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My first real lesson in life was almost unrecognizable when it came to me and it came in the form of a black-haired, be-spectacled boy... Cho watches Harry cry at the edge of the lake and it changes her in ways she will never forget. Sonfic to Mandy Moore's "Cry".

The night after Voldemort's fall, Albus Dumbledore pays a visit to Severus Snape. Features Snape's first lesson as a teacher!

A long-awaited meeting. Two Black sisters. One unspoken question... Post OoP.

Snape is puzzled by one of his students. She is smart and funny and everybody loves her, but Snape know the look of one who bears a dark secret, and that look is upon Alannah Leskevitch. As the Potions professor comes to know this girl, he learns that she has suffered more than he could have ever imagined. He sees in her parallels to his own life, and slowly begins to show a human side of himself that lay hidden for many years. Set in the Trio's seventh year during the Second War, love, determination, and sacrifice must rise up out of the evil that encases the world.

James Potter and Lily Evans: Completely different, but completely in love. Their truimphs and losses, victories and pranks, from first kiss to last.

She doesn't wear black anymore; she hasn't in a long time, now. She wears reds, vivid and rich as blood, beautiful red-oranges the color of her hair, pale sky-kissed blues and deep royal blue-violet, mellow, sunny yellows, and green most often; green the shade of his eyes. She doesn't laugh anymore, but she doesn't cry, and has not cried for many years.``She is always in mourning.

The unexplained suicide of Nymphadora Tonks in the summer before Harry's sixth year sparks off a series of unexpected events, and raises all sorts of questions. Are these strange events all connected in some way? Why is everyone acting so suspiciously? And most importantly, what made Tonks kill herself? Was it, in fact, suicide at all...?

Written as a side story to the ending of OotP: Draco is surprised when Goyle declares his love for him. Draco/Goyle Please read and review. *complete* M/M

The story of a certain Slytherin and how he became the man we all know and love... well, some of us.

A one-shot from Petunia's point of view, showing her and Lily's relationship at various different points in time. An attempt to try and give a few theories about Petunia's attitude to magic, Harry, etc. Features guest appearances from Vernon, Marge, MWPP (including Punk!Sirius) and is hopefully not overly angsty.

Harry survives the final battle of the Second War, but is left comatose and apparently brain dead. Now Ron must decide between two difficult choices: to keep his best friend alive by magical and mechanical means...or to give a hero the true and noble coda he deserves. (One-shot exploring euthanasia in a magical context.)

Although no one ever bothers to acknowledge Millicent Bulstrode, she DOES exist. In fact, underneath that ugly exterior lives just another dreamy, insecure girl. At the Halloween Masquerade, Millicent thinks that her only problem is finding a dance partner. But as the night progresses, Millicent learns much more about herself and those around her. (D/Hr/B, PP/GG)

She descends from an old French pureblood family. He has a werewolf for a brother. They both have Voldemort to worry about. Their life together has always been an adventure. Anyway, who says that adventures always have happy endings?

In the years before Harry was born, four Marauders, four friends, shared a special bond of friendship. Now one is a traitor, one hero died for his family, one innocent misunderstood man died protecting all he had left, and one still lives, a monster reborn every full moon. This is their story. Join the Marauders through the years of their lives; through laughs and losses, love and tears.

Sometimes letting go is the most difficult thing that a person can do; none know this better than Hermione. Drawn to Normandy by grief and obsession, she hopes to find the answers she hungers for on a beach once known as "Sword".

A/U fic in which Remus has an identical twin brother he hasn't seen since they were children. At Sirius' insistence, Remus visits his twin at St. Mungo's. Love, innocence, and the price of war.

A curse from the one she used to love will make her miserable for the rest of her life. She walks down the aisle to become a bride, all the time wanting to run, but finding no escape, and the muggle children's prayer only making everything worse.

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills." --Buddha

"My lily feet are soiled with mud, with scarlet mud which tells a tale, of hope that was, of guilt that was, of love that shall not yet avail." A Blackfic based on Christina Rossetti's "The Convent Threshold", dealing with reflections, family, hatred, and the role of a young man in the world.

Challenge Response, written before HBP. Having been taken from the Dursleys' early, Harry is brought to Hogwarts where he learns a surprising secret about his mother and Narcissa Malfoy. A secret that will affect the course of the war and provide him with the key to the power the Dark Lord knows not.

Although the war is lost, the Order is scattered and darkness is reaching the last corners of Britain, Ginny Weasley tells herself that this is the new beginning she and Harry believed in for so long, and not the end at all.

