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"Tragic romance is no new thing to the world...The story is so old, no one can remember exactly how it started. But these two, they have decided to write another chapter." Not all love stories have a happy ending... NOT a song fic. D/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.

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

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.

Hermione receives a letter asking her to volunteer for war. She reluctantly agrees even though she is terrified that she'll never see her family, friends or love again. One-shot. Hermione/Draco.

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

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

Timeframe - post-Hogwarts; pairings - Hagrid/OC, implied R/Hr; Hagrid and Catherine are trying to adopt a child. Wait...Hagrid, a father?

One-shot, intended as a supplement to OotP, a "missing scene" if you will. Years after their affair, Bellatrix finally exacts her revenge on Remus in the Department of Mysteries.

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

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

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?

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

A year after the defeat of Lord Voldemort, Harry has retreated so far into himself that even his surviving friends can't seem to reach him. Will Ginny get there in time, or is it already too late?

Seven years after the final battle, Snape considers a few personal demons.

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.

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.

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

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?

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?

Sirius Black put up with his family for sixteen years. But one day he ran away. It was freedom, it was liberation, but in a way it hurt. Because some things are painful, even to a sixteen-year-old boy.

After the final battle at Hogwarts, Neville reflects on the events of the past and begins to lose himself... until someone unexpected is able to pull him back. Short and sweet.

Harry blames himself for Sirius' death. Finally, he decides to do something about it.

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.

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?

"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.

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 Sev/Lily non-magic AU. Severus has gone to the same club, every day, just to watch her dance with her friends. Now, after far too much waiting, he decides to approach her. It goes much better than he expected.

A pantomime version of Harry Potter. Cue bad jokes, silly songs, quotes and puns galore and the obligatory custard pies. The plot - Voldemort plans to take over the world, Draco crossdresses and Ron collects Happy Meal toys. All together now: "Oh no he doesn't!"

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

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

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.

A young Severus Snape is learning Occlumency from Dumbledore under the watchful eye of the portraits on his office wall.

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

A lone wizard wakes on the last battlefield, but even surviving the main event can't prepare him for the shock of one confrontation. One-shot (for now). Darkfic, angst, suspense (hopefully), character deaths, implied slash. HBP-compliant, so 'ware the spoilers.

From one war into another, Hogwarts remains a sanctuary. Harry/Draco.

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

Remus Lupin has been there since Harry's third year, always calm, quiet, and peaceful. He's always been there, in the shadows, never in the spotlight. Here we'll take a look at Remus' mind. His memories, experiences, thoughts. Was it always that way?

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.

Come here and sit a while with me; I will sit you on my knee, and we can pretend The past twenty years away— Run a timeline parallel to our dizzying private hell— Throw them into a wishing well.

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.

Three sisters come to bury their dead and their memories. An emotionally-drained young woman sickened by her choices, an entirely too well-educated one who has none, and an idealist who'd rather damn them all.

What happens when everyone we can think of decide that they are sexually deprived all at once? This, evidently. Featuring Kelso!Draco, sulking!Umbridge, dragqueen!Harry, and insane!Authorettes, this galactially stupid one-shot was written with alternating words. That explains a lot. Proof that there can be an R-rated humourfic.

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.

After the events of the Gryffindor v. Slytherin Quidditch match in Draco’s fifth year, things seem different; Ron Weasley has the Slytherins under his thumb, the school dungeons are filled with Muggle born students, and Harry Potter is nowhere to be found. It’s a brave new world, and one in which Draco must learn to be careful what he wishes for.

Her crush is just a teenage one. His is just fascination, and he knows it could be misconstrued so easily. He had resist - but can it be kept from her? A very short fic hinting at Remus/Luna.

All Aurors spend at least an hour in Azkaban as part of their training. None of them enjoy it. One of them had better get used to it...

"You many recognize [werewolves] by these marks: they are pale, their vision feeble, their eyes dry, tongue very dry, and the flow of saliva stopped; but they are thirsty." ~Montague Summers, The Werewolf

Lupin and Snape are men on a mission, albeit one without any kind of thought-out plan. They're on their way to a small town somewhere in the Transylvanian mountains, but as for when they get there... well, they're just not all that certain about what they're actually supposed to be doing there. They are certain about one thing, however - there is no one they wouldn't rather be sent on a mission with than each other. ...But as we all know, it's not the goal but the journey there that matters! Right? Well, they're not thrilled about that, either.

Some people don't stop dancing, even in the face of death. Severus/Hermione, though names are never mentioned, and pairing is open to interpretation.

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.

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.

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!

Harry tells his friends that he's sleeping with the enemy. Love is the ultimate treachery.

Ginny feels like a ghost.

"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.

They are large, they are mean, they are Crabbe and Goyle. They are bullies and they are tired of playing the second fiddle. Time to get some real friends.

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

Draco sees Harry through an artist's eye - a beautiful blend of light and shadow. When Harry discovers Draco's fixation, what will his reaction be? A story of lust, obsession, love, and beauty in the highest sense - a story of light and shadow

Severus starts regretting a past mistake.

He wasn't looking forward to sitting in a Muggle club, awaiting the arrival of an informant. But his dull assignment turns into something more when a stranger (whose eyes look so familiar), and a few rounds of double Scotch turn things around. One-shot, poem fic, Snape.

