Buried Gems [21] Old classics that have been highlighted in SIYE's new 'Buried Gems' feature.
Cursed Child and beyond [12] Stories relating to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, its background, and its consequences. Should refer to the play's plot and/or key characters.
Post-Hogwarts [447] All stories that take place after Harry would have completed his 7th year at Hogwarts, or graduated, but has nothing to do with book 7.
Post-DH/AB [588] All Canon stories that take place after DH was released and continues after the last chapter where the final battle ends.
Post-DH/PM [132] All Canon stories that take place after DH was released and picks up at the Epilogue or after, Harry & Ginny married with children.
Post-OotP [1278] All canon stories that take place after OotP was released.
Post-HBP [953] All canon stories that take place after HBP was released.
Pre-OotP [202] All Canon stories that take place before OotP was released.
SIYE Challenges [661] Stories written in reponse to a SIYE Challenge or contest.
Holidays [53] Stories centered around the observance of a cultural or religious holiday such as Christmas, Halloween, Valentines Day, etc. This does not include vacations, breaks, trips, etc .
Trophy Room Stories and Authors that have been recipients of Silver Trinket Awards
Buried Gems 11-2019
The last edition of the Buried Gems of the Year 2019 brings you a story nominated by ellen. She gave the story particularly high marks for a touch of humour, and characters brought to life with decent dialogue, as well as the excellent spelling and grammar.
Summary: A weekend trip to the mysterious Rose Cottage leads to Ginny's second pregnancy and Hermione's first. Join the Potters and Weasleys as they take on “The Next Great Adventure” while they anticipate the births of Albus Potter and Rose Weasley.
If you enjoyed reading this Buried Gem, you might also like CassandraCross' other stories, The Letter and To Hear the Bells Ring, the latter especially fits in the Christmas season.
Feel free to let us know what you think about these stories!
If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2012 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.
For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.
Nominations are open again for the next round so don't forget to submit your favourite!
Also keep your eyes peeled for a challenge update next week.
ginnyweasley777 on 2019.11.30 - 05:12AM (6 Comments)
October - November 2019 Trinket Voting
I apologise for not getting the Trinkets closed sooner, I've been having a rough time in real life recently and this completely slipped my mind. The voting is now open though, so please vote here -
ginnyweasley777 on 2019.11.25 - 07:24AM (1 Comments)
Christmas Challenge (2019-3) - Update/ Reminder
This is just a reminder for all who want to participate in the Christmas Challenge
You still have 28 days left to submit your story for our Christmas Challenge - and in case you didn't start writing yet - there's still time enough to come up with a nice story about Harry and Ginny's best Christmas memories.
Please note rules for challenge stories: submissions must be stand-alone stories that are marked as complete by deadline; all stories must be posted under the Christmas Challenge (2019-3) category.
The categories for judging will be Most Romantic, Most Humourous, Best Overall, and the People's Choice Award.
***Edit - I'm going to leave the challenge open until New Year as I don't think judges will want to be judging over Christmas, so you have a bit longer to submit stories too. Thanks, ginnyweasley777***
The edition 10-2019 of the SIYE Buried Gems brings you a story that starts at the end of HBP, Losing Each Other by MyGinevra.
Summary: This story follows Harry and Ginny from their parting after Dumbledore's funeral. Much of it is told from Ginny's POV. The first chapter, "Ginny's Mermaid," was originally posted as a one-shot. I have revised it slightly as part of this longer story, but it is essentially the same as it was when I first posted it.
The story was written pre-DH. If you liked Losing Each Other, then I'd recommend reading the 'kind of' sequels The Hogs Head and Ginny's House as well. 'Kind of' sequel because it keeps some elements of Losing Each Other, but instead of creating an alternate universe, it follows canon, including Deathly Hallows. The sequels start during the final battle and describe the start into Harry's and Ginny's life together.
Feel free to let us know what you think about this story!
If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2012 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.
Today's edition of Buried Gems brings you a special time-travelling story recommended by Tron with the following words: It's a multi-chapter story that's not too long. It involves some time travel that fixes a bunch of the problems in the wizarding world in a matter of days. Harry didn't waste any time. Great story.
Summary: If you've got a chance to do it over again, why putz around? You know the game, you know the players, and you know the goal. It's time for Double Jeopardy, where the scores can really change.
Feel free to let us know what you think about this story!
If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2010 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.
