I'm looking for more hinny fic recs. I feel like I've read all works from the better known writers in the fandom.
Any chance you might have recommendations for "hidden gem" authors?
I really love this ask, and I have to apologise for taking so bloody long to get to it.
I understand what you mean by ‘better known writers in the fandom’, but I guess even popularity of writers is a pretty subjective thing. Presumably, you mean the likes of Annerb, Northumbrian and Floreatcastellum, and I do love all their stories. I also love the stories from Hinny writers @fightfortherightsofhouseelves, @seriouslysam8, @breaniebree, @thedistantdusk, @secretkeeper13, @stuckwith-harry, @clarensjoy (I’m sure you’re well across most or all of these authors), and no doubt many more that I’ll think of two seconds after I post this.
Aside from the authors I just mentioned, here are some of my favourite Hinny stories (I know you asked more specifically for authors, and for hidden gems, but I had too much fun going through my bookmarks). Hopefully there’ll be something in this list that you haven’t come across yet :)
such a beautiful blank (but smooth it) by Pocketfullof, smutty_claus
Ginny picks a rose, and her world spins out of control.
Altered by @better-than-firewhisky
Two people head to their blind date, and fate intervenes.
The War Isn’t Over When the Soldiers Come Home by keepcalmsmile
DeFonda Hepburn had met many parents in her many years as a nanny, but she'd never met parents quite like the Potters. Strangely enough, they have more in common than she thought.
all around you by @theroomofreq
“Your sister is a professional football player?”
Ron stops and turns around to face Harry. “Yeah? I thought I told you?”
“No. Ginny? Ginny plays professional football?”
and i'll owe it all to you, my little bird by ginnydear
The AU where Harry's entire world turns upside down when Ginny shows back up in their lives after leaving and not talking to anyone for five years, but with plenty of good reasons.
cover my body with your autograph by @remedialpotions
Maybe it’s because of the whiskey currently coursing through her, gradually lowering her inhibitions and her ability to second-guess herself. Maybe it’s because her entire life has been unceremoniously tossed into the air and she has no idea where the pieces will land, and she doesn’t want this new, intriguing little bit of it - him - to land too far away. She wants to keep him close, to stay connected. And she wants him to know that she’s more than just Ron’s little sister.
*This one is my absolute, all-time favourite Hinny muggle AU. There is so much I love about this, and I’ve read it far too many times. It’s just absolutely glorious.
Off-Kilter by @remedialpotions
"For the first time in history, Ron and Hermione - Ron and Hermione - are the uncomplicated ones, and Ginny and I are a mess."
About That Night by @brightlybound
Before he disappeared entirely through the kitchen door, Ginny's eyes dipped (almost) of their own accord to check out his bum. Heat rose to her already burning face, and she blinked hard to dispel the image her mind had immediately conjured, of him naked and sated and wrapped in her mismatched bedsheets.
In every universe: All in one piece by @brightlybound
"This was lightness. This was love. This was right." After spending a moment alone with Harry during her eldest brother's wedding, Ginny finds herself pregnant and must forgo her education for hiding.
if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow by mp143 (this one is a WIP, but it’s regularly updated)
For three years, she ignored the way she clung to updates about him from her brother, every little piece of his life he didn’t share with her in the course of a hookup. She disregarded the tightening in her chest and the fluttering in her stomach when they were together, noticing that he never stopped noticing her, anticipating her desires and giving them to her without her having to ask. And she refused to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t only about sex — not for her, and maybe not for him either. And that’s, of course, how she ended up here: huddled over a cauldron in the bathroom of her tiny flat, trying to work up the courage to prick her finger and pinch a drop of blood into the potion.
Are you going to kiss me or not by Sorcerer’s Muse
This is an alternate universe story where Harry never attended Hogwarts. For various reasons he and Ginny are both living pretty much as muggles and meet for the first time roughly ten years after the defeat of Voldemort.
Deja Brew by @pottermum
A wizarding hero seeks sanctuary in the Muggle world, as he tries to figure out the rest of his life. He works in a café called Déja Brew. Then one day before Christmas, she walks in - Ginny Weasley.
Would You Be My Little Quarantine? by @celtics534
Moving was always stressful, but to be placed in a nationwide lockdown only a few weeks after moving was just too much for Ginny to think about. At least she had a fit neighbor keep her company... from two meters away, of course.
These two are WIPs that I love, but they aren't regularly updated. But I'm sharing them in the hope that if they get enough love, perhaps it will help to motivate the writers.
When the Party’s Over by Mintsea (be sure to check the warnings for this one)
After ten years, golden couple Head Auror Harry Potter and Holyhead Harpies Vice-Captain Ginny Weasley unexpectedly broke up, leaving the Weasley family and gossip columns reeling. But two years later, a chance encounter at a London wizarding bar the week before Ginny's wedding to Neville Longbottom throws the new lives they’ve built without each other into turmoil.
Issues in the Auror Office by transfiguredtoad
Ginny Weasley has moved house and started a new job in twenty four hours, and both have brought her close to Harry Potter. At home, he's Harry, her mate, but at work, he's her boss - and fraternising within teams is forbidden. But she's falling for him, and he's falling for her. What are two Aurors in love to do?
I'm not always the best at finding hidden gems, but if you know of any Hinny authors or stories that you think are underrated and more people need to know about, please share them with me, or add them to the list :)
