Minerva McGonagall has outlived most of her contemporaries and resides in peaceful retirement on a Scottish hillside. Aware that her life is nearing its end, she agrees to share her memories with a sympathetic biographer. There's just one snag: this means facing a period of her life she has chosen to forget. Specifically, that terrible year under Headmaster Snape and the truth about what happened between them.
This time it is Rolanda who gets the Knitting Society into trouble ...
Day Eleven is for squibstress, a known Minerva McGonagall fan. 😀 They hoped that perhaps their favourite witch might be caught under a bit of magical mistletoe with I don't know, maybe another faculty member, while horrified schoolchildren looked on!!
I hope y'all will enjoy this more than these poor kiddos LOL
A Snape-centric post-war fic.
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.
Not Deathly Hallows-compliant. DH-disregarded.
All early content rated T, but subsequent chapters may contain explicit sexual content, primarily het, suitable only for adult readers. 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.
Upon rising to power, Voldemort needs a way to dispose of Dumbledore without killing him personally. He decides to lock the old coot up in Nurmengard, to be efficiently murdered by his oldest enemy.
(Voldemort may be missing some relevant background, where Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald are concerned.)
Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank agrees to help rebuild after the war. She's happy to do so, actually. She just wishes she could do it in a place other than that occupied by her old flame, Minerva McGonagall.
It's eight years post war. 2006.
Severus has been wandering the world searching for something: a new place, a new life, a new start, could he find what he wanted back where it all began? Hermione has more than physical scars from the war. Although she teaches at Hogwarts, in her off time she lives a quiet life in a Muggle village under an assumed name.
A post-war story about nostalgia and healing, featuring ice and snow, festive hot drinks, and a little romance.
After the war, not everything is ideal, and discrimination is still there - the wrong family members or blood status still matter, somehow. Minister Shacklebolt and Professor Snape both work on improving what they can... and may develop more than a working relationship on the way.
When Alastor asks Minerva to a night at the opera, her friends are possibly more excited than she is.
Minerva falls in love with Albus Dumbledore. This is most inadvisable, given the Grindelwald conundrum. Never you mind, Minerva says, as she carries on. Alastor watches. Severus judges. A monster, beloved to a Castle, warns her of her folly. In the end, it is only Harry and her left as relics of another era, and she leaves Hogwarts for Inverness where caulking songs await her.
Albus thought that he was a non-running member of the human race when it came to romantic relationships. If pushed, he would have said that he was the kind of wizard who preferred wizards. -All that, of course, was before Minerva came along.
The love story of Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape, framed by the 2019 album Lux Prima by Karen O and Danger Mouse.
Rowling stated in one of her postscript interviews that McGonagall did not become Headmistress because she retired. This seemed rather odd to me, because, in print canon she established wizards & witches live nearly twice as long as Muggles, and Albus Dumbledore was Headmaster at well over a hundred, and were it not for a terminal Horcrux Curse and his decision to ask a good friend to euthanize him at the most opportune moment, he might well have continued to hold his job.
Inspired by the 2016 hoggywartyxmas fic by 
rayvyn2k: Reawakening - A Christmas Tale, which many of you may remember! If not, do yourself a favor and check it out! 😀
The war is over, the castle has been repaired, and life at Hogwarts is returning to normal -- until mysterious letters start to arrive from "Lady Wandsdown." Bridgerton meets HP.
"In history, so many circumstances of a small and accidental nature are relevant, that no broad and simple uniformities are possible." --Bertrand Russell
As Hogwarts grows quiet after the events of HBP, it’s left to Poppy to make the trek to the Hog’s Head and speak to Aberforth.
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 ill-cast curse and Snape’s subsequent resolve.
Long after the spell 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. Not all is as it seems, and conspiracies and schemes swirl around Severus as he continues on his path of deception to his final confrontation with the Dark Lord. A “Light” fic of love, loyalty, and redemption.
A "DH-twister." AU post-July 1996. Not DH-compliant. (Partially HBP-compliant.)
