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Sirius reflects on the war, and worries about those he's supposed to protect. Part of the "Friends and Brothers" AU, set during the same night as "Protecting the Innocent".

Albus Dumbledore takes an interest in whom 17-year-old Severus Snape spends his time with. Gen. One-shot. Written for the As Summer Ends challenge on first_order (LJ).

Cho Chang is very deeply affected by the death of Cedric Diggory, and this story isn't really a novel, just a view into Cho's distraught state of mind after Cedric's death.

Winter came, and with it came the dark. A look at Moody between the first war and the second.

Shaking, she reached out towards his fading figure, her fingers spread, as if to pull in a dream that would never be realized. Merope/Tom, Merope/Marvolo, rated R for incest and implied sexual abuse.

Voldemort is gone, the wizarding world is safe, but Harry Potter wakes up one day to find that it's all been ... a dream?

1979 and 1981. Two Halloween nights, two destinies. James and Lily contemplate the meaning of life and death the night of Harry's conception.

Sirius thinks it amazing how many things go unnoticed.

While on a plane to South America to find Voldemort and the remaining Horcruxes, the trio's plane crashes and they are stuck on a deserted island...The same island Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on! What mysteries await the brave teenagers on this island, and what surprises await them by finding more in themselves? You probably won't understand if you have never seen the show LOST on ABC. Hope you enjoy!

Set in the summer after fourth year, and written before OotP (though edited after), this fic gives a glimpse of Cho Chang following the death of her boyfriend. Tears, fears, guilt and blame, as Cho tries to get a handle on what has happened.

In a battle with Voldemort, Kalli loses one of the most important people in her life. How will she deal with it, without the love of her life?

James has never understood Muggles, and now, hiding with his family, he has to pretend to be one. He doesn't quite like it.

AU. When an illness sweeps the entire world, Sirius must fight to protect the people he cares about as the dead begin to rise. Remus is on the other side of the continent, working desperately to develop a means to put the dead back where they belong. Sirius is trapped in the heart of London with a widower and a group of frightened children. Can they survive until they find one another?

Harry muses on Draco, post-OotP.

On the eve of Harry's election to Minister of Magic, Draco must decide if being with Harry is where he wants to be.

'... many thought he was an attention-seeking little monster. Others gave him a wide berth in the hallways because he was supposedly a raving lunatic. The little boy’s green eyes full of wonder became the young man’s green eyes full of sadness. And worry. And fear.'

As the end of the war approaches, Harry thinks about what little is left of his life and himself that is worth living for. A one-shot first person narrative. Brief, one-sided mention of H/G

One-shot. Wormtail loved his friends. He didn't want to hurt them. And when the pain had subsided, he was only vaguely aware of the Dark Mark burned into his skin...

Stories tend to move in circles; a chilling account of one possible circle, with an important message from Hermione. One-shot

Barty Crouch Sr. reflects on his wife, his son, and the world he has built for himself.

George is left behind after Fred dies in the battle of Hogwarts. In the months to come, he contemplates suicide, why he is the one left behind, and what he should do for his future.

“You want to know that face that you’ve never truly seen. You want to fall into that gleaming, silver gaze. You want him.” Harry sees Draco flying and discovers unknown feelings. Draco/Harry angst

A young witch escapes a tear filled past to America, but a mysterious man continues to haunt her...

The death of the ones we love often kills us from the inside out, and we are haunted by the memory of what was, and by what will never be again.

"No one knew Remus Lupin loved her too." James wasn't the only one to love Lily.

"Always, just after sunset, Ginny watched the butterflies dance..." D/G.

Summer 1980. Two young men meet in a pub in Knockturn Alley. For ten days, their lives are entwined. But when the Dark Mark burns, no one can fight the summons. Regulus/Peter.

Draco Malfoy knew that this day would come, that this moment must pass, yet that did not seem to make it any easier. And now he stands in the centre of a dark room, surrounded by anonymous masked figures, waiting for the inevitable, as a tall and ominous being approaches.

My name is Narcissa Malfoy. I live in an atmosphere of terror and neglect. In the end, what will I choose, to be cold and unfeeling like my husband, or to feel utter pain, just so that I can feel?

Remus's pov on Sirius and the aftermath of his death.

It's cold and wet. A bedraggled figure wanders through the town.

Teenagers Molly and Arthur chat over the Christmas holidays; he tells her a secret from his past that's been hidden away for years. Rated for sensitive issues.

I hate looking into mirrors. I've never liked it. Even as a young girl I would never be able to look directly in the mirror, which is why I use my wand to fix everything.

Sometimes, you are so desperate for changes to happen. Sometimes, you just don't see a way out anymore. Sometimes... desperation will transform the world into a better place.... (T/G)

"To Hermione Granger, life was like a blank piece of parchment—like Transfiguration homework before it was completed—like an essay." The companion to You’re Dead. Hermione knew that Sirius’s death had affected more people than thought. All she could do was help Harry grieve and give him more knowledge. But for once in her life, she didn’t know what to do with Ron. She couldn’t correct him. She couldn’t help him now.

