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Secrets are never good. Someone will always find them out. No matter how careful you are, nothing is ever completely safe.

Bellatrix Black is a sixteen-year-old beauty. She has grown under the strict reign of her father's dark power, catering to the future Dark Lord. One of her requirements as future heiress to the Black fortune is to acquire a stable Slytherin marriage, and she knows her duty will come soon. But when she sails headfirst into a stranger, can she help herself but to defy Daddy dearest?

There's nothing left anymore, nothing anywhere. That means you've got nothing left to lose, and it's a great bloody New Year. (Warning: Dark)

It's the final battle with Voldemort and Harry isn't doing too well. It looks like he's down and out, but then he remembers the love of his life. Can his memories save him from death or is there still no chance for him?

"He deserves for me to love him the way I love you" Ginny POV Remus/Ginny slight Harry/Ginny

Paintings never change, but the people who look at them do.

It’s Pansy Parkinson’s sixth year at Hogwarts. She faces the choice between destroying the illusion that she’s living or keeping up appearances. Will she choose two years of torment from the Slytherins or will she follow the steps of her family?

Harry faces many terrible things by the time he finished his fifth year. What if his sanity had snapped after all he went through, and he held a grudge against the world? But who's to say what is or isn't sane? Spoilers up to OotP. Harry/Bellatrix

Severus Snape is a man of contemplation. Luckily, Regulus Black is not. Slash!

A tormented young man reflects upon his wasted life, and considers his final release....

Withdrawal can be intoxicating in itself. I learned this lesson the hard way as I attempted to peel my need for you away from my id complex and trash that nasty little lustful desire in the far junk pile in my brain. It failed. A one-shot in Hermione’s narrative about her recent addiction. Set to the lyrics of “Addicted” by Kelly Clarkson.

Leanne has just been given the very worst shock her life, courtesy of her friend Katie Bell. Now, alone in an empty ward with Madame Pomfrey, she spills all that she can spill...

Sequel to Beautiful, Broken - The reunion between Harry and Draco, the man who would be king.``H/D

Lily is convinced that James Potter is the most stuck-up prat she will ever have the misfortune of meeting (aside form Sirius, that is). But, tripping can lead to falling, and falling can lead to lots of other things that may not be so obvious. L/J FLUFF

Severus remembers... everything. A companion story to "At Any Moment."

"Sweet child of mine, you will cease to cry..." A wish, a sigh, a heart's desire. (T/G)

Remus has loved Sirius forever, what happens when Sirius realizes he loves him back?

On one end of the spectrum is Chaos: disorder, confusion, what existed before the ordered universe. On the other end is Pattern: a highly consistent form, style, or method. In between those two: Life. This is a post OotP story that shows that even after death patterns can be broken, and things can still surprise us.

Sequel to The Midnight Hour. Ginny reflects on the argument she and Draco had earlier that day that caused them to be apart during one of the happiest times of the year. D/G

Falling... endless black.... What is going on? I just fell, why am I going this far? I just went behind the veil.... Where am I? What happened? Stop. Aching.... Where am I now? This place is so strange.... Why does it have a familiar feeling? I know I have been here before... but when? Why would I have visited this place before now? Who is that? That shadow approaching me.... It looks familiar too.... Who is that?

Before the Order of the Phoenix settle into Grimmauld Place, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin learn that some things never change while others do. (SLASH: SB/RL)

Life has never been easy for Severus Snape and it's about to get even worse. His relationship with Dumbledore is going from bad to worse, Harry's bent on revenge, Draco's turning from a spoiled brat to outright evil, and an old friend Severus hoped never to see again is going to be the new DADA professor.

Severus Snape reflects on the questions in his life. Why did it take the turns it did, and why was it so intertwined with the Potters? It turns out that some promises, like some scars, never quite go away. Takes place towards the end of OoTP.

Gryffindor has just won the Quidditch Cup! And Weasley is still our King. Ron/Hermione

Ten years after the end of the Second War, things are much different than any of the four friends, Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione, had imagined they would be. With Harry gone from their lives, the three try to continue living as best they can. However, this life isn't as glorious as others make it out to be. When Harry and Ginny both find themselves in Italy at the same time, they attempt to fix the past, but someone else is already making plans for their future... and those plans are far from picture perfect.

Draco dreams of Harry Potter every night, but why the sudden change of heart? What has Blaise got to do with it, and why would Draco want Harry when he already has a boyfriend? Very dark fic, includes non-con.

