kelly_chambliss

Here's the story I wrote for this year's minerva_fest. Though it was a coincidence, the title turned out to be rather fitting: the last story posted in the last running of the fest. I'll seriously miss minerva_fest; it's been a staple of my life for five year and has yielded many, many wonderful stories and artworks. But it's time to move on (for now, anyway).

I always enjoy subverting Minerva's Pottermore backstory -- so here's another version.

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Title: Parting Gift
Author: kellychambliss
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~4600
Characters and/or Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Millicent Bagnold, Elphinstone Urquart. Plus cameos by Madam Puddifoot and several Hogwarts staffers.
Summary: When Elphinstone Urquart decides to move out of the country, he leaves Minerva a parting gift.
Author's Notes: Mostly at the end. Many thanks to my beta, Boadicea12, for her kind last-minute work.

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( Parting Gift )

This story was my entry in the 2012 minerva_fest. I thoroughly enjoyed writing Neville.

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Title: Life, Love, and the Headmistress
Author: kellychambliss
Rating: PG
Word Count: 10,400
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Neville Longbottom, Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, Pomona Sprout, Augusta Longbottom, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Hannah Abbott
Summary: Neville Longbottom joins the Hogwarts staff as a "junior instructor in Herbology" and finds himself thinking about life, love, and Minerva McGonagall.
Warnings: none
Author's Notes: As always, therealsnape, my best and wisest of betas, has improved this story wonderfully. Thank you, dear!

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( Life, Love, and the Headmistress )