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Written PreHBP. “Don’t do anything rash,” Draco tried again. Without taking his eyes of the knife Potter whispered, “Give me a reason Draco. Just a single one.”

What is love? Sirius was barely sixteen when he had his first idea of what love was. He had just been convicted for murdering thirteen people, when he realised what love was. He had thirteen years to ponder love, but it took him fifteen to realise it: The tenderest part of love is to forgive each other. Will Sirius be able to forgive the one he loved and more importantly: Will Sirius be able to forgive himself?

What does the all-powerful Half Blood Prince think of Harry Potter? His unbiased (ahem!) opinions may surprise you ...

It's the summer after fifth year, and the last place Harry wants to be is Grimmauld Place. So of course, that's exactly where he is, still wrestling with his guilt and anger. Is there anything that can bring him peace? Harry opens his bureau and finds something unexpected.

"You sit in the darkness. It’s late. In the perfect houses across the road small squares of yellow light are a rare sight. The polished windows, marked by the brief passage of indistinct grey forms, fade into the characteristic black holes puncturing the neat arrangement of bricks. Privet Drive is empty. You’ve seen it before. In your mind you can map out every door, every flowerbed, even the infinite arrangement of light reverberations on the cement, the geometry of every wall." A dark fic full of dark thoughts. Warning, contains references to self-harm! What say ye? Hard-core angst? Nonsense...

Nobody ever sees themselves, unless it's from another's eyes. Terry has nightmares, and Michael feels helpless. Slight slash. (Alludes to an attack in Hogsmeade in which a character dies.)

One January night in 1981, six year-old Percy Weasley writes a story about a dark and stormy night and the "bad wizards". He has questions about the war that neither of his parents are sure how to answer.

At the end of sixth year, Draco had some troubles, the only person that noticed, cared and did something about it was Harry. Angsty. A little fluffy, but not bad, and a short little ficlet. This is one of my first fics ever! *sniff*

"But at the ends of the earth, will the deep end be any different than the shallow if we are there for the same purpose?" Someone thinks about a certain death and his great promise to Harry after the funeral.

It's about Snape and his heart's desire

When Organized Wizarding Crime boss Vladimir Brezhnev finds that his longtime rival/enemy has a terrible new ally, a stolen dark magic artifact that could allow him to harness the terrible power kept in the Dept. of Mysteries and a ministry official on his side too, all hell breaks looseÐliterally. (Harry and Draco and some other originals briefly come into it, too.)

One boy lost, another one saved. A son of a Death Eater must make a decision.

Alternate ending for "Pretend to Sleep". In which Draco's life becomes a bit more than he can handle, Harry forgets to be the hero, and Ron forgives Draco...at the last minute.

His story begins too many times to count; in fact, it is always beginning, just as surely as time is always existent. But he does not own the story, for time is too great for one to reign, and Harry Potter is too powerful for anyone, even his son, to possess. And besides, fate is untamable, and choices are to the decider. But even if the story isn’t his, he is the story’s. And there are no endings, but only beginnings for Mark Evans; for Mark Potter.

Sometimes guilt eats you up and makes you reveal things you don’t want to. Sometimes what causes the guilt is so bad the reprocussions for you are enormous. What if you were taken by the enemy in a war for your beliefs? And what if you let the enemy comfort and protect you? What sort of person would you be? A traitor? Explories Ginny’s feelings in a post-Hogwarts G/D darkfic.

After becoming privvy to Harry's prophecy while being kidnapped, Ron is forced to make a terrible decision.

Phoenix Bannon thought she was just an ordinary, if unusually lonely, teenage girl. Then on the night of her sixteenth birthday, she is told who... and what she really is. She goes to Hogwarts during the sixth year of the trio, and learns some unusual things about herself, and those around her.

Hagrid gets his life back.

After the term ends, Severus Snape reflects upon the death of an old enemy.

The weirdest fic you've ever read. Written by alternating words between insane authors. Includes a burned-down school, a squashed rat, and Brad Pitt.

After a heart-breaking letter from Ron, Harry reflects on what life has thrown at him.

It is a long journey towards being Sirius Black again; Remus watches it happen.

"We're marked, you and I, by Voldemort." Can allegiances be formed out of old misunderstandings?

There are only a few people capable of telling centuries worth of historical knowledge. Fortune is one of them. Since the dawn of time, she has watched people make decisions regarding destinies and fate, and in all of her watching, Fortune has chosen her favourites. They are different, yet at the same time alike, and only one word can describe them all --- They are all brave.

