HP Beholder

Recipient: dognmonkeyshow
Author: r_grayjoy
Title: Much Better Days
Rating: Hard R/NC-17
Pairing: Minerva McGonagall/Alastor Moody
Word Count: 2,085
Summary: The first time it happened was eight months into the first war with Voldemort.
Author's Notes: Massive thanks, first and foremost, to bethbethbeth for not giving up on me. My heartfelt gratitude also to R. for being there, as always. And finally, thanks to dognmonkeyshow for the prompt that brought my writing mojo home!

( Much Better Days )

Recipient: woldy
Author/Artist: magnetic_pole
Title: A Toast to Lord Voldemort
Rating: PG
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom
Word Count: 4500
Summary: Neville joins an unexpected celebration.

( A Toast to Lord Voldemort )

Recipient: magnetic_pole
Author: miraielle
Title: Two
Rating: R
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Septima Vector
Word Count: 1348
Summary: There is a week until professors return, and Hogwarts will not wake.
Author's Notes: Many many thanks to V, as ever.

( Two )

Recipient: lyras
Author/Artist: naughtysnail / bluemoon02
Title: He Knew He Was Right
Rating: PG
Pairings: Aberforth Dumbledore/Minerva McGonagall, background mentions of Albus/Grindelwald
Word Count: ~3500
Warnings: None
Summary: Aberforth resents that, through his life, he has always had to share his women with his brother.
Author's/Artist's Notes: Huge thanks for the hard work and patience of my beta, B. Lyras requested character study, angsty with a glimmer of a happy ending, and people re-building themselves. I'm not sure I managed exactly happy, but hopefully satisfying. I really hope you enjoy!

( He Knew He Was Right )

Recipient: tripperfunster
Artist: venturous
Title: Nice Wandwork, Young Man
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Minerva/Severus
Media: Pastel and a bit of PS
Warnings: teacher/student explicit penetrative het smex
Summary: Severus found he could enhance his education with extensive private tutoring in Transformations
Artist's Notes: Dearest Tripper. ..a challenge to make arts for you, one of my fanart heroes? Yikes! Minerva insisted that she enjoy the many gifts of young Severus. I hope you have as much fun as she does. Inspired by the drawings of Louis Jaugey,

( The Question and The Answer )

Recipient: miraielle
Author/Artist: flourish
Title: "Carrying Old Delicious Burdens"
Rating: G
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Kingsley Shacklebolt
Word Count: 2,654 words
Warnings: Entirely canon compliant, although you can ignore the epilogue. Otherwise, none!
Summary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, McGonagall makes a new start.
Author's/Artist's Notes: Thank-you to P, my fantastic beta-reader, and to everyone involved in the Beholder challenge!

( Carrying Old Delicious Burdens )

Recipient: cardigrl
Author/Artist: alwaysasnapefan
Title: Finding a Niche
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Severus Snape/Minerva McGonagall
Word Count: 7,903
Warnings: Character death.
Summary: Severus Snape isn't the wizarding world's most welcoming person. When he joins the staff at Hogwarts, things quickly take a turn for the worse. It takes a little strategy and a little luck, but they put Professor Snape in his place, and a relationship forms.
Author's/Artist's Notes: When I reread your likes, I realized Severus would be good to do, and decided I'd pair him with a woman from your list I love him paired with. I've never tried these two together before, and I hope I did them justice. I tried not to leave any of your favorite staff members out. Also, I gave Minerva the keys instead of the chess pieces for protecting the stone. In my opinion, the chess pieces had an Engorgement Charm (Flitwick's department), and the keys were clearly transfigured. It's the only way that makes sense, and if that isn't the way J.K.R. intended it, I guess that makes this a very slight Alternate Reality.

( Finding a Niche )

Recipient: atdelphi
Author/Artist: shadowycat
Title: For the Sake of Argument
Rating: PG
Pairing: McGonagall/Snape
Word Count: 7025
Warnings: None
Summary: 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.
Author's/Artist's Notes: My thanks to atdelphi for giving me a chance to write this pairing again. I hope you enjoy your gift! Also, many thanks to the people who gave me their time and thoughts on the story and its artwork! I appreciate your help more than I can say. And finally, many, many thanks to the moderator of this wonderful fest! It's definitely become one of my favorites.

