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Two people trapped together, contemplate death.

Femmeslash (Lily/Mrs. Lestrange). It’s not as dark as you might expect.

Closed in worlds they cannot contain, Lily and James sit together and the fireworks soon fly....

...it all seems so impossibly unfair, her life does, of a sudden. Her parents and best friend and now her child, all these people ripped away from and out of her, and in the middle of all this heartache Ron has buried himself, deeply, like a wound that will scar. R/Hr. Post-Hogwarts. High on the angst.

Post HBP. Molly has a hard time letting go.

Every story will have an inspiration. This is my take on how J.K. Rowling got her inspiration for the Harry Potter series. The story is about a chance meeting between a young J.K.Rowling and a certain Red haired boy at Kings Cross station.

An older, wiser Severus Snape reflects on his past, an obsession, and Remus Lupin. This story contains implied slash.

The war is over, the good guys won. But that doesn't always make for happy endings. "It's over Harry, he's dead. You won. Don't you remember? It's done. YOU'RE done."

Forbidden thoughts form in the mind of a young Severus Snape, as the Dark Lord shows his ability to raise the dead at a Death Eater meeting.

"Was it pity though? Love? Duty? Revenge? She honestly couldn’t say. The lines were so blurred where her family was concerned that she doubted she would ever be able to sort it all out."````Andromeda pays Bellatrix a visit in Azkaban.

Continuation to "In Your Dreams". Hermione... well, she dreams, just like Ron hoped she would, except not quite of what Ron hoped she would.

Although she wishes she could Lily knows that she cannot protect Harry forever.

Hermione is having a baby and Ron thinks back to when he finally got the courage to ask her out and when they got married. One-shot.

What do you do when you realise every choice you have ever made has brought you to a dead end? Draco remembers his relationship with Harry as the Final Battle rages around him.

From the moment he entered the wizarding world, Harry Potter has been told he is special. Now he's about to find out why. (rated PG-13 due to possible creature violence and mild language. NO slash!)

“…The night they died, I’d arranged to check on Peter, make sure he was still safe…” ``The story of that night from Sirius’s POV. (One-shot.)

His heart thinks he's making the worst decision of his life. His head thinks it's the best decision he's ever made. Both agree it's for the best. What has Harry done? A Harry/Ginny songfic to "Bus To Birmingham."

Pansy is reflecting on feelings towards Draco and what he does towards her. She madly in love with someone she hates...

Your body gives but then holds back``The sun is bright ``The sky is black``Can only be another sign``I cannot keep what isn’t mine`` ``How can I tell if you mean what you say?``You say it so loud``But you sound far away``Maybe I had just a glimpse of your soul``Was that your shadow I saw on the wall?`` ``I’m watching you disappear``But you``you ``were``never``here...

Post OOTP, Harry broods on the major changes in his life. His dark thoughts on life and it's cruelties.

A series of challenges.... Colin Creevey records the events of oddities occuring around the castle at Hogwarts.

For Sirius, there's something special about January sixteenth. Remus thinks he knows why.

"No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere." ~Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto VI).

The sequel to Passed By. Katharine spends much too much time hanging around train stations. And she sees more magic - magic of the large, purple variety.

Amy Black is not related to the famous pureblood Blacks, nor is she anyone important, nor does she have a life of drama. Nope, Amy Black is just a quiet bookworm that gets straight A's and is an outcast. She has no real life... at least that is what she lets everyone else think...

Do you the way she looks at you? She looks at you with that utmost admiration and passion. But you don’t see it.

Hermione Granger writes two poems, one before the war and one after. The poems are very different. What changed?

Sirius has little more than his thoughts to comfort or distress him in Azkaban.

Kingsley Shacklebolt knows what it's like to be alone.

In the summer after OotP, Hermione reflects on her childhood, her friendship with Harry and Ron, and her role in the coming war. Philosophical.

Before Hogwarts, Lily had a friend, her cousin, named Harry. This story is about them, and who they were and what they did. Slightly bittersweet, but it covers Lily's discovery of magic, her meeting with James, and why she named her son Harry.

