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He’d seen its other side, when for so long had believed it had only one facet – a face that turned him into a monster. But he’d learned that night that there was another, just as he was not the monster every day of his life. (Subtly SB/RL set in Marauder time. A short piece that explores the significance of the moon to a werewolf, and how a chance encounter may change it indefinitely.)

Sequel to "Choices". When the decision is made and the action performed, it cannot be undone. Harry and Draco learn that they must deal with the consequences. D/Hr.

Plagued by yet another nightmare about his godfather's death, Harry flees the castle and watches the stars, hoping it will help him clear his muddled mind. Yet he'd never have thought that a star could help him heal. Sirius. The Dog Star.

At the end of The Prisoner of Azkaban, Sirius tells Dumbledore the truth about everything.

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Reflections from the mind of Narcissa Malfoy, on her life, her husband, her son and the world in general. One shot.

Ginny has been in love with Tom for years, and now she has brought him back to life. But just as she had to pay with her life last time, so does she this time. Only Harry isn't there to save her... Rated R for implied sex.

Remus returns from the Department of Mysteries to a old house full of restless, haunting ghosts. R/S, R/H. SLASH

The incessant falling of rain beats out a monotonous rhythm on the windowpane. Every drop is reminiscent of a faraway memory, lost in the sorrow and fear. Fear of being turned away, fear of being wrong, fear of yourself.

What Snape thinks on the day after You-Know-What happens. Just a short ficlet.

A story concerning what happened after what Harry saw in the pensieve, and the consequences. SS/LP (and I know it's been done a million times before, but here's my version).

Snape found her in a dark corner and wondered why she was back.

What would you do if you could not remember the event that would change the rest of your life? Two months after Dumbledore's death, Ginny Weasley finds herself in a sticky situation. A situation that becomes worse when she realizes who she has for company. With no recollection of how she got there, she struggles to free herself--along with an unlikely friend--and wonders if she was the only one on the wrong end of a shouted "Obliviate!"

This is the story of the relationship between Remus Lupin and Sirius Black spanning 20 years. It's not your "classic puppy shipper" story.

Following a run-in with Sirius Black, Severus Snape reckons with his conscience, reliving the fatal moments that caused him to turn away from the Death Eaters and to Dumbledore fifteen years ago. Romance/angst.

The Wizarding World's on strike, Harry's scar hurts and the Dark Lord pays a visit.

What's really going on with Tonks and Lupin? What's going through Remus's mind? And where is James when you need him?

Bang. Bang. Cho/Fleur.

Everyone remembers their first kiss, don’t they? Not Regulus Black. Oh, he knows it happened. He just can’t remember it.

A very, very short fic. Hermione and Ron are broken up...and Hermione seeks comfort in Harry and poetry. Poetry by me. WARNING: very, very, VERY short

I have seen them grow, change, and bond from a distance. They have never ceased to amaze me. What they have accomplished throughout the years is incredible, and I envy them. But with accomplishment also comes pain. How do they live when pain is preying on them? How do they go on when death is calling their names? They have suffered greatly, and that I do not envy…

"Remus doesn't really like alcohol, but these nights it's become necessity" The First War. The world is crumbling down, taking Remus and Sirius's relationship along. So what is left?

Harry Potter has lost so many loved ones during the war with Lord Voldemort. All his friends are suffering because of him and he's nothing but a puppet to Albus Dumbledore. While sitting by the lake, he ponders his life and how his destiny's affecting him.

This is sort of a prequel to a few of my other fics based on the Harry/Cho breakup. In this one, Harry isn't so much mad as he is disappointed. What happens when the love you thought would save you doesn't?

One-shot ficlet. The war has ended, and both sides have suffered severe casualties. Friends mourn friends as funerals abound in the aftermath.

"All the newspapers did stories on him, on how cracked up he is, and how it’s such a joke that their savior went completely bonkers in the end... and I won’t tolerate it any more. He isn’t insane. He’s in grief." Harry's in St. Mungo's because he, apparently, went insane after the fight where he killed Voldemort. Hermione know's he's not insane, but nobody will listen. She tells the tale of what went on in the final battle and visits Harry in his final moments. WARNING! Mass character death.

