Stories

Justifies the Means by Tim the Enchanter
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 5]

Summary:

Yuri Krum, a high-ranking officer of the Second Zaubererreich, has every reason to be proud of the facility he is creating. But instead of satisfaction, there is doubt, and Chancellor Gellert Grindelwald is the man to answer Yuri’s questions.

The name of the facility is Nurmengard...


This is Tim the Enchanter of Ravenclaw House, writing for The Untold Story Challenge in the Great Hall on the Beta Forums.



Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: None

Word count: 2589 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
10/13/09 Updated: 10/17/09


Destiny by eternalangel
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 3]

Summary: Godric Gryffindor had his mighty sword, Rowena Ravenclaw her clever diadem and Helga Hufflepuff her noble cup, but have you ever wondered why Salazar Slytherin had a locket? This is a tale of love and loss, triumph and betrayal. This is the story of Salazar Slytherin before he met the other founders.
This is eternalangel of Ravenclaw writing for The Untold Story Challenge in the Great Hall on the Beta Forums.


Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Character Death, Mild Profanity, Violence

Word count: 1802 Chapters: 1 Completed: No
Published:
09/30/09 Updated: 10/08/09


A Prize Above Rubies by Equinox Chick
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 5]

Summary: When Isla Black is instructed to accompany her brother, Phineas, and his wife, Ursula, to Burma, she does not argue. A daughter of the House of Black, she is not allowed to argue or venture any opinions. She will marry ... and marry well.

But Burma is not England, and the stifling etiquette of the pureblood society has been left behind.

This is Equinox Chick of Hufflepuff writing for the Lofty Learning Challenge: How to Charm Snakes.

Thank you to Apurva for beta'ing this tale.

Disclaimer: I am not JK Rowling and cannot take credit for any of the characters and names you recognise in this fic.

This story won the 2010 QSQ for Best Historical Fiction - Thank you



Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: None

Word count: 5761 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
10/04/09 Updated: 10/04/09


Go Down, Moses by Luna_Lover
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 2]

Summary:

Go down Moses
Way down in Egypt land
Tell old Pharaoh
“Let my people go”

Corina Payton has often wished she could go back in time and free her people from slavery with her magical powers. But when Corina finds herself a slave on a Georgian plantation in September of 1864, she realises just how far some people will go to take back their freedom. Corina must count the cost and make her choice: the price of liberty is dear. I am LilyLunaPotter of Hufflepuff.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Abuse

Word count: 11120 Chapters: 3 Completed: No
Published:
07/27/09 Updated: 08/24/09


A Broken Man by minnabird
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 3]

Summary: Morgana, a sorceress with a grudge against King Arthur and his sorcerous adviser Merlin, has abducted Sir Lancelot. Meaning to rescue Lancelot, Merlin goes to Morgana. Merlin is confident of his winning out - but Morgana intends to send him away a broken man.

I am Minnabird of Hufflepuff, submitting for the Gift of Gab section of the Bookbasilisk Challenge.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: None

Word count: 1997 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
08/18/09 Updated: 08/21/09


The Raven Within by TheCursedQuill
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 4]

Summary:
Helena Ravenclaw has a secret.

Besides that, her mother does not understand her and she is to be wed to a man she doesn’t like. In a desperate act to get away, Helena flees to Albania with her mother’s most prized possession. We all know the ending, but what about the beginning? Journey through Helena’s last few days with her mother, and her life.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Character Death, Self Injury, Suicide, Violence

Word count: 1290 Chapters: 1 Completed: No
Published:
08/09/09 Updated: 08/16/09


Burning Bridges by TheCursedQuill
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 4]

Summary: Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin have always tried to mend their friendship. But will this be the end? An all dialogue one-shot of the possible conversation between these two eternal enemies.

A Gryffindor Challenge Entry For The Summer Challenge

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: None

Word count: 1961 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
08/09/09 Updated: 08/11/09


The Old Lie by CakeorDeath
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 1]

Summary: War comes everywhere. Even to Hogwarts.



Young Toby Collier feels the pull of duty to his compatriots more than the pull of magic, but during the First World War, the first fully mechanised war, duty is dangerous.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Violence

Word count: 1339 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
07/28/09 Updated: 08/05/09


We All Fall Down by QueenofThieves
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 3]

Summary: A newspaper clipping dated November 2nd, 1943, burned and later salvaged:
…sixteen year-old found dead at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Headmaster denies all connection with previous events and the prior attacks on Muggle-borns…

When a student is found dead in the third floor corridor, Armelle Banks, Slytherin and prefect, is pulled into helping someone she would do anything to avoid.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Character Death, Mild Profanity, Violence

Word count: 4662 Chapters: 3 Completed: No
Published:
03/20/09 Updated: 07/24/09


Angel From Below by mzap
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 3]

Summary:

Some called her their angel, others claimed her to be a witch, and there were those who argued both were true.

