Mystery/Suspense
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Beyond Time and Space
by Lady Strange
29 Ratings, 0 Likes, 50 Favorites )What happens when Severus dies in the final battle? He returns as a ghost, of course. Chapter 1 opens with a news report and traces Hermione's thoughts on her former potions master's demise. This response to the WIKTT 'Ghost Challenge' maybe a little AU and OOC for some.
50,802 Words, Started 05/20/2005, Completed 05/31/2005
I Have A Secret
28 Ratings, 0 Likes, 120 Favorites )Professor Snape is missing, and Hermione is asked to fill in as Potions Mistress until he is found.
23,000 Words, Started 06/06/2005, Completed 06/06/2005
The Lies You Tell Yourself
by Shanastay
27 Ratings, 0 Likes, 10 Favorites )There are places you can never return to... and lies you tell yourself. Snape's work still isn't done and how is this newcomer connected to unfolding events?
63,458 Words, Started 02/24/2006, Updated 10/13/2006
Reckoning
by odogoddess
27 Ratings, 0 Likes, 39 Favorites )The war is finally over and Severus Snape is waiting for justice to be done. Ten years later, he still waits...
16,786 Words, Started 08/03/2007, Completed 08/03/2007
Evil Hermione
by muzicfan5
27 Ratings, 0 Likes, 23 Favorites )Hermione has a Time Turner accident and ends up nearly 20 years in the past. Will she get stay on her Gryffindor path or be seduced by the dark arts?
12,532 Words, Started 08/20/2006, Updated 03/23/2007
Macushla
by neelix
26 Ratings, 0 Likes, 11 Favorites )This is a song-inspired fic featuring Hermione and Severus. It's only short but I hope you like it all the same!
2,392 Words, Started 12/09/2008, Completed 12/14/2008
Tainted Soul
by chivalric
25 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )This is the first chapter of my (now published) novel Tainted Soul, sequel to Tainted Blood (Click here to read).
8,616 Words, Started 12/24/2011, Updated 12/24/2011
Resonare Mortis
by Laralee
25 Ratings, 0 Likes, 3 Favorites )Somewhere, in the midst of all the chaos following the end of the war, someone made an error.
Winner, Second place for Best Drama-Angst Fic in the Fall/Winter 2013 HPfanficfanpoll awards on LiveJournal
29,217 Words, Started 08/04/2013, Completed 10/21/2013
Above All Things
by Nom de Plume
24 Ratings, 0 Likes, 61 Favorites )Sometimes life doesn't go the way we planned.
10,154 Words, Started 04/27/2009, Updated 05/05/2009
A Study of the Woman in Scarlet and Green
by peskipiksi
24 Ratings, 0 Likes, 5 Favorites )Sequel to 'A Scandal in Bulgaria'. When the infamous photographs of her and Krum go missing, Hermione herself must turn to Snape for help.
7,035 Words, Started 01/14/2013, Completed 02/04/2013
Passion for the Cause
24 Ratings, 0 Likes, 28 Favorites )To catch a killer, Hermione needs to learn how to spy. Who else but a Slytherin should she ask? But Lucius might have more to teach her, and Severus might not be as dead as she thought.
Written for the Livejournal SS/HG exchange
11,922 Words, Started 07/19/2008, Updated 02/16/2009
Politics of Academic Murder
by Lady Strange
23 Ratings, 0 Likes, 19 Favorites )A 6 chapter murder mystery and sequel to "Christmas Presents Undisguised" where Severus and Hermione are sleuths. Someone important is murdered in the University where Severus and Hermione are. They are roped in to find out who did it. Readers may find plot violent and the politics described herein distasteful.
27,125 Words, Started 12/04/2007, Completed 01/03/2008
Uneasy Peace
by blue artemis
23 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )The war may be over, but something in Diagon Alley is making it difficult for everyone to find peace.
515 Words, Started 09/22/2011, Completed 09/22/2011
The Laka Enhancement
23 Ratings, 0 Likes, 0 Favorites )There's a post-war boom, and then there's... this
531 Words, Started 09/23/2011, Completed 09/23/2011
Constant Vigilance
by severina
23 Ratings, 0 Likes, 6 Favorites )~Complete~ Takes place during the early part of HBP. After Ollivander is captured (or is he?) by Death Eaters, his daughter returns to find answers, aided by paranoid ex-Auror, Mad-Eye Moody.
29,649 Words, Started 07/02/2006, Completed 08/16/2006
Potions Master Severus
23 Ratings, 0 Likes, 10 Favorites )A filk of a horribly familiar, Uber-Evil children's song.
205 Words, Started 03/22/2006, Completed 03/22/2006
Luscious Red Riding Hood
22 Ratings, 0 Likes, 60 Favorites )Lotm's own entry into the Lost In A Book Challenge.
13,398 Words, Started 04/09/2006, Completed 04/09/2006
The Jaws Of Darkness Do Devour
22 Ratings, 0 Likes, 3 Favorites )Severus Snape has stared death in the face many times, too many to count, in fact. When the newest threat changes his existence completely, and is further complicated by a jealous Weasley, it's up to Hermione Granger to make sure he survives and adjusts. If they can quit their bickering, shagging, and quell their wilful natures, they just might fall in love in the meantime... along with exacting a unique brand of revenge.
28,058 Words, Started 12/05/2010, Updated 03/03/2012
The Banebrewer
21 Ratings, 0 Likes, 5 Favorites )Wolfsbane Potion is illegal, but the illicit brewing continues. Ariadne Lupin can preserve the human mind of a werewolf, but can she reverse the mindset of a whole civilisation?
Part IV of “The Moon-Cursers”.
97,257 Words, Started 12/14/2009, Completed 01/12/2010
Broken Enigma
by Tygerlily
21 Ratings, 0 Likes, 62 Favorites )In a post war Hogwarts Hermione discovers a devastating secret that shakes her world and causes her to take a step back and re-evaluate everything within her life.
38,382 Words, Started 08/18/2005, Updated 03/24/2006
Married Young
by Jenwryn
21 Ratings, 0 Likes, 9 Favorites )Hermione would never leave her husband, but her heart lies elsewhere... 5x100 words written in response to the grangersnape100 "married to another" challenge.
513 Words, Started 06/02/2008, Completed 06/02/2008
Beholden To No Man
by phoenix
20 Ratings, 0 Likes, 25 Favorites )Severus Snape, Deputy Headmaster, is beholden to no man with the Dark Lord finally vanquished and Dumbledore gone. He is free to choose the course that his life takes, to make friends, to finally know what it means to lead a normal life. How does he adapt to being able to experience this normality. Sequel to "Wounded" (the link is in the story). Rating is for later chapters.
75,576 Words, Started 02/25/2006, Completed 09/06/2006
The Crafty Case of the Corpses That Weren't Corpses
20 Ratings, 0 Likes, 3 Favorites )Several people have disappeared from the wizarding community, and a wholly unlikely suspect is being accused. Who else but Hermione Granger would take up this impossible case—and who else would she drag along with her but Severus Snape? A classically styled murder mystery.
14,550 Words, Started 08/05/2014, Completed 08/14/2014
The Set-Up
by flaminia_x
20 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )Harry is asked to investigate a series of suspicious attacks, but soon the suspicion is turned toward Harry himself. Can he clear his name?
18,245 Words, Started 10/21/2010, Completed 02/04/2011
Why Can't You Turn Away?
by Seventh
20 Ratings, 0 Likes, 8 Favorites )Mysterious mists are calling Severus Snape through the Veil, but will one willing woman be enough to entice him back through..?
561 Words, Started 01/28/2008, Completed 02/04/2008