I actually recommend everyone write for a rarepair once because it completely changes your relationship with fandom. Engagement stops being numbers and starts being names. You know who's going to show up. You recognize usernames. Someone disappears for a while and then comes back and you're like “OH MY GOD WELCOME HOME.” It's incredibly wholesome. It is also deeply inconvenient when all six of you simultaneously get writer's block-
Auror Longbottom no more (ao3) - Giacco
Neville/Pansy, Harry/Ginny
M, 14k
Summary: Neville can no longer bear the pressures of being an Auror. He will seek new paths in old relationships, with the help of new friendships maintained with old enemies.
Come Pretty Flower, Come play. (ao3) - istarbel
Neville/Pansy
E, 8k (WIP)
Summary: Neville finds himself unable to just let the new Potions Master be.
For her part, Pansy doesn't know what she wants.
Drawn (ao3) - MaesterChill
Neville/Pansy
T, 200
Summary: Pansy unearths something interesting in Greenhouse Two
Educationalist (ao3) - Karluv13
Neville/Pansy, Hermione/Draco, Harry/Ginny, Luna/Theodore
E, 13k
Summary: Pansy Parkinson has been working to rebuild her reputation and place in the magical, post war society.
With advice given to her at a wedding, Pansy sets out on a mission to pursue a career with purpose. Where better to find that purpose then at the place it all began?
How Pansy Got Neville (ao3) - So_scarlett_maroon
Neville/Pansy
E, 5k
Summary: Pansy gets back at Neville and it ends up working out for the both of them.
I Got You (ao3) - GCGrayWriter
Neville/Pansy
G, 815
Summary: It was utterly beyond the pale that Neville ‘I’m-so-clumsy-I-can-trip-over-thin-air’ Longbottom was at home on the ice. Skidding and sailing around with the complete ease of a professional skater. As if the rules of gravity didn’t apply to him.
On the other hand, she could only be compared to a toddler learning to walk or a drunkard attempting to get home from the pub.
Oh, the unfairness of it all!
I've Got Tulips And A Whole 'Lotta Love! (ao3) - Typingkitten
Neville/Pansy
E, 2k
Summary: A look into the life of Professors Longbottom, notably charms Professor Pansy Longbottom. How do they keep the romance alive with such busy jobs?
Just a Silly Crush (ao3) - MadeInLavanda
Neville/Pansy
T, 1k
Summary: During Eighth Year Pansy fell in love. After Hogwarts Pansy avoids Neville because she can’t get over her feelings. Now she is a new professor at Hogwarts and can’t avoid him anymore.
Submitting in the Greenhouse (ao3) - Calalizzi
Neville/Pansy
E, 2k
Summary: Professor Longbottom loves to be a naughty boy in the greenhouses when school isn't in session.
When the students are away the teachers shall play.
Taurus in Waning (ao3) - AmiMendal
Neville/Pansy
G, 2k
Summary: Pansy just wants to find her path in life. She didn't realize Neville Longbottom would be in her lane.
The Coward and the Sneak (ao3) - MidnightStargazer
Marietta/Pansy
T, 851
Summary: Pansy and Marietta have both left Wizarding Britain behind, seeking a fresh start somewhere else. Eventually, their paths lead them both to Durmstrang.
The First Time (ao3) - emotionalsupporthufflepuff
Neville/Pansy
M, 1k
Summary: Neville makes a birthday wish and Pansy helps it come true
Thursday Night (ao3) - scratches
Pansy/Charlie
T, 1k
Summary: Charlie visits the Charms Study Session because Pansy misses dinner.
Two Steps (ao3) - wynnebat
Pansy/Harry
T, 1k
Summary: “Rumor has it you’re a great dancer.”
Laughing, Harry says, “I haven’t danced since the Yule ball in fourth year.”
“That was a terrible dance,” Pansy reminisces fondly. “You should try again now.”
What Happens When Soulmates Cast a Patronus (ao3) - scratches
Pansy/Charlie
T, 504
Summary: Pansy and Harry (plus their fellow Professors) demonstrate the Patronus charm.
Worth It (ao3) - Simply_Lovely_Reader
Pansy/Harry
E, 4k
Summary: It was supposed to be easy. Uncomplicated. But somewhere along the way Pansy went and fell unconditionally, irrevocably and rather inconveniently in love with the one person she never meant to.
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I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.
Well - she got this email this morning:
The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.
Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).
Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.
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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.
Sirimione, canon-era time travel w/ adult characters, rated E (soft), 35 chapters and 138k words!
~Desperate times call for desperate measures.
~For Hermione, accidentally getting pulled twenty years back in time to February of 1994 is most definitely what she would call a "desperate time," and her measures are about to become quite irrevocably desperate to match.
Read it on AO3 here!
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