Battle of the twins! When a new set of twins open a joke shop directly across from Fred and George, what happens? Prank Wars Abound!

Stories can fade and die, like the friendships that created them; one story is passed from one era to another.

Written from Ginny’s POV and Draco’s POV, this ficlet tells a story of the reality about the war against Voldemort from either side of the battle-field. Ginny makes the biggest sacrifce and Draco must deal with the aftermath of her choice and his own. A tale about what happens when you love someone who is under the other banner. A dark fic. Implied Ginny/Draco

"Hey, hey, now, Mr. Safety-Man. It was your idea to make the whole place impenetrable to magical entry, remember? And besides, what would our lovely Muggle neighbors think if I just bombarded down the door?" Harry is having some trouble with his keys. Hermione is amused. Smirking ensues. (One-shot)

Harry's seventh year is just beginning, but when two new members of staff are being more mysterious than helpful, two wild horses have mysteriously appeared in the grounds and Dumbledore is back, Harry, Ron and Hermione are in for a bumpy ride... *slightly AU, character death later on, rating for final chapters*

Tonks/Remus friendship fluff. Tonks wanted to do something nice, and her day ended up going very, very bad.

How are things going for Harry the summer after OoTP? Here's a possible alternative... (Inspired by the very best, first-hand experienced teenage depression.:) Meanwhile, new characters come into play: Padme Connelly The Clever Ravenclaw joins the Order, and annoys Harry big time. But the way things are going, maybe she'll remain his last real friend...

Harry, while on assignment for the Order post-Hogwarts, stumbles across a meeting of the Society for Creative Anachronism.

How could the man that had saved them all, that was a Gryffindor, pure of heart, and brave... be so deceitful? How could he possibly be capable of hurting one person as much as he did?

Severus Snape has long held that history is best left forgotten. It takes a confrontation with Luna Lovegood to teach him that sometimes, forgetting history can be fatal.

The first war with Voldemort - toward the close, the Order and the Aurors are worn, and recruits have a thorough fear of Voldemort, and aren't really up to much. Prequel to ‘Whispers from Beyond the Veil.’ Read in any order.

Harry Potter's life seems to be a fairy tale. His dreams haunt him after his god-father's death.

What is a person's greatest weakness? Is it his need for companionship? His need for protection? For guidance? Why does the coldness in us always threaten to break loose at the most inconvenient times? A twin contemplates what happens when twins share more than they are supposed to. (Warning: twincest, slash)

Dumbledore is dead and Sibyl feels guilty. Relief comes in the form of countless bottles of sherry.

The face of Lucius Malfoy loomed over him, a triumphant, smug smile set in place. ``“Broken yet?” ``If you don't like non con, don't read this fic, period.

'He always said crying was a sign of weakness. So I never cried. He said laughing only made me look vulnerable. I don't know how to laugh anymore. He said showing your emotions was wrong. He taught me how to hide my emotions. I was always changing myself for him. But no matter what, I was never good enough for him. '

Strange, thinks Ginny, that such a little thing can be in tumults of joy merely because of Tom's attention; but there is a lot more to compete for now that they find themselves back in the world. Ginny has nearly lost herself, but Tom is going to do just the opposite... read Stockholm and Icarus first.

In 1981, on the eve of Voldemort's fall, a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin form an unlikely bond.

A poem character sketch in the point of view of the beloved Sirius Black. Please do not read unless finished with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Narcissa Black falls through the ice on the lake, Severus Snape is tormented as always, and Lucius Malfoy shows that there is such a thing as Slytherin loyalty. Everyone skates on very thin ice before the first war.

Harry has problems dealing with the battle with Voldemort.

Set in the "They Shook Hands" universe. Elan Malfoy is playing hide-and-seek with his cousin Fritz. Although he is warned not to allow himself to get into trouble again, Elan can't resist another dare. When Fritz wants to go down to the basement to play, Elan goes along and discovers that there is a lot to his house he didn't know existed. Even to a pure blood child, magic can pose a real danger and Elan is walking straight into a force that nothing can prepare him for.

A look at James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Lily Evans on the day before their first day at Hogwarts... the Marauders before they were Marauders!

Snape stumbled upon one of the Marauder's secrets and it could be deadly....

Just a series of interesting stories. One every week!

