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- INDEX // Anger/Wrath (SSHG) #HarryisObservant #Ronisn’t
- Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (SRTHG). Lord Matthias has a new neighbour—or four. #GrassSeeds #BrokenFence #ExplodedCauldron #SeverusisTobias #TobiasisSeverus
- This Will Not Be Your Grave (Part 1) (SRTHG). Severus is in trouble, and his father has to get his claws dirty, but the price of victory is paid in blood. #TrueLoveWaits #DarkLordEvicted #ExplodedCauldron
- This Will Not Be Your Grave (Part 2) (SRTHG). Hermione gets distracted by Lord Hades’ library and needs her father to remind her that people are waiting for her. #OverachieverHermioneGranger #ExplodedCauldron
- Play Stupid Games Win Stupid Prizes (SSHG). Ron goes hunting in the Dark Forest for Snape. He finds spiders instead. #Don’tExpectCoherency #ExplodedCauldron
- Sometimes When I’m With You I Forgive Myself (SRTHG). The Triumvirate are reunited with their mate through unexpected means. #WhompingWillow #SymbioticStasis #TomRiddleBitestheDust #RadutheBestFriend #RaduisAlsoARoosterWithViolentThoughts #ExplodedCauldron #SeverusisTobias #TobiasisSeverus
- "Old Things Have Strange Hungers." (SSHG). Hermione gets into a bit of an adventure when her sailing boat gets blown out to sea during a sudden storm. #galeforcewinds #stormsonthewater #oceanicadventures #thingsthatliveintheoceanshouldntthrowstones #cosmicspacewhale #AlmostNotAn #ExplodedCauldron
- Fiendfyre More Than Ire (SSHG). Ron has a plan to get rid of Snape once and for all. He’s been practising. It cannot fail. #What #An #Idiot #phoenixes #corvusdrabble
- Beneficial Bugs (SSHG). A potions accident results in a mutation that gives Hermione unexpected powers. #SingingHornet #VoldemortisaBully #HermioneDoesn’tLikeBullies #ExplodedCauldron
- I’m Here (SSHG). Lily makes a with intention, resulting in unforeseen consequences. #AccidentalMagic #Severitus #SameAgeAU #ExplodedCauldron
- Without Doubt (SRTHG). Hermione dumps Ron when she finds out he can’t accept her scars, and sets off for the Undead Nation to take an apprenticeship she had previously turned down for him. #RonisanIdiot #proactiveHellhoundPup #Very #ExplodedCauldron
- Foxfire Eyes (SRTHG). Hermione uses unknown magic to save Severus Snape, resulting in Harry turning on her. The use of Dark magic condemns Harry to a new fate, but Severus survives to solve the mystery of exactly who Hermione Granger really is and why she saved him. #FaeHermione #ExplodedCauldron #SeverusisTobias #TobiasisSeverus
- Weaver of the Web (SSHG). Ron walks into a web in the Forbidden Forest. What you think would happen, happens. #Spidertaurs
- Pool Party (Ragu/Hermione). Ragu meets someone at his brother’s pool party that he doesn’t expect. #songfic #SirenHermione #ExplodedCauldron
- Living the Best Life (SSHG). Severus does his best to help his friend who was attacked by Remus during a full moon, but now the friend who would rather stand by Remus than their mutual friend, comes to him asking for sanctuary. #werewolves #curse #lovemakesyoudoamazingthings #JamesPotterisawanker #hissonmightberedeemablethough #HermioneintheMaraudersEra #SameAgeAU #WerewolfHermione #ExplodedCauldron
- Spite (SSHG) Prompt: He was her sin. She was his salvation. Everything in between was their fairytale. #vampireHermione #BAMFHermione #dystopia #explodedcauldron
- Pool of Rage (SSHG). Hermione and Nikolai invent a spell that creates magical therapeutic water. Severus has so much angst that it can’t absorb it all. #KindredHermioneGranger #minicetacean #therapypool #idiotinlove #SangAU #RadasImmensePool #ExplodedCauldron
- Surprise Party (SSHG). Hermione wakes up to find that Lord Nikolai is having a party, but she wasn’t invited. #obliviousHermione #KindredHermione #HermioneGrangeriseasilydistractedbybooks #determinedWalter #Ragumakingtastyfood #RadubeingRadu #ExplodedCauldron
- Dreams of a Sleeping Elder God (SSHG/SSRHG). When Severus meets Hermione again after the war, they are both different. #SeverusisTobias #TobiasisSeverus #Cthulhu #tentacles #consentacles #ExplodedCauldron
