My fic and meta
Fic and meta first. My favorites are starred. Ficlets and serials are listed at the bottom of the page.
All fic and meta are in the Harry Potter fandom and rated G or PG (appropriate for a general teenage or adult audience) unless otherwise noted.
f/f contains femslash content or an f/f pairing or relationship.
FIC AND META (one-shots):
UPDATE 2017: All art links broken due to change in Photobucket new third-party hosting policies, ugh. I need to do something about this.
2018
Keep Reading, Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, 1000 words
Sirius, young and in love. Remus reads his story.
2017
[Sherlock Holmes stories, ACD] The Mystery of the Human Heart (The Encounter at St Pancras Station), John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, OFC, 4300 words
Being the record of a single, chance encounter that offered me a glimpse into my own heart and that of Sherlock Holmes.
2016
[HP ART] The Cottage at Findorn, collage for dustmouth
Remus and Sirius live in an enchanted cottage by the sea. This is Dumbledore's note instructing Sirius how to find it. Fanart based on dustmouth's very lovely gift to druhkayris, Spinning in Place, and a postscript for it.
2015
[HP ART] Tracking Sirius animation for llaeyro
The Maurauders weren't the only ones with a map. Years ago, Regulus had a map of Grimmauld Place charmed to show him Sirius' whereabouts. It still lies under the bed in his bedroom, and it still tells stories about his big brother. Set at the holidays during OotP.
[HP ART] Harry Christmas! (Greetings from Number Twelve), greeting card for Brighty18
Art from an AU in which everyone lives happily ever after and Remus and Sirius decorate Number Twelve for Christmas.
2014
[HP ART] An Atlas of Love, 130 words, an illustrated ficlet
Sirius' heart has always been as big as the city he calls home.
Home for the Holidays (and Other Unexpected and Awkward but Ultimately Quite Satisfactory Situations) Minerva McGonagall, Eileen Prince, Severus Snape, 2600 words and illustrations
Privacy has always been hard to come by in the wizarding world--that’s one of the reasons why Minerva found her flat. A story about Minerva and her first holiday on her own. (Mostly.)
f/f Cat Ladies, Arabella Figg/Dolores Umbridge, 2300 words
Two lonely women with feline friends, separated by everything they think they know about each other.
Originally posted at HP_Beholder 2014 here.
Heavn (Version 2.0), Nymphadora Tonks, Lily Luna Potter, Teddy Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, Lily Evans Potter, 4700 words
Teddy’s always been able to hook them up. The afterlife’s no different.
2013
La Isla Mágica,Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, Sheila (OFC), Leslie (OMC), 5100 words, rated R
Slowly, slowly Sirius comes alive. Five weeks in hiding on the magic island.
Sorted, Augusta Longbottom, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ned Creevey (OC), Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus Snape, 5000 words
1 September 1998. Minerva McGonagall has worked all summer to ensure that Hogwarts would open again on the first day of September, as it always had. Well, not exactly as it always had.
You, Me, and the Muggle Internet, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, 1000 words, meta!fic
You know Sirius would fit right in here in fandom. In fact, with wifi installed at Grimmauld Place, he's in danger of vanishing into the internet entirely...
f/f Come Back to Haunt You, Minerva McGonagall/Moaning Myrtle/Amelia Bones, 4000 words
Please don’t tell me I can’t kiss a ghost, my dear reader.
Lullaby and Good Night, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, 2700 words
Sharing a bed, sharing a life.
f/f Daddy, Daddy, Nymphadora Tonks/Emmeline Vance, Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, and Teddy Lupin, 1800 words
How long a honeymoon do you get when you’ve come back from the dead? A coda to rosemaryandrue's lovely The Unlikely Survivors' Club
2012
f/f The Imperative Mood, Rolanda Hooch, Minerva McGonagall, 1200 words
Minerva is always able to offer some words of wisdom.
[HP ART] Prior Incantato
Within these walls, a wizard came of age. Three glimpses of Severus Snape's childhood home with key spells recalled.
f/f Explorations, Millicent Bulstrode, Ginny Weasley, 1600 words
Sometimes courage and cunning are two sides of the same Galleon.
