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Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon 5

Jul 26, 2009 00:00

Sorted: 123 prompts! Blame the Cat(s).

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Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 01:53:01 UTC

Recipient: faris_eirin
Prompt: There's a potion Snape repeatedly failed to brew. He isn't one to give up, though.
Word count: uh, 620 (Is made of fail, here. But remembers with relief that the Cat can’t count)
Rating: G, but with angst

1975:

“Amortentia doesn’t really create love, of course. It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love, although this potion can cause a powerful infatuation . . . “

Slughorn’s somewhat fruity voice meandered on but an idea had just occurred to him, and Severus flipped open his book to jot it down in a margin.

Regulus nudged him and snickered. "That's one potion I bet you'd like to develop, eh? A lot more useful than Levicorpus if a bloke wanted to get lucky."

Severus gave him a sideways glance and pressed his lips together. He wasn't going to need a love potion. Lily would choose him, all on her own.

1976:He was tired of seeing her with Potter, night after night, heads bent together over a book in the library. Before they disappeared together, that is. Severus suspected that they were ( ... )

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin lordhellebore July 26 2009, 02:00:29 UTC

Oh. Oh. That is heart-breaking. Worse than the book, because it's not to horribly caricature-like, but real and painful.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 02:04:35 UTC

Why, thank you. A proper Snape/Lily fic ought to be heart-rending, IMO.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin eeyore9990 July 26 2009, 02:11:14 UTC

OMG. Ouch. Oh, poor Severus.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 03:53:24 UTC

Yeah, I feel pretty sorry for him, myself. Such ugly desperation.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin gmth July 26 2009, 02:41:19 UTC

Oh, WOW. That is simply amazing. I love all the little canon details you worked in here, and ohmygod so sad for Severus that he's just a tiny bit too late. Great, great work!

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 03:53:56 UTC

Thank you, sweetie. Praise indeed. And yes, of course I get off on working it just so into the canon timeline. I'm all about the chronology!

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin gatewaygirl July 26 2009, 02:41:25 UTC

Gah. Not that I'd want him to do that to her, but the timing is painful!

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 03:54:31 UTC

I'm all about the chronological narrative. And I'm glad this worked for you. His desperation is so ugly that it's a thing of beauty.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin celandineb July 26 2009, 02:51:14 UTC

Ouch. Poor, poor Severus.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 03:55:11 UTC

Thank you! His desperation is so ugly and sharp-edged that it's really tragic.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin madderbrad July 26 2009, 02:52:26 UTC

Wonderful! Very clever. But I'm glad Snape didn't succeed.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 03:55:21 UTC

Oh, I am, too!

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin tunxeh July 26 2009, 03:16:44 UTC

Heh. He's stubborn enough that this fits. If Merope's was the original sin that led to Voldemort, what nightmare version of Harry would have been spawned had Snape succeeded a little earlier in this?

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin cordelia_v July 26 2009, 03:55:59 UTC

Oh, that's an amazing parallel. I hadn't even thought of that. And yes, he is exactly that stubborn.

Re: Drabble for Faris Eirin la_dissonance July 26 2009, 03:21:44 UTC

Oh, ouch. Perfect.

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