As my Whimsy takes me

Title: The Perils of Wizardry Travelling

Author:Ysilme
Characters/Pairing: Severus Snape/Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG
Genre: picture story, humour
Summary: A picture story of a holiday trip with interesting side effects. Meet Lego Min and Sev and their not so shared love for flora, fauna and sweets.
Author's notes: for kellychambliss.


( The Perils of Wizardry Travelling )

Titel: Keine Ahnung
Autor: Alcina vom Steinsberg / winterwitch 
Charaktere: Minerva McGonagall/Poppy Pomfrey
Rating: G
Wortzahl: ~ 300
Summary: Alltagsprobleme gibt es auch im magischen Haushalt
A/N:. Das Original "Thinking of you" habe ich als Geburtstagsficlet für therealsnape, meine eifrige englische Beta, geschrieben.  Herzlichsten Dank an TheVirginian für gewohnt gutes und effektives Betalesen.

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Poppy schäumte. “Ich fasse es einfach nicht – dieser dreimalverfluchte Installateur ist schon wieder nicht aufgetaucht!”

Minerva senkte die Zeitung und stellte ihre Tasse ab.
“Was? Ach so, der Installateur. Na sowas.“
Mit abwesendem Blick hielt sie Poppy ihre Tasse zum Nachfüllen hin.

Poppy wußte nur zu gut, daß ihre Liebste morgens mindestens zwei Tassen Tee brauchte, um halbwegs ansprechbar zu sein. Daher schenkte sie sich selbst ein und nahm Platz.

„Dieses Mal kriegt er einen Heuler“, schwor sie beim Gedanken an den säumigen Maginstallateur „Ich bin es mehr als nur leid, morgens als erstes hektoliterweise Wasser vom Hof verschwinden lassen zu müssen.“

Minerva grunzte nur und nahm einen Schluck aus ihrer Tasse. Sie war Poppy extrem dankbar dafür, daß diese sich um alle Notwendigkeiten rund um ihr Sommerhäuschen kümmerte. Trotzdem fand sie es mehr als nur anstrengend, sich solchen Problemen bereits früh am Morgen widmen zu müssen, auch wenn nur ihr teilnahmsvolles Ohr gebraucht wurde.

Plötzlich war ein Klackern an der Scheibe zu hören. Poppy stand auf und ließ die Eule herein. Mit zusammengekniffenen Augen versuchte sie dann, die Adresse auf der Briefrolle zu entziffern.

„Du brauchst eine Lesebrille“, bemerkte Minerva trocken und versuchte, ein Grinsen über Poppys säuerliche Miene zu unterdrücken.

Poppy ignorierte Minervas liebevollen Spott und bemühte sich, das entrollte Pergament nicht weiter von sich wegzuhalten als üblich. Dann leuchtete ihr Gesicht auf.

„Schau mal hier! Ein Zauber für verstopfte Abflüsse und Abwasserleitungen! Ich wußte nicht mal, daß es sowas gibt. Natürlich uralt, aber du kriegst das bestimmt hin. Du kannst doch mittelalterliches Latein, oder?“
Sie ließ das Pergament mit einem breiten Lächeln sinken.
„Wie typisch für Severus, daß er etwas so Archaisches auftreibt und auch noch an uns dabei denkt -“

Poppy brach ab und runzelte die Stirn. „Minerva, woher weiß Severus überhaupt von unserem Problem?“

Minerva hob hastig ihre Zeitung wieder vors Gesicht.
„Keine Ahnung.“
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I hope Lord S. treats you to wonderful delights and you're having a splendid day!

My three-hour-train ride through the Black Forest made me come up with a little something that was initiated by your plumbing woes, so it's for you.

[Edited after having been beta'ed]

Title: Thinking of you
Author: Alcina vom Steinsberg
Characters: Minerva McGonagall/Poppy Pomfrey
Rating: G
Word Count: ~ 300
Summary: It's nice to have thoughtful friends and partners.
Author's Notes: Written for therealsnape 's birthday. Many thanks to kelly_chambliss for beta reading!

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Poppy seethed. “I can't believe that thrice-be-damned plumber still didn't show up!”

Minerva set her cup down and lowered the newspaper. “What? Ah, the plumber. Well, yes, indeed,” she managed, offering her mug for a refill.

Knowing well enough that her partner needed at least two cups of tea in the morning until becoming her efficient and matter-of-fact self, Poppy joined Minerva at the breakfast table with a cup of her own..

“This time, it'll be a howler,” she promised the tardy magiplumber. “I'm totally fed up with having to vanish galleons of water from the courtyard first thing in the morning.”

Minerva grunted, reaching for her cup. She was extremely grateful to Poppy for looking after all the everyday necessities in their summer cottage, but having to listen to her whinge first thing in the morning was asking much even of her patience.