[Elementary (CBS)] Trendline Adjustment, Joan Watson, Sherlock Holmes, 650 words
Why was Sherlock so interested in American politics, anyway? Joan begins to draw some deductions--about Sherlock and about herself.
f/f Sentimental Journey, Poppy Pomfrey, Minerva McGonagall, 2300 words [originally posted here]
Even after fifty years, there are stories to tell one another. Minerva and Poppy take a leisurely stroll down memory lane.
At the Age of Eleven, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, 1100 words
No one falls in love at the age of eleven.
2011
f/f Cunning Linguists, Pansy Parkinson/Astoria Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Draco Malfoy, 1700 words
"If at first you don't succeed..." Pansy Parkinson tries to find the right words.
Touchy, Feely, Lord Voldemort, Mundungus Fletcher, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, 2500 words
Lord Voldemort’s management skills leave something to be desired.
f/f * Inheritance, Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, Sirius Black, Severus Snape, portrait!Walburga Black, 3500 words
Seven short stories about the legacy of Walburga Black.
2010
Marginalia (A Story about Stories), Remus, Sirius, Hypatia (OC), 3200 words
In the village of Arabel's Raven, there is an ancient Library that contains the collected wisdom of the wizarding world. It holds books detailing every known spell and curse, treatises on Dark Creatures and mysterious ailments, and all the most noble tales of magical courage and wisdom and love. This, however, is not one of those tales.
f/f * Because It Is My Heart,
Petunia/Alice, Lily, Mum, Dad, Dudley, 4500 words
Much to Petunia's surprise, not all witches are like Lily.
Coward, Minerva, Severus, Remus, Dumbledore, Eileen, 850 words
The day Severus Snape flew out the window was the day Minerva McGonagall almost lost her faith.
f/f Walk a Mile, Tonks/Fleur, 800 words
The plan had been your idea, but it hadn’t taken much to convince her.
[Sherlock (BBC)] Meta: Neoliberal Holmes, or, Everything I Know About Modern Life I Learned from Sherlock (on LJ) and (on DW) [August 2010]
Every age gets the Holmes it deserves.
[Sherlock (BBC)] A Life of Crime, Mrs Hudson, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson (2010 BBC), 2600 words
How innocently it all starts! Mrs Hudson observers her tenants.
[Sherlock (BBC)] Good To Know, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson (2010 BBC), 1600 words
If Sherlock didn't make a mistake every once in a while, he wouldn’t learn anything unexpected.
[available as an audiofic here, with thanks to jaebi_lit!]
f/f * Air Heart, Minerva Mcgonagall/Rolanda Hooch, 7800 words [also posted here.]
Minerva McGonagall takes flight.
After Life, Remus/Sirius, 3200 words
It might all be true here.
* The Devil You Know, Sirius/Remus, Sirius/Snape, 5100 words, rated R (some non-explicit sexual content)
There are many, many things I hate about my parents' house, but the view from the roof is not one of them.
2009
f/f Like Water on the Moon, Alice Carrow (later Longbottom)/Amelia Bones, 600 words
In her mind's eye, Moody's leg is right again, and he walks up the path with a bunch of flowers under his arm and a spring in his step.
* Ex Libris, Eileen Prince, Severus Snape, 1200 words
The summer he is sixteen, Eileen Prince says good-bye to her son.
This Is What Grace Looks Like, Remus/Sirius, 800 words [originally posted here (part 1) and here (part 2)]
An unexpected visitor changes everything.
f/f * A Toast to Lord Voldemort, Neville Longbottom, Augusta Longbottom, Minerva McGonagall, 4500 words [Also posted on my journal here.]
Neville joins an unexpected celebration.
Hard Bargain, Severus Snape, 500 words
The Sorting Hat thought it had seen it all, over the years. Severus Snape proves it wrong.
f/f This Absolutely Brilliant Thing (Remix) Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, 2400 words
There should be another word for what they have but there isn’t. Lavender secretly calls it their Thing.
A Slow Waltz with Severus Snape, Neville Longbottom, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, 2600 words
As they say of the greatest dancers, Neville's strength is in his passion, not his technique.
f/f How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? Alice and Frank Longbottom, Marlene McKinnon, Sirius Black (background Remus/Sirius), 2400 words [Also posted to my journal here.]
