Mystery/Suspense

A Walking Shadow

by Ariadne AWS

Hermione returns to Grimmauld Place, looking for answers. She does not expect to find Severus Snape. Best Fanon Het (Quill-to-Parchment, Round 2). Runner-up ~ Best HG/SS, 2006 OWL Awards.

63,243 Words,  Started 11/02/2006,  Updated 03/06/2012

The Spirit That Remembers

by Elise_Wanderer

The war is over, and Severus Snape is dead---or is he? Hermione Granger, with the help of Harry Potter, begins to work on redeeming his memory. In the process, she uncovers the power of memory itself. Canon-compliant—despite JKR’s best efforts.
Complete in 19 chapters plus Prologue and Epilogue (What Epilogue?).

43,161 Words,  Started 09/01/2008,  Updated 10/27/2008

Descending into Obscurity

by sbrande

'I await your command, for I am yours to do with as you see fit.'

Winner of Action & Adventure Order of Merlin, Third Class in the Owl Awards 2009.

Lucius Malfoy, on orders from the Dark Lord, captures Hermione Granger to be held as his prisoner deep within the underground dungeons of his Manor. Can Harry and Ron carry on without the brains of their trio, or will Lord Voldemort prevail and take over the wizarding world?

118,959 Words,  Started 08/22/2008,  Completed 08/23/2013

Stained Glass Shards

by sandlapper

Hermione Granger disappeared from her home and is presumed dead. Nearly two years later, she returns to Hogwarts, guardian of a secret that could end the war with Voldemort once and for all.

48,751 Words,  Started 09/01/2011,  Completed 11/30/2011

Yet Everything Stays the Same

by astopperindeath

In spring 1980, Severus Snape hears a portion of a prophecy that will change the course of wizarding and Muggle history. The Dark Lord must choose a boy, but which? Snape is sent to discover the boy’s identity, but the answers he seeks are not to be found in his world. Rated M for violence and eventual sexual situations. SS/HG.

67,542 Words,  Started 05/28/2012,  Completed 09/18/2012

The Marriage Law

by teshara

After a new law reduces witches to chattel, Hermione Granger finds herself married to Severus Snape in order to keep her from the Death Eaters.
Hermione begins to shadow Severus in his work with the Order. They begin to form a mutual respect and love for each other after Hermione works as negotiator to a matriarchal secret society, the Amazons.
Severus stations them in Russia, where his family has a home, and his cousin is active in patriarchal secret society, the Mystic Brotherhood, who has been at odds with the Amazons for years.
After the Final Battle is fought, one would think the Order would be done with its work, but after Harry is scarred forever, Hermione is given a holy artifact, and a mysterious string of Muggle murders catches the attention of the Ministry, it seems as if their work is just beginning...

62,276 Words,  Started 12/06/2008,  Updated 02/13/2010

Ripple Effect

by Jupiter

Snape discovers Slughorn selling counterfeit ingredients and goes to pay him a little visit.

10,638 Words,  Started 11/08/2009,  Completed 12/20/2009

Just a Little Bit

by Melenka

Hermione is stuck in a house with two difficult men, one bored cat, a hapless mouse - and a physics problem.

39,490 Words,  Started 08/12/2008,  Completed 10/05/2008

The Lost Corridor

by Snarky SandWitches

Hermione and Snape are locked in an unknown corridor at Hogwarts. Each door they open leads them to a different place where they must complete a task in hopes of finding a way out of the corridor. Their journey brings hidden feelings to the surface along the way. Round Robin by some of the Poetess admins.

30,775 Words,  Started 08/08/2007,  Updated 11/21/2007

Vain Wisdom All and False Philosophy

by Battle of Lissa

With the climax of the next great battle drawing near, the key players who have the ability to halt or bring about potential destruction take center stage, as they always have in every great war since time began. And Dumbledore knew all this, but not when it truly mattered. Eventual SS/HG. Alternate Universe, HBP death disregarded.
2007 OWL Awards Nominee: Fire & Ice Category (SS/HG), Romance Category, Angst Category, and A/U Category.
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2008 TNL Awards Winner for Best SS/HG AU Category

215,199 Words,  Started 03/14/2007,  Updated 09/05/2010

Harbinger

by Bambu

Severus Snape has been pardoned by Ministry decree, but not everyone is pleased that he has returned to teaching at Hogwarts.

89,084 Words,  Started 07/10/2009,  Completed 10/03/2009

Broken

by potterbrat

Draco Malfoy has changed sides. When he decides to leave Malfoy Manor, he needs help packing. While at the Manor, a surprise arrival changes everything. The warnings show abuse and violence, but I promise that nothing will be bad. It really is more of a romance, but the other stuff is necessary.