Sirius sneaks out of Grimmauld Place for a much-needed bike ride and gets thinking, which causes an unfortunate incident involving a ditch. A light read that will (hopefully) amuse.

Draco has been abused by his father for as long as he can remember. The marks are usually gone by the time he has to go back to school. But not this time. He couldn't leave soon enough, & now he has to find out how to keep his home life a secret. Most people don't think twice about it (this IS Draco Malfoy), but one red-headed girl can't stomp on her curiosity. She has to know.... The relationship that blossoms drags Draco out of his ongoing deep depression, & puts Ginny at the forefront of her family's conversations - & not in a good way. But how long can this relationship last? How long will everyone let it? Soon, Draco will have to choose between his love for his mother, & his new-found-love, for he fears he won't be able to have both.

A world of Weasleys to choose from and all of them diverse.``Why choose just one when I could have the lot and say it all in verse.

We could escape when Hogwarts burnt down in the last days of the war and Harry was killed. We did survive when the shadow covered the land and civilization was destroyed. Now, after twenty years, we are still hiding and waiting for signs that will speak of a brighter future, signs of confidence and hope. We know that we are not alone. Not everyone has died. Many of our former friends are scattered all over the land, and they are waiting for us. Finally it's time to leave. A message has come, sending us to the ruins of Hogwarts. We will follow the path that leads into the unknown North. Maybe we will live, maybe we will die - one thing is sure: our fate is the fate of the Land.

Ginny decided long ago that she wouldn't wish for anything from Harry. So why is she standing here waiting for him in the freezing cold?

What if the Veil in the Department of Mysteries does not, in fact, lead immediately to death as wizards have always believed? In this epic tale of adventure, risk, and true love, two of Sirius Black's closest friends uncover evidence that the Veil is merely a portal to another world... an Otherworld full of its own sort of dangers. Rescue attempts are never the easiest of undertakings. And in the women's valiant efforts to recover Sirius, they may just have to sacrifice other things (and people) very near and dear to their hearts.

Ginny Weasley is sick of being forgotten and ignored, so she tries to kill herself. Dumbledore finds her just in time, and sends her home where she discovers more about the mysterious threads she can see. Draco Malfoy becomes involved later on.

Songfic to Broken by Evanescence... Lily/Lucius... In order to protect her love, she had to walk away with her unborn child, a child Lucius has no clue about. Seventeen years later, after the day of that tragic event, Lucius finally knows. His reaction and his role in the ending of Voldemort.

God, she loved him when he was being dense. Draco/Ginny

His tattered robes hung loosely about his shoulders as ribbons of blood streamed down his exposed chest. Black hair matted against his neck. A coarse beard irritated his pale skin, though he refused to complain. There were much worse matters to resolve. Wiping a bead of sweat from his brow, he gripped his wand even harder. Glittering stones of onyx darted back and forth across the battlefield, assessing the situation.

fragile (adj.) 1. easily broken or damaged, 2. weak and uncertain; easily destroyed or spoilt, 3. delicate and often beautiful. Example: A fragile alliance / relationship. ``A series of three scenes, exploring the frail beauty of budding friendship, love, and how easily it all shatters. H/G

It takes a will of steel to tame a dragon, but some are all too willing to be caught. H/D dark!slash.

Regulus can't follow him, even though he wants to. He has to stay behind and do everything his brother never did.

"Harry sobbed into the old man's shoulder. Remus was all he had left, the last link to his parents’ memory, the last link to Sirius. Harry couldn't lose Remus."

Regulus Black faced death in order to bring about the Dark Lord's demise, but a house-elf's disobedience creates a world very different from the one we know. The First War continues and the Order must defeat Voldemort without the help of a chosen one. AU

James Potter struggles to learn that marriage means compromise. When you don't, there are consequences.

Regulus Black intends to try out for the Slytherin Quidditch team in his second year. He does it, however, for reasons that might not be the best. No matter what, certain Gryffindors will do anything to see that he fails. Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge.

What do you get if you start with a very moody Ginny, you add a rampant Bludger and then you go and mix in a little Harry Potter? Mild profanity, some H/G fluff.

Ginny Weasley looks back on her first year. A huge battle is going to take place soon, and she feels that she is all alone in the world.... (T/G, hints of H/Hr)

It's Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, and he can't beieve how hellish his life is. Dumbledore, his long thought mentor, is starting to shun him- whenever they do end up talking, they argue... until Harry finally loses control.

A liberal twist on the romance of Cho Chang and Cedric Diggory. Secrets, kisses, and whispers all over.

