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"No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere." ~Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto VI).

Written for V.M. Bell's Song Title challenge. Ron recounts the time Malfoy called him a monkey in his fifth year and the repercussions it caused for Malfoy.

Picture a cool, pleasant night, the vast final frontier glimmering with heavenly bodies. You are seated comfortably under a weeping willow, contemplating well, life, really. What happens when, as usual, the Boy Who Lived enters your mind? This is basically a short, spur-of-the-moment idea; I sincerely hope I did my job.

Although she wishes she could Lily knows that she cannot protect Harry forever.

Amy Black is not related to the famous pureblood Blacks, nor is she anyone important, nor does she have a life of drama. Nope, Amy Black is just a quiet bookworm that gets straight A's and is an outcast. She has no real life... at least that is what she lets everyone else think...

It's not easy to let go of the past, especially the good times. (Ron/Hermione, Ron/Remus)

Your body gives but then holds back``The sun is bright ``The sky is black``Can only be another sign``I cannot keep what isn’t mine`` ``How can I tell if you mean what you say?``You say it so loud``But you sound far away``Maybe I had just a glimpse of your soul``Was that your shadow I saw on the wall?`` ``I’m watching you disappear``But you``you ``were``never``here...

Do you the way she looks at you? She looks at you with that utmost admiration and passion. But you don’t see it.

What do you do when you realise every choice you have ever made has brought you to a dead end? Draco remembers his relationship with Harry as the Final Battle rages around him.

"Was it pity though? Love? Duty? Revenge? She honestly couldn’t say. The lines were so blurred where her family was concerned that she doubted she would ever be able to sort it all out."````Andromeda pays Bellatrix a visit in Azkaban.

Hermione is having a baby and Ron thinks back to when he finally got the courage to ask her out and when they got married. One-shot.

"Isn't it weird how joy can have you almost come apart just when things are at their most perfect?"

Hermione Granger writes two poems, one before the war and one after. The poems are very different. What changed?

In the summer after OotP, Hermione reflects on her childhood, her friendship with Harry and Ron, and her role in the coming war. Philosophical.

sleep-deprived Hermione on the edge of nervous breakdown and an anxious Snape talk a walk down memory lane.

This is after Sirius's death, kinda gloomy I think.

As a war they never asked to be a part of rages around them, Sirius and Remus begin to suspect each other as things start to slowly change. Five unadultered angsty drabbles.

A brief glimpse into the lives of Lycurgus Randall and Selena Lowell of the Werewolf Support Services as they fight an uphill battle to do their job.

Draco was the reason Blaise could see thestrals, and Blaise was the reason that Draco could see thestrals. And thestrals only bring misfortune upon the ones who see them.

It seemed only to be a blink of the eye in memory, but in actual fact it had been time enough for entire worlds to change. As a mother, Hermione finds her life to be nothing quite like what she could ever have imagined. Unspoken words held as much weight as those said aloud. Rationality in an irrational world created ramifications she could not have forseen.

After settling into her new life, Hermione is surprised by fugitive Draco Malfoy.

When the curse on the position of DADA teacher claims another victim and as the war with old Voldy escalates, Dumbledore decides that he needs to bring new blood to the faculty. A Coven of five American witches steps up to meet the challenge. After the farce in the DoM, Harry, who is getting more powerful by the day, needs training if he is going to face the Dark Lord and live. When new information is revealed, ties are formed, it becomes clear that Harry just may have found the power that the dark lord knows not. Ignores HBP and DH.

"He went there because he wanted to remember, and he stayed because he had no other place to be." In the time between the Order of the Pheonix and Goblet of Fire Remus returns to a familiar place, and is met by a familiar face.

Frank Longbottom faces the most dangerous case in his career as an Auror when asked to infiltrate the Ministry's Specialised and Organised Crimes Squad. Rated R for inappropriate language, violence and adult themes. Welcome to Gangland!

