Advanced Potion-Making
Title: Advanced Potion-Making
Author: fire_everything
Beta, cheerleader and all-around facilitator: brighty18
Artists: lilmisblack (banner), niccc (all other art)
Pairing: Snape/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Authorial presumption, profanity, magical dub-con, mild kink, possibly disturbing reproductive issues/procedures, angst, excessive length
Word Count: Um…shorter than Half-Blood Prince ( Read more... )
Author: fire_everything
Beta, cheerleader and all-around facilitator: brighty18
Artists: lilmisblack (banner), niccc (all other art)
Pairing: Snape/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Authorial presumption, profanity, magical dub-con, mild kink, possibly disturbing reproductive issues/procedures, angst, excessive length
Word Count: Um…shorter than Half-Blood Prince ( Read more... )
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hey would have rather interfered with the group’s self-image. If it was absolutely necessary to deliver something by bird, a Death Eater would use a raven, a crow, or, if one could be had, a vulture.
*snerk* Dramatics? never!
was like having a stranger come up to you and give you a secret handshake, then realizing that the man was in fact the brother you had given up for dead.
Neat analogy.
Potion-Making: The Art and Science
*chuckle* If you see a good idea, steal it, right?
Berwick, Fenwick, and Warwick - lol. Nice names. "Wizardy".
He rather liked this - liked being an unknown and therefore potentially dangerous quantity.
*nod*
Seems to me I no longer need to try to continue on "Lost Causes" - you've done it for me, and much better and longer than I ever could. (especially the detail of attributing significance to "yours," rather than just plain signature of the name. ha! GMTA?)
cabbage (a food Snape detested; its smell and taste were to him the smell and taste of childhood poverty)Ooo, neat ( ... )
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I misremembered the bit with "Yours" - it's "Call of the Dark", not "Lost Causes" (which also includes letters, probably why I was misremembering). Anyway though.
I have no plans to even mention Regulus in this fic, for one thing.
What? I'm out of here!
;)
this fic is all about the glorification of Snape's smarts and skillz. :D
Woot!
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Ay, the business with the Hogwarts Express. Nonsensical, isn't it, for a lot of the canonical wizarding population? I suppose it's logical to suppose that despite what looking through Harry's eyes might suggest, not every student travels that way.
“There are many superb wizards who are half-bloods. I am one myself, in fact.”
Oh goodness. I'm not sure VOldemort would have revealed this bit of information, partly for the reason Snape himself ponders.
I hope that when you turn seventeen you will remember all I’ve said to you today, and consider joining me in my work.”
I guess he must have changed policy not long thereafter, to take sixteen-year-old Regulus?
Snape resumed his position as a summer stock boy at the same market he had shoplifted from as a child
Picturing him in whatever the store uniform might be is very amusing...
Ha, amusing that Umbridge was in that particular position then.
“I’ve been expelled from Hogwarts for conjuring a Patronus,” said Snape. He was surprised to hear how defiant his voice sounded.I'm ( ... )
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I'm not sure Voldemort would have revealed this bit of information, partly for the reason Snape himself ponders.
I'm sure Jo's Voldy would never have done so. But I frankly admit that I'm trying to subvert canon Voldy here, replacing him with an alternate Voldy who courts Snape hard and is willing to take some personal risks in doing so. And there's more to come along those lines.
I guess he must have changed policy not long thereafter, to take sixteen-year-old Regulus?Yes, this is a plot flaw which you're absolutely right to point out. For narrative reasons (suspense, etc.), I wanted there to be a lag between Snape's first meeting with Voldemort and his joining up as a Death Eater, so I invented this fake "DEs must be 17" rule. Then I remembered the counterexample of Draco, who joined at sixteen, but figured I could still justify my decision based on the supposition that upon returning from exile, Voldemort would have gotten more aggressive in his recruiting, with fewer ( ... )
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It's not unreasonable; for one thing, they might not be able to Apparate.
what are the details on Regulus' joining? Is there any ambiguity/wiggle room here?
Kreacher states unequivocally that he was sixteen:
But Master Regulus had proper pride; he knew what was due to the name of Black and the dignity of his pure blood. For years he talked of the Dark Lord, who was going to bring the wizards out of hiding to rule the Muggles and the Muggle-borns ... and when he was sixteen years old, Master Regulus joined the Dark Lord. So proud, so proud, so happy to serve ...
In fact it almost sounds like he had been wanting to and turning sixteen was the magic number that somehow made him eligible, even if he wasn't "of age". It could possibly be related to school-leaving age, which is sixteen in the UK as far as I know; children of that age get more self-determination than a sixteen-year-old does in the US.
"inconsistencies and fuckups make it a more authentic, JKR-like reading experience!" ( ... )
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OK, my new story is that the "you must be 17" rule is specific to Snape, because Voldemort wanted him to stay in school and do well on his N.E.W.T.s. So nice, so protective of Voldemort!