Had you told me that a year ago, I never would have believed it. I blame Frank, who couldn’t say no to a stray.
2008
Strange Bedfellows, Snape, Lupin (background Snape/Lupin), Aberforth Dumbledore, 1,500 words
AU scenario in which the leadership of the Ministry is contested during Harry’s seventh year, during the war on terror
The King of Grimmauld Place, Arthur, Remus, Molly, Sirius, and children, 1,500 words
The family treats Arthur like royalty when he returns from St Mungo's.
* The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Lily, 1,600 words
This is no way to start a family, with a lie.
Because (A Public Service Announcement in One Act), various HP characters, metafic, 1,300 words
Harry and Hermione have assembled a few of their friends to talk about why queer-themed stories are important.
Love in the Age of Aeroplanes, Draco/Harry, Brideshead Revisited AU, 1,000 words
Ten letters Draco sent during the long vacation, and one sent by Harry. A brief AU loosely based on Brideshead Revisited in which Draco and Harry are students at Hogwarts University in the 1920s and neither is especially fond of Quidditch.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Snape, Dumbledore, 1,000 words
A funeral in the Forbidden Forest and a conversation afterward. This kind of sentimentality would have got Severus killed years ago.
Pants Down, Remus/Sirius, 4,000 words [Also posted to my journal here.]
Moody is suspicious, James and Peter are angry, Sirius is overly enthusiastic, and Remus has no pants.
2007
Five Small Victories for Professor Remus J. Lupin, Remus, 600 words
It's time for a celebratory firewhiskey.
Catty, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, 1000 words
A beleaguered headmaster tells his troubles to a sympathetic tabby cat.
In the Grand Scheme of Things, Albus Dumbeldore, Severus Snape, 1800 words
Lives saved and sacrificed for the greater good. Dumbledore's version of a scene Snape recalls in DH 33.
Twenty Questions on the Politics of Deathly Hallows (on LJ) [July 2007]
Meta/quiz on the themes of gender, power, and social justice in Deathly Hallows.
* Twenty-Eight Points, James/Lily, 3100 words
James always believed that Scrabble was what won Lily's heart.
[Good Omens (with references to Harry Potter)] End of Days, Crowley and Aziraphale (discussing Harry Potter), meta!fic, 2100 words
Harry Potter hadn't seemed a likely vehicle for promoting chaos in the earthly realm.
f/f * The Red Umbrella (Umbrellas of Cherbourg Remix), Fleur, Molly, Charlie, Tonks, Kingsley, and others, background Fleur/Bill with other pairings, 3200 words
Fleur remained faithful long after her husband went missing.
f/f Uncontrollable, Bill/Fleur, 1100 words
Men dream of marrying a woman with Veela blood. They don't know what Bill Weasley's life is like.
The Grimmauld Place Irregulars (The Fine, Upstanding Families Remix ), Winky the house-elf, Barty Crouch Jr, Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Narcissa Black, Regulus Black, Barty Crouch Sr, 6200 words
Voldemort's supporters gather at 12, Grimmauld Place, the night Barty Crouch takes the Dark Mark.
* Remus Lupin, Early Pioneer in the History of Magical Minority Rights, Remus-centric gen with background Remus/Severus, 1900 words
Wilhelmina Weasley writes an essay about her hero in the history of Magical Minority rights.
[available as an audiofic here, with many thanks to bronze_ribbons!]
Like Crucio, Only Worse, Peter, Sirius, Remus, James, and Lily, gen, 1100 words
Luckily, Lily's already been through Auror training.
Fumbling, Stopping, and Starting, or What Fools We Mortals Be (Remix), Sirius, Bellatrix, Andromeda, Remus, and others (background Remus/Sirius), 5600 words
Eight kisses over the course of Sirius Black's life.
f/f * The Unusual, Exceptional, and Statistically Remarkable Hermione Granger, Age 21, Hermione-centric gen with background Hermione/Pansy, 3000 words
Hermione assesses her life on the morning of her twenty-first birthday.
Pawns, Narcissa, Bellatrix, Sirius, and Regulus, gen, 800 words
A crisis in the Black family precipitates a shift in the family dynamics.
Many Happy Returns, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, gen (background Remus/Severus), 1500 words
A letter arrives shortly before midnight on Severus Snape's birthday.