On Pansy's wedding day, as she awaits the time for the ceremony to start, Draco sneaks into her room to visit her...and tell her of the deeper import of the gift that he has sent her. If she will only do as he tells her, Pansy's actions will change the face of the wizarding world forever...

Snape confesses to Dumbledore that he is a Death Eater.

Post-HBP AU. Dumbledore is dead. Draco thinks that things can't get any worse. He's wrong.

Buried in my thick red sheets I trace the gold trim until I can no longer keep my eyes open. I am becoming afraid to sleep. Harry tries to come to terms with life's obligations.

After defeating Voldemort, Harry becomes a professor at Oxford, but what could possibly happen for him to stop teaching?

Will Harry heed Winky's cryptic warning? Will his journey from Platform 8 and 13/16 be a safe one? What alcohol-powered device has Ginny shoplifted from the Azkaban Gift Shop? Does Draco Malfoy really have the post owl's eyes? Will an epic battle with the lunch trolley witch end in triumph? Is The Sorting Hat's new live album scorching Billboard magazine's charts? Which political party does the Giant Squid favor? Has Hedwig chosen a lifestyle of wanton sexual abandon? Have Harry's summer drug sales been lucrative? I answer these burning questions and so many more inside!

"When someone we love dies, we always think that they’ll come back to us, that they would never leave us. Admit it, you do don’t you? But, if you’re alive you can’t be a ghost, even if you are alive trapped in the Veil world, the world for those who are waiting." Sirius’ thoughts of the world behind the Veil. Not dead yet, he must wait until old age kills him before truly leaving the world. A one shot fic on what might go on behind the Veil.

The new Gryffindor prefects share a private moment to congratulate each other at number twelve, Grimmauld Place. The twins help. A one-shot, missing moment from OotP.

Hannah Grace Abbott drones on about her dull, dull life. Maybe she's just too blind to see that she's needed in the Hufflepuff house.

Sirius and Regulus need each other, they're brothers after all. But Regulus can't remain the boy Sirius loves, and change is bound to happen.

Mrs. Lestrange plots, plans and waxes homicidal in her cell at Azkaban prison.

Every mother fears the very worst happening to their child; for Circe Lupin, this has become a reality.

How much equality is possible in a relationship? How far can reciprocity go, particularly between people in different worlds? Bill Weasley and a Muggle during the second war. Slash.

Harry has been taken by Draco Malfoy as revenge for killing Voldemort and his father. He wants to keep Potter as a prisoner until he is brainwashed into doing evil. Can Harry take it much longer? Will he realize what is going on? Song-fic to Linkin Park's 'Numb'

Following the life of one Damien Malfoy, son of Draco and Ginny Malfoy.

The rain. For many people it means sadness and pain, but not for Draco Malfoy. His thought about the significance of the rain for him and Harry. Harry/Draco (mild-slash)

Takes place at the end of the fifth book. Neville reflects.

Once upon a time there was a boy who could not live...Sequel of sorts to "The Boy Who Could See." Another story living in the shadow of the Dark Arts with H/D subtext.

Harry falls into another reality. One where his parents are alive, his arch-enemy is his best friend, and he is Voldemort's right hand man. Will going to see his parents solve anything and what does Dumbledore have to say about it?

He had plans for them all, but underestimating one Terry Boot will get you killed. Story in the form of a series of long drabbles.

Darkfic. Nothing is what it seems, and what seems to be real isn't. Harry Potter explains his succumbing from savior to murderer and how four people, including his best friend, were killed by his own hand. Seduction and the edge of madness. HP/RW; HP/DM. Warning: smut (strictly R-rated, though), slash, Dark!Harry, and naughty *tsk tsk* language.

A Dr/Hr songfic. She walks into the realization of her dreadful dreams while he is about to wake into the same nightmare.

Harry's been having bad dreams about a screaming book.

In which Luna Lovegood rhapsodizes on storybook lovers, radishes, and Harry Potter.

Molly Weasley has good days and bad days.

"At night he sees Him falling, over and over again, even though he wasn’t in the right place to see it at all, on the other side of the towertop, but then Harry has always had a better imagination than he would have liked." Spoilers for HBP.

