So the master list went up at rs_small_gifts this evening, which means we're closing the books on the fourth annual year-end R/S exchange.

( Some thoughts on small gifts under the cut, including an R/S drabble by the better half (!) )

Run, don't walk, directly over to femgenficathon, where a_t_rain has posted the most gentle, witty, and insightful account of Hermione's coming of age/independent project on The Tales of Beedle the Bard under Minerva McGonagall's supervision: The Supervisor's Tale (Hermione, McGonagall, G, 4500 words). This is a story about the moment we stop producing good student work ( Read more... )

*thunk* Exhausting day, but I did manage to do one thing I've been dreading for a while, so I've rewarded myself by taking the time to do something else I've meant to do for ages. Although in this case, I couldn't be happier to do it. Apologies in advance for this second-person kick I've been on lately.

Title: Do You Remember Alan Mackenzie?
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Finally reposting my fic from this year's marvelous hp_beholder exchange! Both lyras and woldy correctly guessed this was mine while it was still anonymous ("I'd put money on it," Lyras said, actually--so much for anonymity!), so they are both getting a ficlet in the next few weeks. Thanks for reading and guessing, you two! Thanks, too, to cordelia_v and schemingreader, whose ( Read more... )

Title: A Slow Waltz with Severus Snape
Characters: Neville Longbottom, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape
Rating: G
Word count: 2600
Summary: As they say of the greatest dancers, Neville's strength is in his passion, not his technique.
Notes: A belated happy birthday to Severus Snape!

( As his grandmother always said, there are some wizards whose backs were more attractive than their faces, and Neville had been very glad to see the back of Professor Snape. )

Title: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Summary: A funeral in the Forbidden Forest and a conversation afterward. This kind of sentimentality would have got Severus killed years ago.
Word count: 1,000
Rated: G
Characters: Severus Snape, Albus Dumbledore
Notes: This was written last summer, an epilogue to a series on Snape I never had the chance to ( Read more... )

Title: The Red Umbrella
Summary: Fleur remained faithful long after her husband went missing.
Word count: 3200
Rating: PG for brief mention of sexual themes, het and femslash
Characters: Fleur, Molly, Charlie, Tonks, Kingsley, and others
Disclaimer: Not mine
Notes: For /m, in response to the prompt "umbrellas."

( One hand on Molly Weasley's clock was stuck on 'traveling,' that was all anyone knew. )

Title: Uncontrollable
Summary: Men dream of marrying a woman with Veela blood. They don't know what Bill Weasley's life is like.
Word count: 1,000
Rating: PG for sexual themes, het and femslash
Characters: Bill, Fleur
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit
Notes: For snegurochka_lee, a Blue Door tribute and a kind of alternate universe in which the bite has a different ( Read more... )

Title: Remus Lupin, Early Pioneer in the History of Magical Minority Rights
Summary: Wilhelmina Weasley writes an essay about her hero in the history of Magical Minority rights.
Characters: The usual suspects plus one granddaughter. Background Remus/the man with the large nose.
Word count: 1900
Notes: Happy birthday, Remus Lupin!

( Mr Lupin was the very first Person Living with Lycanthropy to attend the Hogwarts School for the Magical Education of All Creatures, Not Just Witches and Wizards, back when it was called the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. )

Title: The Unusual, Exceptional, and Statistically Remarkable Hermione Granger, Age 21
Summary: Hermione assesses her life on the morning of her twenty-first birthday.
Characters: Hermione-centric gen, background Hermione/Pansy
Word count: 3,000
Rating: PG
Notes: Belated birthday fic for the lovely liseuse, loosely based on her fictional universe. Give ( Read more... )