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Of Muggles and Magic

Author: Aurette

Rating: Outstanding ⭐

Length: Epic, 182,266 words (43 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: DH, 31.12.2010-22.03.2022

Categories: Helping Hermione

Genres: Drama, Romance; Post-Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: A witch struggles to conform in a society that restricts her. A wizard thinks he has nothing to offer anyone but his duty and, ultimately, his life. An SS/HG Regency Tale. This story is an amalgamation of Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Gaskell, with a smidgen of Wm. M. Thackeray, and a very healthy dose of J.K. Rowling. It is AU in the truest sense of the term. I do stick to the Potter storyline in the background, but trust me, even that is alternative. You will understand as you read. (author) 

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A Taste of Silence

Author: Ys

Rating: Acceptable

Length: Mid-length, 17,468 (8 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: Classic, 26.12.2009-06.02.2010

Categories: Helping Hermione

Genres: Drama, Romance; Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: Rather than submitting to the power of Veritaserum, Hermione makes a drastic decision. Hogwarts staff wonders how to help her afterwards. (author) Hermione bites off her tongue rather than telling Professor Snape how she feels about him.

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Mirror Mirror

Author: Anjanas

Rating: Acceptable

Length: Mid-length, 28,603 words (17 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: DH, 17.08.2019-15.04.2020

Categories: Helping Hermione

Genres: Romance; Post-Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: It wasn't that Severus has an addiction - he could stop at any time. He'd already proved that. But the tantalizing images, the promise of a different life, just keep pulling him back. (author)

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A Stranger’s Kindness

Author: bohemian-rhapsodi

Rating: Acceptable

Length: Mid-length, 28,421 words (9 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: DH, 04.07.2009-13.07.2009

Categories: Helping Hermione, Penpals

Genres: Drama, Romance; Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: Hermione Granger always knew that her life was on hold for Harry's cause, but a gesture of kindness from a mysterious stranger will soon begin to change her mind. (author) Snape anonymously sponsors Hermione’s final year at Hogwarts.

Comments: Answer to the Daddy Long-Legs Challenge on WIKTT

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Burning Boils

Author: SilverAngel99

Rating: Acceptable

Length: Epic, 115,800 words (48 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: HBP, 23.07.2005-28.09.2005

Categories: Helping Hermione

Genres: Humour, Romance, Hurt/Comfort; Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: It is the end of the 7th year when Hermione is overcome by a strange illness that can be cured by a potion. Unfortunately, Madam Pomfrey is ill as well, and Snape is called up to take care of the young Gryffindor. What happens when she needs his undivided attention? (author) 

Comments: This story has a few spelling and grammatical mistakes, and the characters (especially Snape) are frequently quite OoC, but it still deserves to be recommended. Give it a chance. It’s worth a read.

Warnings: OoC, typos

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Redemption I & II

Author: VampiruLover

Rating: Acceptable

Length: Saga, 384,748 words (97 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: DH, 25.12.2017-15.07.2018

Categories: Captive, Helping Hermione

Genres: Hurt/Comfort, Drama; Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: different tale of what could have happened following the aftermath at Malfoy Manor. The trio has been broken, new players have entered the game. Will all survive? Who will be taken? What will be given? What is a happily ever after if not a struggle to find the light in the darkest of times? The road to redemption is paved in blood. (author)

Comments: This is a story which had a great deal of potential, and which I very much enjoyed reading up to the final 20 chapters, when it became somewhat... dull. Others might disagree! The beginning is fantastic, and very nerve-wracking. However, be warned that it might also be a little bit too much for some, as (SPOILER!) Hermione is very severely injured.

Warnings: torture, near character death

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The Love You Take

Author: Subversa

Rating: Exceeds Expectations

Length: Epic, 146,763 words (28 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: DH, 28.08.2007-01.11.2008

Categories: Helping Hermione

Genres: Drama, Angst, Romance, PWP; Hogwarts, AU

Summary: Hermione is cursed by the Death Eaters, and Dumbledore believes Professor Snape is the only one who can help her and keep her safe. Hermione is 18 years old in this story, but she is still a student. (author)

Comments: Very sexual, the whole plot is driven forward by erotica.

Awards: QtP Round 3 Fanon Het 🥇 AU 🥇 WIP 🥇              OWL Awards 3 Angst 🥇New spell 🥇 Snog 🥇 SSHG 🥈 AU 🥈              MPP Round 3 PWP/Smut 🥇 Saga/epic 🥈

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Heart With No Companion

Author: michmak

Rating: Acceptable

Length: Novel, 89,596 words (20 chapters)

Era, Publish Date: OotP, 14.09.2004-31.01.2005

Categories: Helping Hermione

Genres: Angst, Romance; Post-Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: “Well, Miss Granger, even incapacitated as you are, you are still causing me trouble.” (author) Hermione is struck by a curse during the final battle, and Snape is determined to break the spell and bring her back.

Awards: Multifaceted Round 1 Identity 🥇

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Pawn to Queen

Author: Riley

Rating: Outstanding ⭐

Length: Epic, 189,277 words (29 chapters + fragments)

Era, Publish Date: Classic, 24.09.2001-February 2003

Categories: Helping Hermione, Captive, Special Lessons

Genres: Romance, Angst; Hogwarts (AU)

Summary: A somewhat Nietzschean twist on Snape/Hermione. The Potions Master and his best student find themselves entering into a partnership that neither of them could have expected, courtesy of Lucius Malfoy. (author)

Further reading: Minerva McTabby wrote a parody: PtQ in a Nutshell. Several articles have also been written about PtQ and the PtQ wars, for instance Domesticating Hermione by Anne Kustritz.

Comments: This is a very well known and controversial fic in the SSHG universe. It was the basis of the PtQ wars (!!) which for 8 months reigned on WIKTT about 2002. This played a large part in the author not being able to finish the story, and leaving us with drafts and unfinished chapters as an apology. It disappeared from the archives when witchfics.org was taken down, but there are still copies out there, including my own which I give to you. Many people hate it, many love it. I love it.

Warnings: rape/non-con/dub-con

Status: abandoned

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