After settling into her new life, Hermione is surprised by fugitive Draco Malfoy.

This is after Sirius's death, kinda gloomy I think.

It seemed only to be a blink of the eye in memory, but in actual fact it had been time enough for entire worlds to change. As a mother, Hermione finds her life to be nothing quite like what she could ever have imagined. Unspoken words held as much weight as those said aloud. Rationality in an irrational world created ramifications she could not have forseen.

Draco and Ginny's wedding through Arthur Weasley's POV.

Is Pansy Parkinson really the Draco-stalking-simpering-idiot people make her out to be? Read and see.

Ron brings his fiancee to meet Harry and Hermione. Harry knew it was love at first sight. But when Isabelle loves Harry back, how is Isabelle going to get out of marrying Ron?

Fidelius has been performed already, but on a dark night with a storm rising fast and furious over the home where they were staying, a visitor arrives on a dark bike with an idea that will effect them all. Lily POV. JP/LE.

Draco was the reason Blaise could see thestrals, and Blaise was the reason that Draco could see thestrals. And thestrals only bring misfortune upon the ones who see them.

A Dementor is sent into a common mission: go and Kiss a man. As it crosses the woods; however, things don't go as it expected and a mission that should finish in a good hunt, ends with this Dementor finding out that there are more things inside itself than its hunger for souls it meets with something that stays on the road of the Dementor's classification for things: it isn't food, and it isn't non-food. How it deals with things when they go out of its control? Because, as it can remember, a Dementor never is wrong and, most importantly, things aren't ever out-of-control in the small world of theirs.

Pigwidgeon was never a smart owl. But he was adamant about working for the Wizarding Post nonetheless.

"...When I walk the halls, I hear people mutter "slut" and "whore" in the air behind my back. You do not do or say anything about it, so I just look straight at them and I smile. I smile, and I nod, but I do not speak, for I am a watcher, and I see..." This fic contains some disturbing material. You have been warned. Angst D/G with D/P undertones.

In a darker world where Voldemort has triumphed, a man sentenced to Azkaban reflects on his crimes, his fate, and the one he loved enough to kill. H/D implications, stream-of-consciousness.

sleep-deprived Hermione on the edge of nervous breakdown and an anxious Snape talk a walk down memory lane.

After defeating Voldemort, Harry becomes a professor at Oxford, but what could possibly happen for him to stop teaching?

Mrs. Lestrange plots, plans and waxes homicidal in her cell at Azkaban prison.

Buried in my thick red sheets I trace the gold trim until I can no longer keep my eyes open. I am becoming afraid to sleep. Harry tries to come to terms with life's obligations.

Frank Longbottom faces the most dangerous case in his career as an Auror when asked to infiltrate the Ministry's Specialised and Organised Crimes Squad. Rated R for inappropriate language, violence and adult themes. Welcome to Gangland!

Hannah Grace Abbott drones on about her dull, dull life. Maybe she's just too blind to see that she's needed in the Hufflepuff house.

"When someone we love dies, we always think that they’ll come back to us, that they would never leave us. Admit it, you do don’t you? But, if you’re alive you can’t be a ghost, even if you are alive trapped in the Veil world, the world for those who are waiting." Sirius’ thoughts of the world behind the Veil. Not dead yet, he must wait until old age kills him before truly leaving the world. A one shot fic on what might go on behind the Veil.

Coolly his gaze, Ron pushes back his chair and slowly rises, easily towering over her in a way he could not otherwise. His voice is a rich, tremulous baritone. Firm, but mostly soft. “Let’s go.” Blinking, Hermione's mouth slips open and she moves to her feet without thinking.

Cedric Diggory made a bet. A very stupid bet. And now, in order to save himself the humiliation of arriving at the End-of-Year feast naked, he’s got two months to seduce the girl known as the Ice Serpent. But Lexxie Wyse isn’t willing to come along quietly, and even the charming Mr. Diggory will be lucky to walk away from this one intact. Sabotaged Herbology projects, girl fights, a jealous Cho Chang, one exceptionally lewd Hufflepuff Chaser, and snark abound.

