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He heard someone approaching. He turned, smiling. He knew who it was. When he saw the outstretched arm pointed at him. holding a wand that had brought an untimely fate to so many wizards and witches, his smile faded.``"Draco."``"Harry."````Harry thought he'd finished the Dark Wizard reign of fear. He didn't know his lover was destined to continue it.

In many ways one would consider Harry Potter victorious. He had conquered the dark Lord Voldemort and managed to live. He had put many of his Death Eaters in Azkaban. He drove away the greatly feared Dementors. He saved the world from a dark fate. However, Harry Potter did not see himself as some victorious hero. Blood stained his hands -- blood that would never wash away.

What will Harry do when Voldemort kills someone important to his world?

Welcome to the World of Courtney Carson, a pessimistic fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After following the terrible trio as an extracurricular activity for four years, Courtney admits she's taking a liking for the famous Harry Potter. Things can't get any worse when she faces one embarassing situation after another, Harry is in steady relationship with her worst enemy, she gets into a row with her best friend, and someone unexpected asks her out.

Lily makes a difficult choice that changes her life -- and death -- forever.

Hermione observes Ginny. D/G not femme-slash

"When Harry awoke, the man that had rescued him was almost dead..."

One shot. Some years after the war, Draco, traumatised and alone, reaches out desperately for human contact.

Remus kisses his lover goodbye one last time.

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Rita Skeeter, gossip queen extraordinaire.

It was easier to hate him when you didn\'t know he was human. Letters between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter after their sixth year offer a glimpse into the aftermath of obsession and the desperate lengths some go to for companionship.

Post OotP...Harry begins to cope with the devastating loss.

[TRxGW] "...be a man... try... try for some remorse..." Dark Lords did not feel remorse ... but if he had, if Tom Riddle had felt even one second of regret, it would have been for her. Twoshot.

Harry finds out about Draco's illness. What does he do about it? This is the sequel to 'I Had a Bad Day'.

Ginny is persistent with Harry about her feelings when she finds out he may be leaving soon to fight Voldemort. And Harry surprises her and himself with his response. But then Harry and Ginny have to cope with Harry's perfect goodbye.... maybe forever.

This was written for greyangel through McTabby's Blame Each Other Challenge. Snape/Pomfrey. "A late night visit to the dungeons, untold secrets... He has to heal her... in more ways than one."

Sirius loves London, loves visiting Harry and dropping by the shops and playing Quidditch in the backyard, but he's still waiting for one last piece to fall into place.

This what if centers on Book Four. Krum asked Harry what there was between he and Hermione. Harry assured him there wasn't anything going on between them, and Krum believed him. What if he hadn't? This story deals with that possibility.

Neville is feeling depressed and useless. Who's there to help him but Hermione? A very sweet fic where Neville conquers his fears and finds acceptance and true love. Neville/Hermione.

Set nearing the end of the marauder's years at Hogwarts. Peter witnesses a nasty trick Lucius and Snape play on Remus and Sirius. His intrigue leads into his gateway to darkness.

With Lord Voldemort risen again, all the wizards of the world know that the first people to suffer will be the Death Eaters who betrayed or abandoned him. This is the account of one such ex-Death Eater, Severus Snape...

Draco Malfoy, the sole heir to the Malfoy family, master of concealed emotions and pureblooded wizard, was in shock. He was unsure of what to make of her, but he did know that this girl was a shock and awe.

Maybe it's love after all.

Snape knows better. Features: Occlumency, Pensieves, inevitable madness, and memories. SS/HP, in a very roundabout way.

You build your own Azkaban, and you let yourself out.

Harry goes to Military School for the Magical, and with his new-found powers, vows to get revenge on He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

Ron's had an awful summer. He keeps waking up in his front yard and has no idea why. Can Harry and Hermione help figure out what's been happening to him?

Sybill Trelawney remembers a time when Minerva McGonagall let her hair down...

Ron comes across his old dress robes while rummaging around in his trunk. A debate ensues as to how he actually got them and just who is this Nigel kid?

