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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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Just a series of interesting stories. One every week!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Dumbledore does a little maintenance on Foreign Relations...

Luna and Parvati. Bittersweet nights. Memories.

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

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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. . .

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

Harry reflects on the past year, on both a personal level and the changes in the wizarding world. However, what appears to be a normal Christmastime in the Weasley household, takes a sudden sinister turn as night falls.

Sometimes Neville Longbottom secretly hated the world.

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.

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

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."

Slightly AU. Harry gets a new identity. And a new job. A mysterious killer murders at the stroke of midnight, leaving almost no traces. Who can it be?

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

After an Order meeting towards the end of Harry‘s fifth year, Moody speaks with Dumbledore, yet cannot see what is tormenting his old friend. Moody is half-blind, yet acknowledges this, and even his eye cannot penetrate the barriers of the mind. [OotP Spoilers]

Jacquelyn Randolf wants this Christmas to be the best Christmas for her and her orphaned brother and sisters. What happens when she gets her wish? How does Hogwarts and Harry Potter fit into all of this?

After undergoing an unexpected dark transformation, can Harry Potter resist corruption while he seeks vengeance and justice or will he end up unleashing an evil worse than Voldemort's unto the already afflicted magical world? A story of deception and the blinding quality of love. Vampires, OC, dark!Harry

One-shot. Pansy watches dust settle, and thinks about light and darkness. Character death.

So what happened to Sirius Black after he stepped through the doorway and left Harry's world? Who does he meet there... and will he ever come back from The Land Beyond the magic?

A dystopic story set after Harry Potter wins the war and becomes Minister of Magic. He does his best and is completely oblvious to what is happening around him. Hermione goes missing and Ron finds her; that's when their troubles begin. Ron tries to understand what is happening, while others make plans to strike back and escape. They forgot to take Luna into account, however.

Young Severus Snape enters to Hogwarts for first time. How will his schooltime go? Warning of school teasing! Please read and review!

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.

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.

There is a place, it exists for nearly all of us, that seems to serve solely as the physical manifestation of everything that reminds us that we are imperfect, uncomfortable, or simply don\'t belong. This place, for Sirius, is none other than the drawing room in Grimmauld Place. A Sirius Marauders-era fic.

How serious can a boggart really be? It can be a simple fear of spiders or something more horrifying, like the fear of fear itself. Sirius has an all different fear: the fear of someone's disapproval. Semi-Sequel to The Boggart.

Even in the deepest friendships, we are ultimately alone.

'You start to wonder what happened to all of the others who fell from the edge, and why they’re not keeping you company. Why you’re not seeing the dry white bones floating by like the candles in Hogwarts.'

After the battle in the Department of Mysteries, Ron and Ginny retreat into their home and each other. Until Luna arrives to rock their tiny world.

Neville Longbottom realises that his admiration for his third-year Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher isn't just hero-worship... it's love.

Mistakes of the past become nightmares of the future. Snape views a memory in the Pensieve he would rather forget. Snape/Lily.

Drucila Weasley, cousin to Ronald and the others is coming to Hogwarts. Placed in Harry's sixth year. She comes from Durmstrang and she is absolutely disgusted by Harry Potter. All seems well on the train until they get a message that Hogwarts has collapsed. How did it happen? Where will they stay? What house will Dru be in? What will happen in the way of romance? (Drucila IS Ron's age and year)

Vinyl isn't just something to wear. Music, mayhem and Muggle love abound during the summer of Harry's fifth year. To be played at maximum volume...

Epilogue to Nine Months in F Minor.``Hermione and Ron's relationship finally reaches the next level; Harry makes a confession; and Draco's punishment is finally realized. H/G, Hr/R Quite angsty.

Two friends sit reminiscing about the past and remembering better times. But the arrival of dire news causes arguments to erupt and choices to be made. Guilt is still felt, the past is remembered, but he won’t let it happen again.

Something good comes out of Malfoy’s favouritism - Goyle learns that he can do well. Non slash, in character, in canon, cheering fic!

First sequel to "Somewhere in my Past". When Harry first opened his eyes that night, it was Draco he first thought of.

Snape's reaction to Sirius' death - and the repercussions.

Draco loves music, and plays the piano like no other. Harry just soars.

I would be just too depressed. There would be rumors and speculation about things no one had the faintest idea about. Stories and slander I didn’t want to deal with. The Boy Who Lived didn’t want to deal with it anymore.

As he is brutally told his brother fled the house, Regulus understands he has to make Sirius come back. He'd prefer not to think about their differences.

Harry has returned from his fifth year at Hogwarts and now everything that has happened has started to sink in. He also learns he must say goodbye to someone before he can move on.

Remus Lupin was part of the mischief-making band of the Marauders when he was in school. Now, twenty years later, he is once again meeting someone who good life can be. Remus/Tonks.

A cliche line: every hero needs a dragon to be slain-- Harry got one.

Today is THE day. Pansy waits for Draco to propose. But what is this? Cold feet?

It's Christmas Eve and Penelope Clearwater is about to make a decision that will change her whole life. Percy/Penelope. Set during Ootp.

Regret. Grief. Longing. What he kept from everyone. How it really feels to loose so much at sixteen.

Alone. The word bounced around in his head, reverberating over and over. He’d always been alone, even in a crowded room. Had anyone else in history ever been so isolated as he?

Harry has lost his glasses. What does Draco have to do with it?

Five different beginnings for Ron Weasley. Ron/Luna, Ron/Padma, Ron/Pansy, Ron/Cho, Ron-Draco.

Elliot Wood doesn't want to be known as Oliver's little sister, the Weasley twins' other friend, the smart girl, or the girl who dated Cedric. How far will she go to get out from under the shadow of everyone else?

‘He was older than me by three years, so naturally he thought that he knew everything before I did.’ ````Regulus Black reflects on Sirius and their relationship earlier on in life.

Ever wondered about that scar above Dumbledore's left knee (the one that was a "perfect map of the London Underground")? Or why he said scars can be useful? Or why he likes chamber music? This story explores all those things, and also speculates about how Severus Snape spent the summer before Harry Potter started at Hogwarts. Two wizards meet a Muggle woman who learns something about magic, and about her own family.

Adonis Rookwood was brought under mysterious circumstances to the Rookwood household, the most notorious and wealthy Wizarding clan in Britain, on the day of his birth. Katherine Reynold is a driven young witch who lost her mother to the hands of war. So what do these two have in common? Lord Voldemort. Their meeting was no coincidence, for there are no real coincidences. And as their seemingly different worlds clash, both begin to unravel Lord Voldemort's hidden past through cryptic objects, dangerous encounters, and tales from the most unlikely of people. Throughout their journey, not only do they learn of how Tom Riddle became the Dark Lord, but of themselves, and what it truly means to be human.