HP: Night-blooming Heartsease by julad (Snape/Neville)
So I thought I was the last person in fandom who hadn't read Night-blooming Heartsease by julad, but then sophia_helix told me she'd never heard of it, and I was like, HOLY FUCK. What if there are other people who haven't heard of this wonderful, wonderful story???
Don't even blink at the pairing. This isn't some porny little encounter where they're both out of character and it's just an excuse for two guys to bump and grind. This is novel-length, with so much care taken for the characters (SNAPE and NEVILLE! and I use all-caps because they ARE Snape and Neville) and the universe and the canon that I was seriously in awe after like, four paragraphs in.
I don't know how to explain how much I loved the story. It's war fic -- which should be enough to recommend it by itself, because while we get a lot of post-war fic in this fandom, I haven't read a lot of stories which go right into the struggles and battles and changes that war puts people through. It also features a fucking wonderful Ron, an excellent plot, intelligent writing by an author whose brain is clearly clicking along at a much faster rate than many of us mere mortals, and, well...I keep gushing and really all I want to do is go back and read the entire story from beginning to end again.
Warning: it's a prequel to resonant8's Transfigurations, so the canon branches off after Book 3, thus Neville might seem a bit more rabbit-y than he would after Book 5. But it does work. Yes.
Don't even blink at the pairing. This isn't some porny little encounter where they're both out of character and it's just an excuse for two guys to bump and grind. This is novel-length, with so much care taken for the characters (SNAPE and NEVILLE! and I use all-caps because they ARE Snape and Neville) and the universe and the canon that I was seriously in awe after like, four paragraphs in.
I don't know how to explain how much I loved the story. It's war fic -- which should be enough to recommend it by itself, because while we get a lot of post-war fic in this fandom, I haven't read a lot of stories which go right into the struggles and battles and changes that war puts people through. It also features a fucking wonderful Ron, an excellent plot, intelligent writing by an author whose brain is clearly clicking along at a much faster rate than many of us mere mortals, and, well...I keep gushing and really all I want to do is go back and read the entire story from beginning to end again.
Warning: it's a prequel to resonant8's Transfigurations, so the canon branches off after Book 3, thus Neville might seem a bit more rabbit-y than he would after Book 5. But it does work. Yes.