Hello!

Thank you all very much for your recs over the past year and for the 72-hour reccing blitz! We have 82 new stories added to the Butterbeer recs list. Please find the Butterbeer master list after the cut, with the newest additions at the top!

( Butterbeer Master List )

This is the last call for the 72-Hour Reccing Blitz -- it ends in approximately 12 hours. so please chime in with a rec or three! We are about 20 recs short of our goal of 50 stories, in part because we've unfortunately had lots of duplicate recs (including some that are already on our Butterbeer Master List).

Reply here or at our previous post -- all story recs of any rating or length are accepted!

- Tara

Hi everyone!

To shuffle in the new year, we are planning (yes, still) a MASSIVE update to our Butterbeer Master List, as well as an update to our Order of Merlin Master List. To that end, we'd like to start 2007 off with a bang--

72-HOUR RECCING BLITZ

Your help is needed! Set your standards VERY high and rec two or three stellar Dramione stories that have been posted RECENTLY (meaning in the last six months or so). Fic exchanges, holiday challenges, drabbles, works-in-progress -- anything goes so long as it's error-free and among the best you've read.

Our goal is to have 50 new stories to add to the Butterbeer Master List by the end of the day on Saturday! You can rec here in a comment, in a new post, or by email to ferveo at gmail dot com. Not sure if it's on the list? Recommend it anyway and we willl cross-check during the update.

Happy reccing -- and I can't wait to read your favourite fics!

*cracks the whip*

Tara :D

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to take a moment to thank those who have pointed some of the broken links on our master lists (and also to authors who have requested that we point to particular archives). We hope to check and correct all of our links in the near future and then follow that up with a substantial update.

Feel free to jump in whenever you like to recommend! As a parting gift, I shall leave with you with, of course, a recommendation!

Title: So
Author: shiv5468
Rating: Smutfree
Warnings: None provided.
Summary: The hurly burly is done; the battle is lost and won - so what happens now?

Why? Because this is the first story I've read in a long time where I was unfamiliar with Draco and Hermione (though the characterization was superb), and because I wasn't able to predict in any way, shape or form what was to happen next (though this sort of post-HBP story has been written before). So it was exciting and refreshing and, honest to god, the best read I've had in ages. Because I almost cried, okay? And we know that put's this story on a very short list!

( An excerpt from So )

Enjoy!

I read a new Draco/Hermione Marriage Law fic that is very good. It'a a wip so please go read it and review. I really want the author to complete this fic.  

Title: State of the Union
Author: Duchess
Rating: NC-17 (6 Chapters up) WIP
Summary: Marriage Law Fic

Title: By The Way
Author: Provocative Envy
Link: Here
Rating: R (writer herself has put it as M in fanfiction.net)
Status: WIP
Reason: I have read all her other three fics, and I consider her to be the best fanfiction writer I have ever read stories by. Her use of words is magnificant, and so beautiful that they always make me cry. There is only two chapters in this newest one, but they are brilliant, so it's worth the wait.

( Excerpt )

I think my week has just been made. The sublimely talented Morrighan256, author of Bad Faith (one of my top five favourite D/Hr stories), has a new Draco/Hermione story up at ff.net. Only one chapter posted so far, but that first chapter was so brilliant that I ran right here.

Title: The Road Less Traveled
Author: Morrighan256
Rating: M (not sure what that is)
Summary: For the son of a Death Eater, there is no easy way. DracoHermione, postHBP, containing many HBP spoilers. Read at your own risk.

( brief excerpt )

Hey there! I'm totally bloody new to ferveoproject so, hit me if I do something wrong, but I mus rec a fic.

Name The Sweetest Sin
Author annie
Rating r or Nc-17, not sure
Summery In the years following Voldemort's victory in the second war, Muggle-borns must become slaves and servants to pure-bloods in order to survive. Over time, Hermione Granger has learned to suppress her pride and independence in households where she is considered lower than dirt. She thought she would be prepared for this new family, just like she was for all the previous ones. What she didn't know was that this new family was none other than Draco Malfoy's. Will she manage hold up when she finds herself struggling to withhold her sharp tongue, returning hatred, and...something else?