It's a certain Potter boy's seventh year at Hogwarts. He's observing a certain red-haired girl and pondering Voldemort's rise to power.

Hermione and Ron are in love. Or so they thought before a huge fight. Will Hermione's note save their relationship?

Lying in the hills of Ireland, Ginny thinks of an old friend. He re-enters her life, and helps her remember what could have been. Draco/Ginny. One-shot.

Confusion of sorts leads to an interesting, if wholly unexpected, situation for Professors Lupin and McGonagall at Grimmauld Place.

Remus’s story; from reading The Hobbit, to bite, to Hogwarts, to friends, to Animagi, to the SB/RL slash (there’s the warning), to getting The Lord of the Rings. The story of Remus Lupin in eleven short stories.

Katie Bell is dying. Professor Snape is called upon to save her from a curse that has no cure. Where lies the boundary between Dark and Light Magic, and do the ends justify the means? An extrapolation from HBP.

The soul of a proud man drowns...

It's a new year, and the professor of Muggle Studies has decided to make her class much more interesting, and surprisingly, fun. Unfortunately, Draco is forced to take her class after beating up and laughing at a Muggleborn first year. Will they survive? Will Draco learn a lesson? Does anyone know why Bill Weasley mysteriously shows up often?

Pansy thought she needed Draco Malfoy. She thought she was ugly. She thought she was worthless. But she was wrong. Now if only Blaise could prove that to her.

Lily Evans just finished her last exam at Hogwarts and contemplates her life. Meanwhile, James Potter is contemplating his own life, with her.

Remus Lupin needs a friend. And Hermione Granger loves heroes. Rated for pain; there is no romance.

Harry Potter receives a love letter one day from an anonymous girl. He is determined to find out who she is. Meanwhile, Harry realizes that he has feelings for Ginny. Does he confess his love for Ginny? What about our 'Mysterious Girl'?

James is tried of keeping secrets from Lily. One night he asks his friends for permission to tell the biggest one of all. Remus might be friends with Lily, but there's just some things he doesn't want her to know about him.

Pansy Parkinson worries about Draco when he goes missing at the end of their sixth year, and when she finds him, her concern proves well founded.

What if you could re-do the past, change certain events and live happily ever after? After a brush with horrible tragedy, Harry decides to do just that. But soon he learns that the past isn't that open to change. And that one tiny mistake can send the whole thing crashing down. WARNING. This is NOT a happy fic. Harry/Girl!Blaise, Draco/Practically every female, and Ron/Pansy

Ginny has a wall around her heart. No one can tell that it's there. It keeps her from getting hurt again. It also keeps her from loving. Includes Dashboard Confessional's Carve Your Heart Out Yourself.

"With shattered dreams, I've torn the seams And created my personal Hell..." Sequel to Hollowed Out Stone, DHr

I can never do anything right. Everything I say comes out wrong...

A possible explanation behind Percy Weasley's behaviour in OotP.

''Remus began crying with the stabbing pains in his heart; it felt as though a knife was ruthlessly cutting a hole through it. A hole which only Sirius could fill....''

Peering into his soul, Harry realized that he had become Judge, Jury, and Executioner for those who had died at his hands…and the majority had been pure souls...and he just wanted forgiveness... Based in the realm of The Simplest of Emotions, join Harry as he returns to Godric's Hollow after many years...

They say the good die young. Once upon a time, Gregory Goyle was as decent as a Slytherin could be.

In a fic I enjoyed very much, Remus mentioned that he "always assumed the werewolf who bit him had a sick sense of humor". This is my musings on that, as well as how being treated as a werewolf in wizarding society would lead to that.````In this fic, the werewolf who bit Remus tells us about the night of the Bite, and philosophizes a bit--very bitterly--abt being a werewolf.``It's creepy--it's GOOD, it surprised me how good, but it's creepy--which is the only reason it is PG. There's no actual violence, no gore, it's just got an insight to a creepy side of human nature.

After an uneventful summer Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, dreading his sixth year. Voldemort is still at large and the Order of the Phoenix is broken by betrayal and distrust. In these dark times trust might be a valuable thing to those who never knew it, and love might be the key to freedom. It is up to some to make a difference... before it is too late...

Snape has just thrown Harry out of his office, after catching him nosing into Snape's past. (OotP, chapter 28) Snape now has to put back these three terrible memories into his own head and relive these three events that have played a major part in shaping him into the man that he has ultimately become. This is a story of love and loyalty, friendship and betrayal, and death and desperation.

