My recs page for English Fanfiction

On this page, you find my fanfiction recs, collected as I read them. Since I have read hundreds of wonderful stories before I even started this very recently, most stories I like don't feature yet, but will sooner or later.
My favourite Harry Potter characters are Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall, so you will find here four categories:
Minerva and Snape recs, Snape recs, Minerva recs and other recs.
"Minerva and Snape" will feature any fic where Snape and Minerva feature more or less prominently, though not necessarily as a couple. Snape recs and Minerva recs are  dedicated to stories where Snape respectively Minerva are the main character or play an important role. The fourth category is dedicated to fanfics where other characters than Minerva and Snape are main characters. I try to list any appearance of Minerva and Snape under "Character", though with stories I've read some time ago this won't be possible until I re-read them. If you find any mistakes or know of additional appearances in the mentioned stories, please let me know.
If the characters are separated by a slash, like SS/MM, this usually means a romantic/erotic relationship, het or slash. If they are separated by a comma, this could be gen or not specified.

I'm afraid that you will have to use your search button for finding more stories of one author, as I won't be providing a list sorted by author. It's simply too much work.

Apart form this rec list, I'm working on a Minerva McGonagall Masterlist, where I will, with the kind help of my dear flisties, collect any kind of story featuring Minerva McGonagall that is worth reading.

I'm far over 18 myself, so my recs and the Masterlist will contain NC-17 stories, too. I will put a colour highlighted warning of any NC-17 rating with every story where it is needed. By clicking the links you confirm that you have the appropriate age for reading it in your country.

I will give warnings if given by the author, and sometimes add some of my own own, if I deem it necessary, or leave some out. I don't think it is necessary to warn for spoilers any more in 2010, for example, and I won't be warning for large age gaps between adults, too. If warnings are important for you, please look careful what warnings were given by the author, too. Oh, and I won't be warning explicitly for Snape's survival of DH, as for me, nobody yet as sufficiently proven that he did, indeed, die in the Shrieking Shack ;o). On the other hand, any fic tagged "canon compliant" is exactly that.

If you find any missing or broken links, please let me know.


Recs Severus Snape


Title: Gentleman Caller
Author: Odogoddess
Character: Severus Snape/Nymphadora Tonks
Rating: NC-17
Genre: hurt/comfort,angst
Words: ~11.400
Warnings: lemon, a little bit of mpreg later on, though in an unusual setting, character death (no main character), EWE
Summary: In the aftermath of the war, dealing with lingering injuries, an infant son, a solicitous mother, whilst coming to grips with her inability to work and her feelings of uselessness and failure, the last thing Tonks needed to consider was a love life, especially when hers was dead and buried... or was it?


Title: The Sweetest Things
Author:
Alchemine
Characters: Snape
Rating: T
Genre: Humour
Words: 1012
Summary: In the dark watches of the night, Snape gets a craving for a nefariously delicious Muggle confection.


Title: Five Minutes Difference
Author:
shadowycat     
Characters: Snape, Remus Lupin
Rating: K
Genre: Angst/Drama
Words: 1594
Warnings: character death
Summary: What if James Potter had been 5 minutes later going down that hole after Severus Snape? Remus Lupin reflects on an unfortunate life.

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Recs Minerva McGonagall


Title: Crowning Glory
Author: Alchemine
Characters: McGonagall, Remus Lupin
Rating: T
Genre: Humour
Words: 1284
Summary: Remus Lupin finds out why Minerva McGonagall always wears her trademark bun.


Title: Unreachable
Author:
Alchemine
Characters: McGonagall, her father
Rating: G
Genre: general
Words: 3277
Summary: Some wizards hate Muggles. Some Muggles absolutely loathe wizards. Nine-year-old Minerva McGonagall meets a few members of the latter group, and learns a lesson from her father.