Except that, in Chapter 5, Snape does join the DEs before taking the N.E.W.T.s. Fuck!
Sooo...guess it's back to Ye Olde "Hey, JKR Fucked Up ALL THE TIME!" Defense. Or the Apparating defense. Yeah, that one has potential. Gotta be able to Apparate to be of use to the Dark Lord, right? 'Cause otherwise, how can you come to him immediately when your Dark Mark burns??
(Fuckin' Regulus! Just WAIT a year like everyone else, you fuckin' entitled twat!)
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Severus Tiberius Snape
Not sure what I think of this middle name, but thank you for not going with the herd and making it Tobias!
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But given that I originally came to LJ as a Star Trek reboot movie fan, I figured "Tiberius" would be an appropriate tribute to my half-forgotten original fandom, so I kept it. If it gets a few cross-fandom snerks, I'll be happy. ;)
(Now that I come to think of it, "Tobias" probably would be a more logical choice in the context of this story. Eileen would have still been thinking favorably about Tobias at the time of Snape's birth, not to mention tickled by the fact that the Muggle she loved happened to have such a wizardy name. And if her marriage to Tobias caused most of her family to disown her, as I've ( ... )
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Also, like "Severus", it's both the name of a Roman emperor and a Catholic saint, so why not?
(Now that I come to think of it, "Tobias" probably would be a more logical choice in the context of this story.
Eh, I know, and it seems pretty common for wizards (like Muggles) to carry their father's names as middle names. But something just rubs me the wrong way about it in Severus's case, and it's such a common choice for authors that I'm always pleased to see someone change it up a little bit (so long as they don't give him an alliterative middle name!).
not to mention tickled by the fact that the Muggle she loved happened to have such a wizardy nameMy understanding is that it was a perfectly normal Muggle name in context - not, I guess, that he would have gone by the full "Tobias" very much, but "Toby" would have been considered a good, hearty, friendly name for a man in that place and time. (I could be wrong - this is just a ( ... )
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I find myself wondering about just what it is Eileen is suffering from that is sapping her so much physically as well as magically. (I didn't just miss that being said, right?) I mean, cancer? Fibromyalgia? (would be much more painful, I'd think) Chronic fatigue? Intestinal parasites? Severus's remark later that it's simply being ground down somehow doesn't seem sufficient for the physical symptoms.
One of the buyers had been the Slytherin Seeker
...er, Regulus? (Well, I suppose we don't know when that photo with him on the team was taken; it might have been in Severus's sixth or seventh year and thus after these events.)
“A ballpoint pen,” said Shankley, in a deeply affronted voice.
*chuckles*
“Thought you said you’d die before you’d ever work here again.”
“I did,” said Snape.
Did say, or did die? *ahem* (this is not facetious - in a sense, he has died since last summer...)
What was it like to be magically compelled to do someone else’s bidding? Wouldn’t it be safer to be compelled this way by your friend, under ( ... )
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No, you didn’t. But in my mind it’s something similar to whatever psychosomatic ailment brought Merope Gaunt low; in Merope’s case, it seems that psychological factors may have indeed been sufficient to bring on her physical/magical deterioration and death. Whatever Eileen’s affliction is, I don’t think it’s a purely physical, Muggle disease.
...er, Regulus? (Well, I suppose we don't know when that photo with him on the team was taken; it might have been in Severus's sixth or seventh year and thus after these events.)
I wasn’t specifically thinking of Regulus, but you are free to imagine it was him if you like. :)
Did say, or did die? *ahem* (this is not facetious - in a sense, he has died since last summer...)I was only thinking “did say” - you or I might view him as having metaphorically died, but I'm not sure Snape himself would. One thing I’ve always ( ... )
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Why is she being referred to as Petunia Dursley then?
There are a total of three pieces of art (a banner and two illustrations), and all three were posted as part of the initial post.
I see only the banner and then a picture of Severus looking at two doors all the way at the end of the text.
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Um...because I fucked up. It seems I can only think of Petunia as a Dursley, and forgot that I intended her to still be an Evans here. You're right to point out that this is potentially confusing. I've changed it.
I see only the banner and then a picture of Severus looking at two doors all the way at the end of the text.
You don't see a black and white portrait of Voldemort in chapter two, eighteen paragraphs in? I can see it when I'm logged in as myself, not just when I'm logged in as a mod. If you can't see it, let me know - we may have a ghost in the LJ/Dreamwidth machine here.
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i, ok. i am not and i have never been in hp fandom. idek how i got here. i kind of feel unqualified to comment. but this fic, omg. i'll try to come back and give you an actual comment when i'm coherent, as i'm nowhere near done reading it yet, but after writing something as epic as this you deserve to have people at least drop by to tell you they've read it. this is me, i love it, i'll be back later.
&hearts
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