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Severus Snape and Harry Potter, three hours. The "cover" of my up-and-coming fic, The Judas Chronicle.Related content
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ThatΒ΄s very, very beautiful! I love it! The long hair fits Harry really well, who cares that you forgot the glasses he looks better without them anyway 
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Thank you very much!
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I just love you Harry. The long hair is very nice.
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Your comment made me realize that I forgot his glasses! D: (Oh well, I'm crap at drawing them in profile anyway.)
Thanks!
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Ah, he doesn't need to have glasses. He looks just fine as he is... Though I must say that if I was that close to Snape, I would want to be able to see him as clearly as possible. But then, that's just me ^-^
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I dunno, Snape's a magnificent bastard, but I have a hard time finding him sexy. Of course, so will Harry.
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Enticing! Please let us know when it's ready. I'd like to read it.
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Once it's done going through beta I'll post it. (Err... "it" being the first chapter in what's likely to be a 50+ chapter fic...)
Thank you, by the way.
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Wooo! Long fic. That's excellent. Fanfic is helping me work through my post-Potter depression. I've tried to find other series to take its place; Twilight, His Dark Materials, Artemis Fowl, but nothing yet has drawn me in like the boy wizard.
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I don't actually like most fantasy, so fanfic is like crack to me.
A warning, Harry's going to have a crush on Snape, eventually!
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I have this thing where I can't decide whether I really like them together or not.
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Good point. Snape does seem better as an individual and sometimes it's hard to picture him in any form of relationship, or even being sexually active at all. And Harry has to be 17 or older, anything below that is too weird. But the tension between them has to go somewhere.
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To me it's not so much Snape that's the problem, although he does seem like he'd be a bit awkward with sex. It's Harry. I have a hard time seeing him with anyone, or even remaining close to Hermi and Ron, after defeating Voldemort. I think he should have ended up like Dumbley-dork, kinda a crazy old loner. I just can't see his marriage with Ginny lasting, even with the kids, and it just seemed kind of... contradictory... to the rest of the books that Jo would add in that epilogue. I mean, one of the major themes of the books (up until 6 and 7) was that people change and you can't cement your convictions in stone. Of course, then in the 6th and 7th book she just kind of threw all of that out the window.
I've read a couple interesting Snarrys where Harry was 15 or 16. Actually, let me consult my rec list... Both Scratch and In Between Days are underage, and isn't Harry 16 in IBD? And I know he's only 15 in the Tea Series....
I think the main consideration with chan/underage stuff is that Harry's not some flaky little kid. Some authors seem to underestimate just how mature teenagers can be about sex. Sure kids can be stupid, but it's not like Harry's some spoiled brat from a nice home. He's been around the block a few times, and even growing up with Dudley and his friends being the worthless little criminals-in-training they are had to have some impact on how he looks at the world. I don't believe for a second that Dudley's gang was out beating people up and shoplifting and everything without the sexual side of things that those kinds of kids get into.
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Could you send me some links? Or the site names so I can read some of the stories? I'm always searching for good Snarry, or Snack, my two fave shippings now.
I always thought that Harry would end up alone too, not that it's a bad fate. No one ever felt bad that none of the Hogwarts staff were unmarried. But I guess that they wanted a super Disney-like happy ending where everyone is happily married off and living in marital bliss.
I didn't like the Ginny Harry thing because it seemed to be pulled out of JK's butt only to wrap things up. We know that Ginny always liked Harry, but love? Neither of them spent enough time really getting to know the other to consider it real love. And Harry's feelings just seemed to come out of nowhere. He at least mooned over Cho for a whole year before falling for her, and then they had one argument and he just flees.
One really great post-Deathly Hallows fic I read is "Blood and Fire" by Cluegirl, which shows that Harry and Ginny do not have their storybook marriage afterall.
Ugh! And Dudley is one character that I can never see having sex. Don't go putting images like that into my head!
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I'll see if I can scrape them together tonight. Gah, I just spent two days in a car. Sooo tired. There's a Snarry "community" on LJ that has links to just about every Snarry fic worth reading.
I know what you mean. That was one of the main reasons I really didn't care for the 6th and 7th book. The 6th book was just so out there compared to the universe she had just spent 5 books establishing, and while the 7th was brilliantly written (one of the best IMO) with everything that happened in book six it was just kinda... blah. And while Harry/Cho was doomed from the start, it seems like Cho still had twice the screentime pre-relationship that Ginny did. I mean, we meet Ginny breifly in the second book, but other than that...
Yeah, honestly it really killed the series for me that she had to pair everyone up. I mean, Bill/Fleur is one thing, but then you start adding in Remus/Tonks, Snape/Lily, Harry/Ginny, Neville/Luna, Hermi/Ron, etc. etc. etc. and on and on it just starts seeming really silly.
Haha, I can see the rest of his friends having sex, though. Actually, I imagine that woudl be a source of great resentment for Dudley, because they're kinda the cool kids so you KNOW his friends are off bagging chicks while he looks like a pig in a wig.
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Poor thing. Take some rest. Road trips are brutal.
Hahaha! Poor Dudley! I dunno. I see some really pig-like guys who get chicks because they're toughies. And he was wearing his bling and all. And Vernon got with Petunia and he's a whale. I doubt he was a skinny, good looking lad either.
I agree with you about having to pair everyone up. It makes things too much like a romance novel which I hate. I don't mind one major couple, or two, but to throw a whole bunch in just for the hell of it does start to get silly. But I guess everyone's always hooking up with someone every two minutes in high school.
And I don't know why the Cho thing was doomed. Ron & Hermy had a major fight with a hundred times the spite, but they worked past it. I think Harry's love disappeared as fast as it came so I don't know why it was suddenly so strong for Ginny. Maybe it was just to give Harry the family he always wanted, the Weasleys.
