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Minerva McGonagall watches the Sorting of 1971, and sees choices. AU.

: It’s a story of two strangers. They thought that love at first sight didn’t exist. Then why did it feel so right? Who was she? And will they ever see each other again? Maybe it will turn out alright for strangers in the night… AU! D\G one-shot songfic.

Sirius faced me, placing his hand on my shoulder. “I’m leaving for a very long time. And I don’t plan on coming back to see that miserable old hag that calls herself our mother ever again.” The story of the day Sirius Black left number twelve Grimmauld Place through the eyes of Regulus Black. One shot.

It had all pretty much gone downhill since he'd graduated from Hogwarts. Who would really want to spend their life with a poor old werewolf? It didn't matter anymore... nothing did... there was nothing that would change. Remus/Lily. Songfic to 'Paradise'

Draco has been visiting Harry's grave since he died. He is sorry, so sorry that it wasn't he who died instead. ````Can Harry comfort him from beyond?

Just a couple of weeks after so-and-so's death, Harry is back living with the Dursleys, and thoughts of what have happened since his time at Hogwarts begin to sink in before he begins his sixth year.

What if you've spent most of your life fighting something, and you finally win? Ginny offers words of wisdom, and Harry discovers that there's more to life than Voldemort.

Remus is practicing spells one day when Sirius comes in with a red face and hidden hand.

Narcissa Kent-Malfoy has met many angels in her life. This is her story.

I would sketch people coming by or if I was lucky, the neighbors. My favorite subjects were the occupants of number four.

"She would march through the tangles in the rain and the snow, oblivious of the cold, of the damp, of the pain and blood, missing all the lost beauty and innocence..."

What did Sirius Black do after he gave Hagrid his motorcycle? What was going through his head that night after seeing Lily and James dead on the ground? What did he do to track down Peter? What made him laugh like a maniac?

Remus spends some time in the company of old friends and remembers the good old days as he comes to terms with the present.

Love is a funny thing. It contorts your world entirely. You become it’s prisoner and it rips out your heart, and claims it for it’s own. Then again, it makes things come to focus, heightens your senses, and comforts the soul. It changes you. And when you know that the person you love with all your soul doesn’t feel the same way, you are ruined completely. My name is Colin Creevey...

Regulus finds that Hogwarts is not nearly so great as he'd been lead to believe. He spends most of his time alone and listless, until a chance encounter changes everything.

Snape is settled at Hogwarts, teaching Potions. The war is over and Lupin will never come back.

Department of Mysteries. From detached thoughts, odd memories, and obscure facts, a strange picture is forming: a picture of something completely different... Can it be a key to that ‘kind of the heart of it all’ J.K.Rowling mentioned? Centres on Sirius' falling through the archway; though, is not truly about it.

Things arn't always what they seem, from a certain point of view. Alt. POV, GoF.

"He can’t come back, Harry." I was choking on the words even as I said them. Not wanting to believe them any more than Harry, and hating them for being true. But I had to say them. “He can’t come back because he’s dead.”

This originally was written as a Mother's Day gift to my readers in 2005. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first and probably only story about Snape's infancy. Read, enjoy and review!

Draco returns to the Manor to find it quiet - which is so different from when his father was present. What does Potter have to do with it?

Carry Smith thinks she is an ordinary girl, until one day she discovers she is a witch. This story is the journey trough her first year, all her trials and tribulations, and the prophecy that will change her life.

Percy heads home for Christmas... The house was dark, and appeared as if none had been there for months upon end. Dust was gathered on the window pane, and the weeds had overgrown the already overgrown garden.

Hermione learns the concequences of wandering around 12 Grimmauld Place. Implied Regulus/Hermione.

Narcissa has a problem. No one seems to care, except for Draco. What is behind the problem?

Hogwarts, but not as you know it. Harry, but not as you know him.

Songfic to Hero from the Spider-Man soundtrack. Harry reminisces about his life as a 'hero' and his feelings for a certain someone. Takes place at the beginning of Harry's 7th year.

Parody of songfics and weird pairings. Set to "My Beloved Monster" by the Eels. It's weird and disturbing, just to warn you.

