HANDS OFF!!

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Given this post by ginny_weasley31 that some on Potter Place are seeking to compile lists of "abandoned" stories to complete--and some members are supporting the idea that if they don't hear back from the author they're going to consider permission implied.

Well, just in case, because I'm not sure anyone is interested in my little ol' WIP.

1) Book of Shadows

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What drew me into SSHG was Falling Further In, which is a student/teacher fic. I truly fell in love with that vision of Snape, in a way I can't explain or really experienced with even profic; I think she hit my buttons in a lot of different ways. One of them certainly, and she's rather unusual if not unique in the ship with that, is that she showed Snape as a fierce protector of the Slytherins, one that cares for them--and they care back. And she built it very much on canon, using details like the time the Slytherins were hissed at, for instance, to flip your perceptions of how Rowling depicted them--and Snape.

And that fic was student/teacher. So was Caeria's Pet Project which was brilliant at spinning some of Snape's behavior as a teacher, how there might be method in his madness.

And don't faint, but probably my third biggest influence was a MLC, Helga's The Meeting of the Minds, also abandoned. Another student/teacher. Helga, btw, is someone who has said on both her FFN profile and her LJ that she wants to be left alone about continuing that fic. She had a RL crisis that led to terrible writer's block. Knowing that, I haven't so much as even reviewed that fic, even though it's a favorite. I'm terrified that if she's so much as contacted over this, she'll delete the fic and we'll lose another treasure.

This is just such a bad idea in so many ways.

So I think given so many student/teachers were favorites, it was a natural. The other thing, and as far as I know I was the first to do this post-HBP, was that I wanted to write my story between the lines of Rowling's sixth book. I felt so strongly Snape was still Dumbledore's man--and I felt Hermione needed explaining too (the cheating particularly bothered me). So it seemed natural to try to follow both of them, but put my own little spin on things.

Of course since there have been very strong stories that have done that (Second Life, Camerado) and a gazillion fics before DH nailing down the canon reasons for Snape's "innocence." I still do like some things about my fic though, like what I made of Zabini and Hermione's own arc. But really it's more that I don't want to leave something unfinished, and that every time I returned to it I learned a lot. I'd written dozens of shorts in Trek, but this was my first longfic, and it forces you to grow a plot bone in ways shorts don't.