First, a bit of Christmas cheer from Suburban House Elf, whose poem, A Visit from St Nicholas, a work of pure genius, has Santa Claus pondering the eternal question: Is Severus Snape naughty or nice?
[Snape speaking]
"You’re my captive until you can meet my fair price
By telling me this: Am I naughty or nice?"
...
"You want me to tell you?" asked Santa, perplexed.
"Yes," answered Snape, unless you want to be hexed."
"Don’t you know?" Santa wondered. "One gen’rally finds,
That wizards of your age all know their own minds."
...
Snape sullenly slumped in a sitting room chair,
And his bony hands tore at his lank, greasy hair.
"I’ve already tried that," he told Santa, pleading.
"But my conscience," Snape went on, "makes curious reading."
Next, we have a maddeningly fantastic piece of work from Ponderous: maddening because it's unfinished! (There's your fair warning. It's still well worth reading, though.) The Crux of the Matter is a 7th year fic, and features a cracking plot, spot-on trio interaction and a wicked, wicked original character. Very creepy stuff.
And last, here's a general author rec for Fionnabhair, whose Ginny-Hermione interactions are among the best I've ever seen. This woman also has a knack for writing not-plot fics that are completely original, very realistic, and decidedly not empty of content.
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