She was born with everything. He was born with nothing. But he's about to take everything he wants and more, and she might be the only one who could save him. But at what cost to herself? TR/OC.

Harry Potter is the only one who has ever survived the Killing Curse. It was a miracle that was thought of to happen only once in lifetime... But does not everyone love someone?

"Hermione feels a twinge of something--not jealousy, she insists, it is too much of an ache for the heady rush of jealousy--as she crawls into her own bed and pulls the curtains. She pretends not to care but she listens anyway, feeling that twinge again at every soft peal of laughter, every whispered secret she will never hear because she’s not a part of them. They are friendly but they’ve never been friends, and Hermione knows she will always be an outsider."

Sirius and Hagrid's confrontation at Godric's Hollow after the Potters' deaths.

Harry's thoughts during his stay at the Dursleys' before sixth year!

Hermione Granger. Harry Potter. A timeturner. A locket. And R.A.B. You have no idea.

Draco and Blaise have been hiding their relationship since their 5th year at Hogwarts, but now their silence is going to broken. This is a tale that will show a much more loving side of Draco.

When Harry Potter was ten, he could see his life stretching out before him in a long, empty line.

When a surprisingly strong-witted friend of Rowena Ravenclaw comes to visit her in the Hogwarts castle, she begins to brew up some unknown emotions: love, hatred, and disgust among the four friends. Her arrival means death and lust.

Can you keep a secret? I suppose it matters little if you can. I am a marked man and my days are numbered, so it's only a matter of time before they come for me.

In the dark days before Halloween 1981, Sirius and Remus have allowed suspicion and mistrust to come between them.

That was a really wild party.... Ginny Weasley goes to a birthday party for one of her good friends, simply for something to do. Based on a true story.

No one understood. They all knew she had tried to help him in his battle and that she was devastated from his passing. It seemed ironic that the disease she despised so much would also take her life. Still, no one knew of her pain. No one knew of her guilt.

Draco recites poetry to Harry. Slash warning. Mild involvement of Dr. Seuss and maybe a candy cane or two.

Forgetting is easy. It's the memories that are hard. Remus reflects on his life and his memories after Sirius' death.

Everyone's lives are put in jeopardy when a secret revealed causes identity confusion and a tangle of assassins after the Boy-Who-Lived. When the hunter becomes the hunted, who can put things right? A tale of love, family, lies and blackmail.

Lily Potter tells her feelings before she dies.

I decided what heaven was going to be like, for me at least. The image has stuck with me, although I was only 11 at the time. However, I must confess that it’s a pleasant surprise to find myself breaking the solitude, even such peaceful solitude the one I just described, that plagued me through my mortal life. It was a wonderful shock to see all of you again.

Severus Snape has been brutally murdered. Then why is he showing up on Hermione’s doorstep with Dumbledore? Hermione must deal with him as a roommate while standing on the edge of disaster as the true web of deceit behind his feigned death threatens her life as well as his. HG/SS, with a little unconventional GW/DM

HP/Celtic fairy tale crossover. Did you ever wonder how such a bad wizard came to be? Or why Tom Riddle grew up in an orphanage?

On a quiet day in Malfoy Manor, Narcissa watches Draco and remembers days spent in the company of the two men she has most strongly loved.

Harry and Draco just can't let go of each other.

James Potter gets all bent out of shape when Lily Evans, his three-month girlfriend, gives him a pet name. Good thing his best mate, Sirius Black, is there to set him...well, not straight. Terribly pointless Sirius-James fluff.

The cold and the darkness bear down on her and her only saviour is the one clouded in darkness. What's the mystery? Who is he? Where is everything I've ever believed in?

Hermione Granger, pride of the Auror Department, is given the task to scry out the latest aspiring Dark Lord, who seems to be a very real threat, as he is hailed to be as powerful as the late Lord Voldemort...

This is my first song fic. It's about Harry and Hermione breaking up after a long relationship.

Redneck Wizards are alive and well in the American South. Learn to identify them from a safe distance for your own protection!

