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It's been said that if walls could talk they would tell stories. What would the walls of Godric's Hollow say about the night Lily and James were murdered?

The night of Draco's initiation has arrived.

Harry looks into a Pensieve and discovers Luna was tortured during her stay at Malfoy Manor. He decides to make it up to her.

Arthur pays his distanced son a visit, with saddening results. Percy is obsessed with his work; he wants nothing to do with his family or his past. Yet there appears to be a justification for his actions, layered beneath an outer display of anger and condescension.

Draco has a mission.

Hermione Granger couldn't remember why, but the phenomenon of cutting and cutters had fascinated her as a child. She supposed there was always some smidgen of depression hiding deep in her soul. Maybe that was why she had to be so perfect in school. Maybe she was overcompensating for feelings of emptiness inside. She never wanted to know, so she never asked herself.

It's the summer after OotP, just before school starts again. Ron struggles to deal with his feelings surrounding Sirius' death.

Dolores was always the unwanted, unattractive child among a beautiful family.

Draco attempts to save Harry from eternal hellfire and damnation. Featuring hymns, dirty billboards, Muggle religion, and a rather irritated Harry.

Prequel to Twelve Years Later

A quick venture into the mind of one Draco Malfoy, aged seventeen. Homicidal? No. Suicidal? No. Sadistic? Definitely.

Bellatrix is staying at the Riddle House with her husband and stays up one night to do some thinking.

Hermione is going home from Hogwarts. She thinks about the Department of Mysteries and how Harry must feel. One shot on how Hermione interprets Harry's feelings.

His quest to destroy the Horcruxes leads Harry back to Hogwarts, where a new student hides from the Death Eaters' access. New allies join the resistance against Voldemort, but not all of them can be trusted. And the more Harry tries to unravel Voldemort's mysteries, the more dark secrets he finds - concerning the Order of the Phoenix...

After a lifetime of choices and hard pains, Remus looks back and realises there are seven truths he simply cannot deny -- even the silver lining can be tarnished.

Draco knew he’d go anywhere Harry led him.

Ginny Weasley has a secret with silver hair and a Dark Mark. No one knows, except her fiancee.

Terry's fifth year is terrible--he isn't prefect, there's some stupid defense club going around, and all Hogwarts Houses are a disgrace, among other things.

"It's too late"... Remus looks over some memoirs... A story of mourning, grief, unrequited love, and a letter that came 16 years too late.

The Samuriess are an intense cult that faded out in early history-or so everyone thinks. For thousands of years they have been waiting, and they have chosen this age to return. And they want Ginny Weasley for a warrioress...

The Golden Trio seemed destined to triumph, but nothing said they had to be good. A tale of a dark Trio and of their conquests.

One decision can make you lose everything. But, nobody ever said you can't try and get it all back. Post-Hogwarts. Songfic to "Nobody's Home" by Avril Lavigne.

“I do not know where this path leads. I am simply following the signs.” “Signs? Like the Virgin Mary appearing in a burrito?” “No. Not at all.” A look inside Severus's twisted mind on the night after the the Department of Mysteries fiasco. A song fic to Boulevard of Broken dreams, by Green Day.

Burning with zealous fire, she walks in time to the drum of her god, the drum that beats within her.

Remus thinks of what could have been. (Severus/Remus, Sirius/Remus)

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The trail is long and winding and Ron finds that he keeps stumbling over small twigs and pebbles. Harry walks steadily ahead of him, looking over his shoulder occasionally to make sure Ron is still there. He smiles and encourages the redhead. Ron stumbles every time Harry smiles. (HP/RW, Character Death)

At Sirius' funeral, Remus reflects on what might have been.

Ever wonder what would happen if the Harry Potter characters stumbled across a copy of 'Downfall'? How would they react to the extraordinarily unlikely and cliched situations I've thrust them into?

Ginny Potter wonders how, in eight years, she had never seen Matilda Malfoy. Now she and Harry have to decide how to deal with this new development. Third installment in the Not Enough series.

Hannah Abbot's life is shattered when she receives the news of her mother's death, but can anyone help to come to terms with her grief?

Remus Lupin lives a fairy tale. But he knows that only the modern ones have a happily ever after. Remus/Sirius

Tonks is attending Bill and Fleur's wedding. While there she advises Harry on his relationship with Ginny, and then gets a big surprise of her own. Author's Note: This was written prior to DH, so it does not follow canon as it relates to DH. Also the poem written here is not song lyrics as I am a poet at heart, many of my fictions have poetry in them. I can see Remus as a bit of a poet deep down inside, so I also tend to have him write poems to Tonks.

Narcissa mourns the loss of her father.