* Voldemort's Return: A Love Story, Arabella Figg-centric, Remus/Sirius, 7000 words [Also posted on my journal here.]
Defeating Voldemort is the essential task for the Order, but it's not about spells or battles or prophecies. It's about sacrificing those we love because we didn't get it right the first time. Arabella Figg has her own story to tell about Voldemort's return.
2006
Five Times a Character I Loved Did Something I Didn't Like, Peter-centric ficlet/meme, 850 words
Peter Pettigrew does a popular meme.
The Universe is a Procession (Remix), Lupin/Snape, 3500 words
Remus runs into Severus at a party. They have both changed since they saw each other last.
* Out of the Cupboard Under the Stairs, Harry-centric gen, 2100 words
In the summer of 1998, after the defeat of Voldemort, Harry comes out to his friends.
Emancipation, Sirius, Squeaky the house elf, gen (with background Remus/Sirius), 3500 (A)
Sirius' past comes back to haunt him in late 1980.
A House Divided, Sirius, Minerva, gen (with background Minerva/Eileen and Remus/Sirius), 2800 words (A)
Orion Black wants to see his son one last time.
[Translated into French by benebu here.]
* The Year of Cold Feet, Remus/Sirius, 2700 words (A)
Remus, a liar and an occasional coward, is falling in love and dealing with the consequences.
Thunderstorm, Lily, MWPP, gen, 1200 words (A)
A story about a rainy day and a discovery.
Drabbles and ficlets (less than 500 words, more or less):
Inconvenient, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, 400 words
* The One Good Thing, Severus Snape, Eileen Prince, 200 words
Red Sky at Morning, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Severus Snape, 200 words
Cold Front, Remus, Molly, Bill, Peter, 200 words
Us. Here. Now. Severus Snape/Evan Rosier, 200 words
Sibilants, a drabble series about Severus Snape
Do You Remember Alan Mackenzie? Remus, Sirius, 300 words
All the Time in the World, Remus/Sirius, 100 words
Red Hair, Severus Snape, Dr Horrible (HP/Dr Horrible crossover), 60 words
Minerva McGonagall's Tartan Knickers, Minerva, background Lily, Sirius, Remus, 500 words
The Dragon Hide Book Bag, Peter, James, 600 words
The London Underground, Remus, Sirius, Peter, background Remus/Sirius, 350 words
Socks, Albus Dumbledore and a student, 450 words
The Exact Same, Lee Jordan, Fred and George Weasley, 200 words
Fags, a tiny Remus/Sirius ficlet, 250 words
SERIALS/MULTI-CHAPTER FICS:
Alignments is a first war-era serial (32 chapters, 60,000 words) written in April and May 2006 for wellymuck
Series summary: Friends come together and fall apart under the pressures of the first war with Voldemort. A story about politics and friendship across five Aprils, 1977 to 1981.
Series rating: PG-13 (for adult themes)
Table of Contents
Runaway is an R/S serial (25 chapters) written collaboratively by closet_zebra, expositionary, last_radio, magnetic_pole, plumerri, and sazzlette in July 2006 for dogdaysofsummer
Series summary: During the sweltering summer of 1976, Sirius Black leaves one family, joins another, and falls in love.
Series rating: PG (for teen themes)
First Chapter
Unfinished serials:
[Much as I hate to admit it, these two are stalled indefinitely.]
Look Back in Anger was begun in September 2007. [link takes you to the first of six completed chapters; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is the conclusion to this series]
Summary: Judge Severus Snape if you dare.
Homecoming was begun in October 2006. [link takes you to the first of four completed chapters]
Series summary: Shortly after Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban, Remus Lupin returns to Hogwarts and comes to terms with his friend’s guilt.
Serial chapters that read as independent stories, more or less:
The Last Quidditch Practice, Remus, Lily, gen, 1500 words (A)
Predator and Prey, Peter gen, 1500 words (A)
The Flat That Remus and Sirius Shared, Remus/Sirius, 2900 words (A)
Gwenog Jones' Good Advice, Remus, Gwenog Jones, background Remus/Sirius, 3200 words
LOVE MEME
This made my day. Linking for future reference.
