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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.

Draco doesn't know what to choose.

"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.

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.

Depression and Sorrow engulf Remus Lupin's life. He can think of only one thing... and it haunts him like a ghost.

My vision of the last 30-45 min. of Lily and James Potter. She has questions, he answers--again, my vision. Songfic loosely based on the song Moonlight Shadow from the game Dance Dance Revolution.

Ginny is totally in love with Draco Malfoy. But what happens when they get together in the dungeons.

Harry knows he is about to die. There is no one left to save him. But help comes from the most unlikely of places, a Death Eater, and his enemy. A boy who he thought hated him.

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.

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.

Two roads diverged in a wood.

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

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?

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

Some may mourn the death of heros. Some may not- but Draco bitterly remembers the roads Harry Potter closed for him, and the fourth dimension that every hero hides from the public eye, only to be brought out in the face of the enemy: hatred.

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...

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

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.

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.

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

Harry and Hermione experience the pros and cons of memory charms.

Prequel to "Written on the Wind." Draco stumbles upon secrets, forgotten from long ago.

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

Does killing an enemy kill part of you? Are good and evil opposites, or are the two sides really only a heartbeat apart?

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.

Harry's world was dark and bleak until Ginny came into his life. He thinks about the past, Ginny's sacrifice, and her part in the winning of the war. Post-Ootp

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.

“Have some more,” she said. “Don’t tell the others, but I made those myself.” A story of Arthur Weasley and Molly Prewett during their years at Hogwarts.

Lockhart kept a diary during the events of Chamber of Secrets, and here it is.

It's Padma's wedding day. She remembers her first wedding day and her first husband.

Flesh eating chickens have come to terrorize Hogwarts students, one Care of Magical Creatures class at a time. Of course, Harry and Draco are first.

What the Hogwarts ghosts get up to while the students and professors ``are away.

Draco's task is to kill one Muggle. Will he succeed?

A collection of Ron-centric drabbles

Have you ever thought of your life as a fairy tale? That ones beast falls in love with beauty and they lived happily ever after? I didn't either, until, well, a miracle happened...

Draco is a very bad boy. Oh, he really is. But he luuuurves Pan-- Har-- stuff.

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...

While visiting the Burrow over Winter Break in an alternate version of Harry's fifth year, Harry and Cho visit Cedric Diggory's grave to pay their respects in the manner of Cho's ancestors.

"Harry, when are you getting here, mate? She's driving me nuts. I'm falling apart here. She's bossy and disapproving and I'm never good enough for her. But I really don't like fighting with her. She's smart and funny and when she looks at me with her big blue eyes, I start to feel something inside...it's wonderful and fluttery. And when I feel that, I don't want to let it go, like it's something hanging on a thin string about to break, and as long as I keep looking into those eyes, it'll stay." Ron took one surprised look at what he'd wrote and threw it in the nearest trash bin. R/Hr.

Regulus' thoughts on his way to Hogwarts and during his Sorting.

Myrtle is not all she seems...was her death really because she was Muggle-born? Or because of a forbidden love...?

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…

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.

HP/Discworld crossover. Death is unimpressed with Voldemort's quest for immortality, especially when it involves his property, but is determined to be patient nevertheless. Voldemort is unimpressed with Death's interference and is most decidedly not going to be patient. The ensuing confrontation can only be described as "...FUN".

Snape has an unwelcome nighttime visitor.

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.

Kristus Vesanus has never lived an ordinary life. He spends his days in fear and doubt, away from magic, even though that is the heritage he was born into.

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.

Harry Potter searches for the remaining Horcruxes, familiar faces aid him in his journey to stop the Dark Lord.

Some people suggest it was just selfishness on Snape's part to stop his Occlumency lessons with Harry, but perhaps Snape's reasons run far deeper. A Snape's POV response to the OotP chapter "Snape's Worst Memory."

Flora and Fauna are about to start their third year at Hogwarts. All goes well, until the Chamber of Secrets is opened.

The Final Battle takes place at Hogsmeade, during Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts. He defeats Voldemort, but loses his life to a Death Eater after fulfilling the Prophecy. But before dying, he has made an indelible mark in the heart of one whose love was as absolute as her faith. Can Luna survive without him to live for? And can someone take his place?

Remus Lupin has seen life and he has seen death. But as he confronts the latest of his griefs, he must come to terms with the duty that has befallen him in the wake of tragedy.

It's another regular day at Hogwarts, but what will happen next is anything but ordinary for the five people who watch it happen helplessly. This is a story from Hermione.

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.

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

A sweet one-shot songfic about Harry and his restless three-month-old baby, Liz. Harry sees a women's talk show about babies; he decides to sing her 'Lullaby' by Creed. Implied H/L.