Draco's made a deal with an angel--or is it the devil. With whose blood will he pay for his escape, his exodus? The time to use his dagger has finally come at long last.

Ron is trying to find a way to get over the love he once knew and can he do it with out realizing it? (One shot.)

Parvati leads an adventurous life seeking out places among the wizarding world long forgotten by time and history. But only one has changed her life, and etched itself into her memory forever.

The Lestranges would do anything for Lord Voldemort. Anything at all. Bellatrix/Rodolphus, disturbing.

Have you ever thought what happened that evening we lost Padfoot? Have you ever thought how the Ministry's Phone Booth works?

Frank Longbottom and fellow Auror Alice Belby talk after Frank uses an Unforgivable Curse for the first time.

July 1977 and July 1996 both had blue moons. Written for dogdaysofsummer, prompts of July 1st and 2nd.

When her father is captured by Voldemort, Luna, whose life hasn't been easy, tells Harry the story of her deceased mother. Friendship pairing.

What does it mean to forget? What does it mean to be forgotten? Is oblivion akin to forgiveness? Peter Pettigrew reflects on the irreversibility of one's deeds and the inescapability of life.

The war is over, and it has taken a drastic toll on the entire wizarding world. Each person must pay the price in his or her own way.``For Draco, the price is too great.``Can he bear it, or will the cost of the war haunt him... Forever?

Even after Sirius has come to lie low, Remus has nightmares.

In the final moments of life, what will happen before death?

Moonlight and forests. Waking dreams and living grief. ````Short, complex and poetic, this piece looks at the days between the battle of the Ministry and Harry going home.

‘Under a dictatorship, active resistance can only be practised by those who pretend to collaborate with the regime.’ Werner Heisenberg, 1901-1976

Hermione and Ron have another of their famous rows, though maybe he has gone too far this time. She wanders through the school corridors in tears, till she finds an unexpected source of comfort.

Yes, it's true, Sirius speaks from Beyond The Veil to Remus Lupin. He tells a captivating tale of what he's endured, and what may very well be his fate.

"Ron woke up that Saturday in the middle of the day, with butterflies fluttering about in his stomach. No…they were not butterflies; they were carnivorous steel birds nibbling on the insides of his fragile heart. A bit exaggerated, yes, but that’s what it feels like when it is Valentine’s Day, and you are going to tell the women you love that you worship the very ground she walks on..."

Draco Malfoy's finally got what he wants - an induction to the Society. But will a complication on his first mission ruin his chances of rising through the ranks? Or will he ruthlessly erase said complication and continue on his path of death and destruction?

Missing scene from OotP, at the beginning of the chapter 'Luna Lovegood'. Ron watches Harry sleep.

After seven years the final battle of the Second War comes to Hogwarts... And Hogwarts is ready for it.

Five-years-old Andromeda is okay with Bellatrix being older, because there's nothing Bella can do Andromeda can't do just as well. Isn't there?

Hermione sighed softly as she thought of the dozens of other cemeteries they had visited in the past week. It seemed that the entombment of the revered war dead would never end. "And now it's Fred's turn," she thought with a cringe. Fred's funeral from Hermione's POV.

Neville Longbottom always seemed an odd choice to be in Gryffindor House. A timid, meek, clumsy boy, Neville always seemed the object of ridicule. A one-shot fic of a tortured mind and its desperate attempts to prove its boldness.

The beast inside is something you can't deny. And sometimes... sometimes you don't want to. Draco/Remus.

It's five years after Draco Malfoy graduated from Hogwarts, and his relationship with his father, as well as his unexpected feelings for Ginny Weasley, seem to change his mind about Voldemort's cause. WARNING: dark fic, character death. Also a tissue might come in handy...

The Hufflepuff story of what went on the night they stopped looking up to Ernie.

Funerals and phoenix feathers and resolution. Harry and Remus say goodbye.

