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Minerva McGonagall reflects on her life, both past and present, and wonders if anyone still cares enough to keep the wizarding world safe. And she wonders if anyone still cares about her. What little joy she has left in her life rides on a thin string, and she struggles everyday to keep that string from breaking.

"Tragic romance is no new thing to the world...The story is so old, no one can remember exactly how it started. But these two, they have decided to write another chapter." Not all love stories have a happy ending... NOT a song fic. D/Hr.

"Patta cake, patta cake, baker’s man, bake me a squib as fast as you can. Pat it and prick it and mark it with V..."

Draco, for no discernible reason, has decided to walk to San Francisco. Yes, we're pretty sure he's crazy. Harry joins him, thus proving himself doubly insane. Much bickering, hitch hiking, and general slashiness to ensue.

Harry is missing, Hermione is worried, Draco is being insufferable and Ron’s got a theory.... It’s just another day at Hogwarts.

“Was it not enough Albus? Was our service to this world not enough for you?” She shrieked. “You have betrayed me Dumbledore and you have betrayed that boy…you have betrayed those who were most loyal to you, curse you!” Minerva McGonagall's voice shook.

Evil did not begin with Lord Voldemort nor will it end with him. Prophets ranging from an ancient priestess to the current Sybill Trelawney foretell a darkness greater than all others. A final, twelfth prophet holds the key to helping Harry and the Order of Phoenix overcome Voldemort and the new reign of darkness-- but where could this missing prophet be?

Seven years after the final battle, Snape considers a few personal demons.

A year after the defeat of Lord Voldemort, Harry has retreated so far into himself that even his surviving friends can't seem to reach him. Will Ginny get there in time, or is it already too late?

Set on September 1st, 1971, this ficlet recounts Sirius and Remus' first arrival at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Read about the fears of a young werewolf who longs for acceptance and a pure-blood boy who just wants to find a place where he belongs.

Nearly Headless Nick is a ghost because he was afraid of death - how about the others? What do the Hogwarts ghosts think about death, their own in particular? Is there any hope for them?

Harry's annual escape from Privet Drive is a bit more harrowing than usual.

Harry's had a lot to think about over the summer before his fifth year, and for the first time, he puts his thoughts on parchment.``"I guess that writing your feelings out does ease the pain a bit after all."

Sirius Black put up with his family for sixteen years. But one day he ran away. It was freedom, it was liberation, but in a way it hurt. Because some things are painful, even to a sixteen-year-old boy.

She would never do that. She couldn’t. After all, it was him.

After the final battle at Hogwarts, Neville reflects on the events of the past and begins to lose himself... until someone unexpected is able to pull him back. Short and sweet.

Hermione and Ron are meant to be together, but will they forever miss their chances to be together? Ron already has, and seems to have given up forever (see my fic A House That Might Have Been). Will Hermione have the courage to voice her feelings for a second time, or will she marry Krum? Sweet companion piece to A House That Might Have Been.

Sequel to A Moment in Time. Whatever happened to Draco after that moment? And what about Hermione?

How does Molly Weasley really feel about her clock? What tortures has it put her through? Set on the night of the battle at the Ministry of Magic

Harry and Draco live off of each other. Silent understanding passes through emerald/grey/green/blue eyes.

A lone wizard wakes on the last battlefield, but even surviving the main event can't prepare him for the shock of one confrontation. One-shot (for now). Darkfic, angst, suspense (hopefully), character deaths, implied slash. HBP-compliant, so 'ware the spoilers.

After the war, all Theodore Nott has left is his childhood home and a ghost that won't let him forget.

A Sev/Lily non-magic AU. Severus has gone to the same club, every day, just to watch her dance with her friends. Now, after far too much waiting, he decides to approach her. It goes much better than he expected.

Harry and Remus write to Sirius after his death. Slightly AU? The two most important people in Sirius's life try to gain some closure that might not come. Story starts strange but a plot soon emerges.

Sequel to 'The Devil You Know'. It is slowly approaching dawn and Harry Potter cannot sleep. An unexpected guest appears with an offer, the answer to all of Harry's problems. How can he possibly refuse, even when the price is everything he has to give?

A pantomime version of Harry Potter. Cue bad jokes, silly songs, quotes and puns galore and the obligatory custard pies. The plot - Voldemort plans to take over the world, Draco crossdresses and Ron collects Happy Meal toys. All together now: "Oh no he doesn't!"