When the war is over there have been betrayals of the worst kind. The only thing Draco wants now is vengeance for the death of the girl he loved.

"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."

"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.”

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.

(Slash; Sirius/Remus) Short, improv. Before, during, and post-Azkaban. Forever is never a promise, no matter how hard one wishes.

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.

February 2007 Challenge Winner. Prompt: Professor Slughorn Spends Time in the Astronomy Tower with Seamus Finnegan.

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.

This is some general oddness about all the characters being odd and doing odd things. Why? Because I said so! And as the author I am allowed to say so.

'The inelegant rumble in my stomach causes my face to contort in concentration. Of all the times to get wind, why now?!' Professor Snape is standing up there blowing like a huge bag of hot air.

It's the beginning of the end... and Sirius is already causing trouble! The often humorous trials and tribulations of the Marauders in their last year at Hogwarts, through their never-ending classes, raucous pranks, and numerous relationships. Established Sirius x Remus, James x Lily.

R for later chapters. In the year 2004, the next generation is born, and ready or not, they’ve got to finish where their parents left off.

Voldemort reflects on his childhood. Then his years at Hogwarts. And finally, his rise to power. Entrances made by Voldie and Bellatrix.

Crossover: Harry Potter/The Sentinel. While waiting for the release of Book Five, a certain detective gets caught up in a very strange, yet oddly familiar, universe.

Nymphadora Tonks receives a visitor in the hospital after the attack in the Ministry. All she can say is 'Oh'. Part one of a trilogy of one-shot R/T fics on the topic of healing and carers.

ALL the Weasleys have red hair. A very silly little ficlet. R/H

The tragic event of March 11th of Harry's seventh year starts a vicious cycle of death and despair for several students and quickly spreads to the rest of the wizarding world. But even after the Final Battle, the war rages on. With people still dying and turning up missing there seems to be no end in sight. But Snape has a secret that may change all that, but at what cost? In the end is he a Killer, Hero, or just another Victim?

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.

The sequel to The First Piece of Silver. Peter Pettigrew meets Regulus Black at a party, Voldemort courts Dark creatures, and wheels are set in motion. Peter thinks he's doing the right thing. He's wrong.

Once hurt and alone, Peter finds himself in a seemingly perfect relationship only to discover that not everything is what it seems and a kind mask can hide a monster.

A very young Severus Snape takes his first steps into the Dark Wizarding world.

On and on does anybodt know what we are living for?

"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.

Extremely short ficlet on the frayed relationship of Ginny & Harry. Edited for Post DH effect.

Harry wants Draco. Draco knows Harry wants him. But will it work?

Someone thinks about shadows.

This is "Bella"--a cold, cruel, calculating shell of a woman. Where Trixie was warm, if a little indifferent and aloof, this stranger is hard and angry; the result of thirteen years in Azkaban and almost thirty with that brand on her arm...

During his first Quidditch game at Hogwarts, Regulus must balance his loyalties - in true Slytherin fashion.

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

Just how many extra hours did Hermione log during her stressful third year? How did she survive her insane academic schedule? The answer: Well, she wouldn’t have survived had it not been for … close friends.

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

Draco dreams, and has to decide where his allegiances lie—with Harry, or Voldemort.

{The natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body.} She forgets all about hating him when he touches her like this. (D/G)

Even though Remus feels that he has been to enough funerals to not be affected by Sirius's death, a visit from Harry right before the funeral shows him he might be wrong.

Someone on WIKTT theorised that Snape had not gone back to Voldemort to spy, but instead to take care of the problem of the Dementors at Azkaban. That set this little plot bunny running around my head.

Katie Bell never knew her father, but it never really bothered her. She had her mother, her grandfather, and her daydreams about Oliver Wood to occupy her time. But what happens when lies from her mother's past threaten to affect her future? (Takes place during OotP)

The Final Battle approaches and the question of whether Draco can be trusted to make the right decision is finally answered ... by Crookshanks.

Millicent Bulstrode, in the Fifty Galleons universe.

Lord Voldemort has finally been defeated and with this, rejoicing is in order... or is it? Harry and Draco come to a final confrontation. Harry does the hardest thing he’s ever had to do (even including killing the Dark Lord). Emotions are nothing when it comes to the end.

James folded his arms below his chest and met Remus's eyes firmly. "I was thinking about becoming an Animagus." "Why...er... would you want to do that?" Remus queried, trying and failing to sound casual. At this point, James leaned forward. He gave Remus an exasperated look and whispered, "Why do you think?" Then, he stood up and exited the common room without a backward glance. Remus wasn't dim. He was pretty sure what this meant. James knew.