Squibstress
Member Since 2010 | 36 Stories | Favorited by 103 | 43 Reviews Written | 528 Review Responses
I'm a middle-aged, professional writer of non-fiction and would-be professional writer of fiction who also writes Harry Potter fanfiction just for fun.
I’m a proud member of the Harry Potter Old Lady Smut Brigade, which means I’m most interested in the older female characters in the Harry Potter saga, particularly Minerva McGonagall.
If I had received my Hogwarts letter back in nineteen-mumble-mumble, I would most likely have been sorted into Ravenclaw, or so everyone tells me, probably because I’m a geeky data-freak (my Real Life™ requires me to read piles of medical journal articles.) I, however, think I’d feel right at home in Hufflepuff too, so I consider myself a Ravenpuff.
The fics I write may contain adult themes, and I will always warn for non-con, graphic violence, bestiality, incest, or underage sex. I don't warn for homosexual relationships or sex, or for threesomes/moresomes, unless they contain one of the aforementioned elements.
Disclaimers: Anything from the Harry Potter universe belongs solely to its creator, J.K. Rowling, and her licensees. Original plot, characters, dialog, etc. are mine.
My stories are available for use under a Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share-alike license (CC-BY-NC-SA).
I have a blog: http://squibstress.wordpress.com/.
I'm also on LiveJournal and Twitter (@Squibstress).
I maintain a master list of (mostly Minerva-centric) recs at Diigo.
I am a proud member of the Harry Potter Old Lady Smut Brigade.
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A Slant-Told Tale
by Squibstress
162 Ratings, 0 Likes, 4 Favorites )Before she was Professor McGonagall, she was Minerva Macnair. After an arranged marriage forces her into an impossible situation, Minerva does what she must to survive. When she makes a new life for herself, her secrets follow and threaten everything, including the only love she has ever found. The tale of a woman, her secrets, and how she keeps them.
Winner - 3rd Place, Best Drama-Angst WIP - Fall/Winter 2012 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards
171,469 Words, Started 01/19/2012, Completed 06/23/2018
Epithalamium
by Squibstress
146 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )It's 1943, and both the wizarding and Muggle worlds have exploded into war. Eighteen-year-old Minerva McGonagall is brilliant and talented, with dreams of becoming the first witch in the Auror corps. Albus Dumbledore is famous, powerful, and haunted by his dark past. Their attraction to one another is unthinkable, inevitable, and dangerous, especially with Tom Riddle watching from the shadows.
As their paths cross again and again, their lives change in ways neither anticipates, and they find they must confront the man who will become the greatest threat the wizarding world has ever known.
Warning: Teacher/student (of age)
Winner - 3rd Place, Best Romance (Minerva McGonagall) - Fall/Winter 2013 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards
185,298 Words, Started 05/28/2011, Completed 10/19/2012
Because it is Bitter, and Because it is my Heart
by Squibstress
59 Ratings, 0 Likes, 9 Favorites )If war is hell, Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall are in the Ninth Circle. During Snape's awful year as Headmaster, he and Professor McGonagall draw closer as they are forced into a desperate arrangement.
36,664 Words, Started 01/01/2011, Completed 04/17/2011
Gin a Body Meet a Body
by Squibstress
16 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )In between running Hogwarts, being a Death Eater, and protecting the Boy Who Lived, there's one more little thing Snape has to do . . .
Winner - 2nd Place, Most Inventive Magic & 3rd Place, Best Het Smut - Fall/Winter 2012 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards; 2nd Place, Best Legacy Story (Minerva McGonagall) - Fall/Winter 2013 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards
11,767 Words, Started 11/10/2012, Completed 11/10/2012
The Peculiar Resilience of the Refugee
by Squibstress
12 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )After the war, Petunia takes refuge at the Three Broomsticks. Nominated for a 2012 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Award.
7,899 Words, Started 08/05/2012, Completed 08/05/2012
Come Autumn, Sae Pensive
by Squibstress
12 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )The last thing Minerva McGonagall ever expected was to become a mother. But when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, her life with Albus changes in ways beyond anything they might have predicted.
This is the third story set in the "Epithalamium" universe.
42,586 Words, Started 10/05/2012, Updated 01/13/2013
Laundry Lessons
by Squibstress
11 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )When the Hogwarts house-elves are felled by a virus, the students find out that outward appearances can be deceiving. An octuple-drabble. Warning for extreme silliness.
860 Words, Started 07/07/2012, Completed 07/07/2012
Sweep
by Squibstress
11 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )In the aftermath of the battle, Argus does the only thing he can.
1,543 Words, Started 08/23/2012, Completed 08/23/2012
Winterreise
by Squibstress
10 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )As the war intensifies, tensions grow between Albus and Minerva. A surprising encounter at the Yule Ball leads Minerva to ponder the nature of their relationship.
6,383 Words, Started 11/27/2010, Completed 12/16/2010
A Perfectly Potent Potion
by Squibstress
10 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )What can an imaginative potions master and his not-so-coy mistress do with a little extra Polyjuice Potion?.
