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How do you deal with a loss that is not just in your heart, but in the very heart of your home? ``Warning: Character Death

Sirius struggles to grasp the meaning of death as he watches those he left behind grow up without him and the world he is no longer a part of change dramatically. Rated for mild language and adult themes.

Petunia tells about her past, telling about her envy of her sister in all things, and then, about her future.

We've seen the Dark Lord at his worst. We have witnessed his most terrifying fury, and the unspeakable horrors that he is capable of. But do we really know all of his true characteristics? Read on as I chronicle a day in the life of Lord Voldemort, and you will learn many interesting facts about him that are not found in the books. But be warned- what you find may shock you.

"I am become Death, destroyer of Worlds." -J. Robert Oppenheimer Dark times are ahead and it's not getting any better. It's kill or be killed, and with the Apocalypse rising and on Voldemort's side, the impending war is upon them, and Dumbledore is dead, Harry and his new accomplice Kisa Cordova-Snape aren't even sure they can get through this alive.

"Harry thought she looked like a picture he'd seen in 'Holidays With Hags'..." What it's been like to grow up as the fat, ugly Slytherin.

Silvius Malfoy, father of Lucius Malfoy, looks back on his childhood, his corruption, and his children.

Harry gives Draco shooting lessons now that Draco has switched sides. And when a surprise Order meeting pops up, we discover some new information on the Voldemort front. One shot.

Ron wakes up with no memory of the night before on one of the most important days of his life.

"Everyone knew Argus Filch was horrible. Whenever Miles Bletchley opened his mouth to complain about their awful school caretaker, his peers were quick to nod and moan in agreement. But Miles felt that no one truly hated the caretaker the way he did. And Filch seemed to reserve extra special hatred for him." Miles Bletchley/Argus Filch slash. Written for the OTP Valentine's Day Challenge.

Narcissa and Lily were lovers, until Voldemort murdered Lily.

Air and water, life and death. Who or what is``the only thing that can save you when things get just as bad as they``can get?

Everyone has a limit, a point at which even the most opimistic person in world loses all hope. When suddenly they know there is no point anymore because it will all end badly. Yet some people still go on hoping after this because there is nothing else they can do when they are so removed from the wizarding world that it's all just stories in a newspaper. But they still feel the pain and even when there is no hope left they have to keep grieving and remember those who've died because it's all they can do.

Every man tends a secret garden, and Neville Longbottom is no exception. He is a good boy, a diligent boy, and he does his best to tend it well in the moldering house of his grandmother, but every secret garden has a dark place where even the hands that tend it dare not venture.

Rows of gravestones mark the lives of friend gone. One man goes to the graveyard every year to visit them.

A re-telling, of sorts, of the journey through the tunnel to the Shrieking Shack in which Harry decides it's not a good idea to visit Hagrid when a mass-murderer is on the loose.

Reporter Noelle Eyre is doing another interview. This time she is interviewing a portrait of Hogwarts founders, but one's missing. I'll give you four guesses as to who.

Everyone understands Lavender Brown. They understand her obsession with passion-pink-lipstick, they comprehend that she gossips and creates scandals. The only problem is that nobody really knows Lavender… they can’t, because she doesn’t even know herself.

Mad, Mad Passionate Love returns, bigger and more disgusting than before! With interhouse romances popping up everywhere, how can Hogwarts cope with the onslaught of such powerful passions? Lots of fanon stereotype fun, including Pathetic! Draco, Sexy! Snape, and Fiery! Ginny. "But I love you," Tom had said, tears streaming from his bright red eyes. He couldn't blame Albus… he wasn't nearly as handsome as he'd been the year before, when his eyes had still been a normal color and he had actually had a nose.

Albus Dumbledore is not who everyone thought he was. Aberforth Dumbledore doesn't understand English for a reason. The Ithryn Luin have completed their purpose in Middle Earth, and the fourth age is ended...

"The cold stone remains there still, a silent reminder of what was lost..." Songfic to Savage Garden's Free to Fly.

An Oliver-Percy remorse. All six-year-old Percy Weasley wanted was to learn how to fly. All seventeen-year-old Percy wants is freedom. One-sided Oliver and Percy slash, takes place during PoA. Features a missing Weasley son.

