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Fear gives way to pride - pride to rashness - and rashness to regret. Some things are better left unspoken; some dreams are better left undreamt. When learned the hard way, only time can bring it back to a shadow of what once was beautiful... and sometimes, we also learn, the price to pay for catharsis and redemption is far too high.

Draco reflects on his affair with Hermione when she tells him that she's leaving.

Draco fancies Ginny and Ginny fancies Draco, only they don't know it. Both of them think that each one hates the other but oh how wrong they both are. [Complete]

Fear is something the Malfoy family does not believe exists. But Draco knows better...he knows what his father fears. He knows what the Death Eaters fear...but the one question that remains..is what does Severus Snape fear?

Ollivander/Rowena drama, romance and angst! Includes the founding of Hogwarts, the creation of the Chamber of Secrets, passionate love, grand battles and much more! This is how it all begins.

The War is over. Harry seeks to find meaning behind a sacrifice that was made, and Ginny helps to find that meaning. Afterwards, Harry changes his point of view about Ginny.

Ginny Weasley was found today in one of the most tragic deaths in history. She died burning inside Phoenix Crypt. It seems that, after blowing the entire wall out, and emptying every single coffin of its inhabitant, she poured kerosene atop all of the bodies as well as her own, lit them all on fire, and flung herself onto the piled bodies of her twelve children and husband...

Harry, Ron and Hermione are celebrating the end of their N.E.W.T. exams in The Three Broomsticks, along with the rest of their year. The drinks are flowing and the fun commences with drinking games, emotional singing and friendly groping galore...

I once knew someone like you. Such a model student, grades always high, always polite, ever the gentleman. Vulnerable eyes.````People trusted him too much, overlooked his flaws. ````His name was Tom Riddle. And you are very much like him.

It seems to be a general belief that there are other worlds, and that death can be a doorway into these. It is in such a world, a world for which death is often a doorway, that Severus Snape finds himself in after he is killed. Crossover with Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series, which is based on Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".

[Crossover with Gundam Wing] A mission that should have ended in their deaths instead sends five teenage ex-terrorists six hundred years in the past. Can they overcome their inherent distrust fast enough to help seven equally scarred children save the world a third time? 2+5, 3x4, 4xD, possibly 1x2x5, other pairings undecided

'Death. Black Death. Death all around now, good death and bad. The war is because of so much. So many. And the boy, him too. It's all because of the boy.' War touches everything, and the struggles to survive can be so much more painful than death itself.

Harry, in a fit of desperation and a thirst for knowledge, goes to Dumbledore's bedroom in the middle of the night to inquire him about a city's name.

Funny how they all ended up together again.

Lily, after Snape's worst memory. What was she thinking? Who did she stomp off to? And will she consider dating the Giant Squid?

Ginny knows exactly what she's doing.

A/U. Remus arrives at the scene after the attack on Godric's Hollow. Lily is dead, James is near death and Harry by some miracle has survived. Sirius arrives and in the ensuing confrontation attacks Remus and takes Harry. When help arrives James is rushed to St Mungo's, leaving a distraught Remus to cope with what has happened.

Set during the war. Ginny is sent to North America for her safety. Ginny/Draco.

Kagome was, to begin with, a not normal girl, living in a not normal time. But throw in two parts vampire slayer and three parts wizarding world, her life will be as not normal as it is possible to be. An action adventure crossover romance featuring characters from Inuyasha, Buffy AND the everlastingly lovable Harry Potter.

It's a tale of sex, crime, conspiracy and violence. No longer the Wizarding World's Golden Boy, Harry Potter is a disillusioned Auror, hiding a dark past. When a serial killer begins preying on London citizens and leaving a trail of macabre clues in their wake, Harry finds himself drawn into a web of deceit and betrayal that will force him to confront his secret past... or risk losing everything that he holds dear.

They say the truth will set you free... but do you want to be? They say that memories are the diary we all carry about with us... what a coincidence. They say that time flies... but in which direction? Part I of the Yesterday Sequence.

When both Pansy and Hermione claim that Draco has fathered their unborn child, he and his attorney launch an investigation into the claims, and as always, hilarity ensues, with some startling revelations along the way. D/Hr, D/P, R/Hr, P/B, H/M

Two women, a generation apart, seek asylum from the least likely of sources. How their request is handled greatly differs, and yet, Petunia cannot help but to think of the same person each time.

