Mystery/Suspense
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A Walking Shadow
by Ariadne AWS
5.53/10 (230 Ratings, 0 Likes, 127 Favorites )Hermione returns to Grimmauld Place, looking for answers. She does not expect to find Severus Snape. Best Fanon Het (Quill-to-Parchment, Round 2). Runner-up ~ Best HG/SS, 2006 OWL Awards.
63,243 Words, Started 11/02/2006, Updated 03/06/2012
The Spirit That Remembers
7.48/10 (221 Ratings, 0 Likes, 71 Favorites )The war is over, and Severus Snape is dead---or is he? Hermione Granger, with the help of Harry Potter, begins to work on redeeming his memory. In the process, she uncovers the power of memory itself. Canon-compliant—despite JKR’s best efforts.
Complete in 19 chapters plus Prologue and Epilogue (What Epilogue?).
43,161 Words, Started 09/01/2008, Updated 10/27/2008
Descending into Obscurity
by sbrande
6.49/10 (219 Ratings, 0 Likes, 174 Favorites )'I await your command, for I am yours to do with as you see fit.'
Winner of Action & Adventure Order of Merlin, Third Class in the Owl Awards 2009.
Lucius Malfoy, on orders from the Dark Lord, captures Hermione Granger to be held as his prisoner deep within the underground dungeons of his Manor. Can Harry and Ron carry on without the brains of their trio, or will Lord Voldemort prevail and take over the wizarding world?
118,959 Words, Started 08/22/2008, Completed 08/23/2013
Stained Glass Shards
by sandlapper
7.64/10 (217 Ratings, 0 Likes, 13 Favorites )Hermione Granger disappeared from her home and is presumed dead. Nearly two years later, she returns to Hogwarts, guardian of a secret that could end the war with Voldemort once and for all.
48,751 Words, Started 09/01/2011, Completed 11/30/2011
Yet Everything Stays the Same
4.69/10 (216 Ratings, 0 Likes, 8 Favorites )In spring 1980, Severus Snape hears a portion of a prophecy that will change the course of wizarding and Muggle history. The Dark Lord must choose a boy, but which? Snape is sent to discover the boy’s identity, but the answers he seeks are not to be found in his world. Rated M for violence and eventual sexual situations. SS/HG.
67,542 Words, Started 05/28/2012, Completed 09/18/2012
The Marriage Law
by teshara
5.9/10 (216 Ratings, 0 Likes, 160 Favorites )After a new law reduces witches to chattel, Hermione Granger finds herself married to Severus Snape in order to keep her from the Death Eaters.
Hermione begins to shadow Severus in his work with the Order. They begin to form a mutual respect and love for each other after Hermione works as negotiator to a matriarchal secret society, the Amazons.
Severus stations them in Russia, where his family has a home, and his cousin is active in patriarchal secret society, the Mystic Brotherhood, who has been at odds with the Amazons for years.
After the Final Battle is fought, one would think the Order would be done with its work, but after Harry is scarred forever, Hermione is given a holy artifact, and a mysterious string of Muggle murders catches the attention of the Ministry, it seems as if their work is just beginning...
62,276 Words, Started 12/06/2008, Updated 02/13/2010
Ripple Effect
by Jupiter
3.84/10 (214 Ratings, 0 Likes, 14 Favorites )Snape discovers Slughorn selling counterfeit ingredients and goes to pay him a little visit.
10,638 Words, Started 11/08/2009, Completed 12/20/2009
Just a Little Bit
by Melenka
6.9/10 (214 Ratings, 0 Likes, 179 Favorites )Hermione is stuck in a house with two difficult men, one bored cat, a hapless mouse - and a physics problem.
39,490 Words, Started 08/12/2008, Completed 10/05/2008
The Lost Corridor
6.53/10 (210 Ratings, 0 Likes, 183 Favorites )Hermione and Snape are locked in an unknown corridor at Hogwarts. Each door they open leads them to a different place where they must complete a task in hopes of finding a way out of the corridor. Their journey brings hidden feelings to the surface along the way. Round Robin by some of the Poetess admins.
30,775 Words, Started 08/08/2007, Updated 11/21/2007
Vain Wisdom All and False Philosophy
7.74/10 (196 Ratings, 0 Likes, 260 Favorites )With the climax of the next great battle drawing near, the key players who have the ability to halt or bring about potential destruction take center stage, as they always have in every great war since time began. And Dumbledore knew all this, but not when it truly mattered. Eventual SS/HG. Alternate Universe, HBP death disregarded.
2007 OWL Awards Nominee: Fire & Ice Category (SS/HG), Romance Category, Angst Category, and A/U Category.
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2008 TNL Awards Winner for Best SS/HG AU Category
215,199 Words, Started 03/14/2007, Updated 09/05/2010
Broken
by potterbrat
7.8/10 (180 Ratings, 0 Likes, 57 Favorites )Draco Malfoy has changed sides. When he decides to leave Malfoy Manor, he needs help packing. While at the Manor, a surprise arrival changes everything. The warnings show abuse and violence, but I promise that nothing will be bad. It really is more of a romance, but the other stuff is necessary.
