Iconography

[harmony_bites]

Title: Iconography
Challenge: Bookmark challenge
Team: The Order
Words: 100
Rating: PG
Characters: Hermione, Severus, Ron, Harry, Skeeter
Note: bambu345 posted a lovely drabble, Memento. Having read it, I told her that I now saw it as in the same mental universe as my drabble Losing Your Place-that in my mind Hermione next found Snape’s photograph. Bambu

Comments

[kribu]

Oh, I liked this... and the mention of Rita Skeeter. *grins*

I think Snape just didn't want to continue existing.

*sniffles*

That's just so sad to think of.

[harmony_bites]

It's my personal theory as to why no portrait (well, in the limited universes where Snape dies, cuz he's alive dammit!).

Cuz desertion of post? ::fumes::

Thanks for the comment!

[kribu]

That "reason" - desertion of post - quite made me fume too.

I mean - what was he supposed to have done then, at that point? Hex McGonagall and Flitwick so he could hang around? Pour out all his secrets to them, when the time was obviously not right (and not knowing if Harry was there or not)?

Argh. Especially in the light of Dumbledore's fabled escape in OotP, which was apparently amazing and heroic and so on, instead of being considered deserting the post... grrr.

[harmony_bites]

Well, also, when Dumbledore died, he did so as a result of an out-of-Hogwarts trip. And God, imo Dumbledore long deserted his post. It's obvious to me so many of his appointments were political, not educational (Grubbly-Plank being so much better than Hagrid and so on) and his favoritism to Gryffindor reeked.

And whenever I think of Snape in that post, trying to minimize the damage from the like of the Carrows, hated by the staff that had been his only friends, taking orders from a portrait... ::shudders:: I don't even want to think about it. No one had a more harrowing, heartbreaking tenure as Headmaster, up to the last words said to him in that office--"Coward."

Yeah, you unleased a rant again. But...

::fumes::

I need more "Enchanted" now to cheer me up.

[kribu]

Oh, I know and agree completely. I think that was the saddest thing I realised when I'd finished DH... just HOW awful that last year must have been for him, with everyone on "his side" taking him for the worst sort of enemy imaginable.

I mean, even if he was used to it from the kids, I would like to think that his relationship with his colleagues was, before DH, professional and polite, with mutual respect (at least for those deserving it). Not the sort of loathing that he must have felt and seen every day for that final year.

Today's set of Enchanted is written, I'm just waiting to get it back from Buzzy with corrections. Even if I manage to avoid making any really bad mistakes, it has been useful to get her feedback the last couple of times, as there were a few improvements to be made.

[harmony_bites]

Oh, I know and agree completely. I think that was the saddest thing I realised when I'd finished DH... just HOW awful that last year must have been for him, with everyone on "his side" taking him for the worst sort of enemy imaginable.

I know. Name another HP character that was ever so isolated. Maybe Harry while with the Dursleys...

I'm sure there could be lots of poignant stories told of that year, but I don't think I'd have the heart to write or read them. I am paralleling HBP in a WIP, but when that comes to the end I can't imagine doing so for DH. I think just of the moment he became Headmaster and had to face Minerva for the first time after killing Dumbledore, and I shudder.

Dumbledore has plenty to answer for--but putting Snape in that situation is one of the worse.

Today's set of Enchanted is written

Yay!

Even if I manage to avoid making any really bad mistakes, it has been useful to get her feedback the last couple of times, as there were a few improvements to be made.I don't get my drabbles betaed only because this is

[kribu]

I don't think I'd have the heart to write or read them.I feel much the same way. I just can't see many rays of hope for him during that year, and I think it would just depress me to no end

[harmony_bites]

I feel much the same way. I just can't see many rays of hope for him during that year, and I think it would just depress me to no end.

Oh, but think of how comforted he was by Dumbledore. ::spits::

Ahh, but Dumbledore wanted to save Draco's soul... never mind about the one everyone already hated anyway

Yeah--cuz Snape's was so much more "corrupted." And besides, Draco's prettier... Cynical? Moi?

And second guessing is why I started posting without a beta in the first place. The more properly I check them (or have someone point out the mistakes before they're posted), the less confident I become, both with wording and with the contents.

Being betaed can up your confidence--because you have a net, and with longer stories I really feel that need to know I'm not embarrassing myself. But sometimes I'm my own worse enemy, and it's good to just write and post something quickly to get over it.

If I ever get daring enough to archive them anywhere, I'd want them all betaed though.Well, if you ever do, I know one archive I know you'd be

[kribu]

And besides, Draco's prettier... Cynical? Moi?

I was about to point out the same in my previous comments, but decided that perhaps I shouldn't display my cynicism quite like that... :-D

Well, if you ever do, I know one archive I know you'd be welcome :grins:

I know, and thanks! :-D If I ever do get up the courage, it will certainly be under consideration!