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It's cold and wet. A bedraggled figure wanders through the town.

Teenagers Molly and Arthur chat over the Christmas holidays; he tells her a secret from his past that's been hidden away for years. Rated for sensitive issues.

James and Sirius made a promise to Remus; Remus also made a promise. How does this change things if both those promises were broken?

What will happen when Peeves, our favorite Poltergeist, falls in love? Who will it be, and what will be the end result of it? You will get under the skin of Peeves, and find out a lot more about who he really is. Is he as bad as he seems, or is it all just an act? Who is his loved one?

The tight circle of trees surround you, moving in. They point their crooked branches at you as if they blame you for the frost that has covered this whole godforsaken place. You killed us, they whisper with their leafless branches, you killed us, like you killed him.

Harry has to go back in time to retrieve a Horcrux from Grimmauld Place. But can he really keep from changing future events?

Everyone at Hogwarts has been mysteriously killed. And it's all Raffi's fault.

It's amazing what little things can trigger memories and tears. Three people remember a man who meant much to them. A man who died too soon.

Gryffindor isn't the only brave House or the only one to pay the consequences of bravery under the Carrows' regime. (Angst, violence, torture.). Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Neville Longbottom and D.A. Rating: R

March 2007 Challenge fic. Prompt: Gideon Prewett gave Gregory's Unctuous Unction to Professor Grubbly-Plank. What are the Prewett brothers up to, and how much trouble can they get into?

The origin of Harry Potter, told as it could have been.

Rachel woke when it was still dark outside her grimy window. She sat up next to the still-sleeping Ian and looked around, confused. Then everything hit her, physically hit her, so that she fell back onto the bed and bit her pillow to stop keep herself from screaming. This fic also goes as a sort of background story to my fic Harry Potter and the Return to the Riddle House. (If you haven't read RttRH, consider this a sort of trailer, like what makes you want to see the movie.) Very angst-y.

In the aftermath of Voldemort's defeat there comes a time for healing.

Slytherins have feelings and loyalties too, you know. Perhaps different from those of the rest of the world, but they’re still there. Pansy listens, thinks, and remembers and re-examines her loyalties. Rather random thoughts. Set after the end of HBP. Slight DM/PP.

After the war, Harry ran from the bad memories that haunted him and took refuge in the Muggle world. When he gets a call from a Muggle hospital telling him that a certain Draco Malfoy has been delivered into the Intensive Care Unit, it seems that his peace of mind is at stake as well as Draco's life.

He wasn't really thinking about it, even as he walked up the pathway to the house.... This part was simple, thoughtless.... Voldemort goes to kill the Potters, never dreaming the fate which awaits him. The first defeat of the Dark Lord, from his point of view.

How did "the gang" Snape hung out with during his days in Hogwarts all become Death Eaters? How high was their opinion of him?

Judged. Labeled. Levelled. Uniforms turn normal kids into members of their House, while keeping their individual traits out of the way. Hogwarts stole my identity. It's time for me to act against the system.

Harry Potter has not seen Ginny Weasley or any of his other friends for years. Instead, he basks in the adoration of the little people. When he is obliged to attend Ron and Hermione's wedding, five years after he broke up with Ginny, he is in for a surprise!!! :D Here we have D/G, both sides of a one-sided H/G, with just a dash of R/Hr...

The final showdown between Harry and Voldemort. Not everything goes as expected. possible h/s preslash. May be the first of a series.

“Friendship; treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” While dark forces are gaining strength on the outside world, inside Hogwarts the students are dealing with their own struggles; pining after girls, studying for O.W.L.’s, rebellion, marauding, and mischief. Friendship will be tested, strengthened, and lost. Paths will be chosen, and principles defined. Sirius Black and James Potter are entering their fifth year and it is sure to be an eventful one.

It was the full moon the night that James and Lily had died, and Remus was alone.

A trivial decision, perhaps ... but Marietta hates the one she made. Now she's stuck studying Arithmancy (I'd blame her mother) while her Ravenclaw peers discuss the Muggle World. Can anything be done?

