Rec me, please...

[eleanorjane]

...some tasty long Harry Potter book-era fic, please? Gen is fine, as is any pairing; I have a slight preference for H/D but I'm really not too fussy. The longer the better. :)

Unfortunately I stopped reading widely in HP well before I started reliably bookmarking, so apart from a few favourites (*cough*Transfigurations*cough*) I have no idea where the good older stuff is, and I have been jonesing to read some.

In particular, I'm really hoping for stuff set near the end of the book series, or post-series, but written back around the book 3-4 era -- when it was clear there was going to be a war, and soon, but nobody knew what form it was going to take, so every fic handled it very differently.

(Alternatively, I also love Hogwarts-set AUs; "what if Harry had been a Slytherin", and so forth.)

Help gratefully appreciated, or a pointer to a reliable reccer would be lovely too. :)

Comments

[helens78]

Have you read "Left My Heart" and "Surrender The Grey" by emmagrant01? I haven't read either, but they were a huge, huge thing back in the day. Both are on her site here, and she's got lots of other stuff that would fit that bill (she's only just now getting back to writing after a three-year hiatus). :)

[eleanorjane]

Aha, thankyou! I haven't read them - or, if I did, I don't remember them (because OMG I read a lot of HP, back then), so thankyou for the rec!

[settiai]

Ooh! I asked this question a couple of years ago and got all sorts of interesting recs. :)

[eleanorjane]

Awesome, thankyou! :)

[plasmoids]

So, I haven't read through this in a while, but I know I cleaned out my FFN favorites in recent years and only kept what I enjoyed, so I suggest this story: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/170054/1/Protective_Bonds Six chapter, H/D, I really don't remember when it's set, and I'm sorry if its awful.

Aaaand I thought I might have more in my LJ memories, but I don't. Sorry. Uh, hope it doesn't suck? <3