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Creature Comfort by Mi
03/07/2004

Did you ever wonder what pet young Master Snape had in his first year at Hogwarts? Find out in this little one-shot, featuring Snape, Professor McGonagall and ...

Words: 1,028
Chapters: 1
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The Lesson by sprite
10/16/2005

After everything that's happened on the night of the third task, Professor McGonagall has a lot she should be doing. So why has Albus sent her to the pumpkin patch to look for a dog?

Words: 2,209
Chapters: 1
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"To stand together, always, no matter how few of us remained, that was what we swore." Severus and Minerva, together at the end.

Words: 673
Chapters: 1
Hits: 705

What would you do on your last night on Earth? What happens when it turns out not to be your last night?

Words: 7,042
Chapters: 1
Hits: 704

Minerva was sent to school two years before the world went to hell. (Minerva McGonagall, the ghost of Albus Dumbledore, and the importance of appearances.)

Words: 2,157
Chapters: 1
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Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. -- Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye Oh yes, he has lost things. Lost his friends, lost his family, lost his love and his world. He has lost his direction. Lost his dreams, lost his faith. Lost his temper, lost his mind. The war is won, and Remus Lupin is lost. --- After Voldemort's defeat in 1981, Remus Lupin is left alone, and he is an angry and bitter young man. But out of loss, kindness can grow, and sometimes an unlikely person provides the opportunity for redemption. This fic covers the years 1981-1997.

Words: 20,938
Chapters: 1
Hits: 687
Past Lives by dianahawthorne
10/12/2007

What happened to Professor McGonagall to make her resign from Hogwarts? Why is the Headmaster so cold? What does Aberforth have that Dumbledore wants?

Words: 2,377
Chapters: 3
Hits: 683

Lucius Malfoy and Minerva McGonagall. A bunch of red roses and a love letter. Short and rather painful – at least for one of them...

Words: 604
Chapters: 1
Hits: 683

In St. Mungo's, Minerva McGonagall receives a visitor with dreadful news. Snape/McGonagall.

Words: 1,152
Chapters: 1
Hits: 681

He will see that she is in the best of hands... Minerva McGonagall is transfered to St. Mungo's by an unusual road.

Words: 3,895
Chapters: 1
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Dobby is remodeling the headmaster's quarters for McGonagall. In the process, he moves Dumbledore's Old Bedroom Mirror down into storage with McGonagall's New Bedroom Mirror. What thus ensues? Read and find out!

Words: 3,200
Chapters: 1
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Blonde by Kanna-Ophelia
05/29/2002

The Transfiguration Professor reflects on a Narcissa Malfoy's golden hair. Dark reflective ficlet about thwarted sapphic desire, regrets, choices, and.... Death Eater stuff.

Words: 1,237
Chapters: 1
Hits: 670
Moving Night by DebbieB
07/20/2004

Companion piece to "Fat Kid." In a world where the Dark Lord has won, and Muggles are treated no better than livestock, the tattered remnants of The Order of the Phoenix do their best to restore peace and sanity to the Wizarding world. Hermione Granger and her former teacher are a part of that underground movement. Tomorrow, they're on the run again. But tonight, they rest.

Words: 749
Chapters: 1
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Some of Hogwart’s professors get together after a busy school year and let their hair down… a little. This short story takes place at the end of Fred and George’s first year.

Words: 915
Chapters: 1
Hits: 666
A Chill Rain by aldalindil
04/15/2003

Alastor Moody has just recovered from being locked in a trunk for nine months. Being a prisoner was bad enough, but what he’s about to do for love is far more difficult. Alastor hasn’t seen her for over fourteen years, and during that time he’s lost a leg, an eye, and any good looks he might once have had. But then, war changes everyone, not just Aurors. And for a Gryffindor who once dreamt of single-handedly saving the world through his constant vigilance, things aren’t turning out the way he’d like them to. In times of war, though, even a moment’s hard-won peace can sometimes be enough.

Words: 4,474
Chapters: 1
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Taking Care by Grugster
12/22/2008

Severus is overstressed and does not take care of himself, so Poppy Pomfrey and Minerva McGonagall have to. SS/MM

Words: 3,680
Chapters: 3
Hits: 660

Hogwarts has shut down for good, leaving five homeless and seeking a future at Beaxbatons Academy. But Harry, Severus, Minerva, Dobby and Hermione end up seeking instead the answer to a riddle to find the greatest treasure of all.