A young Severus Snape is learning Occlumency from Dumbledore under the watchful eye of the portraits on his office wall.

Severus picks up a little girl after an attack. Is her happiness due to shock, or is there something else involved?

A songfic to Mandy Moore's 'Cry.' Draco has a change of heart and makes a life altering decision during a heart to heart conversation with Ginny.

A sequel to Painful Decisions, we see how Draco has coped with Harry's death.

What happens when everyone we can think of decide that they are sexually deprived all at once? This, evidently. Featuring Kelso!Draco, sulking!Umbridge, dragqueen!Harry, and insane!Authorettes, this galactially stupid one-shot was written with alternating words. That explains a lot. Proof that there can be an R-rated humourfic.

After the events of the Gryffindor v. Slytherin Quidditch match in Draco’s fifth year, things seem different; Ron Weasley has the Slytherins under his thumb, the school dungeons are filled with Muggle born students, and Harry Potter is nowhere to be found. It’s a brave new world, and one in which Draco must learn to be careful what he wishes for.

Three sisters come to bury their dead and their memories. An emotionally-drained young woman sickened by her choices, an entirely too well-educated one who has none, and an idealist who'd rather damn them all.

Remus Lupin has been there since Harry's third year, always calm, quiet, and peaceful. He's always been there, in the shadows, never in the spotlight. Here we'll take a look at Remus' mind. His memories, experiences, thoughts. Was it always that way?

A sleek white cat stalked the corridors of Hogwarts. Its soft paws made no sound as it padded across the hard flagstone. It knew what it had to do. He would be there. Waiting for her. Master… no! Not master. Friend. Cats have no masters. He is a friend.

From one war into another, Hogwarts remains a sanctuary. Harry/Draco.

MacRon wants nothing more than to be Heir of Gryffindor and he will stop at nothing to achieve that. This is a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth and also makes fun of the cliched aspects of HP fan fics. Nothing is sacred... nothing at all! Staring Harry (Duncan), Viktor (Banquo), Hermione (Lady Macbeth), and Draco (Macduff) and the Desperate girls (Myrtle, Lavender, and Padma).

Slight songfic to Evanescence's "My Immortal." It's the very last battle, and Minerva discovers that it's hard to lose a student, but even harder when they were like your own child. It's always hard to say goodbye. Slight AD/MM, character death and sadness.

That was when she said it. Those four words: "That sounds so... boring." Iphy apologised afterwards, but as Hermione puts down the phone she cannot not stop hearing that harsh judgement passed on her life.

Remus has something to tell Minerva, and it can't wait until morning! What could it be? MM/RL fluff.

Her crush is just a teenage one. His is just fascination, and he knows it could be misconstrued so easily. He had resist - but can it be kept from her? A very short fic hinting at Remus/Luna.

"You many recognize [werewolves] by these marks: they are pale, their vision feeble, their eyes dry, tongue very dry, and the flow of saliva stopped; but they are thirsty." ~Montague Summers, The Werewolf

Draco sees Harry through an artist's eye - a beautiful blend of light and shadow. When Harry discovers Draco's fixation, what will his reaction be? A story of lust, obsession, love, and beauty in the highest sense - a story of light and shadow

This is the story of Remus Lupin, condensed considerably, and to the lyrics of the wonderful song Unwanted by Avril Lavigne.

A 23 yr.old Hermione Granger sharing a flat with Ginny Weasley is your typical modern woman. But just like any typical modern woman, she has her own share of lovelife problems. How will she get out being stuck in lovelife LIMBO? H/HR!

Some people don't stop dancing, even in the face of death. Severus/Hermione, though names are never mentioned, and pairing is open to interpretation.

A companion to She Waits told from Harry's POV. You might find out why, or you may leave with more questions.

"It was a miracle I had even been aloud into school with my ‘condition’, as my parents had called it, but to have a large tree that attacks you to protect me during the full moon, and for the nurse to look after me in the mornings, that was more than I ever could have expected."``The first time you meet a group of people can influence the rest of your life. Remus was terrified but ecstatic to be starting his first year of Hogwarts, but he had no idea how much a train ride could influence the rest of his life.

Harry thinks he's seen everything, but in his fifth year his views on the world will be challenged. Voldemort is still after him, but there are some new players in the mix. Are they good or evil? And what does Draco Malfoy have to do with it?

