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To be scared of dying is a natural reaction, but you must always meet it with courage...

Rainbows are supposed to be beautiful, vivacious promises of life. In their world, the colors were what connected them, when all they wanted was to go about their lives like they had before. But when you're in pain, anything that can vanish it, even if only temporarily, are welcome. "The sky, tarnished navy, poured into the rooms they found conveniently empty to cast lingering velvet shadows on their foolish young faces. Neither questioned it. Neither wanted to. And neither had to."``(Draco/Ginny ficlet, NOT love, but a relationship of sorts.)

In January 1983 Remus Lupin pursues advanced studies of goblin rebellions and practises not to dream.

Remus and Sirius struggle with self-hatred and doubts as they try to make up for lost time. Songfic to 'Nobody' by Five for Fighting. I know it's been written many times before, but this is a bit different.

A poem character sketch in the point of view of the beloved Sirius Black. Please do not read unless finished with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Harry has problems dealing with the battle with Voldemort.

Strange, thinks Ginny, that such a little thing can be in tumults of joy merely because of Tom's attention; but there is a lot more to compete for now that they find themselves back in the world. Ginny has nearly lost herself, but Tom is going to do just the opposite... read Stockholm and Icarus first.

A look at James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew and Lily Evans on the day before their first day at Hogwarts... the Marauders before they were Marauders!

The face of Lucius Malfoy loomed over him, a triumphant, smug smile set in place. ``“Broken yet?” ``If you don't like non con, don't read this fic, period.

Part 9 in the Monochrome Series. When the lovers are discovered unexpectedly, they have to learn to deal with the consequences of an innocent relationship. A poetical series about the romantic life and trials of Harry and Draco.

Snape stumbled upon one of the Marauder's secrets and it could be deadly....

'He always said crying was a sign of weakness. So I never cried. He said laughing only made me look vulnerable. I don't know how to laugh anymore. He said showing your emotions was wrong. He taught me how to hide my emotions. I was always changing myself for him. But no matter what, I was never good enough for him. '

In 1981, on the eve of Voldemort's fall, a Ravenclaw and a Slytherin form an unlikely bond.

Narcissa Black falls through the ice on the lake, Severus Snape is tormented as always, and Lucius Malfoy shows that there is such a thing as Slytherin loyalty. Everyone skates on very thin ice before the first war.

Severus Snape wants to challenge the Death. Will he succeed? The White Rabbit will be his guide through the whole trip in the Death's world.

Just a series of interesting stories. One every week!

Set in the "They Shook Hands" universe. Elan Malfoy is playing hide-and-seek with his cousin Fritz. Although he is warned not to allow himself to get into trouble again, Elan can't resist another dare. When Fritz wants to go down to the basement to play, Elan goes along and discovers that there is a lot to his house he didn't know existed. Even to a pure blood child, magic can pose a real danger and Elan is walking straight into a force that nothing can prepare him for.

When Sirius's date dumps him much earlier than anticipated, all he wants to do is have a good sulk in the privacy of the boy's dormitory. How quickly he forgets that there will be one other boy there...one who's there every Friday night. Very mild slash. SB/PP

Being "The Boy Who Lived" isn't easy, you know. In fact, Harry Potter has the most difficult life anyone his age has ever had to suffer through. Or so he thinks. Two new students join the fray at Hogwarts, with many secrets and quite a mysterious situation...

James' soul watches and contemplates what happened to Lily and Harry after Voldemort kills him.

What happens when you love someone too much? How far will you go to have sole posession?

Nick is turned down for the Headless Hunt (again) and finds a sympathetic ear in the form of second year Luna Lovegood. However when she hatches a scheme to decapitate him properly, is Nick really ready to fix his little problem permanently?

Behavior is something that is somewhat important. Impeccable behavior is something that is incredibly important to people of society. Well, high soiety anyway. Lucius learns that sometimes, even the wealthy don't always get what they truly want.

He felt as if he were floating in an endless limbo, trapped forever behind a wall of glass for tourists to satisfy their curiosity and then move on. Ultimately, all it took to free him from his transparent prison was one spark.

"So we know that, near the end of her pregnancy, Merope was alone in London and in desperate need of gold, desperate enough to sell her one and only valuable possession, the locket that was one of Marvolo's treasured family heirlooms." What really happened there?

An out-take, showing exactly how MWPP learnt to do the reversal spell in the shrieking shack.

The parting of Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter. A show of pride and wavering strengths.

Lily Potter sacrificed her life to Lord Voldemort so that her only son, Harry Potter, could become The Boy Who Lived. This fic describes the last few seconds of her life and what thoughts crossed her mind as Voldemort murmured the death spell.

Remus Lupin has a particular interest in Luna Lovegood. Purely paternal, of course.

Seven years after the war, Hermione is married and has children. One night she stops by The Three Broomsticks to have a drink and meets someone from her past. Someone she thought she would never see again.

You've read it all right? You have your conclusions on who's who, and who's evil or not. Take a step back and venture behind the pages. See a new Petunia and the reason why she treats Harry as if he whould never be loved. Take a trip into, Behind It All. Meant to reach out and touch you.