This is a companion piece to Alone: Narcissa's Story, from Harry's POV. He's feeling alone and can't quite understand why Draco decided to leave after all they've been through together. Angst and Slash, D/H of course.

After the war he's become someone else. He disregards her like she's nothing. A songfic from the viewpoint of a girl in distress; bet you can't guess who it is! Songfic to Smile Empty Soul's "For You."

Love pays no heed to reason, rhyme or logic, and Nymphadora Tonks is in love. Remus Lupin is something else entirely. (Remus/Tonks)

Whatever *did* happen to the bust of Paracelsus? Hermione Granger certainly had nothing whatsoever to do with it, thankyouverymuch.

Harry's back at Hogwarts for his sixth year, with a bulging beer-belly and some new friends. It's going to be a magnificent year with crazy things happening all the time....

Reminiscing on times forgotten is becoming my habit now. Never was I to stay in a dark room, in a dark house, waiting impatiently for the next wave of torture, simply to forget what I’d lost. Here I am, rotting without purpose, without dreams or thoughts, my mind blank and disconnected from the rest of the world.

Pre-DH. Song fic to the song "Butterfly Kisses." Anyone who knows Arthur Weasley knows that he has seven children - six sons and one daughter, Ginny. A story of the lives of Arthur and Ginny, and how Arthur's "little girl" grows up. Not slash!

There was a locket and a note, courtesy of R.A.B. Someone had to have left it there, and something had to have happened to the real Horcrux. Major HBP spoilers and speculation inside.

Lucius passes through the Veil and finds himself in a place which isn't death.

"I knew this was your way of saying that you loved me. I can admit that I always waited for the words, but knew I didn't need to hear them. They were in your touch, in the way you would look at me as if I was the only thing you needed in the world. No oxygen, no food, no shelter. Just me, and you would live forever." H/G.

A look at Percy Weasley's break from his family, from Percy's point of view. Why Percy might not be as much of a git as we all think.

What happens when Dumbledore decides that a play (or not, maybe) is what the students at Hogwarts need?

Draco has a miserable life. Every time he walks around this world, cursing himself about being a Death Eater, he experiences heart pain. The name Harry crosses his mind, but can Harry be enough to save him form this pain? Song from Evanescence. H/D Slash!

An alternate look at Petunia.

All his life he'd longed for solitude. Other desires had come and gone; power, fame, fortune, love, respect, some fulfilled and others simply forgotten. The one constant, the dream that had survived through it all, was this.

Inside the house a man and a woman sat close together, staring out of the second floor window, also watching and listening. The woman held a child close in her arms, clutching him as if his life depended on her constant crooning and kisses on the forehead. The man also reached over every few seconds to touch the child's cheek or smooth down his hair. `` “I can't stand this anymore, James,” the woman whispered.

Draco reflects as he says his goodbyes to Malfoy Manor.

Bill Weasley looks back on the day his father left. Oh, don't worry, Arthur never left them. I'm talking about the Weasleys' biological father, Justin Mages. Bill writes a letter to this man, but he has to force himself to remember that horrid day. This is what went on as Bill writes the letter.

We know that Sirius Black is gone. What actually happened when Sirius Black fell beyond the veil? Did he really die or did he just go another realm, reality or dimension? Set before end of OoTP, a missing moment. It's my creative take on it.

What would you do if you had to watch as the only person you ever loved was killed trying to save your life? Minerva's POV. MM/RL Rated for violence and language.

With the war finally over, Molly Weasley sits in the kitchen at Grimmauld Place to greet her family.

After Sirius' death, Harry remembers a day when he'd succumbed to the dragging hurt of his parents' death, a day when Sirius comforted Harry in a way neither of them had been expecting... (Angst and slash ahead)

I knew that this was the beginning of her life – the birth of a warrior queen.

Everywhere you turn there's sharp little reminders, digging into your feet, springing to mind when you least want or expect it. (Character death.)

Ron gets a tip about Draco in a broom closet with *gasp* a Hufflepuff! Slash Draco/Marcus the Hufflepuff.

Sirius Black jumped off the bike before it properly stopped. It rolled and fell against one of the standing walls of the ruined house. He ran, almost tripping over the wreckage, towards Hagrid's looming figure, sitting in the remains. He heard it then... crying...

Pansy endeavors to save her unborn child.

Peter is flung into the future and decides that he doesn't want to become Wormtail. He's disgusted and decides to find him so justice can be served.

Severus' life, as described by the Tarot.

As Regulus battles one of the biggest decisions of his life, he meets up with Sirius, who he hasn't seen in two years. Title explained inside. One-shot. Companion to Conversations with a Hat, Chapter 3.

There must have been a reason. Peter Pettigrew was not always a traitor. Something made him that way...