Kreacher may seem vile and lowly but he's still capable of thought. Maybe, there's a reason for his existence.

Lupin and Snape are men on a mission, albeit one without any kind of thought-out plan. They're on their way to a small town somewhere in the Transylvanian mountains, but as for when they get there... well, they're just not all that certain about what they're actually supposed to be doing there. They are certain about one thing, however - there is no one they wouldn't rather be sent on a mission with than each other. ...But as we all know, it's not the goal but the journey there that matters! Right? Well, they're not thrilled about that, either.

The sound of flying cutlery caught the woman's attention and she looked up to see the twins with identical mischievous grins charming silverware to set itself on the table. She heard a squeal and saw Hermoine as she dove away, giggling like mad, and she turned when she heard her mother's bellow as she berated the scheming pair. Then, as suddenly as they appeared, they vanished, leaving a cold and silent kitchen suffocating her.

Draco thinks about how easy it would be to end his life. Rated PG13 for sucidal thoughts.

"I am a rock / I am an island / And a rock feels no pain / And an island never cries" A Snape songfic inspired by a Freelancer Music Video.

Neville gets ready to ask Hermione to the Yule Ball. When that fails, he asks Ginny. What was he thinking through all of this? This mousy Gryffindor has some spunk after all. One-shot, missing scene fic, a Neville story.

A one shot from Harry's point of view about the war around him and those he loves. (H/D)

He wasn't looking forward to sitting in a Muggle club, awaiting the arrival of an informant. But his dull assignment turns into something more when a stranger (whose eyes look so familiar), and a few rounds of double Scotch turn things around. One-shot, poem fic, Snape.

"That led to the question someone, no doubt, would ask: Why did I commit all these dreadful acts of terrorism?" While weak, powerless, and in exile, Voldemort ponders the answer he would give to this question for the benefit of history -- and it is both more complicated and much simpler than one might think...

"Armando Dippet had never fallen out of a chair before. But that day he did. He slipped right out of it and onto the floor." (Armando Dippet/Professor Kettleburn.) Written for the Overlooked and Obscure Characters Ficathon.

Two roads diverged in a wood.

Rowena Ravenclaw watches from her portrait and feels a special bond with Penelope Clearwater, whose life she follows in snippets for seven years.

In the aftermath of tragedy, Remus Lupin sought an escape. A man with nothing to lose and nothing to leave behind, but on a moonless night in a gypsy camp, he learns how to grieve—and finds out things he never saw in himself in the process.

An angsty Cho Chang monologue. On why she cries. Mentions tradition, angst, family, confusion, Cedric and Harry. A chance for Cho-fans to read an interpretation of what she went through, and Cho-haters to take a look from her point of view.

Severus starts regretting a past mistake.

Severus reflects upon his vows - past and present - and his own motives. This leads him back to the one person he has ever loved: R. A. B.

Draco loves Harry. Harry doesn't know. Draco decides that for Harry's good they can never get together and takes it to the extreme to make sure that never happens. But what happens when something happens? (Not another Harry-comes-behind-Draco-before-he-jumps fic!) DM/HP slashy goodness!

What do you do when you look up to the heavens and find no solace, no comfort? What happens when you face the devil himself and even with all the odds against you, you defeat him? I shall never find answers to these questions, for I am Hermione Granger, and I am only a survivor of the war, not the end of the war itself. Written in Hermione's POV, it covers her life with her son, Sam after Harry left her almost five years ago.

Minerva McGonagall was not present in the Department of Mysteries. However, her understanding of the death is just as painful as everyone elses. Three parter, spoilers for OotP.

And so, another epilogue is upon us. This is an epilogue to Several Blushes and Cookies, but it's not neccessary to have read the others first. This is a new chapter where Malfoy makes a comeback of sorts and we find out why he's really wearing those dog tags.

Harry's gone and he probably won't come back. He left everything to keep her safe. But he didn't think of the effect it would have in the one person he loves the most in the world. Now he's coming back for a little while to try and fix things.

Harry was crap at dancing. Ginny doesn't much care.

This is a last goodbye to my 'Subplot/Unplottable'-universe and therefore heavily AU: After serving Voldemort as a nameless fighter, Snape returns to Hogwarts.

Ron and Hermione are fighting again and if there is any hope of peace in Gryffindor Tower, it's up to Ginny. Can she stop the fighting so she and the other fifth years can study in peace?

