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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[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?

[shyfoxling]

You could browse through the my fic tag on my journal (the Severus/Lily tag includes all kinds of other mentions). Particularly for this purpose there are Summer Shade, Lilies Are Red, Roses Are Blue, Awake Again, and maybe Sweet Root.

A Man's Greatest Treasure, which I didn't write, also comes immediately to mind as a good one. (You might pick through the other fics in that community as well.)

[fire_everything]

Ha! I've read "Sweet Root" - it was back when I didn't yet have a sense of who was who in the Snape fandom, who shipped who, and such. When I saw the title I remembered immediately that I'd liked it. The phrase "such and such stone of the most welcome weight in the world" had stuck with me from a fic I'd read back then, and as soon as I started rereading "Sweet Root" I was like, "Is this THAT fic??" Why yes it was! This must have subconsciously been part of the reason I friended you

[shyfoxling]

Thanks for all the encouraging comment!

I must warn you that I am a dorkily detail-oriented reader, and may write entire comments about a single sentence, kind of like I did a second ago. :/

And this is a problem because...? (Ravenclaw power!)

[fire_everything]

And this is a problem because...? (Ravenclaw power!)

I'm so glad you feel this way. Ravenclaws WILL rule the world, as soon as we finish reading, critiquing, editing and stylistically improving the instruction manual. :0

[shyfoxling]

TRUFAX.