Written for a "Veil of Possibilities" challenge, and definitely AU. Sirius is guilty of all he was charged of, and is at Hogwarts tormenting Remus. The Sirius we know is travelling through the realms connected by the Veil, and has to help Remus get free.

Harry Potter is starting his sixth year in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However Harry's year is going to be far more eventful than he ever thought it might be. With a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, and an event that would well turn our sixteen-year-old wizard's life over!

Lycanthropy isn't as it seems.

Unfulfilling curiosity. This is part of Dusk-till-Dawn. Scenario 58 –``Harry finds out that Severus Snape is gay. It gives him ideas.

My ears whistle. I can barely hear my classmates’ voices, I feel like I had my head under water. No, not again. Not now. This is the first alarm ring. It’s the first signal and it says "Here we are, Ron, we are coming." The murmur is continuously more burdensome, and I already feel that constant and fierce pulsing at the temples, an incessant and obsessive thump-thump-thump. ``It resounds in my heart, amplified in the middle of my chest.``And added to my friends’ ones, I can hear so many, too many other voices of unknown people.

McGonagall, Dumbledore, Moody and Arthur decide to go bowling.

This fic explores the repercussions of being levitated by people in masks.

'...Naturally everyone has their mish-mash days, but mine generally only happen when the wanglesgrout has lodged itself up my nose again.' Neville asks Luna how she is, and ends up going in over his head. Luna/Neville.

A witch and a wizard meet at Worlds’ End. A Sandman crossover, and sequel to Sleep Spent.

Young Remus Lupin is curious... too curious. An``innocent venture outside leads him to his unfortunate destiny.

Chuckling despite herself, she answered Draco. "Funny... I always saw you as more the 'morally ambiguous' type." Draco, Ginny, secret rooms, masks... and the shades of gray that tie them all together.

It's quiet in here. And dark. Moonlight has been blocked out by thick, black curtains. Certainly Madam Pomfrey's work. It annoys me; I like to watch the faint glow of the moon and the stars dancing on the ceiling at night. It must be about two or three o'clock in the morning. I smell the cup of tea that was brought to me a few hours ago and which I ignored on my bedside table. It's probably stone cold by now. I don't want it. I don't want any of this anymore. Voldemort is dead, yet so is Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived. How did it get to that? Ginny, supposedly sleeping in the hospital wing, thinks about the events... and the day after.

Neville Longbottom's world comes crashing down around him as his wife Ginny admits to having an affair with Harry Potter. Murder and resentment, anger and pity, suicide and hope for redemption ensues.

Making love isn't the only way. Sirius Black/Severus Snape. Set during OotP. One-shot.

It's time for Harry and Draco to finally be reunited... forever. Can Harry find peace after the Final Battle? Sequel to the follow-up of From the Damage, Moonlit Assurances.

It had always been easy for Sirius to hate Severus Snape.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, ``Over many a quaint and curious spellbook I'd not read before, ``While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,``As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the dorm room door.``"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "rapping at the dorm room door--``This it is, and nothing more."````But it isn't...and we all know it. A parody of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven".

The story so far... Harry has just found Tom Riddle in the Chamber of Secrets. Tom has begun to recount a tale of his past exploits though Harry remains blissfully unaware of the nature of Tom’s true identity. Tom kindly decides to help him out...

Memories of love leave quickly when you stay in Azkaban... Very light slash of the Sirius/Remus variety, with added Dementor-angst.

Ron Weasley is an adult now, even if he doesn't much want to be. Ron/Remus, Charlie/Harry. Warning: character death.

D/Hr - a break up. Draco chose between his money, power, family name and his love, friendship, trust. Hermione trusted him to choose her. She forgot that he loved power more.

Seventh year. Harry has burnt his bridges and Draco looks to pour salt in those wounds.

At their weekly day together Neville's grandfather contemplates his magicless grandson and considers the future.

Dumbledore does a little maintenance on Foreign Relations...

Harry, Ron and Hermione stumble upon a secret left behind by Dumbledore, which allows them to go back in time and attempt to prevent the Second War. However, they arrive to find several things changed drastically in the new timeline. Join the trio as they attempt to decipher the new world, right the wrongs of ages past and cope with the ensuing mayhem.

Someone gets an unexpected visitor

Bad things are happening at Hogwarts. It must be the Slytherins' faults.

It took years for Harry to get to this point, days for him to gather the courage to share his feelings and mere moments to know it was right.

"Ends and beginnings--there are no such things. There are only middles." ``A Post-Hogwarts POV-piece.

(AR, OOC, Self Insert) This is a story about a girl named Sara and her boyfriend Draco. It's a short, sweet story in which Draco marvels in her voice.

There is an attack on Hogwarts, and Bill Weasley is summoned by the Order to come in and aid in the fight. When he gets locked in a duel with Fenrir Greyback, what will be the outcome? (Missing Moment from Half Blood Prince).

A collection of my HP-inspired poems.

Draco finally realizes what he's put into his hair. Who's going to rescue his precious locks if not Harry?

"No deprivation is any trouble if you do not miss what you have lost." Lord Voldemort remembers an early victory.

