AU, 23,000 words, written for Snarry_holdiays.
Author's Summary: Harry discovers a secret in his Potions text and a
friend in the Half-Blood Prince. -- This is a wonderful story that
takes Harry's crush on the Half-Blood Prince and expands on it. I
love AUs that actually take into account all that we know about canon
and then manipulate it. This is plotty, fun and very well done. I
enjoyed it a lot.
This story is based on a challenge from DarkLady, to wit Suppose it
were a usual thing in Wizarding culture that a young man take an
older man as a lover/mentor.
Harry Potter must marry Severus Snape for his own protection. Only
a legality for seven years, of course. One of the very few chan
stories I've truly enjoyed. It's clear who is in charge of this
relationship from the beginning.
17,500 words. DH-Compliant. Written for Snarry Holiday's 2007
Author's Summary: Everyone has been given perfume for Christmas, odd
things happen as a result and Harry finds himself juggling
match-making children, senile household appliances and two very
fraught relationships. -- Well written and sweet. I really enjoyed
all the little touches of magic as well as the Harry/Snape
relationship.
49,150 words. Non-Magical AU. Written for 2008 Snarry Games.
Author's Summary: Every culture has their tales regarding creatures
of the night. -- Well-written, and so wonderfully and richly detailed
that it is absolutely absorbing. I was hooked from the first
paragraph. And that's saying something since in most cases, I'm not a
huge fan of non-magical AR since they usually bear little resemblance
to the world and characters I know and love. This story, however, is
brilliant. Femme is such an incredible writer that she managed to
capture the essence of both Harry and Snape -- and other characters
as well -- and distill them into another reality with such precision
that they fit perfectly. I totally bought Harry as a vampire hunter
and Snape as almost ready to take his vows to be a priest in the
Catholic Church. They meet under some very interesting circumstances
and their relationship builds slowly. I just loved all the small
canon details and the larger canon illusions
Post War. 40,369 words. Summary: fairly HBP-compliant. Snape lives
as Harry Potter's prisoner (and more or less servant). An unexpected
attack changes things. Or have things already been changing?
15,000 words. Written for 2008 Snarry Games. Author's Summary:Snape
has watched over Potter for so long that nothing from poisonous
snakes and assassins to amorous doppelgangers can stop him.
Eventually he's going to figure out why. -- Snape takes his Animagus
form of an emperor scorpion after almost dying in the Shrieking
Shack. He plans to get away, but he can't quite leave until he knows
Harry's okay. And then, he can't keep from protecting Harry, who of
course, still needs it. I loved Snape's voice in this. He's snarky
and amusing. I had no trouble at all believing this was Snape. And
the story just carried you along, making you believe.
Summary: The last year of the war, and Harry’s getting a
first-class primer on death, loss, the sanctity of one’s
conscience, and sacrifice. -- God, this is amazingly well written.
Pir8fancier's style here is subtle and complex. Harry and Snape's
relationship grows so slowly that they're almost not even aware of
how it happened. But we see it. And it's brilliant. I love the depths
and the colors of this story. I love what Snape becomes to Harry. The
way we are shown how they could come together in a believable
context. I can't say enough about how much I loved this story.
21,000 words. Written for the 2008 Snarry Games. Author's Summary:
"Second generation celebrity, pop sensation, rising movie star: Harry
Potter is looking for something more meaningful in his life than mere
fame. However, when he inexplicably decides to make ex-con Steven
Snape part of that "something more meaningful," well...it's too much
to expect the press to ignore it forever." -- I'm not fond of
non-magical AR's. Usually, they leave out the very things that I like
about the world and characters. This one is different. This one gives
you characters so in character that even though they are out of their
world they are still recognizable as the characters I love from the
books. This story is very well-written and so clever that it just
pulls you along. It's one of my favorite of Beth H's stories ever. I
really enjoyed the subtlety of what she was saying as well as keeping
both Harry and Snape in character in a totally out of character
setting.
10,487 words. Written for Snape after DH. Author's Summary: Harry
believes Snape deserves to be immortalised. As usual, he rushes in
where angels fear to tread. -- Well written and spooky. A very
interesting look at how wizarding portraits are made. And how Harry
without really knowing what he was doing, could make a mess. Or not.
I loved the characterizations of both Harry and Snape in this. It was
so well done, you're drawn in and held captive.
Post War, Harry/Snape, NC-17, 35,600 words, Written for the Snarry
Games 2007 Team Post War, Genre Romance prompt sanctuary.
Summary: Severus Snape makes the ultimate sacrifice for Harry
Potter. No, not that sacrifice! The other one! And finds Sanctuary in
the most unexpected
Post Hogwarts. 24,901 words. Pre OotP. Harry is a professor and
helps out Snape, who has gotten himself into some trouble. They are
*so* in character in this. I like this story a lot.
