Title: Innermost
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and co do not belong to me. Get it through your thick skulls people.
Pairing: Mentions of many pairings. Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Ron, etc…
Timeline: Pre, Post, and any time in the HP series.
Characters: Harry, Ginny, etc…
Summary: Everyone has secrets. Just because the war is finally over does not mean they're all going to come to light. Mini!Drabbles on Harry and others.

A/N: There are a lot out there, so I've decided to make some of my own. And if you would, review at the end, and email me any other u find so I can C2 them. Thanks.

Harry Potter - 1

1) Many times he hears the hat on his head whispering that Slytherin would make him great. Harry remembers denying it. He had never wanted to be great. When he ponders about that, it's not that he ever truly wanted to be in the house of the snakes. Harry doesn't regret going into Gryffindor. It's just, sometimes he thinks about "What ifs."

2) "What ifs" have made him the man he is today. They're also something he can't seem to give up no matter how happy he is. It started way before the Mirror of Erised, but it was only then that it truly started to invade his daily life.

3) Becoming Head of the Auror Department was never anything Harry strived to become. However, at the insistence of his wife, it would persuade the Unspeakables to leave him alone. Staying away from those guys was one of the only strict instructions Harry had ever given his kids. It wouldn't do to let it get out that his family still spoke Parseltongue with a fine fluidity.

4) To old age he mourns Dumbledore and remembers him as the nice old grandfather-like man who wore bright colors, mismatched socks that made Dobby jealous and was hooked on sour lemon drops. And yet, for denying him parental love and a childhood, and then manipulating him from before even the moment he was conceived, Harry holds onto hatred and bitterness as well. He can imagine Dumbledore saying that it is better to forive and move on, but he's only human, not some Boy-Who-Lived.

5) Harry loves Ginny. He would die and kill for her. But if he hadn't fallen for her, he thinks he might have married her anyway. As horrible as it sounds, he would just have to make sure he never lost touch with Ron and Hermione.

6) One day before Albus was born, Harry had gone to the Burrow with his small growing family for a visit. At first he thought they were the first to arrive. Then he'd traveled upstairs for a quick bathroom break and found George upstairs talking to himself. Harry never called him anything but Gred from then on when they were alone; he was never sure if the two boys had really just been twins.

7) He never liked to be part of any pranks or mischief that he didn't have to. There was just a little tortured boy inside of him who couldn't truly appreciate it after his relatives had trained him up. But sometimes he would feel the urge to get up and laugh. So he met up the left over Weasley twin and concocted something of his own. Later, his first born son's love of Puck Muck, (a mystery sludge that incapacitated the first people to step into it, and then turned them into smiling happy people for a while) would make him secretly smile.

8) For her fifth birthday, Harry presented Lily with a fluffy pink diary that would never run out of paper, smear ink, or be read by another without her permission. She'd thanked him for getting it and then ran to her uncle to ask about its creation. James, Al and the extended family always referred to is the "Fluffy pink notebook of Ultimate Doom" because she cackled over it reminescent of Bellatrix Lestrange. Even Harry suspected that it held all of her legendary blackmail material. But he never regretted the gift.

9) Harry had given Ginny her fluffy purple diary the Christmas before. Ginny has charmed hers in cougar stripes and teased Harry with the erotic notes within.

10) He wasn't the one to name their children. That was Ginny. But having a James and Lily around filled up some hole that the wizarding world had ripped open inside of him. He never had trouble calling his children by his parents' names. They were his children. Not his parents. Al, however, he shortened immediately and had experimented with nicknaming him "Rus," until Albus forbade it. But it had nothing to do with his middle name of "Severus".

END of Harry's POV. There might be more eventually, you never know. I don't know the next time I will update. If you would be so kind, please review and tell me any other of the little "secret" minidrabbles you know of. Ideas are find, but I want to hunt down other fics that have this idea. I know there are a lot out there. I just can't find them.