Sirius doesn't like Remus' watch. Remus has work to do, but keeps getting distracted. What time is it, Mr Wolf?

A tattered black veil stands before them. Remus Lupin needs to travel to the other side to save his past, but the journey comes at a price. It is a price that Severus Snape must be willing to pay. SS/RL

A dark-cloaked figure pays homage to Lily's memory.

Their 6th year at Hogwarts has started, Dean is happy with Ginny, and Ginny is happy with Dean. Seamus, on the other hand, is not happy, and you know what they say about misery and company.

Four words... Sirius, naked, invisibility cloak.

In the Summer before their Seventh Year Remus and Sirius (being the worldly, all-knowing chaps they are) give their good friend, James, some simply advice when dealing with females: "Don't Mug Yourself". Based on and some dialogue from The Streets song by the same name. Rated PG-13 for language.

Sirius Black is going to go mad if he has to stay cooped up in Twelve Grimmauld Place for one more minute. And what's everyone's favourite werewolf to do about that? Why, take Padfoot to the dog park, of course!

Draco Malfoy, alone and destitute, sinks into the grip of a welcomed addiction.

Voldemort has never felt remorse before. However, when he visits a special person's grave he makes an interesting decision. A decision that will change his life… (T/G)

Many years ago Lily and James Potter kept a secret, and that secret was the existance of a little girl.... Sorcha Bella was a normal American witch with no definite plans for her future, believing she would never leave the States....

"Harry was seated comfortably, at his desk. Many days ago, he had begun writing his autobiography. Not that he wanted to, it was just that being The-Boy-Who-Lived, and The-Man-Who-Defeated-Voldemort and all, he was...well... famous. Many biographies had been written about him and all too many of them were giving people the wrong idea about how things really turned out and how he felt about it." Harry's memories about him and his boyfriend. Harry/Draco (mild-slash) OoTP spoilers!!! (nothing to see with The Rain.)

Harry and Draco as Aurors? Okay, I guess that's alright. But partners?! Throw a Muggle into the mix and things are gonna get ugly!

HBP SPOILERS. Bill is recovering in the Hospital Wing. Fleur takes care of him.

A private moment between pet and master. Harry reflects on the budding relationship between his two best friends, and the events of fifth year. First in the Reflections series.

Lucius/Sirius - Lucius smudges the lines between hate and obsession.

In her seventh year, Hermione reflects on the past years with her best friends and how she can possibly say goodbye to them.

What happens when the author gets involved? Anything! Contains a suitable Mary-Sue, dancing monkeys, EvilManiac!Dumbledore, and much more funnyness! It is very much funny!

The war has ended. Harry cannot let go so easily, however. He runs in futile circles searching for something to make his life meaningful again while his friends fall apart around him.

Life after the Battle - Harry Potter is presumed dead, Ron and Hermione have a son, and a fatherless mermaid from the States is the first of her kind to receive her letter to Hogwarts. When she arrives, she discovers secrets thet her family has kept hidden, wacky professors, and a Broadway-singing rival that may actually help her in her quest - find out the identity of her father. Sequel to The Last Battle.

When Draco Malfoy joins the Light Side, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Co., find out that there are a lot disturbing about him. For one thing, is he gay? A girl? Bisexual? Straight? And, more importantly, is Dumbledore really dead? Featuring an eccentric Draco, a murder plot, over-exaggerated humor, strange rumors flying through the corridors of Hogwarts, and oh my, the Heir of the Founders claims Hogwarts? What's going on?!

Sometimes love hurts most when it's freely given.

Harry is coming to terms with the truth. He needs to learn to accept that the only person he's loved, has died. In this sadness, he finds somebody who can love him again. Set in early sixth year, sticking close to canon.

A week after Hermione's return from her fifth year at Hogwarts, Mrs. Granger happens upon her sleeping daughter and ponders the dangerous and amazing life she tries to hide.

A small twist of fate and Draco is faced with life changing choices. He can either succumb to his roots, or begin a whole new chapter of his life. This is his first decision.

I looked through a window and saw a man. He had silver blonde hair, like a Veela and matching grey eyes. It is only by his trademark hair I recognize him. In his disheveled state, I doubt anyone but I would realize it was Draco Malfoy. The hollow look in his eyes has made him look entirely different from what he used to...