"They all agreed screaming was about the only reaction possible." Challenge: SS/HG including Snape in a feather boa.

WARNING: OC Abundance. No one expected the end of October in 1981 to be any calmer than the rest of the year had been. Just, no one had expected James and Lily to die either, so who knows.

Lily Potter sits and watches her son at night, but nothing she does can comfort him now.

He used to care for her. She used to be strong. Now he's a routine she can't fight and no longer cares to.

After the war, Hermione ponders why Ginny is weeping over someone else’s grave instead of Ron or Harry’s. Draco-Ginny, mentioned Harry-Hermione

In Harry Potter's sixth year, there is more to worry about than who is the new DaDA teacher. There are arising relationships that might be displeasing to another and minds aren't always whole. There are even people coming back to haunt when they aren't wanted. R/D slash!

Seventh year, Ronald Weasley stumbles into a mysterious pensieve. How will Luna Lovegood feel,when she discovers out her true past? A rather interesting take on Luna's background, enjoy.

What if it was discovered that Harry isn't an only child, and his only sibling has fallen into the wrong company? Harry has always been good at being the hero, saving everyone who needs help, but what happens when he can't save them, when the one person who needs saving is him. What happens when he wants to fight back, but if he does he's risking family? What happens when water becomes thicker blood? What happens when he meets his pathological enemy?

After the Yule Ball in her third year, Ginny begins dating Michael Corner. Of course, there's always Harry Potter to consider. Can she move on, or is there a part of her that is forever Harry's? One-shot songfic to Dido's White Flag

There is a piano in the Shrieking Shack. Remus thinks it was Dumbledore’s idea. It definitely wasn’t his.

Companion fic to Facing. After Sirius's death, Remus visits the veil the way another might visit a grave. “I don’t expect anything. If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the course of my life it’s that a person’s expectations are liable to fall flat. However, knowing your godfather, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s managed to somehow defy everyone else’s expectations for a final time.” And Sirius is in essence defiant. Not a resurrection fic.

During Prisoner of Azkaban, Ginny and Hermione became friends. The catalyst was an event familiar to all witches and women.

Post-OotP. Remus reflects; Harry vents. They make a promise and find a little bit of peace.

Pansy tells exactly why Draco "puts up" with her.

Songfic to Vanessa Carlton's "Twilight". Get the tissues ready, it's a real tear-jerker. Very sad romance between Draco and--well, I'll leave it to you to guess.

“Why don’t you stay here with me and sleep in my bed tonight?” “You have never offered that before.” “Well…I never knew you couldn’t get back to sleep.” “Do you think it will help me?” “It couldn’t hurt, could it?” “Okay then. Well…Goodnight, Harry.” “Good night, Ron.”

Hedwig has died and Harry, at twenty six, is left alone. So what will happen to Harry? Will he be alone forever? (You bet he won't) A fluffy one-shot about Harry and Hermione getting together.

The tears that cling to her eyelashes are the only things he sees as his mind flashes back to that day inside the library, and the sound she had made deep in her throat. Not a day has gone by since then that he hasn't watched her, dreamed of her, been haunted by her. Ghosts are merely spirits that have yet to cross over. It is time for her to move on.

Harry asks Hermione a question that she isn't prepared to answer. When she finally comes up with one, is it too late?

In the Christmas holidays Draco discovers a fellow student held captive in his home.

Love is annihilation. [Remus/Sirius, post-OotP.]

After his capture at the Ministry of Magic and incarceration at Azkaban prison, Lucius Malfoy readies himself to receive the Dementor’s Kiss in punishment for his crimes. But will a desperate attempt at escape allow him to evade the Ministry Aurors and flee back to his home and safety?

Moravius Krubb's first year is off to a rocky start. It would help if Potter and Longbottom didn't make fun of his accent (and everything else). It would help if his head of house didn't hate him. It would help if he somehow hadn't himself to weird Horace Slughorn or tomboyish Serena Yaxley. Unfortunately for Moravius, he'll have to make do with what he's got. Fortunately for Moravius, he has a lot more cunning than some people give him credit for!

Four friends, torn apart by a secret. He knows the truth, she's still alone, he's been kept in the dark, and she's still in Azkaban, ready to end it all. Accept it or refuse it, it's up to them, but its two minutes until sunrise, and it's time to make a choice - Second story in the 'Time Trilogy' and sequel to 'A Long Way Past Midnight'.

