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"Happiness and hope are fragile things. They can come as easily as they go and disappear without a reason. They can keep a person hanging on, searching, or they can lead them to their end." The war is over, but a shadow of gloom and despair lingers over the wizarding world. When hope and happiness seem like long-lost concepts, what do you have left? Ginny is content with half-living like everyone else, but a couple encounters with an old enemy may be just what she needs to put the fire back into her life and remind her just what she is missing.

Ginny goes to a Ministry-run bachelorette auction and is won by the person she least suspects-but secretly hoped for.

James and Lily were not the only of Sirius's loved ones killed by his supposed betrayal. And some scars run deeper than flesh wounds ever could. Angst. Sirius/Remus.

Harry's avoiding suffering the long-lasting after-effects of Draco's brutal dump-o-gram by going to a strange dream world through trance. Pairings: H/D, G/Hr.

A British witch who is using unauthorized magic in New Orleans is Draco's new assignment. What happens is a surprise to both of them.

Legends never die. They live in the hearts of others and most importantly through their legacies. Read and find out how Godric and Salazar still live through their heirs- the children of Destiny.... "The heirs - you two - have powers that no human should ever have.... You two are the embodiment of magic, strength, and brains. You could be called the personification of power itself...." Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter are two boys who are totally different but absolutely the same. Find out how they develop an unexpected friendship while trying to deal with their special gifts which are more like curses.

It is always a bad idea to forget your best friend's birthday. It is also a bad idea to remember it. James/Lily.

Percy is unappreciated. And this is a fact.

Harry/Draco slash. The first snow of the year brings Draco to contemplate the parallels between his life and snow after Harry breaks up with him without a reason. Featuring Snow!Draco.

May was living a life she loathed, and no one (except maybe Sirius) seemed to be able to help her out of it.

It's a few years past Hogwarts. The wizarding world is warring with the Dark Lord. Draco and Ginny just got to know one another better. The remaining wizards have been ordered to battle the last fight - including Draco. Will they cope with being seperated? D/G

Blood, death and a Sunday to remember.

It's 1981 and Barty Crouch Jr. is desperate for word from or about Regulus Black. Hint of Barty/Regulus.

The Marauder's summer break is interrupted when an ancient artifact sends them into the far future. There, Europe is ruled by Emperor Voldemort, and they're thrust into an adventure to stop him before that can happen, finding themselves in the process. But they never realized how challenging it would be, that Voldemort's story is more complicated than they thought possible, and the effect that time has on everything.

On the 31st of July, Hermione returns to the places which hold memories so dear as she struggles to deal with the death of someone she loved.

Is it too late to save them?

Draco's always looked out for number one, but a bushy headed Gryffindor, an escalating war, and old secrets long buried but not forgotten make this harder than one would expect.

Once the news of Voldemort's return reaches the wizarding world, Percy reflects on the wrong decision he made a summer ago and the possible love he might have left behind. Post OotP.

Deep in the hidden places of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore watches over a colleague and friend as he plays a dangerous game.

Harry isn’t hungry. Ron and Hermione are worried and Neville’s had better days, too. (Post-OotP.)

What if Harry and the others had never met the Death Eaters at the Ministry of Magic after Harry had his dream? What if they were thrown into the future? How would that change the past...the future?

A single, lonely and newly-fired-from-her-job witch has realized that she has been wasting her life for many years. She meets a man whom she’s sure is a muggle and falls in love, and Remus Lupin thinks that she’s a muggle in turn and they build a relationship based on muggle-dom and secrets.

Remus has loved her for years but has feared rejection. Finally, after a night of dancing and a nudge from Sirius, she responds with an everlasting kiss. As time goes on, her boldness forces Remus to leave his worries and insecurities behind, and he finds he is no longer young and whole. RL/NT OotP

OotP SPOILERS -- Remus deals with loosing his best friend. He then decides not to put up with it, he is determined to bring Sirius back. But at what cost?

All of a sudden, Draco Malfoy having strange, fragmentary dreams - of a drink called absinthe, and a woman who looked like an adult Pansy, all in places he had never been to. He slowly falls for the woman in his dreams, and for the alcoholic drink absinthe.

Alone in his room at 4 Privet Drive, Harry contemplates suicide. But is he really alone?

Ron has been avoiding Hermione since the day in the Burrow. Is there chance she had get his attention again by trying to annoy with with SPEW and Viktor, or has she lost him to another?

