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Alternate Universe Story: The old woman in Bed 17-B has a secret. Her stories of Dark Wizards and hidden wars seem fantastical. Is Professor McGonagall a harmless dementia patient, or is the danger she foretells true?

He was one small boy, sent to live with an aunt who would come to hate his very existence. He was one small boy, taken from the ashes of a ruined home in order that he might rise again. He was one small boy, marked as evil's equal.

Once the survivors decide what to do, life goes on...

Harry goes back in time to kill Voldemort, but changes history instead. Now Hogwarts is occupied by Nazis, Harry's a P.O.W., Dumbledore is missing, Alphard Black and Alastor Moody lead the Dueling Club in resistance, and Tom Riddle has nightmares of someone he's never met. (Book 1 of 3.)

“Good boy. There’s only this, power, which I have over you, you sniveling little brat. There’s only power and control, Riddle, remember that. Those with power and control rule, those without power and control are squashed like little cockroaches. Do you understand, Riddle?”

After the events of Order of the Phoenix, Albus Dumbledore faces his own human frailties.

After Harry's career advice session, Minerva's burning to say a few things to Professor Umbridge.

'You're the only person who understands me.' Harry finds that sometimes it's not as easy as it seems to truly distinguish dark from light. Can he even trust himself anymore? 'Why have I sacrificed my future for you?' Hermione Granger finds herself throwing away everything to help someone. But is her fear of Azkaban greater than her bravery? 'Am I just a shadow?' Having doubts about his exploits helping Harry, Ron conjures a plan. But could a seemingly noble gesture contribute to the war being lost? Everyone grows up and everything changes. But just what will happen when their allegiances finally come into question?

"I'll go and talk to her, Harry," he promised. "I'll make her see reason... a Firebolt... a real Firebolt on our team... She wants Gryffindor to win as much as we do... I'll make her see sense. A Firebolt..." ``Oliver tries to convince McGonagall to give Harry his broom back.

When Dumbledore decides to give Harry Occlumency lessons, Harry is givenarare peek into the Headmaster's mind.

Minerva McGonagall writes a letter she will never send, and ponders the advantages of the feline form. [femslash]

Dumbledore finally realizes he is growing old, and decides to step down from all his positions. Shocked, Minerva, Severus, and Harry come to realize...their lives will change forever.

August 1974. Minerva has a stiff drink and writes a letter to her new prefect.

Minerva McGonagall has just begun her teaching career at Hogwarts' and is forced to cut her teeth on the sixth-year Slytherins. From the beginning, one of them attracts her interest. She is loath to stop her feelings, and after a few months of epistolary exhanges, she is in a state of bliss. All things must come to an end.

Young Minerva McGonagall's Transfigurations professor has retired last year, and she is furious. Who's his successor, Albus Dumbledore, anyway? War hero? Greatest wizard of his time? She doesn't care! ``And yet... things happen...

A Tom/Minerva fic, chapters after the song LOVE

No-one can be good at everything, but everyone is bound to be good at something. A vignette written in honour of Snape's birthday.

A followup to 'One Wise Woman'. Snape wakes up on Christmas morning and reflects on the events of the previous night.

“Certainly, your meeting with Professor Snape cannot already be finished, Mr. Potter," Minerva McGonagall insisted while glancing at the obviously extremely agitated child through narrowed eyes. What has happened there? Anger rose within her. Oh you wait, Severus... Gap filler for "Order of the Phoenix", attached to the chapter "Snape’s Worst Memory" - take a peek into the Potions Master's chambers after Harry's discoveries in the Pensieve!

'Minerva wonders. She wishes she did not, but she cannot change her colours after all these years.' Professor McGonagall finds old habits hard to break, until she witnesses an unguarded moment in another colleague's life that her to think about changing her own. Companion piece to 'Facing the Music'. Implied Harry/Snape preslash.

Minerva McGonagall must once again teach the sex ed class for the sixth years. Exactly how will it go? A fic for the Sex Ed Challenge on the Minerva Magic Thread.