After a painful break-up with Draco, Harry tries to be indifferent.

Professor Blaise Zabini with his cat Macavity comes to stay with his friend Liam Rhenford in a quiet seaside town, and solves a mystery of the disappearance of an Oriental star ruby...

If this is the way dying feels, it's not so bad.

Hermione talks to Harry about coping with death and learns to let go in the strangest way.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Draco Malfoy comes to the Boy-Who-Lived, asking for help. When they realize that, after denying it, they really WANT to be friends and put the past behind them, it turns their worlds upside-down.

"A year, a salvation of one year for her to gather the child and run. And the child would have to go with her, because she could not leave behind a little girl in this house." Pregnant with Morfin's child, Merope longs to escape to a life with Tom, and a better world for the child she hopes will be a girl.

Hannah and Neville hire Lee Jordan to help with the pub. Written for the Rarepair Shorts Number Game Ficathon 2009 on Life Journal.

After the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, Lupin, Tonks, Kingsley, and Molly deal with Sirius' passing.

A deeper, darker look into the life of the girl we now know as Moaning Myrtle.

During a brief imprisonment in the first war against Voldemort, Andromeda meets another captive who understands her estrangement from her sisters all too well.

Once upon a time there lived a princess. She lived in an odd-looking castle far away in a land called Ottery-St. Catchpole with her father, the king, her mum, the queen, and her six older brothers, the princes.

'From across the grounds, amidst the throes of battle, Draco felt a feather light brush of lips against his cheek. A blown kiss that he knew could only mean one thing. His beloved was gone.'

In the Forbidden Forest, during Goblet of Fire, Barty Crouch Jr. encounters shadows.

This is an AU fanfic; what if, basically. Don't want to give too much away, but it'll be messy, and plenty of people die. Sorry.

Emery Miller is a halfblood orphan living in a London wizarding orphanage. On a trip to Diagon Alley for supplies two weeks before her first day at Hogwarts, the eleven year old meets a slightly loony blonde woman. Two weeks later on the train, she meets the slightly loony blonde's twin sons and the rest, as they say, is history.

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

Of Harry stupid Potter, Parvati stupid Patil, the Yule stupid Ball, a most disgruntled Ginevra Weasley, broken feet, erected towers, magazines for witches, double meanings of flashes of green light, and complete loads of rubbish.

It's graduation day and Draco is lost in his own thoughts. Ginny's the only one that can find him. A bit of angsty D/G fluff : )

Harry and company have gone into hiding after the end of their sixth year and are currently waiting to make a move on Voldemort. When the opportunity arises, they must fight more than the enemy; each other.

Hermione and Ginny have an explosive talk about Harry's horcrux search in which Ginny proves herself to be an airhead and Hermione turns out to be wrong. HBP Spoilers.

Blaise Zabini, a seventh year, has kept a secret for years now. But now that everyone in Slytherin House knows, and now that everyone hates her, what is she to do? Warning: Contains cutting. DM/BZgirl!

Dudley taught me to run. Run like the angel of hell is behind me, because at five I thought it was and at seventeen it might have been and now...maybe I never learned to stand still.

Devastated by Sirius' death in in final battle, Hermione fled Britain, only to discover six years later that he was not dead at all. When he's recently recaptured by the Ministry, Hermione must confront her past to save the man she loves. HG/SB, HG/CD

Set in Harry's second year and Ginny's first when the Chamber of Secrets is opened. Ginny wakes up in the middle of the night with her hands covered in blood, and finds her peace with Harry.

Green for serpents and red for lions; green for cunning and red for courage; green for cold stone walls and stiff-backed seats, red for a crackling fire and plush armchairs with velvet covers. Green and red, dead.

I'm dying now and it's not what I thought it would be. It is all the regrets I’ve ever had knocking down the doors of my mind, screaming all the things I should have done. It is all the mistakes I ever made, crying for the apologies I never said.

Draco has one last chance to reveal his true feelings to Hermione. Will he forgive himself or allow his regret and shame to destroy his possibility for a happy future?