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Recs Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape



Title: Accidental meeting
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: PG
Words: 963
Warnings:  No romance
Summary: Minerva encounters some Death Eaters in the Forbidden Forest.
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Title: An Act of Love
Author:
MMADfan
Characters: McGonagall/Snape, McGonagall/Dumbledore
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Drama/Psychological/Erotica/Humour
Words: 161480
Warnings: contains het / completely disregards DH
Summary: Severus Snape is hit by a stray spell, which has unanticipated and undesirable consequences. When he begins to feel some side-effects from the spell, Severus seeks the help of a colleague. The relation between Minerva and Severus is not romantic, despite everything, but a deep and intense friendship.
The sequel to this story is 'Death's Dominion'. A third part, 'A long Vernal Season', is still a WIP.
Access: Registration required


Title: And truth to be told I miss you
Author: therealsnape
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: PG13
Genre: Friendship/General
Words: 1404
Summary: At the start of year seven, McGonagall has the usual pile of parents' letters to deal with. But some things have changed.
Set in the same universe as 'Stunned', but can be read independently.


Title: Auld Lang Syne
Author:
torino10154
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: G
Genre: gen
Words: ~500
Summary: Minerva receives a surprise Christmas gift.


Title: Death's Dominion (registration required)
Author: MMADfan
Characters: McGonagall/Dumbledore, Snape, Hermione
Rating: R
Genre: Drama/Psychological/Mystery/Suspense
Words: 293873
Warnings: contains het / completely disregards DH/ AU
Summary: Severus Snape’s life was changed when he was hit by an errant spell, and he comes to a decision that defies Dumbledore’s wishes. Even the fate of the wizarding world is altered by this one ill-cast curse and Snape’s subsequent resolve. Long after the spell itself has dissipated, its effects continue echoing in the lives of Severus, Albus, Minerva, and Hermione, and they bring with them a shadowy figure whom Snape does not trust and whose motivations and influence on Minerva are murky. Conspiracies and schemes swirl around Severus as he continues on his path of deception to his final confrontation with the Dark Lord. Again, the friendship between Minerva and Severus plays an important part.
Sequel to 'An Act of Love'. The sequel to this story, 'A long Vernal Season', is still a WIP.
Access: Registration required


Title: For the sake of the argument
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: PG
Words:
7025
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In the months since the Battle of Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall has tried to go on with her life despite losing so many people she cared for. Before beginning a new school term, she decides to take her usual holiday by the sea to gather her strength, but someone else has different plans for her and things do not go as she expects.


Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes
Author:
Kelly Chambliss
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: R
Words: 929
Summary: Severus upon waking. . .


Title: A fresh start
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Words: 2267
Summary: As a relatively new teacher, Severus Snape makes the decision to change how he approaches certain tasks and people.


Title: Gifts
Author:
Kelly Chambliss
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: NC-17
Words: 8100
Warnings: dub-con, angst, misery, mild bdsm, snarky!portraits
Summary: On the day of his return to Hogwarts as headmaster, Severus Snape settles some old scores and makes some offerings.


Title: Grasping at shadows
Author:
Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: PG13
Genre: Angst/Drama
Words: 1535
Summary: Minerva McGonagall has an unexpected visitor in the middle of the night.


Title: Happy Birthday, Minerva
Author: shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: R
Genre:  Romance/Humour/Fluff
Words: 2622
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Summary: Written for her birthday, is a precursor to 'Truth beyond memory'. Minerva McGonagall has an absolutely horrid birthday, until Severus Snape decides to give her his present.


Title: Headmaster Snape
Author:  Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Words: 4494
Summary: Snape returns to Hogwarts to take up the position of Headmaster of the school. A missing scene.


Title: Here, Kitty, Kitty...
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: PG
Words: 1497
Warnings:
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A lonely little girl finds a new pet.


Title: Honour
Author:
Josan
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: PG13
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
Words: 10 065
Summary: How does that unlikely friendship come about? Here's the story...


Title: Hoping against hope
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: R
Genre: Romance
Words: 9492
Warnings: AU
Summary: A night that neither wants to remember but somehow cannot seem to forget haunts Severus and Minerva as they try to forge a new relationship when Severus first comes to Hogwarts to teach.


Title: In Memory of Sigmund Freud
Author:
atdelphi
Characters: McGonagall/Snape, Moody/Snape
Rating: NC-17
Words: ~20,000
Warnings: dub-con and consensual sex, alcohol use, disabled sex
Summary: Severus Snape spends his first summer holiday away from teaching cloistered at a remote house in strange company, not least his own.


Title: The Innocence of Snow
Author:
Moira of the Mountain
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: PG
Genre: Angst/Friendship
Words: 627
Summary: In the winter twilight, even Severus might be tempted.


