On the corner of Diagon Alley and Memory Lane

[bironic]

Five years ago (eesh), I dropped out of Remix because I felt what I'd written so far was too close to the original story and also because I didn't know how to end it. bell, who volunteered to beta at the time and who is smart, intuited that part of the problem lay in my not knowing what point I wanted to make about young women who develop crushes on their teachers.

It was a Hermione/Remus story. I read the draft yesterday for the first time since 2009 and found a lot to like in it, prose- and emotions-wise. But once more, I am drawing a blank on how to rescue it.

In the meantime, it's given me a hankerin' for Hermione/Remus stories. Or Hermione/Remus/Sirius. Trouble is, hardly any of them are on the AO3 because of their age. What's still around from mid-2000s HP fandom? What was that overwhelming archive with the mauve background, Adult Fanfiction dot net or something? Whoo, memory lane. I was so into Snape/Hermione back then, plus of course Remus/Sirius.

Long story long: Any recs to satisfy this little pang of nostalgia? Any rating would be fine.

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[sansets]

Both of the stories I have bookmarked are on the AO3, so you've probably already reread them, but JUST IN CASE, I am terribly fond of The Winter The War Ended and Three Tequila. <33333

[bironic.livejournal.com]

"Three Tequila"! I remember that one, wow. There was another involving strip poker at Grimmauld Place, too, though not by musesfool, I think.

I read "The Winter The War Ended" yesterday, in fact. It was all right; I thought it suffered from being modeled after a rom com in that Remus came off badly in the "pursue and press despite her resistance/boyfriend/preferred way of life until she relents" mode.

Two I found and liked were kassrachel's Enough (http://archiveofourown.org/works/461) and musesfool's Sometimes Salvation (http://archiveofourown.org/works/774136). Do you know those?