Stories by BrokePerception

She had seen death and despair. She had had to say goodbye to many good people in her life already – people who had felt like family, like Remus and Tonks, like Fred. They had just never been Minerva. Implied/Unrequited HGMM

Light filled her gaze, then the dark hit, and it would for a long time to come for both her and her companion.

A Warrior's perspective on their daily life.

Story set directly after Cursed Child events. Hermione can't help but feel like maybe Ron and she weren't supposed to cross the line we they did and got together. / Implied HG/MM

Set after 6.07 The Broken Man. Yara finds Daenerys.

When the complexity of Kylo Ren's past becomes a threat that had not been foreseen and bits and pieces begin to fall together, dark and light come to a fight that can be won or lost by neither. SPOILER ALERTS.

"I believe this might just be what love is," Hermione whispers to the darkness in which she is well aware Minerva can still hear her, despite the fact she doesn't react.

Hermione finally takes the step to leave her unhappy marriage, unable to keep fighting for what was never meant to be. Ron doesn't let go that easily, convinced that they belong together... which leaves its consequences. Hermione tries to deal with it on her own somehow, but... is she truly that? - Under Construction

She had to admit that she was nearly afraid of her own children, and that was very hard for her to admit, even to herself. She didn't know how to be their mother anymore. Set after 5.04 The Sons of the Harpy. MINOR SPOILER; you've been warned.

Minerva knew her incredibly well, and maybe that really meant something.

Today, Minerva McGonagall doubts whether soul mates really do exist.

Shouldn't it be so that the selfless option hurt less, as a strange kind of... 'emotional compensation', for being strong and making that hard, unbearable decision?

You know when the perfect woman is the very one you call your wife.

When not long after the battle Hermione finds herself in love yet unable to let go of the trauma she's been through, she remembers the Memory Charm that saved her parents when the war went on. As much as she wishes she could just 'forget', though, she doesn't cast it on herself, but 'deletes' the love she knew in a way that is far more painful.

She had to go... but the cracks showed when she did.

There weren't even goodbyes.

Minerva and Hermione never would have expected for them to meet the way they did, again, but, maybe, it wasn't so unexpected at all after all, either.

She remembered the day she asked, er, demanded for Hermione to marry her very well, and the day itself, too.

There was a powerful feeling of safety and happiness that she felt, being with her wife and children.

Minerva muses about her marriage, one late Saturday night.

In battle, Hermione is hit with a hex that changes everything. She doesn't feel like she belongs anywhere anymore, leaving the United Kingdom and hoping that France will satisfy... until an honest offer reaches her there and her Gryffindor courage leads her to accept. CHALLENGE by MegaNerdAlert

Severus Snapy only realized too late that 'belonging somewhere' didn't necessarily mean those you belong with care.

Hermione and Minerva have been together for a couple of years and sometimes they get quite needy... It isn't necessarily wanting one another, rather than needing each other. HG/MM SMUT

Set during 2.11 Need To Know. If only it were slightly simpler, or easier... because those didn't necessarily mean the same.

He pulls her near, then pushes her away. He's House, but is that it?

Set after 2.11 Need To Know. She was fully aware that it might not last forever this time either with him, but maybe she just needed to run straight into the wall to finally learn her lesson and hate him enough not to want him anymore. Houcy

There was no better time to lose the fight and give in to loving than Christmas. HG/MM

Neither Hermione or Minerva McGonagall was the sort of woman who acted on impulse, but acting, they did. HG/MM /Sequel to: Who I Really Am/

It definitely affected her, but how and maybe more particularly… why?

Minerva McGonagall always appeared so tough. The thought of her burning wish long buried leaves her sometimes broken, though. HG/MM

He couldn't not love this witch; being away from her made him realize. HP/MM

Although bothersome when he wasn't with her, she happily took those 'annoying' hot flashes on with it. AD/MM

She waited like a cat in a tree – if needed. Wasn't that the most of confirmation to herself and the rest of the world that she actually was no lunatic, driven by her needs only and unable to wait to satisfy? BellaMin -REWRITTEN!

She really reminded him of the love he had once lost and would never see again; not at King's Cross, not in any other afterlife. Mild HG/SS

He never could have guessed what and who when he chased after the cat.

Bellatrix has always liked to toy with her little victims... Challenging situations. Connecting emotions. ADULT THEMES -REWRITTEN!

Kittens. Hermione/George. "Where was I?" - contribution to Twin Exchange Monthly Challenge. WON!