This is a songfic of Sinead O'Conner's 'Nothing compares to you'. Sung by Voldemort to Harry during Voldy's weaker times. If you ever wondered what Voldy sings when he has (on rare occasions) a shower, this is for you. Funny and creative.

Vignette. Severus Snape, traitor, liar, killer, pawn. He contemplates the sides he plays and where his loyalties lie. When you are nothing more than a pawn to be used on both sides, it is hard to tell. For him, it is also hard to care.

Illicit liaisons, jealousy and violence disintegrate a new marriage.

Hermione Weasley thinks of another as her husband is laid to his final rest...

Neville Longbottom speaks up about his life and childhood in this monologue. We see tragic twists and turns, and all feel bad for Neville.

Not every childhood is pleasant and not all of our memories can we know. A prequel to Saved Memories.

Even years after his defeat, Voldemort's reign of terror destroyed lives in more ways than one.

Albus Dumbledore is a wizard, known for his power, and even more so for his wisdom. But one isn't born with such knowledge. Instead, it is learned through considerable experience. This little one-shot looks into such an experience that taught our favourite Headmaster an important lesson.

Its Harry's sixth year, and he's determined to enjoy it - but naturally this doesn't happen. Death-eater attacks on wizards and muggles alike, leave Harry feeling confused about his place in the battle against Voldermort. It seems he's not the only instrumental figure in this fight against darkness. There's only one thing that Harry knows for sure - this year will be different.

Facing certain death had a way of altering perspectives, so it felt perfectly natural when Hermione and Ron began moving their relationship from close friendship to that particular gray area of uncertainty which lay beyond. That is, until something ripped the blinders from Hermione's eyes, and the world as she had come to know it came crashing down. Love found her in a most precarious position.

The likelihood of a third member joining their happy family causes different reactions from Ginny and Remus.

Lucius Malfoy asks his father politely to sign something. Or maybe not so politely. Another of the loosely–connected Permission Slip (Ridd/AT so far) series.

Five wizards sit alone in their various lives....all any of them wants is one friend

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Crabbe and Goyle. We have seen and heard how they have each found out and dealt with Harry and Draco’s secret, but what about Draco himself? He might be in a hospital bed, but that doesn’t mean that he is immune from the fall out that was caused by the shockwave. Or is he? Its time to see what Draco was doing the morning he was set upon by two other students brandishing those two mysterious potions.

She didn't want anybody to find out. But they did. He thought nobody would find out. But they did.

Two boys, sitting alone in the darkness on a stormy night. “Why?” he whispered quietly, in a heartbroken tone, as he watched his hands. His companion only stared at him with sadness, as if searching for the words that might comfort his friend but not being able to find them.

You are a fledgling who tried to fly from the nest, little bird. Tried to fly and fell. Why did you leave the safety of the nest? ``WARNING: cross generation femmeslash.

Suddenly the Dursleys don't look too bad. Short story based on the Harry Potter universe.

A Minerva McGonagall pastfic. Minerva is still attending Hogwarts and she's still on the Quidditch team. Semi-finals are here, and eager parents become obsessed with the team's winning. Every time the team slips up, the parents become more outraged. Soon, they take their anger out on their kids and havoc ensues.

Can one live with the horror of what they've done? Can they live with their betrayal? A short tale about a woman who failed to bring back one man she grew close to during the war, and her self-hatred.

Snape decides that Harry and Draco have horsed around with petty revenge games long enough; they need to learn to identify real priorities and real dangers – or else. They decide … various things. A sequel to Victory Parade and Wedding Party. Still no romantic fluff.

"Tomorrow. Just another wasted day. A day without comfort, hope and freedom. A day filled with pain. A day in the life of a shadow." - The wizarding world is a few months away from The Final Battle. Ron, Hermoine, Harry, Ginny and Draco have become mere shadows of their former selves. When events take a surprising turn, will they survive?

After the war, a destitute Ginevra finds that marrying Lucius Malfoy is her only chance to survive.

Harry and Draco have the perfect ending.

It's year 6 for Harry, and someone in the staff has decided there needs to be a Christmas Dance. (Done in response to a challenge on LJ)

Strange dreams and not-quite-by-chance meetings set Harry and Draco on edge as they begin to realize that there's something very strange going on with them. Contains slash (Draco/Boy!Blaise), war paint, the two things Malfoy doesn't like to advertise, the possible reason for all the secret-spilling at that dinner with Grace, and Harry's remarkably Bludger-like punch. Sequel to A Meal with the Viper.