Words: 3,296
Chapters: 1
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A group of Hogwarts students go on an Animagus training for a week during the summer holidays just before the beginning of their sixth year, accompanied by Professors McGonagall and Snape. Completely AU, partly OOC, sick!Harry

Words: 14,473
Chapters: 1
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Excerps from the mental brainstorming session between Minerva McGonagall, an author with a headcold and writer's block, and a few meandering fictional characters looking for party snacks.

Words: 1,440
Chapters: 1
Hits: 639
The Knowing by Lilly Malfoy
07/18/2003

The Order of the Phoenix is bound together by the things they know, bound by secrets, dreams, and nightmares. Sometimes friends and lovers, but always allies, their strength is in the knowing. Moody/Tonks, Snape/McGonagall, Lupin/Black.

Words: 2,275
Chapters: 1
Hits: 635
Watching Over You by kizzibee
08/23/2003

McGonagall visits number 4, Privet Drive, in the first week of November 1981.

Words: 1,801
Chapters: 1
Hits: 635
Firelight by DebbieB
07/20/2004

Minerva McGonagall struggles with her feelings for Xiomara Hooch. A reflective, romantic "first-time" femmeslash story.

Words: 868
Chapters: 1
Hits: 612
Porcelain by septemberrain
05/23/2003

Remus Lupin returns a book he borrowed from Minerva McGonagall but gets a little more than he originally bargained for... Remus/Minerva, set during POA.

Words: 3,768
Chapters: 1
Hits: 602
Surface Illusions by Eilan
03/29/2003

Your name is Minerva McGonagall. You are thirteen. And you are scared.

Words: 1,270
Chapters: 1
Hits: 595
Shelter by Magnolia Mama
09/19/2006

When a mysterious dog appears on the Hogwarts grounds, Professor McGonagall is forced to seek temporary shelter with Professor Flitwick. Written for the hp_friendships challenge on LiveJournal.

Words: 1,701
Chapters: 1
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Professor Marchbanks of the Wizarding Examination Authority has a little score to settle with Dolores Umbridge.

Words: 2,213
Chapters: 1
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In Hogwarts, like in all the other Wizarding schools of the world, the staff must confront trouble with the Love Potions frequently. In a castle packed with teenagers it only seems to be inevitable.

Words: 2,998
Chapters: 1
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While Professor Snape and McGonagall await the Dursleys and the Malfoys to arrive, they learn strange things about each other and mull over grief and the future. Sequel to Let it Pour

Words: 575
Chapters: 1
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Percy finds himself, after the War, caught up in a case of smuggling and worse, and the pawn, it seems, of numerous dodgy organisations and Ministry factions...

Words: 14,544
Chapters: 3
Hits: 578

Some need more than words to tell their story. Gen -- Features Minerva McGonagall & Severus Snape.

Words: 2,908
Chapters: 1
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“Might I ask you to escort Sibyll back upstairs, Professor McGonagall?” “Of course,” said McGonagall. “Up you get, Sibyll...” Sometimes, when it is darkest, what you need is not a friend, but a colleague. And sometimes, that colleague needs something too.

Words: 1,719
Chapters: 1
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Vauxhall Orphanage housed many children. One of those children was a boy with jet-black hair by the name of Tom Riddle. During the course of a summer he met a velvet-clad stranger by the name of Albus Dumbledore, and it was through him that Tom learnt his true wizarding identity. This started off the chain of events that led to Tom attending Hogwarts, and this story follows that fateful journey.

Words: 7,973
Chapters: 2
Hits: 569

Written for LJ community hp_gen_ch September challenge: Education. Minerva McGonagall performs the traditional ritual for a new Headmaster/Headmistress's first day of first term.

Words: 999
Chapters: 1
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Lady Andromeda Mallory has finally received her Hogwarts letter - six years late. However, this year is going to be a little more exciting than she planned on.

Words: 1,681
Chapters: 1
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Post HPB, Minerva puts Albus' chessboard back in order, and comes to some conclusions about the rules of war.

Words: 862
Chapters: 1
Hits: 561

What if Harry had a different Head of House in spite of being sorted into Gryffindor? Completely AU, will probably be a longer story following most canon events from first year until the end of fifth year but with a twist. Partly OOC, sick!Harry.

Words: 4,635
Chapters: 2
Hits: 554

Written in a moment of not only Harry's, but also the author's confirmed insanity. Busted bashing, stupid!Harry, and McGonagall snogging a whippersnapper with scary eyebrows. Harry sits on Snape's knee and is bottle-fed. Hilarious!

Words: 970
Chapters: 1
Hits: 545

One-shot dealing with how Minerva and Albus met.

Words: 1,499
Chapters: 1
Hits: 542
Curiosity by BeST
10/26/2007

Minerva, with Dumbledore's help, discovers a special magical prowess. BeST's response to the September/October 2007 FA/Quidditch Pitch challenge. UPDATE: Winner of the FA/QP challenge.