Why? This story is really good writen and the characters are beautiful! The plot, eventhough not the most intresting always has unexpected twists. The lovestory is so not writen and yet so logical it almost hurst. If you want to have a real hard and good cry ... try this!


IMHO a high runner for a Merlin!!!

I've got a recommendation today, and it's a story I've seen kicking around but hadn't got around to reading until this evening.

Nothing is Symmetrical by Attica [Rated PG-13]
"Because," she said, a secretively cunning smile flickering across her face for a mere second that once the shadow of the cloud passed, it was gone. "Because we've got nothing to lose." DHr. Post-HBP. One-shot.

( I suppose I'll add an excerpt )

So much more than it appears. I'm so sad that it's a one-shot. :(

God, I am DYING here, people! Late last night I came across a story at Fiction Alley. That is FAH-MAZING in my opinion. That was started in 2004 and was recently updated. That has like one review. Like about ONE review! WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?

Please read this Work-In-Progress fic! I'm recommending it on the strength of the storytelling and it's reccability as an overall fic, not on the level of shippiness the fic has (though it's classified as a D/Hr and H/Hr story so shippiness is coming). And I really think something as well-executed and suspenseful as this doesn't come along that often, so when they do, we need to embrace them. Don't forget to take the time and leave a review -- even non-members can leave an anon comment on FA, just like here on eljay.

Title: A Conspiracy of Books
Author: The woefully under-appreciated Nan Solomon
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Good Idea: Studying for exams. Bad Idea: Finding a nasty surprise in the library. Hermione seems to be in for an interesting term. Will Harry survive another encounter with Moldy Voldy's cloaks and daggers? Will Hermione?

Snippet:

They silently waited for the newcomer. Hermione wondered who it was, but under the circumstances didn't dare turn around in her seat. Instead she concentrated very hard on her tea, listening. A leather sole scuffled on the steps. Then Hermione felt the color drain from her face. Draco Malfoy stepped smartly up to the desk and stood rigidly before it, chin up.

She was stunned. She looked at Dumbledore, thinking, Why didn't he warn me? Snape was gauging her. She attempted to appear calm, suppressing the urge to glare at him.

Malfoy seemed equally displeased. Rudely, he directed his question somewhere to the left of Dumbledore's ear. "You wanted to see me?" His voice was like marble--cold and very businesslike. There was a thin vein of anger running through it.

Professor McGonagal gasped, but Dumbledore held up his hand appeasingly. "Please, Mr. Malfoy, take a seat."

Not even startled when one appeared, Malfoy stepped back and lowered himself into the armchair, carefully settling his robes before regarding them with thinly veiled animosity. Hermione hoped he wouldn't be offered any biscuits just yet.

After an interminable pause, Snape irritably stepped forward and conjured another chair to Malfoy's left, sitting down. Dumbledore passed him the biscuits and waved a full teacup toward Malfoy, who looked as if he'd prefer to refuse.

"Now, Mr. Malfoy, Miss Granger has given us an outline of what happened last night in the library. I hope you'll be kind enough to do the same."

Hermione felt her eyebrows lift.

Eyes narrowed vengefully at Snape, Malfoy didn't dally with pretence. "I don't see how anything I have to say concerns her," he stated baldly.

Hermione's Gryffindor blood boiled. She squelched it, repeating to herself, Not helpful.

Then Professor Snape did an unexpected thing. He leaned over and forced the package of biscuits into Malfoy's hand. "Have one," he commanded.

Malfoy shot him a brief, rebellious look. Unable to withstand Snape's hawk-like glare, he smiled and changed tact. It looked painful. Hermione fervently hoped so.

"Fine. Of course." Malfoy made a show of taking a biscuit and biting into it, pretending to get comfortable. "However, I insist that everything I say remains in this room," he said lightly, masking the strain in his voice.

"Miss Granger?" Snape prompted.

Hermione couldn't quite contain her disdain, even if her tone was otherwise cool. "Of course," she said, echoing Malfoy. She returned Draco's icy confidence levelly, taking in his casually arrogant posture. There was melted chocolate on his thumb and index finger. Her smirk barely perceptible, she said sweetly, "Do have another biscuit."