"I feel like... like I’m standing on the edge of a sunset, fighting to snag the edge of light as it slips past my fingers and below the horizon. I can’t hold on to that last bit of familiarity, as the darkness takes over, but I’ll try with all my heart, until it fades and I have to face the night." A Slytherin ponders the life of the Boy Who Lived.

"Sometimes a master needs his slave just as much as a slave needs her master." t/g with some d/g, darkfic.

A songfic to Michelle Branch's "I'd Rather Be in Love." Takes place after Draco and Ginny get married.

Lucius Malfoy tries to talk his way out of prison and regain his place in society. Can this smooth-talking Slytherin really convince them to accept someone with such a questionable past? One-shot.

The night before the Final Battle can prove to be as life-altering as the battle itself.

Being married was never going to be a cake-walk for Tonks and Lupin, but the battle after Bill and Fleur's wedding proves to them that it might be worse than they thought. A bit of what happens in the wedding day battle after Harry, Ron, and Hermione Disapparate and as the Lupins struggle forward in their marriage.

Everybody loves Ginny... but who does Ginny love?

Tom and Ginny story. Set during CoS. Ginny's pov. She misses Tom. Now she's got him. But for how long will she want to keep him? Read, please. This can be a one part story or can continue.

A month has passed since the death of Lord Voldemort. A chance meeting on the street forces Remus Lupin to confront questions he cannot answer.

I want to be there when Harry kills Voldemort. I want to be there to hold Harry after, and I want to tell him that he avenged his parents, and that Harry can do whatever he wants now, because Harry defeated Voldemort. -- Sirius Black.

You always hurt the ones you love. (H/D)

Almost eight years have passed since school ended. Harry and Draco continue to fight evil wherever it goes. A peek into Harry and Hermione's future life.

'I scare myself sometimes. I catch myself thinking all sorts of crazy things… but it’s so tempting to just forget… to pretend…' he says, and you nod unhappily in agreement. But pretending won't solve anything, it only makes the hurt worse when you finally face it.

The final battle has come and gone, and only one man walks away. How will a letter from beyond the grave affect the survivor?

When Harry Potter is convicted for several brutal murders and imprisoned in Azkaban, the magical world unknowingly forges a weapon that will destroy not only its enemy, but its creator.

One Christmas Eve, Lucius Malfoy takes stock of his crumbling life. Scenes of humiliation and cheap sex punctuate his remembrances.

"Everything suddenly seemed much clearer now."

The Head Girl and the Potions Master have been having a secret affair. One night she goes to see him...and learns the truth about their relationship. Very angsty.

Here it is! The sequel to Who Said We Were Going to Be Snogging! Here, Pansy goes around trying to figure out her feelings for Ernie, while being cahorted by stubborn Draco. A sweet song fic to "I Won't Say I'm in Love" from the Disney movie Hercules!

Draco works endlessly for three days to catch something rather precious to him on the Quidditch field, but if he doesn't hurry, he's going to miss his chance. Pre-slash D/H.

Harry Potter is nothing but a name in a history book anymore, Draco Malfoy is nothing but his legacy and, when their ten year class reunion comes around, the two old enemies find that they have nothing but reputations...and everything in common.

Jenny liked to sit in the garden and play with gnomes…and to remember. GW/HP

I still see your face, staring up at me, eyes wide and dying. I still see your pale hand, stretching out to me, silently begging me to save you. Pleading for one more chance at life. Your eyes, not accusatory, but pitying. Pitying me. When you were the one dying. I still hear your last words, like a curse on me. ``WARNING: Slash, suicide, murder, and loads and loads of angst.

“You can’t, can you? And you’re more articulate than I am. It’s just a feeling, Moony. One of those feelings that you can’t explain, but it’s there. Like love, Moony, like love. You can’t describe that either. That’s what the tapestry feels like. But I also got this gnawing feeling from it…like anguish or something.”

"Regulus can't bring himself to let go of the horcrux. It masquerades as a heavy locket, and its engraving presses against his palm as his fingers tense around the metal, his skin accepting the imprint of its patterns." Regulus meets Sirius for the last time.

What becomes of a hero when the lights go down and the dragon is slain? Harry PoV.

There are few things worth killing for. One of them is immortality.

A lone wizard watches an ordinary Muggle home, pondering the inevitable path that led him to this point.