Words: 2,669
Chapters: 1
Hits: 537

Ginny didn’t know when things had changed. Maybe there wasn’t a specific time or place that it happened. Maybe it had simply been there all along, under the surface, waiting for the right moment to come back and kick her in the head. And it had done so, with a vengeance.

Words: 2,262
Chapters: 1
Hits: 528
Solace by Charis
12/05/2003

His heart is given over to Death these long years now, and whatever warmth she may steal from him is far more transitory and fleeting than even the briefest of affairs. Follow-up to Penance; Minerva McGonagall reflects on similarities, differences, and the strange relationship she and Severus Snape have.

Words: 716
Chapters: 1
Hits: 519
Comfort by Sakura_Sorcery
08/10/2003

Professor McGonagall enters Dumbledore's office after Dumbledore tells Harry everything he should have told him years ago. AD/MM

Words: 897
Chapters: 1
Hits: 518

Incomplete story based on the theory at the website Knight2King. Check it out, it's quite interesting. ``Anyway, this story is still in the middle of being written, but I thought that I'd ask all you nice people out there for some feedback. Thanks!

Words: 2,901
Chapters: 1
Hits: 516

He would only give, never take. If Albus Dumbledore had wanted to be worshipped, Minerva would not have admired him so much... but working for the good guy isn't always easy.

Words: 769
Chapters: 1
Hits: 514
Heat by DebbieB
07/20/2004

Sequel to "Cool." Xiomara Hooch, the new Flying Instructor at Hogwarts, has had her share of adventure. But the Deputy Headmistress has got her rattled. When a misunderstanding threatens their tenuous beginnings of a friendship, Hooch goes to great lengths to heat things back up.

Words: 9,992
Chapters: 1
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Watch the transformation of shy, innocent Minerva Duncan into the formidable Professor McGonagall. Her story so far!

Words: 3,395
Chapters: 1
Hits: 511

Little Harry asks Santa to take him to someone, who loves him. Will Harry be able to find a home in the magical world? Time travel to the Founders' time and back to modern time's Hogwarts! Partly childfic, partly OOC, Completely AU! Abuse!Dursleys.

Words: 4,166
Chapters: 1
Hits: 504
Flight of Death by Kelly L.
01/15/2003

Minerva McGonagall was too late to save her friend Myrtle from an untimely death in a dismal bathroom, but she was certain she knew who had committed the murder. Over fifty years later, she remembers her two old friends--the one who was ripped from life at fifteen, and the one whodunnit. Lord Voldemort's first murder.

Words: 1,688
Chapters: 1
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Slytherin House. It is where his legacy is; his family has always been in the serpentine House, save for an occasional Ravenclaw. He grew up learning about Salazar Slytherin and seeing the green and silver colours of one of Hogwarts' Founders. There was simply no other option for one of his blood. But is that really the truth? Is it possible for there to be a lion in the midst of snakes?

Words: 4,797
Chapters: 1
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Sixth year. Draco finds a scale of unknown origins that brings a whole host of problems to him. With a sneaky house elf in tow (Fink) and a 'Beauty girl. Hair like Fieries' taking the role of Professor McGonagall during his Christmas hols, Draco soon realises that Harry isn't the only one with a destiny.

Words: 2,815
Chapters: 1
Hits: 472
Ribbons by celeria
07/11/2003

Minerva McGonagall loves, and hates, sometimes the same people at the same time. A PG-rated look inside her head during OotP. How exactly was she feeling throughout the reign of Umbridge? A bit of implied het. There are spoilers for OotP.

Words: 1,037
Chapters: 1
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Every first year Hogwarts student learns about potions and spells, but there are a few things that are not on the curriculum. Muggle born Eleanor Howard comes to Hogwarts with more than her trunk, diary, and a wand. She suffers from a seemingly innocent ailment in her eyes, but her parents and new teachers refuse to discuss it with her. How can the magical world cope with a disability that cannot be mended with a spell or potion? Set in the era of Voldemorts first rise to power when tolerance and acceptance were not appreciated.

Words: 9,531
Chapters: 4
Hits: 466

Because of fainting spells, eight year old Harry is taken to Hogwarts. What do the elements have to do with his problem? Completely AU, partly OOC.