It's almost Christmas, and Ginny is remembering Harry's promise to be home for Christmas and thinking about what the past has held and what the future may bring. Author's Note: This was written prior to DH so I did not know what would happen at the holidays. Therefore it is AU due to what occurred in DH.

"Ginny still thinks about him sometimes – she doesn’t really know why." Ginny Weasley ponders the question of Tom Riddle.

Ginny Weasley was taking a slow stroll around the Hogwarts corridors until she finds herself at a window, peering out. Everyone is enjoying themselves on this beautiful day except for one person.... HP/GW, implied RW/HG, NL/LL, GW/DT.

Deathfic. She swore to never use the Killing Curse unless her love ever married another...this is the end, and she's put it off long enough. Her love has married and had kids, and still she has hung on...she must give it all up now.

Lucius Malfoy was a Death Eater, had been one since he was a youth of seventeen. During his years as a Death Eater he had enjoyed the thrill of killing people, of seeing red. Torn between faimly, his blood and the desire to kill, Lucius struggles.

Some things never change, and one of those things is the way that Molly Weasley feels about her children. But some there are some events in the wizarding world that are beyond her control, and sometimes change is inevitable.

Hogwarts, seventh year. A sequence of vignettes around Ron's inability to ask a girl to the Graduation Ball. Among those helping out is Luna, who, as always, has an unorthodox way of giving a hand. Will Ron get the girl with Luna's help?

Sequel to Music of the Night - Voldemort's Other Side. Learn more of why Voldemort became what he now is, and how. And learn too, of what the Chanson de Nuit does when it possesses you.``Welcome once more to Voldemort's mind.``This time, there is no escape without death.

When a new charcater comes to Hogwarts, some things are changed around. Young, smart, and a genius, Artemis Riddle is transferred. Harry, Ron, and Hermione don't expect much, but what they do get is something of a surprise.

Peter Pettigrew is dead by his own hand. Remus Lupin shares the news of Wormtail's death with Sirius Black and the Potters, and ponders how he feels about it.

Albus Potter's first year at Hogwarts. Mysterious attacks, an inept headmaster, and a Sorting Hat that's coming apart at the seams make it an interesting experience.

Narcissa does not let her facade crack, because the appearance of disinterest in what others are saying is the only mask left for her.

Harry's lifeline without an ending, the way Ron used to be, a brief Draco/Hermione romance, what it means to be a lion, and tales of what blood means. All these stories told in a few poems of my own creation...

Two boys. Two intentions. One aim they never would of thought could be the same. It's the penultimate year in Hogwarts and lots of things are about to change. No slash.

The war has ended, and Pansy finds that she has never been so scared for Draco Malfoy as she is now.

Ron Weasley eats a Chocolate Frog, feels rejuvenated, helps Harry move, becomes a member of "Weird Sisters," writes a song called "I Wanna Be Sinister"; the adoring public misinterprets the lyrics, and then Ron gets made the Minister of Magic. Based on the Snickers commercial. All the Yanks know what I'm talking about.

Ron and Hermione have nothing else better to do, so what do they do? They have innocent quarrels!

AU/Quarte universe. Everyone goes off to the final battle between the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix... but what happens if the Order loses?

“Don’t do this, Harry!” Hermione would plead, words falling into the well-worn track. She knew as well as he did what was coming next, like a gambit in wizard chess. Two more moves to checkmate.

Ron bakes a cake for Kingsley and Tonks, and everyone gets their just desserts. Featuring twin banter and a surprise twist.

It's been a year since the end of the War of Darkness, and the Rending of the Veil. Relations between the Muggle and Wizarding worlds are just beginning to calm, and slow progress is being made to restore the barrier between the worlds. Magic is at its weakest--and strangest--and a few old heroes are back to restore the balance.

After James and Lily are killed and Sirius narrowly escapes Azkaban, he and Remus take on the job of making Harry’s life with the Dursleys a little less miserable. Written for the Raising Harry Ficathon on Livejournal. Totally AU.

You-Know-Who [not Voldemort] is dying, and reflecting on how much he loves Harry, and that he wishes he could have told him that.