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Sin and Virtue
by Pearle
68 Ratings, 0 Likes, 76 Favorites )Sin and virtue: can one exist without the other? And to what end do they determine our final outcome? Severus ponders these very questions as he tries to determine exactly where he's ended up. Is love really the answer? (Rating is for language, one word really)
***New*** Chapter Four: What's Love Got To Do With It?
Now complete in four chapters!
12,336 Words, Started 12/28/2006, Completed 03/21/2007
Time's Arrow
by Proulxes
67 Ratings, 0 Likes, 11 Favorites )More ancient time travel! Hermione and Severus are thrown into an adventure that will explore the very origins of time itself....
45,067 Words, Started 02/15/2014, Updated 01/18/2015
My Favorite Wand Waver
64 Ratings, 0 Likes, 20 Favorites )After The Tower Affair, Severus Snape survived the war and married quickly thereafter. He takes on a trio of apprentices as she takes a long-term case. How do two people, long single, create a life together?
69,562 Words, Started 09/20/2009, Completed 01/05/2011
Run to the Water
by lady_rhian
62 Ratings, 0 Likes, 6 Favorites )‘Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.’ – Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility
20,675 Words, Started 01/01/2012, Completed 02/13/2012
Riddle Me This
by Bambu
61 Ratings, 0 Likes, 10 Favorites )When a colleague is discovered to be missing in action, Hermione Granger is sent to Egypt to investigate.
51,550 Words, Started 03/23/2012, Completed 05/06/2012
Proestigium
by Lady Strange
60 Ratings, 0 Likes, 25 Favorites )*COMPLETE* An epistolary story based on the WIKTT 'Arsenius Jigger' challenge. There will be 42 letters in all. Correspondences trace the changing lives and times of the various characters in the HP universe as well as some new characters.
50,343 Words, Started 05/31/2005, Completed 07/20/2005
The Lost Chamber
by pyjamapants
60 Ratings, 0 Likes, 8 Favorites )When Rose and Hugo Weasley are involved in a prank that sends Scorpius Malfoy to the Hosptial Wing, Hermione is summoned to Hogwarts. What she finds there calls for investigation.
33,081 Words, Started 12/12/2010, Completed 01/01/2011
Trysts With Quidam
60 Ratings, 0 Likes, 39 Favorites )After Severus decides to embrace his second chance at life and happiness, he stumbles upon a bizarre late-night rendezvous that changes his life forever.
347 Words, Started 10/13/2009, Completed 11/13/2009
Amnesty
by acciobook7
60 Ratings, 0 Likes, 41 Favorites )HBP--the way it should have been written. Written for the January '08 SS/HG Exchange. Canon-compliant all the way through DH, sans the epilogue.
53,871 Words, Started 02/26/2008, Updated 03/22/2008
Gathering Echoes
59 Ratings, 0 Likes, 15 Favorites )The terror of Voldemort may be over, but a centuries-old struggle for absolute power still thrives below the surface of wizarding Britain while Lucius waits for Hermione to join him against their ancient enemy.
1,026 Words, Started 04/21/2011, Completed 10/21/2013
Of Surprises and Detours
58 Ratings, 0 Likes, 63 Favorites )After the war, not all is well as people are trying to get on with their lives. When two former enemies meet again, things start to take unexpected twists and turns…
11,474 Words, Started 02/20/2008, Updated 01/13/2010
The Waiting Game
58 Ratings, 0 Likes, 27 Favorites )Severus has just five days to make Hermione his. But he also has a murder to solve. Can he do it in time? Or will his partner, Draco Malfoy, get the girl?
Complete AU. Does exactly what it says on the tin (and no funny business).
16,843 Words, Started 06/22/2007, Updated 02/12/2008
Conspiracy Theory
by ubiquirk
58 Ratings, 0 Likes, 61 Favorites )Working as the Ministry’s new Keeper of Records turns out to be not quite what Hermione Granger had in mind. It’s … well, dull, dull, boring, and possibly – no, very definitely – dull. She has a mountain of information at her fingertips – a log of everything officially recorded in the Wizarding world – and most of it’s, yes, dull. Then one day, a filing cabinet sticks, and her busy brain notices the smallest clue, one that will have her and Severus Snape struggling to uncover a conspiracy that, if true, will tarnish the Wizarding world’s golden post-war view of itself forever.
26,362 Words, Started 06/01/2009, Completed 06/17/2009
The Tower Affair
57 Ratings, 0 Likes, 18 Favorites )A wizard has been murdered. A special investigator is hired to find and apprehend the guilty party.