- Perspective (SSHG). Harry and Ron come to visit Hermione with questions on the day of a party celebrating her joining with her chosen family. #AkuAdoptsHermione #Hellhounds #ExplodedCauldron
- Boys Will Be Boys (SSHG) Hermione is hurt by a pack of bullies, and Dumbledore won’t lift a finger stating “boys will be boys.” Severus has to take things into his own hands. #SameAgeAU #NunduWillowSymbiosis #MaraudersBashing #Literally #ExplodedCauldron
- Rings of Saturn (SSHG). Severus makes an unexpected friend with the promise of adventure. #under1500wordsmiracle #spacewhale
- The Fall of Atlantis (SSHG, SSSRHG, SRTHG). He woke in the most terrifying way possible after the war—buried alive. But that was only the surface of a far greater history. #SeverusisTobias #TobiasisSeverus #sangAU #gorgon #ExplodedCauldron
- One Small Change Changes Everything (SSHG, SRTHG). Severus finds a lost journal on a train, and it changes the course of his life forever. #SeverusisTobias #TobiasisSeverus #ExplodedCauldron #foundjournal #founddestiny #onesmallchange #bigrippleeffect
Prompt : “Use her name again, and I will show you the difference between anger and wrath."
“Come on, Mione!”
“No, Ronald!”
“Just come to the Burrow for Christmas! Everyone will be there!”
“Absolutely not.”
“Mione, why do you have to be so difficult?”
“I can smell an ambush,” Hermione said. “You want me to go to the Burrow, so your mum can pounce and ask me uncomfortable questions while insisting that we are meant, while you palm that ring you transfigured out of a gum wrapper you took from Neville and compel me to marry you. I’m not going.”
Ron gawped at her. “It’s just dinner, Mione!”
“It’s never just dinner, and I’ve told you that I cannot marry you. We get on like fire in a library. A healthy family between us would not be possible, and even if we were to ignore something as basic as love for pragmatism, we would not agree on even the basics of what a family is.”
“A family is a mum, a dad, and their kids!”
“How limiting, Mr Weasley,” a deep voice replied as a shadow seemed to move over the sun.
Hermione’s eyes lit up as her face turned into a vibrant smile. “Severus.”
She tucked herself into his embrace with visible relief.
“What if your chosen witch chooses not to have children? Or physically cannot? Will you abandon her?”
“Well, that doesn’t matter!” Ron argued. “Because I know Mione wants a big family, same as me.”
“Ron,” Hermione sighed, “I’ve never said that.”
“I mean, maybe not in those exact words, but I know you’re excited about being a mother! Just imagine, Mione! The glow of pregnancy, the second-semester hormones, the—”
“Use that patronising nickname again, and I will show you the difference between anger and wrath."
Ron’s lifted his chin in smug masculine confidence, but then he felt something shift in the very air and in the lower regions of his body. Dampness spread down his trouser legs and all that confidence transformed into fear.
“Just so you know,” Severus drawled, “that’s still just ‘anger.’ Apparently, I inherited a few things from my father that influence the masses in primordial ways. Though, perhaps it is good that he isn’t here because his anger is my wrath, and his first inclination to annoyance is to introduce someone’s face to a wall as a matter of introduction and dismissal.”
“Oh!” Hermione said as she leaned back to look up at Severus in the eyes. “I promised your father we’d get him some Chesnok Red garlic to bribe Lord Nikolai with.”
“Mother wants Nikolai’s garlic knot recipe,” Severus said with puckered lips. “My father cannot resist my mum’s pouting face.”
“You get away from Mione, Snape!” Ron blurted, having replaced his fear with a surge of angry bravado. “She’s going to marry me!”
Severus narrowed his eyes. “I doubt that. As she’s already married. To me.”
“There is no way she’d chose your shrivelled old-man cock to what I have to offer her,” Ron argued.