A mysterious stone is forged into the lives of three children. Two of them are related and live in America, the other lives in the UK. What ties them together is magical, but originally serves as an attempt to completely collect the lost fragments or 'Horcruxes' of Voldemort's soul. The stone is broken into two of these children, and the third is the only person that can extract the stone from them. These factors play a minor role in how others react to them, but play a major role in how their lives unfold in and out of Hogwarts. Yet, how will the Wizarding world react to having the only keys to restoring Voldemort walk freely among them?

A mysterious flu has taken over Hogwarts, and Remus dives right into the fever.

Sirius recalls his best friend, James, right before he goes to Azkaban.

Ginny's reflects on the hollowness and hopelessness of the forces of light after Harry's death.

Harry and Severus both have things they need to say to each other. The finally talk at a wedding years after Voldemort's defat.

Ginny Weasley's thoughts on her depressing life, when she realizes how she's really feeling, it's too late.

Hermione, Find out what magic really is, and you’ll rule the world.

Sirius is perplexed by Harry's teacher.

...they feared what they did not know, and Tom's introverted personality caused others to fear him even more. To them, he was a mystery- the less of himself he revealed to others, the less they were sure of. Tom contemplates the way things are and the way things are to become. Set in his third year.

Pansy is not the kind of girl to brook any disruption of her well-made plans. It's looking as though Draco might cause trouble, and she will use fair means or foul to get her life back on track. After all, she is in Slytherin. Part II of a Slytherin Triptych.

Lily Evans is everything to James Potter. He changed everything that defined him to make her happy. And yet, for all he has tried, he still can't get her to see that he is no longer the same arrogant jerk that he used to be.

All past tenses? She felt blood drain from her face. " It's not true, is it? " she asked. She would not believe it. *If love isn't there to stay, then it isn't yours to keep. *

In the end, Severus Snape always makes the right decision, no matter what he really wants.

Harry wants Hermione. Ron wants ... Blaise Zabini!?! Or not. Blaise Zabini wants Remus. But not really. Tonks wants to fix people up. Remus just wants to finish his drink uninterrupted, thank you very much! The question is: Will Remus be elevated by more than alcohol before the night is over? A Slash Romance brought to you by H.M.S Blood-Red Moon (Ron/Remus).

A very funny and senseless fic with two original characters. Very cliched. Rated PG-13 for a few swear words.

"Angels are Among Us." Ginny Weasley learns this in a very shocking way when a ghost from the past comes back as her "Guardian Angel." Worse yet, this "angel" catchs the eye of one Dark Lord. But the fun's not done yet as another world comes into play and Ginny is faced with choosing the Lesser Evil. TR/GW/HP, RW/HG.

Ginny loves Harry. Harry doesn't believe he can love her the way she loves him. He rejects her. She is heart broken, and feels very overwhelmed by all that is happening. However, she still believes in love at first sight.

He touched him... he touched him there, and he doesn't know what to do, and the Devil will come and steal his eyes for it, because he reacted. He reacted, and he has been shamed, and now he is light-forsaken, doomed to return back to that room and let the demon touch him, hurt him, bleed him. Graham Pritchard is being abused, and he doesn't know what to do- until he finds safety and hope in the most unlikely of people. Companion piece to The Love of a Brother.

Things had always been simple for Riley Lestrange--that was, of course, until her world started crashing down around her. She was supposed to get betrothed, completely support the Dark Lord, and somehow manage to stay calm in the midst of a sudden. When she runs into Sirius Black, a former best friend and a current hated Gryffindor, she finds that things can change, if only she has the courage. But when it all comes down to it, will she choose the life she’s always known, or the life that could risk everything?

“I saw a fairy the other day.” Bláithnat Caldecott is no ordinary girl. She believes completely in magic, and is determined to prove it to her sceptical friend, Tom Riddle - who is secretly in love with her.