In these dark times Harry feels many dark things...

Narcissa and Lucius spend a day outside.

After HBP Harry can understand only how much he aches. And he is not the only one. When Severus abducts Harry from Bill's wedding, he tries to make Harry hear him. Slash. Angstyish.

The feet really are the most important parts of the body.

Christine Potter is getting ready to start her second year at Hogwarts. She hopes it will be a uneventful year, but her chances aren't looking to good, especially after she releases Tom Riddle onto the school.

Their eyes were locked purely on each other, an eternal love for each other binding them together. On the dance floor, no words are needed. H/Hr. Written Post-HBP

Ginny reflects on what rain meant to her, and what she shared with Harry. H/G

Hermione gives the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield. Here is her story. (told in Hermione's P.O.V.)

When Snape's unknown niece joins him at Hogwarts at the begining of the Trio's fifth year, chaos ensues. Thrown in a semi-nice Lucius and an unrelenting Draco on a quest, and fifth year doesn't seem so boring anymore. A/U, Draco/OC

I never asked to be in Hufflepuff, you know.... So begins the anonymous Hufflepuff who has chosen to share with the world the thoughts and views of a Hufflepuff. No longer a "Huffleduffer." It is time the world learned what being a Hufflepuff really means....

After being torn from his lover by the unfair forces of justice, Sirius Black grows to hate everything, including the full moon outside his window. Short, not so sweet one shot fic. Sirius/Remus.

After graduating from Hogwarts, Cho Chang didn't know what to do with her life. She was broke, she was friendless, and her emotions were a mess. She's never been anything but a burden, and her chances to do the right thing slip through her fingers like sand through a sieve. When opportunity stares Cho in the face in the form of the Order of the Phoenix, though, she's willing to risk everything for a chance at self acceptance and her dreams of a better day.

Sequel to "To Scrub a Dirty Toilet", this fic follows Ron and Hermione through their rapidly changing relationship, and there's also a little romance for Harry too.

Harry and Ginny decide to stop fighting their feelings for each other, just in time for Harry's seventh and final year.

Remus is very distraught. He just lost another one of his best friends and he can't get over it. But then, something happens. Something that helps get over his grievances and gives him quite a laugh.

When war is part of your life, consolation is found in the most unexpected of places. A story about the relationship of a student and a teacher.

Five years after the second war, Narcissa visits the grave of a loved one.

When Hogwarts embarks on a production of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" during Lucius Malfoy's seventh year, he finds himself unwillingly cast in the title role and drawn to the quiet and clever -- and therefore, boring -- Narcissa Black. Cameos by Bellatrix Black, various teachers, certain members of MWPP, Severus Snape, the Weasleys, and Lucius's future long hair.

Voldemort finds himself in a rather infuriating position. In order to kill Harry Potter, he has to save him first. That's right, he has to work for his kill, although he gets more than he bargained for.

A look into the life of the Order, and the lives involved in the first war. Their love, their losses, and the trials of their youthful union, parenting and friendships. Not Chronological.

Cho is trying to get over Harry while at the same time trying to breakup with Michael Corner. She might have to look inside of herself to solve the answers to her problems. Post Ootp songfic.

"If I could have foreseen my death, which I was unable to do, thank God, I would have left a letter..."

Imagine a Hogwarts taken over by some musical lover. Is that all it takes for two people destined for each other to find their love? Friends try to convince the lovers to make their move through songs and choreographed choruses. Hogwarts is a mad house. How fun can this be?

Sirius finds himself trapped behind the veil. What will happen to him now?

What is Ron and Hermione's friendship all about?

Harry spends his last weeks at Hogwarts thinking about Draco Malfoy... (Harry/Draco pre-slash, if you squint)

Harry and Hermione are out running from Voldemort in their tent. Harry can't hide his feelings for very long...

Lupin's angst after the final battle in OotP. Slash themes, stream-of-conciousness thoughts.

Perhaps the choice was wrong. There's not always someone around to make a sacrifice.

Draco Malfoy hates everything about Harry. Every single little thing. But hatred, as we all know, sometimes evolves into other feelings.