Songfic to Standing in the Rain by Billy Talent. Tells the story of Pansy after school. She's sunk to a new low. But Pansy's not your conventional whore.

In the world of magic, cruelty takes on physical incarnations: monsters, dark arts and Voldemort, all terrifyingly real, yet comfortingly separate from the good. But in the world of everyday, non-magical life, evil is much less easy to define. Cruelty and hatred hide beneath the plastic exterior of everday life, and no one is untouched. Take a look at the reality that lies behind the mask, and see for yourself what it really means to be normal.

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

Hermione receives a letter from Viktor Krum and Ron isn't too thrilled. Fighting ensues. R/Hr. One-shot. Set during Half-Blood Prince.

Remus tries to make sense of an Order mission gone wrong by asking Sirius about it. Bad idea. Very, very bad idea.

The psychological murmurings of a terrier-phobe. Vague``spoilers for OotP.

For every 99 times, you looked me in the eye and swore you weren't lying. Well I was so blind, I never saw the signs. I'm getting out tonight and you're not invited. Lily Evans is heartbroken. Her boyfriend was using her for a bet, and stupid James Potter still won't leave her alone! But sometimes we find the things we need in the most unlikely places.

in a midsummer day, a meeting that brings back Tom Riddle's forgotten memories.

Draco can't help remembering the past and Neville can't help giving second chances. (Written for elpin at hp_spring_fling)

Cho reflects upon Cedric's death, Harry, and herself. A short one-shot.

"I wish you could do magic!" Janie had shouted in a fit of temper. How exactly should a muggle mother respond to her daughter – especially when she wishes the very same thing?

Some friendships last minor squabbles. These outlasted prejudice, betrayal... even death.

In the midst of the horrors of the Second War, Ron dares to dream of after.

// Funny in a certain light, how we all look the same / And there's no one in life you can remember ever stood for you, so / Shame // Draco remembers. And hurts.

How does one become a Quidditch Hero? Trace the inception of Oliver Wood's dreams of glory by meeting the person who inspired it all: his brother.

Detective Harry Potter moved thousands of miles away, to the United States, to escape the emotional turmoil caused by his divorce. He should've known escaping wouldn't be easy -- with him, it never is.

She knew he wasn’t ready, knew he was too young. Yet there was nothing more she could do to keep him from making such a choice. But when he’s given a suicide mission, she does what any mother would do. She makes her decision, and she does it for her son.

Sirius doesn't think girls can prank. Sirius is about to be proven seriously wrong.

She didn't laugh anymore. Her tinkling laugh in the morning just because her father had forgotten to shave a spot on his cheek was gone. She didn't smile the way she used to do before it happened either. She didn't behave like she used to before; she wasn't the merry singing little girl she had been before. Before him.

Part 1 of a series. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are heading for Elizabeth City by air...but they have to fly through (dun dun dunnnnn...) Chicago O'Hare. Will they manage to survive...the Layover from Hell?

After Hogwarts, Ron and Ginny sought employment with Lupin in The Hotel of the Wanderers in Tibet. Ginny still pined for Harry, and felt trapped and stuck in her life. Daniel, an attractive, young, Californian, guitarist and university student visits Lupin seeking help in ridding himself of his lycanthropy. In the process, Ginny learns the universality of heartbreak. (Daniel is a character which most readers should instantly recognise from another source. For those who are fond of cross-overs).

When the girl of your dreams is slipping through your fingers, do you try to cling on or should you just let her go? Based on the poem, Neutral Tones, by Thomas Hardy.

Rosalie Edwards thought she had the perfect life: a loving husband and three beautiful daughters, but her husband's secret past is going to turn their entire world upside down. **Written in response to NevilleFan's "The I Heart Muggles" Challenge on HPFF**

I look into the mirror, and I don't recognise the girl staring back at me. It seems to me that I am much older than my birthdays tell me, and I most certainly look it. I can look at other girls my age, and see no reflection of myself in them. I've seen too much. (Hermione, post-war)

A boy should never have to pay for his father's mistakes. When a five-year-old Remus refuses to come in for a bath, he gets more than he bargained for....