Minerva and Hermione are witness to quite the scene upon leaving the Hog's Head... HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Minerva suffers after Albus's death. She's brave, but… most of all because that's who she needs to be. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

The moment to be pretending had passed long between them. There were no more secrets now. HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Panic overtook once again as the red F began screaming in her head. -REWRITTEN!

Hermione and Minerva have both been very busy lately with a new school year steadily coming nearer – too busy to show each other love even. However, busy times settle sometime… HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Bellatrix hasn't always been bordering on insanity, a word so easily associated with the eldest Black daughter. No, she's become... slightly mad. - slight Bellatrix/Voldemort & Bellatrix/Rodolphus -REWRITTEN!

Cat. Hermione/Fred. "How about now?" - contribution to Human Multitaskers Monthly Writing Contest Harry Potter Edition for February 2012. WON!

Snow. Neville/Luna. "Say that again, I love how it sounded." - contribution to Human Multitaskers Monthly Writing Contest Harry Potter Edition for January 2012.

Thirteen years had not been enough to actually forget the times when they had jokingly called themselves Marauders and had behaved as such. MM/RL/SB - don't like, don't read! /Sequel to: Lost Souls/ -REWRITTEN!

She should have moved away at that point, but somehow despite everything, she felt just right where she was – not that she could have moved away had she tried to. MM/SS -REWRITTEN!

A morcel... set after Grindelwald's fall. Minerva's lost both in battle and in aftermath. -REWRITTEN!

Minerva's famous ire, combined with Severus' actions which always speak much louder than words... MM/SS -REWRITTEN!

It all seemed so surreal, but it wasn't any less true. She'd been there his whole life... HP/MM -REWRITTEN!

If only they knew... that I feel far from what they make me. -REWRITTEN!

Love is a battlefield: you give in and run... or fight and try find other solutions... McHooch -REWRITTEN!

Three lost souls somehow connected find themselves in situations with opportunities for relief. MM/RL/SB - don't like, don't read! -REWRITTEN!

Sometimes panic makes you do certain stuff... What would you really do in a situation like that, where stepping over the line would keep from happening what you fear so? -REWRITTEN!

Sitting with her for that last time, saying goodbye, he knew that he would never be able to let her go. He would always love her. -REWRITTEN!

She couldn't go on anymore. She couldn't return to the castle or to her alternative human shape... she would die there in the cold snow. -REWRITTEN!

Poppy Pomfrey had always had a weird sense of humor. Minerva... and Albus bear the consequences of it sometimes... -REWRITTEN!

All was new and exciting... and confusing, but Hermione really wanted to go. -REWRITTEN!

Sometimes you have to suffer for some beauty... Hermione Granger was willing to accept that to shine at the Yule Ball, or at least not look merely ordinary. Professor McGonagall, however, intervenes at one point. -REWRITTEN!

Hermione internally hated to be the least experienced and knowledgeable one that once. HG/GW -REWRITTEN!

No one ever knew that Minerva McGonagall had had quite a role in Grindelwald's defeat in 1945. However, she had… even though of course, he had gone down under Albus' magical superiority in the end. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

She had not necessarily liked to have been the professorial centre of attention at the Triwizard Tournament... -REWRITTEN!

Some women just look so... well, hot... when enraged. MM/SS -REWRITTEN!

An equilibrium is created when both are equal in what they give and take. HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Minerva finally agreed that maybe it would be nice to do something unusual for her, considering she usually travelled by Apparition… having been convinced slightly by Hermione... HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Maybe something would come forth from the once hopeless wizard after all... -REWRITTEN!

Harry realized that while he and Ron and Hermione now knew all about Snape's true allegiance, others didn't. Minerva McGonagall had fought him with all she had had to defend her cub while Snape had been on the very same side as hers all the time. -REWRITTEN!

Teddy Lupin would hear from others the how and why his father and mother died in the war. -REWRITTEN!

Aberforth had lived most of his life, maybe all, in the shadow of the more famous Albus Dumbledore, yet he cast a very powerful Patronus in the middle of the battle. -REWRITTEN!

She recalls, and allows us to follow through the best days of her life. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Nothing worth-while ever was very easy. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Miss Paddock's rather shocking... confession to her Head of House has them both learn something new. -REWRITTEN!

Hermione and Minerva have finally gotten married, and there's expansion to the family on the way... HG/MM /Sequel to: Wait/ -REWRITTEN!

Minerva really does need the time to consider things. Shall Hermione be able to cope with this? HG/MM /Sequel to: About Nightmares and Daydreams/ -REWRITTEN!