All fic and meta are in the Harry Potter fandom and rated G or PG (appropriate for a general teenage or adult audience) unless otherwise noted.
f/f contains femslash content or an f/f pairing or relationship.
FIC AND META (one-shots):
UPDATE 2017: All art links broken due to change in Photobucket new third-party hosting policies, ugh. I need to do something about this.
2018
Keep Reading, Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, 1000 words
Sirius, young and in love. Remus reads his story.
2017
[Sherlock Holmes stories, ACD] The Mystery of the Human Heart (The Encounter at St Pancras Station), John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, OFC, 4300 words
Being the record of a single, chance encounter that offered me a glimpse into my own heart and that of Sherlock Holmes.
2016
[HP ART] The Cottage at Findorn, collage for dustmouth
Remus and Sirius live in an enchanted cottage by the sea. This is Dumbledore's note instructing Sirius how to find it. Fanart based on dustmouth's very lovely gift to druhkayris, Spinning in Place, and a postscript for it.
2015
[HP ART] Tracking Sirius animation for llaeyro
The Maurauders weren't the only ones with a map. Years ago, Regulus had a map of Grimmauld Place charmed to show him Sirius' whereabouts. It still lies under the bed in his bedroom, and it still tells stories about his big brother. Set at the holidays during OotP.
[HP ART] Harry Christmas! (Greetings from Number Twelve), greeting card for Brighty18
Art from an AU in which everyone lives happily ever after and Remus and Sirius decorate Number Twelve for Christmas.
2014
[HP ART] An Atlas of Love, 130 words, an illustrated ficlet
Sirius' heart has always been as big as the city he calls home.
Home for the Holidays (and Other Unexpected and Awkward but Ultimately Quite Satisfactory Situations) Minerva McGonagall, Eileen Prince, Severus Snape, 2600 words and illustrations
Privacy has always been hard to come by in the wizarding world--that’s one of the reasons why Minerva found her flat. A story about Minerva and her first holiday on her own. (Mostly.)
f/f Cat Ladies, Arabella Figg/Dolores Umbridge, 2300 words
Two lonely women with feline friends, separated by everything they think they know about each other.
Originally posted at HP_Beholder 2014 here.
Heavn (Version 2.0), Nymphadora Tonks, Lily Luna Potter, Teddy Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, Lily Evans Potter, 4700 words
Teddy’s always been able to hook them up. The afterlife’s no different.
2013
La Isla Mágica,Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, Sheila (OFC), Leslie (OMC), 5100 words, rated R
Slowly, slowly Sirius comes alive. Five weeks in hiding on the magic island.
Sorted, Augusta Longbottom, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Ned Creevey (OC), Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, and Severus Snape, 5000 words
1 September 1998. Minerva McGonagall has worked all summer to ensure that Hogwarts would open again on the first day of September, as it always had. Well, not exactly as it always had.
You, Me, and the Muggle Internet, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, 1000 words, meta!fic
You know Sirius would fit right in here in fandom. In fact, with wifi installed at Grimmauld Place, he's in danger of vanishing into the internet entirely...
f/f Come Back to Haunt You, Minerva McGonagall/Moaning Myrtle/Amelia Bones, 4000 words
Please don’t tell me I can’t kiss a ghost, my dear reader.
Lullaby and Good Night, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin, 2700 words
Sharing a bed, sharing a life.
f/f Daddy, Daddy, Nymphadora Tonks/Emmeline Vance, Remus Lupin/Sirius Black, and Teddy Lupin, 1800 words
How long a honeymoon do you get when you’ve come back from the dead? A coda to rosemaryandrue's lovely The Unlikely Survivors' Club
2012
f/f The Imperative Mood, Rolanda Hooch, Minerva McGonagall, 1200 words
Minerva is always able to offer some words of wisdom.
[HP ART] Prior Incantato
Within these walls, a wizard came of age. Three glimpses of Severus Snape's childhood home with key spells recalled.
f/f Explorations, Millicent Bulstrode, Ginny Weasley, 1600 words
Sometimes courage and cunning are two sides of the same Galleon.
