Snarry Holidays

Title: A Time to Forget
Author: gatewaygirl
Giftee: entrenous88
Word Count: 24,796
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Severus (references to others)
Warnings: Epilogue-compliant
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry had expected teaching at Hogwarts, even temporarily, would have complications -- his children, for instance. But when he goes exploring in the dungeons, the past moves inexorably into his present.
Author's Notes: Entrenous88: I didn't use any of your specific prompts, but I hope my attention to your desired subgenres makes up for it. Merry Christmas! To my beta readers: Thank you both for letting me know what worked for you and what didn't, and for putting up with a long fic on a short schedule.

A Time to Forget

Title: A Holiday in the Colonies
Author: snapesgirl
Giftee: The lovely pinch-hitters!
Word Count: 8092
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Warnings: fluff, fellatio
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry goes on a holiday in the United States and discovers a bit of romance in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to A for beta reading this gift.

( A Holiday in the Colonies )

Title: Seasoned Sound
Author: vissy
Giftee: unbroken_halo
Word Count: 15750
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Warnings: Seasickness and Splinching. Generally epilogue-compliant, but EWE with respect to Harry and Severus.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Eight lonely years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry investigates an old friend's Apparition mishap and discovers more than he had thought to hope for.
Author's Notes: A request for pre-slash led me to attempt a sexy story without sex. As you can probably tell by the warnings above, I'm not sure how well I succeeded!

Seasoned Sound

Title: The Best Laid Plans
Author: alisanne
Giftee: zephre
Word Count: 9300
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter, Albus Severus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy
Warnings: AU, student/student relationship.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: After all these years, Severus is determined to discover why Harry named his son the way he did.
Author's Notes: Zephre, you requested UST, post-Epilogue and the inclusion of Teddy or James as mischievous matchmakers. I tried, but Albus Severus insisted that that was his role, and who am I to argue? I hope you enjoy this. Many thanks to my beta readers, S and E, as well as to someone for his technical assistance. Thanks also to our amazing fest mods! *hugs them*

The Best Laid Plans

Title: Once Upon a Fish
Author: jin_fenghaung
Giftee: winoniel
Word count: 5848 words
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Kinks: Romance; humour; a little bit of angst; snarky, possessive slightly insecure Snape; strong Harry; mild H/c; very mild BDSM; happy ending; established relationship with conflict.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Wherein our hero experiences the inadvisability of home decoration - A fish with a hat - The singing of carols – A Christmas present is unwrapped - Advisability of a handshake - A whale with a tuba - The magic word - Silenced with a kiss.
Author's Notes: I hope you like it, I tried to include as many of the kinks/prompts as the plot-bunny would let me. And a special 'thank you' to the mods and my wonderful betas A, E and C!



( Once Upon a Fish )

Title: Dust of Snow
Author: florahart
Giftee: who_la_hoop
Word Count: 10,200
Rating: NC17, but not by loads.
Pairing: ...Snarry?
Warnings: none, unless you think EWE is a warning.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Severus wakes up, to his surprise, but he has some catching up to do.
Author's Notes: The prompt included relative equality of Snape and Harry, and for Snape to be rescued/saved by Harry. Severus was surprisingly uninterested in bringing quite the usual measure of snark or bitterness, but maybe he's just turned over a new leaf? Thanks to I and V for reading through.

( Dust of Snow )

Title: Monkey Business
Author: who_la_hoop
Giftee: jin_fenghuang
Word Count: ~8,000
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Purest Snarry :)
Warnings: EWE, live!Snape and hot buttsex of a top!Snape variety :D
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Trapped in a sort-of coma with only Harry Potter’s visits for dubious comfort, Severus Snape learns many things – including the beneficial power of irritation upon the healing process, and the positive things that can come from failing at Occlumency. (The less said about the monkeys, the better).
Author's Notes: jin_fenghuang, you asked for slash with yummy chair!sex and I was most happy to oblige! I hope you enjoy this fic, and a very happy Snarry Holidays to you! Thanks also to the mods, who are, as always, the absolute best. ♥

( Monkey Business )

Title: Deconstruction: A Writer's Tale
Author: empathic_siren
Giftee: femmequixotic
Word Count: Approximately 4,700
Rating: Approximately PG-13 (but there is some swearing and some implied naughtyness)
Pairing: Why, Harry and Severus, of course.
Warnings: AU, AR, Severus and Harry living as Muggles, existential ramblings, attempts at high-concept meta, disregard of the epilogue entirely, and a few bad words.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: What is love but a contrivance? Let us, gentle reader, deconstruct love and determine for ourselves what it is and what it isn't.
Author's Notes My dearest Femme, it's not at all what you could imagine, I think, but it is earnestly given to someone who I think—above all—will understand what it is truly trying to say. There is desperate kissing against walls and the hint of, "Oh my god, I have to fuck you NOW!" So hopefully those elements will soothe any potential discontent. Happiest of Holidays to you. Much thanks to my fantastic beta and to the mods for being incredibly patient.

