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A Long Vernal Season
by MMADfan
1,058 Ratings, 0 Likes, 88 Favorites )Severus Snape had believed that, for him, life after the Dark Lord was an impossibility, that his death was not merely justice, but necessity. He has survived, though, and now he must learn to live his new, unexpected life, and to find something beyond the narrow existence to which he was once bound. A Snape-centric post-war fic.
A Death’s Dominion sequel, but may stand alone. Not DH-compliant. DH-disregarded. Rated M for overall content. Much of it is "T," but the ratings rise to MA later for a reason, hence the switch to an M-rating for the earlier chapters. Watch the individual chapter summaries and author’s notes for ratings, warnings, and the characters appearing in that chapter.
Part One finds Severus dealing with some very immediate and dangerous consequences of his final confrontation with the Dark Lord more than three months before.
652,726 Words, Started 08/29/2009, Updated 05/30/2025
Resolving a Misunderstanding
by MMADfan
954 Ratings, 0 Likes, 108 Favorites )Minerva has just finished her first term teaching. A series of misunderstandings leads to an embarrassing moment, injured feelings, regret, growing understanding, then resolution. A Minerva McGonagall fic set in 1957, with forays into the past. More than a Romance; stories within stories. Features Minerva, Albus, and Poppy, with appearances by Slughorn, Grubbly-Plank, Hagrid, Flitwick, Moody, Riddle, Grindelwald, and other canon characters. Not DH-compliant. Disregards DH.
Nineteen Parts.
Most content T-rated, but ratings rise to M and MA for several later chapters. Overall M rating reflects later content.
Pertinent warnings in individual chapter summaries.
Voted First Place, Minerva McGonagall: Legacy Fic, in the HP Fanfiction Fan Poll Awards Spring/Summer 2013.
887,445 Words, Started 02/27/2007, Completed 05/30/2025
A Ghost of a Chance
748 Ratings, 0 Likes, 135 Favorites )After the war, Severus finds himself only aware when someone comes to mourn him. Is this death?
177,247 Words, Started 02/02/2010, Completed 05/30/2025
The Self-Writing Parchment
by beaweasley2
582 Ratings, 0 Likes, 334 Favorites )Hermione finds a mysterious piece of self-writing parchment in Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes that writes: Tell me your deepest desire. Thinking it’s a trick, she says, “I wish to see my soul mate?” and she suddenly finds herself at Severus’ feet.
This is my response to the Potter_Place Summer 2007 Prompt – #23
The warnings I have listed for this chapter are implied. I chose the rating of MA (NC-17) due to the story’s overall content.
387,831 Words, Started 09/15/2007, Updated 07/30/2014
Death's Dominion
by MMADfan
559 Ratings, 0 Likes, 207 Favorites )Severus Snape’s life was changed when he was hit by an errant spell, and he comes to a decision that defies Dumbledore’s wishes. Even the fate of the wizarding world is altered by this one ill-cast curse and Snape’s subsequent resolve. Long after the spell itself has dissipated, its effects continue echoing in the lives of Severus, Albus, Minerva, and Hermione, and they bring with them a shadowy figure whom Snape does not trust and whose motivations and influence on Minerva are murky. Conspiracies and schemes swirl around Severus as he continues on his path of deception to his final confrontation with the Dark Lord.
Canon-divergent post-July 1996 in the HP universe. Not DH-compliant. (Partially HBP-compliant.)
A “Light” fic of love, loyalty, and redemption.
Pertinent warnings in individual chapter summaries.
Voted First Place, Gen Fic: Best Legacy Story, in the HP Fanfic Fan Poll Awards for Spring/Summer 2013.
288,570 Words, Started 03/20/2008, Completed 11/07/2008
Transcendent Quality of Remembrance
by Subversa
517 Ratings, 0 Likes, 45 Favorites )A/U. In a postwar world, members of the Order and the DA are sent together into hiding. Trapped in claustrophobic circumstances, plagued by inexplicable dreams, surrounded by her closest friends - and her most dreaded adversary - Hermione struggles to come to terms with her postwar life.
116,944 Words, Started 02/09/2013, Completed 08/23/2013
Anima Mea
by Proulxes
433 Ratings, 0 Likes, 37 Favorites )Archaeologist Hermione Granger has survived the Great War. She has a life, a career and friends who love her. She has also spent the last eleven years trying to locate something that she does not know she has lost. Could the answer to her restlessness be even further away than she thinks?
Nominated for Best Drama/Angst in the HP Fanfic Fan Poll Awards Fall/Winter 2013.
181,180 Words, Started 10/30/2011, Completed 03/04/2013
Tying Knots
by LadyTuesday
391 Ratings, 0 Likes, 355 Favorites )Hermione Granger's world is upended when a letter from the Ministry of Magic forces her to be the one thing she couldn't have imagined in her most feverish nightmares: the wife of her dreaded Potion's master.
~~ My little attempt at the WIKTT Marriage Law Challenge ~~ Lascivious rating is for the hot monkey sex to come in later chapters.
131,284 Words, Started 02/12/2008, Updated 09/05/2012
La Chasseresse
by livvy6
384 Ratings, 0 Likes, 52 Favorites )Hermione decides to leave Hogwarts behind and live in the wizarding world by her rules.
62,723 Words, Started 08/29/2010, Updated 02/16/2012
Letters
371 Ratings, 0 Likes, 2 Favorites )The trio has graduated, and Hermione is back at Hogwarts as Madam Pomfrey's assistant as part of her training to be a Mediwitch while the boys are off training to be Aurors. These are the letters they exchange.