Harry would die for the stars. Draco knows better.

There is very little I can say when I feel this way.

Severus Snape was sent to Cornwall in the summer of 1996 by Dumbledore to do 'Order work' which really meant relax. Follow Snape's excursion in the Muggle world with a new identity and new discoveries to technology and being social. It's a laugh, really.

Daniel Macmillan, at 14 years old, has just discovered that he's a wizard. As he adapts to the Salem Institute for Witches and Wizards, he finds out that this discovery is only the beginning--while Voldemort may be long gone, a new threat has emerged in the wizarding world, and Daniel is in the thick of it...

James Potter returns home from a Quidditch match, only to discover that in his absence baby Harry has discovered a new-found eloquence. Just a random one-shot created for the L/J cookie jar.

She never thought she'd end up here, with him.

Bellatrix Lestrange's mind is beautiful in the most twisted of ways... Companion to Perfection.

Percy works late. Arthur plays Father Christmas.

Draco and Harry are More Than Friends, Ron sulks, Hermione meddles, and everyone speaks in proverbs.

Draco thinks back to his last night with Harry. One-shot. Draco's POV.

In another world, Harry Potter was not just a wizard. In this other world, Ronald Weasley became a Knight. The only hope for their world's survival is love. Will their love be enough?

A dark secret from Ginny's past has prevented her from having an intimate relationship with everyone she's ever dated. Will Neville's patience and understanding give her what she needs to take back control of her life? An angsty N/G love story.

Moaning Myrtle has kept quiet for over fifty years ever since her death... it's time she's spoken up for what she wants to do and what her thoughts on Harry Potter and other things that has happened in her life...

What happens when a 1970s game show classic collides with the Potterverse? Much mayhem, flying knickers and the inappropriate use of Magic Markers, for a start.

The troll wasn't let loose and Hermione was never given that encounter to bond with Harry and Ron. She has no friends. With her gamble to create a life in the wizarding world failed, she isn't thinking straight. She looks over the ledge of the tower, but is interrupted by someone. A gen fic with NO PAIRINGS and the two starting the basis of even more hate. Rated for swearing.

H/G fluff. Hermione and Harry join the Weasleys at the Burrow for Spring Break and the regular romance, fun, and clichéd happy endings ensue. Butter dishes, fluff, and fun for all.

The future Mrs. Lestrange speculates on the ups and downs of being a female Death Eater: marriage, love, and sex, not to mention torturing Muggles.

The ground was muddy and soaked by the heavy rain. Thick raindrops hit her face, wetting her clothes, but she didn’t feel it. Numbness was all she felt. She saw it happening, disbelieving. She saw how the light emerged from the tip of her wand and formed a mist around the sixteen year-old boy who stood a few steps from her. The dark trees around them made this night even darker than it already was.

"Nobody ever tells toys that the child they look after, comfort and play with in their youth will grow up and forget you. I thought she would love me for ever. But she left and forgot me." A look at life through the eyes of a Wizarding toy

Remus is counting; first to one, then to four and then, finally, only to two.

"I hate you, Harry Potter... I wonder if you could ever love me too." The line between love and hate is very thin. Draco Malfoy knows this all too well.

Oh great, somebody call Oprah, a new series I'm writing, they're called letters to no one, Ginny is on the way. Lily is whining about how conceited, immature and handsome James is.

"She shouldn't have died like that." "She shouldn't have died at all!" * Everything can change in seven years. Hermione's dead, and now Harry must confront everything he thought he left behind.

Remus gets a letter from a certain Rubeus Hagrid; an attempt to help a certain boy hero sets Lupin on a trip down memory lane. Very minor RL/JP slash.

An enchanted journal exposes the secrets of Lily Evans' past, revealing that she was far more than simply the clever Muggleborn mother of Harry, wife of James and first love of Severus – she was also the conduit of an ancient pact sworn centuries before, whose task never truly ended upon her death. In this first installment of an epic series, Lily Evans discovers that not only is she a witch bound for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she has to deal with discrimination against Muggleborns, a poltergeist with a grudge, and friendships that may or may not stand the test of time, but that she has also been targeted by a dark force seeking to destroy her – and everything else.

