Recommended Fan Fiction - Harry Potter
Warning: So far, this list includes mostly Snape-fics (Non-slash, non erotica) although I have begun adding others underneath the Snape fics.
Title: Darkness & Light: Parts One, Two, and Three.
Author: R.J. Anderson
Type: 3-part novel
Rating: PG to PG-13
Status: Finished
Misc: A student transferred to Hogwarts in her seventh year must come to terms with her dark past and a future that may be darker still.-- This is one of the best fanfics I've ever read, the characterization is excellent and the writing quality beyond the run-of-the-mill fanfic. The author also had some fan art to go along with her story at The Sugar Quill.
Title: That Thing With Feathers
Author: R.J. Anderson
Type: Short Story
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: Companion piece to "Personal Risks" the second part in R.J. Anderson's "Darkness and Light" trilogy. Faced with an opportunity -- and a challenge -- he never anticipated, Severus Snape must decide whether to turn away, or to learn the meaning of hope.
Title: Postscript: Like Gold
Author: Erica H. Smith
Type: Short story - sequel
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc:An idea of what might happen after R.J. Anderson's "If We Survive."
Title: Paraphrase: Subluriary
Author: Erica H. Smith
Type: Short story
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: A missing scene from R.J. Anderson's "If We Survive," Chapter Six.
Title: Lessons
Author: R.J. Anderson and Erica H. Smith
Type: Short story
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: When tragedy strikes at Hogwarts, Severus Snape blames himself. Maud tries to help him, but in the process they are forced to confront both past demons and present fears. Sequel to R.J. Anderson's "If We Survive".
Title: Epiphany
Author: R.J. Anderson
Type: Short Story
Rating: PG
Status: Finished (?)
Misc: In the face of a life-changing event, Severus Snape must come to terms with his own uncertain feelings. Sequel to the "Darkness and Light" trilogy and "Lessons".
Title: Mirrors
Author: Lyda Clurias
Type: Short story
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: Snape must make a decision after he confesses his role as a Death Eater to Dumbledore.
Title: Close Encounters of the Harry Potter Kind
Author: Seldes Katne
Type: Short story
Rating: G
Status: Finished
Misc: A children's librarian receives a very unusual visitor.
Title: The Christmas Gift
Author: Severitus
Type: Short story
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: Harry's in the Christmas spirit, and he's determined to spread the joy...even to Professor Snape.
Title: An Old Man's Meddling
Author: Severitus
Type: Novelette
Rating: PG-13
Status: Unfinished
Misc: It all starts when Harry misses the train, and his worst enemy has to take him home. Sometimes all it takes is truth to end hatred....
Title: A Father's Sin
Author: Severitus
Type: Novelette
Rating: PG-13
Status: Unfinished
Misc: Secrets, prophecies, animagi, and the Serpent‘s Children--a dark secret is revealed that will change Harry and Snape’s lives forever. But will it be for good, or for evil? Takes place Harry's fifth year.
Title: Acts of Necessity
Author: Jedi Boadicea
Type: Short Story - Humor
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: Snape takes a shower, with unexpected consequences.
Title: Down from the Tree: Actions
Author: Firelocks
Type: Novelette
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: "He hates Sirius," Hermione said desperately. "All because of some stupid trick Sirius played on him-" -PoA (Good explanation of what happened the night James Potter had to rescue Snape from Lupin.)
Title: Down from the Tree: Consequences
Author: Arabella
Type: Novelette, sequel
Rating: PG-13
Status: Finished
Misc: Sequel to "Down from the Tree: Actions" - "Sirius here played a trick on him which nearly killed him, a trick which involved me --" PoA
Title: Yet Another Snape Meets the Dursleys Story
Author: rabbit
Type: Novelette
Rating: PG
Status: Unfinished
Misc: When Snape is called to the Dursley's by an urgent message, he does not find what he expects to find. (Don't let the bad title fool you, this is a very good dramatic story so far.)
Title: Fade To Black
Author: Blackletter
Type: Novelette(?)
Rating: PG-13
Status: Unfinished
Misc: The Potters are dead and Voldemort is gone. His followers have fallen and the Death Eater trials have ended. Severus Snape is the new Potions Professor at Hogwarts, but the memories of Voldemort's reign of terror have not been forgotten and one who knows the darkness of Snape's past will not forgive.
**Other HP-Fics**
Title: War Wounds
Author: R.J. Anderson
Type: Short story
Rating: PG
Status: Finished
Misc: While this is a companion piece to R.J. Anderson's Snape & Maud Trilogy, those two characters are absent from this story. When Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody tries to help a female friend recover from a painful experience, he gets considerably more than he bargained for.
Title: HQoW: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4
Author: Arabella
Type: Novel
Rating: G
Status: Finished - as far as the published HP books are concerned.
Misc: Hermione's take on everything, as shared with her enchanted diary, beginning with the summer before her first year at Hogwarts and ending(?) with "The Goblet of Fire." --This author is incredible, not only is the characterization superb but she actually had me believing that Hermione really did have a diary!
Title: Ron Rants, Year Four
Author: Arabella
Type: Novel
Rating: G
Status: Finished - might be continued with subsequent HP books.
Misc: Companion to HQOW, Year Four. Ron's got a journal now and is just starting to learn how to write in it.
Title: A Mirkwood Elf in Dumbledore's Court
Author: Sun Queen
Type: Novella - Crossover
Rating: PG-13
Status: Unifinished
Misc: Welcome to Hogwarts. Please check your bow, your arrows and your knives at the gate, and try to refrain from drastically screwing up the universe. Enjoy your stay. (when Legolas finds himself far away from the shores of Middle-Earth in the Forbidden Forest of Harry Potter's world, he must figure out a way to get back... with or without the help of the wizards.)
Title: Balance
Author: rabbit
Type: Novella
Rating: PG
Status: Unfinished
Misc: Hogwarts is under siege, and it's going to take everyone to find a way out of danger.
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