It’s the irony of it all that just really gets me. The irony of the book of life, written by someone long dead; the irony of writing about something beautiful, when there is ugliness all around; the irony of writing about sight, when you are blind. The irony of writing about love, when you can love no more, oh, that’s the greatest of them all, that it is. R/Hr

Minerva McGonagall reflects on her life, both past and present, and wonders if anyone still cares enough to keep the wizarding world safe. And she wonders if anyone still cares about her. What little joy she has left in her life rides on a thin string, and she struggles everyday to keep that string from breaking.

Mrs. Granger takes her daughter for tea the weekend after she returns home from her fifth year of school. Hermione finally lets her parents know what's really going on in the wizarding world.

It doesn't matter if it's real or not, because either way, she believes it, and then the possibility is there. Neville/Luna.

Remus thinks about letters from his past and writes one of his own to Sirius.

This fic is my interpretation of what led up to Umbridge's decision to send the Dementors to Little Whinging in the summer before Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts.

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1

Songfic. James did something horrible, and Lily found out. How can she forgive him, but most of all, how can he forgive himself? Prepare to cry.

Harry Potter is all grown up now and has doubts about his various attempts to bring peace to the wizarding world.

Padma reflects on Parvati, her brother, her mother and father, Mandy Brocklehurst, her former boyfriend, Voldemort, her best friends, and Hogwarts all in a hazy afternoon, during the summer holidays.

He is manipulated and trapped, but his love for her keeps him going...GoyleHermione, DracoHermione

"I remember you," the Dark Lord said. "I remember you, Ginny Weasley."

Hermione and Ron are meant to be together, but will they forever miss their chances to be together? Ron already has, and seems to have given up forever (see my fic A House That Might Have Been). Will Hermione have the courage to voice her feelings for a second time, or will she marry Krum? Sweet companion piece to A House That Might Have Been.

Minerva McGonagall and Xiomara Hooch have been friends for a long time. But how long is a long time? What happens when they meet as young girls? Will two girls who are completely different ever get along?

It's Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts. A long-lost (but not forgotten) potion reappears in the worst possible way, forcing Snape to fight through painful memories in an attempt to redeem himself. From Snape's POV.

She would never do that. She couldn’t. After all, it was him.

Evil did not begin with Lord Voldemort nor will it end with him. Prophets ranging from an ancient priestess to the current Sybill Trelawney foretell a darkness greater than all others. A final, twelfth prophet holds the key to helping Harry and the Order of Phoenix overcome Voldemort and the new reign of darkness-- but where could this missing prophet be?

Hermione has all the answers except for this one. Who does she like better Draco or Ron? Hermione is confused which is new for her, lights explode, tea is drunk, Ron sings, and Draco makes snide remarks, but not necessarily in that order. All in all a fun, light read.

Harry's annual escape from Privet Drive is a bit more harrowing than usual.

Did you ever wonder what Remus Lupin said to that unfortunate man who'd been bitten by the werewolf and was sharing a ward with Arthur Weasley at Christmas in OotP? I did. This story is the result of my wondering.

How do I explain? ``How do I put words to something with no words?``How do I make you understand? ``How do I show you war? ``How can I ever show you death?

A take on Percy's point of view during the events of Christmas in the Half-Blood Prince.

Hermione is in love, and like any good scholar, she is willing to wait for as long as a good thing takes to happen. Percy/Hermione.

She's a witch, she's a witch... How do you know... She turns me into a newt.... Well if the truth be told, the scene really didn't go that way, but Monty Python had to work in our word. Monty Slytherin, however, were free to tell the truth about the Witch.

Nearly Headless Nick is a ghost because he was afraid of death - how about the others? What do the Hogwarts ghosts think about death, their own in particular? Is there any hope for them?

During a snowbound winter, Sirius' desire to protect Remus grows stronger.

How does Molly Weasley really feel about her clock? What tortures has it put her through? Set on the night of the battle at the Ministry of Magic

Set on September 1st, 1971, this ficlet recounts Sirius and Remus' first arrival at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Read about the fears of a young werewolf who longs for acceptance and a pure-blood boy who just wants to find a place where he belongs.

