Happily Never After: Devastating HGSS Fic Recs
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The Fear of Losing This (10325 words) by turtle_wexler
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, George Weasley, Draco Malfoy
Additional Tags: Angst, Obsession, Patented Daydream Charms (Harry Potter), Unreliable Narrator
Summary:
Hermione doesn't know why it's always Snape. Every time she dives into a Patented Daydream Charm, she finds visions of a dead man. In some of the daydreams he loves her, giving her a window into a different, sweeter life. Sometimes he hates her, his fingernails scraping over her skin as his words scrape over her self esteem. As the weeks pass, she starts to suspect that everyone was wrong. He's alive.
Burn Down The Mission (18853 words) by TeddyRadiator
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Aberforth Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Portrait Phineas Nigellus Black
Summary:
Seven years into Hermione Granger’s tenure as Headmistress of Hogwarts, the castle will reveal a secret that changes everything she ever knew about it, the role of Head of Hogwarts, and herself. Written for LiveJournal’s Summer 2014 SSHG_Promptfest.
I would like to thank my amazing beta stgulik for brainstorming, editing, and encouraging me through those dark and lonely nights when I had to roam through this castle alone, with not even a ghost for company. Any mistakes you see here are mine, because I couldn’t help but go back and hide some Easter eggs for her to find. This was originally posted in answer to Tophoenix’s prompt in the 2014 SSHG_Promptfest on LiveJournal, but I have made some small changes and corrections here. The characters in this story do not belong to me, and I make no money from this fic.
The Fifty-Third Time (15390 words) by jezzie
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Underage Sex
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape
Additional Tags: Dark, Heavy BDSM, I thought that BDSM and romance were the same thing, What Was I Thinking, Fisting, Bloodplay, Blow Jobs, Dubiously Consensual Blow Jobs, Bad BDSM Etiquette, Under-negotiated Kink, Power Bottom, I thought that BDSM and trauma healing were the same thing
Series: Part 2 of Eroticizing the Worst: Writing to Transform Trauma
Summary:
Original summary: This is a very strange, very dark fic. Hermione initiates a strange affair with Snape, which mostly consists of her coming to him after Revels and helping him unwind with some very kinky sex, but without really talking about it.
Addendum: "Unwind" is code for "deal with his trauma." This fic is subtle but focused in exploring how someone might use pretty unhinged SM to deal with pretty extraordinary trauma.
[Originally posted May 2006 on fanfiction.net]
i slithered from eden just to sit outside your door (16825 words) by Nylexa
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Ron Weasley, Harry Potter
Additional Tags: dubcon, Loss of Virginity, Implied/Referenced Torture, Shameless Smut, PWP, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Vaginal Sex, Cunnilingus, Angst with a Happy Ending, General Angst, severus snape still eats pussy like its his job, no betas we die like men, Fuck Or Die, Extremely Dubious Consent, Romance
Summary:
Snape realised he was breathing hard. His back was against the door. It occurred to him he should just leave, Apparate away. Leave her with her grief and her pain and her anger.
Instead: “Stupid fucking girl.” Ragged. Furious. Then: “How dare you ask that of me.”
“There’s no one else,” she said, and although her voice was thick her eyes were still dry. “No one will have me.”
Do Not Go Gentle (34435 words) by senlinyu
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley
Additional Tags: Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Hogwarts Eighth Year, Teacher-Student Relationship, Severus Snape Lives, Curses, Terminal Illnesses, Hurt/Comfort, Severus Snape Has a Heart, Severus Snape Is Still A Jerk, Verbal Abuse, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Explicit Sexual Content, Secret Relationship, Slow Build, snape is not a sexy dom character, he is more like a feral cat, Hermione is canonically partial to feral cats, Angst with a Happy Ending, Slightly Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary:
It was subtle at first. For the first several months, she assumed it was merely the stress of the war; for the next several months, she assumed it was the stress of the trials; then when winter approached, she assumed it was stress from school.
She kept assuming it was stress until she was walking to the cabinet to retrieve her supplies for Potions class and the walls began closing in, wobbling and swallowing her up.