Some pain is usual. Some pain is acceptable. Some pain is Unforgivable. One-shot.

A young girl runs down a country road an collides with the Squire's son. Her life has just begun to spiral downward. Here is the very beginning, before the man called Voldemort was even thought of, his parents met.

Harry has to go and stay with his uncle after his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He has to cope with annoying Durselys, new friends and enemies, new loves and powers. He disappears, and causes mad havoc in the Wizarding World. A heart renching tale of how Harry aims to defeat Lord Voldemort once and for all! Harry/OC, Hermione/Ron, Ginny/Draco, Neville/Luna, Remus/Tonks

Eight-year-old Mundungus wants a pet, and one day he finds one...

Draco and Ginny have had a messy break up after Ron found out about their secret relationship. Each is trying to forget the other to little success. In the meantime Draco is having an identity crisis about the war and where he fits into it, Narcissa is making trouble and Sirius is trying to keep her under control and out of Lupin's trousers.

She waits for her master to come for her. She waits for her master to set her free and retake her place by his side. Nobody could possibly know the depths of her loyalty or how long she is willing to wait. Never question a Death Eater and never question a twin who has betrayed her own sister.

Harry is having a generally weird time of it this summer, and during a very complicated potion-brewing incident on arrival back at Hogwarts, he and Ron accidentally manage to create a Philosopher's Stone. Unfortunately, Voldemort has found out, and is going to any lengths to get his hands on it. It will take all the guile Harry and most of the rest of the school possess to keep it out of his way... Can they do it? Sixth-year fic.

'He had to hold onto Harry.' Remus' thoughts as his life crumbles around him.

A month after Sirius' passing, Remus runs into Harry at the cemetary. RL/SB.

The final battle has come, leaving Draco Malfoy in the middle. What will he chose to do? Sequel to I Just Keep Running and Bitter Tears Come From The Fallen.

"The problem with looking just like my father is that everyone expects me to act just like him, too."

If you get close to fire, you'll only get burned. Lucius/Ginny, written for the crossgenathon.

Draco and Ginny have had a messy break up after Ron found out about their secret relationship. Each is trying to forget the other to little success. In the meantime Draco is having an identity crisis about the war and where he fits into it, Narcissa is making trouble and Sirius is trying to keep her under control and out of Lupin's trousers.

On a muggy summer night in 1995, Remus Lupin sits in The Three Broomsticks, pondering the thought of being The Last Marauder. OOTP Spoilers. Inspired by “Empty Chairs At Empty Tables” from Les Miserables

Draco tells Harry what happened to him before he came to Harry's house. (sequel to Corners of my Mind)

The darkness that threatened to consume Harry Potter when he was in school looms once more. He teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts, yet can't control his fascination for the very magic that his subject strives to counter. His wife is continually cold and absorbed in her work. His world, seemingly stable, begins to change again with a surreal Resurrection spell, the subsequent reappearance of people long thought dead, and the fresh emergence of an old enemy with a new face.

Andromeda Black and Fabian Prewett are slumming it on their Muggle night out. Only it doesn't end the way either of them expect. Co-winner of FictionAlley's July 2007 Challenge.

While the war is won, the battle may be lost. Remus Lupin confronts his life and his nature. There just might be some hope after all.

Neville reflects on his life without his parents and finds that he has a lot in common with Harry.

Hermione is fed up with dealing with the feuding Harry and Ron. She has literally reached the end of her tether. One fine day she takes a long walk... and learns a great about herself in the process.

*Character Death* The end of the HP series for me, one character's thoughts and realizations after it's over.

Hermione has just discovered that a fortress is useless if the object it's protecting has already been destroyed. One-shot, Seventh year.

Theodore Nott has always stood on the outside looking in, afraid to give in to the demands of the people around him. Seamus Finnigan bounds about on the fringe of Gryffindor Tower, not a member of the Golden Trio (and not certain he'd want to be, what with all the death-defying and constant danger). Written in response to the HMS Rivalry and Revenge Cookie Jar challenge, involving a grandfather clock, a bunch of bananas, a lullaby and/or drinking song, and a startling revelation.

"Some say that change is a good thing. Some are afraid of change. But for Draco Malfoy, change was just another way to get rid of his pain." Somethings happen for a reason, but not all reasons can be good. In only a month and a half, Draco has changed from Bad Boy Slytherin Prince to Hidden Away Mellowed Out Goth. Will someone be able to stop him from doing something stupid, or is it too late for them, too?