A series of "Professors' Notes" concerning Harry and life in and around Hogwarts

This is a complete short story set during the Philosopher's Stone year. The story covers several Hogwarts characters and how they are each touched by an unknown student who has a beautiful voice and whose songs means something different to everyone. This story is just short of too cute, and in just a little less sweet than a trip to Honeydukes at Christmas time. But I believe the ending makes the ride worthwhile. So read. Enjoy. Then go hug a warm puppy. Don’t let the puppy pee on you. I mean, don’t you hate when that happens?

While deciding on who shall be Head Boy for the upcoming year, Albus and Minerva must make a choice.

The first year was the hardest, and it didn't get much better from there. Ron never understands why it's so special when I get a letter from my parents. He doesn't realize that in the past six years they've only sent me twelve: five on Christmas, four before exams and three when I was petrified. That's right: they didn't send me anything my entire first year, and that wasn't my fault...really. Hermione reflects on how her religion affected her life in the Wizarding World.

Dumbledore has just died, following the events after the hospital wing insodent Tonks and Lupin retire to McGonagall's room to sleep, but they do much more than that!! racy in bits, a fan fic your unlikly to forget, someone gets an eyefull!

Minerva McGonagall can see a lot of herself in Hermione Granger, and so, when she catches her skipping a Charms class, she decides not to punish her, and instead takes her into her confidence. That decision is the beginning of a friendship that will carry them through triumph and disaster, as Hermione grows up in one of the most turbulent times the Wizarding World has ever known. Spoilers for everything!

A missing scene from Barb's Triangle Prophecy Chapter 30. The final battle has been fought, but not without a heavy price. Professor Minerva McGonagall reflects on her love for her students and the heart-breaking price of victory. In a rare moment of quiet candor with a physically and spiritually wounded Harry Potter, she gains some much-needed perspective. Part of the Psychic Serpent Missing Scenes Challenge

An alternate look of what could have happened if Professor McGonagall had overheard Draco Malfoy calling Hermione Granger Mudblood. After he refuses to apologize Professor McGonagall administers his first ever spanking.

Two of the professors think they're hexed, but is it all true? Or have they really fallen for each other? MM/SS.

Set just after Harry begins life at the Dursleys. Minerva McGonagall satisfies her curiousity about something that's been bothering her for a while... AD/MM

Meet Blaise Zabini. A first-year Slytherin with anger management issues and an obssesion with cartoons and toaster ovens who curses more than a sailor.

Minerva McGonagall reflects on her lost daughter.

How do you defeat a Dark Wizard? By thinking like one, of course - and how do you think like one? You become one. Two children were selected from the flock that year, by the slim, once beautiful hand of a woman who had also once been Tom Riddle's lover...

(Addition to the "Stuck in a Room with You" series.) Although everyone is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, the one with the earmuffs will prevail! Also featuring a house made of chocolate.

"Minerva McGonagall was a woman who knew her own weaknesses, and Xiomara Hooch looked set to play merry hell with all of them." Set many years before Philosopher's Stone. Femslash.

Remind me not to answer any more questions when you have me pinned against a wall in a random broom closet.

Stuck in the hospital, Minerva McGonagall is horrified to hear what has happened in her absence from Hogwarts. Guilty and miserable, she remembers another time that she let Dumbledore down, in the worst possible way.

McGonagall finds a new kind of music to get into. She is rapping going down the corridor when Harry, Ron and Hermione are in the same corridor. Oh no!

"Your problem is that you still haven't forgiven yourself. Without that ... how can you expect us to do so?" In the days after Voldemort's return, Christmas Eve brings a moment of reflection for a solitary soul, and an unexpected empathy from one of the least likely individuals.

Minerva hasn't been able to heal the grief inside her and Harry and Ginny are having their first child. But what if a certain deceased returns in a way that will push Minerva to the brink? ADMM with a twist!

Something happened to Minerva McGonagall in her seventh year at Hogwarts to change her into the strict, no-nonsense professor she is now, and Headmaster Albus Dumbledore is finally going to find out what. AD/MM.