Every mother fears the very worst happening to their child; for Circe Lupin, this has become a reality.

"He went there because he wanted to remember, and he stayed because he had no other place to be." In the time between the Order of the Pheonix and Goblet of Fire Remus returns to a familiar place, and is met by a familiar face.

Harry and other Hogwarts students go clubbing! No, really. Featuring dancing, music, drag acts, teeny tiny slash hints, a fair bit of snogging and a bar brawl.

Snape confesses to Dumbledore that he is a Death Eater.

On Pansy's wedding day, as she awaits the time for the ceremony to start, Draco sneaks into her room to visit her...and tell her of the deeper import of the gift that he has sent her. If she will only do as he tells her, Pansy's actions will change the face of the wizarding world forever...

It was more than love - it was a true meeting of souls. Their bodies were seperated first by marriage and then an infamous death, but a link still remains. Can Narcissa live her life even though she has lost Lily, her first and truest love? ~Sweet, short, fluffy and slightly supernatural femmeslash~

He had considered Harry his guardian angel, his immortal perhaps, because he had never imagined Harry could ever die or even be harmed.

"Perhaps what had happened had been foretold, inevitable. Inevitable that he would be both desired and abandoned. Inevitable that he would run, thirsting for something... unreachable. Inevitable that he would be swallowed whole by this strange tortured city of dreams and nightmares. Inevitable that he would prick his arm (not his finger) with the needle. Did the story girl feel this ecstasy of pure honeyed light in her veins, like she was being infused with the soul she had lost? For Draco Malfoy, that was all there was."

Merope Gaunt meets Tom Riddle for the very first time. A story of obsession and the human mind.

R due to semi-graphic descriptions. Songfic to 'My Last Breath' by Evanescence. Dying on a battlefield, Hermione Granger reflects on her life with a fellow soldier. A 'Guess the Pairing' songfic...placed in Dark Arts after an intense inner battle (Romance or Angst?).

Will Harry heed Winky's cryptic warning? Will his journey from Platform 8 and 13/16 be a safe one? What alcohol-powered device has Ginny shoplifted from the Azkaban Gift Shop? Does Draco Malfoy really have the post owl's eyes? Will an epic battle with the lunch trolley witch end in triumph? Is The Sorting Hat's new live album scorching Billboard magazine's charts? Which political party does the Giant Squid favor? Has Hedwig chosen a lifestyle of wanton sexual abandon? Have Harry's summer drug sales been lucrative? I answer these burning questions and so many more inside!

How much equality is possible in a relationship? How far can reciprocity go, particularly between people in different worlds? Bill Weasley and a Muggle during the second war. Slash.

The war has arrived... what happens when Draco and Hermione are seperated and left to duel on their own?

Originally titled 'Promises Of Things Yet To Come,' this drabble glimpses into the childhood of one Tom Marvolo Riddle. [Message conveyed: children are evil and will ultimately cause the fall of society]

Hermione is sick and tired of her looks and know-it-all attitude getting in the way of her getting a date.

The rain. For many people it means sadness and pain, but not for Draco Malfoy. His thought about the significance of the rain for him and Harry. Harry/Draco (mild-slash)

Draco is sent to the Mirror of Sys'y'lana for some much-needed therapy. He is forced to confront and analyse his relationships with his father, the Dark Lord and the Boy Who Lived and, ultimately, himself.

Owls. Snow. Night. A vignette.

There's a tenuous line between insanity and madness; in Azkaban Prison, Sirius Black walks it every day.

An one-shot story of true love, undeniable courage and bravery set around the events of September 11, 2001. Just a heartbreaking story about Love and 'Shoulds'.````Rated R for sensitive subject matter. ````Features Snape, Lupin and OC.

A Dr/Hr songfic. She walks into the realization of her dreadful dreams while he is about to wake into the same nightmare.