For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.
ginnyweasley777 on 2019.09.23 - 03:29AM (0 Comments)
Christmas Challenge (2019-3)
The decorations are up, the gnome is on top of the tree and Christmas is just around the corner. What do you think are Harry and Ginny's best Christmas memories? Perhaps there's another Yule Ball, or Harry and Ginny's first Christmas together, and don't forget to watch out for the mistletoe!
The categories for judging will be Most Romantic, Most Humourous, Best Overall, and the People's Choice Award. All stories should be submitted by midnight 15th December. Results will be posted 1st January. (submission deadline to possibly be extended so judging will not be over Christmas, will update shortly)
Multi chaptered stories must be completed. All stories must be posted under the 2019-3 challenge category.
Ideas for future challenges invited!
ginnyweasley777 on 2019.09.15 - 04:14AM (2 Comments)
First Time For Everything Challenge (2019-2) Results
First of all I'd just like to give a big shout-out to every single author who entered this challenge as the judges have mentioned what a high standard of stories there is, and how difficult it was to judge as each author put their own unique take on the prompt given. Without further ado I can announce the winners are as follows-
I would personally like to give an Honorable Mention to Second Chances and First Occasions by Rogan which came extremely close and I was told would have won if there had been a Most Romantic category this time.
Huge thank you to everyone who has taken part, and to the judges for what was definitely a difficult task - AM, JG, MJ, SR
I will be back in the next day or so with the new challenge to keep your eyes peeled!
ginnyweasley777 on 2019.09.06 - 05:33PM (4 Comments)
Buried Gems 08-2019
After the last Buried Gem has been a bit shorter, the 08-2019 edition of the Buried Gems presents you a significantly longer story written in the years 2003/2004. The story is set Post-OotP and belongs to the most reviewed stories on SIYE to date (rank 10).
Summary: Harry and Ginny make a decision that changes their lives...
If you like the story, you should also read the one-shot companion pieces you can find on SunDevil05's user page.
Since it was a close call, which of SunDevil05's stories would be today's Buried Gem, I also recommend reading the other candidates, Adventures in Courtship and its sequel Adventures as Newlyweds.
Feel free to let us know what you think about SunDevil05's stories!
If you want to nominate your favourite story for the Buried Gems, just leave a comment. The nominated stories should have been published on SIYE in 2010 or earlier, and they should be completed. As always, it would be nice if you could tell us with a few lines what you liked best about the story and why you recommend it.
For an overview of all Buried Gems we had so far, please follow this link.
First Time For Everything (2019-2) Challenge Closed
We had have ten! excellent stories submitted for the challenge and it's now time for our judges to decide on the winners of Best Overall, Most Unexpected, and Most Humourous. In the mean time, it is down to you to vote for the winner of the People's Choice Award. The stories can be found here. The link for voting is -
ginnyweasley777 on 2019.08.20 - 03:30AM (0 Comments)
First Time For Everything Challenge Update
Now that SIYE is back up and running I will leave the challenge open for submissions until midnight tomorrow 19th August SIYE time. If anyone needs any longer then please let me know and I can leave it open an extra day. Thanks
ginnyweasley777 on 2019.08.18 - 04:10AM (2 Comments)
Happy Birthday Ginny
Today is the 11th of August, and our Ginny is celebrating her birthday. I was asked to give you word that the birthday party starts at 6 p.m. in the garden of the Potters in Godric's Hollow, and you're all invited.
Harry is pushing people away again. He has been doing so since Sirius' death. He is alone in the Common Room when he gets a visit from a certain butterbeer cork neckless wearing girl. She knows things that she shouldn't, and who is this Terrence guy? Luna helps Harry find the courage to do something that he has always needed to do. Something that is the bravest thing he will ever accomplish. Something that may save the world. One-Shot...and this is a H/G story not a H/L story...Rating: PG Category: Post-OotP, Post-OotP Genre: Fluff Words: 2113 Chapters: 1 Published: 2006.08.27 Updated: 2006.08.28 Hits: 3675 Reviews: 23
With Voldemort dead, Harry Potter is training to be an Auror and is finally back together with Ginny Weasley. But when a young woman dies of poisoning at the Ministry’s Midsummer Ball, Harry is the first suspect, and he can only uncover the true murderer by working with his childhood rival, Draco Malfoy.Rating: R Category: Post-DH/AB, Post-DH/AB Genre: Action/Adventure, Romance Warnings: Dark Fiction, Death, Extreme Language, Mild Sexual Situations, Negative Alcohol Use, Rape Words: Chapters: 17 Published: 2018.01.21 Updated: 2019.12.15 Status: Work in Progress Hits: 10657 Reviews: 112
The Wizarding world finally knows that Lord Voldemort has returned, and the Second War has begun. As Harry prepares to enter his sixth year at Hogwarts, he is forced to deal with the trauma from his last encounter with Voldemort, the upcoming trial of Dolores Umbridge, Sirius's uncomfortable questions about his childhood, his budding relationship with Ginny Weasley, and the unknown shadow of what lies ahead as the "Chosen One" who must defeat Voldemort once and for all. This is an AU take of Half-Blood Prince following my previous story, Path Diverged.Rating: PG-13 Category: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe Genre: Action/Adventure, Angst, Romance Warnings: Disturbing Imagery, Mental Abuse, Mild Language, Mild Sexual Situations Words: Chapters: 18 Published: 2019.07.02 Updated: 2019.12.14 Status: Work in Progress Hits: 10280 Reviews: 112
Okay, he’s not Father Christmas, but he did have a very good reason for breaking into the house.