Driven mad by the horrific sights of war, Draco stumbles across a lonely battlefield, looking for someone he does not remember. H/D.

For Dudley's seventh birthday, he wants a puppy. In that puppy, Trouble, Harry finds his first best friend. But life is never fair to Harry as he gets his first taste of having something great ripped away from him.

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him." ~H. Mathews

What was it that made Lily Evans stop loathing James in their seventh year? This first-time fic writer takes a stab at it.

After an attack on the school using the Imperius curse a Slytherin victim tries to deal with the consequences of his actions. An OC driven fic with lots of Fred/Angelina. Companion piece to Unbreakable, Troubled Mind and Unforgiveable Sinner.

There were seven Lupin children, five girls and two boys. One boy would grow up to be loved by his family, his friends, and his students. As for the other? He wouldn't grow up at all...

"Everything they ever did was funny... Except for the things that weren't." [One-Shot] [MWPP-era]

Nobody ever really looks past the mask of 'Gryffindor Golden Girl.' Maybe if they did they would discover that she does have opinions on things other than her schoolwork.

How Charlie fell in love with his job.

The heart bleeds in a language indecipherable.

Taking place between the summer before Harry's sixth year and the final battle, this short one-shot finds Harry lost within his own thoughts as he muses about his destiny, his state of mind, that bloody prophecy, and everything going on around him of which he is only vaguely aware.

There is a siege against Hogwarts, and inside the school the students and teachers draw together for warmth, friendship, and what could be love. Many pairings, mainly H/D.

Albus Dumbledore agrees to interview an applicant for the divination job. A kiss and a prophecy prevail.

Attempts to educate the three daughters of Druella Black according to their station do not exactly go as planned.

"As I stare, my limbs lifeless, her eyes open. I see nothing but green." Snape reflects on the past and plans for the future. One shot, post HBP.

Harry commissions three rings to be made for the Trio. Harry begins to realize he has feelings for Hermione. The Trio needs to defeat Voldemort and they hope to use their combined powers to accomplish this.

Draco gets his soul back in a business transaction.

Remus worries about Luna's academic problems and eventually finds a solution that does both of them good.

A ficlet exploring the Marauders' relationship with time.

Sirius learns a lesson.

They were all he had in life, until that fateful night when the man he would come to hate, would destroy them...

Draco had always been enamored of beauty. Minor H/D. Part of Scenes From A Hat, Part Two.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved ... loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Victor Hugo) Ten years after the fall of Voldemort, Neville and Hannah Longbottom face a difficult moment in their marriage and experience the truth of that statement.

Draco’s obsession has a beginning, middle, and end - in all the wrong order. H/D

Words unspoken linger in the air, growing opaque and brittle with the passing of years. To speak them finally is to give them life, or to curse them to fall flat and shatter at your feet. ...

The war has begun, the Order of the Phoenix is fighting the Death Eaters, and she is neutral. Their worlds are black-and-white; hers is gray. She is alone, and she doesn't know who to believe in.

Nona and Rage are two rebels who don't care about anybody. Nona and Rage got kicked out of their realm, and landed in the mortal world. Magic keeps them alive, and only magic can destroy them. They desperately want to use magic and are about to. Toying with the prophecy is the goal in this game. Nona is the first to come to her senses. However, now they can’t stop.

This is another song fic, to the song "Stay or Leave" by Dave Matthews. Remus is having a lot of trouble getting over Sirius and retreats to the place they spent most of their time together. After a while, Harry comes to stay with him, and together they find they can heal one another.

Harry and Draco's relationship progressed from understanding, to trust, then love. Yet perhaps there is an underlying reason for their new connection. When trust is betrayed from a most unlikely source, it is realised only too late.

At Draco's wedding to Astoria, Pansy finally admits how upset she is to the most unexpected person, Ron Weasley, who is suffering from heartbreak of his own.

It was the fight of the century. A battle of epic proportions. And afterwards, it was vowed to never happen again. Never again would they battle for their kids' affections. Originally written for the 2008 Fall D/G Fic Exchange.

America is a place of new beginnings; a short glance in the mirror of what could've been. [AU; sug. Harry/Colin, slash, gen]

Harry had one childhood with the Dursleys, but what happened to the relics of his first babyhood with his own parents? Sirius has been keeping a surprise for him (Post-OOtP).

Fifteen years prior to the events at the end of "Goblet of Fire" and the beginning of "Order of the Phoenix", there were two Death Eaters. One was trying to redeem a tortured life, one was in fear for his own. Only Albus Dumbledore would bring them together. Both will discover life demands many sacrifices. This is Snape's story.

Neville still remembers. Sequel to Memory.