Post War. 13,555 words. Summary: An old-fashioned romance, this
tale concerns the trials and tribulations of the star-crossed lovers
Master Harry Potter and Professor Severus Snape, being a tale of some
ingenuity and divers complication.
22,291 words, written for 2008 Snarry Games, Team: Dragon, Genre: Alternate Universe, Prompt: Silver and Puzzles. Author's Summary: When is a crossword puzzle not a crossword puzzle? When it leads Harry on an adventure. -- Not your standard Snarry story, but well-written, intriguing, full of many different kinds of details. Very lovely. Sad, but in a good way. Not your usual feel good story, but so worth it. And I loved the dragon!
Post Hogwarts. 29,837 words. Harry is cursed with a nasty curse
and needs Snape to brew the potion. Well done. Another one of my
favorite stories of all time.
Post War. 36,588 words. Magic is gone. Wizards are living a
marginal existence, Severus finds a magical crup and befriends it.
Josan is my guiltiest pleasure. I adore her.
Post War. 27,905 words. Summary: When Harry defeats Voldemort, the
Death Eaters lose their magic. Snape decamps to the United States,
where he becomes a fry cook in a diner. Seven years after Voldemort's
defeat, Harry comes to him for advice. -- This is far and away my
favorite HP story of all time. I adore it. The characterization of
Snape is perfect beyond perfect. Even as a bald fry cook in Arazona,
this is Snape. And Harry...also perfect. The OC's are just
delightful. If you haven''t read this story, you should. Like right
this second.
Summary: After the war is over, Harry and Severus meet on the train
from Paris to Istanbul. Since neither has anywhere to go, should they
go together? -- This is just delightful. Funny, well-written and
heartwarming, too. I enjoyed the Harry/Snape dynamic in this one a
lot. Both of them seemed wonderfully in character and still
vulnerable and a bit sad. There were some absolutely excellent lines
in this story. The Wizarding train space was just too cool. As I've
said, I love clever explorations of Wizarding life.
26,919 words. Summary: Post war. Snape as Scheherazade. This story
was amazing. Erotic, funny, emotional, and very well written. First
person POV usually sounds like the author and not like the character,
but this sounded and felt so much like Snape that it added a
whole other level of intensity to the story. And Harry was just as
well drawn, perfectly in character. The slow understanding that came
between Harry and Snape worked very well. I enjoyed this story
immensely.
20,000 words. Written for the 2008 Snarry Games. Author's Summary:
Sometimes the best wishes are the ones that sneak up on you -- This
is one of those stories that if you told me the plot I would have
said it couldn't work. It does, though. Really well. This is a
lovely, sweet story of Severus Snape getting what he wants, even if
he doesn't know he wants it. Usually, I don't like stories where the
plot has everyone (except Snape) seems so different from their book
characterizations, but this particular story makes that work. Snape
has been thrown into a world where his history has been changed just
enough to make his worl, and everyone in it, completely different.
28,000 words, Harry/Draco, Post-DH, written for HD Exchange.
Summary: "Isn’t that Draco Malfoy? He keeps looking at you,
Harry."
A long, well-written story. The thing I really liked about this was
Draco's relentless personality. The characterizations of Harry and
Draco were both spot on.
108,033 words. Draco Malfoy struggles with changed fortunes,
shifted alliances,an ugly war, and an unusual spell, with the help of
a concerned professor, an insightful house-elf, and an unexpected
Gryffindor friend. Amazingly well written, intense story. It sucks
you in and doesn't let you go until it's done.
22,253 words. Summary: The first post-war Christmas is coming to
Grimmauld Place. As the Order of the Phoenix ponders its future,
Harry sorts through a maze of war records and quickly begins to see
that not everything is as it should be...
27,000 words. Written for H/D World Cup, Team: Epilogue Prompt: the Tower, Author's Summary: Harry stopped hating Draco Malfoy on Bring Your Kids to Work Day. -- A funny, almost, but not quite, cracky story that completely works for me. Harry and Ginny are married at the start, but they don't really connect with each other or their kids. Things are not going well. There are some sad moments, and some wonderful moments. Draco is a boring accountant. And that works, too. I seriously enjoyed this story.
11,200 words, written for 2007 HD_Holidays.
Author's Summary: Four years ago, Draco Malfoy disappeared
from the wizarding world. This is the story of what happened after
that. -- A classic amnesia trope that I found worked very well. I
liked both Harry and Draco's characterizations in this one. And I
especially liked that Draco was able to make a life for himself
outside the wizarding world.