Rating: PG-13 Category: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe Genre: Comedy, Fluff, Humor, Romance Warnings: Extreme Language, Mild Sexual Situations Words: Chapters: 1 Published: 2019.12.11 Updated: 2019.12.12 Status: Completed Hits: 253 Reviews: 3
A sixth-year fic begun pre-HBP, this fic begins where Order of the Phoenix left off. As Harry lies in his bed in Privet Drive, guilt-ridden and devastated, Voldemort finds an "easy in" to the young wizard's mind. How will Harry withstand the attacks, and as his role in the war becomes clearer and more vital, will he rely on the strength of his friends as he seeks a way to vanquish the Dark Lord forever?Rating: PG-13 Category: Post-OotP, Post-OotP Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, General Warnings: Mild Language, Mild Sexual Situations, Violence Words: Chapters: 29 Published: 2011.03.14 Updated: 2019.12.12 Status: Work in Progress Hits: 42500 Reviews: 120
The war is over and Ginny returns to school, but it isn't easy to pretend like everything is the same as before.
[sequel to 'all your fumble words']Rating: R Category: Post-Hogwarts, Post-Hogwarts Genre: Romance Words: Chapters: 5 Published: 2019.11.11 Updated: 2019.12.09 Status: Work in Progress Hits: 1311 Reviews: 17
In the fall of 1996 Harry finds a book about the ancient holidays just before Samhain, or what has become Hallowe'en. Tradition says communication with the dead is possible. Harry enlists Ginny to help him find out if its true.Rating: PG-13 Category: Post-OotP, Post-OotP Genre: Drama Warnings: Death Words: Chapters: 34 Published: 2017.10.09 Updated: 2019.12.08 Status: Completed Hits: 17995 Reviews: 113
Girls are annoying chatterboxes who always cry and nudge up to you like Devil's Snares, and Ginny Weasley is no different... or so he thought. H/G AU. No Voldemort. James and Lily are alive.Rating: G Category: SIYE Challenges, SIYE Challenges Genre: Comedy, Romance Words: Chapters: 1 Published: 2019.12.04 Updated: 2019.12.05 Status: Completed Hits: 347 Reviews: 8
The doom days were upon them. Harry was watching the world around him burn, yet all he could think about was her.Rating: R Category: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Humor, Romance Warnings: Death, Disturbing Imagery, Extreme Language, Intimate Sexual Situations, Violence Words: Chapters: 12 Published: 2019.06.22 Updated: 2019.12.02 Status: Completed Hits: 7668 Reviews: 55
Albus has his challenges during his first year. Cleopatra is obviously his soulmate, and has brilliant insights into magic, except she cannot do it like anyone else. Albus has to help her while keeping peace between the two brightest and most competitive students at Hogwarts, Scorpius and Rose. It doesn’t help that people are out to get Albus. Harry is not sure he can keep everyone safe. Then you have Ginny and Cleopatra.
Rating: R Category: Post-Hogwarts, Post-Hogwarts Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, Humor, Romance Warnings: Death, Intimate Sexual Situations, Violence, Violence/Physical Abuse Words: 126172 Chapters: 30 Published: 2016.03.20 Updated: 2018.11.28 Status: Completed Hits: 38808 Reviews: 77
What happened to Harry and Ginny after their mysterious Portkey journey and how did the legacy of Regulus Black change their lives, up to the defeat of Tom Riddle? Becomes more and more AU during the story.