It’s 1946, and the Wizarding world is emerging from the shadow of Prussia. For Xenophilius, there could be no more exciting time to study further at L’Académie de Beauxbatons - especially when his life is lit-up by one very special visitor.
“Right,” said Kingsley Shacklebolt, as Minerva and he sat in her study, now fully cleared of the dinner things. “There’s the five of you, there’s the House Elves, there’s Argus Filch. And there’s one hell of a mess, with a spoiled painting. This wants clearing up."
When two Unspeakables set out on a bright summer day to continue their arcane research into holy wells, no one, least of all Argus Filch and Evadne Norris, expects it to end as it does. The bitterness of life without magic is pervasive, corrosive, and there is little light to find their way. One day, though, they'll walk that sunny path again.
Today's piccy is for Squibstress, who requested Prefect!Minerva, caught by Dumbledore as she makes out with Augusta Longbottom. Well, he's not the Headmaster yet, so maybe he'll let them off easy 😀
Adela is a young Muggle girl who wants to be a writer. When a mysterious couple named Stephen and Miranda moves in next door to her, she decides to keep a journal about them. "Bewitched" meets "Harriet the Spy." Post-DH.
Did you read the latest biographical essay on Minerva McGonagall? Well, the author certainly got a few basic facts right, one has to give her that. Alas, there are those who say that her interpretation of them leaves to be desired, and this writer tends to concur. So let us begin setting the accounts right by telling the beginning of the very true story of Minerva McGonagall and Elphinstone Urquart ...
A mishap with the Ministry filing system may turn into something more than just an annoyance for Severus. Especially if Minerva has anything to say about it.
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.
In Greek mythology, Argus the guardian of Io is sometimes said to have a hundred eyes. In the wizarding world, Argus the caretaker of Hogwarts has only two eyes, but he sees a great deal all the same.
As if it wasn't bad enough babysitting ill-tempered Muggles, now Diggle's turned up with someone Hestia finds most unpleasant.
Luna and Neville are having a tough time moving on from what they went through in the War when they are visited by a ghost of their past.
Wishing you the very happiest of holidays, dear 
purplefluffycat!
I was thrilled to make this sketch for you not only because you are a lovely person and a kind friend, but additionally because you are one of the few writers who can consistently get me to see Albus Dumbledore as a real, genuine human being: complicated, full of guilt and secrets, capable of and deserving of deep and lasting love, and just downright interesting. I hope you will enjoy this interlude in the snow. 😀
It's Christmas week 1992 and Gilderoy Lockhart was easily coaxed to share with us his journal. I've included some drawings as well, to clarify things.
This story starts during the night after the tragic ending of the Triwizard Tournament in Book 4.
According to the “A Daily Herb for Everyday Ailments” book that Minerva used to consult for her regular stress headaches, lavender could be used to treat an array of disagreements. Its main uses, however, were listed as follows: soothing pain, reducing stress, and relieving insomnia.
She had to admit, in hindsight, that it made a lot of sense.
Minerva falls in love with Albus Dumbledore. This is most inadvisable, given the Grindelwald conundrum. Never you mind, Minerva says, as she carries on. Alastor watches. Severus judges. A monster, beloved to a Castle, warns her of her folly. In the end, it is only Harry and her left as relics of another era, and she leaves Hogwarts for Inverness where caulking songs await her.
Lily once had a crush no one ever knew about. She thought it was just a schoolgirl pash on a favorite professor, but working for the Order throws her and McGonagall constantly together. Even though she's a married woman now, Lily's feelings for Minerva come back in a rush, even stronger than before.
"I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable." - Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
Sometimes the perfect gift is the perfect storm. Severus Snape is a spy, so when he eavesdrops on a conversation he knows that a Yuletide present he will give to an old friend will be a different one this year from the usual book – but he does not know what he lets himself in for. Thank Merlin for Minerva who ensures that all is well that ends well
Augusta Longbottom wants to see her grandson properly appreciated. All else follows.
Minerva hopes that Alastor will never know exactly what Minerva McGonagall did with Barty while the real Alastor was in the trunk.
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