The Media never lies: agreed? I don't think so... Sometimes the lies published in the tabloids can seem so plausible; believable even; and these lies can then become convincingly like the truth if you are searching for someone to blame. Natural human responses will tell us this much as we have all blamed someone unfairly at some point in our lives. But what happens to the people on the receiving end of the false accusations? And what are the consequences when those affected are driven away by those who they once counted as friends? Sometimes, only when the physical pain is starting to fade do the deeper scars begin to reveal themselves. And some scars take a long time to heal.

The traditional climax of the Dark Wizards' Ball is the waking of the Imbolc Serpent. As the "Dark Wizards" are strictly fancy dress and the Serpent doesn't exist, Harry isn't too worried ... until the Imbolc Serpent actually turns up.

This is a compilation of four humorous cookies involving AD/MM, Snape, Harry and Ron.

Draco is a 7th year while Ginny is a 6th year. They both show up for a transfiguration class that McGonagall is setting up and after an unfortunate incident when a 3rd years mouse is turned purple they are forced to work alone together. This is their day together: will they be able to avoid killing each other? Will they maybe have a conversation? Only time will tell...

Once upon a time, in a lovely garden, a lonely werewolf met an elegant lady...

Minerva returns to Hogwarts after her convalescence at St. Mungo's.

Madam Pomfrey leaves the infirmary in the capable hands of three of her esteemed colleagues while she visits her ill sister. With the Quidditch season yet to begin and no lessons over the weekend, what could possibly go wrong?

When the Slytherin seventh-years organise a bake sale, Professor McGonagall suspects something is wrong. The Slytherins have obviously gone quite mad. However, what she finds out almost gives her a heart attack. A rather ridiculous one-shot exploring Draco/Ginny.

In the aftermath of the battle in the Ministry, two Hogwarts professors try to come to terms with the year's events, their conflicting loyalties, and their own uneasy relationship (Sinistra/McGonagall, femmeslash).

No Devil will darken her doorway while Minerva McGonagall takes the watch. Warnings for mentions of past sexual abuse, and recovery thereof.

It's nearing Christmas at Hogwarts, but the year has been a little less than warm and toasty for the Hogwarts staff as they gather in the staff room for tea or, in some cases, a milkshake. Facing the dangers of Christmas--mistletoes and old classic Christmas tunes--they manage to confuse themselves with a horrific combination of irritability, Christmas spirit, and somber exhaustion.

Madame Trelawney clears her head.

Cool--it's what the new Brooms instructor has, and what Minerva McGonagall is quickly losing. In her first year as Deputy Headmistress, Professor McGonagall has more than she ever dreamed of to deal with.

When Madam Hooch gets a new job as Head Coach of the Tornadoes, they must find a new Quidditch teacher, and everybody's favorite magical nanny gets the job, to the horror of the Quidditch team.

Young Minerva has everything together, but Tom's interest in her may prove fatal to everyone she cares about. Now, also plagued by visions surrounding the founding of the school, what does all mean?

Mary-Sue Potter has come to Hogwarts, inspiring questions: Who is she? What's her secret? And why doesn't she have violet eyes? (Parody)

Have you ever wondered what happened after Harry left McGonagall and Umbridge alone, after his career councelling session? Here is my idea of what might have happened.

Minerva promises to come back to teach at Hogwarts and be with Albus.

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 ...

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?

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

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

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.)

Minerva McGonagall's thoughts during a memorial for James and Lily.

Once upon a time, she had a family. Twice upon a time, she had everything stolen from her. Thrice upon a time, she was lost and found. Now she must prove herself, and either fall to the darkness or rise to the light. (Post HBP, Spoilers abound.)

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Five women, each with a man on her mind, but not, perhaps, the men you'd expect.

For the March2007 challenge. Fudge pays an unexpected visit to Hogwarts.

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

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.

Professor Marchbanks of the Wizarding Examination Authority has a little score to settle with Dolores Umbridge.

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.

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

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...

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

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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