Warnings: Professors getting it on. Multiple pairings (sort of): f/m, f/f, m/m. Maybe some crackiness around the edges. Oh, and non-con, in a way.
5,046 Words, Started 09/22/2013, Completed 09/22/2013
Exotic Matter
by Squibstress
10 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )When Hermione is asked to update the National Dictionary of Wizarding Biography, she discovers some surprising things about her favourite professor. An angsty, nerdy time-travel romance. (MM/SS, HG/RW)
Warning for brief violent scene, mention of character death, mention of suicide.
Winner of 2 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards.
17,440 Words, Started 11/03/2013, Completed 11/07/2013
Till A' the Seas Gang Dry
by Squibstress
9 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )In this follow-up to Epithalamium, Minerva and Albus venture into the Muggle world to enjoy a romantic winter interlude in Venice. Join them as they board the Orient Express, enjoy some good food, fine art, and, of course, a bit of romance. It opens just after the end of Chapter 54 of Epithalamium, but you don't have to have read that story to enjoy this tale.
23,673 Words, Started 03/05/2013, Updated 03/22/2019
Alone and Palely Loitering
by Squibstress
8 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Immortality seemed a good idea at the time, but it has its disadvantages. Over the years, Nicolas Flamel has had many, many romantic entanglements, but no one flusters him quite as much as Albus Dumbledore. And Dumbledore may have one last surprise up his spangled sleeve.
Winner - 2nd Place, Best Dark Story (Gen) - Fall/Winter 2013 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards
3,332 Words, Started 03/08/2013, Updated 03/08/2013
The Observer Effect
by Squibstress
8 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Minerva watches Severus. She sees through a glass, darkly.
Nominated for a 2012 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Award. A featured story on Mugglenet Fanfiction.
4,134 Words, Started 11/08/2012, Completed 11/08/2012
A Change of Plans
by Squibstress
8 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )A frustrated witch, a lonely wizard, a chance meeting in the staff bath— a story about how these small events change the lives of Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape and alter the course of the Wizarding War.
10,534 Words, Started 01/10/2012, Completed 01/10/2012
Bonnie Wee Thing
by Squibstress
8 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )A witch is born. She's surprisingly opinionated for a baby. A very short story in which a witch is born and demonstrates a peculiar proclivity for getting her way
1,082 Words, Started 10/04/2011, Completed 10/04/2011
From the Besieged Ardea
by Squibstress
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )“There has been a great deal of speculation, both from scholars and in the popular press, about the sexual and romantic life of Albus Dumbledore and, to a lesser extent, Minerva McGonagall, and a popular mythology has grown up around the idea of a putative, unconsummated love between the two.” Why did they never get together, and what did Tom Riddle have to do with it?
A "Fandom Classics" selection for March 2014.
5,655 Words, Started 12/09/2011, Completed 12/09/2011
Postscript
by Squibstress
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Headmaster and Mrs Longbottom stumble on the late Minerva McGonagall's diary.
7,766 Words, Started 11/10/2011, Completed 11/10/2011
Chanson de Severus
by Squibstress
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Severus watches. He reflects on how things went so far so fast. Not a true chanson de geste, since it follows none of the prescribed meters. But it is a romance of deeds, though some not as heroic as tradition would have it.
2,477 Words, Started 12/20/2010, Completed 12/20/2010
Four Christmases
by Squibstress
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Minerva attempts to teach Severus Occlumency and perhaps something more. This is not a happy Christmas story.
7,200 Words, Started 01/11/2013, Completed 01/11/2013
Comme Un Rêve de Pierre
by Squibstress
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Stan looked at him. And that was as good as any sex Bill had ever had.
1,643 Words, Started 04/01/2013, Completed 04/01/2013
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again
by Squibstress
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Every now and then, he needs her. But she doesn’t need him. Does she?
Winner - 2nd Place, Best Het Smut & Best Drama/Angst Story(Minerva McGonagall) - 2013 Fall/Winter HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards
1,595 Words, Started 04/02/2013, Completed 04/02/2013
Another Part of the Castle (1996)
by Squibstress
4 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )Harry has a dream and makes a startling discovery.
2,135 Words, Started 05/13/2011, Completed 05/13/2011
Heart's Desire
by Squibstress
3 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )It takes sixty years, but Minerva finally comes to understand the truth of George Bernard Shaw's pronouncement on tragedy "Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
Includes Minerva/Dougal, Minerva/Amelia, Minerva/Elphinstone
Winner - 2013 MuggleNet Fanfiction Quicksilver Quill Award - Non-Canon Romance, One-shot
7,633 Words, Started 04/24/2012, Completed 04/24/2012
The Birthday Gift
by Squibstress
3 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )Minerva and Albus are celebrating her 70th birthday. PWP. Written for the 2011 Samhain Smut fest on LiveJournal.
Warnings: Explicit sexual content. Magical latex. Spanking. Tired Teacher/student tropes. Haggis.
9,113 Words, Started 11/14/2011, Completed 11/14/2011