[Elementary (CBS)] Trendline Adjustment, Joan Watson, Sherlock Holmes, 650 words
Why was Sherlock so interested in American politics, anyway? Joan begins to draw some deductions--about Sherlock and about herself.
f/f Sentimental Journey, Poppy Pomfrey, Minerva McGonagall, 2300 words [originally posted here]
Even after fifty years, there are stories to tell one another. Minerva and Poppy take a leisurely stroll down memory lane.
At the Age of Eleven, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, 1100 words
No one falls in love at the age of eleven.
2011
f/f Cunning Linguists, Pansy Parkinson/Astoria Malfoy, Millicent Bulstrode, Draco Malfoy, 1700 words
"If at first you don't succeed..." Pansy Parkinson tries to find the right words.
Touchy, Feely, Lord Voldemort, Mundungus Fletcher, Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, 2500 words
Lord Voldemort’s management skills leave something to be desired.
f/f * Inheritance, Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, Sirius Black, Severus Snape, portrait!Walburga Black, 3500 words
Seven short stories about the legacy of Walburga Black.
2010
Marginalia (A Story about Stories), Remus, Sirius, Hypatia (OC), 3200 words
In the village of Arabel's Raven, there is an ancient Library that contains the collected wisdom of the wizarding world. It holds books detailing every known spell and curse, treatises on Dark Creatures and mysterious ailments, and all the most noble tales of magical courage and wisdom and love. This, however, is not one of those tales.
f/f * Because It Is My Heart,
Petunia/Alice, Lily, Mum, Dad, Dudley, 4500 words
Much to Petunia's surprise, not all witches are like Lily.
Coward, Minerva, Severus, Remus, Dumbledore, Eileen, 850 words
The day Severus Snape flew out the window was the day Minerva McGonagall almost lost her faith.
f/f Walk a Mile, Tonks/Fleur, 800 words
The plan had been your idea, but it hadn’t taken much to convince her.
[Sherlock (BBC)] Meta: Neoliberal Holmes, or, Everything I Know About Modern Life I Learned from Sherlock (on LJ) and (on DW) [August 2010]
Every age gets the Holmes it deserves.
[Sherlock (BBC)] A Life of Crime, Mrs Hudson, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson (2010 BBC), 2600 words
How innocently it all starts! Mrs Hudson observers her tenants.
[Sherlock (BBC)] Good To Know, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson (2010 BBC), 1600 words
If Sherlock didn't make a mistake every once in a while, he wouldn’t learn anything unexpected.
[available as an audiofic here, with thanks to jaebi_lit!]
f/f * Air Heart, Minerva Mcgonagall/Rolanda Hooch, 7800 words [also posted here.]
Minerva McGonagall takes flight.
After Life, Remus/Sirius, 3200 words
It might all be true here.
* The Devil You Know, Sirius/Remus, Sirius/Snape, 5100 words, rated R (some non-explicit sexual content)
There are many, many things I hate about my parents' house, but the view from the roof is not one of them.
2009
f/f Like Water on the Moon, Alice Carrow (later Longbottom)/Amelia Bones, 600 words
In her mind's eye, Moody's leg is right again, and he walks up the path with a bunch of flowers under his arm and a spring in his step.
* Ex Libris, Eileen Prince, Severus Snape, 1200 words
The summer he is sixteen, Eileen Prince says good-bye to her son.
This Is What Grace Looks Like, Remus/Sirius, 800 words [originally posted here (part 1) and here (part 2)]
An unexpected visitor changes everything.
f/f * A Toast to Lord Voldemort, Neville Longbottom, Augusta Longbottom, Minerva McGonagall, 4500 words [Also posted on my journal here.]
Neville joins an unexpected celebration.
Hard Bargain, Severus Snape, 500 words
The Sorting Hat thought it had seen it all, over the years. Severus Snape proves it wrong.
f/f This Absolutely Brilliant Thing (Remix) Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, 2400 words
There should be another word for what they have but there isn’t. Lavender secretly calls it their Thing.
A Slow Waltz with Severus Snape, Neville Longbottom, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, 2600 words
As they say of the greatest dancers, Neville's strength is in his passion, not his technique.
f/f How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? Alice and Frank Longbottom, Marlene McKinnon, Sirius Black (background Remus/Sirius), 2400 words [Also posted to my journal here.]
Had you told me that a year ago, I never would have believed it. I blame Frank, who couldn’t say no to a stray.