Hermione's relationship has ended. She's returned to Hogwarts hoping to finish her seventh year, when her nightmares and daydreams make her see that what really matters... which is unfortunately not so easy to obtain. HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Minerva McGonagall sometimes wondered if maybe he had remained alive just to pester her for the rest of her time as a headmistress there. -REWRITTEN!

Everyone needs someone sometimes. Even the stronger ones break. -REWRITTEN!

Minerva suddenly finds herself experiencing some oddities and asks Poppy Pomfrey for help. There's no cure, or... is there? Minerva/Poppy -REWRITTEN!

She very much likes to watch her love asleep... even though she enjoys everything else in bed, too. McHooch -REWRITTEN!

Hermione vividly recalls something from her youth when the Hogwarts Express is about to take her home, when she suddenly realizes her home is there. HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

.'But if I should become a stranger, know that it would make me more than sad... Caledonia's been everything I've ever had.' AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Hermione encounters the Headmistress in a rather unanticipated state, which leads to something far more intimate... and further... and further... HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Lily's death took away all of his emotions, and Severus sought to fill the void... even if only once. AD/SS -REWRITTEN!

Even when coming home late, Hermione's waiting there for her. HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

The intimacy had never been an issue, and even after forty years, there was no rut perceivable in that field. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Sometimes you would rather hurt yourself than others. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

This is the story of Hugo Weasley's birth, and the reason why his godmother Minerva McGonagall and his mother never were any closer than since his arrival. -REWRITTEN!

."He doesn't really feel any other emotion but rage, caused by his ever unsurpassable egoism." - CONTINUED BY Amerdrah!

What might have convinced our Minerva not to stop fighting, even when giving into the exhaustion and dark seems the easiest... HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

Sometimes about everything goes amiss, and someone unanticipated is there to aid. -REWRITTEN!

Sometimes there's just no happy ending. Sometimes you really wonder how cruel anyone could be to another human being... AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

The scars are deep and many; and it is up to her spouse to make her see how much she's loved, and that the new sunrise may not be as far away as seems... AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Minerva's recovering in St. Mungo's, with the support of the Boy-Who-Ended-The-War. -REWRITTEN!

Minerva and Albus haven't had an opportunity to be with each other for a while. Christmas Eve, and our forever favorite couple is actually home together for once... AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Minerva's reaction to Albus' death... -REWRITTEN!

A somewhat darker take on what might have been the nature between Albus and Minerva's personal relationship. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Both Ron and Minerva quietly recall their dance… The imposter that is quite set on killing Profesoor McGonagall and his teenage hormones combined with the elder woman's longing caused them to go far over the line. RW/MM -REWRITTEN!

Minerva recalls over her life. HG/MM /Sequel to: Chocolate/ -REWRITTEN!

There's one last thing that Albus wanted to tell her... AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

This is set at the lead-up to the First Wizarding war with Voldemort, and may give the reason for the relationship that existed between her and Dumbledore, and why she may have become 'bitter', as her pupils say sometimes. -REWRITTEN!

When the insane Professor Gibbon is hired for the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts in 1990, Hogwarts shall have Halloween like never before… much to the joy of the second-year Weasley twins… and eventually, Minerva McGonagall. -REWRITTEN!

One witch sat alone right after the fight. -REWRITTEN!

Hermione finds herself with child about eight years after the Battle of Hogwarts. Ron's annoying her with everything he says or does, and she goes to find physical support with someone experienced... HG/MM -REWRITTEN!

What the surviving McGonagall's thoughts urged her to do after the Battle of Hogwarts. She just wanted to know. -REWRITTEN!

A little bit of recollection from Minerva McGonagall's childhood... -REWRITTEN!

What might have been the base of the trust and unbreakable loyalty between the Headmaster and his Deputy. This might have been the secret behind everything. AD/MM -REWRITTEN!

Both Sprout and Flitwick come to McGonagall's aid in calming poor Sybill down. Minerva/Sybill -REWRITTEN!

Maybe there's a very explicit reason why at one moment it seems much like both women are ready to fight each other until death, and at another as if there's love in the game. Maybe Sybill has made more than two real predictions? Minerva/Sybill -REWRITTEN!

Set after 3.17 Fetal Position. Cuddy wonders what Dr. House actually did with those tickets... -REWRITTEN!

."Ah, Harry. Here we meet again." ... "You're still the same," Dumbledore stated, still smiling. "Still just as modest as I remember." Harry/Albus -REWRITTEN!