Words: 5,595
Chapters: 1
Hits: 466
Sherbet Lemon by Matilda
02/11/2007

Who has been leaving candy at the white tomb? Minerva stumbles upon the solution to a mystery. Can she bring a lost soul home? A response to the Third Floor Corridor Fanfiction #3 challenge: "Write about something that either occurs in or starts in the staff room, between staff members or grown up characters." Takes place five years after HBP. ONE-SHOT. [rated PG-13 just to be safe]

Words: 2,163
Chapters: 1
Hits: 466
Biding Time by soft lite
09/23/2004

Most of the accounts ascribed her more valiance than she felt, and they put many more words – noble words – in her mouth than she remembered speaking.

Words: 5,108
Chapters: 1
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The songs parodied in the work are the property of Tom Lehrer, a writer of humorous songs that have entertained for over a half-century.

Words: 1,444
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Hits: 442

Everyone's lives are put in jeopardy when a secret revealed causes identity confusion and a tangle of assassins after the Boy-Who-Lived. When the hunter becomes the hunted, who can put things right? A tale of love, family, lies and blackmail.

Words: 4,429
Chapters: 1
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He touched him... he touched him there, and he doesn't know what to do, and the Devil will come and steal his eyes for it, because he reacted. He reacted, and he has been shamed, and now he is light-forsaken, doomed to return back to that room and let the demon touch him, hurt him, bleed him. Graham Pritchard is being abused, and he doesn't know what to do- until he finds safety and hope in the most unlikely of people. Companion piece to The Love of a Brother.

Words: 1,653
Chapters: 1
Hits: 436

Set in Harry's sixth year. Because of a heart problem due to being hit by a dark spell at the ministry, he won't be able to fight Voldemort and has to resort to other methods to deal with the prophecy. Completely AU after fifth year, partly OOC.

Words: 3,490
Chapters: 2
Hits: 427
Three Orphans by Spiderwort
02/02/2010

Young Minerva McGonagall's final years at Hogwarts bring her into contact with many characters we meet later as adults: Poppy Pomfrey, 'Brussel' Sprout,

Words: 18,272
Chapters: 4
Hits: 425

McGonagall catches sight of a movie poster... what does it all mean? BeST response to the July 2007 FA challenge. Prompt: Professor McGonagall went to a Muggle movie with Sir Cadogan.

Words: 1,028
Chapters: 1
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A series of songfics set after GOF and before OoTP. In the first chapter Cho Chang reflects on life since the death of her boyfriend Cedric Diggory and the lessons it has taught her, the friends she has made. (uses In The End by Linkin Park)

Words: 2,301
Chapters: 1
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Consequences shape everyones futures, as do the choices those we love make change ours. Can love override loyalty? Can hope delete fear? Can sisters turned worst enemies make amends? Can old flames be reignited? Can this 'Second Rising' be quelled? (Slight AU, character death later on)

Words: 3,072
Chapters: 1
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Desperation by Sara Winters
05/19/2009

The students were desperate for relief. A professor was in need of mercy. One solution provided relief to them all. It came at a price.

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It\'s the first day of lessons, and a prefect is in detention. Something tells Minerva there\'s a hard road ahead.

Words: 2,203
Chapters: 1
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Eight-year-old Harry writes a letter to Father Christmas like every year. Will Father Christmas listen to him for once? Completely AU, partly OOC, Abuse/Neglect!Dursleys, sick!Harry.

Words: 1,606
Chapters: 1
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Minerva McGonagall reflects as she sits on a stone wall, waiting for Dumbledore to tell her whether all the rumors about Halloween 1981 are true.

Words: 1,745
Chapters: 1
Hits: 406
Rounds by unlikely2
07/20/2004

What does Snape think about when doing rounds? Snapshots of introspection and the people he encounters, along with a twist in the tail theory concerning just why Dumbledore thinks that he can be trusted. (With Footnotes.)

Words: 1,022
Chapters: 1
Hits: 404
Broken by windfall
07/31/2007

Minerva and Albus have something in common.

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Chapters: 1
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Lilith Smithers is the daughter of a whore. Severus has just been hired at Hogwarts as the Potions Teacher. When they come together they will change each other's world.

Words: 4,254
Chapters: 1
Hits: 393
Flying Lessons by the_verb
03/17/2004

Filius Flitwick's first experience on the Quidditch Pitch in the 1930s was certainly not what he expected. The same goes for Minerva McGonagall and Santiago Sinistra.

Words: 1,078
Chapters: 1
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Minerva McGonagall is in love with Albus Dumbledore, but he is married and not in love with her. Working on a project, she travels sideways through time, and falls in love with someone who actually loves her back.

Words: 1,078
Chapters: 1
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Minerva McGonagall is suffering from the intense traumas of the death of a lover. The person in question is none other than Albus Dumbledore himself. She finds herself remembering happy times from her past with Albus which make her even more upset. Fury errupts within her against Albus' murderer, Severus Snape. Will Minerva live through this? Read to discover!