29,052 Words, Started 07/21/2009, Completed 09/14/2009
The Valiant Never
55 Ratings, 0 Likes, 37 Favorites )SBHG: Her best friends' fates – and that of her world – lay on her shoulders. At 20, Hermione Granger can't do it alone. But Fate steps in, and the Impossible gives her hope... and love. "Sirius"... :Abstract Prologue:
**Reviews are much appreciated**
163,560 Words, Started 01/08/2007, Completed 07/02/2008
A Fortiori
54 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )Hermione finds out that appearances can be deceptive when Lucius Malfoy needs her help to get out of Azkaban. And why is Severus Snape so interested in Malfoy's case?
21,036 Words, Started 02/05/2012, Completed 02/19/2012
I Want That One
53 Ratings, 0 Likes, 7 Favorites )On the night the light is defeated and the dark wins, Lord Voldemort grants a boon to his most valued and trusted spy.
This is a very, very dark and disturbing story of pain and punishment. If you find the idea of non-con and dub-con unsettling, please understand this will not be the story for you.
But also know this: at the heart of this story lies a mystery. All will be revealed if you dare to continue.
34,971 Words, Started 11/16/2012, Completed 11/20/2012
Guilt and Suspicion
by snuggleslut
53 Ratings, 0 Likes, 72 Favorites )Hermione is just starting her life as an Unspeakable when something happens to her in the Department of Mysteries, forcing her to deal with her inner turmoil with some unwilling help from Severus Snape.
12,363 Words, Started 05/22/2008, Updated 12/19/2008
Hexed!
by TeaOli
52 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )Severus Snape learns the hard way not to cross a half-giant. Hermione Granger gets caught in consequences of his gaffe.
11,849 Words, Started 04/29/2013, Completed 06/26/2013
Time Will Tell
by Punkindoodle
51 Ratings, 0 Likes, 55 Favorites )A magical clock, a secret message, time travel and a murder that must be prevented. Nominated at Quill to Parchment, Dangerous Liaisons and He Had it Coming.
121,209 Words, Started 08/29/2007, Completed 12/03/2007
True Love's Kiss
by sandlapper
49 Ratings, 0 Likes, 5 Favorites )Severus is cursed during the Final Battle, only his Heart's True Love can save him
11,989 Words, Started 04/21/2013, Completed 07/27/2013
The Number Twelve House-Elf Detective Agency
by gingertart
48 Ratings, 0 Likes, 6 Favorites )Some elves get hooked on watching reruns of the great detectives, an investigation into the dodgy breeding of pedigree Crups leads Hermione and Severus into Lucius Malfoy's bed via the bath, Severus goes back to Hogwarts to retrieve his wand, Delilah Derwent, bastion of pure-blood aristocracy, arrives with her Knickers under one arm to play hanky-panky with Malfoy's Magic Wand, a Crup goes bad and some left-over Death Eaters get their comeuppance. Oh, and of course, Severus gets his just desserts.
30,110 Words, Started 07/21/2012, Completed 12/30/2012
Nevermore
by Pearle
47 Ratings, 0 Likes, 59 Favorites )The war is long over and life has settled into a comfortable routine. Harry and his team of specialists have been charged with tracking down and dismantling Dark objects. While not part of the team, Harry has had occasion to call on his best friend's husband to help them. What started out as routine turned out to be anything but. One question remained: how was he going to explain to Hermione her husband had been turned into a bird?
A response to SouthernWitch69's chapter challenge. A mystery complete in eight chapters.Rating for later chapters. HPB compliant.
Chapter 8 – Epilogue – Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore"A bit more information about Severus and Hermione, and a glimpse into the future.
This story is now complete.
16,374 Words, Started 02/07/2006, Completed 02/13/2006
The Serpent's Egg
by Azrael
47 Ratings, 0 Likes, 74 Favorites )A Time Turner Story. Finding Horcruxes is dangerous business and the trio are looking forward to a night at the Hogs Head. But then a Time Turner accident changes everything...
32,889 Words, Started 02/14/2007, Updated 06/25/2007
The Twists of Fate
by nagandsev
47 Ratings, 0 Likes, 3 Favorites )What is the greatest sacrifice one can give? The final pairings of Remus and Nagini, and Severus against Sirius, in the Dark Arts competition for the Young Wizards Merit Award during their sixth year, gets out of hand. Unexpectedly, from this one event, their lives become intertwined, changed forever. Nagini, the main female character, is actually a precursor to Voldemort's serpent, Nagini.
51,005 Words, Started 04/12/2010, Completed 07/04/2015