Harry Potter Golden Age

Title: Young Again
Author: torino10154
Characters/Pairings: Draco/Hermione, with mention of past canon relationships
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~1240
Content/Warning(s): Reference to past character death, fluff
Summary/Prompt: P35 from 2020: "She's divorced now," Pansy whispered.
His head whipped around, catching the eyes of Hermione Granger.
"She's free, you're free. Why are you still standing here with me?" Pansy asked.
A/N: I claimed this prompt and wrote most of the fic for the 2020 fest but didn't get it finished. I blame COVID. Thanks, S, for beta reading. ♥

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( Young Again )

Title: The Greatest Good
Author: Walgesang
Characters/Pairings: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2093
Content/Warning(s): EWE, Background Ron/Hermione, Headmaster Harry, Friendship, Prophecy, Veil of Death, Hopeful Ending, Neville&Harry, Harry&Ron&Hermione
Summary/Prompt: Harry is visiting Ron at the Ministry when there's an emergency in the Department of Mysteries. A new chosen one who will stop an unknown evil that has yet to come. After decades of peace, this causes a flood of memories for Harry, who decided to become Hogwarts Headmaster as a way to ease into his retirement years.
A/N: Many thanks to G for being an awesome beta and thanks to the fest mods! ♥ This is one of my all-time favorite fests and so glad to be a part of it again. Thanks as well for a prompt that really got me thinking about what Harry would do in this situation!

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( The Greatest Good )

Title: The Same Age
Author: pauraque
Characters: Hermione, Ron, Harry
Rating: G
Word Count: 2320
Summary/Prompt: One week in winter, three old friends, and the things you think about when looking back over a long life. (Prompt C16: OMG! Now I'm as old as [X] was when they. . .)
A/N: Thank you to my beta, the prompter, and the mods!

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( The Same Age )

Title: Old Friends
Artist: digthewriter
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Luna & Hermione.
Rating: G
Media: Digital / Photoshop / Illustrator
Content/Warning(s): NA
Summary/Prompt: Luna and Hermione catch up when attending a family function.
A/N: I don't know what I was going for but this happened and I thought, "cute." We don't get a lot of gen art for female friendships, so I hope you enjoy.

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( Old Friends )

Title: Another Chance At Love
Author: articcat621
Characters/Pairings: Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1974 words
Content/Warning(s): Explicit Language, Explicit Sexual Content
Summary/Prompt: Married for twenty years and divorced for ten, Hermione is surprised to find the flames of attraction rekindled when she bumps into Viktor Krum.
A/N: Many thanks to my beta for looking this over.

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( Another Chance At Love )

Title: Ever After
Author: humanveil
Characters/Pairings: Pansy Parkinson/Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy.
Rating: G.
Word Count: 2,715.
Content/Warning(s): Coming out, referenced/implied off-screen homophobia.
Summary: You can only live a lie for so long. At the age of fifty-five, Pansy finally comes clean.
A/N: This ended up leaning more toward a gen work than originally anticipated, but I hope it resembles at least some of what the prompter was hoping for. Thank you to A. for the speedy beta; any remaining mistakes are my own.

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( Ever After )

Title: Grumpy Old Wizards
Creator: teshara
Characters/Pairings/Information: Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Rose and Scorpius are newlyweds
Widowed persons: Ron has widowed Hermione (experimental magic accident), Astoria widowed Draco (canon), Ginny widowed Harry (magical gardening accident), Harry remarried Draco and widowed him (magical backlash during Auror training), Narcissa widowed Lucius (magical illness)
Severus lives in his familial home in Cokeworth
Hermione lives in Hawkshead
Malfoy Manor is in Wiltshire
Draco and Harry’s home is in Burford
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 10,000
Warning(s): elderly characters, widows and widowers, off screen slash, survivors guilt, anger, messy love, compromises, black humor, slapstick, 1 cute kitten, 1 fluffy dog. So. Much. Bickering. Mostly canon compliant, including reference to Cursed Child. In this fic Severus also has a snake bite on his shoulder.
Summary/Prompt: prompt #[C17]: Both teen angst and midlife crisis were great failures for him, but old age obstinacy might be exactly Snape's thing.

( Grumpy Old Wizards )

Title: Old, Retired Hermione and Snape
Artist: teshara
Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Severus
Rating: G
Media: Ballpoint and sharpie
Content/Warning(s): none
Summary/Prompt: "I don’t ever remember being afraid of “oldness”...I wish the time hadn’t gone so fast, though. And sometimes I wish I’d enjoyed it more on the way, and worried about it less." (Neil Gaiman)

( Old, Retired Hermione and Snape )

Title: Hermione and Draco: Lifetime
Artist: teshara
Characters/Pairings: Hermione/Draco
Rating: G
Media: Ballpoint and sharpie
Content/Warning(s): Implied character deaths
Summary/Prompt: "I don’t ever remember being afraid of “oldness”...I wish the time hadn’t gone so fast, though. And sometimes I wish I’d enjoyed it more on the way, and worried about it less." (Neil Gaiman)

( Hermione and Draco: Lifetime )