Sirius' girlfriend starves him of affection. He comes home angry and takes it out on Remus. Remus resists, but he knows it's futile. Sirius always gets what he wants.

Does anyone know who the Fat Lady is? Does anyone care?

He loved her all his life, and when she found out, it was too late

Luna and Parvati. Bittersweet nights. Memories.

The kitchen at Hogwarts is the setting for a midnight snack, a bout of fisticuffs, a tonne of profanity and revelations.

Wormtail is a selfish, cowardly rat, isn't he? He'd agree with you.

The battle is over and Voldemort has been defeated, but what happens when victory comes with too high a cost?

Harry and Draco's tight-knit relationship has ended, but not for obvious reasons. The two boys are left dazed and confused and neither know what to do. In a desperate attempt to make things right, both resort to suicide as the way out. Letters are written but never read, good-byes are said but never heard, but will they go through with their plans, or will the other be just in time? HP/DM

The most interesting events in the history of Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, happen after nightfall. Hermione, the Head Girl, has faced several life changing events. Now, she is trapped between two worlds, each pulling away at each other. Yet, she finds herself lying to her boyfriend, Harry Potter, and sneaking away and confiding with the only other Death Eater at Hogwarts — Draco Malfoy. With graduation just six months away, Hermione must make sense out of her once simple life. But once she turns the light off, can she get out of the dark?

Hermione searches for something she lost and, with Ginny's help, realizes she doesn't need it afterall. One-shot. Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny

It's seventh-year and it's been a wild journey... but is it really over?

Ginny is musing. She lives for him, but he lives for his friends. It's all for them.

After the war, Luna takes Harry on a trip.

One night, on a dark heath, the Dark Lord met with his minions for a night of bloodthirsty deeds. But the Death Eaters didn't really fancy all that evilness (it was a bit chilly, after all), so they showed Lord Voldemort the wonder that is The Sound of Music. Watch him laugh, cry and skip about in an amusing manner.

You were my hero, my savior. I loved you so much. Maybe too much. One-shot sequel to Afraid.

Blaise raises the sword again and runs it slowly from Draco’s left shoulder, across the grey silk of his shirt, and slices off the top button with the tip of the blade. The perfect shell button hits the floor with a barley audible tick. As cool steel hits warm skin for the barest instant Draco lets out a hiss, not of pain, but of surprise. Blaise grins. Draco knows this game. They’ve been playing it all summer. He is tired of it. boy!Blaise/Draco

A bride-to-be and a groom-to-be steal a few minutes alone, away from the mad world all around them. H/G

Oliver Wood sits alone in the bar and remembers his team.

The rain falls. Cleansing me. I stand, face uplifted, letting it soak through my thin robes. The rain and my tears mix. I could drown here and I would not care. I have nothing to live for. Everything is gone.

Okay, so Seamus doesn't always have the best of luck. So he occasionally breaks or destroys something and then can't fix or cover it up. Does that mean Alicia has to blame everything on him? Seamus/Alicia

Sixth year is going to be rather difficult for certain students at Hogwarts! Harry has to deal with the prospect of murder: kill or be killed; Hermione's having trouble with her feelings for a special someone; Ron is, well, Ron; and Draco has to deal with the lure of evil. The one thing they all have in common is... Restless Nights!

Danni Morgans: loud, obnoxious spy for the Order. Desi Vega: quiet, obedient daughter of a pureblood wizard. Two completely different personalities, one person. And you think you're confused?

Ginny's all tied up for Bella, and Bella won't say no to such a pretty present.

An author named Joanne speaks with an increasingly flustered Harry Potter about a series of books she has written about his time at Hogwarts. Harry is worried about the many glaring inconsistencies within the stories, and several odd titles, such as 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.

At first Harry dreaded coming. He hated the sterile smell of the place, the squeaky, rubbery noises, the cheerful politeness of the staff. He hated the way he sometimes heard screaming. . .

Harry and Hermione's daughter telling us about her mother's lonely Valentine.

Bellatrix is devoted to her Master. But she can never satisfy him.

He knew it not for what it was but for what it represented. A mother tells her son a bedtime story.

"The war, the prophecy, everything, it was bigger than me, but maybe it wasn’t bigger than the three of us,” Harry said slowly, so quiet he could hardly hear himself.

The war has ended, but no one has remained unscathed. Least of all Harry. Going on a bloody trail of revenge, he finds himself at the Lestranges's door. But soon enough, he's in over his head in a situation that's a little too close for comfort. How deep is hate? How consuming is revenge? How redemptive is love? And if you've crossed the line, can anything - or anyone - pull you back? Post Hogwarts, some Bellatrix/Rodolphus. Rated for some violence, very little language, and character deaths.

The children have been brought back from the Ministry. Ginny lies in the Hogwarts hospital wing and thinks about the upcoming war.

I hate him. I hate the feeling that I always get when I think of him. I hate the taste of sour cherries and nutmeg that he always had.

For some, 13 is an unlucky number. Remus, on the other hand, counts thirteen times he knew love was real.

After an incident at St. Mungo's, Neville takes responsibility for the care of his mother and father. A story of a son's love for his parents.