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Title: Definition of 'Free'
Pairing: Harry/Draco, background Ron/Hermione
Rating: will vary, up to R
Warnings: slavery, slash
Word Count: 200


When Harry prepared to Apparate back home to mete out discipline, Ron asked if he could go along. "I'd love to see the Ferret's face when he realises what's coming to him" he snickered, dodging Hermione's incoming punch.

Harry couldn't help grinning back, but shook his head. "I don't think that's a good idea, Ron. It's going to be hard enough as it is."

"What? Harry, after everything the ferret did, how can you not want -"

Harry cut him off. "I'm responsible for him, Ron. Not just in control. I'm not doing this for revenge, or -" He raked a hand through his hair and struggled to explain. "When you abandoned Hermione and me - would you have wanted us to confront you on that publically?"

Ron's eyes narrowed. "I thought we'd moved past that, so why bring it up now?"

Hermione laid a hand on his arm. "We have, Ron, it's not like that," she assured him, then explained, "he's trying to say that discipline is best done quietly, without humiliation or fanfare. Humiliation should never be used as punishment; it's cruel."

"It's something Voldemort was very good at," Harry added quietly. "And I don't plan to be anything like him."


Link to Part One

Title: Definition of 'Free'
Pairing: Harry/Draco, background Ron/Hermione
Rating: will vary, up to R
Warnings: slavery, slash
Word Count: 200

Draco hated what the magic binding him required of him, and fought it tooth and claw. He hated calling Potter 'Master', but worse, he couldn't even do magic, not even a simple Lumos.

Harry got tired of Malfoy's whining quickly. Following Hermione's reluctant advice he assigned him chores to do, like folding the laundry and washing dishes and cooking.

Consequently, Harry found his bed short-sheeted (he had thought that was a purely muggle trick!). The first meal Draco made had been burned to charcoal, completely unedible - they had to order takaeout, Draco smirking as if he'd won a battle. And then he'd deliberately broken many of the dishes he'd dirtied in his 'cooking', forcing Harry to spend the evening repairing the antique china plates.

Harry had flooed over to the Burrow to ask Ron and Hermione for advice; surprisingly, it was Molly who had the solution. "If he's acting like a child, treat him accordingly," she said firmly. "A quick turn over your knee and several swats should do nicely, I should think - nothing hurt but his pride, and that could do with being taken down a notch!"

Ron had stared in shock, but Hermione, surprisingly, had grinned.

Title: Definition of 'Free'
Pairing: Harry/Draco, background Ron/Hermione
Rating: will vary, up to R
Warnings: slavery, slash
Word Count: 200

Buying a slave was not at all what Harry expected; there were ceremonies, binding rituals, contracts signed in blood - things you'd expect of Dark magic.

Hermione insisted that any ritual that enslaved one human being to another against their will had to be dark arts. Ron said it used to be common practice for conquering wizards to enslave their defeated enemies, and didn't muggles used to do that too? After screaming at Ron, it was her turn to ask Harry what he meant to do with his newest acquisition.

Trutfully, Harry had no idea. It wasn't as if he'd meant to buy Malfoy, after all.

Once Hermione had calmed down, she had helped him research Wizard enslavement laws. "He needs a collar, something to mark him as yours. It's not just selfishness," she warned, forstalling his protests, "it's a mark of your protection. He has a lot of enemies."

Harry had snorted at that; Malfoy hardly needed his protection!

He changed his mind when he saw Draco at the ceremony, where he was forced to strip and kneel to receive the collar. He was pale and shivering; the collar was a slash of color against his skin, like Sectumsempra.

Link to Part One

Name of this series is still sort of undecided, so expect it to change.

Title: Definition of 'Free'
Pairing: Harry/Draco, background Ron/Hermione
Rating: will vary, up to R
Warnings: slavery, slash
Word Count: 200


Prospective slaves - the Death-Eater prisoners who were considered just 'tame' enough to domesticate - were on display for those present, spelled into docility. Unlike the slaves, however, the crowd looking over the wares were there voluntarily, and by invitation only: there because the Ministry thought them strong enough, clever enough, and cruel enough to handle a slave who might plot the death and destruction of their owner.

Harry didn't want a slave. However, he absolutely loathed Umbridge, who had somehow gotten off with no more than a wrist slapping. He suspected she'd bribed someone to be here.

When she started bidding with her simpering, "Hem hem, 5 galleons, if you please," he literally saw red, clenching his hands into fists so tight that the scar - I will not tell lies - stood out white against his flushed skin, his wand held in a white-knuckled grip.