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.

Just lots of talking, really. Remus and Severus have a conversation after James and Sirius, the buggers, make a fool out of Severus yet again.````Set after the scene Harry observes in Snape's Pensieve. Very light slash.

Severus reflects upon his vows - past and present - and his own motives. This leads him back to the one person he has ever loved: R. A. B.

Depression and Sorrow engulf Remus Lupin's life. He can think of only one thing... and it haunts him like a ghost.

Neville gets ready to ask Hermione to the Yule Ball. When that fails, he asks Ginny. What was he thinking through all of this? This mousy Gryffindor has some spunk after all. One-shot, missing scene fic, a Neville story.

Harry's gone and he probably won't come back. He left everything to keep her safe. But he didn't think of the effect it would have in the one person he loves the most in the world. Now he's coming back for a little while to try and fix things.

Minerva McGonagall was not present in the Department of Mysteries. However, her understanding of the death is just as painful as everyone elses. Three parter, spoilers for OotP.

When everything takes a turn for the quiet side of life, Zacharias must actively seek out his own battles to fight and picks the government as his worthy adversary. And through it all, Harry can only sit back and watch, and occasionally rustle his newspaper. Intentional Zacharias/Harry.

Two roads diverged in a wood.

"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.

At the end of "Phoenix", Lucius Malfoy is arrested as a Death Eater. What happens to Draco now that his father's identity is made public? Set within Azkaban itself.

A one shot from Harry's point of view about the war around him and those he loves. (H/D)

Harry's world was dark and bleak until Ginny came into his life. He thinks about the past, Ginny's sacrifice, and her part in the winning of the war. Post-Ootp

As Harry’s hand reached out and grasped the glass doorknob, he knew one thing was for certain – this night would be bad. And tomorrow would be beyond imagining.

Ron and Hermione are fighting again and if there is any hope of peace in Gryffindor Tower, it's up to Ginny. Can she stop the fighting so she and the other fifth years can study in peace?

Harry Potter on estate life, and what it feels like to go back to Privet Drive after the fifth year...

Far away across the field/ The tolling of the iron bell/ Calls the faithful to their knees/ To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

"And in the mirror he read his truth and counted all the new-old ways he'd failed." Remus Lupin reflects on the many ways in which he fell short.

Sky Monroe has always been alone. Alone with no memory of her past and no friends. Until one day, a stranger comes along and sends her off and her greatest adventure: A quest to find out the truth and a whole lot more including the presence of evil...

"My hands are stained." On Harry's first day at Hogwarts, Snape ponders damnation and redemption.

Harry was crap at dancing. Ginny doesn't much care.

"Tom never left you, not completely. He’s just been… dormant all these years. Waiting for his chance. Hurting you in whatever way he could. Tom was a memory, right? A memory trapped in a diary. Now he’s a memory trapped in you, and he won’t let you forget.”

Regulus' thoughts on his way to Hogwarts and during his Sorting.

When the war is over there have been betrayals of the worst kind. The only thing Draco wants now is vengeance for the death of the girl he loved.

"She was all that he ever truly had, and then she was gone, away from his cruel words and cold stares. He never realized he needed her more than anything. Could he even have her back, hold her again and be complete again? Hope fluttered in him, and he wondered if he dared to acknowledge it."

A set of seven short stories depicting the relationship between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black.

Harry Potter searches for the remaining Horcruxes, familiar faces aid him in his journey to stop the Dark Lord.

His heart constricts along with her long tail and for a moment, just that minor second, Tom understands affections and perhaps the need to weep, bleed, and protect. This is all, of course, before he becomes another creature...free of the traditional views of love.

Remus Lupin has seen life and he has seen death. But as he confronts the latest of his griefs, he must come to terms with the duty that has befallen him in the wake of tragedy.

The Final Battle takes place at Hogsmeade, during Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts. He defeats Voldemort, but loses his life to a Death Eater after fulfilling the Prophecy. But before dying, he has made an indelible mark in the heart of one whose love was as absolute as her faith. Can Luna survive without him to live for? And can someone take his place?

Symbiosis - n. A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

Hermione tries to get Harry to stop isolating himself from his loved ones - after all, cutting himself off from them is only causing pain. One-shot, H/Hr.

The summer day had ended, yet not everyone had been granted sleep. He had wanted to be alone, and she had wanted a drink to defeat her insomnia. He remembered, and she watched. And both had wondered.

Druscilla Morgan is sent out into the magical world after living a secluded life on an island with her grandmother… Strange things are happening, and she knows nothing about her past… and but she doesn’t know may indefinitely be her downfall…

Some people suggest it was just selfishness on Snape's part to stop his Occlumency lessons with Harry, but perhaps Snape's reasons run far deeper. A Snape's POV response to the OotP chapter "Snape's Worst Memory."

The Founders were the beginning of everything; they started off so happy, so what went wrong? And why did Salazar really disappear?

A year after Harry dies fighting Voldemort, his husband, Ron Weasley goes through Harry's old things. But what Ron finds changes his life forever.

The sequel to The First Piece of Silver. Peter Pettigrew meets Regulus Black at a party, Voldemort courts Dark creatures, and wheels are set in motion. Peter thinks he's doing the right thing. He's wrong.