femgenficathon

catsintheattic.livejournal.com

Title: Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear
Autor:

catsintheattic
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Prompt: 35) We were all developing the same stubborn pride, behind which our frightened selves hid, pretending everything was all right. Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948), Puerto Rican author, co-founder of film and media production company Cantomedia, producer-writer of documentary and educational films, and activist on behalf of libraries, teens and battered women.
Summary: It has been a trying year for all of them. A series of vignettes.
Word count: 3,947
Author’s notes: I wish I could have done more of the women in the Harry Potter universe. I also had notes for Tonks and Fleur, for Luna and Ginny. But in the end, it came down to these eight: Petunia, Dolores, Hermione, Bella, Minerva, Pansy, Narcissa and Molly.
A huge thank you to

celta_diabolica for the ever excellent beta-reading and support!

( Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear )

kellychambliss.livejournal.com

Title: Missive
Author:

kellychambliss
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Griselda Marchbanks, Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3900
Prompt: 37) Someone will remember us / I say / even in another time -- Sappho, (born 630-612 B.C.E., died circa 570 B.C.E.), Greek poet.
Summary: "As a rule, it's easier to write what one feels than to say it. But it's always a good deal harder than one expects." Griselda Marchbanks writes a letter.

A/N: This story is not the one I started out to write -- that one, as per the prompt, was going to be set in another time. But my mental time-turner got stuck near the end of Order of the Phoenix, when McGonagall gets hit by four Stunners and is taken to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries. So I wrote about that time instead of "another time." Many thanks to

tetleythesecond, beta-reader extraordinaire.

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In Potter canon, we don't know Griselda Marchbanks's exact age, but when she comes to Hogwarts to supervise the O.W.L. exams in OoP, she's immensely old, and we learn that she administered Dumbledore's N.E.W.T.s. Canonically, Albus was born c. 1880; I've taken the liberty of birthing Griselda in 1870 (making her 27 at the time of Dumbledore's exams -- young for an examiner, perhaps, but that’s a story for another

femgenficathon).

~*~*~*~*~

( Missive )

kellychambliss.livejournal.com

Title: Majesty
Author: Kelly Chambliss kellychambliss
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, HRH
Word Count: 6000
Prompt: #60 -- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear. --Amelia Earhart(July 24, 1897 -- missing July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939), American pilot and author; first woman pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean; first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Summary: Once upon a time, there was a great queen and a powerful witch. . .
Author's Notes: I've interpreted the prompt very liberally. Courage is here, definitely, along with a bit of fear (since there can be no courage without it). And I think you'll find loneliness as well (though not connected to fear, I don't think). Peace? I believe so, but you may decide for yourself. // There are several shifts in point of view; I hope they aren't too confusing. My thanks to my excellent beta readers,

therealsnape and

mountainmoira.

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( Majesty )

a-t-rain.livejournal.com

Title: The Supervisor’s Tale
Author

a_t_rain
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: G
Prompt: I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what’s comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes. – Amy Tan (born February 19, 1952), Chinese-American author.
Summary: Just how did a new translation of The Tales of Beedle the Bard by Hermione Granger make it into Muggle bookstores? Minerva McGonagall explains.
Author's Notes I'm afraid this is only tangentially related to the prompt; I hope that's all right.

( The Supervisor's Tale )

lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com

Title: The Hands of a Healer
Author:

lazy_neutrino
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Prompt: 53) In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. -- Mary Renault.
Summary: She has no children, and thousands of children. Pomona Sprout. Thanks to

kennahijja for her beta work. All remaining errors are mine. Dedicated to

stick_around and

themolesmother. Thanks to

gehayi for allowing me to post it so late.

( The Hands of a Healer )

mindabbles.livejournal.com

Title: I Bequeath To You
Author:

mindabbles
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Characters: Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, Isla Black, Walburga Black, Minerva McGonagall, Madam Rosmerta, Nymphadora Tonks, Lily Potter (jr), Rose Weasley.
Prompt: Prompt #85: What matters it if they do forget the singer, so they don't forget the song. -- Frances Watkins Harper
Summary: When you come to join me, leave it behind. It belongs here and to our daughters yet to come who will be in need of it as you are now.

The characters are JKR's. Thank you so much to

elizassecret for the beta and answering my many questions. Thank you as well to

gryffindor_j for suggesting what the object should be. Smooches to you both. Thank you to

gehayi for running this lovely fest and for being so kind when I told her that I am an idiot who doesn't know what day it is.

( The afternoon sun cast long shadows that stretched across the hospital wing. )

snegurochka_lee

Title: Five Women Who Hate Fleur Delacour
Author:

snegurochka_lee
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Gabrielle, Narcissa, Molly, Tonks, Minerva, Luna. Oh, and Fleur. ;)
Rating: PG-13 (possibly R for some strong language)
Words: ~7,300
Content: DH-compliant
Prompt #2: Every day, every day I hear/ enough to fill/ a year of nights with wondering. -- Denise Levertov.
Summary: She was beautiful, intelligent, talented, successful – and not very nice about it. Clearly, other women must hate her.
Notes: Written for the 2007

femgenficathon. I've been trying to write this story since HBP, when JKR first really wrote women's hatred of Fleur into canon. DH finally helped the story come to life a little bit more. As one of my betas wisely asked, "What are we really talking about when we talk about Fleur?" Many thanks to my beta team,

accio_arse,

islandsmoke,

magnetic_pole, and

stephanometra, who read multiple drafts and asked all the tough questions. Thanks also to

gehayi for running another

femgenficathon, always one of the highlights of my fandom year. :)

( Five Women Who Hate Fleur Delacour )

rose-whispers.livejournal.com

Title: Patchwork
Author:

rose_whispers
Rating: PG
Prompt: 105) We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.--Sandra Day O'Connor.
Word count: 5009
Summary: Harry Potter isn't a weapon. He is a quilt.
A/N: Thank you with big fawning smooches to

thescarletwoman for the fantastic beta and who, along with

inell and

cocohufflepuffs, put up with my wibbling about writer's block.