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Yeah. I'm sure he'll eventually get a girl. Actually, I was thinking about that this morning... I was thinking, "Poor Dudley, what if he's gay and in love with Polkiss?"
Yeah, that's why I didn't mind Cho. I mean, she had two boyfriends throughout the course of the books, and it just didn't work out with Harry. But Ginny was constantly hooking up with people and that was part of what made the H/G thing just kinda fall flat. We know Harry's not fickle (OMG I nearly wrote fuckle) at all, but Ginny seems to change partners three times a book.
Honestly although Hermi and Ron were kinda "destined" to be together I think JK really overdid it with the fighting at some points. There's a lot of places throughout the books where it seems like they can't get through the day without a really big argument, and that's not what you want to base a healthy loving relationship on. Of course I like to think by book seven they've grown out of that, but...
I never saw Harry as really being in love with Cho. We never see him mooning over her wonderful personality or her sense of humor, just how pretty she is (even when she's crying!
Actually I read a really interesting fan opinion on the H/G marriage that pretty much summed up my feelings on it. Something like Ginny needed to fulfill her childhood crush and hero worship, and Harry needed to finally be a true member of the Weasley family. Of course, hero worship and a longing to belong aren't love. I doubt it's what JKR intended, but I don't think I've talked to any fans who think H/G would last.
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Ewww! The only thing worse than the thought of Dudley with a girl is gay Dudley with a guy. Get it out of my brain!
Totally right about Cho and Ginny. I think Harry was a bit fickle. Like Romeo he pined for the pretty girl (Rosalind/Cho) and yes, maybe he did base much of it on her looks, and Qudditch skills, but then (Juliet/Ginney) came along and he had forgotten everyone else and was deeply in love.
And when exactly did that love begin? He barely spoke to her in 6 years, the longest contact was in the Chamber of Secrets, then he smells a love potion and it tells him that he must have been in love with Ginny all along. WTF? There wasn't even any small hint that he liked her before that. I'd believe it more that he started to admire her for her Quidditch skills or because she became a strong spoken young woman. It also seemed that Harry started to like Ginny once he saw that she liked other guys, and jealousy isn't a basis for love either. In sitcoms the jealous guy fight like crazy to win the girl and then loses interest the second he gets her.
But then they did mention that many couples hooked up because of the threat of war. I've know some real life people who have done that, and I believe that is part of why Remus and Tonks got together. After the war the couples would see marriage as a reward for all their near-death experiences and long for the quiet retreat. The events in book 6 and 7 were extremely rushed. I think if there was one more book the Harry/Ginny thing would have had a better chance to blossom and we'd understand it better.
I do think she overdid it a bit with the H/G fighting and always thought that meant that they would end up divorsed. That and the fact that Hermione is so much smarted and more ambitious than Ron. I see her as becoming a politition or even Minister one day, and Ron would be a house husband.
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Yeah, it was all really silly. I mean, every guy has his crushes on the pretty girls. Girls are guilty of the same thing, too, of course. "Oh he's soooo dreamy!" But JK doesn't even say anything about Harry being remotely attracted to Ginny before book six. He speaks to her in the DA, but beyond that... then all of a sudden he's in love with her?
Yeah, and I understand that. I mean, half the Snarry stories out there feature some form of "war bringing people together." At the same time, everything was so rushed during those last two books. I think if she perhaps even spread the blossoming relationships out a bit more (after all, things started getting tense in book four!) it wouldn't have seemed quite so contrived. Of course I have all the sympathy in the world for Jo. If she had written the most wonderful ending to a series ever in the history of the world people would still find things to nit-pick. At the same time I think she should have told her editor that she was adding more to it. Although she said from the beginning that there would be seven books, I think everyone would understand that if she'd said it had to be eight.
I don't think Ron and Hermi would get divorced. I think they're both such strong personalities, even if they have their faults, that they would work at it and keep going whatever it took. And I've always thought that Hermi might give politics a try, but she'd probably end up going back to Hogwarts to teach. She reminds me a lot of McGonagall, and I think after dealing with the backstabbing etc. of the Ministry she'd much rather become a head of house or something. Plus, I can easily see her as the librarian who also writes for important research journals and stuff. 
I do agree that Ron would be the "mommy," though. He reminds me a lot of Mr. Weasley in that regard.
I forgot about those links! [link]
And here's my reclist, I'm trying to get everything organized a bit more before I add more stories (and fandoms!). [link]
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Maybe in book 6 Ginny finally got her bewbs? A friend pointed out that high school was full of life long friends suddenly looking up and falling for one another. Must be the hormones on overdrive.
And you're right about everyone always picking on poor Ms. R. The fact that she has this whole following were people are still discussing what they like and/or hate about her work should mean that she did something right. Sigggghhh... I wish she had announced that there would be a surprise book 8.
I agree that Hermione might end up like McGonagall and teach, but she was always saying something rude or insensitive and then back-paddeling to make it sound like she didn't really mean it which made me think of politicians, or salesmen. And somehow I feel that they would not be able to stay together. She is so much more serious and hard working than he is. He stirkes me as one of those guys that one they get married they become glued to the sofa and get really fat. Plus he was always goggling after other girls without trying to hide it, Fluer and Madme Rosemerta. I know that all guys do that but at least show some tact about it. And I don't think that one little witch-charming book is going to help him. I just think he'd cheat and she'd kick his ass to the curb. Plus he'd never get the grades or spell work right to be an auror.
Not unless HErmione would be his partner to save his neck.
Ha! Rose and Hugo fighting and Ron has to break it up. He'd probebly slink away and tell them to go pester their mother.
Woo-hoo! Links! I
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