Suddenly, a pecking sound at the window made the women look up. Poppy got up to let the owl in, squinting hard to decipher the script on the scroll.

“You'll going to need reading glasses soon,” Minerva observed, trying to hide her smirk at her partner's cross expression.

Ignoring the jibe, Poppy unfurled the parchment, trying to hold it at a normal reading distance. Then her face lit up.

“Look there! A charm for unclogging pipes and drains! I didn't even know it existed. It's ancient, of course, but I bet you can do it. You can do charms in Medieval Latin, can't you? Count on Severus to dig up something like this and think of us -”

Poppy paused, thinking. “Minerva, do you know how Severus knows about our little problem?”
Minerva hastily raised the newspaper again, not wanting to show her face.

“I have no idea,” was all she managed.

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Title: A Winter Walk
Author: Alcina vom Steinsberg a.k.a. winterwitch /the_winterwitch
Recipient: musyc
Rating: G
Word Count: ~1100
Characters and/or Pairings: Minerva McGonagall, Poppy Pomfrey
Summary: Two longstanding friends share their annual tradition and have a lovely time.
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: The world of Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling
Notes: Written for the hoggywartyxmas fest. My warmest thanks to therealsnape for the for the ultra-fast and efficient beta work, endless patience for my dropping out and in again, and for hosting and moderating this wonderful fest!

( A Winter Walk )



Note: If you enjoyed this story and haven't done so yet, go over at hoggywartyxmas and check out all the amazing stories of the fest. Every entry is a jewel!



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Title: Advent
Author: Alcina vom Steinsberg a.k.a. ysilme
Pairing: Minerva McGonagall/Severus Snape
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word count: ~750
Warnings: none
Disclaimer: The world of Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling
Summary: Not everybody likes Christmas cheer
Notes: This small vignette was written for a German fanfic advent calendar three years ago. Translating your own stuff isn't any easier than translating anybody else's, and I'm most grateful to therealsnape for her fast, much-needed and and excellent Beta work to make this readable. You are awesome!

( Advent )

I'm reading out of chronological order at the fest, so recs of previously posted fics may follow but I absolutely have to share this funny fic, A charming man, from Day 5 of the minerva_fest right now. It's Minerva McGonagall and Gilderoy Lockhart and about his job interview for the defence post. If you love IC characters and dialoge, go and read!

Title: The Bet
Author: Ysilme (Alcina vom Steinsberg)
Pairing and prompt: Minerva, Severus and sports
Rating: gen
Content: het, established relationship, Scottish Culture
Warnings: references to a weird culture, and probably dangerous things flying about
Word count: ~1200 *ahem* - I always was bad at maths
Disclaimer: The world of Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling. I don't condone in any way the author's transphobic, racist, ableist etc. views.

Summary: Snape has lost a bet to Minerva, with totally unexpected (and for the reader, I hope delicious) consequences.

Note: I participated at hp-worldcup-bets at Dreamwidth, where you could place a bet on the champion of the Soccer Worldcup 2010, and win or lose drabbles. Well, I lost and had the painful duty to write a drabble about Minerva, Severus and sports. Oh what a hardship! *lol* In fact, I had enormous fun with giving in to some old kink of mine - you'll see in a second.

Written for tetleythesecond, who won our little game, together with kelly_chambliss, who will like this as well, as I hope - tough I drew tetley's prompt and pairing. My thanks go to therealsnape for making readable English out of my tumble of chaotic words, punctuation, and grammar.

I've just read a lovely, little Minerva story by Cecelle, Icing on the cake. It's a young-Minerva-story, a small scene about her school years where she's doing something wonderful for her little sister.

Alas, no new drabbles today, too, I'm afraid. But at least four more are in my beta's hands.

Yesterday, I have discovered two fanarts that give my mental image of Minerva a new dimension, so to say: 

Minerva and Dolores and a Portrait of Minerva by ehay on deviantart.

As I just posted on close contrast(a LJ community for the fans of Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape, check it out in case you don't know it yet: we're just reworking the master list of links with lots of lovely fanart and fanfiction on it), these arts made me thinking about my own mental image of Minerva and Severus. Ehay's work has given my imagination of Minerva as a women, a lover and a partner much more deepness and colour, so to speak.

I don't know about you - but my mental image of either Minerva and Severus are rather different from the usual fandom images, particularly from the movie characters.
Don't misunderstand me - I dearly love Maggie Smith as Minerva and Alan Rickman as Severus, as I love both actors very much and admire the way they brougth both characters to live. And my mental images of both are highly influenced on both's performance, though less on the view they give me, rather the way they act and colour the book character.

My own mental, "optical" images are much closer to the book descriptions than the movie characters, though. A good example is the fanart by Sigune, "Her Glasses" - done after my descriptions after all *g*a and catching my ideas extremely well. Though the fanart might puzzle a bit because it's Snape wearing her glasses at this moment.