An eighteen-year-old Dung Fletcher is in dire need of money, and together with a friend he comes up with the idea of the century... to rob Gringott's.

Nick is turned down for the Headless Hunt (again) and finds a sympathetic ear in the form of second year Luna Lovegood. However when she hatches a scheme to decapitate him properly, is Nick really ready to fix his little problem permanently?

When Charlie was young, Ollivander captivated him with wands. As Charlie grew, so did his love of wands. Dragons got in the way. Charlie-centric one-shot, explaining why Charlie gave Ron a wand with its core sticking out.

Being "The Boy Who Lived" isn't easy, you know. In fact, Harry Potter has the most difficult life anyone his age has ever had to suffer through. Or so he thinks. Two new students join the fray at Hogwarts, with many secrets and quite a mysterious situation...

Chuckling despite herself, she answered Draco. "Funny... I always saw you as more the 'morally ambiguous' type." Draco, Ginny, secret rooms, masks... and the shades of gray that tie them all together.

My ears whistle. I can barely hear my classmates’ voices, I feel like I had my head under water. No, not again. Not now. This is the first alarm ring. It’s the first signal and it says "Here we are, Ron, we are coming." The murmur is continuously more burdensome, and I already feel that constant and fierce pulsing at the temples, an incessant and obsessive thump-thump-thump. ``It resounds in my heart, amplified in the middle of my chest.``And added to my friends’ ones, I can hear so many, too many other voices of unknown people.

It's quiet in here. And dark. Moonlight has been blocked out by thick, black curtains. Certainly Madam Pomfrey's work. It annoys me; I like to watch the faint glow of the moon and the stars dancing on the ceiling at night. It must be about two or three o'clock in the morning. I smell the cup of tea that was brought to me a few hours ago and which I ignored on my bedside table. It's probably stone cold by now. I don't want it. I don't want any of this anymore. Voldemort is dead, yet so is Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived. How did it get to that? Ginny, supposedly sleeping in the hospital wing, thinks about the events... and the day after.

A witch and a wizard meet at Worlds’ End. A Sandman crossover, and sequel to Sleep Spent.

Written for a "Veil of Possibilities" challenge, and definitely AU. Sirius is guilty of all he was charged of, and is at Hogwarts tormenting Remus. The Sirius we know is travelling through the realms connected by the Veil, and has to help Remus get free.

Making love isn't the only way. Sirius Black/Severus Snape. Set during OotP. One-shot.

Lily Potter sacrificed her life to Lord Voldemort so that her only son, Harry Potter, could become The Boy Who Lived. This fic describes the last few seconds of her life and what thoughts crossed her mind as Voldemort murmured the death spell.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ``Over many a quaint and curious spellbook I'd not read before, ``While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,``As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the dorm room door.``"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "rapping at the dorm room door--``This it is, and nothing more."````But it isn't...and we all know it. A parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

Ron Weasley is an adult now, even if he doesn't much want to be. Ron/Remus, Charlie/Harry. Warning: character death.

Remus Lupin has a particular interest in Luna Lovegood. Purely paternal, of course.

Seventh year. Harry has burnt his bridges and Draco looks to pour salt in those wounds.

"Ends and beginnings--there are no such things. There are only middles." ``A Post-Hogwarts POV-piece.

Bad things are happening at Hogwarts. It must be the Slytherins' faults.

Wormtail is a selfish, cowardly rat, isn't he? He'd agree with you.

Luna and Parvati. Bittersweet nights. Memories.

Dumbledore does a little maintenance on Foreign Relations...

Sirius' girlfriend starves him of affection. He comes home angry and takes it out on Remus. Remus resists, but he knows it's futile. Sirius always gets what he wants.

"No deprivation is any trouble if you do not miss what you have lost." Lord Voldemort remembers an early victory.

The most interesting events in the history of Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, happen after nightfall. Hermione, the Head Girl, has faced several life changing events. Now, she is trapped between two worlds, each pulling away at each other. Yet, she finds herself lying to her boyfriend, Harry Potter, and sneaking away and confiding with the only other Death Eater at Hogwarts — Draco Malfoy. With graduation just six months away, Hermione must make sense out of her once simple life. But once she turns the light off, can she get out of the dark?

