I had forgotten how big the Snape/Hermione pairing is -- tons of authors, tons of archives, tons of fic fests. And tons of words!

Second Life by lariopefic clocks in at 240,642 words. The length is mainly because the plot closely follows the end of Book 6 and all of Book 7, but with one difference: it posits that before shit hit the fan in Book 6, ( Read more... )

snegurochka_lee wrote Five Dead Women for the femgenficathon. This is for all of those people who say the female characters in the HP-verse aren't interesting or are badly written or whatever lame excuse is the thing du jour. I don't think you can get such a freaking awesome story unless there's something compelling going on with the women in the source material, and this ( Read more... )

One of my favorite Hermione characterizations in fanfic is arsenicjade's Care of Magical Creatures. I've been meaning to recommend it for forever, but I think I just needed to dwell on it for a while. It's one of thoseAnyway, it's a novel-length, and it's all about personal recovery from the trauma of war, within the context of post-war reconstruction of ( Read more... )

I actually finished reading theatresm's Chaos is Come Again (Snape/Hermione) a while ago, but it took me a long time to get there and then I didn't actually like the end result -- but mostly because I was expecting it to go the way of most Snape/Hermiones. So I debated recommending it. But upon further reflection, I've rec'd plenty of stories I didn't ( Read more... )

penknife's Ordinary Days is a quiet but strong little story in which Hermione takes it upon herself to learn something new about Ron. It's pretty much a slice of perfection. Set post-Half-Blood Prince.

If only all the post-Half-Blood Prince shipper hullabaloo had produced more like owlyscribblings' By the Sea. This is a story that gives proper credit to all of the relationships implicated by JKR finally settling the question. It understands that most people don't stay with their first loves -- and more importantly, that changes of heart are not swoony or ( Read more... )

annakovsky ripped my heart out with All Too Sweet To Last, a genfic in which Hermione deals with aftermaths.

Then she made me laugh 'til I cried with Harry Potter and the Problem with Polyjuice and its sequel Harry Potter and the Ruthless Ravenclaws, in which Harry and Ron...deal.

Seriously, y'all. Encourage this woman to write more HP fic, STAT.

I really don't like pregnancy or babyfic normally, but teaspoon14's Good Enough is not about happy baby-making domesticity. It's about Ron and his relationship with his family: chosen and not. It's about the consequences of a relationship with his two best friends, and what it means to be the sixth child of a mother like Molly Weasley.

Triquetra is a ( Read more... )

I don't think I clicked with Room Serviced by pir8fancier the first time I read it -- something about the style was a bit off-putting, perhaps. And yet I keep coming back to it. It's still one of the better written Draco/Hermione stories out there, and it's set during wartime, which I love, and it remembers Ron, which I love even more. On the last ( Read more... )

There is an amusingly detached sort of disregard for authority figures and normative conventions in srichard's Skin Against Skin. Although it doesn't really get into the trio's heads as they start exploring the sexual aspects to their relationship, that's fine. It's much more about the reactions of the Weasleys, and how those show up what an exclusive, ( Read more... )