Snape: An Alternate History

[fire_everything]

Well, yeah. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized…holy shit, it was actually possible. All the apparent problems with this scenario can be dispatched by applying magical solutions, Muggle psychology, or both. Let me break it down for you:

Lily Evans, Harry’s much-idealized dead mother, may have thought future husband James Potter was

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[drinkingcocoa]

Oh yeah, Voldemort = totally a virgin. He feels no attraction to other humans, and has no need to use sex to gain power when he can simply use mind control. I liked how the HBP movie picked up on this theme, that choosing the Death Eater way meant giving up normal human sex and love and death, by panning from Ron and Lavender snogging in a tower to Draco, sixteen years old and isolated from any romance in his teen life or even, possibly, his future.

[driftingquill]

The fanfic! We needs it, the preciousss... 'n stuff. Yeah.

I think Rowling signed off on fanfic versions of a more complex Snape-Lily-Harry story by making the seventh book such a monumental bore. Looking forward to the finished product!

~"fictitious"

[shyfoxling]

So Snape was in unrequited love with Lily, gave her a love potion, seduced her, and got her pregnant? Why not? Snape, as we now know, was really fucking good at potions.

He could have done, technically speaking, but I don't believe he ever would have. His narrative arc is about unrequited love, as you say; see also courtly love or Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary. Even while she is alive and not just a symbol for him, however much he may have wanted her and wanted to protect her from James whom he saw as a dangerous influence (irony!), still when she tells him to shut up and go away post portrait-hole, as far as we know, he honours her request. He may be "greedy" because he is starved for affection, but he doesn't have the kind of possessiveness that would lead to something like giving her a love potion.

[fire_everything]

I don’t believe he would have either, under normal circumstances. *winks mischievously

[shyfoxling]

So in order to make this fic I’m writing work, I had to figure out a set of circumstances that would make it suddenly plausible for Snape to do such a thing. Suffice it to say that in my fictional universe, he is provoked by a series of events - unfortunate or fortunate as the case may be - that conspire to seal his fate.

Sounds interesting. I look forward to seeing it. :)

that is actually one of the problems I have with Snily in canon: insufficient smut!

LOL. A fan after my own heart. ('course there isn't much smut of any kind, given the intended age audience of the book.) I've written some spicier Severus/Lily fics, although I'm not sure they're smut really as they're more tender than that, but certainly with a good deal of erotic content.

[fire_everything]

Tender smut is some of the very best smut there is. ;)Where can one go to read these spicy Snily fics of yours?