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Harry goes with his friend Mortie Wimsey and his family to the snail races... with some very unexpected results!

Two cousins have the misfortune to be placed in opposing houses at Hogwarts. But those houses influence their futures and not all futures are bright. What happens when the new friends they've made and the choices they've made affect their friendship?

After he finished what he had to do and became a hero, Harry realises he doesn't qualify for any career in the wizarding world. What is there left to do when you lived your life before you even turned seventeen?! The brave thing, he is a Gryffindor, after all...

Ray Kowalski, teenage Muggle, stumbles onto a game of Quodpot. A crossover with the Due South TV show.

A prisoner reflects as the moon rises.

Just as Ron is about to tell Hermione how he feels, Voldemort shows up! Not to worry, Harry has a plan, and it is way better than Ron's plan of attacking Voldy with hummus! Will Harry prevail? Will Ron reveal his feelings? Will Hermione wear coloured socks? Find out in this exciting fic!

Crookshanks--half cat, half kneazle--is the most respected beast in the Magical Menagerie, blessed with insight and intelligence that has never been matched by any other creature. So when an Animagus in the form of a beaten-up old rat appears in his beloved stronghold and threatens the peace therein, he has no choice but to attack, even if it means jeopardizing the redheaded little boy who carries said Animagus. He allows himself to be adopted by a young witch who seems to have realized his intelligence and matches it with her own, only to keep an eye on this rat. He feels finally accepted and loved at Hogwarts, but will not let that deter him from his original goal. After all, things are not always what they seem…

Anthony Goldstein went to a Quidditch match with Theodore Nott. For FAP's What's Your OTP? Valentine's Day Challenge.

The Triwizard judges select the hostages for the second task.

If you've read "Come What May" you're about to find out what happened; if you haven't, you're in for a shock. Harry Potter's happy family wasn't so happy all the time.

They're both in training to be Aurors, but one has been given so much more than the other. Hermione, Harry and envy.

What was it about heartbreak that continued to fester and bleed even years after the initial gouging?

Another Draco Vignette. First person POV from Draco's eyes of the last encounter between him and the Boy-Who-Lived before the final, epic battle. When all friends and allies have been slain, where does one turn for comfort?

He's brutish, she's shrill. Gregory Goyle slips into Moaning Myrtle's bathroom late one night to escape Filch’s wrath, and an unexpected conversation ensues.

A special Family Dinner at the Burrow. Remus/Ron, post-DH AU. Written for rarepair_shorts on LJ. Prompt: mum's the word.

The choice between Gryffindor and Slytherin didn't come as he sat under the Sorting Hat, nor when he stood, as good as alone, on the tiny island at night. Not for him.

Nobody really thinks about what life would be like after Voldie's downfall, do they? Death, gloom, misty November evenings, nobody to turn to for help... Hermione's got problems, and Pansy's not helping. Driven to the North Tower for solace, Hermione's thoughts take a dark turn... Implied Hermione/Ron

"One who has never been to Azkaban would think that the Dementors are the worst of it. They feed on your happiness and leave you only with despair. Yes, they can contribute to your descent into insanity. Lock a man up and leave him with only himself for company, and the result is a raving maniac." The thoughts of one Sirius Black, while in Azkaban.

He sets his bag down on the bed and lets himself, for just a minute, feel the most lost he's ever felt in his entire life. -- The summer following the war, Harry learns how to live a normal life.

Draco buys a dark magical item. Will it work or will it backfire? A late night frolic in Hogwarts Castle.

Ron has some issues....

Draco hates Harry and Harry hates Draco … Right? Featuring a vengeful Draco, a persistent Harry and an uneasy truce that might just be something else entirely. H/D, sixth year.

"She stood silently for a minute as she thought, regarding how the flakes of snow caught on his honey-coloured hair and eyelashes as he stared at the ground, on the edges of his forest-green cloak. Remus didn’t notice, having slipped into a well-rehearsed speech by now. Things started to make sense and suddenly seemed to click into place; his monthly disappearances from Gryffindor tower, the flimsy excuses, his secrecy, even Lily’s comment earlier..." (MWPP; RL/OC.)

Alone, in the dark of Azkaban, Lucius tries to grasp a happy memory before his death. A songfic, based on the song "Midnight".

Harry stared. He couldn’t help it. Of all the things he had expected to see tonight when he, together with Draco Malfoy, suddenly had been propelled into this dark musty room, it sure as hell wasn’t this.

Something dark for the New Year. Did you ever delve yourself into the irony of chance meetings? [Harry/Draco]

It's the things you do that make me and break me into a thousand tiny shards. A Draco piece.

Getting a wake-up call from your worst enemy is never very fun, particularly if you were looking for honour instead.