After defeating Voldemort, Harry spends the next year in hiding, unsure of how to go about living in a world where he no longer has that burden on his shoulders. Just when he is about to reconsider joining society, he is blamed for a devastating murder. Those who hear from him are the only ones surely-rooted in their belief that Harry is innocent. It turns out, that the first murder is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what someone has plotted to try and bring down the world's hero--Harry. Never knowing just who to trust, or what to do next, Harry must thrust himself back into the world he hid from, avoid capture at all costs, and prove his innocence to everyone.

Harry is lonely. Draco finds him. ````Harry/Draco. Implied possible previous Harry/Sirius.

Harry is deeply depressed and feels lost since the death of Sirius. He receives an important message from Sirius in his dreams.

"Avada Kedavra!" Voldemort spoke the words almost lazily. A smile was on his face but his eyes were cold. Some had said that the curse didn’t kill if you don’t mean to. But he did and so he died...

Wrong turns in this maze called "life" invariably lead to brick walls. H/D.

The only telephone psychic and medium in Little Whinging gets a call.

Harry just seems to have this horrible problem with getting into other people's pensieves, doesn't he? At least this time, he didn't really have a choice. Inside Prof. Snape's pensieve, he finds that Snape once found true love. The only problem: the girl he loved was a self-serving idiot. How does Snape get out of this situation? It's not the most wonderful way.

About two of the characters dying. The title is kinda bad but hopefully the story is better. Rating is just to be safe.

I was disappointed with some of the luke-warm-ness of the death in OOTP. Searching deeper into and between the words in canon, this popped out...

To return, after the war, the scars and all the loss, is to remember. A few of our favorites subconsciously meet in the courtyard, post-war, and reflect, reminisce, and sing Kenny Chesney.

After Harry defeats Voldemort, he makes one mistake; a mistake that will come back to haunt him.

Near the end of OotP, Malfoy tells Potter he’s going to pay, and now it’s time for him to cash in. Be warned: this is not pretty.

“I should have stayed and helped. I should have gone back. I shouldn’t have gone in the first place. I should never have gotten mixed up in this. Draco, what have we done? What are we doing? There’s not a goddamn good reason for any of it. Why do we do this to ourselves?”

"But it was golden, that one summertime dreaming." Padma/Pavarti.

What is a chicken doing near the subtle science and exact art that is potion making? Why is Luna sitting at the Gryffindor table--why does she wish to be a farm animal? For what possible reason am I running for my life?``Sadly, the world may never know.

'He who offers to me with devotion only a leaf, or a flower, or a fruit, or even a little water, this I accept from that yearning soul, because with a pure heart it was offered with love.' - The Bhagavad Gita, 9:27. Arthur Weasley receives a visitor. A little alternative scene set during OotP, with references to incest and slash.

This is the story of the journey of young Albus Dumbledore and his school friends to India after their last year at Hogwarts. There they find great perils, wonders and a baby squid...

Hannah Abbott is a typical Hufflepuff, isn't she? She's safe, loyal and boring.

It's been a long time coming, but Draco finally finds what he's been looking for. H/D. Part of Scenes From A Hat, Part One.

A Holiday-Fic. It was a lovely day at the snow-filled park...

A few brief glimpses into James and Lily's last days.

A glimpse of how it looks to Ginny Weasley when she collapses from the inside. A story of the consequences of falling for the darkest love in the world and how when you leave him he doesn't always leave you.

Sirius Black thinks Lucius Malfoy is like the North Sea.

Harry's first night at 12 Grimmauld Place after a month with the Dursleys and a Dementor attack. After a troubling month of isolation from the wizarding world, Harry finds a bit of solace and comfort.

Summer after seventh year. Ron looks back on the final battle and tries to deal with the loss of loved ones. Songfic to "I'm Movin' On" by Rascal Flatts (contains some language).

Padma doesn't believe in Japanese mythology. That's too bad, really...

A chronicle of a pivotal night in the lives of Alastor Moody, Igor Karkaroff, and Regulus Black. Character study, not three-way romance, to those with their minds in the gutter.

"None of her five oldest brothers posed any problems when it became obvious she was a girl... Ron was the one who always brought conflict and strife when it came to her roles as a girl and a sister." Ginny Weasley reflects on the trials of being a best friend and sister.

Harry, Ron and Hermione were best friends. Everyone knew that. So when something horrible happens to one of them, it means something horrible happens to all of them. It seemed logical that they would find comfort in each other. But logic is hardly useful when you just want to cry yourself to sleep.

