic exploring what Cedric might've been thinking before the third task.

We all know (or should know) that Peter told You Know Who where Lily and James and Harry were hiding. But, have we ever heard the whole story? Peter saved his own life rather than protecting others, but learn what transpired between You Know Who and Peter that night.

A quick venture into the mind of one Draco Malfoy, aged seventeen. Homicidal? No. Suicidal? No. Sadistic? Definitely.

Hermione is going home from Hogwarts. She thinks about the Department of Mysteries and how Harry must feel. One shot on how Hermione interprets Harry's feelings.

Bellatrix is staying at the Riddle House with her husband and stays up one night to do some thinking.

Ginny Weasley has a secret with silver hair and a Dark Mark. No one knows, except her fiancee.

Remus Lupin lives a fairy tale. But he knows that only the modern ones have a happily ever after. Remus/Sirius

"Good-bye Mummy.... Good-bye Daddy.... I think my heart beat is slowing down. Oh yes.... It’s coming.... Good-bye world...." Pansy/??

Draco Malfoy is always upholding his perfect facade. But all that changes when he met one Virginia Weasley... his love... his hate.

This is a glimpse into the life of Joy. When best friend Cay tells her that her prince has landed, things will start to get very interesting...

This is the story of the boy James Freyler, who grew up with his oppressive father, struggling to win his fathers pride and trust. Follow James in his adventures at Hogwarts, and see how he battles with dangerous creatures, and makes new friends!

In 1971, twins Eve and Evan De'Malikar were in their sixth year at Hogwarts. That same year, Eve was bitten and changed by a vampire. For nine years, Evan struggles with his sister’s Vampirism. Then, The Dark Lord promises him an escape. When the web of lies is undone, only one man can help them. As the new co-DADA teachers, they must juggle Eve's vampirism, students, spying for the order, Evan's romance with Severus Snape, and that idiot Trelawney.

Remus thinks of what could have been. (Severus/Remus, Sirius/Remus)

Some people get given everything. Others have to take what they want. Rita Skeeter has to make a choice.

"Remember me, the boy that you rescued from despair, then cast back to the shadows." With Harry gone, can Draco escape the darkness that is his birthright?

Hannah Abbot's life is shattered when she receives the news of her mother's death, but can anyone help to come to terms with her grief?

Goodbye always seems to be the hardest word. Harry Potter reflects by dawn's early light.

“I do not know where this path leads. I am simply following the signs.” “Signs? Like the Virgin Mary appearing in a burrito?” “No. Not at all.” A look inside Severus's twisted mind on the night after the the Department of Mysteries fiasco. A song fic to Boulevard of Broken dreams, by Green Day.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh. First of the Sondheim songfic series.

Burning with zealous fire, she walks in time to the drum of her god, the drum that beats within her.

The Golden Trio seemed destined to triumph, but nothing said they had to be good. A tale of a dark Trio and of their conquests.

An odd couple - Ginny/Tom. Tom is thinking (gleefully) about ruining Ginny’s life and turning her, his cherie, his cherry, into a stone, his little china doll. This delightful little monologe takes place during CoS and the post-Hogwarts. None, but the Chamber stuff really happened, but Tom can still imagine…

Remus Lupin is leaving school AGAIN and the other boys are suspicious. Will the other boys hurt Remus's feelings with a misplaced accusation? Or will Remus spill his well-kept secret?

"This would be my legacy, what I would leave behind when and if I ever had the misfortune to die." Tom Riddle reflects on his making-and-breaking, dearest Virginia, and the attributes of one Lucius Malfoy. Set during CoS, with an interesting take on the relationship between Voldemort and his most trusted servant. Not Slash.

At Sirius' funeral, Remus reflects on what might have been.

Voldemort has been defeated, and as he slowly dies, his life begins to flash before his eyes....

Draco knows he's made a mistake and he's finally gone for help. But is it too late for him to change sides of the Battle?

One decision can make you lose everything. But, nobody ever said you can't try and get it all back. Post-Hogwarts. Songfic to "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne.

The trail is long and winding and Ron finds that he keeps stumbling over small twigs and pebbles. Harry walks steadily ahead of him, looking over his shoulder occasionally to make sure Ron is still there. He smiles and encourages the redhead. Ron stumbles every time Harry smiles. (HP/RW, Character Death)

A response to a challenge on the Bunnies Board - Draco comforts Ginny, but must be in slimy Draco character.

Years after Voldemort's downfall and Harry's disappearance, Ron is sent to find his old friend. Here is what transpires between the two of them when he succeeds.

"Late at night, she thinks of her." - Molly and Bellatrix remember.

Ron's always been funny about his pets, and with everything happening to his oldest and furriest friend, his third year is shaping up to be the worst of his life.

Tom-centric, AU. Now he reaches the altar, where that very same boy kneels asking for a forgiveness Tom knows he won’t find with his head bowed.

Narcissa mourns the loss of her father.