Words: 1,064
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This is the tale of a Muggle who becomes a witch; a little girl who becomes a woman. It is a journey through life, through love, through loss. It is the story of Minerva McGonagall; sister, friend, lover, fighter and teacher.

Words: 1,179
Chapters: 1
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Choices: 1971 by saruki
06/28/2004

Minerva McGonagall watches the Sorting of 1971, and sees choices. AU.

Words: 1,154
Chapters: 1
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Minerva McGonagall has led an amazing life and had several amazing loves. This story is told in her journals of who and how she loved and then lost those loves. Of how, she saw red blood stream from all her loves.

Words: 964
Chapters: 1
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The Binding by nuhuh
10/06/2006

“Was it not enough Albus? Was our service to this world not enough for you?” She shrieked. “You have betrayed me Dumbledore and you have betrayed that boy…you have betrayed those who were most loyal to you, curse you!” Minerva McGonagall's voice shook.

Words: 1,738
Chapters: 1
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Tempus Fugit by Dreamcatcher
05/26/2005

Minerva McGonagall reflects on her life, both past and present, and wonders if anyone still cares enough to keep the wizarding world safe. And she wonders if anyone still cares about her. What little joy she has left in her life rides on a thin string, and she struggles everyday to keep that string from breaking.

Words: 1,504
Chapters: 1
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Minerva McGonagall and Xiomara Hooch have been friends for a long time. But how long is a long time? What happens when they meet as young girls? Will two girls who are completely different ever get along?

Words: 2,013
Chapters: 1
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Minerva McGonagall was not present in the Department of Mysteries. However, her understanding of the death is just as painful as everyone elses. Three parter, spoilers for OotP.

Words: 3,674
Chapters: 2
Hits: 364

A set of seven short stories depicting the relationship between Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black.

Words: 1,193
Chapters: 2
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When Harry is rescued from the Dursleys, deaf, mute, and barely alive, the others must help him cope with years of abuse and his new disabilities. As a strange bond awakens between he and his friends, they all come into powers that haven't been seen in millennia, while suffering from dreams about strange artifacts and a white phoenix named Life, who holds the secret to Voldemort's destruction, or his victory.

Words: 15,293
Chapters: 2
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An out-take, showing exactly how MWPP learnt to do the reversal spell in the shrieking shack.

Words: 1,116
Chapters: 1
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My Soul to Keep by Fox Murphy
04/13/2010

Our story begins once upon a time, in 1942, in the days when the world was at war and growing up seemed very far away. In those days, the Chamber of Secrets was opened, and suddenly no place, not even Hogwarts, was safe. "For what does it profit a man, to gain the world, and lose his soul?"

Words: 17,444
Chapters: 4
Hits: 339
DM+HG by Mischief_7
08/20/2009

Pansy catches Hermione doing something despicable and is determined to tell Draco and watch as he exacts revenge upon her, but Draco has other plans. DHr, Oneshot.

Words: 7,077
Chapters: 1
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It's time for careers advice, this very important event in the life of every 5th year student, and with Sirius Black it is going to be anything but ordinary. The day will be a long one for Professor McGonagall.

Words: 1,432
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The Bones' deaths bring more angst to the Wizarding World, which has already suffered from many such deaths from Voldemort. A short one-shot on the thoughts of Minerva McGonagall and Albus Dumbledore during this time.

Words: 585
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For the first time in her life, Minerva McGonagall had Seen. Buoyant after her first ever success in a Divination lesson, Minerva receives an unexpected owl. On an icy November night, Minerva finds herself betrayed by the promise of omens but discovers the certainty of the stars.

Words: 1,177
Chapters: 1
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"No star ever rose or set without influence somewhere." ~Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto VI).

Words: 1,435
Chapters: 1
Hits: 310
Confession by kizzibee
07/11/2004

Snape confesses to Dumbledore that he is a Death Eater.

Words: 1,146
Chapters: 1
Hits: 308
Books by HazelEyes
05/10/2006

Remus is passive aggressive. Minerva is irate. No smut whatsoever ensues, but some books are shelved.

Words: 905
Chapters: 1
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Harry saves Sev's life, but when Minerva asks Severus to postpone the Quidditch match for Harry's sake, it causes the two colleagues to put up a fight in front of the whole school. Who can bring them to reason, and who saves them from Poppy? Completely AU.

Words: 2,523
Chapters: 1
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Hagrid has missed Christmas dinner, and Minerva is concerned. But Hagrid has some concerns of his own.

Words: 1,360
Chapters: 1
Hits: 293