27,000 words, written for HD World Cup, Team: Epilogue Prompt: Temperance. Summary: Harry thinks spending two weeks as a guest lecturer at Hogwarts will offer the perfect chance to get away from his troubles. Then he meets his assigned faculty guide: Potions Master Draco Malfoy. -- Lovely, long well written story. Harry is unhappy in his open marriage to Ginny and agress to go to Hogwarts. I enjoyed watching Harry get to know Draco and find what's been missing in his life.
26,532 words. H/D World Cup, Team: Epilogue Prompt: The Empress,. Author's Summary: In order to keep custody of his children, Draco needs to find a spouse that will shore up the Malfoy family's tattered reputation. But what starts off as a means to an end gets more complicated when Draco's target reawakens feelings in him that he hasn't had in a long while, and Draco starts to feel alive for the first time since his wife's death. -- To start off with, Draco has 7 children. 6 girls and Scorpius. It borders on crack, but doesn't get there and it's completely canon compliant, even with the girls (there's an explanation for why they weren't at the train station). This was wonderful in many ways. I love the Slytheriness of Draco and that Harry had his own agenda as well. This story rocked. A definite keeper.
36,409 words,Post-DH, written for 2007 HD Exchange. Summary:
There's only one cardinal sin for a whore. -- Can I tell you that I
hate rent-boy fics -- like with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.
Except this one. I loved this story. It was...amazingly well written.
I totally bought Draco as a high-rent, rent-boy. Oh, yes, and
Harry as one of his marks. The voices were note perfect, espeically
Draco.
6329 words, written for 2007 Merry Smutmas.
Author's Summary: There was a logical explanation for what
happened between Harry and Malfoy: adolescent insanity. Not their
own, though—their children's. -- This was very clever. I enjoyed it a
lot. Oh, and it was hot.
Post war. Summary: After Draco Malfoy turns up again a year after
the war, Harry is determined to uncover the mystery behind his Order
of Merlin. -- Excellently written. Very intriguing. I was hooked in
from the first couple of paragraphs.
32,239 words, Written for HD Worldcup, Team: Fanon Prompt: Strength. Summary: Five years after the final battle at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy has been paroled from Azkaban and works nights as a janitor at The Daily Prophet. Harry Potter, recently married to Ginny Weasley, is training as a Healer at St. Mungo's. One wastebasket=one head injury=our story. -- I'm usually pretty sure that just about anything Pirate writes I'm going to like. And this one was no exception. I loved her Draco in this story. He kept going, even when he might have given up. I liked Harry, too. Great story.
13,600 words, DH and epilogue compliant, written for the HD_Holidays.
Author's Summary: Books have the power to shape young lives. At least
that is the hope of the anonymous author of a best-selling series
about a Muggle boy and his best friend on the eve of a world war. But
stories do more than just shape the future: they can redress the
wrongs of the past as well. But only as long as it’s not too late...
-- I am left utterly speechless after this. It was chilling. And
amazingly well done. I was drawn in and held captive. This was
beautiful. And so sad. And yet, not without hope.
39,996 words, Post-DH, written for 2007 HD Exchange. Summary: When
Viktor is attacked, Harry and Draco work together to find the
culprit. -- Long, well plotted and well written, this one just hooked
me from the beginning. I read it all the way through in one shot,
which usually I don't do.
Post Hogwarts. This is a Harry/Draco series, starting with Tissue
of Silver. Another excellently written story. Auror Harry Potter is
protecting Draco. Read the whole series. It's great
45,425 words, written for HD Worldcup. Prompt: Judgment. Author's summary: The last thing Harry wants is to lose his kids. -- This is brilliant and painful and wonderful. It's so real that every single character resonates with me. I can't tell you how much I loved this story. Harry is involved in a custody dispute with Ginny and Draco is their family mediator. Harry is so confused and broken in this and his interactions with Draco are perfect as they slowly get to know each other. One other thing I really liked about this was that the author didn't make Ginny the bad guy. Her reactions were perfectly reasonable, in some cases, better than she should have done.
Post Hogwarts, post war story. One of my favorite pieces of fan
fiction ever. This is brilliantly, but subtly written. I'm all about
subtle when it comes to writing. Harry comes back to Hogwarts to
teach after spending five years in the States recovering from the
war.
23,327 words, written for 2007 HD Exchange. Summary: Draco’s
world gains a new component, just when he thought he’d sorted
everything out. seizures, war injuries, angst, me being mean to H and
D. Interesting take on what might have happened. And no easy answers.
-- Wow, this was just an amazing story. It was H/C in a major way and
it sucked me in completely. I really enjoyed both Harry and Draco in
this story and the relationship that grew between them.
20,740 words, Post DH, written for 2007 Merry Smutmas,
Summary:Starting over doesn't always mean from scratch. Which is
probably a good thing when something sinister is lurking around the
corner. -- The plot completely pulls you in. I enjoyed how Harry and
Draco's relationship builds slowly as they get to know each other
again, this time as work colleagues. And Albus and Scorpius also get
to be friends, which of course pull Harry and Draco closer. It's set
in Boston with a back drop of a case. Harry is a forensics magician.