The events just prior to Sirius' fall through the veil. His final thoughts and his last courageous stand against the Death Eaters. The demise of one of the last Marauders.

Lisa Turpin finds herself falling for a certain Slytherin, and must learn that sometimes the question isn't "how".

Sirius had always hated rain.

Hermione Granger has just died, and Ginny Weasley is asked to say a speech about her at her funeral and talk about a key event in Hermione's life. Ginny chooses the death of Harry Potter. Touching fic.

After a break-up, Hermione ends up at Harry's flat. Well, somewhat.

Some things are just forbidden. Like Ginny falling for a Slytherin, for example. What would her friends say? Well, they'd start by telling her to not write notes in class...

People often ask her why she stayed with him? Most just assume he must've threatened her or had her under a spell. But what if the story was completely different. A long awaited interview with Narcissa Malfoy, thirty years after the war on her relationship with Lucius.

They ask me why I smile, why I try to hide the pain. They ask me all the time. But I wonder why they even care. They never did before.

A songfic (and an oxymoron) Remus walks alone in London

The cup was Helga Hufflepuff's most treasured possession. But how did she come to own it?

At an unknown time in the future, a young man stands at a gravesite, mourning the love that killed him to acknowledge, and that killed him to lose.

His life is merely a game; entertainment for his father. He's one team, Lucius is the opposing side. His girlfriend, Pansy, is playing for both sides, so she doesn't care who wins or loses. However, time is running out, and how they play doesn't matter too much; Voldemort may make the final call.

Believing Harry to be dead, Ron moves to the States to start over.

Ginny walks with dark memories that haunt her. She can't forget him. She loves him and nothing can take that away, even if he is gone. He is with her everywhere. In the faces that she sees, the voices that she hears and the skin that she touches. It is all him, even in the face of her new lover, Draco

AU Left on the Dursleys' doorstep, Harry is kidnapped by Moody and taken to a better home. However, misfortune follows him wherever he goes and he is soon at an orphanage, ostracized and alone...that is, until he's adopted by Nicholas Flamel.

"It is so very fragile, this final splintering of life, so tremulous and slow that it seems that the whole world is slowing down for a few minutes to give Draco Malfoy an extended swan song." Slash, Draco/Neville

Brown eyes staring——hair cascading——black blood pouring——stained rope pulling——bare neck snapping——frail heart breaking.

Even though Ginny is almost fifteen, she is still haunted by the memory of Tom Riddle. He comes to her in her dreams asking her to save him, keep him alive, and then disappearing into thin air. Her dreams become reality as she begins to see him in the faces of strangers and even close friends. Can these people help pull Ginny out of the depths of dispair? Or will she give up and let the evil overtake her?

"Dudley's gang had been chasing him as usual when, as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, he was sitting on the chimney. ...All he'd been trying to do was jump behind the trashcans. Harry supposed the wind must have caught him mid-jump." (SS/PS, 25, American Edition)

What do you get when you mix the Marauders with a great prank idea, a spell book, rabid squirrels, and a dandelion?

Draco reflects on his sixth year: his mother's faith in him, The Dark Lord's assignment, Bellatrix's assistance, and Snape's interference. Written for the 2006 springtime_gen gift exchange on LiveJournal.

Mistakes are always made and many have colossal consequences. One family blindly pledged their allegiance to Lord Voldemort and are facing the penalties that followed his downfall. If only Narcissa Malfoy followed her instincts and didn’t let her sister and husband persuade her into a life of darkness, things wouldn’t have turned out so wrong.

The very first of The Very Pointless and Hopefully Humorous Stories of Harry Potter to be made available to the general public.

Ambiguities made her think, made her muse, and musing allowed her to forget. Sometimes, all she needed was to forget. Written pre-HBP, Harry/Hermione.

Had Sirius Black not lost been in a foul temper on the night December 23, 1980, Neville might have normal parents. But none of that would have mattered had Peter Pettigrew not attended Mr. Jugson's Christmas party as a spy, flirted with Bellatrix, and found that he liked sitting on the top of the fence. Flattery and alchol do wonders, but even mice have pride. One-shot.

Ginny was the filthy one. (Ginny/Tom, Tom/Draco, Draco/Ginny)

Inspired by the song "Mary, Did You Know?" I heard the song while at a celebration, and I got visions of this piece. It's Christmas, post-war at Hogwarts. Harry has defeated Voldemort only days prior, and most of the school had to stay for Christmas holiday for safety reasons. Lily, did you know...?