Bratty, snobbish, and spoilt Bethany Beddarthin is determined to take the wizarding world by storm! But can she, when her rich Muggle parents are already living in fear and loathing of her uncle Thomas, a expatriate of the wizarding world? And is Thomas really a criminal like she’s been told, or in fact something much more sinister? Hogwarts may be the only place she’ll find the answers - if she can survive her first year! Includes the offspring of the Weasleys and the Malfoys, vampires, extremely odd house mates, and a new Dark Lord rising...

Petunia Dursley is just having a normal day, until she sees those bloody green eyes. She then starts thinking back to the little sister she had, and the world that took it all away, and threatens to do so to Harry.

Hermione knows exactly how long it takes a human body to burn.

The war is over, for everyone. Scars run deep, and Harry Potter is dealing with casualties close to heart. But one night he meets a mysterious man who offers him a chance to take back all he has lost, a chance to go back to the night of Godric’s Hollow and rewrite history…

What if the veil wasn’t actually death? What if it were a portal to Germany in the early 1800s? Extremely crazy Sirius/Beethoven slash inspired by Immortal Beloved.

A typical sarcastic Ravenclaw is left in the hospital wing after an... interesting... Quidditch tryout. If only she had someone to talk to.``As long as it wasn't him.

Fred and George Weasley are always laughing. Always happy, they dance through life - and all that see them have to smile. Yet they, like so many others, have been affected by the war. They too had family members that have been lost, they too have been attacked in their home. The difference about the twins is that they won't show it. But there is one young Auror who watches them, wishing they would open up and once - just once - show that that they too are in pain.

A sinister visitor troubles Minister Cornelius Fudge. He has come to bring a warning - one which Fudge has no desire to hear...

Glimpses of war. What it is, what happens, and what do you look for. Harry's half-POV, variating-length angsty (and slashy) bits.

An old warrior and a young one look down on a great city and contemplate war, fear, and humanity. And one of them falls in love.

Hogwarts has its first official "science" fair, of sorts. Includes electricity, Ron doing tea leaf readings, Hermione with blue hair and Parvati's method to Divination, which doesn't really work.

Harry is once again having bad dreams, featuring a girl in ghostly white. Potions class reveals that Draco Malfoy, of all people, is having the exact same dream. Once comparing notes, Draco as well as The Trio are swept away to Paris, France, to the infamous cemetery of the vampires, Les Innocents. Soon they are thrown into a philosophical as well as physical battle against time, God, and the horrors of Les Innocents.

Harry is captured. The world has fallen to Voldemort. Each hour of the night before the day he dies, Draco Malfoy visits his cell to gloat, and discuss the passing days.

Maybe all Draco needs is someone to care. Maybe someone bothers caring and it changes everything, not necessarily for the better.

As Hermione packs for Hogwarts in her seventh year, she remembers the memories in every fold of cloth, every page of every book, every string of every quill pen, and shares them with the reader.

Harry and Draco both go to Auror Training. What happens? Are things different now that both boys are men, or will it be Hogwarts all over again? And will things be better or get worse when they are paired up by an insightful teacher?

Mia Wickham is stunned when she is given a diary holding the “soul” of a teenage boy named Waldemar Schatten. Confused suddenly by things he tells her, Mia returns to her school in Australia to discover their very own dark wizard, The Shadow Lord, is rumoured to be in league with Lord Voldemort, Europe’s most feared wizard. Strange things are soon occurring around the school, and who is that gorgeous, mysterious boy Mia continuously comes across? Waldemar has a secret: and Mia has to find it out.

Petunia Evans had a very different life from the time she was eleven to seventeen, she was as any other magical muggleborn witch growing up during Grindlewalds time was. Except she fell hard for a, well not a, the Dark Lord. "I wasn't always like this, Harry. I once was in love. Now that you are soon going to graduate from Hogwarts I have decided it is time for you to know the truth about me and how I grew up and why I chose to live the life I do. Please forgive me, Harry. I never meant for it to turn out this way."

Ron leads an adventure filled with mystery as Harry and Voldemort both dissapear. Set during the summer before Harry's sixth year, Voldemort's plans are heavily laid out, and everyone will be shocked when a secret about Harry's and Voldemort's wands are revealed! A classic story mixed in with the Potter universe! Full of laughter, love, adventure and cliffhangers! A great read! ~LO

Now I see your face before me; I would launch a thousand ships to bring your heart back to my island as the sand beneath me slips. As I burn up in your presence and I know now how it feels to be weakened like Achilles with you always at my heels.