My life is all about memories: Some good, some bad, some utterly embarrassing. But, then again, what else is to be expected of the daughter of the famous Harry Potter? But still even though I have many, I'd like to tell you about my very first memory....

Hermione thinks she's found the location of a horcrux and has to go solo to retrieve it. Unfortunately, it's the wrong piece...

[Written pre-OotP, set post-Hogwarts.] I thought you loved me; I loved you. I thought you cared about me; I cared about you. But now I've realized, finally realized, that to you, I was nothing but a stepping stone. I was just there to help you up in society. I wasn't anything more. D/G (Warning: Ginny is not the nicest/best person.)

Remus doesn't quite know how he feels, but he knows what it's not. Implied R/S pre-slash.

Harry began to pace up and down the small space. “My whole life’s been like something out of a bloody book! And this is just not the way the story ends. I’m supposed to be able to fight the evil, not just sit down in a cave and wait to die.” -- JK Rowling finds Harry so real, she felt almost like she was channeling him. Well... what if she was?

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. - Kenyan Proverb

Song-fic to 'I'll Try' about how Harry is coping with his life.

Adolescence: the time of change, but more so when your family is Black. Thank Merlin for good friends. Remus/Sirius. Written for hp_toujours on LJ.

The mind of Draco Malfoy is a complicated thing.

It's been well known that Hermione Granger was always seen with her two best friends Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter. It was comfortable, and it was normal. And so of course, Draco Malfoy had to come and mess it up.

Sirius Black is a young wizard whose outlook on life has been tainted by his emotionally abusive family. He is fervent to continue school so he can escape his demanding parents and become his destiny...

Shortly after Regulus's death, Sirius reminisces about his brother.

Harry thinks about losing a father figure yet again. His reaction is anything but ordinary.

"This house feeds off me like a cancer. Sometimes, late at nights, I think that the house is a sentient entity, an ugly creature that has absorbed my family’s beliefs over the centuries and is now the embodiment of all I tried to run away from at age sixteen [...]Now I feel that what Peter started that Halloween Eve, what the Dementors continued in Azkaban, this lethifold of a house will finish, and I’ll become some kind of empty shell that looks like Sirius Black, speaks like Sirius Black but it’s not, inside, where it counts, Sirius Black." WARNING (for those faint of heart who need it): angst, slash (SB/SS) and incoherency.

Narcissa gets an owl from an admirer on Valentine's Day.

"Smiles can be faked. Do not assume everyone who smiles is happy." Harry finally succeeds in defeating the Dark Lord, or so everyone believes-- everyone except Harry. Something grows in his mind, beginning as a whispery voice but then much stronger, causing his loved ones to disappear from his sight. Only one person seems unaffected by this disease, or what ever it is, and that one person may be the only one capable of helping Harry. The question arises, though, does that person want to? H/D

When Ginny Weasley began writing in Tom Riddle's diary, she had no idea what it would lead to...

A time-line without dates. Events that shape and demonstrate the development of a boy. Lists his surroundings and actions as they are known. They say with these two things you can understand a person.

After the death of Hermione's parents, Ron and Harry contemplate what to do next and how to help her cope. Filled with drama, angst, romance, and some suprises. Also includes many appearances of members of the Order of the Phoenix, and details of the fight against Voldemort. This is for anyone who believes in the power of friendship and love.

Ron knows that now, when members of the Order of the Phoenix look at him, they look past the red hair and freckles and think not Weasley, but Sirius Black. And now that he's dead, Ron wonders if history will repeat itself.

Pansy is pretty enough for Draco. She's beautiful for the executioner.

On the eve of war, Hermione finds out what Draco has been hiding all year.

Ron frowned suddenly. There was something stuck between the trash can and the wall, next to the door. Why hadn't he ever seen it? Ron finds a note that reminds him what happiness he may have missed.

“What do you like?” Petunia had asked her once. She had smiled sweetly at her older sister. “Knowing Mum loves me better.”

She was nothing but a cheap fortune-teller, a simple housewife who made a few extra pounds by telling people nice stories. Eva dealt in dreams, not witchcraft. But then a chubby boy named Peter entered her tent.

