Title: Fire in the Belly
Author: djinn_fic (Djinn1)
Author's Website: http://www.djinnslair.com/
Length: 41,559 words (Complete)
Rating: T for Teen; equivalent of PG
Genres: Romance, Drama
Pairings: Snape/Hermione (with Ron/Hermione in the beginning, Harry and Hermione friendship, and Harry/Ginny as ( Read more... )

And I loved it. Maybe my favorite along with the film adaptation of The Prisoner of Azkaban directed by Alfonso Cuarón--although the only one to make me cry was the film of Goblet of Fire--the reaction of Cedric's father when he finds out his son is dead did me in ( Read more... )

I’d seen snapedom quoted from a few times on my f-list. I absolutely adored (and put in memories) one post I’d recommend to anyone who loves Snape- “Good Guy Syndrome” by rattlesnakeroot-the perfect answer to all those people (including Rowling) who think we all love Snape because he’s a “bad boy.”

But the essay that led me to post is “Snape as wicked Stepmother?” by mary_j_59 ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, having a problem digesting a lump of prima donna-ism, I whinged to snarkywench_64, and she asked if a fic would make me feel better. No dope, I immediately said, “YES!” and we can all be glad I did.

Go get thee to her LJ and read Altered PerceptionsNo, it isn’t SSHG or DMHG (both of which she writes brilliantly), it’s Harry/Hermione and that’s ( Read more... )

Found this article via sylvanawood's post in dh_oh_shit. It’s chock full of spoilers, so don’t read it unless you’ve finished Deathly Hallows, but it expresses eloquently and succinctly something I think a lot of us feel about Snape.

Missing from ‘Harry Potter’ - a real moral struggle

Oh, and how does Rowling feel about Snape now?

( DH Spoilers in Rant Under the Cut )

For those who are actually still online and not hiding from spoilers, a friend sent me an interesting Snape article I thought I’d share-this one arguing Snape is neither good nor evil but just out for himself. A valid theory, even if not one I subscribe to:

Snape: Good or Evil?

And for Comma Nazis everywhere and those who love them.

The Sad Fate ( Read more... )

( No Spoilers Here--Just Spoiler Policy )

My friend and co-beta Djinn swears by writing while listening to appropriate music. She knows I have a wide song collection but not a clue about these things--so she made me a playlist to make a compilation to listen to while writing my WIP. I think though it works for any Hermione/Snape story--and I loved her list so much I thought I'd share it, ( Read more... )

A friend sent me the link to this article so I thought I’d pass it along. It’s LONG-but meaty, and by an award-winning and bestselling novelist, author of Ender’s Game. His analysis is not “good news”-it pretty much tracks fandom analysis-that Snape is indeed loyal to Dumbledore, but will sacrifice his life in the end-because, as he puts it, there’ ( Read more... )

I was doing research for my WIP Book of Shadows (Yes, I’m working on it, just finished the 4th scene of planned 6, which for me this soon after an update is pretty damn good. It's why I'm behind on my f-list reading among other things to take advantage of a spurt of writing while I can). Well, I was looking up Hufflepuffs trying to learn whether it ( Read more... )