Eight students from the University of Magic, Heineland, attend an exchange programme to Hogwarts! What will happen...? Revolutionary changes to the owl system? An economic boom? Let's just say... Simple mayhem. (If there's such a thing.) Join the laughter!

"And that blasted song played on--louder and louder, until it drowned out everything else. Louder and louder, until he feared he would go deaf. Until he was sure it was all he would ever hear again. " Remus is haunted by a melody and the ghosts it brings with it. Some RL/NT

Deleted scene from OotP. Hermione needs Luna's help to get Harry's interview published, and winds up getting a little more than she bargained for. Oddball jewelry, song parodies, and R/Hr shippiness abound.

Hedwig observes an emotionally distraught Harry, slight H/Hr.

An account of the events of August 4th-6th, 2075 at Number 12 Grimmauld Place, as written by Grace Markaway, scholar.

Ginny Weasley has long had a 'thing' for Harry Potter. In her fourth year at Hogwarts, things started to look better. Right? An interesting and - hopefully - humorous take on Harry from Ginny's point of view.

The final stand-off between the Order and Voldemort's Circle is at hand. A small slice of the battle and a look at the relationship between Harry and a certain other someone...

Ginny has creative ways of distracting Hermione from her studies. (Hermione/Ginny femmeslash)

Lucius' first instinct was to bow his head and mumble ‘excuse me, father’, but he controlled himself. Those times were over. He wasn’t going to be intimidated by the old bugger, not any longer.' Lucius' father goes one step too far...

"So one day we said 'May the Best Man win' "````It's Ginny Weasley's wedding day, and these are Harry's thoughts/memories on that day. GW/NL

A heroic saga of forbidden love. The Romeo and Juliet of the modern age. It's Harry/Draco... in verse!

The War is about to begin, and Sirius and Harry say goodbye.

Someone stumbles upon two wizards locked in an intimate moment. The scene stirs up long-forgotten feelings of love, wanting, and hatred. The rose garden reveals all.

The Weasley family has been ripped apart by Voldemort's return and the Ministry's blindness. With the truth out, is reconciliation even possible over pride, on both sides?

Almost every late night or early morning, seven year-old Ron hears his parents get into explosive fights. In the morning, they act like nothing happened. But Ron knows - and it's hurting and confusing him because he's the only one that does know. But after witnessing a horrible fight for the first time, Ron explodes and tells his parents everything that they need to know what they're doing to their family - to their home. A rather well-written songfic to Blink 182's "Stay Together For the Kids".

As the sixth year at Hogwarts is about to begin; Draco Malfoy sits and thinks. He thinks about his life, he thinks about school and most of all, he thinks about Harry!

The final stand between Harry and Voldemort is in the hall of the Department of Mysteries. After Remus falls, the children charge Voldemort, and Prophecy is fulfilled. But it isn't the end; the Veil stands as Judge, Jury and Executioner for all. Through it, prices are paid, and one man finds redemption. Not a Sirius-comes-back-from-the-Veil fiction, nor is there any insight as to what is on the other side of the Veil. Contains Major Character Death.

After the events in Order of the Phoenix, Percy takes some time to do some serious thinking. He reflects on his own actions of the past year and makes some changes in the beliefs that he held high over the past year, and reconsiders his unwavering faith in the Ministry of Magic.

During Harry, Ron, and Hermione’s sixth year at Hogwarts, they spend a Christmas at the Burrow. Massive hysteria ensues at the Weasley house, including (but not limited to) fighting with Fairy Lights, an exceptionally grumpy Mrs. Weasley, Arthur in big trouble with his wife, a VERY lost muggle, and lots of shouting. Oh, and what’s that in Charlie’s room? (Sorry it’s so late, but think of it this way: What better way to get your mind off of school/work than by reading about the holidays?)

One formidable Longbottom grandmother and two mischievous Weasley twins teach Rita Skeeter a very public lesson... UK English, canon-ish, humour.

You remember when you lost him to the Dark Arts. You remember the way he scoured the papers every day, reading the news on Grindelwald's latest attack. You thought, hoped, this was a passing obsession, until it escalated even further than just simple curiosity.

Harry is feeling very melancholy, the wildfire within has burnt everything to a crisp and left nothing but black in its wake. Who will be there to comfort him? A dramatic romance of passion that should arise a feeling from within. H/?