June 1348. The Black Death has already begun its travesty, finally hitting England by coming through the trading ports. One in particular: Bristol. A witch has the cure and has been healing those who are willing, but when she is finally revealed as to what she truly is, even some will condemn her miracles as tricks from the Devil.

Written for the Being British final assignment.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Character Death, Violence

Word count: 2676 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
07/17/09 Updated: 07/24/09


From Here On Out by luinrina
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 1]

Summary:

How did we get here
When I used to know you so well?


Making a decision is never easy – especially if it could mean more than just a break up. And the power emotions hold is stronger than Isla Black thought possible. Will she be able to stand up to it all? And what will Savaric Orwell’s reaction be?

~*~

This one-shot is a companion to Shining Through Blackness.


Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Violence

Word count: 4351 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
07/23/09 Updated: 07/23/09


A Miserable Rebel by Sainyn Swiftfoot
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 4]

Summary:

Featuring Anrdomeda Tonks (née Black), Druella Black (née Rosier) and an argument. [dialogue-only oneshot]

This is Sainyn Swiftfoot of Hufflepuff house submitting for the Gift of Gab challenge. 

 



Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Mild Profanity, Sexual Situations

Word count: 2036 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
07/05/09 Updated: 07/20/09


Dark Blood by fruitandextranutcase
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 6]

Summary: It's 1935, and when Ysabelle Rosier's brother is the victim of a grisly murder, she vows to get her revenge. As her sixth year at Hogwarts dawns, she encounters not only muddled clues and the whims of her N.E.W.T. level teachers but also the unwanted affections of Hyperion Malfoy - not to mention the more intriguing ones of Muggle-born Will Roberts. Unwittingly sucked into the world of pureblood, Mudblood and murder, Ysabelle finds herself sinking helplessly out of her depth…

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Mild Profanity, Violence

Word count: 7448 Chapters: 3 Completed: No
Published:
05/14/09 Updated: 07/15/09


Brothers by spike312
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 3]

Summary: The true tale of Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Character Death

Word count: 4018 Chapters: 3 Completed: No
Published:
06/04/09 Updated: 06/29/09


Drachen by Tim the Enchanter
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 1]

Summary:

Seventeen year old Gellert Grindelwald, a researcher at a dragon preservation, learns a few things about the greater good with the help of a few dragons and his friend Albus Dumbledore.

This is Tim the Enchanter of Ravenclaw writing for the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament.



Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: None

Word count: 3170 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
06/05/09 Updated: 06/09/09


The Writer by Sainyn Swiftfoot
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 10]

Summary: Past Featured Story

A writer struggling with writer's block.

A bedtime story.

A legend. 

 

Winner of Best History/Mystery in the '09 QSQ's. Thank you!



Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: None

Word count: 2493 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
05/27/09 Updated: 06/05/09


The Deer Woman by OliveOil_Med
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 11]

Summary: In New Orleans, wizards, vampires, and all men of races magical and non can be found. And in 1893, a non-discriminating serial killer begins picking off men on the streets, one by one, barely leaving any traces of the victims, let alone the killer themself. But when a British Auror becomes the latest victim, his partner joins the American Ministry in the investigation, only to find one conclusive possibilty in the form of a creature previously only known to Plains Indians that shows no compassion and no desire to stop killing...

The Deer Woman

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Character Death, Sexual Situations, Violence

Word count: 13247 Chapters: 4 Completed: No
Published:
07/13/08 Updated: 06/01/09


Your Brother by Indigoenigma
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 1]

Summary: Although they were never close and never thought the same way, they were, after all, brothers in the end.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Character Death

Word count: 1468 Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes
Published:
05/18/09 Updated: 05/31/09


The Soul Stealer by IndigoPassion
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 3]

Summary:
In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told.

Once upon a time, hidden in the marshes, lost in the hills and sheltered by the forest, there lived, in a house, a special type of witch.

Many men tryed to pass through the forest, some men got lost in the hills and a few men stumbled across a house in the marshes.

The witch would greet each and every one of them joyfuly. Feed them, wash them, love them, drop them.

Many of these men never returned.

Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul to a woman so heartless.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: Alternate Universe

Word count: 684 Chapters: 1 Completed: No
Published:
02/18/09 Updated: 02/28/09


Tales of Wildwood by minnabird
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 2]

Summary:

“I think you’ll like Wildwood....It’s ancient, you know, it was old in Merlin’s time—plenty of history there..."


In Inglewood Forest in Cumbria, England, there stands an ancient house, hidden from Muggle eyes by enchantment. Wildwood Hall, as it is called, is centuries old. Passed down from generation to generation, it has borne witness to many things: love and war, troubles and bliss.

Here are tales of the families who have called it home. Here are tales of Wildwood.

Categories: Historical Genre: Warnings: None

Word count: 1559 Chapters: 1 Completed: No
Published:
02/16/09 Updated: 02/28/09


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