(Beauty is in) The Eye of the Beholder

Recipient: pauraque
Author/Artist: ???
Title: Elegy for a Goat
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Severus/Aberforth, background hint of Aberforth/Albus
Word Count: 17,460
Medium: Fic
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): None.
Summary: Ab has never been fond of his brother's protégés, but he's always had a weakness for goats. He's not sure what to make of Severus Snape.
Author's/Artist's Notes: Thanks beyond measure to Delphi, who is the most encouraging and kindest of mods and has more patience than a thousand saints put together.


Elegy for a Goat

Recipient: evensong14
Author/Artist: ???
Title: A Gramarye of Folk Magic
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Aberforth Dumbledore/Severus Snape
Word Count: 5818
Medium: Fic
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): [Transactional sex; a brief scene of animal sacrifice; references to suicide]*.
Summary: Time moves with the seasons in Hogsmeade, and season by season the Snape boy returns to Aberforth's inn.
Author's/Artist's Notes: I would like to thank my beta, F, for all her help. I really hope you enjoy this story, evensong14. Thank you for the inspiring prompts.


( A Gramarye of Folk Magic )

Recipient: The hp_beholder Community
Author/Artist: ???
Title: A Lonely Road
Rating: R
Pairings: Severus Snape/Aberforth Dumbledore
Word Count: 4,800
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *anal intercourse, age disparity, angst, alcohol, violence towards an animal, reference to a canon death (Albus Dumbledore's).*.
Summary: Two men. Dark times. Conversations which fail to communicate; communication through silence.
Author's/Artist's Notes: Many thanks to my beta, E.


( A Lonely Road )

Recipient: torino10154
Author: ???
Title: Run With the Pack
Rating: R
Pairings: Sirius Black/Aberforth Dumbledore
Word Count: 5757
Contents or warnings (highlight to view): *None*
Summary: When Albus said he had seen a stray dog around the village and to leave him out scraps, Aberforth knew right away that there was no way that dog was simply a stray.
Author's Note: torino10154 you gave a lot of ideas in your sign up. You mentioned Madam Rosmerta and Sirius and or James, but you also mentioned Aberforth. I thought it would be interesting to take Sirius into the Hog's Head rather than the Three Broomsticks for this story. I hope you enjoy. Thank you to D for the help and my betas A.

( Run With the Pack )

Recipient: synn
Author: psyfic
Title: Rebuilding
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Hagrid/Aberforth, Snape/Hooch (Hagerforth & Snooch? Doesn't that sound like a Wizarding Law Firm?)
Word Count: ~10,300
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Size queens, rather a lot of spunk, frottage, wall sex, first time. There is no bestiality but it is alluded to in re: the expected canon character.*
Summary: Two couples are brought together during the time of Hogwarts' rebuilding...
Author's Notes: You wrote: 'I like the idea of Snape/anybody, and Harry/Hagrid is a favorite.' Well, Hagrid already had a partner for the story, but I decided to include his and Harry's friendship here. I took your Snape/anybody at face value and hope you enjoy that pairing. You also wrote: 'I like details about little everyday magic more than large rituals, I love Hogwarts itself as a location: the history imbued in it, the thought of rebuilding after the war, etc.' So I used a bit of all that and I hope it suits. Happy Beholding!

"Rebuilding"

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Recipient: chazpure
Author/Artist: venturous
Title: Barfly, Sweet Dreams, Roll in the Hay
Rating: G, PG, R
Pairings: Aberforth/Severus
Media: pencil
Warnings: goat voyeurism
Summary: Young Severus drowns his sorrows at the Hog's Head, and finds not only a listening ear, but a friend, with benefits!
Author's/Artist's Notes: I loved researching this and drawing it for you, Chazpure! Thanks to S for the inspiring discussion of what this pairing could be, and lots of love for bethbethbeth for making this magical fest happen!

( Barfly )

( Sweet Dreams )

( Roll in the Hay )

Recipient: camillo1978
Author/Artist: inspired_ideaa
Title: Bedtime Stories
Rating: PG
Pairings: Wilhemina Grubbly-Plank / Aberforth Dumbledore
Word Count: N/A
Warnings: None
Summary: Wilhemina thinks Aberforth is a prickly old goat, but he tells the most wickedly amusing bedtime stories.
Author's/Artist's Notes: I don't normally work in colored pencils, but I liked Wilhemina's expression in my preliminary sketch, so I just grabbed my son's pencils and went for it.

( Bedtime Stories )

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: 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: lee_west
Author: westernredcedar
Title: The Antelope and the Lion
Rating: R
Pairings: Aberforth/Grindelwald, also: Albus/Grindelwald
Word Count: ~7000
Warnings: Unusual POV. Angst, dark humor. If you think Albus Dumbledore is perfect and wonderful, this is not the fic for you. Murder, canon character death. Oh, and I suppose Gellert would be 16 during his relationship with Albus, because that's canon, folks!
Summary: There is nothing an ambitious Chaos Spirit likes to play with more than a family as dysfunctional as the Dumbledores.
Author's Notes: (1) lee_west, this is rather experimental. Sorry. This pairing just took me there. Actually, JKR took me there with the screwed up story of the Dumbledore family. I just decided to actually go there. (2) There is no doubt the form of this fic was subtly influenced by "The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak. (3) Thank you to my betas: L for the reality check, N for the idea that made it work so much better, and B for the rest.

( The Antelope and the Lion )