Short fic recs

[rymenhild]

prosewitch asked for HP short fic recommendations - specifically, short enough not to take large quantities of time away from the thesis.

Oral History by acadine. G. ~1500 words. Padma Patil realizes there are some things they don't teach at Hogwarts. There are a few typos in the story, but nothing large enough to take away my enjoyment of what happens when a postcolonial eye meets the Hogwarts syllabus.

Sublimation and the Snitch by copperbadge. PG-13. ~4700 words. Yes, I have recced this before... but it's wonderful. The world clearly needed a Freudian reading of Quidditch. Make sure to check out the footnote on Jung.

In Another Season, also by copperbadge. PG-13. ~1200 words. Summary provided by author: "Lupin wanted no job, no pity, and no friends; for twelve years after the fall of Voldemort, he ran away, and for fifteen years he kept no contact with the Order. But you can't run from the past forever, especially when you've invited it into your home." Clearly, tightly written, it's the best short exploration of Copperbadge's Lupin after 1981.

Lightning Has Just Struck My Brain by mousapelli. Not rated, but I'd give it PG - possibly PG-13 for creepiness and the use of curses which should be, but aren't, Unforgivable. ~1200 words. The best summary is the first sentence, "There were a lot of things about Neville that weren't making sense to Harry."

A Little Night Air by penknife. Not rated by author, but it's G. ~1700 words. McGonagall and Snape have a conversation; the dialogue is excellent and perfectly in character.

It occurs to me that there are no pairings anywhere on this list. This is probably because I prefer the stories I read to have plot, and at under 2000 words (well, except for "Sublimation") one can either have plot or sex, not both.