( For the Sake of Argument )

Recipient: istalksnape
Author: arcadian_dream
Title: Sixteen
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Sybill Trelawney
Word Count: 1584
Warnings: angst, femmeslash, hurt/comfort, implied sex, and a substantial age difference between the characters (I’ve estimated that Minerva is approximately 25 years older than Sybill – at least, that’s how it works here).
Summary: Minerva breathes deeply and, for a moment, she wonders how it is that she has come to be here. Again.
Author's Notes: istalksnape: thank you for a wonderful set of prompts, and affording me the opportunity to write Minerva. I really hope you like what I’ve done with it all. Many thanks also to T, for giving this the once-over.

( Sixteen )

Recipient: vivien529
Author/Artist: chazpure
Title: The Years in Her Life and the Life in Her Years
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Alastor Moody
Media: pencil on paper, slight clean-up in Photoshop
Warnings: none
Summary: Number 12 Grimmauld Place was dilapidated, moth-eaten and doxie-riddled...but it had not always been so. Minerva well remembered one particular velvet-cloaked nook, and the tales it could have told.
Author's/Artist's Notes: For vivien529, who said something Minerva-centric would suit. I hope you enjoy this!

( The Years in Her Life and the Life in Her Years )

Recipient: venturous / venturous1
Author: odogoddess
Title: By The Light Of The Moon
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Albus/Phineas, Severus/Minerva
Word Count: 8,480
Warnings: voyeurism, wanking, non-sexual violence, Rowlingesque Latin, portrait sex, first time, h/c
Summary: One cold and fateful night in that wretched year of the Hallows, two couples come to a better understanding of one another...
Author's Notes: Thank you to venturous / venturous1 for her spread of pairings and prompts that inspired this fic. Pleasant beholding!

( By The Light Of The Moon )

Recipient: injustice_worth
Author: lyras
Title: To Die A Man
Rating: PG-13, but please note the warning
Pairings: Rufus/Minerva, Rufus/Emmeline (at different times of his life)
Word Count: 1,925
Warnings: Torture
Summary: In the moments before his death, it is the women Rufus remembers.
Author's Notes: injustice_worth, I gather you're a big Rufus Scrimgeour fan, so I really hope this fits with your idea of his character! Thank you to D and L for beta-reading.

( To Die A Man )

Recipient: herbailiwick (lj) / alwaysasnapefan (ij)
Author: istalksnape
Title: A Murmur
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Minerva/Sybil
Word Count: 1400+
Warnings: Um, femslash. And some pretty good sex-ness.
Summary: Sybil finds herself loving Minerva more than Minerva ever thought she could allow.
Author's Notes: I really hope you like this. I tried for a smuttier draft, but they weren't having it (I hesitate to call them prudes, but they are quite private!). I hope you enjoy this. Thanks to T. for the beta read.

( A Murmur. )

Recipient: venturous
Artist: tripperfunster
Title: Stolen Moment
Rating: PG-13?
Pairings: Pince and McGonagall
Warnings: Nekkid Chicks
Artist's Notes: My husband walked by me while I was drawing this and almost had a heart attack. "Ooooh yeeaaahh" he purred, "Now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about!" :D Poor guy, he's so used to seeing me draw men shagging each other that he probably didn't think I knew what a woman looked like. :D

( Stolen Moments )

Recipient: purplefluffycat
Author: atdelphi
Title: The Art and Science of Change
Rating: 18+
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape
Word Count: ~5100
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Minerva begins a new life amidst memories of the old.
Author's Notes: Thank you, purplefluffycat, for the wonderful challenge and thank you to my betas, who know who they are.

( The Art and Science of Change )

Recipient: mindabbles
Author: xx_kerriann_xx
Title: One Fine Day
Rating: PG
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Poppy Pomfrey; Sirius Black/Remus Lupin background.
Word Count: 1,455
Warnings: None, but note the pairings.
Summary: June, 1975. Minerva and Poppy have a picnic to celebrate the end of the school year, and it leads to a conversation with Remus and Sirius and confessions on both their parts.
Author's Notes: Thanks to my friends Sarah and Diane for the beta read throughs. Mindabbles, I hope you like your gift!