There is a motive behind every action, no matter how big or small. What was Peter Pettigrew's the night he betrayed the Potters?

Ron has a mental rant about Malfoy. Why does he have to be so perfect?``(If you're offended by the words 'bloody', 'hell', or 'bastard', don't read it.)

"There was no point in worrying yet.... what would come, would come... and he would have to meet it when it did." -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Years after Voldemort is defeated, the troubles of the Wizarding World are far from over. A multi-ship, multi-character, post-Hogwarts soap opera. Rated R as a precaution.

"To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die." ~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground (st. 6).

Tonks arrives at Grimmauld Place with a full heart... and leaves with a broken one. Angsty R/T oneshot. [HBP spoilers]

In every frozen heart, there lies a weakness, a spot where, if touched, the warmth inside will spill out. But every spill carves a deep hole and the recovery may be worse than living with the icy pain. Ginny/OFC - femmeslash

Am I really a hero? That's what they tell me. They say I'm a hero, a savior, but I'm not. I am survivor. I'll tell you who the real heroes are, because they aren't here anymore. They are the heroes.

In a post-war world of imperfections Ron copes with the ambiguities of doing what needs to be done. Draco becomes a problem. Non-graphical references to torture and death. Mention to Ron/Hermione, Ron/Snape, and Ron/Draco.

In the summer of sixth year Voldemort decides it's time to shuffle The-Boy-Who-Lived loose the mortal coil. Unfortunately for Harry the afterlife isn't interested in letting him stick around. Sent back with an unwanted guest in tow and a score to settle, Harry finds himself changed and filled with vengeance. Voldemort told him he'd write the book on "worse things than death" with Harry, now he's back to write the epilogue. A Harry Potter noir fanfiction.

A chance encounter leads to an unexpected offer. This is a crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Alicia's going through some tough times, but who will stop her when she decides to end it all? Mild George/Alicia. Rated for suicide themes.

With death comes redemption, but it is all meaningless to a new mother whose days were colorless until a rainbow burst into life across her sky. It is a different kind of love...the kind of love that is all consuming. The kind of love that brings agony. The kind of love that eclipses reason, being, and all life before it. The kind of love that is unconditional. The love for a child.

As Albus, James, and their faithful friend, Leo, go to Potter Mansion to enjoy their Christmas break, they learn that you can never be too young to learn how to conjure a Patronus. Especially with what they are going to find lurking around.

Two investigative reporters from The Daily Prophet newspaper take on various disguises and infiltrate St. Mungo's Hospital to unravel the mysterious details in an arrest of one of its Healers. The trail of evidence leads them into the heart of the Ministry of Magic itself!

Remus John Lupin is a four year old wizard who is like most other boys his age until he ventures into the forest where a bloodthirsty werewolf awaits him and his cousin ...

December 1979 has defeated Remus to the point of taking up quarters at Sirius's, whom he can't expect back from an Order mission yet.

Is anybody out there?/Does anybody see?/ That when the lights are/Off something’s killing me? Fire and Ice...depending on each other? Songfic to Ashlee Simpson's Catch Me When I Fall

When it comes time for Kalli to face her parents, Harry gets caught in the crossfire. Can Kalli save him without losing herself in the process?

Well now, it's been a while, but the parody kings of fanfic are back, with another random fic of pointlessness. From the team that brought you 'You Asked for It', 'Okay It Had to Be Done', and that sandwich you had the other day, be sure to check out this exciting fun-filled piece of excellently written work, coming to a monitor near you. Especially if you can read French.

The song of a witch in the wake of Harry Potter's death. A parody of Don McLean's American Pie

Short Narcissa suicide. "Perhaps this place was only in her mind. But what was the difference? She was here and she would never leave..."

Tom Riddle has cast one final curse, sending a fallen warrior into an ultimate darkness. Only through a mythic journey of redemption will he be freed. This is a REVISED version of a story originally posted on other sites about a year ago.

Neville is in the library one evening and hears a girl crying. Can he comfort her?