Title: Laughing Last
Author:
Kelly Chambliss
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: G
Genre: Friendship
Words: 960
Summary: The Creevey brothers believe that Snape has never laughed.


Title: A long vernal season
Author: MMADfan
Characters: McGonagall/Dumbledore, Snape, Hermione
Rating: PG13
Genre: AU/Drama/Psychological/Humour/Romance
Words: 132444 so far
Summary: Severus Snape had believed that, for him, life after the Dark Lord was an impossibility, that his death was not merely justice, but necessity. He has survived, though, and now he must learn to live his new, unexpected life, and to find something beyond the narrow existence to which he was once bound. A post-war fic. MM-SS friendship.
Sequel of 'Death's Dominion' and 'An Act of Love' (second and first in the series).
The story is not entirely published yet, but finished and is updated very frequently, so it's already added here.


Title: Machtmaker, matchmaker
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: PG13
Genre: Humour
Words: 2354
Summary: A somewhat twisted take on all the Snape forced marriage fics out there.


Title: Minerva's Watch on OWL and on TPP
Author:
Pyjamarama (aka pyjamapants on LJ)
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: NC-17
Genre: Angst/Drama/Hurt/Comfort/Romance
Words: 6311
Summary: Minerva lurks through the castle in her Animagus form, spying and waiting for Severus's return.
Access: Registration required


Title: Not a present
Author:
Kelly Chambliss
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: PG
Genre: friendship
Words: 2300
Summary: On Christmas morning at Hogwarts, Severus receives a package.


Title: Not Just Any
Author: Kelly Chambliss
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: PG-13
Genre: General
Words: 1030
Prompt: From westernredcedar: "Lavender's freak-out in the hospital wing -- from Snape's POV"  --  I didn't actually manage Snape's POV, but I think it should be possible to winkle out his opinion of Lavender's melt-down.
Summary: Snape and McGonagall chat about teen love, poison, and Dumbledorian methodology, among other things.


Title: A passion for quidditch
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: PG13
Genre: Romance/Humour
Words: 941
Summary: A passionate argument over Quidditch leads to something neither Snape nor McGonagall expect...


Title: Persuasion
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama
Words: 4485
Summary: In desperate need of an ally, Snape takes a chance at returning to Hogwarts to confront one of the few people in the world who might be persuaded to believe him. Set after HBP.


Title: Stunned
Author: therealsnape
Characters: McGonagall/?, Snape
Rating: R (M)
Genre: Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Words: 29197
Warnings: femslash
Summary: Set on the day MM is attacked by 4 stunners. Dumbledore fears an attack by death eaters. He asks Snape to use legilimency and find out. But when you ferret around in memories concerning MM you may find some surprises.
There is another story set in the same universe, 'And truth to be told I miss you'.


Title: Transposition
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape (gen)
Rating: PG13
Genre: Humour
Words: 16872
Summary:
Finding himself with too much time on his hands, Remus Lupin decides to brush up on his charms to the lasting regret of Professors Snape and McGonagall. Set during POA.


Title: Threshold
Author:
Kelly Chambliss
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: PG-13
Words: 4x100
Summary: Severus and Minerva at Hogmanay. This four-drabble series was written for the "First Footer" prompt at Snape100.


Title: Truth beyond memory
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall/Snape
Rating: R
Genre:  Drama/Romance
Words:  187232
Warnings: het
Summary: Minerva McGonagall has a good life: a job she loves, dear friends, a comfortable home, and a passionate relationship with the much younger Severus Snape. Indeed, life is very good...until her past comes back and threatens to take it all away.
There is a kind of precursor to this story, 'Happy Birthday, Minerva'.


Title: Under the mistletoe
Author: Shadowycat
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: PG13
Genre: Humour/Romance/Fluff
Words: 5031
Summary: Severus Snape disapproves of the use of mistletoe in the holiday decorations and Minerva McGonagall decides to try to change his mind.


Title: The Unholy Trinity
Author:
Selmak
Characters: McGonagall/Snape, Flitwick
Rating: R (M)
Genre: Angst/Romance
Words: ~ 180 000
Warnings:
contains het, some slash and femslash
Summary: OTP era with a focus on Filius Flitwick, Minerva McGonagall & Severus Snape during the Era of that Evil Cat Woman Dolores Umbridge.





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