2008
Strange Bedfellows, Snape, Lupin (background Snape/Lupin), Aberforth Dumbledore, 1,500 words
AU scenario in which the leadership of the Ministry is contested during Harry’s seventh year, during the war on terror
The King of Grimmauld Place, Arthur, Remus, Molly, Sirius, and children, 1,500 words
The family treats Arthur like royalty when he returns from St Mungo's.
* The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, Lily, 1,600 words
This is no way to start a family, with a lie.
Because (A Public Service Announcement in One Act), various HP characters, metafic, 1,300 words
Harry and Hermione have assembled a few of their friends to talk about why queer-themed stories are important.
Love in the Age of Aeroplanes, Draco/Harry, Brideshead Revisited AU, 1,000 words
Ten letters Draco sent during the long vacation, and one sent by Harry. A brief AU loosely based on Brideshead Revisited in which Draco and Harry are students at Hogwarts University in the 1920s and neither is especially fond of Quidditch.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Snape, Dumbledore, 1,000 words
A funeral in the Forbidden Forest and a conversation afterward. This kind of sentimentality would have got Severus killed years ago.
Pants Down, Remus/Sirius, 4,000 words [Also posted to my journal here.]
Moody is suspicious, James and Peter are angry, Sirius is overly enthusiastic, and Remus has no pants.
2007
Five Small Victories for Professor Remus J. Lupin, Remus, 600 words
It's time for a celebratory firewhiskey.
Catty, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, 1000 words
A beleaguered headmaster tells his troubles to a sympathetic tabby cat.
In the Grand Scheme of Things, Albus Dumbeldore, Severus Snape, 1800 words
Lives saved and sacrificed for the greater good. Dumbledore's version of a scene Snape recalls in DH 33.
Twenty Questions on the Politics of Deathly Hallows (on LJ) [July 2007]
Meta/quiz on the themes of gender, power, and social justice in Deathly Hallows.
* Twenty-Eight Points, James/Lily, 3100 words
James always believed that Scrabble was what won Lily's heart.
[Good Omens (with references to Harry Potter)] End of Days, Crowley and Aziraphale (discussing Harry Potter), meta!fic, 2100 words
Harry Potter hadn't seemed a likely vehicle for promoting chaos in the earthly realm.
f/f * The Red Umbrella (Umbrellas of Cherbourg Remix), Fleur, Molly, Charlie, Tonks, Kingsley, and others, background Fleur/Bill with other pairings, 3200 words
Fleur remained faithful long after her husband went missing.
f/f Uncontrollable, Bill/Fleur, 1100 words
Men dream of marrying a woman with Veela blood. They don't know what Bill Weasley's life is like.
The Grimmauld Place Irregulars (The Fine, Upstanding Families Remix ), Winky the house-elf, Barty Crouch Jr, Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix Black Lestrange, Narcissa Black, Regulus Black, Barty Crouch Sr, 6200 words
Voldemort's supporters gather at 12, Grimmauld Place, the night Barty Crouch takes the Dark Mark.
* Remus Lupin, Early Pioneer in the History of Magical Minority Rights, Remus-centric gen with background Remus/Severus, 1900 words
Wilhelmina Weasley writes an essay about her hero in the history of Magical Minority rights.
[available as an audiofic here, with many thanks to bronze_ribbons!]
Like Crucio, Only Worse, Peter, Sirius, Remus, James, and Lily, gen, 1100 words
Luckily, Lily's already been through Auror training.
Fumbling, Stopping, and Starting, or What Fools We Mortals Be (Remix), Sirius, Bellatrix, Andromeda, Remus, and others (background Remus/Sirius), 5600 words
Eight kisses over the course of Sirius Black's life.
f/f * The Unusual, Exceptional, and Statistically Remarkable Hermione Granger, Age 21, Hermione-centric gen with background Hermione/Pansy, 3000 words
Hermione assesses her life on the morning of her twenty-first birthday.
Pawns, Narcissa, Bellatrix, Sirius, and Regulus, gen, 800 words
A crisis in the Black family precipitates a shift in the family dynamics.
Many Happy Returns, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, gen (background Remus/Severus), 1500 words
A letter arrives shortly before midnight on Severus Snape's birthday.