Who would ever be interested in what a soul-sucking Dementor would have to say? Well, hopefully you would be...

Alone on her twenty-first birthday after a fight with Ron, Hermione Granger runs into a stranger from her past in the seediest part of London. Who is he, and how has her life taken such a turn for the worse?

Memories still linger in the halls of Hogwarts, replayed, untouched, and unbroken.

"That's what I remember, the white of the snow and how it darkened and melted red." The wizarding world claims to remember what happened during the war, but Ginny's memories are different.

Harry faces the reality of taking on Voldemort in their biggest and final battle, and considers that it'll be a fight he'll have to undertake alone. Or will he?

Ron Weasley has been left alone and confused. Grown up and on a mission he travels the world, finding himself....

A companion to "Plutonian Shore." He did not like the icy light here. He curled into his shadowed corner and felt safe.

How could it have come to this? How did we fall so far? It is the day after Christmas, and while the rest of the world is returning to normalcy after the holiday, one man isn't feeling very cheerful. The holidays have only allowed him to remember the pain and loss of the previous year, though he tries desperately to forget those memories. But as a fresh blanket of snow has covered the ground, he decides to take a walk to clear his mind, and at the same time, he decides to take a chance; he allows himself to just remember.

I am who I am, I am only different when it comes to you. (H/D)

Tom needed a way to kill him. And it wasn't hard to think of one. After all, he had everything he needed. Especially the bait. Set before the end of CoS.

The blood in his mouth had a familiar taste, one that he had grown used to as years passed in that house, in that cupboard, alone and unloved.

You can't change the past. Or can you? Harry tries to change the past. But fate is more cruel then he ever imagined. Harry/Tom slash.

"red mouth like a venomous flower". You think that you've won. Takes place during OotP. Minerva/Dolores.

Harry wants us to share the title of Triwizard Champion. That actually sounds quite nice, because it would mean that we're unified and in this together for our school. Even so, I still want to make absolutely sure he knows what he's asking me to do before I tell him yes or no. (Cedric genfic)

"You think that’s all you really have to remember, just to breathe. It’s not like they ever expect anything of you anyway." Neville, Harry, bubblegum, and broken prophecies, all in the space of a single breath. Slash.

Sequel to Chiaroscuro and second in the Sacred Beauty series. Draco is back at the Manor, preparing himself to fulfill the Second Prophecy, which will require him to battle Harry to the death. He wants nothing more than to go back to Harry, but he has no choice - he is about his father's business.

Harry is back for his sixth year stronger than before, Voldemort's on the rise, and the Wizarding World is locked in an epic battle between good and evil. Add in a mysterious orb, sparking romances, and a new Defense professor, and watch the events unfold. PG-13 for now, will probably change later.

Harry and friends and a whole lot of zaniness....

Post-Hogwarts one-shot. Draco reminisces about his life with Harry and remembers the most trying night of their relationship; Harry makes a decision to face the past alone.``Harry/Draco

Ginny Weasley reflects on the last month's events...and decides they're too much.

One-shot. Song-fic to Green Day's Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Harry is going to Godric's Hollow with or without anyone's help. A half drunken Draco follows him to see what he's up to. The two have some decisions to make on this lonely road.

Stuck in the monotony of a Muggle Relations department, an adult Cho Chang is suffering from the double whammy of a broken leg and a growing dependency on caffeine. Someone unexpected, and someone who she finds herself experiencing unexpected feelings towards, arrives to cheer her up.

Seamus is sick of everything being about Harry. Finally, it gets to him and sends him over the edge.

Dogs are pack animals by nature. This doesn’t exclude Sirius Black. After 15 years of being apart, the Black family reconciles. But for how long? And do they even know about it?

Draco's thoughts, after returning to the Manor following his fifth year, with a bit of H/D thrown in for good measure.

Late at night in July of 1981, Albus Dumbldore received information that the Dark Lord intended to attack the Potters. Two scenes.

A parody of a parody: a song from Monty Python's Meaning of Life, turned into a Death Eater musical number (with pokes at Bill Gates and the Muppets, as well).