HP Beholder

Recipient: r_grayjoy
Author/Artist: snapesgirl_62
Title: Tangled Webs
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Poppy Pomfrey/Rabastan Lestrange; Rabastan/Evan Rosier, implied Rabastan/Severus, Rabastan/Rodolphus.
Word Count: 7728
Warnings: m/m, anal intercourse, voyeurism, Lestrangecest
Summary: Rabastan Lestrange must marry to satisfy his family obligations. Rab decides to be old fashioned with his courting and learns a few things about friendship.
Author's/Artist's Notes: You asked for some unusual/surprising characterizations for Rabastan Lestrange. And for first times (of all varieties), romance-not-schmoop, unlikely pairings and relationships, hurt/comfort, humor, snark, powerful women. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed writing it for you.
Disclaimer: HP is owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc.

( Tangled Webs )

Recipient: shadowycat
Author/Artist: donnaimmaculata
Title: Frozen
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Poppy Pomfrey/Severus Snape
Word Count: 3,600
Summary: After the final battle at Hogwarts, Madam Pomfrey cares for a patient who is neither dead nor alive
Author's Notes: shadowycat, you were asking for a story where things generally go well for the characters involved. I hope I didn't make it too angsty for your taste. But as the story is set after Deathly Hallows, I had to make them suffer for a little while first.

( Frozen )

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 )