His hand shot up like he was under Imperius. "Ten galleons," he heard his own voice say, cold and harsh. He had more than enough galleons, even if the Ministry itself backed her.

Still, when the bidding ended, he found himself the shocked owner of one Draco Malfoy.

He hadn't even known who he was bidding on.


Link to Part Two

Title: Finding Time
Author: Serpenscript
Category: romance/angst/drama/dark/smut/humor, a little of everything
Pairings: Snape/Lupin, others mentioned
Rating: NC17 for violence, dark, and smut
Warnings: m/m slash, allusions to rape/noncon, mpreg
Beta: the wonderful rakina
Summary: Severus is about to be sentenced, and Minerva decides Lupin should keep him company until the sentencing. But she also has a plan up her sleeve to make sure Severus escapes the death penalty...but as everyone knows, "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley..."
Disclaimers: Definitely not what JK had in mind!


( Chapter 3 )

Title: Finding Time
Author: Serpenscript
Category: romance/angst/drama/dark/smut/humor, a little of everything
Pairings: Snape/Lupin, others mentioned
Rating: NC17 for violence, dark, and smut
Warnings: m/m slash, allusions to rape/noncon, mpreg
Beta: the wonderful rakina
Summary: Severus is about to be sentenced, and Minerva decides Lupin should keep him company until the sentencing. But she also has a plan up her sleeve to make sure Severus escapes the death penalty...but as everyone knows, "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley..."
Disclaimers: Definitely not what JK had in mind! The poetry bits ARE mine, not lyrics!

Chapter One is here.

( Chapter Two )

Title: Finding Time
Author: Serpenscript
Category: romance/angst/drama/dark/smut/humor, a little of everything
Pairings: Snape/Lupin, others mentioned
Rating: NC17 for violence, dark, and smut
Warnings: m/m slash, allusions to rape/noncon, mpreg
Beta: the wonderful rakina
Summary: Severus is about to be sentenced, and Minerva decides Lupin should keep him company until the sentencing. But she also has a plan up her sleeve to make sure Severus escapes the death penalty...but as everyone knows, "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley..."
Disclaimers: Definitely not what JK had in mind! The poetry bits ARE mine, not lyrics!

( Chapter One )

Title: Manoir Acajou
Author: Serpenscript
Giftee: </a></b></a>ships_harry
Word Count: 13,500ish
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Severus/Harry
Warnings: DH Spoilers, established character death, some EWE, spanking, angst, D/s, sexual situations
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: After the war, Harry flees to France to escape his memories. But he can't escape his dreams...
Notes: I hope you don't mind that I sort of rolled all the prompts into one huge snowball. Any faceflops or mistakes are due to my own failings, and not those of my over-burdened beta. Happy Hols, ships_harry!



( Manoir Acajou 2/2 )

Title: Manoir Acajou
Author: Serpenscript
Giftee: </a></b></a>ships_harry
Word Count: 13,500ish
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Severus/Harry
Warnings: DH Spoilers, established character death, some EWE, spanking, angst, D/s, sexual situations
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: After the war, Harry flees to France to escape his memories. But he can't escape his dreams...
Notes: I hope you don't mind that I sort of rolled all the prompts into one huge snowball. Any faceflops or mistakes are due to my own failings, and not those of my over-burdened beta. Happy Hols, ships_harry!

( Manoir Acajou 1/2 )

Title: "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"
Pairing: Percy/Remus, Snape/Remus
Rating: NC-17, darkfic
Warnings: NOT a fluffy fic. mental instability, abuse, torture, possibly non-con, use of unforgiveable curses, disability, character death
Disclaimer: Not mine
Notes: Syne was my muse and beta for this. Syne, I really miss you! I wish when you'd left fandom, you'd left us a way to keep in touch. You were more than a muse and a beta to me - you were also a friend.

( The bell over the shop jangled... )

Between the Lines
WC: 100

It began, innocently enough, with a book.

What had provoked Neville into borrowing it, he couldn't tell. It wasn't required reading, nor would it help him complete any of his impossible assignments. Maybe it was just the ornately tooled Mimbulus mimbletonia on the leather-bound cover that caught his eye. He still couldn't explain it to himself, late that night, after he'd given up on his homework for the following day.

The other Gryffindors were playing exploding snap but he pulled out the book and began to read, ignoring their invitation to join them.

An hour later, he was still reading.

Title: Secrets
Author: Parseltonguepen
Character/Pairing: Snape, Minerva, Harry/Ron/Hermione, Neville, Luna
Rating: G
Word Count: 3,333
Genre/Warnings (if applicable): Character death mentioned



( Long Road Home, Ch. 1 )