kelly_chambliss

Title: Silent Night
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, various magical portraits
Rating: G
Word Count: 200 (according to AO3)
Prompt: "Starting new Christmas traditions"
Summary: After the Yultide Feast, Headmistress McGonagall claims some time to herself.

To all my dear DW friends, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Wednesday to you all!

My final entry in the 2024 adventdrabbles

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( Silent Night )

Here's adventdrabbles #4. It's an actual, genuine 100-word drabble this time! With just the tiniest change of tone from the previous two entries.

Title: Light of the World
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Robert McGonagall
Rating: G
Word Count: 100 (according to AO3)
Prompt: Candles in the window

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( Light of the World )

I haven't written any Harry Potter fanfic since the final edition of the late, lamented hoggywartyxmas fest last December. I'd run out of ideas, for one thing, and I had other stuff going on, and I thought my HP-writing days were over.

But now I've been inspired to dip my toe back in the HP waters because a) I need a fantasy distraction from the disaster of Voldemort Donald Trump, and b) I wrote my first HP fanfic in 2008 because I had a broken foot. It seems only fitting that I embark on my second HP career on the occasion of my second broken foot.

(Foot update: I saw the orthopedist, and guess what! I now have an Air Cast boot. It's big, it's cumbersome, but it means that I can [lightly and gingerly] put my foot to the ground with each step I take. I still need crutches, and I can't move very far or very fast, but at least now I can hobble around without risking my neck and all my other limbs. It's a game-changer. I also invested in a knee walker, and while it's not very usable in our small apartment, it's quite sturdy, and I should be able to venture outside occasionally.)

Anyway, for my return to HP-world, I wrote an entry for adventdrabbles, a multi-fandom holiday fest run by the those HP stalwarts, the lovely torino10154 and alisanne. There's a different prompt for each Advent day.

This fic is unbeta'd, and my HP-writing muscles are stiff, so be warned! But I had fun writing.

Title: A Yuletide Tradition
Author: kelly_chambliss
Characters: Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall (sort of)
Prompt: Elf-made wine
Rating: G

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( A Yuletide Tradition )

Here is my entry for the 2022 edition of hoggywartyxmas. It was written for my beloved friend lash_larue -- Lash, I was honored to be able to write for you in the final year of this best of fests.

It's an uplifting, comforting story, I hope -- given the state of the world, we all need it!

Title: Four Christmases Pomona Sprout Loved and One She Hated
Author: kelly_chambliss
Recipient: lash_larue
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~6800
Characters and/or Pairings: Pomona Sprout/Aberforth Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore, assorted Hogwarts staff, students, and elves.
Summary: For Pomona Sprout, Christmas is always a wonderful time. Well, almost always.

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( Pomona's Christmases )

Here's my entry for this year's hoggywartyxmas fest, written for squibstress, whose superb stories and gifts over the years have been an endless pleasure to me. Thank you, S! Thanks also to therealsnape for hosting the season's best party and to all you lovely readers who kindly left comments.

It's a long one! Look for two separate posts. (Note -- You don't need to know a thing about Bridgerton for the story to make sense.)

Title: Bridgerwarts
Author: kellychambliss
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~13,500
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, the Hogwarts staff, portrait!Albus, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Griselda Marchbanks, special guest stars
Summary: The war is over, the castle has been repaired, and life at Hogwarts is returning to normal -- until mysterious letters start to arrive from "Lady Wandsdown." Bridgerton meets HP.
Warnings: none

( Bridgerwarts, Part 1 )

I wrote this short fic in a whirlwind rush for the rarepair_shorts 2021 Numbers Game Fest.

The premise was fun: you submitted the name of a character plus seven numbers (or just the numbers, if you wanted to be totally surprised re: characters). The numbers corresponded to lists of male and female characters, but only the mods knew which numbers went with which person. Your task as writer/artist was to create a fanwork using your randomly-assigned pairings.

You'll be surprised to hear that I chose Minerva McGonagall as my character, and my seven possible pairings were hilarious: Arthur Weasley, Gabrielle Delacour, Katie Bell, Oliver Wood, Eileen Prince, Tom Riddle Sr, or Helga Hufflepuff.

Any one of these would have been an enjoyable challenge, but I went with Helga.


Title: Ofnadwy
Pairing: Helga Hufflepuff/Minerva McGonagall
Rating: PG
Word Count: 650
Summary: As a ghost in Hogwarts Castle, Helga Hufflepuff feels the world as deeply as she did when she was alive.


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( Ofnadwy )

I'm a bit behind at reposting my fest entries this year. Here's my contribution to hp_halloween, the double-drabble fest that has been my Halloween tradition for quite a few years now. Written for my friend _hannelore, who asked for "fond childhood memories of holidays."

Title: Samhain's Child
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, OCs
Rating: G
Summary: Minerva and her grandmother always spend Samhain together.
Notes: My thanks to my always-excellent beta, therealsnape.

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( Samhain's Child )

This bit of comic porn was my entry for this year's Kinky Kristmas fest at daily_deviant. The prompter was the kind-and-wildly-talented mywitch,who asked for "Snape, by himself (thinking about: Surprise Me!)," with the kinks/themes of "wanking, getting caught" and a mood of "humorous and dirty." Her prompt was "candy cane."

I immediately had this vision of Snape sprawled on his sofa, cane (and other things) in hand, and this fic is the result. No redeeming social value whatsover. Just a whole lotta wankin' goin' on.

Title: From a Baby
From: kelly_chambliss
Characters/Pairings: Severus Snape/His Hand Plus Other Useful Tools. Appearances by Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore, Pomona Sprout, Rolanda Hooch, Filius Flitwick, Argus Filch, assorted students.
Rating: NC-17
Kinks/Themes Included: wanking, watching
Other Warnings/Content: misuse of magical artefacts
Word Count: ~2500
Summary/Description: Bertie Botts helps Severus Snape get into the Yuletide spirit.
Author's Notes: Many thanks to that most excellent of betas, therealsnape.

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( From a Baby )