Advanced Potion-Making, Chapter 5: The Reversal

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Title: Advanced Potion-Making, Chapter 5
Author: fire_everything 
Beta, cheerleader and all-around facilitator: brighty18 
Artists: lilmisblack  (banner), niccc  (all other art)
Pairing: Snape/Lily
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Authorial presumption, profanity, magical dub-con, mild kink, possibly disturbing reproductive issues/procedures, angst, excessive length
Word Count: Um…shorter than Half-

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[fire_everything]

You know, I'm probably an idiot, but I didn't realize until I reread the OOTP chapter on Harry's hearing that the Ministry can't, by definition, expel students from Hogwarts (nor can they "destroy wands forthwith" for underage magic). So Dumbledore knew all along that Harry, too, wouldn't be expelled for casting the Patronus, but didn't bother to tell him either.

In Harry's case, of course, that was due to Dumbledore's whole fifth-year policy of Ignoring Harry for His Own Good, but my jaw kind of dropped when I realized that Dumbledore had been OK with letting Harry freak out needlessly for weeks about his potential expulsion. And Harry wasn't mad enough at Dumbledore at that point to call him on it - if I remember right (I'm at work and don't have the book with me), Harry is so relieved at the outcome of the hearing that he doesn't even think about Dumbledore's part in his pre-hearing angst. So I made sure to have Snape call Dumbledore out on Future!Harry's behalf! Sorta. ;)

You are so nice to say anticipatory things about the coming Voldy content! This will help motivate me to get off my exhausted ass this weekend and finish revising Chapter 6. :)