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I'm a middle-aged, professional writer of non-fiction, too lazy to create my own characters for my decidedly non-professional fiction hobby. So--fanfiction.

I like to read and write stories for and about grown-ups; somehow, I just can't seem to get myself all exercised about the trials and tribulations of adolescents. So, you'll get no Drarry, HP/HG, or other teen-angst stories from me--probably (never say never)--but I enjoy reading a good tale on just about any topic.
 
Stories by Squibstress
Before she was Professor McGonagall, she was Minerva Macnair. After an arranged marriage forces her into an impossible situation, Minerva does what she must to survive. Her choices have far-reaching consequences throughout her life. Featuring Minerva, Albus Dumbledore, and Alastor Moody, this is the semi-gothic tale of a woman, her secrets, and how she keeps them.

Winner of a 2012 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Award.

Rated: W
Categories: Angst, Drama
Characters: Alastor Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Amelia Bones, Griselda Marchbanks, Minerva McGonagall, Original Character
Genres: Angst, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Warnings: Abuse

Series: None
Chapters: 45
Wordcount: 160541 - Hits: 2219
Complete?: No - Published: 02/02/2013 - Last Updated: 08/04/2018

"How, from where we started, did we ever reach this Christmas?" "Step by step." ~ Eleanor & Henry, in James Goldman's The Lion in Winter.

A series of vignettes in which Minerva deals with her relationship with Albus Dumbledore.

Warning for infidelity.



Rated: W
Categories: Angst, Romance
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 6
Wordcount: 8126 - Hits: 230
Complete?: Yes - Published: 07/11/2011 - Last Updated: 07/22/2011
A very short story in which a witch is born and demonstrates a peculiar proclivity for getting her way.

A series of five double-drabbles celebrating the birthday of my favourite witch!

Rated: C
Categories: General
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Original Character
Genres: Fluff
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 1008 - Hits: 303
Complete?: Yes - Published: 10/04/2012 - Last Updated: 10/07/2012
After being hit with four Stunners, Minerva has an unusual visitor at St. Mungo's.

Rated: C
Categories: Fluff
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Original Character
Genres: Fluff
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 1260 - Hits: 468
Complete?: Yes - Published: 03/08/2011 - Last Updated: 03/10/2011
An unexpected pregnancy changes Minerva McGonagall's life in unforeseen ways.

Rated: L
Categories: Drama
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Original Character, Poppy Pomfrey
Genres: Drama
Warnings: Character Death

Series: None
Chapters: 9
Wordcount: 13398 - Hits: 304
Complete?: No - Published: 10/19/2012 - Last Updated: 03/20/2013
Minerva McGonagall is a bright, talented witch with dreams of becoming the first woman in the Auror corps. Albus Dumbledore is famous, brilliant, flawed, and more than forty years her senior. Their love-affair will change their lives in ways neither anticipates and places them in the sights of the man who will become the greatest threat the wizarding world has ever known.

Winner of a 2013 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Award.

Rated: L
Categories: Angst, Drama, Romance
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: Angst, Drama, Romance
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 55
Wordcount: 187942 - Hits: 2111
Complete?: Yes - Published: 01/15/2011 - Last Updated: 10/20/2012
When Hermione is asked to update the National Dictionary of Wizarding Biography, she discovers some surprising things about her favourite professor. An angsty, nerdy time-travel romance. (MM/SS, HG/RW)

Warning for brief violent scene, mention of character death. Winner of 2 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards.

Rated: W
Categories: Drama
Characters: Hermione Granger, Minerva McGonagall, Ron Weasley, Severus Snape
Genres: Drama
Warnings: Violence

Series: None
Chapters: 2
Wordcount: 17486 - Hits: 192
Complete?: Yes - Published: 11/02/2013 - Last Updated: 11/09/2013
Minerva & Albus enjoy an end-of-term tryst. Some rituals are pleasant; others are merely familiar.

Rated: L
Categories: Angst, Humour, Romance
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: Angst, Humor, Romance
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 2739 - Hits: 153
Complete?: Yes - Published: 01/11/2011 - Last Updated: 01/11/2011
Thorfinn McGonagall observes his daughter as she grows up, and realises he has a very unusual witch on his hands. Story #0.75 in the Epithalamium Series.

Rated: C
Categories: General
Characters: Alastor Moody, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Original Character
Genres: General
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 1242 - Hits: 159
Complete?: No - Published: 11/01/2020 - Last Updated: 11/05/2020
“There has been a great deal of speculation, both from scholars and in the popular press, about the sexual and romantic life of Albus Dumbledore and, to a lesser extent, Minerva McGonagall, and a popular mythology has grown up around the idea of a putative, unconsummated love between the two.” Why did they never get together, and what did Tom Riddle have to do with it?

Rated: L
Categories: Angst, Drama, Morsmordre
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: Angst, Drama
Warnings: Non-consensual Sex

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 5539 - Hits: 151
Complete?: Yes - Published: 12/26/2011 - Last Updated: 12/28/2011
Sybill Trelawney learns to live with her Inner Eye, cooking sherry, and Minerva McGonagall, in that order. Winner of a 2014 Mugglenet Quicksilver Quill Award.

Rated: B
Categories: Drama
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Sybill Trelawney
Genres: Drama, Friendship
Warnings: Drug Abuse

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 8265 - Hits: 247
Complete?: Yes - Published: 09/28/2013 - Last Updated: 10/10/2013
Happy birthday to Minerva McGonagall, and to all other October-born witches! Minerva and Albus are celebrating her 70th birthday. Nine thousand words of pure old-folks porn. Absolute filth. There's just no excuse for this. None at all. I plead the Fifth . . .

Rated: L
Categories: Porn Without Plot
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: PWP
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 9201 - Hits: 101
Complete?: Yes - Published: 10/03/2012 - Last Updated: 10/07/2012
After the war, Petunia takes refuge at the Three Broomsticks.

Nominated for a 2012 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Award.

Rated: S
Categories: General
Characters: Dudley Dursley, Madam Rosmerta, Petunia Dursley (nee Evans), Rubeus Hagrid
Genres: Friendship
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 7912 - Hits: 362
Complete?: Yes - Published: 08/05/2012 - Last Updated: 08/05/2012
Transfiguration: n 1. a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances; 2. the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify. worldnetweb.

Rated: L
Categories: Angst, Porn Without Plot
Characters: Lord Voldemort/Tom Riddle, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: PWP
Warnings: BDSM, Self Mutilation

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 2898 - Hits: 203
Complete?: Yes - Published: 03/10/2011 - Last Updated: 03/13/2011
Every now and then, he needs her. But she doesn’t need him. Does she?

Winner of two 2013 HP Fanfic Fanpoll Awards.

Rated: W
Categories: Angst, Drama
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 1504 - Hits: 30
Complete?: Yes - Published: 04/21/2013 - Last Updated: 04/22/2013
The Yule Ball offers Minerva the opportunity to reflect on her occasionally difficult relationship with Albus.

Rated: L
Categories: Angst
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Horace Slughorn, James Potter, Minerva McGonagall, Pomona Sprout, Poppy Pomfrey, Rolanda (Xiomara) Hooch, Severus Snape, Sirius Black
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None

Series: None
Chapters: 1
Wordcount: 6387 - Hits: 76
Complete?: Yes - Published: 03/02/2011 - Last Updated: 03/08/2011