67,874 Words,  Started 02/09/2007,  Completed 08/17/2007

The Letter

by phoenix

The war is over, and as everyone settles back into a normal life, Hermione begins to realize that perhaps she and Ron aren’t as well suited as she thinks. When she receives strange letters from the Ministry and deceased Severus Snape, she begins to rethink her options.

16,376 Words,  Started 02/02/2008,  Completed 03/20/2008

Wicked Game

by shalimar1981

After the events in the Department of Mysteries, Hermione finds it hard to cope and receives help from someone unexpected. When a friendship of a sort develops, will it survive the events of the Lightning-Struck Tower? Will an ancient ritual help the Light win the war or will it destroy everything? An HG/SS romance. Not DH compliant.

56,128 Words,  Started 07/02/2006,  Updated 04/10/2009

The Witchhiker's Guide To Beltane

by TeddyRadiator

Wizarding Britain, ten years after the war. Things are good, but the Ministry thinks what's needed is a good old fashioned Beltane revel. Hogwarts is just the place to do it. In the meantime, Severus isn't enjoying life right now; he's the subject of Rita Skeeter's new tell-all book. And don't get Hermione started on how Ron continues to make her life a misery. Perhaps this Beltane stuff may just be the ticket to help them out as well. Written for Jenidralph in the winter 2013 LiveJournal SSHG_Prompfest.

64,262 Words,  Started 02/01/2014,  Completed 03/07/2014

A Slant-Told Tale

by Squibstress

Before she was Professor McGonagall, she was Minerva Macnair. After an arranged marriage forces her into an impossible situation, Minerva does what she must to survive. When she makes a new life for herself, her secrets follow and threaten everything, including the only love she has ever found. The tale of a woman, her secrets, and how she keeps them.

Winner - 3rd Place, Best Drama-Angst WIP - Fall/Winter 2012 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards

171,469 Words,  Started 01/19/2012,  Completed 06/23/2018

Redemption

by phoenix

Lucius Malfoy has finally realized the Dark Lord has been spinning nothing but lies. Unfortunately, it took him losing his family to realize this. Now, he is trying to atone for his sins. Will anyone trust him? Will anyone help him regain his place in society? He has a plan. Set after HBP. Rating is for later chapters. Additionally, there are two chapters that have some torture, but nothing overly graphic. Nominated for Feb 2006 Multifaceted Awards in Best Dramatic and Best Het (Adult) Fics

89,112 Words,  Started 01/18/2006,  Completed 04/05/2006

From the Blood of the Gorgon

by Lady Strange

Severus Snape survives Nagini’s venomous bite (or does he?) and yet seemingly drops off the face of the earth. The story opens twenty-two years after the defeat of Voldemort and covers the quest of Hermione Granger as she struggles to uncover the truth behind her recurring nightmares of Snape’s “death”.

The first chapter opens with Hermione having a nightmare about Severus Snape’s “death”. Disquieted, she resolves to delve into the past so as to understand why she is haunted by the mental visions of his “death”.

71,676 Words,  Started 01/18/2008,  Completed 03/17/2008

Fallen

by BrenaMarie

On her first day of teaching, Hermione Granger finds a hidden treasure in her office. What she doesn’t realize is how much this discovery will change her life.

28,579 Words,  Started 09/04/2010,  Completed 01/15/2011

Dazed Detachment

by Southern_Witch_69

Spared a horrible fate, Hermione is spirted off to a safehouse, but is everything as it seems? Sometimes the mind can be one's worst enemy... or savior.

9,785 Words,  Started 04/13/2007,  Completed 04/24/2007

Let Someone ELSE Tell You About the Birds and the Bees

by dracontia

Do you mean to say that there might be issues with sex at a coeducational boarding school? (Gasp!) And someone might, just might, be upset enough to demand that the school start teaching where little wizards and witches come from? In response to the Sex Ed Challenge at Potter Place, the wildest parody I can devise that does not involve a Jarvey. AU--oh, so goofily AU!

44,756 Words,  Started 07/17/2006,  Completed 08/17/2006

The Silvering Divide

by Somigliana

Hermione encounters a strange lake-dweller one morning. Her new friend will give her insight into the most mysterious man of them all...

50,716 Words,  Started 12/10/2008,  Completed 02/14/2009

Reversing the Veil

by HermioneWeasley1972

They find a secret spell that can change everything, but is it worth it?

13,092 Words,  Started 02/06/2009,  Updated 09/24/2009

Orion's Pointer

by Faraday

The Potions Master is about to meet a bitch of unexpected dimensions.

248,511 Words,  Started 06/24/2007,  Updated 03/07/2012

The Iago Complex

by Proulxes

What happens when a new relationship is threatened? A story for HBAR, combining politics, passion and peacock shit.

24,201 Words,  Started 09/07/2013,  Completed 01/01/2014