"Brave, clever, and energetic ... not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger." Harry wants to keep Ginny safe, but is he right to ask it?

Remus Lupin looks in the mirror and wonders when the life he once knew became the life he now lives, and whether living is still worth the effort. Set just before the events of Prisoner of Azkaban; contains implied (non-explicit) Remus/Sirius.

Tom comes to Ginny in the night.

Draco's thoughts about his life and his relationship to Lucius.

"The universe comes in threes, but the model isn’t Clothos Atropos and Lachesis. It’s Jesus, God & Judas, and one must be a sacrifice." Wizarding myth, Betrand Russel's Political Ideals, and Tom stealing Minerva's soul in the Chamber. Creation is ownership. AU Minerva/Tom.

Even great men disagree. Those that are particularly great set up ways for their successors the carry on their disagreements. Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor were men without parallel. From the perspective of Dumbledore.

Set in Harry's seventh year when he and Malfoy finally become Quidditch captains. Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. Includes build up to the match, and has more twists than you would expect from a simple Quidditch match... but the question is... Who will win?

He expresses his feelings about her death. It's just so hard to forget. Songfic to Cemetery Drive by My Chemical Romance.

Is my OC a "Mary Sue"? Damn straight she is. You got a problem with that?``Rated R for vulgar language, ethnic stereotyping and New York attitude.

Love is hard to come by, but it's even harder to let go...and sometimes, it's hard to share.

A series I'm doing about how everyone got petrified in Chamber of Secrets.

Draco, running for his life, wants it all to stop.

Draco reflects on things. (songfic with Stained's fade.)

Peter Judas Pettigrew remembers the events which led him to join the Dark Lord, the night he betrayed James as he lives up to his namesakes. Contains slash.

A reoccurring dream haunts Harry both night and day.

It is one month since Sirius Black escaped. An Azkaban guard provides some insight as to how Black's escape has affected Azkaban thus far.

Post-Ootp. Sirius says goodbye to Remus, one last time...

It's funny how the end seems like it will never come until you crash headfirst into it. On his last morning at Hogwarts, James struggles with the idea of change in his life and in his friends. Reaching the end of something wonderful is never easy, but sometimes we're deceived about what the end really is.

Lily didn't know why or how it started, exactly, but she did know that this horrid ritual had been a part of her life for almost an entire year. [

Harry considers what meaning Halloween holds for him.

Ron has finally had enough of it, and pours out all his feelings, what he really thinks of The-Boy-Who-Lived.

Set in the Marauder's second year at Hogwarts. Remus makes a confession, Sirius a shocking realization, and they both find a way to cope with their problems. Mild SB/RL slash.

Malfoy's rules are not laws in the world. But they are my laws and I follow them. In this situation I can't do anything else. In this situation I don't want to do anything else. I've got a reason.

I can't have any weaknesses, you're one of them. Femmeslash, selfharm, character death.

Four months after the final battle, he's running for his life.

After the defeat at the Department of Mysteries, Bellatrix Lestrange's spirit seems broken, and she wastes away unto death. But even as she slips away, Bella's indominable spirit protests that with sufficient will, even Death may be overcome. But now, even as Rodolphus takes a new bride, will Bellatrix return again to him from beyond the grave?

Remus didn't like hostility, so when Molly started at Arthur in the hospital he did the only thing he could do. He talked to the werewolf. We know that, but what did they say?

"It wasn't that Harry Potter didn't love his son...it was just that - well, there was no other way to say it - James' actions made him nervous..." After killing Voldemort, Harry was supposed to have a perfect life with Ginny and their model Gryffindor kids, right? Wrong. Harry's greatest threat isn't Voldemort now - it's his own flesh and blood.

Find out what happens in the real Harry Potter world, what would happen if Harry had to teach someone to be a wizard, and why Dumbledore really likes cardboard so much! (Okay, that last one is a ``lie.)

Many improvements have been made to the concealment of the Wizarding World since Voldemort's defeat. But one Muggle witnesses a fight between Aurors and Death Eaters.

Sequel to "Former Warmth." Every story must have a happy end.

Sirius has to leave, he doesn't want to, but he has to. What will Remus say when he finds out what his friend's been up to?

Professor Snape reflects on the devastating aftermath of his fears and failures as the new school year following Voldemort's return begins.

Harry hears a wonderful disco song on the radio and decides to discofy the school, with the help of Madam Peace Pince. What happens though, when Snape decides to put an end to the disco? Includes disco, funky clothing, cool names, and torture weapons!

Child!Draco. Lucius finds his son in the kitchen with the house-elf. Involves a lot of ice cream.

You love someone... and you don’t get loved back...``And you make that deal with hate, if only to get the love you want. But the need to be needed is the strongest after all...