It's the trio's seventh year at Hogwarts. The final battle is coming closer. Yet Harry seems to be disappearing a lot. And what does the new American student have to do with Harry's Past?

Sirius longs for James; Harry feels as if he owes him. Remus tries to get to the bottom of it, but doesn't know if he can bear it.

After the final battle, a twin remembers her sister. Warning: character death.

It's seventh-year and it's been a wild journey... but is it really over?

The war has ended, but no one has remained unscathed. Least of all Harry. Going on a bloody trail of revenge, he finds himself at the Lestranges's door. But soon enough, he's in over his head in a situation that's a little too close for comfort. How deep is hate? How consuming is revenge? How redemptive is love? And if you've crossed the line, can anything - or anyone - pull you back? Post Hogwarts, some Bellatrix/Rodolphus. Rated for some violence, very little language, and character deaths.

An author named Joanne speaks with an increasingly flustered Harry Potter about a series of books she has written about his time at Hogwarts. Harry is worried about the many glaring inconsistencies within the stories, and several odd titles, such as 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.

Danni Morgans: loud, obnoxious spy for the Order. Desi Vega: quiet, obedient daughter of a pureblood wizard. Two completely different personalities, one person. And you think you're confused?

Bellatrix is devoted to her Master. But she can never satisfy him.

I hate him. I hate the feeling that I always get when I think of him. I hate the taste of sour cherries and nutmeg that he always had.

For some, 13 is an unlucky number. Remus, on the other hand, counts thirteen times he knew love was real.

"Perhaps you're thinking this is too hard? Too dull? Not the glamorous Dark-wizard hunt you signed up for?" Moody has some valuable lessons for Trainee Auror Tonks.

One night, after a particularly trying detention session, Harry falls asleep--and awakens into his happiest dream since Voldemort's return.

At first Harry dreaded coming. He hated the sterile smell of the place, the squeaky, rubbery noises, the cheerful politeness of the staff. He hated the way he sometimes heard screaming. . .

The children have been brought back from the Ministry. Ginny lies in the Hogwarts hospital wing and thinks about the upcoming war.

Blaise raises the sword again and runs it slowly from Draco’s left shoulder, across the grey silk of his shirt, and slices off the top button with the tip of the blade. The perfect shell button hits the floor with a barley audible tick. As cool steel hits warm skin for the barest instant Draco lets out a hiss, not of pain, but of surprise. Blaise grins. Draco knows this game. They’ve been playing it all summer. He is tired of it. boy!Blaise/Draco

Harry and Hermione's daughter telling us about her mother's lonely Valentine.

"The war, the prophecy, everything, it was bigger than me, but maybe it wasn’t bigger than the three of us,” Harry said slowly, so quiet he could hardly hear himself.

After an incident at St. Mungo's, Neville takes responsibility for the care of his mother and father. A story of a son's love for his parents.

Oliver Wood sits alone in the bar and remembers his team.

The rain falls. Cleansing me. I stand, face uplifted, letting it soak through my thin robes. The rain and my tears mix. I could drown here and I would not care. I have nothing to live for. Everything is gone.

Every Friday I clean Mr. Harry Potter's flat. Every Friday I go home sad.

What Sirius finds beyond the veil is not death but life and penance in an odd friendship to a boy from his past...

Following the battle in the Department of Mysteries, Lucius Malfoy is sent to Azkaban, leaving Severus Snape to ponder the years of love and transgressions they have shared. Romance/angst. SS/LM slash.

A series of quiet epiphanies. Post-GoF, Sirius/Remus slash. "Even the sunlight's older here, faded and cooled with dawn; the floorboards feel odd under his human feet, and his skin is too thin, too sensitive. So long as a dog, and he's almost forgotten - this muted scent of dust, of Remus, of books lining the creaking shelves."

It is the middle of the night, and every student, teacher and creature of Hogwarts is fast asleep. Only one young wizard is aware of the danger waiting to pounce on the school. And with that feeling in the pit of his stomach telling him he's probably going to die, Harry Potter isn't about to wake anyone up and drag them to his final confrontation with Voldemort.

Remus Lupin walks down a cold street in London, reminiscing about his old school days and a certain man who he is missing very much.