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“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.

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?

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?

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)

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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."

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....

Narcissa mourns the loss of her father.

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.

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

Draco reflects as he says his goodbyes to Malfoy Manor.

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!

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

An alternate look at Petunia.

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...

"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

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.

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

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.

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.

Severus' life, as described by the Tarot.

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

Pansy endeavors to save her unborn child.

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

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)

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

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

How Charlie fell in love with his job.

The heart bleeds in a language indecipherable.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

"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.

Draco gets his soul back in a business transaction.

Sirius learns a lesson.

A ficlet exploring the Marauders' relationship with time.

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

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.

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.

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.

Neville still remembers. Sequel to Memory.

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).

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.

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.

Things are not going well for Narcissa. The life she once thought so secure is gradually falling apart... and so is she.

In his mind's eye, Sirius can see tomorrow coming...

"Ah, Moony, you are denying the deep and aching lake of lust my newly sparkly appearance caused to rise in your soul," said Sirius, but he clambered off the floor and brushed himself down. "Besides, it's pretty. Wanna touch it?" Remus, who seemed unaccountably disturbed, shook his head. "I have better things to do with my hands." Then he went bright red. "Not that I mean. Or um. I have a lot of. Assignments. Didn't do much over the break. That's all I meant." "You are a strange and twisted child, my Remus." Sirius touched his ear gingerly. "But we love you for it. I, being the spectacular, brilliant, amazing student that I am, have done all my essays already."

She's not a girl who misses much. [Alice's perspective, with a hint of Harry/Neville.]

Trapped, a lost boy must find his way back to the light, with the help of something dark.... one-shot, slash.

Ever wonder why Moody is always so paranoid? Ever wonder if he was once normal?

Swans and loons aren't all that different, are they? Cho and Luna strike up an unlikely friendship through a series of conversations by the fire. They come to see that they are neither swans nor loons, but eagles. (Cedric/Cho, Harry/Cho, Michael/Cho, Harry/Luna)

Sequel to my other one-shot, 'Last Words'. Ginny tries to come to terms with Neville's death and, in the midst of her confusion and grief, tries to ascertain whether or not his feelings were, or could have been, reciprocated.

In her first year out of Hogwarts, Ginny works undercover for the Order of the Phoenix. She and Harry live together in a derelict building in muggle London in the midst of the second war against Voldemort. Ginny dreams of her escape but vows to stick by Harry. Angsty, thoughtful and dark.

Voldemort and his followers are lurking in the woods outside Hogwarts. The fight has paused for an hour as they await the arrival of the chosen one, the Boy who Lived. They have as good as won, the world is in their grasp. So why is nothing going according to plan?

This is just a short little fic about friends; it's about the stuff that we do to each other. You know, like screw up and fight and stuff. But that's what friends do. An attempt at kindness goes wrong. Harry, Ron and Hermione are put into a state of general misery. But this is a story about friends after all. It'll all work out in the end. There is just a little *hint* of romance, but it's very small and it's canon. I'll let you figure it out. Enjoy!

Addictions come in many forms. Some with powder, others in power.

Merlin, what a waste of time. If knowing the future were as easy as looking at leaves in a teacup... Eileen took the final sip, then held the cup in her left hand and swirled vigorously. Three times, clockwise, the way Professor Mopsus had taught them. She drained the dregs, put the cup back down on the saucer, and critically peered inside. It looked like...clumps of damp tea leaves.

Sometimes, when I’m bored, or at another pointless Death Eater meeting, I think about that tapestry, the one in my aunt Black’s home. I remember the feel of it - it was soft, and the gold threads were so intricately woven, so perfect, it seemed. Of course, there were its flaws- the small burned names, and little holes, but other than that it really was very lovely. I remember, when I was a small child, tracing my index finger along the gold line that seemed to run forever…forever, and forever, for all eternity.

Draco is obsessively stalking Harry's taxi. Draco gets run over. Draco and Harry contemplate eternal salvation.``Evanescence H/D songfic parody complete with pointless angst, random backstory, inexplainable POV shifts, Muggle trappings, and abuse of the English language.

Decisions, just one, whether right or wrong can change everything. Pity Percy has chosen the wrong one. Percy regrets what went wrong. One-shot songfic to Chris Cagle's "Songs About Rain."

There was the room... The meeting... The dwindling sunlight, and her slightly flickering smile... This was the moment Leanne had been pondering about for years... This was a beginning.

How vindictive can a teenage witch be? Well, if it happens to be a Weasley, then watch out. Here's how Ginny Weasley reacts.

Zacharias Smith gives Lavender Brown some advice. She takes him up on it.

Ginevra Weasley returns home after several years of self-seclusion from the Magical world. Former Headmaster Dumledore is dealing with death issues and Luna Lovegood is being… herself.