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Title: IV. The counsel of the wicked
Character Pairing: Tom Riddle/Minerva McGonogall
Prompt: The counsel of the wicked
Rating: PG
Word Count: 904 (I am undergoing wordiness rehabilitation.)
Summary: A little night conversation, of a sort.
Author's notes: 'Blitzen' is 'lightning' in German, hence 'Blitzkrieg' as 'lightning war,' and apparently one of Santa's reindeers. The Maginot Line was a spectacularly unsuccessful set of fortifications built by the French after WWI, prompting an English proverb.
Link to Prompt Table: Table

( The counsel of the wicked )

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Title: III. Don't Say Yes
Character Pairing: Tom Riddle/Minerva McGonogall
Prompt: Don't Say Yes
Rating: PG
Word Count: 901 (Yes! First time under 1000 words.)
Summary: Curiosity killed the cat, as the proverb goes. Well, this time it will just make her miserable.
Author's Notes: Writer's block stopped this one dead in its tracks for a while. What started off as one prompt bled into two and I certainly want to avoid posting out of chronological order.
Link to Prompt Table: Table

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Current Mood: cheerful

Title: II. Slytherin (adjective) does not describe Slytherin (noun).
Pairing: Minerva McGonnagall/Tom Riddle
Prompt: Misnomer
Rating: G (again!)
Word Count: 1498 (Sorry!) I have an excuse - it's the important-later-on encyclopaedia intro.
Summary: Tom might have missed the Blitz, but Fall Seelöwe - the invasion of England - looms. He's been evacuated to the country and by Merlin, he's not happy.
Author's Notes: In spite of my best efforts, I think I've dislocated the historical timeline by a few months. 'Operation Sealion', Göring and Raeder belong to Hitler - the Reichsmarschall wouldn't fit through my door anyway - and the term Gezaubererpolizei (literally 'magic police') belongs to Valdhery's HP fic Of Snakes and Foxes. I did mean to submit this before I left for Germany in January,but I forgot. Oops.

Link to Prompt Table: Progress is in the Prompt Table
( Tom Riddle: a Slytherin who isn't a Slytherin. If you catch my drift. )

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Title: Residues
Pairing: Tom Riddle/Minerva McGonogall
Prompt: the residue of Monday
Rating: G *is ashamed*
Word Count: 1012
Summary: Tom finds a room sealed from the rest of the castle, but he isn't the first.
Author's Notes: It's not really possible to move higher than G with an eleven- and thirteen-year-old, so I hope the idea of Minerva being more interested than she should be filters through.
Pre-1930s Hogwarts (including Tom's ancestors) is based on the Marvoloverse since JKR gives us no canon information. (This will become important later.)
Link to Prompt Table: 1/13 ( Not a fake cut! )