( She wonders if anyone has caught on yet that she doesn't know what she's doing. )

lissibith.livejournal.com

Title: Old Friends
Author: Lissibith
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Miranda Goshawk
Rating: PG
Warnings: Talk of character death, else none, unless you count HBP spoilers
Prompt: 8) Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.--Abigail Adams.
W/C: 1,154
Summary: Just two old friends – one a teacher, one a former teacher and current textbook author – hash out current events over tea. Post-HBP.

A/N: Thanks to my beta Dragonsong12 and pre-beta Sanalith, who still couldn’t save me from my fanfic newbieness.

( Visiting )

mad_maudlin

Title: A Serpent to Sting You
Author: Mad Maudlin
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Hermione, McGonagall
Rating: PG
Prompt: #86. You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.--Mary Shelley
Summary: Two girls, two professors, and the same basic question.

A/N: Thanks to

marginaliana for the beta!

( A Serpent to Sting You )

nagasvoice.livejournal.com

I got excited about the fengenficathon challenge back when it was first proposed, such that Molly Weasley's voice popped up unexpectedly in my head without even waiting for a prompt.
As I never got a chance to post it last year, I'm putting it up now.
When I recently saw the lovely lj graphic of the HP women, I'm afraid I screamed and pointed at the picture of Madame Hooch in the lower left and said, "Yes, exactly! That's it!" even though this story is actually about other people instead.

This story was Brit-picked by a wonderful beta-reader, who will have to step forward and claim credit because I've lost my original emails and some of my earlier story drafts in computer crashes and reformats. They made wonderful suggestions for edit improvements, too, so that the story was much improved. My apologies for not properly crediting you right here!

I should also warn those of you who are Lucius fans reading this story that Molly's attitude toward him, and mine, are not at all the same. Just mentioning, because it might be a little hard to tell that in this story.

Also, I'd offer a round of applause for seeing one of our mods,

gehayi, back online!

As always, feedback and comments are welcome.

( An Invisible Strength )

snegurochka_lee

Title: Five Dead Women
Author: Snegurochka (

snegurochka_lee)
Rating: R
Genres: Darkfic, Mystery, Drama
Characters: Lovegood, Tonks, Vance, McGonagall, Evans, Granger, others
Words: ~6,400
Warnings: Character deaths (4/5 canon); references to suicide and murder, references to pregnancy/childbirth complications, references to mental illness, adult language, HBP SPOILERS
Disclaimer: Not my characters, and less than zero money is being made here; in fact, money is being spent. JK Rowling owns all, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Prompt: #45: Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it. – Marguerite of Navarra, The Heptameron.
Many thanks to:

dora_the_nymph,

islandsmoke, and a third lovely lady who prefers to go anonymous, for the quick, thorough, and punishing beta reads. I have never quite seen a Darkfic-GenFic, and thus am certain this is not the kind of story the marvellous moderators had in mind for this Ficathon, but once it popped into my head, I couldn't let it go. I hope it still qualifies as acceptable FemFic, and GenFic.
Summary: Five vignettes, seemingly unrelated and featuring diverse Potterverse women, explore the link between these women that will answer the question: why are five of them dead?

( A woman killed on duty is still just another dead woman - and one less for all those blokes at the Ministry to have to worry about. )

Current Mood: accomplished

limyaael.livejournal.com

Title: The Way Out
Author: Limyaael
Rating: PG.
Warnings: Only language.
Prompt: Quote 36. “All the world’s a cage.” Heanne Philips. (A guiding spirit, perhaps, but not used in the story itself).
Summary: McGonagall’s first Animagus transformation is…unexpected. A look at why the Head of Gryffindor might be a cat. Most of the fic is set before the canon begins, just after Grindelwald’s defeat, and it includes an OC.
Disclaimer: All recognizable characters and magical details mentioned belong to J. K. Rowling, not me.
Thank you very much to my betas,

eisoj5,

goldjadeocean,

ldymusyc, and

nextian!

( Read more... )

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laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com

Title: Determination

Author: laurus_nobilis

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Prompt: 19. Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.--Kelly Robinson

Summary: Minerva takes care of the school while Dumbledore is gone. (Set in CoS; no spoilers for HBP.)

( Determination )

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Entries tagged with character: minerva mcgonagall

Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear (eight Harry Potter women, PG)

"Missive" (Harry Potter; McGonagall, Marchbanks; PG)

"Majesty" (Minerva McGonagall, HRH; PG) by Kelly Chambliss

The Supervisor's Tale, Minerva and Hermione, G

The Hands of a Healer, Sprout (HP), PG

I Bequeath To You, various women and girls from Harry Potter, PG

Five Women Who Hate Fleur Delacour (various, PG-13)

FIC: Patchwork: PG

(no subject)

A Serpent to Sting You (PG)

consider this a fillip in advance of the general wave

Five Dead Women [multiple characters, R]

The Way Out- McGonagall, PG

"Determination"; McGonagall, G