As Harry’s hand reached out and grasped the glass doorknob, he knew one thing was for certain – this night would be bad. And tomorrow would be beyond imagining.

It's not easy being a toad, especially when you belong to one Neville Longbottom.

Years ago Severus Snape met the love of his life. But Vernon and Petunia Dursley aren't the only Muggles who hate magic. And prejudice can go both ways. Love hurts and the loss hurts even more.

"My hands are stained." On Harry's first day at Hogwarts, Snape ponders damnation and redemption.

Far away across the field/ The tolling of the iron bell/ Calls the faithful to their knees/ To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

Harry Potter on estate life, and what it feels like to go back to Privet Drive after the fifth year...

Harry reflects in the showers after Gryffindor loses badly in a Quidditch match, but shares his disappointment with someone he never expected. Harry/Cedric.

"And in the mirror he read his truth and counted all the new-old ways he'd failed." Remus Lupin reflects on the many ways in which he fell short.

Sky Monroe has always been alone. Alone with no memory of her past and no friends. Until one day, a stranger comes along and sends her off and her greatest adventure: A quest to find out the truth and a whole lot more including the presence of evil...

"Tom never left you, not completely. He’s just been… dormant all these years. Waiting for his chance. Hurting you in whatever way he could. Tom was a memory, right? A memory trapped in a diary. Now he’s a memory trapped in you, and he won’t let you forget.”

There are a lot of secret activities going on in Hogwarts. Some are plotting death and destruction, while some are snogging some others. Some are patrolling without being of much use, while some are actually working for the welfare of the school. Some are lying awake in their dormitories while some are lying awake in Hogsmeade. Some are giggling mindlessly about mindless things, while some others are actually trying to sleep. Needless to say, very few people actually get the much required beauty sleep at Hogwarts. So there's lack of sleep, severe headaches and lots of impending doom in this sixth year story.

"She was all that he ever truly had, and then she was gone, away from his cruel words and cold stares. He never realized he needed her more than anything. Could he even have her back, hold her again and be complete again? Hope fluttered in him, and he wondered if he dared to acknowledge it."

The summer day had ended, yet not everyone had been granted sleep. He had wanted to be alone, and she had wanted a drink to defeat her insomnia. He remembered, and she watched. And both had wondered.

Peter Pettigrew meets his first true love over a game of Gobstones.

A set of seven short stories depicting the relationship between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black.

Druscilla Morgan is sent out into the magical world after living a secluded life on an island with her grandmother… Strange things are happening, and she knows nothing about her past… and but she doesn’t know may indefinitely be her downfall…

Hermione tries to get Harry to stop isolating himself from his loved ones - after all, cutting himself off from them is only causing pain. One-shot, H/Hr.

Sirius explains to Remus exactly how he and Snape first got together--and how they split up. Companion piece to I Dream of You in Shadow.

Symbiosis - n. A relationship of mutual benefit or dependence.

What happens when a new teacher from Brazil comes to Hogwarts to teach? The new 'Professora' has a vigorous vitality and love for life, and a determination for a certain Potions Master to share in her happiness...

His heart constricts along with her long tail and for a moment, just that minor second, Tom understands affections and perhaps the need to weep, bleed, and protect. This is all, of course, before he becomes another creature...free of the traditional views of love.

Eleven years in an orphanage where you're looked down upon as the "weird kid" is enough to drive any middle-school aged preteen mad. The same case is that of Alaina White's. Alaina has found that she can't deal with the others at the orphanage anymore, and just in time. She is visited by someone claiming to be a witch to be given the information that she herself is a witch, and one that Hogwarts spent almost two years tracking down. She finally feels accepted somewhere, but she has no idea of what awaits her over her first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"What is your ambition, Miss Lestrange?" "Sir?" "To be worthy of your name, perhaps, or to redeem it in the eyes of men, or maybe to be so ordinary that you will be swept away in the tide of the unfulfilled desires of lesser hearts and beached by the lacklustre dreams around you." Contains references to self-harm. Also contains french poetry.

One night Mars is unusually bright. In the Forbidden Forest a centaur struggles with future and fate to follow his conscience.

The Founders were the beginning of everything; they started off so happy, so what went wrong? And why did Salazar really disappear?

A year after Harry dies fighting Voldemort, his husband, Ron Weasley goes through Harry's old things. But what Ron finds changes his life forever.