Take These Stars Down To The World

Title: Take These Stars Down To The World
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): Domestic Violence, Character Death (not our pair), Substance Abuse.
(Highlight to View) Prompt: Hermione creates a potion just for Severus, one which he doesn’t believe he wants or needs (SS/HG or SS & HG).
Note: Special thanks to stgulik, not only for the delicious prompt, but for her Herculean effort to pull this together, literally at the last minute. Because I was so late to the fitting, I was that bride walking down the aisle while my beta the seamstress was running behind me, sewing seed pearls on the train. You rock, babe. Thank you for putting up with me.

This story is inspired by the film Chocolat, which in turn was based on the novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris. This fanfic is based on characters and situations created by J. K. Rowling, and owned by J. K. Rowling and various publishers, including but not limited to: Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books, Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended by the posting of this fanfic.

Summary: Severus’ business, Potions Potentes, is not doing very well. In fact, he plans to shut his doors for good. Just when all seems lost, Hermione Granger arrives in town to open her own apothecary, bringing with her a very special brew. What exactly is she up to, and what exactly is this cure-all potion of hers? If there is one thing Severus knows more than most, it is that nothing is ever given without a price.

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2016-05-07 Clothes Make The Man; Formal Robes Challenge

Title: Clothes Make The Man
Challenge: Formal Robes
Team: DEs
Length: 100 X 3
Rating: G
A/N: Usual rules apply. This is unbeta’d. This drabble had more to say, but I’m just too tired to listen.

 

2016-05-04 Preparation; Formal Robes Challenge

Title: Preparation
Challenge: Formal Robes
Team: Death Eaters
Length: 100
Rating: G
A/N: The characters do not belong to me. The mistakes do. For stgulik.

It was long and narrow. Without the life force to fill it, there was nothing imposing about it. Emptied of its owner, it carried no intimidation, no personality.

Hermione laid the robe on the bed, face up, and smoothed the wrinkles from the fine fabric. Absently, she stroked the velvet cuffs, ran her fingers over the long line of buttons.

The first tear dropped on the arm, and disappeared into the magic fibres. She vanished the blood and venom from the collar, and repaired the shoulder.

He would never want to be seen in anything less than his best.

 

The Music We Make

Title: The Music We Make
Rating: NC-17 (duh)
Pairing: Severus Snape/Sirius Black
Word Count: 2,458
Summary: Sirius accepts what he needs, even though he really doesn’t understand why he needs it. A kitchen-sink drama in two unnatural acts.
A/N: This short story is for my precious and dear friend, akatnamedeaster. You are such an inspiration, a generous and talented and supportive friend. I hope you will enjoy this, and forgive me that Sirius got a little cerebral on me right in the middle of all the smut. I hope this makes sense. It is un-beta’d, because I was too impatient, and these characters are not owned by me. If they were, I swear they would still be alive and fucking their way through the Wizarding world forever.

 

2016-02-08 Chat Up; Old Joke Challenge

Title: Chat Up
Challenge: Old Joke
Team: Death Eaters
Length: 5 X 100
Rating: R
A/N: I ran out of time before the challenge was officially over, but I just had to get in my favourite bad joke. Come to think on it, it’s the only joke I actually know by heart… Also, a nod to Victoria Wood’s classic series, Dinnerladies.

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2016-01-10 The Professor’s Speech; Radio Challenge

This is both a drabble for this week’s GS100 challenge: Radio, and in tribute to Severus Snape’s birthday – 2016-01-09:
Title: The Professor’s Speech
Challenge: Radio
Team: Death Eaters
Length: 2 X 100
Rating: PG
A/N: The title of this drabble is a bit of an homage to The King’s Speech, if you squint. This is dedicated to the great stgulik, for her excellent prompt, and to mywitch, who has injected such positive, loving energy into the fandom as of late. And also because she has a terrible cold and hopefully this will cheer her up.

 

2016-01-07 Signal Boost; Radio Challenge

For the Dreamwidth Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2016, I pledged that I would, without fail, post at least 100 words a week to grangersnape100. Here is my first entry of the year, for Week 01. This is dedicated to stgulik, for not only submitting this particular challenge, but for always helping me point myself in the proper direction.

The ever-awesome Lemonade8 created this beautiful art as a companion piece – I’m just blown away by it.

 

Hogwarts: A History… Of Sorts; The Twelve Years Of Christmas After The War

This was originally given to a small group of friends as a little book for Christmas 2013. I hope they will forgive me giving this to a larger group of friends.

 

2015-12-20 End of Term; Christmas At Hogwarts Challenge

Title: End of Term
Team: Death Eaters
Rating: R
Challenge: Christmas At Hogwarts – I can’t believe there’s no Library Challenge!! We need one.
Length: 7 X 100

I received this beautiful Christmas present today from  lemonade8, which inspired me to no end. Merry Christmas to us all, and if there isn’t such a thing as the Book Club mentioned below, there needs to be.

 

2015-12-08 The Snow Has Other Plans: Christmas At Hogwarts Challenge

Title: The Snow Has Other Plans
Team: Death Eaters
Challenge: Christmas At Hogwarts
Length 8 X 100
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Severus doesn’t approach Christmas any differently than in years past, but that was before Hermione…
A/N: Just a little bit of Christmas schmaltz. I hope all my friends have an amazing Christmas, and that you receive everything you truly wish for.