In Loco Parentis / by Dolores_Crane (NC-17)

Title: In Loco Parentis
Author: Dolores_Crane 
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: Harry/Hermione, Harry/Snape, Tonks/Hestia Jones
Genre: General, AU (post-OotP)
Length: Medium (Words: 81,072)
Warnings: Underage (according to some local laws - see Author's Note), Crossgen (Snarry), issues relating to teen pregnancy and to abortion, abuses of power against schoolchildren

Author's Summary:
'It's not just Death Eaters that kill Muds. After the Second World War, the Muggle civil rights movements got started. Black rights, and feminism, and gay rights. We -- wizards -- we never had the sixties, because we just kept replaying the war, over and over again: Grindelwald in the forties, then Voldemort in the seventies, then Voldemort again in the nineties. I just hope this time it's really finished, and we can sort out our own fucking house.'

Hermione is back at school after a summer in the Muggle world, and everything is changing. But getting closer to Harry doesn't get her any closer to the war - until she's unexpectedly enrolled in the Order of the Phoenix, and meets Hestia Jones, the founder of Mud Pride.

Review:
I love how this fic depicts Hermione - as a teenager trying to figure out how to be grown up, as a vigilante/soldier and a student, as a capable and passionate idealist.  I also love the cultural world-building and plot here and the characterization of the minor canon characters that play a big part in this story.  There are some creepy aspects though so check the warnings before you start this one.

In Loco Parentis (on AO3)

To Recollect the Future / by oliversnape (PG)

Title: To Recollect the Future
Author: oliversnape 
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: none
Genre: General, Time Travel (Redo), Mentor!Snape
Length: Medium (Words: 71,511)

Author's Summary:
Hindsight is 20/20, but when Harry's last steps into the forest set him back further than he'd ever thought, he never realised how grateful he'd be to have Snape there to help too.

Review:
A well-written time travel fic where Harry and Snape go back in time accidentally (Harry steps out of the Hallows and back in time, rather than back into the Battle of Hogwarts in bk 7), then use their foreknowledge to try to shape a better future.  I really like how Harry is depicted as still a kid and with a poor upbringing that's kind of stunted his emotional and rational development and how Snape tries to support him and teach him to overcome these problems.

To Recollect the Future (on AO3)

Summer Camp / by gigglingkat (G)

Title: Summer Camp
Author: gigglingkat 
Fandom: Supernatural
Genre: General, kid fic
Length: Short (Words: 5,500)

Author's Summary:
"I sent his brother to summer camp," he explained. "You heartless bastard," laughed the manager. "That seems to be the general consensus," John agreed.

Review:
Awesome, cute wee!chesters fic that sets them up for canon really, really well.  The characterizations are fantastic and the story is really well-written.

Summer Camp (on LJ)