This is the original version of my fic Snow Petals before I changed it. I felt it was too sad at first, but since some reviewers wanted more dialogue, I figured I might as well do this. Notice that not all descriptions and everything is in it.

A songfic of Draco's desiderata.

This is the third of my one chapter mini-fics. This is a tale of the marauder we know very little about - James Potter. This small fic shows that even in their early childhood, James and Sirius could be counted on for making mischief.

A photo in a treasured album. Who is the woman in that photo, and how did she die?

What happens when Harry finds out he has a sister, with whom both Draco and Ron fall in love, and who is better than Hermione in every subject (but still manages to become her best friend)? YES! A MARY SUE FIC!

Kingsley Shacklebolt headed the operation to find Sirius Black. Two years of shadowing the dog star makes it difficult to leave your work behind.

Sex and Pain, Betrayal and Fear, Determination and Hope. ````Sirius Black is a man that knows each consuming emotion better than almost any other. As he reflects back on all the events of his life, he realises that even in a world torn apart, there's still hope to be found.

Draco thinks back on his life before ending it: his marriage, his wife's suicide, his position in the Dark Order, and all the things he's lost over the years.

Death prevails in a fatal confrontation between the dark and the light... LJ, Non-Romance, AU, Angsty.

So you're familiar with Quidditch. But that's only if you play by the rules. This is when Street Quidditch comes into play.

The two who know Hogwarts and its students best discuss the 1000-year-old rivalry between red and green that plagues the halls of Hogwarts.

Harry remembers. He has lost almost everything, but at least his best friend is still there for him.

"She quietly pulled herself together, so that when Vernon walked in demanding dinner, she could smile, and fix dinner, and chatter away without shattering." A vignette of Petunia after Harry leaves for his first year at Hogwarts.

First loves don't always take you where you expect to go. (Mild RL/SB)

A visit to the Hog's Head leads to the most important decision in Tom Riddle's life.

'I had always wished for a boy. I wanted a little Black boy, dark hair and dark eyes, fierce and devoted.' Andromeda Tonks wishes for a boy, so her child will not have to grow up as she did.

Ron's musings about Hermione and how she's completely different than before. But there's a secret soon to be revealed.... A short songfic to Matchbox 20's Disease

Sirius had loved the rain, but Remus finds he can't quite leave it completely behind. Post OotP. Remus' POV.

"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." ~Kahlil Gibran

An aftermath of what happened in OoTP, almost a year later.

The long awaited (perhaps too long) sequel to Dear Harry and Dear Draco. Draco's memory continues to haunt him, and Harry decides he must face the returning Draco.

The Lamentation of Severus. A poemfic in which Snape predicts the future, and chides Harry for the choices he's made.

It’s after the war and Draco Malfoy feels like escaping into the fog, if only to forget… everything.

'Not many could keep a game of chess up for a year, let alone seven. And the rest of my life, before the game even began, I was just being prepared for it.' Harry faces off for a final time against the Dark Lord.

Ding Dong Voldemort's dead! But, *gasp* where is Harry? That is sure as heck what Draco wants to know!

"I am trapped forever. Always watching, but never living." A point-of-view from canon that has never been noticed before. One-shot.

On what may be the happiest day of Tom Riddle's life, he visits the grave of one of his victims for a lark. We learn that snakes are always unfailingly polite, that Tom likes to mangle Shakespeare, and that trite similies praising eye-color are not exclusive to fanfiction. Or, perhaps they are.

Reality is only as concrete as one's perception of it. And there are some voids where even blackness cannot exist. Ginny dreams, and Tom reminds her of things she never tried to forget.

AU set after Harry's fifth year. "He knew it was a stupid hope, but he wished, and he hoped, and he hoped to stop hoping all the same."

Songfic to The Ataris' "Make it Last." Remus reflects on his relationship with Sirius over the years. Guilt, sadness, love - all of the above apply.

In the books we get a brief look at the character of Fenrir Greyback, but we never get a glimpse into his mind. Maybe, after all, that is a good thing.

After the attack in the Ministry of Magic, Remus thinks back on how he's always been destined to suffer, to be the one left behind to tell the tale, while other are free to leave. OotP spoilers, subtle slash.

Ginny sat in her room. Alone. She wasn’t going to talk to anyone. She couldn’t.````He was gone.

//But don't forget who's taking you home And in whose arms you're gonna be, So, darling, Save the last dance for me.// ~Save the Last Dance for Me, Michael Bulbe

Remus Lupin contemplates an old photo and remembers the bad old days. Nobody wants those times back - do they?

Harry's intuition led him to the cavern where Dumbledore and he ventured before, only to find a choice too hard to make, an utter depression soon to come, and the biggest mistakes of his life.