67,874 Words, Started 02/09/2007, Completed 08/17/2007
The Letter
by phoenix
5.92/10 (179 Ratings, 0 Likes, 21 Favorites )The war is over, and as everyone settles back into a normal life, Hermione begins to realize that perhaps she and Ron aren’t as well suited as she thinks. When she receives strange letters from the Ministry and deceased Severus Snape, she begins to rethink her options.
16,376 Words, Started 02/02/2008, Completed 03/20/2008
Wicked Game
by shalimar1981
5.59/10 (177 Ratings, 0 Likes, 165 Favorites )After the events in the Department of Mysteries, Hermione finds it hard to cope and receives help from someone unexpected. When a friendship of a sort develops, will it survive the events of the Lightning-Struck Tower? Will an ancient ritual help the Light win the war or will it destroy everything? An HG/SS romance. Not DH compliant.
56,128 Words, Started 07/02/2006, Updated 04/10/2009
The Witchhiker's Guide To Beltane
6.16/10 (170 Ratings, 0 Likes, 16 Favorites )Wizarding Britain, ten years after the war. Things are good, but the Ministry thinks what's needed is a good old fashioned Beltane revel. Hogwarts is just the place to do it. In the meantime, Severus isn't enjoying life right now; he's the subject of Rita Skeeter's new tell-all book. And don't get Hermione started on how Ron continues to make her life a misery. Perhaps this Beltane stuff may just be the ticket to help them out as well. Written for Jenidralph in the winter 2013 LiveJournal SSHG_Prompfest.
64,262 Words, Started 02/01/2014, Completed 03/07/2014
A Slant-Told Tale
by Squibstress
4.64/10 (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
Redemption
by phoenix
7.05/10 (160 Ratings, 0 Likes, 109 Favorites )Lucius Malfoy has finally realized the Dark Lord has been spinning nothing but lies. Unfortunately, it took him losing his family to realize this. Now, he is trying to atone for his sins. Will anyone trust him? Will anyone help him regain his place in society? He has a plan. Set after HBP. Rating is for later chapters. Additionally, there are two chapters that have some torture, but nothing overly graphic. Nominated for Feb 2006 Multifaceted Awards in Best Dramatic and Best Het (Adult) Fics
89,112 Words, Started 01/18/2006, Completed 04/05/2006
From the Blood of the Gorgon
by Lady Strange
7.03/10 (159 Ratings, 0 Likes, 30 Favorites )Severus Snape survives Nagini’s venomous bite (or does he?) and yet seemingly drops off the face of the earth. The story opens twenty-two years after the defeat of Voldemort and covers the quest of Hermione Granger as she struggles to uncover the truth behind her recurring nightmares of Snape’s “death”.
The first chapter opens with Hermione having a nightmare about Severus Snape’s “death”. Disquieted, she resolves to delve into the past so as to understand why she is haunted by the mental visions of his “death”.
71,676 Words, Started 01/18/2008, Completed 03/17/2008
Fallen
by BrenaMarie
7.46/10 (149 Ratings, 0 Likes, 25 Favorites )On her first day of teaching, Hermione Granger finds a hidden treasure in her office. What she doesn’t realize is how much this discovery will change her life.
28,579 Words, Started 09/04/2010, Completed 01/15/2011
Dazed Detachment
6.81/10 (145 Ratings, 0 Likes, 73 Favorites )Spared a horrible fate, Hermione is spirted off to a safehouse, but is everything as it seems? Sometimes the mind can be one's worst enemy... or savior.
9,785 Words, Started 04/13/2007, Completed 04/24/2007
Let Someone ELSE Tell You About the Birds and the Bees
by dracontia
6.55/10 (143 Ratings, 0 Likes, 101 Favorites )Do you mean to say that there might be issues with sex at a coeducational boarding school? (Gasp!) And someone might, just might, be upset enough to demand that the school start teaching where little wizards and witches come from? In response to the Sex Ed Challenge at Potter Place, the wildest parody I can devise that does not involve a Jarvey. AU--oh, so goofily AU!
44,756 Words, Started 07/17/2006, Completed 08/17/2006
The Silvering Divide
by Somigliana
5.26/10 (138 Ratings, 0 Likes, 188 Favorites )Hermione encounters a strange lake-dweller one morning. Her new friend will give her insight into the most mysterious man of them all...
50,716 Words, Started 12/10/2008, Completed 02/14/2009
Reversing the Veil
5.84/10 (138 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )They find a secret spell that can change everything, but is it worth it?
13,092 Words, Started 02/06/2009, Updated 09/24/2009
Orion's Pointer
by Faraday
5.6/10 (135 Ratings, 0 Likes, 48 Favorites )The Potions Master is about to meet a bitch of unexpected dimensions.
248,511 Words, Started 06/24/2007, Updated 03/07/2012
The Iago Complex
by Proulxes
5.41/10 (129 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )What happens when a new relationship is threatened? A story for HBAR, combining politics, passion and peacock shit.
24,201 Words, Started 09/07/2013, Completed 01/01/2014