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Fic: Not Just Any

Jul 24, 2009 14:51

Title: Not Just Any
Author: kellychambliss
Characters: McGonagall, Snape
Rating: PG-13?
Warnings: intimations of unseemly professorial behaviour
Prompt: westernredcedar: "Lavender's freak-out in the hospital wing -- from Snape's POV" / I didn't actually manage Snape's POV, but I think it should be possible to winkle out his opinion of Lavender's melt-down.
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Comments 31

werewolfsfan July 24 2009, 19:28:26 UTC

Rawr! I sooooooooo love to see the interactions of Hogwart's staff behind the scenes so to speak! And you captured their "voices" very well. "Puce Brown" indeed!

kellychambliss August 1 2009, 18:01:34 UTC

Thanks! Snape and McG are my favorite characters to imagine banter between. And behind-the-scenes teacher fic is probably my very favorite genre, too.

shyfoxling July 24 2009, 20:10:22 UTC

I love all the affectionately pointed banter between Severus and Minerva. I always figured stuff like this was going on between them (since we see glimpses of rivalry around the House Cup and all). Nice job!

kellychambliss August 1 2009, 18:02:27 UTC

Glad you enjoyed it; I've always liked their canon rivalry myself.

magnetic_pole July 25 2009, 20:26:18 UTC

Ah, I'd always imagined they'd enjoyed banter and rivalry like this! (Which makes Snape's betrayal and tenure as headmaster the next year that much harder to bear.) I do hope Minerva exacts her revenge for the 'daft bimbo' comment--Snape should know better. Enjoyed! M.

kellychambliss August 1 2009, 18:03:35 UTC

Thanks! I've always believed there's much more to the 7th-year betrayal than DH even hinted at; it's a fanfic motherlode.

lyras July 28 2009, 05:39:33 UTC

having attended the Dumbledore School of Communication, you don't plan to share yours

Hee! This is just one line among many excellent ones, and I love the sexual tension just below the surface. Fabulous piece!

kellychambliss August 1 2009, 18:06:41 UTC

Thanks!. I love Snape/McGonagall sexual tension, even though it's a hard pairing to make plausible. But on the other hand, it seems like a natural end for their rivalry (or seems so to me, anyway :))

veritybrown July 28 2009, 23:48:03 UTC

"Puce Brown" is great!

kellychambliss August 1 2009, 18:04:27 UTC

/g/ "Puce" gets unfairly treated, I think; it can actually be a nice color.