Hermione is dead. At least, emotionally. She has also chosen to let Ron think she loves him, though it is impossible, given her lack of emotion. What happens when the girl must become logic because the boys have enough emotion between them? A look at the points of view of Hermione, Ginny, Harry, and Ron to this situation. Set in the Hogwarts years, written between OOTP and HBP, when we didn't know what was going to happen relationship wise!

Gryffindor isn't the only brave House or the only one to pay the consequences of bravery under the Carrows' regime. (Angst, violence, torture.). Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Neville Longbottom and D.A. Rating: R

Harry has to go back in time to retrieve a Horcrux from Grimmauld Place. But can he really keep from changing future events?

James and Sirius made a promise to Remus; Remus also made a promise. How does this change things if both those promises were broken?

It's amazing what little things can trigger memories and tears. Three people remember a man who meant much to them. A man who died too soon.

The tight circle of trees surround you, moving in. They point their crooked branches at you as if they blame you for the frost that has covered this whole godforsaken place. You killed us, they whisper with their leafless branches, you killed us, like you killed him.

Rachel woke when it was still dark outside her grimy window. She sat up next to the still-sleeping Ian and looked around, confused. Then everything hit her, physically hit her, so that she fell back onto the bed and bit her pillow to stop keep herself from screaming. This fic also goes as a sort of background story to my fic Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House. (If you haven't read RttRH, consider this a sort of trailer, like what makes you want to see the movie.) Very angst-y.

In the aftermath of Voldemort's defeat there comes a time for healing.

After a painful break-up with Draco, Harry tries to be indifferent.

A trivial decision, perhaps ... but Marietta hates the one she made. Now she's stuck studying Arithmancy (I'd blame her mother) while her Ravenclaw peers discuss the Muggle World. Can anything be done?

Judged. Labeled. Levelled. Uniforms turn normal kids into members of their House, while keeping their individual traits out of the way. Hogwarts stole my identity. It's time for me to act against the system.

Slytherins have feelings and loyalties too, you know. Perhaps different from those of the rest of the world, but they’re still there. Pansy listens, thinks, and remembers and re-examines her loyalties. Rather random thoughts. Set after the end of HBP. Slight DM/PP.

How did "the gang" Snape hung out with during his days in Hogwarts all become Death Eaters? How high was their opinion of him?

Hermione talks to Harry about coping with death and learns to let go in the strangest way.

If this is the way dying feels, it's not so bad.

It was the full moon the night that James and Lily had died, and Remus was alone.

The final showdown between Harry and Voldemort. Not everything goes as expected. possible h/s preslash. May be the first of a series.

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity comes to stay with his friend Liam Rhenford in a quiet seaside town, and solves a mystery of the disappearance of an Oriental star ruby...

He wasn't really thinking about it, even as he walked up the pathway to the house.... This part was simple, thoughtless.... Voldemort goes to kill the Potters, never dreaming the fate which awaits him. The first defeat of the Dark Lord, from his point of view.

After the war, Harry ran from the bad memories that haunted him and took refuge in the Muggle world. When he gets a call from a Muggle hospital telling him that a certain Draco Malfoy has been delivered into the Intensive Care Unit, it seems that his peace of mind is at stake as well as Draco's life.

This is an AU fanfic; what if, basically. Don't want to give too much away, but it'll be messy, and plenty of people die. Sorry.

"A year, a salvation of one year for her to gather the child and run. And the child would have to go with her, because she could not leave behind a little girl in this house." Pregnant with Morfin's child, Merope longs to escape to a life with Tom, and a better world for the child she hopes will be a girl.

In the Forbidden Forest, during Goblet of Fire, Barty Crouch Jr. encounters shadows.

What happens to a dream deferred?

A deeper, darker look into the life of the girl we now know as Moaning Myrtle.

'From across the grounds, amidst the throes of battle, Draco felt a feather light brush of lips against his cheek. A blown kiss that he knew could only mean one thing. His beloved was gone.'

During a brief imprisonment in the first war against Voldemort, Andromeda meets another captive who understands her estrangement from her sisters all too well.

After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, and Molly deal with Sirius' passing.

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

Hermione and Ginny have an explosive talk about Harry's horcrux search in which Ginny proves herself to be an airhead and Hermione turns out to be wrong. HBP Spoilers.

Blaise Zabini, a seventh year, has kept a secret for years now. But now that everyone in Slytherin House knows, and now that everyone hates her, what is she to do? Warning: Contains cutting. DM/BZgirl!

I'm dying now and it's not what I thought it would be. It is all the regrets I’ve ever had knocking down the doors of my mind, screaming all the things I should have done. It is all the mistakes I ever made, crying for the apologies I never said.

Set in Harry's second year and Ginny's first when the Chamber of Secrets is opened. Ginny wakes up in the middle of the night with her hands covered in blood, and finds her peace with Harry.

Dudley taught me to run. Run like the angel of hell is behind me, because at five I thought it was and at seventeen it might have been and now...maybe I never learned to stand still.