13,786 Words, Started 05/18/2011, Completed 04/13/2012
Owned
by Subversa
363 Ratings, 0 Likes, 53 Favorites )War is hell, and the aftermath is often the most hellish part of all. Having lost everyone she most loves, Hermione Granger is only a shell of the woman she had been. Devastated by loss and guilt, Hermione draws the attention of Severus Snape with a random utterance.
30,302 Words, Started 01/08/2011, Updated 07/24/2011
A Well-Made Match
314 Ratings, 0 Likes, 43 Favorites )Hermione's life takes an unexpected turn due to a medical issue. What she wants is still possible, just not with the man she thought she'd have it with. Meanwhile, Severus is being pushed in different directions. Luckily, one of those paths lead to Hermione. This is a take on LOTM's YLC Challenge.
48,540 Words, Started 11/27/2010, Updated 08/16/2015
The Gilded Cage
by ApollinaV
311 Ratings, 0 Likes, 221 Favorites )Clever Miss Hermione Granger believes that by marrying Azkaban prisoner 11652 she can effectively skirt the new Ministry Marriage Law requirements. A story about morality, mortality, and pickled walnuts.
71,800 Words, Started 01/20/2009, Updated 02/24/2011
From Dire Circumstances
by Hanagasume
280 Ratings, 0 Likes, 174 Favorites )Dumbledore asks Snape to do him a favour... Christmas with Miss Granger? Hermione willingly goes along with the only man that can protect her from the Dark Lord for this break... Set in Hermione's 7th year at Hogwarts and during the fall of Voldemort...
28,497 Words, Started 06/14/2008, Completed 09/07/2008
George & Annie: An Unofficial Biography
by shosier
266 Ratings, 0 Likes, 32 Favorites )Fred and George Weasley’s troublemaking careers didn’t start the day they reached Hogwarts. In fact, they had been honing their mischief-making talents for years with the help of a feisty little Muggle girl named Annie Jones from Ottery St. Catchpole. Their secret friendship continued even after the twins began leaving for Hogwarts, as the children kept in touch via owl post. It deepened into something more as teenagers, when George and Annie discovered an attraction to each other that they couldn’t resist. Their love struggles to survive one of the most trying times in the magical world – the Second War – and its devastating consequences. A happily-ever-after awaits them… eventually. Rating and warnings for later chapters. In this chapter, seven-year-olds George and Fred make an interesting acquaintance in a bowtruckle-infested oak tree, and a friendship is born.
422,283 Words, Started 09/01/2009, Completed 01/01/2011
Melancholy Whore
250 Ratings, 0 Likes, 131 Favorites )She was light branded by darkness. She was innocence. She was his melancholy whore.
44,627 Words, Started 05/24/2008, Updated 07/17/2011
Witchy Woman
by linlawless
239 Ratings, 0 Likes, 27 Favorites )Hermione is reluctantly attracted, Severus is unwillingly bewitched, and Dumbledore is happily meddling. The path to true love is fraught with challenges ...
AU and somewhat fluffy, beginning at the end of Seventh Year.
72,981 Words, Started 08/06/2010, Completed 01/27/2011
Being Muggle-born
by Minerva
239 Ratings, 0 Likes, 19 Favorites )In a radio-interview Hermione Granger talks about one bitter regret. In Italy a man preparing dough for his gnocchi listens by chance.
10,197 Words, Started 02/10/2013, Completed 06/27/2013
Descending into Obscurity
by sbrande
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
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
Rumour Has It
by Subversa
202 Ratings, 0 Likes, 16 Favorites )Severus Snape receives a ransom note. The only problem is, he isn't entirely sure to whom it refers ... the love of his life??
22,724 Words, Started 10/29/2010, Completed 12/15/2010
The Mage
by windwings
194 Ratings, 0 Likes, 87 Favorites )Take a headstrong know-it-all and a surly Potions master. Mix thoroughly. Add an accidental discovery, a gift, which is either a blessing or a curse, and top with a unique common trait. Watch out for your cauldron, the combination is explosive!
54,067 Words, Started 03/23/2010, Updated 10/28/2010
The Devil's Game
by Ugly Kitten
186 Ratings, 0 Likes, 87 Favorites )The future is bleak for the wizarding world after Voldmort died. Scorpius Malfoy and Molly Weasley become the future’s hope for the past. They enlist fourteen-year-old Hermione Granger’s help with two stipulations: She can never return to the future and she can’t remember it. Dealing with the Marauders is the least of their troubles. Severus/Hermione eventually, Lucius/Hermione to start. Scorpius/Hermione in a sibling relationship. Time-Turner fic with a twist.
84,360 Words, Started 12/29/2008, Updated 03/18/2014
Fallen Sparrow
by Hanagasume
178 Ratings, 0 Likes, 22 Favorites )Considered pariah by Wizarding society, and spurned by those she had held most dear to her during her time of need, Hermione turns to Severus Snape to guide her through her struggle with the darkness and her desire for revenge.
75,909 Words, Started 08/23/2010, Completed 04/14/2012
Harry and His New Family
by grugster
178 Ratings, 0 Likes, 69 Favorites )Harry is getting abused by his relatives. When Snape and his wife find out about it, they adopt him. So now he has two little twin brothers and caring family to cope with.
66,011 Words, Started 12/26/2008, Updated 04/23/2011