When she woke again, she was in the Hogwarts hospital ward.
Severus Snape stood at her bedside, staring down at her with an expression of profound irritation.
Getting the Hang of Thursdays (01/22)
Posted on June 27, 2014 by hayseed42
Link: https://hayseed42.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/getting-the-hang-of-thursdays-0122/
A/N: Started on a whim in the summer of 2004 as an answer to a WIKTT challenge. It was always intended to be an inversion of Groundhog Day, not a crossover – in the film, the main character’s moral decisions affect his time loop, but in Thursdays, the time loop is just a horrible consequence of ‘shit happens.’
Summary: A good day goes bad and then gets far worse than Severus could ever have imagined. Again and again and again. Inspired by the WIKTT Time-Loop Challenge.
Rating: This story contains lots and lots of character death, copious amounts of bad language, and enough sexual situations to make Severus extremely uncomfortable with the whole thing. Rate accordingly.
Disclaimer: Nope. Not mine.
Murmurations (286427 words) by Maegykie
Chapters: 61/61
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Minerva McGonagall, Teddy Lupin, Crookshanks (Harry Potter)
Additional Tags: Angst, relationship, Love, Male-Female Friendship, Friendship/Love, Romance, Eventual Romance, Harry Potter Epilogue What Epilogue | EWE, Slow Burn, References to Illness, Illnesses, POV Multiple, POV Severus Snape, POV Hermione Granger, Introspection, Domestic, Monica Wilkins - Freeform, Wendell Wilkins - Freeform, Hermione's parents, Memories, Memory Loss, Hurt/Comfort, occasional smut, Slice of Life, Healing
Series: Part 1 of The Manual of Ornithology
Summary:
~oOo~ COMPLETE ~oOo~
"She feels it in his hand as it brushes a stray curl behind her ear, in his tone, and his lingering kiss. In the smile he saves just for her. She thinks, perhaps, he loves her, even if he does refuse say it."
This isn’t a story about the magic we know. It is a story about the magic found in the every day; in the rustle of trees on the wind, the golden light of dusk in the Summer months, the dance of starling murmurations. It is a love story, yes, but it is more-so a story about healing, about imperfections, about mistakes and forgiveness.
A slow-burning, sometimes flickering, HG/SS tale which begins during Hermione’s “eighth” year at Hogwarts and meanders through a lifetime.
Advanced Contemporary Potion Making (30104 words) by Lariope
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape
Additional Tags: Adultery, Angst
Summary:
Twenty-one years after the war, Hermione Weasley sends her second child off to Hogwarts. Her husband suggests she take a class in her new-found spare time. That class might change her life forever.
The Moonlight Between Us (5016 words) by Naydriel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hermione Granger/Severus Snape
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape
Additional Tags: Infidelity, light infidelity, Minor Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley, Post-Canon, Post-War, Mostly Canon Compliant, Canon Compliant, Past Relationship(s), Slow Burn, Gentle Romance, Mutual Pining, 8th Year References, Bittersweet
Summary:
A house full of people. A husband that means well. And, the celebration she never wanted.
On the night of her forty-sixth birthday, Hermione Granger-Weasley slips away from the noise and cheer to the place that brings her calm when the world is too loud: the library. She isn’t expecting anyone to find her there.
But he was always did, even back then.
Hermione’s lips twitched. The dryness of his tone, the way he lingered on the word dark—it was too familiar, too achingly sharp.
“I’ll have you know,” she replied primly, “that trespassing is a time-honoured Hogwarts tradition. And some of us are still clever enough not to get caught.”
Title: The Professor's Discretion
Author: Twelve Years in Azkaban
Summary: The only thing keeping Hermione out of trouble and Harry Potter alive is... the Professor's Discretion. AU.
Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5441799/1/The-Professor-s-Discretion
My Note: There's steep competition, but this might be my favorite HGSS fic of all time. And there' s no smut (be forewarned), so that's saying something. Utterly beautiful.
HGSS Review's Review: https://sshgreview.wordpress.com/2017/10/22/the-professors-discretion-by-twelve-years-in-azkaban/