How cool is that? And Draco is an investigator.
Marauders era. 63,509 words. Summary: When James Potter rescues his
rival from a slavery, he doesn't understand the responsibility he is
taking on. Can a confused and resentful fifth year overcome his old
animosity to help his former rival? Can an abused Snape accept his new
role?
Severitus. Technically Gen, but elements of Slash and Het. Harry
gets a letter on his 16th birthday telling him that Snape is his
father. Neither of them like the situation.
6500 words, Written for HP Beholder. Summary: Ollivander teaches Snape a few things about wands. -- Lovely quiet understated. I loved all the little details about the wands, and how Snape got involved in the first place, and that he ended up there in the end.
16,730 words, written for 2007 Smutty Claus. Summary: Abhorred in
life, thinly admired in death, Severus Snape slowly discovers a sort
of peace to be found in the company of a maddeningly perspicacious
Ravenclaw. -- This is a long plotty story with some really cool and
clever uses of magic. Luna and Snape's relationship grows over time.
It starts out with Snape adjusting to his life as a portrait and goes
on from there. I loved how they slowly came together. Yeah, I know,
you'd think it wouldn't work out, but it does. The resolution is kind
of a surprise, too. But it works.
Below the Belt by trickofthedark (Dudley Dursley/Millicent Bulstrode)
6,522 words. Written for HP Beholder. Author's Summary: All Dudley wanted to do was deliver the letter and return to his perfectly normal, relatively pleasant existence. Luckily for him, fate and Millicent Bulstrode intervened. -- Well written and interesting. I would have never paired these two for more than murder between them, but you know, this works really well. I thoroughly enjoyed this story.
The Bet by Florahart (James Potter II (Harry's son)/Alicia Spinnet)
4,200 words. Author's Summary: Jesus, Albus. She's older than Dad. -- A bet between James and Albus. And it totally works. I'm about Alicia's age and I was right there with her the whole way. This made me smile a lot.
Summary: It’s the Blacks' annual New Year’s Eve party,
and Narcissa isn’t enjoying herself too much. Lucius helps her
pass the time. I liked the look at a young Lucius and Narcissa. I
thought the story was interesting and intriguing. I liked the tight
Lucius POV and he was perfectly Slytherin and in character. And the
sex was hot.
3,400 words Written for the changing Season exchange. Short and very funny. I was laughing out loud as I read it. Yeah, I know it's Harry/Ginny, read it anyway. Harry is perfectly in character in this story.
My first ever RPS story. This is one of my major comfort reads. I
love the characterizations of both Bill and JC.
Monna
Innominata by Femme Narcissa/Lucius, Snape/Narcissa,
Snape/Narcissa/Lucius)
11,450 words, written for Smutty Claus 2007. Summary: Lucius
returns from Azkaban. -- Amazingly hot and well written. And I
completely loved this story. The characterizations rang so very true
and so totally believable.
H/C. Well written and enjoyable. Draco is stripped of his magic
and portkey'd into the middle of china. He doesn't have any money,
doesn't have his magic, doesn't speak the language. He's scared,
hungry and hurt. He has one thing of value and that's his unique
looks. I usually don't buy rent-boy stories, but this one worked very
well. I loved her characterization of Draco.
20,000 words, Author's warning: I should warn, as always, that
while I worship the ground that sneeringsadist!Lucius struts upon,
you won't find him or his pimp cane here because the Lucius in my
head is quite different. -- Totally not my pairing, but God, did this
work for me. Lucius was perfectly Slyterin, and Harry was just
disillusioned enough with his life to appreciate him. I would love to
see a sequel.
38,457 words. The life and times of Scorpius Malfoy. It came from
sansa1970's brilliant 20
Random Facts About Scorpius Malfoy . -- I really enjoyed this
look at the younger generation. This story really pulls you and keeps
you turning the pages (clicking next) to see what happens next. A
great long read.
Perfectly in character for both of them. Just read it. It's great.
And it soooo works.
Supplication
by Beth H. (Snape/Scrimgeour, Snape/Shacklebolt)
Summary: Sometimes all one has to do is ask. -- I almost didn't
read it because of the first pairing, but I love the second one so I
thought I'd give it a shot. And I was so glad that I did. This story
was wonderful. Well written. With a perfectly in character,
schemingly wonderful Snape.
5250 words, DH compliant, written for snaco_exchange.
Author's Summary: It's raining when Father leaves to collect
Severus's body. -- Brilliantly written, bright and sharp with
excellent characterizations of both of them. I really liked this
epilogue to the book much better than the one that was written.