Lucius Malfoy devises the most evil, dastardly plan ever to be devised by anyone! His mission: capture Cornelius Fudge and carry out said evil plan. Will he succeed? Or will Cornelius Fudge elude him?

Hogwarts is feeling pretty average. No murder convicts, no scary teachers (or are there?), no Voldemort posing threats. But Voldemort is only seconds to the most feared woman on Earth!

The Sorting Hat is bored. Always was, always is, always will be. A few years ago though, someone came. This is The Philosopher's Stone and The Chamber of Secrets from the Sorting Hat's point of view.

What cruelties can the world impose on two teenagers? And how dark can their lives really become? Draco/Ginny one-shot.

Hermione looks back at life after and near the end of the War and remembers that there was only one promise that Harry couldn't keep in his life, OF his life. One-shot fic.

A first-year asks Harry to deliver a note. Little Harry knew what was in store for him...

"Becca, he says they've got the best potion master in the world and he could easily help her, the Dark Lord need only ask it. And he'd do it for free. Becca, it's the best chance for her." He grew quiet. "The only chance for her. If I'm right..." He didn't finish his sentence. When faced with the loss of his child...a man will do anything to save the infant's life...even join up with the wrong side.

"Forbidden fruit is sweetest." The temptation is always strong when one discovers knowledge that they should not see. And not everyone denies the sweetest of all fruits ... Some embrace it hungrily.

'Tom Riddle had always been as his name proclaimed him; a human riddle, a walking, talking, living, breathing enigma.' A young Minerva McGonagall reflects on her former classmate and wonders what she's supposed to think of him now.

An odd little tale about what happens when little Colin Creevey becomes completely and utterly bored. Filled with secret rendezvous, petty bickering, experimentation, and tipsy professors.

Songfic set to Pat Benatar's Fire and Ice. Ginny has seen Draco go through so many girls, wishing he'd only be loyal to one--her. But when he sets his sights on her, will she let him have her or play hard to get?

A day in the life of a typical wizarding family during the First War, when Voldemort paralyzed Britain with fear and every day was borrowed time.

Darn Harry has messed up Draco's life once again! He has even gotten in trouble with the Headmaster. His punishment... ART THERAPY! (Co-author: Marrietta Malfoy.)

In the midst of a raging war, Ginny Weasley reclaims the boy she has always loved.

It's Harry's sixth year and he returns to Hogwarts with renewed intentions of defeating Voldemort and gaining vengeance for the death of his godfather. But there's a traitor in his midst and a new and nasty curse isn't going to make it easy for Harry. Only certain pairing for now is R/H. Large doses of Draco Malfoy and smatterings of Percy Weasley.

What would you do if you had a perfectly happy life and it was suddenly torn apart? If your brother ends up with the only deadly ailment not curable by magic? If your sister attempted suicide? This is the life story four Hogwarts-going quadruplets.

Neville brings his parents to stay with him at Hogwarts, and Alice Longbottom begins wandering the corridors.

There is a mystery that Harry needs to solve- but the answer lies hidden in the past,lying in wait amongst the memories of times past that could hold the answer for everything Harry needs to know.

Set after the great war, Ron and Hermione have a chance meeting at a cafe. Will they be able to confide thier feelings for each other or will they let another opportunity pass them by?

Harry comes to stay at the Burrow the summer between Ginny's 4th and 5th years. After a Quidditch-related incident, Ginny realizes that she can get Harry's attention, and maybe even cheer him up a bit, by putting herself in danger. At first, her plan seems to be working, but when she has to resort to more and more dangerous acts, both she and Harry will have to face their greatest fears head on...

Sticks and Stones can break your bones but words can never hurt you...right?

In the beginning, there was depression. On a journey, there was friendship. And through the battle, they stuck together. This is their story.

Hermione Granger is very good at noticing. She always has been. Only now, she's noticed something more important than Christmas presents...

Songfic. Harry reflects as he mourns the suicidal passing of a friend. Based on a song by Caedmon’s Call.

Harry returns to Hogwarts, the scene of the last showdown between himself and Voldemort, and recounts how he lost the only people who meant anything to him.

Of the heroes and demons we create from other people. Ginny Weasley traverses cloudy frontiers and encounters diaries, beanstalks, and clenched fingers on a Hogsmeade afternoon.