Harry's had a lot to think about over the summer before his fifth year, and for the first time, he puts his thoughts on parchment.``"I guess that writing your feelings out does ease the pain a bit after all."

You realize that the shadow of your father isn't quite as big as you always thought it was supposed to be. You realize that it would be all too easy to step out of it. D/G.

Peter wages a losing battle with his own fear. Set in early 1981.

Companion fic to "How the Lion Became a Weasel" by Starry-eyed Writer.``Ginny blames Harry for Ron's death, and seeks revenge. With the help of shy, quiet Neville, will she reach her goal?

Sequel to 'The Devil You Know'. It is slowly approaching dawn and Harry Potter cannot sleep. An unexpected guest appears with an offer, the answer to all of Harry's problems. How can he possibly refuse, even when the price is everything he has to give?

Inspector Weatherby, witch, comes face-to-face with the masked terrorist known as 'V'. One-shot with a surprise twist.

Gilderoy Lockhart arrives at Hogwarts after three years in St. Mungo's. He has got his memory back, partially atleast. So who does he see in the portrait? And pray tell, why does he fall in love with that person?

"Absence makes the heart grow fungus" - when two people have been forcibly seperated for over a decade, and reunited only briefly before being seperated again, it's not easy to pick up where they left off. Remus/Sirius, during OotP.

Mrs. Norris goes prowling to find students breaking the rules. Unexpectedly, she makes a new friend.

He likes his whiskey. He longs for the strong taste that takes him away from his life, giving him a place to get away. And he finds himself addicted; addicted to what isn't.

Severus picks up a little girl after an attack. Is her happiness due to shock, or is there something else involved?

Ginny has always loved Hermione from afar, but the worst thing about falling in love is hitting the ground.

What's it like for Angelina Johnson to be one of the few black students at Hogwarts? Well, to be honest, she's never given it much thought. After all, there's much more bigotry in the wizarding world against Muggle-borns and half bloods. But after befriending an angry young African American Muggle-born student at the Salem Wizarding Academy in the U.S., Angelina learns an important lesson about her heritage as a black witch.

Will Remus ever forgive the perpetually young Flora for breaking his heart?

After the war, all Theodore Nott has left is his childhood home and a ghost that won't let him forget.

This is a story of a girl, Kat Meyers (not American), who has been friends with the gang for all their years of Hogwarts. Over the summer before fourth year, something happened to make the outgoing girl stop talking and smiling and being the friend Harry used to know. What's happened and what's with the pointe shoes? Could it be something to do with Voldemort? Is Harry really the only one Voldemort's after?

Harry and Remus write to Sirius after his death. Slightly AU? The two most important people in Sirius's life try to gain some closure that might not come. Story starts strange but a plot soon emerges.

A songfic to Mandy Moore's 'Cry.' Draco has a change of heart and makes a life altering decision during a heart to heart conversation with Ginny.

Remember when Harry and Malfoy first became enemies? How Malfoy asked Harry to join his side? What ``if Harry did?

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.

A sequel to Painful Decisions, we see how Draco has coped with Harry's death.

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.

George merely looked at her blankly. "I'm waiting," he said neutrally, "for Hermione to come back and tell me what the hell a harvest moon is." George remembers a moment, the most important moments, shared with Hermione under the harvest moon. Geore/Hermione

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

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.

Remus has something to tell Minerva, and it can't wait until morning! What could it be? MM/RL fluff.

Ginny feels like a ghost.

"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.

Hermione pauses every time she uses the Time Turner.

"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.

A 23 yr.old Hermione Granger sharing a flat with Ginny Weasley is your typical modern woman. But just like any typical modern woman, she has her own share of lovelife problems. How will she get out being stuck in lovelife LIMBO? H/HR!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The war has ended as quickly as it began. But who is the hero of this unlikely story? Nobody that you'd ever guess. And what happens when our hero finds a certain red-head alone in a compartment on the ride home from Hogwarts?

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.

Severus starts regretting a past mistake.

"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...

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.

"Armando Dippet had never fallen out of a chair before. But that day he did. He slipped right out of it and onto the floor." (Armando Dippet/Professor Kettleburn.) Written for the Overlooked and Obscure Characters Ficathon.