( Deconstruction: A Writer's Tale )

Title: If You Ask Me Why
Author: gorgeousbowneye
Giftee: proftlb
Word Count: ~6820
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Snape
Warnings: Death (not a main character), M/M sex scene, possibly chan with Harry as 16, angst.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: “If you ask me why, I couldn’t answer. I don’t know what possessed me to do it. It just happened.” A love story.
Author's Notes: Thanks to B, E, and Y for the beta. This was inspired from a recent death in my family, my grandmother who passed away recently. I was quite close to her and so dealing with that was hard. In a sudden hit of inspiration, this came out of me. I don’t quite know how, but it did. So I hope you enjoy it, and Merry Christmas for 2008.

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( If You Ask Me Why )

Title: The Day Severus Snape Woke Up In Hell and Spent Seven Minutes in Heaven Before Life Interrupted His Happily Ever After
Author: eeyore9990
Giftee: gatewaygirl
Word Count: Including the Title? One Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiillion! Not including the Title: 8665
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: …Is this a trick question? *glances suspiciously at mods* Snarry and a little bit of Ron/Hermione.
Warnings: DH spoilers, massive sentient objects, the tiniest bit of exposition, Hermione's bag of tricks, EWE, slightly-out-of-his-mind!Snape, and shocked-speechless!Harry
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction set in the Harry Potter universe. No person or corporation is profiting from this story; it is for entertainment purposes only.
Summary: When Hogwarts throws a hissy fit, it's up to Harry to awaken its Headmaster. However, nothing ever goes as planned when Harry is involved.
A/N: Heartfelt thanks to all those without whom this fic would not have been finished. You know who you are. More heartfelt thanks to L for the beta and to E for the title. gatewaygirl, this actually started from one of your prompts (Harry and Snape have to work together) and then took on a life of its own. I sincerely hope you enjoy it! Happy Holidays.


( The Day Severus Snape Woke Up In Hell and Spent Seven Minutes in Heaven Before Life Interrupted His Happily Ever After )

Title: Coming Back
Author: anya_elizabeth
Giftee: perverse_idyll
Word Count: ~12,200
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: The obvious plus past Harry/Ginny.
Warnings: Epilogue compliance
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry's been looking for Snape for a long time. Snape doesn't believe him.
Author's Notes: This has been scary and exciting and educational and I'm so happy to be done. Love and thanks to my dearest Elizabeth, who spoke of My Fair Lady when I was stressing and gave this fic her much-demanded attention, and to Emily, who was a last-minute angel and is owed a ton of H/D wallsex. I really hope you like it!

Coming Back

Title: To Perish Twice
Author: chiralove
Giftee: jadzialove
Word Count: 5k or thereabouts
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Warnings: forced bonding, epilogue-compliant (more or less), happy endings
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Severus had had five years of very bad sex with Potter, once a year and regular as clockwork – he wasn't about to go on like that for the rest of his life.
Author's Notes: Thanks to S and R for the beta, and apologies to Robert Frost for butchering his poem. :) I hope that I managed to hit at least some of your kinks, jadzialove, and that you enjoy this! A very Snarry Holiday to you!

( To Perish Twice )

Title: Everybody Knows
Author: winoniel
Giftee: togsos
Word Count: ~28,000
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Erm, Snarry?
Warnings: Harry is 17; bottom!Snape; graphic violence
Disclaimer: This story is all mine, but is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry has grown tired of the wizarding world. He just doesn't have a good enough reason to sacrifice himself.
Author's Notes: This is AU from mid-HBP; beta admirably performed by H; greatest of thanks to the Snarry Holiday mods!

