Tonight at 5:00 p.m. (EST), hp_beholder will start posting!

(ETA: or...perhaps 6:00 *g*)

A pretty astounding 43 of the 63 characters who are the focus of this exchange have already been represented in fic and art, and there are more to come!*

Just add hp_beholder to your reading list for the next month (or the LJ rss feed) and you won't miss any of the community's strange and wonderful pairings (...many of which mysteriously seem to include Severus Snape *g*)

*Note: if you happen to be one of the few people still in the "more to come!" category - and I suspect some of you reading this are, since almost everybody in that group is on my f'list *g* - please take pity on me.... *makes sad face over missing stories*

Recipient: florence_craye
Author/Artist: zephre
Title: Love Triptych: Mature, Young, Giant
Rating: G
Pairings: Irma Pince/Elphias Doge; Millicent Bulstrode/Hermione Granger; Olympe Maxime/Rubeus Hagrid
Disclaimer: Art based on characters by JKRowling; everybody's over 18
Warnings: Pumpkin as cocktail glass.
Summary: Snapshots of three courtships
Author's/Artist's Notes: ---

( Love Triptych: Mature, Young, Giant )

Recipient: spidermoth
Author: snapelike
Title: Minotauros
Rating: R for violence
Pairings: Rabastan Lestrange/Gregory Goyle
Word Count: 7,500
Warnings: Violence, torture, rape (not between pairing)
Summary: Being sentenced to life in Azkaban should be punishment enough for almost any crime. But as it is, prison power games make sure any sentence is topped with a little extra that makes things even more unbearable. There is only one way to get though: fight and win, or lose and despair. Azkaban is not for the weak, Gregory Goyle already knows that when he finds Rabastan Lestrange abused and violated by his fellow prisoners.
Author's Notes: Since this is about getting the un-loved characters some loving, I chose two of the most unlikely ones and tried to come up with a story that would let them be together with at least some kind of proper reason for such a strange pair. I hope I managed. Thanks to my lovely beta, X.

( Minotauros )