"You know, Potter, we'll never be friends."

Ginny is stolen from her very bed, and finds herself locked in a Tower. What is she thinking?

The last act of the war, Luna and Harry are trapped within Voldemort's cell. Harry is ready to give up. Luna teaches him that there is something much more. Prequel to Classic Stigma. NOT Luna/Harry, sorry.

Ron, aided by bottle of butterbeer and the sight of Luna Lovegood's arse, lays some of his own demons to rest. H/H from a lovelorn redhead's point of view.

She smiles at everyone when she tells them hello. She smiles often. But she rarely laughs. And she's falling from life.

"Where had the hate gone? The pain? The violence? How could this be better than that?"````Harry, Draco, the freezing cold, and both too dumb to realize the obvious in a well heated facility.

Irrational, unreasonable and confused; Draco writes a letter to his incarcerated father. Though it is never to be sent, it helps to relieve some of the inner-turmoil he is feeling. First in the ‘Hidden Letters’ series.

After James and Lily's deaths, Remus wants answers. It would help if he knew the right questions.

Three years later, Ginny still remembers him.

The much-anticipated companion piece to The Wound Dresser, told in quick glimpses. The morning after Bill's wedding, Harry, Ron and Hermione set out in search of Voldemort's soul, leaving Ginny - and a piece of Harry's heart - behind. As the many horrors of Voldemort's reign besiege the Wizarding world, the trio soldiers on, and eventually find help from the least likely of sources. As the final confrontation spirals ever nearer, Harry wonders if he'll ever see Ginny again, or if there is even anything left to the world worth saving. A long story told short...

Lord Voldemort, through his evil sorcery, has brought back his ancient mistress, the eternally feared witch, Morgana, with whom he can effortlessly take over the wizarding world. What he did not plan on, however, was for Morgana's half-sister, Irisel, to return as well, in the form of one Virgina Weasley. Ginny, suffering through her own loss, must journey far from Hogwarts in search of the long forgotten Fay, the ancient folk of Avalon, to uncover Irisel's past and learn of an age old secret that could change the wizarding world forever. With the hesitant help of Draco Malfoy, who is severely poisoned (and only Irisel knows the cure), Ginny will face all the evil hell has to offer and help Harry Potter fulfill his destiny as well as her ow

An apprentice scribe recounts the story of the final moments of Remus Lupin.

Argus Filch breaks some difficult news to Irma Pince. Post-HBP.

Draco Malfoy learns that some mornings, he should just stay in bed. [Draco/Ginny]

The things they talk about in places only they know.

The hour is late. The pain is high. Hermione accepts, while Draco is taken by surprise. A happy ending--but at what cost?

"Once upon a time, Remus Lupin thought it would be a good idea to introduce his friends to the Beatles." Remus reminisces about days spent listening to the Beatles, falling for Sirius, and listening to James and Sirius argue over which one of them was John; at Grimmauld Place, he and Sirius try to hold on to what's left of those days. Slash, RL/SB.

Remus reflects on the memories he has of Sirius, and realizes who he really was. RL/SB slash.

Harry has lost the only father figure he has ever known, and now he is falling apart. Nobody can help him. He just wants it all taken away... Avril Lavigne song-fic

Ever since they met, he couldn't stop thinking about her... (James-centered fic)

Dean watches Luna with an artist's eye, and reflects on his obsession with drawing her.

AU. Voldemort accidentally turned Harry into a Horcrux on Halloween, 1981. That action further destabilized his already fragmented soul - creating yet another Horcrux, larger then the norm. This soul fragment successfully possesses a dying toddler abandoned at an orphanage, but fails to fully transfer Voldemort's memories. Tom gains his memories back as he grows older, but he is not content to simply remain Riddle's mirror image. And befriending Harry Potter seems a good start to finding his own path.

From fanfiction.net. What happens when two minor characters are selected to change the past and therefore change the future? One little detail can mean a lot. AU. Year of HBP.

The world is full of predators, choose your weapon carefully. If love is such a powerful weapon, why do knives sell so well?

Quinnellia Chamberlain, aka Quinn, has come to Hogwarts from the United States to finish her magical education. She is befriended by Lily Evans and her dormmates and for the first time in her life has good friends, is getting good marks, and is staying out of trouble. Until she tries out for the Quidditch team and is told by the Captin, James Potter, that girls don't play Quidditch at Hogwarts. Can Quinn and Lily beat some sense into James? Moreover, can Quinn stop thinking about her own problems long enough to help Lily with her own crisis