Darkfic. Nothing is what it seems, and what seems to be real isn't. Harry Potter explains his succumbing from savior to murderer and how four people, including his best friend, were killed by his own hand. Seduction and the edge of madness. HP/RW; HP/DM. Warning: smut (strictly R-rated, though), slash, Dark!Harry, and naughty *tsk tsk* language.

A young teacher enters a newly founded Hogwarts full of secrets and scandal. Prejudices, morals and reputations are questioned as history is made. But not the history you would think. This is the secret history of Hogwarts.

Harry falls into another reality. One where his parents are alive, his arch-enemy is his best friend, and he is Voldemort's right hand man. Will going to see his parents solve anything and what does Dumbledore have to say about it?

Draco Malfoy receives a birthday present unlike any other.

Hermione remembers key events in her life.

Once upon a time there was a boy who could not live...Sequel of sorts to "The Boy Who Could See." Another story living in the shadow of the Dark Arts with H/D subtext.

Harry has been taken by Draco Malfoy as revenge for killing Voldemort and his father. He wants to keep Potter as a prisoner until he is brainwashed into doing evil. Can Harry take it much longer? Will he realize what is going on? Song-fic to Linkin Park's 'Numb'

Takes place at the end of the fifth book. Neville reflects.

When Draco is unhappy with the turn things take after he takes the Dark Mark, he devises a plan to rectify the situation.

"I’m not a writer, but for some reason I feel compelled tonight, of all nights, to put my thoughts to paper. When the last of us are gone, when the witnesses have faded into history, those who fought must be remembered. "

The war is over, and it has taken a drastic toll on the entire wizarding world. Each person must pay the price in his or her own way.``For Draco, the price is too great.``Can he bear it, or will the cost of the war haunt him... Forever?

Sirius was told to "lay low at Lupin's" and he intends to do just that. But before he does, he has a brief encounter with a young girl who, like him, is without a home.

'Darkly romantic are the words that come to mind when you think of falling in love with someone without any verbal contact at all; but maybe that's the way they liked it.' M!Blaise/Seamus.

Have you ever thought what happened that evening we lost Padfoot? Have you ever thought how the Ministry's Phone Booth works?

Molly Weasley has good days and bad days.

Snape hides out on Craggy Island. Father Ted crossover.

Part of the 'One Wise Woman' world. Albus Dumbledore can't sleep one night; he must get a bit of assistance from a familiar object to defeat his insomnia.

"At night he sees Him falling, over and over again, even though he wasn’t in the right place to see it at all, on the other side of the towertop, but then Harry has always had a better imagination than he would have liked." Spoilers for HBP.

Hermione and Ron are minding their own business when they get caught in a mystery involving murder, ghosts, and the most dangerous Muggle alive. Oh yeah, Nayland Smith shows up too.

It is his whole life, this waiting game. Because he knows that if doesn’t, then Draco will slip through his fingers like water, or perhaps even sand, sifting and falling and become wholly unreachable once more. That is far more unthinkable to Harry than this dreadful loneliness that the waiting brings

It's said that Slytherins are the only Dark Wizards around... but what's the real truth? Read the story of a calculating Ravenclaw with a thirst for knowledge--legal or otherwise. One-shot, darkish!

Ginny has made a mistake, a bad mistake. She has chosen to spend her life with him... and he has vowed to make it miserable since she shut herself off to him. Will physical abuse truly cut her off from him forever? Read to find out.

Draco's made a deal with an angel--or is it the devil. With whose blood will he pay for his escape, his exodus? The time to use his dagger has finally come at long last.

Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, and the streets aren't safe. Especially not for a witch walking alone...

'[Professor Lockhart] read passages from his books to them, and sometimes re-enacted some of the more dramatic parts. He usually picked Harry to help him with these reconstructions; so far, Harry had been forced to play a simple Transyvanian villager whom Lockhart had cured of a Babbling Curse...'

In which Luna Lovegood rhapsodizes on storybook lovers, radishes, and Harry Potter.

Harry loses an argument. And maybe his masculinity?