Hermione Granger is depressed. Her life seems to have hit a mental road block. She can't find love anywhere. But what will she do? A songfic to Paint it Black.

Harry gets zapped to the "real world." How does it go? What would you do if you had a second chance? What would you change?

Meet Slytherin 'keeper Bletchley - not the most typical of Quidditch players, or the best of students. Her take on a year filled with her persistent feelings for others, ambitious hope and the desire to play in a certain Quidditch match.

Who ever thought a little game of tag could go so wrong...?

Towards the end of Ginny's fifth year, she has the usual career counselling session with Professor McGonagall, and she realizes that she has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Being Ginny, she figures out a way to find out - the Mirror of Erised. But what she sees in it isn't anything she would have expected. Can she live with knowing her deepest desire, and what should she do about it, now that she knows it?

When two lovers face each other at the final battle, what will be said and done? A HarryxDraco Dark Ficlet.

In the quiet of the infirmary, to ears that could not hear his words, Severus Snape remembers. SS/RL

It's happening. Again. But I won't wait on him. Not this time. I have work to do. I won’t be his slave anymore.

Based on Severitus. Everyone has skeletons in their closets, but in Harry's case, these skeletons can turn out to be sword-wielding undeads. Which was why Snape tried so hard to keep them under rugs. And what does the Mirror of Erised have to do with all these?

We’ve all seen numerous versions of evil Harry. But what if Voldemort never became who he was today in canon? What if something else happened?

When there is no hope left, when the world you knew is gone forever, when everything around you is dead or dying, there is only one thing that remains to be done - the writing of the epitaph. An epitaph for what once was. An epitaph written in the ashes of the old world...

When a baby beluga falls out of the sky, it drastically changes Hogsmeade and the lives of Harry and Hermione. Nothing will ever be the same again.

Every time Harry sees Ginny after their breakup, his life tends to get even worse. But with each turn, Harry learns way more about life than he expected. But the most important thing he must learn is what's been standing right in front of him for a long time.

She would never be anyone else's. She was his.

Draco Malfoy loves his wife, but there is a lie between them that is tearing him apart. Sequel to Not Enough.

Hermione and Harry run a safe house where those running from Voldemort can hide and be reinvented. Voldemort is now in power, and he sends Draco, who desperately wants revenge on the couple, to infiltrate and betray them. Even though they thought they left their past behind them, it all comes suddenly tumbling out...

It's six months after the deaths of the Potters, and Remus Lupin is alone once again. He comes across an Irish town called Arann where the townspeople are plagued by the Dark Creatures living in the surrounding forests. Remus soon finds himself caught up in the midst of everything when he begins his stay at the Castle Arann, a castle with more secrets than anyone could ever imagine. Will he help the townspeople, or let them fend for themselves as they have been doing? And will he ever learn to love and forgive again?

This story is a Romeo and Juliet version of Harry Potter.

After the end of his fifth year, Harry has gone through some changes. He feels betrayed and used by the Order. He's angry and furious for what happened. Ron and Hermione are not going to find the usual Harry on the first of September. The Order is worried, and so are Harry's friends. His reactions seem so strange and unexpected to his "friends", but are they? But Harry is not the only one facing wild mood swings. Draco is obsessed by a legend, and starts to roam the castle at late hours. Draco will be very scared by the "new" Harry... and something very weird, very very twisted is going to take place at Hogwarts. No one will be safe, not even Voldemort, or his Death Eaters.

How could he possibly convince this beautiful woman, who he doesn’t deserve, to stay with him? He is everything she isn’t. She has compassion, while he only has bitterness and regret. He savors the finer things that life has to offer, but she cherishes small joys and happiness. He revels in his fame and power, which she views as nothing more than another part of life. He is a man who cannot fathom what love is, whereas she is a creature made to give and receive it. (D/G)

Harry, Hermione, and their baby are in danger and fleeing.

In mourning and alone, one person comes to Narcissa's side one snowy morning, telling her what she wants to hear in her time of grieving. . .

Post Hogwarts by about eight years. All of the events of Harry's life are becoming too much for him. How does he deal with them and Voldemort lurking around the corner? Chapter one is an internal battle of will in the Burrow.

Remus Lupin's life ended November 1st, 1981. The consequences of our actions, and the people who pay. Mild slash.

A fight between Harry and Hermione leaves Hermione alone for awhile, writing in her diary and recollecting her thoughts over a bottle of Merlot wine.