Reminiscing on times forgotten is becoming my habit now. Never was I to stay in a dark room, in a dark house, waiting impatiently for the next wave of torture, simply to forget what I’d lost. Here I am, rotting without purpose, without dreams or thoughts, my mind blank and disconnected from the rest of the world.

Love pays no heed to reason, rhyme or logic, and Nymphadora Tonks is in love. Remus Lupin is something else entirely. (Remus/Tonks)

It's not always safe to trust people you run into in pubs, but sometimes it's better than family. James and Sirius at eight years old.

After the war he's become someone else. He disregards her like she's nothing. A songfic from the viewpoint of a girl in distress; bet you can't guess who it is! Songfic to Smile Empty Soul's "For You."

This is a companion piece to Alone: Narcissa's Story, from Harry's POV. He's feeling alone and can't quite understand why Draco decided to leave after all they've been through together. Angst and Slash, D/H of course.

"He dreamt of green swirling fog, alive in darkness and blackness so deep it looked like the embodiment of chaos. "````Harry has a dream one night that scares the hell out of him. No Voldemort, no lovey-dovey stuff, more of a spiritual experience. Read it and find out, and while you're at it, reviews are most welcome.

Ginny writes very slowly, shaping each letter with careful precision.

The Story of Rubeus Hagrid.

Once, in his naïve days, he’d read about scars in an old medical book he found in a second hand bookstore. A futile attempt at trying to explain to himself why everyone was so fascinated by his own, famous scar. But that was long ago. His new scars are those of a different kind.

An alternate look at Petunia.

Lucius passes through the Veil and finds himself in a place which isn't death.

Hermione Granger’s dream to fly saved her life. She was left alone with nothing but herself, she’d given up magic and lived her life by a window. A simple dream can lead to so much more…

Tom Riddle visits a seer to glimpse his future and decide which path to follow.

Draco reflects as he says his goodbyes to Malfoy Manor.

Dumbledore's locked Harry and Draco in a dungeon. He's a bright man, that old codger. Of course, if he knows what goes on behind locked doors, he certainly isn't letting on...

What would you do if you had to watch as the only person you ever loved was killed trying to save your life? Minerva's POV. MM/RL Rated for violence and language.

Some things are not meant to be spoken, merely understood and accepted.

Inside the house a man and a woman sat close together, staring out of the second floor window, also watching and listening. The woman held a child close in her arms, clutching him as if his life depended on her constant crooning and kisses on the forehead. The man also reached over every few seconds to touch the child's cheek or smooth down his hair. `` “I can't stand this anymore, James,” the woman whispered.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sits high, overlooking a lake in an isolated part of the countryside. ``At night, the lake looks black in the moonlight, like blood does, and the windows open like eyes with candlelight behind them. From the outside, you can circle the castle and find the windows of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff, but you will not see Slytherin. They are reached through the dungeons. (One scene that embodies exactly what Slytherin House is. Set in the James Potter years. Rated what it is basically because it's a little creepy.)

Ginny likes Draco... Draco is with Pansy... what's a girl to do?

With the war finally over, Molly Weasley sits in the kitchen at Grimmauld Place to greet her family.

In a conversation taking place shortly after the events described in Tom Riddle's diary, Albus Dumbledore, Transfigurations professor, learns that a headmaster must put the school first, but at what cost? Dumbledore must convince Headmaster Dippet to save a student from an undeserved fate while preserving the reputation of the school.

Sequel to Just Before Midnight. Don't really need to read that to understand this fic. Draco sinks. Darkfic.

There was a locket and a note, courtesy of R.A.B. Someone had to have left it there, and something had to have happened to the real Horcrux. Major HBP spoilers and speculation inside.

All his life he'd longed for solitude. Other desires had come and gone; power, fame, fortune, love, respect, some fulfilled and others simply forgotten. The one constant, the dream that had survived through it all, was this.

We know that Sirius Black is gone. What actually happened when Sirius Black fell beyond the veil? Did he really die or did he just go another realm, reality or dimension? Set before end of OoTP, a missing moment. It's my creative take on it.

Pre-DH. Song fic to the song "Butterfly Kisses." Anyone who knows Arthur Weasley knows that he has seven children - six sons and one daughter, Ginny. A story of the lives of Arthur and Ginny, and how Arthur's "little girl" grows up. Not slash!

Draco has a miserable life. Every time he walks around this world, cursing himself about being a Death Eater, he experiences heart pain. The name Harry crosses his mind, but can Harry be enough to save him form this pain? Song from Evanescence. H/D Slash!

Bill Weasley looks back on the day his father left. Oh, don't worry, Arthur never left them. I'm talking about the Weasleys' biological father, Justin Mages. Bill writes a letter to this man, but he has to force himself to remember that horrid day. This is what went on as Bill writes the letter.

A look at Percy Weasley's break from his family, from Percy's point of view. Why Percy might not be as much of a git as we all think.