"I wish you could do magic!" Janie had shouted in a fit of temper. How exactly should a muggle mother respond to her daughter – especially when she wishes the very same thing?

in a midsummer day, a meeting that brings back Tom Riddle's forgotten memories.

Draco has one last chance to reveal his true feelings to Hermione. Will he forgive himself or allow his regret and shame to destroy his possibility for a happy future?

Devastated by Sirius' death in in final battle, Hermione fled Britain, only to discover six years later that he was not dead at all. When he's recently recaptured by the Ministry, Hermione must confront her past to save the man she loves. HG/SB, HG/CD

Cho reflects upon Cedric's death, Harry, and herself. A short one-shot.

Green for serpents and red for lions; green for cunning and red for courage; green for cold stone walls and stiff-backed seats, red for a crackling fire and plush armchairs with velvet covers. Green and red, dead.

Songfic to Standing in the Rain by Billy Talent. Tells the story of Pansy after school. She's sunk to a new low. But Pansy's not your conventional whore.

In the world of magic, cruelty takes on physical incarnations: monsters, dark arts and Voldemort, all terrifyingly real, yet comfortingly separate from the good. But in the world of everyday, non-magical life, evil is much less easy to define. Cruelty and hatred hide beneath the plastic exterior of everday life, and no one is untouched. Take a look at the reality that lies behind the mask, and see for yourself what it really means to be normal.

The psychological murmurings of a terrier-phobe. Vague``spoilers for OotP.

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

After Hogwarts, Ron and Ginny sought employment with Lupin in The Hotel of the Wanderers in Tibet. Ginny still pined for Harry, and felt trapped and stuck in her life. Daniel, an attractive, young, Californian, guitarist and university student visits Lupin seeking help in ridding himself of his lycanthropy. In the process, Ginny learns the universality of heartbreak. (Daniel is a character which most readers should instantly recognise from another source. For those who are fond of cross-overs).

She knew he wasn’t ready, knew he was too young. Yet there was nothing more she could do to keep him from making such a choice. But when he’s given a suicide mission, she does what any mother would do. She makes her decision, and she does it for her son.

How does one become a Quidditch Hero? Trace the inception of Oliver Wood's dreams of glory by meeting the person who inspired it all: his brother.

Some friendships last minor squabbles. These outlasted prejudice, betrayal... even death.

Part 1 of a series. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are heading for Elizabeth City by air...but they have to fly through (dun dun dunnnnn...) Chicago O'Hare. Will they manage to survive...the Layover from Hell?

She didn't laugh anymore. Her tinkling laugh in the morning just because her father had forgotten to shave a spot on his cheek was gone. She didn't smile the way she used to do before it happened either. She didn't behave like she used to before; she wasn't the merry singing little girl she had been before. Before him.

// Funny in a certain light, how we all look the same / And there's no one in life you can remember ever stood for you, so / Shame // Draco remembers. And hurts.

In a post-war world of imperfections Ron copes with the ambiguities of doing what needs to be done. Draco becomes a problem. Non-graphical references to torture and death. Mention to Ron/Hermione, Ron/Snape, and Ron/Draco.

There is a motive behind every action, no matter how big or small. What was Peter Pettigrew's the night he betrayed the Potters?

"To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die." ~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground (st. 6).

Am I really a hero? That's what they tell me. They say I'm a hero, a savior, but I'm not. I am survivor. I'll tell you who the real heroes are, because they aren't here anymore. They are the heroes.

Alicia's going through some tough times, but who will stop her when she decides to end it all? Mild George/Alicia. Rated for suicide themes.

Tonks arrives at Grimmauld Place with a full heart... and leaves with a broken one. Angsty R/T oneshot. [HBP spoilers]

A boy should never have to pay for his father's mistakes. When a five-year-old Remus refuses to come in for a bath, he gets more than he bargained for....

In the summer of sixth year Voldemort decides it's time to shuffle The-Boy-Who-Lived loose the mortal coil. Unfortunately for Harry the afterlife isn't interested in letting him stick around. Sent back with an unwanted guest in tow and a score to settle, Harry finds himself changed and filled with vengeance. Voldemort told him he'd write the book on "worse things than death" with Harry, now he's back to write the epilogue. A Harry Potter noir fanfiction.

With death comes redemption, but it is all meaningless to a new mother whose days were colorless until a rainbow burst into life across her sky. It is a different kind of love...the kind of love that is all consuming. The kind of love that brings agony. The kind of love that eclipses reason, being, and all life before it. The kind of love that is unconditional. The love for a child.

Ron has a mental rant about Malfoy. Why does he have to be so perfect?``(If you're offended by the words 'bloody', 'hell', or 'bastard', don't read it.)

A chance encounter leads to an unexpected offer. This is a crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I look into the mirror, and I don't recognise the girl staring back at me. It seems to me that I am much older than my birthdays tell me, and I most certainly look it. I can look at other girls my age, and see no reflection of myself in them. I've seen too much. (Hermione, post-war)

Rosalie Edwards thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband and three beautiful daughters, but her husband's secret past is going to turn their entire world upside down. **Written in response to NevilleFan's "The I Heart Muggles" Challenge on HPFF**