Sequel to The Legacy of Regulus BlackRating: R Category: Pre-OotP, Pre-OotP Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor, Romance Words: 58462 Chapters: 11 Published: 2018.11.09 Updated: 2019.01.11 Status: Completed Hits: 8417 Reviews: 61
Natural by Celtics534 (R) ** Winner of the DSTA for Best Completed **
Most things didn’t come naturally to Harry -- like brewing a Pepperup Potion or making a halfway decent treacle tart. In fact, the only thing that had come naturally was Quidditch… until he met Ginny Weasley.Rating: R Category: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe Genre: Fluff, Humor, Romance Warnings: Extreme Language, Intimate Sexual Situations, Mild Language, Mild Sexual Situations Words: 60881 Chapters: 17 Published: 2018.11.09 Updated: 2019.06.07 Status: Completed Hits: 18842 Reviews: 58
Impetuous Decisions made in childhood are meant to stay there, but Ginny's first year at Hogwarts was more life-threatening than most. She swears never to do anything to put Harry at harm again, but never is a long time. Voldemort is dead, but will echoes of the Chamber prevent her and Harry from ever finding happiness? Rating: PG-13 Category: Pre-OotP, Pre-OotP Genre: Action/Adventure Warnings: Mild Language Words: 28136 Chapters: 6 Published: 2018.12.23 Updated: 2019.02.08 Status: Work in Progress Hits: 3859 Reviews: 12
It's Christmas during Harry's fifth year, and his friends have finally called him out on his foolishness. While Harry is relieved that Voldemort isn't possessing him, he realizes that he owes a certain red-headed witch an apology. In the process, Harry begins to realize that Ginny means much more to him than he could have ever imagined.Rating: PG Category: Post-OotP, Post-OotP Genre: Drama, Humor Words: 2524 Chapters: 1 Published: 2018.12.27 Updated: 2018.12.27 Status: Completed Hits: 2106 Reviews: 6
Ginny Weasley loves attending the muggle primary school in Ottery St Catchpole. There she befriends a boy named Harry. AURating: G Category: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe Genre: Fluff, General Words: 7437 Chapters: 2 Published: 2019.01.16 Updated: 2019.02.15 Status: Work in Progress Hits: 3350 Reviews: 9
***Winner of the People's Choice Award in the First Time for Everything Challenge*** The story of Ginny's very first broom ride.Rating: G Category: Pre-OotP, Pre-OotP Genre: Action/Adventure Words: 3675 Chapters: 1 Published: 2019.05.26 Updated: 2019.05.26 Status: Completed Hits: 1036 Reviews: 10
***Winner of Best Overall, People's Choice, and Most Unexpected in the First Time for Everything Challenge*** The shiny red train was a great place to hide from his bullying cousin, but little Harry had no knowledge of its magical nature, had never seen a magical castle, and definitely no experience with magical paintings. And so began a great adventure exploring unexpected hidden places, all in plain sight...Rating: PG-13 Category: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe Genre: Action/Adventure Warnings: Spouse/Adult/Child Abuse Words: 10286 Chapters: 4 Published: 2019.08.11 Updated: 2019.08.19 Status: Completed Hits: 4442 Reviews: 22
***Winner of Most Humourous and People's Choice Award in the First Time for Everything Challenge*** After Voldemort's defeat, after a summer of rebuilding... after several long months of Auror training, months spent working hard and missing his girlfriend... Harry is ready for a holiday. Christmas in Romania among the dragons with the Weasleys! Halfway through her final year at Hogwarts, Ginny has been counting down the days. But are any of them prepared for what is involved in fulfilling Arthur's dream of traveling the Muggle way - by plane?
Submitted for the "First Time for Everything" challenge.Rating: PG Category: First Time for Everything Challenge (2019-2), First Time for Everything Challenge (2019-2) Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Romance Words: 6749 Chapters: 4 Published: 2019.08.11 Updated: 2019.08.18 Status: Completed Hits: 3835 Reviews: 19
***Honourable Mention in the First Time for Everything Challenge*** After Harry survives his second Killing Curse, he makes a decision that changes things quite drastically. Getting a second chance at some of the events in his life, Harry resolves to do a few things right he did wrong on his first attempt.Rating: PG Category: SIYE Challenges, SIYE Challenges Genre: Fluff, General, Romance Words: 10398 Chapters: 7 Published: 2019.08.18 Updated: 2019.08.18 Status: Completed Hits: 2405 Reviews: 30