* Voldemort's Return: A Love Story, Arabella Figg-centric, Remus/Sirius, 7000 words [Also posted on my journal here.]
Defeating Voldemort is the essential task for the Order, but it's not about spells or battles or prophecies. It's about sacrificing those we love because we didn't get it right the first time. Arabella Figg has her own story to tell about Voldemort's return.
2006
Five Times a Character I Loved Did Something I Didn't Like, Peter-centric ficlet/meme, 850 words
Peter Pettigrew does a popular meme.
The Universe is a Procession (Remix), Lupin/Snape, 3500 words
Remus runs into Severus at a party. They have both changed since they saw each other last.
* Out of the Cupboard Under the Stairs, Harry-centric gen, 2100 words
In the summer of 1998, after the defeat of Voldemort, Harry comes out to his friends.
Emancipation, Sirius, Squeaky the house elf, gen (with background Remus/Sirius), 3500 (A)
Sirius' past comes back to haunt him in late 1980.
A House Divided, Sirius, Minerva, gen (with background Minerva/Eileen and Remus/Sirius), 2800 words (A)
Orion Black wants to see his son one last time.
[Translated into French by benebu here.]
* The Year of Cold Feet, Remus/Sirius, 2700 words (A)
Remus, a liar and an occasional coward, is falling in love and dealing with the consequences.
Thunderstorm, Lily, MWPP, gen, 1200 words (A)
A story about a rainy day and a discovery.
Drabbles and ficlets (less than 500 words, more or less):
Inconvenient, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, 400 words
* The One Good Thing, Severus Snape, Eileen Prince, 200 words
Red Sky at Morning, Petunia Dursley, Vernon Dursley, Severus Snape, 200 words
Cold Front, Remus, Molly, Bill, Peter, 200 words
Us. Here. Now. Severus Snape/Evan Rosier, 200 words
Sibilants, a drabble series about Severus Snape
Do You Remember Alan Mackenzie? Remus, Sirius, 300 words
All the Time in the World, Remus/Sirius, 100 words
Red Hair, Severus Snape, Dr Horrible (HP/Dr Horrible crossover), 60 words
Minerva McGonagall's Tartan Knickers, Minerva, background Lily, Sirius, Remus, 500 words
The Dragon Hide Book Bag, Peter, James, 600 words
The London Underground, Remus, Sirius, Peter, background Remus/Sirius, 350 words
Socks, Albus Dumbledore and a student, 450 words
The Exact Same, Lee Jordan, Fred and George Weasley, 200 words
Fags, a tiny Remus/Sirius ficlet, 250 words
SERIALS/MULTI-CHAPTER FICS:
Alignments is a first war-era serial (32 chapters, 60,000 words) written in April and May 2006 for wellymuck
Series summary: Friends come together and fall apart under the pressures of the first war with Voldemort. A story about politics and friendship across five Aprils, 1977 to 1981.
Series rating: PG-13 (for adult themes)
Table of Contents
Runaway is an R/S serial (25 chapters) written collaboratively by closet_zebra, expositionary, last_radio, magnetic_pole, plumerri, and sazzlette in July 2006 for dogdaysofsummer
Series summary: During the sweltering summer of 1976, Sirius Black leaves one family, joins another, and falls in love.
Series rating: PG (for teen themes)
First Chapter
Unfinished serials:
[Much as I hate to admit it, these two are stalled indefinitely.]
Look Back in Anger was begun in September 2007. [link takes you to the first of six completed chapters; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is the conclusion to this series]
Summary: Judge Severus Snape if you dare.
Homecoming was begun in October 2006. [link takes you to the first of four completed chapters]
Series summary: Shortly after Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban, Remus Lupin returns to Hogwarts and comes to terms with his friend’s guilt.
Serial chapters that read as independent stories, more or less:
The Last Quidditch Practice, Remus, Lily, gen, 1500 words (A)
Predator and Prey, Peter gen, 1500 words (A)
The Flat That Remus and Sirius Shared, Remus/Sirius, 2900 words (A)
Gwenog Jones' Good Advice, Remus, Gwenog Jones, background Remus/Sirius, 3200 words
LOVE MEME
This made my day. Linking for future reference.