( One Fine Day )

Recipient: hazelhawthorne
Artist: florence_craye
Title: Nurturing One of Our Own
Rating: PG-13 for partial nipple
Pairings: Poppy Pomfrey, Minerva McGonagall, Sybil Trelawney, Rolanda Hooch, Pomona Sprout, and Irma Pince.
Warnings: none
Media: construction paper collage, watercolor, ink, charcoal, plus a couple digital touch-ups
Summary: Poppy Pomfrey is always taking care of the Hogwarts inhabitants. So several of the female Hogwarts staff decided it was time she was cared for with a group massage!
Artist's Notes: I decided to go for an expressionist style, since there's some emotional energy in the idea behind it. Each woman is painted in colors associated with her personality or her field. Poppy is pink, McGonagall is her red/green plaid, Trelawney is purple, Hooch is yellow, Sprout is green, and Pince is blue. I had a good time making this and doing a fun colorful interpretation. I like the idea of the women of Hogwarts nurturing each other emotionally and physically. I hope you do, too!

( Nurturing One of Our Own )

Recipient: tripperfunster
Artist: sigune
Title: A Patented Daydream
Rating: G
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Albus Dumbledore
Media: inks, watercolour, gold Hybrid roller
Warnings: Crack. Oh, and bondage, but I'm just saying that to attract viewers. See rating.
Summary: Some loves are impossible, but dreaming about them is not. Minerva McGonagall tests a Weasley product.
Artist's Notes: This picture was betaed by protowilson, sydpad and Cecilia Latella. *BIG HUGS* to them for helping me out - those comments were immensely useful. Anything that still looks odd is entirely due to my ineptitudes. No one but myself is responsible for the colours - or for the idea :P.

( 'A Patented Daydream' in color )

( 'A Patented Daydream' in b&w )

Recipient: lyras
Author: donnaimmaculata
Title: All Things Right and Proper
Rating: R for darkish themes, language, some sexual contents and allusions to drug abuse
Pairings: Petunia Dursley/Vernon Dursley, Augusta Longbottom/Frank Longbottom Sr., Minerva McGonagall/Aberforth Dumbledore
Word Count: 24,700
Warnings: Vernon Dursley as a lust object. Yeah, I know.
Summary: During the Dark Lord's rise to power, three women struggle for their families, their love and their lives. Or, in less summer-blockbuster-y words: Glimpses into the lives of Petunia, Minerva and Augusta during the events of The Deathly Hallows
Author's Notes: Lyras, you asked for character studies, women kicking ass, plot, characters who aren't black or white, 'fade to black' rather than PWP, UST, working around canon, angst with hope. I tried to squeeze in as many of your requests as possible. Hope you enjoy!
Bonus points for everyone who spots the obscure crossover.

( All Things Right and Proper )

Recipient: alwaysasnapefan
Author: purplefluffycat
Artist: purplefluffycat
Title: The Problem With Memories
Rating: Fic - NC17, although much of the story rates lower. Illustration - PG-13/soft R
Warnings: (Canon) character death, Illustration (embedded within the story): nudity (although no naughty bits are visible...)
Pairings: Horace Slughorn/Albus Dumbledore, with background Severus Snape/Minerva McGonagall
Word Count: About 20,000
Summary: Horace's relationship with Albus has never been straightforward; he has always been left at once ecstatic, confused and hurt to the bone. As the two friends become reacquainted during one of the wizarding world's most trying years, what, this time, might play out differently? How might memories of times past impact upon the future, and what secrets might come to the surface? Set during 'The Half Blood Prince.'
Author's Notes: I have thoroughly enjoyed the chance to explore some of the many possibilities for this rich pairing. I hope, alwaysasnapefan, that this story pleases you - I have tried to keep a fair amount of happiness and humour here, despite the fact that the characters seemed determined to be angsty! ;-) Thanks also to the mod for such a superb and original exchange!

( The Problem With Memories )