Everybody Knows

Title: A Series Of Reversals
Author: rakina
Giftee: serpenscript
Word Count: 48994
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Severus/Harry/Draco; Severus/Harry; implied Draco/Ginny and Ron/Hermione.
Warnings: Underage in some countries as Harry is 17; 7th Year AU; dubious consent; coercion.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: When Severus finds a book that will help the trio destroy the Horcruxes, and sends it to Grimmauld Place, Harry finds out it is spell-trapped. But not before Ron and Hermione end up inside the book! Worse, they're not alone. Lucius Malfoy's very bad day is about to get worse, and Harry's very complicated life is about to take a turn for the worse too. Why is it always up to him to save the world, and this time with his virginity?
Author's notes: To my regular beta, who is a wonderful help in so many ways, I offer my sincere thanks even though she must remain anonymous for now. And to the two ladies who did a read-through (you know who you are) and checked for plot holes I send big squishy hugs.
My version of the Grimmauld Place library is just that – mine. I've no idea what it looks like in canon, though we've not seen it in the movies. This story is a 7th Year AU, so please don't tell me what's different; it's meant to be this way. Serpenscript's prompt can be found at the end of the fic.
Author's note to giftee: Dear serpenscript, thank you for the awesome prompts! I could have written all of them, but in the end chose your first choice. I changed it a little; I hope you don't mind but it worked better for me this way. So the messages from the book are spoken, not appearing on the page as they did in Riddle's diary. I tried to get most of the prompt in, and also some of your favoured kinks and hopefully none of your squicks. I also tried to avoid 'excessive' fluff, but had to give it a happy ending. I hope I made it plotty enough for you, though I'm not too sure about the clever use of canon bit *grins*. Also, I couldn't resist a fair bit of humour creeping in, maybe more than you expected. It was all Lucius' fault, you see...

A Series of Reversals

Title: A Reason
Author: littleblackbow and summerborn
Giftee: ivylady
Word Count: 7300
Media/Medium: Watercolor on paper
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Um... Snarry...
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Snape has had forced upon him another chance at life. Harry finds he's lost his purpose. And somehow Wales seems to be the place to go if you've lost all direction.
Author's Notes: Thanks to our betas!! Hope you like this little story, (even though there's no buttsex... yet).

( A reason )

Title: Therapy
Author: evanjames
Giftee: asnowyowl
Word Count: 3,300
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Severus Snape/ Harry Potter
Warnings: * Ambiguous consent, mention of Harry/various others *
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: Therapy is good for the mind, at least that is what they tell him.
Author's Notes: This fic was much harder to write than I had originally anticipated. asnowyowl asked for many things very commonly found in fanfiction, none of which I commonly write; however, although very short, I am proud to get it done through many hardships and two extensions that I thank the Snarry Mods for profusely. I also would like the thank S for patiently, and sometimes harshly, reminding me that I could indeed write.

( Therapy )

Title: Harry finally gets his man
Author: jean_c_pepper
Giftee: The lovely pinch-hitters :)
Word Count: 3096
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Severus
Warnings: Mention of Albus Severus/Scorpius
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry and Severus both need each other, but they don't know it.
Author's Notes: Beta'd by the lovely H.

( Harry finally gets his man )

Title: Next Time I Fall In Love
Author: calanor
Giftee: fed_up_fiction
Word Count:17,620
Rating: NC-17
Pairing:Harry/Severus, Harry/OC, past Severus/Sirius
Warnings: Slash sex, angst, and love all the way around.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: They loved once, and forces beyond their control forced them apart. As always its a long road to love, but next time Harry falls in love, it will be with Severus as it's meant to be.
Author's Notes: It was a long road, but I finished.. I do so hope you enjoy. I wish to thank:: WC, B, M and R. Thanks to all these great ladies for putting up with me and all their hard work to make sure it flowed when I was panicking. Thanks to the Snarry Mods who were very understanding.. and putting this fest together again this year. Merry Christmas and Blessed Yule!

Next Time I Fall In Love

Title: Hidden
Author: darkladyvamp
Giftee: ravenna_c_tan
Word Count: 2000
Rating: PG
Pairing: Snarry
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry finds a potion. What does it do?
Author's Notes: I hope it fits the requests well enough. My muse sort of went loose on one situation. I like how it turned out though.

( Hidden )

Title: Challenge Your Limits
Author: countess_hp
Giftee: All the wonderful pinch-hitters!
Word Count: 2,128
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Warnings: Chan(16), bondage, sex, prolonged orgasm denial
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: Harry had a perfect way to be alone with his teacher, or so he thought. Did he bite off more than he could chew? Will Snape let him get away with his cheek?
Author's Notes: I would like to thank my beta that H for fitting this in between her new job and her family and B. I really hope you like it, pinch-hitters!

( Challenge Your Limits )