Hermione pressed a kiss to Severus’ mouth to distract him from murder, whispering, “He’s been reading that awful Wizard’s Playboy magazine. And by reading, I mean—”
“Are you trying to horrify me, wife?” Severus asked.
“No way—there is no way you’re married!”
Hermione and Severus waved their hands, each showing a glistening ring.
“I beg to differ,” Severus replied.
“You’d have known if you bothered to read your mail,” Hermione said. “I sent invitations.”
“He’s too busy hiding from all the Howlers,” Harry said as he walked by, eating some pudding out of a bowl. “Ginny and I both told him about it, of course, but I guess he forgot again.”
“Or simply wasn’t listening,” Ginny chimed in as she leaned over and stole a scoop of her husband’s treat. “I reminded him the morning of the wedding. And he still didn’t show up. Mum, of course, doesn’t help, with all her preaching about being meant, but I think that’s just her way of forgetting that she used to listen to Skeeter over Hermione or Harry.”
Ginny grinned at Hermione.
“You should've agreed to come to Christmas dinner,” she said wickedly. “I would love to have seen what Snape would do if Ron had actually tried to put a ring on your finger.”
“There's already a ring on my finger, Ginny,” Hermione said in exasperation.
“I know! Think of how Ron would try to explain it away!”
“I'm right here!” Ron whined.
“I would have ripped off his arms,” Severus said flatly. “And he would definitely have witnessed my ‘wrath’ then.”
“You’re going to get your marriage annulled!” Ron blurted.
Harry jerked his head around. “I think I know where the missing potions from the storeroom went.”
“What potions, Harry?” Hermione asked.
“We had a crate of unlabelled potions we confiscated from a warehouse in Knockturn Alley,” Harry said. “We were waiting for our people to identify them.”
“Let me guess,” Severus said. “You stored them in the same place as the potions your Aurors use when going out on assignment, and the room is dark to avoid light exposure ruining the potions.”
Harry grimaced. “We’ve been a little short-staffed and lacking funds for expansion.”
“Idiot,” Severus said. “I suggest you take Weasley to a good healer to figure out what he mixed. Some potions have permanent side-effects when mixed.”
Harry sighed as he stunned his best mate with a spell. “This is for your own good, mate.”
While Ron’s body was stunned, his mouth kept spewing random things about being meant and Hermione annulling her marriage.
“Harry,” Hermione asked. “How did you suspect it was the potions?”
“Ron’s normally pretty sure of his prowess, lately,” Harry said. “But he doesn’t typically know how to use words like annulled in conversation.”
“There may be hope for you yet, Auror Potter,” Severus said, his eyebrow arched.
“Dinner tonight, Harry, Ginny,” Hermione said. “Don’t forget. Lord Nikolai is baking his best garlic parmesan chicken, and Lord Ragu is making lasagne!”
“I love eating at your place,” Ginny squealed. “I’m so glad you married Snape.”
“Me too,” Severus said, looking down at his wife with heated eyes.
“Shopping first!” Hermione squeaked as she attempted to fend off her descent into lust for her beloved.
Severus sighed. “Fine,” he agreed. “If only because I don’t want Lord Nikolai disappointed with anyone. Or my father.”
Hermione kissed him on the cheek. “I love you!”
Harry cringed at the public display of affection and Apparated away with Ronald.
Ginny giggled. “See you tonight!”
Crack!
She disappeared with a wide grin on her face.
Severus smiled as he captured his wife’s mouth with his and growled deeply as his fingers found her pulse point on her neck.
“Later!” Hermione protested. “We promised!”
Severus frowned. “Pity.”
Hermione jerked her head up, thinking of something. “You know what potions he imbibed!”
Severus’ mouth twitched slightly. “Weasley will be going through a long, difficult detox,” he said. “Poor thing. He’s going to miss the Quidditch playoffs. Alas, the quicker cures I know of are only fit to be taken by a Sang, and no one is Turning that one at any point of his lifetime.”
Hermione giggled and pounced her mate, snogging him senseless as he took her into his arms and spun, their bodies disappearing in a whorl of Dark plasma and the soft screech of bats.
And they lived smugly ever after.