ART & FIC: An Exercise in Futility (R)

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Title: An Exercise in Futility
Category: Five
Author: windwingswrites
Artist: cabepfir
Beta Reader(s)/Viewer(s): ofankoma
Rating: R
(Highlight to View) Warning(s): SS/HP, AU, EWE.
Note: I would like to thank Emily Waters for a few great ideas and hand-holding, Ofankoma for being a wonderful beta and Cabepfir for her marvelous drawings and talent. You all were a great inspiration

Comments

[iulia_linnea]

I like Ginny here; I especially like that she likes herself. ;)

I like that Severus, in his own, bitter way, eventually both helps Harry and accepts Harry's help. The baker in me wants to give all the credit to the pie, but of course Harry and Severus are more intimately connected than that, aren't they?

The illustrations really enhance the fic, and the one in which Snape's peering out the door is just a classic example of his sneer, I think. :D

[cabepfir]

Thank you, Iuls! Thanks also for the extension and for the patience with the coding. :)

[opaljade]

I really enjoyed this story. It felt very true and in character.
The art was spectacular as well! What a treat.

So well done! <3

[cabepfir]

Thank you! (For the illustration part) :D

[snapesgirl62]

this is a perfect sketch of Severus and Harry. You captured their stubborn natures beautifully

[verdeckt]

Aieeee!! This is FABULOUS! *dances with glee*

How I adore your bastard!Snape both as a textual figure and a figure of art! He is so utterly refreshing and horribly delightful that I almost don't know where to start, except by kneeling at your feet . . .

Allow me to begin with your brilliant opening, which it seems to me contains the seeds to the entire story in a few well-chosen words. (Forgive me for returning to the gardening metaphor, but I loved how you developed it, and so am sticking to it myself for now.) Harry yelling, frustrated, almost nasty, uncertain whether he's being heard, uncertain of his reception and yet determined to persist no matter what the elements throw at him simply because he's aimless as well and can't summon up that much emotion for anything else these days, for anything but yelling at this utterly frustrating and somehow important git in an attempt to to get him to respond -- your Harry is just as I imagine he would be in a post-war world with Snape alive in it, unanchored and yet strangely drawn to the

[verdeckt]

All the panels were revealing and beautifully drawn and fascinating to study -- Harry's crestfallen, shocked expression at the sight of that disgusting "turncoat" sign, Snape's furiously bared teeth as he tosses out the potion (pink! I was thrilled by the colour, which seemed to me symbolic) -- but my absolute favourite was the last panel, with Harry sitting ram-rod straight, hunched into himself and brooding and perhaps even missing Snape's extraordinary expression as he stares at Harry, frustrated and sick with himself, his fist clenched against all feeling, and yet his mien startlingly open. I could look at that panel all day, it was so complex, such an interesting puzzle.

Dear Hermione! She hit it on the nail, didn't she? "Harry, he might have done all those things, but it doesn't change the fact that he is still a cruel, vicious prick. It just makes him a complex cruel, vicious prick." And yet . . . dear Author, you don't make it easy for Harry or this reader. The sex scene -- that fabulously volatile, honest, desperate, life-

[cabepfir]

What can I say to thank you for all the incredible feedback you gave to this fic? It pleased me to no end that you had enjoyed it, that it could be satisfying for a real Snarry fan. Thank you immensely.

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