Two friends sit alone in the Gryffindor Common Room and lose control of their selves and give in to what each has wanted for a long time. …Both feel so vulnerable... (Sort of a different style of fic [only sort-of!] - definitely Ron/Hermione)

Padma Patil's secret is unknown to most people, but there is one who knows. Luna Lovegood. Padma's thieving has to stop and only this one young Ravenclaw can cure it...

One-shot. Ginny talks about Tom and Harry. Pure bittersweet angst...

Harry must destroy the last of the Horcruxes. This one is the most horrible of them all. It's... it's... it's a cheese cracker? ``Anyway, can Harry destroy the evil cheese cracker? Not without the help of the Siamese Weasels, a hobo, an axe-ridden maniac, his forty-year-old son, and several others! ``This won't make any sense if you haven't read "Happiness Is Just a Daddy Away!" Then again, it won't make much sense, anyway....

Draco’s favorite champagne, Harry’s favorite glass. Is the flute half empty or half full? SLASH. HP/DM.

Severus Snape just can't stay away from Lily Evans' wedding to James Potter--no matter how much wants to.

Harry has been a hiding a dream of his for several years now... Hermione and Ron finally find out what it is. Do they decide to help Harry? Or do they just laugh at him?

Harry defeated Voldemort at the age of nineteen. Wanting a normal life he then left England, and moved to America, where he married a Muggle woman, and had their daughter, Eliza. When Eli was ten, he died as a result of what happened all those years ago. The killing curse had not killed him immediately. Instead, it shortened his life span significantly. At sixteen,, Eli decides to finish school at Hogwarts, and hopefully do what her father could not: make amends with those he left behind long before he died. Simple enough, except Eli inherited her father's knack for getting in trouble.

Trials come in all shapes and sizes and Harry’s going to have``to deal with a lot on them in his sixth year. Join him as he represses, burns books, plays Quidditch and does his homework, all while having to foil Voldemort’s plans for immortality.

Really, this actually happens at Hogwarts! Okay, not really. A completely random day at Hogwarts. It definitely lacks plot.

"He knows who I like. Well, I'd say that I don't like the person. I love the person. I know the feelings I have are stronger than just fancying…funny, isn't it. How my feelings about love can be so strong, yet in every other way, I'm weak." Mild Sirius/Remus.

A very dark sixth-year fic. Draco and Harry's hate comes to a shocking climax. Rather than at the end, the climax is at the beginning, so read onwards, ever onwards to discover the reasons behind their actions.

And there she was, and all Harry could do was stare. He knew her before, but he doesn't know how or why. He needed to talk to her, to find out who she is and what she knew.

After leaving the hospital wing in GOF, Sirius contemplates the past, the struggle that lies ahead, and vows to make no foolish mistakes this time around.

A man. A woman. A bar. Lots of alcohol. It's amazing the conversations that happen in the middle of a war.

It all started one night, when a walk along the grounds of Hogwarts led him to unexpected truths. HP/DM

The famous trio have graduated and moved on with their lives. Two of the group have gotten married, while one of them is still fighting his feelings for the one that got away.

Could you consider Harry/Cho/Hermione a love triangle? Not really, at least not in the reality we know of. What if Hermione wasn't an innocent part of what happened between Harry and Cho? What if Cho had been right? What if Hermione wasn't the girl we know at all? Very A/R

One can find that no matter how much you love someone, they are not always yours.

“A mother always has to think twice; once for herself, and once for her child.” ~Sophia Loren | A 'missing scene' set directly prior to the events at Spinner's End in HBP.

Needless to say, Christmas never put Santa in a very good mood, but this particular Christmas was the last straw. As a very hung over Santa woke up the next morning in his sleigh somewhere in the Bahamas, he knew he’d hit rock bottom. There was only one man who could help him now… (Dumbledore/SANTA??)

Severus Snape participates in the annual search for a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher for the first time.

An understanding found, as Snape attempts to move on from his past and into a possible future.

The Marauders bring themselves to Tintagel where Peter is kind, James still wants Lily, Remus does not want to share his chocolate and Sirius is an 'artiste'. Pre-slash.