Levicorpus, a Fanfic

[terri_testing]

Disclaimer:  Any reader, I assume, already knows to whom the characters and setting belong.  I claim nothing.

AU to canon, and to my fanfic “Liberacorpus.”

Warning for language, and for (non explicit) violence.

Summary:  Snape reconsiders a decision that he had previously reached.  So does Lily.

Comments

[jana_ch]

The hardest part of the story to believe? Remus showing backbone. But if anyone is going to rescue Lily it has to be him, because it certainly won’t be Peter or Sirius, and I can’t see her being able to rescue herself after the way she was ground down in Liberacorpus.

So where will she go when she leaves Godric’s Hollow with nothing but her wand and the clothes on her back? I doubt if James will just give her up; we know how persistant he can be. Are her parents still alive, in Cokeworth perhaps? The only one sure to be willing and able to protect her for her own sake is Severus; she is exactly the sort of complication he does not need, and would be certain to take on, to his own detriment

Lily ground down

[terri_testing]

This is quite early in the grinding process- he's got her alienated from her magical girlfriends, but hasn't gotten too far on attacking her self-worth-he was waiting to get her further tied to him by pregnancy (and isolated/ dependent by same) to work more on that. Excuse me, to work on educating her on being a proper wife to a Pureblood husband, smoothing off those Muggle rough edges including that unseemly independence of thought

James Giving Up?

[jana_ch]

I can’t see James just giving up. The man is nothing if not persistant. Assuming he didn’t start chasing Lily until he went through puberty, he spent at least three and possibly four years pursuing one girl. For a teenage sports star with lots of other options, that’s forever. She is his, dammit! He put himself through the wringer to get her (when she should have been falling at his feet-stupid Northern bint, her muggle parents barely out of the working class), and he is not about to let her go running off and tell everyone she’s dumped James Potter.

I can’t see him trying to kill her, though. He is heavily invested in the myth of the Great and Good James Potter, and the Great and Good James Potter does not commit murder (manslaughter maybe, but not pre-meditated). He sometimes has to chastise his wife a bit, but he’s always in control of that, he says. Another thing the Great and Good James Potter does not do, however, is get dumped. He will get her back

[oryx_leucoryx]

You know, in this version James went all the way to call Lily the M-word, so perhaps some Gryffindors might support Lily's leaving. If she is still in touch with any of them.

[jana_ch]

An abused spouse can always find excuses for her abuser, if she’s been trained to it well enough. The question is whether Lily is so far gone yet that she’ll give James the ‘second chance’ she wouldn’t give Sev at sixteen.

It would be just like Gryffindors, though, to think that the unforgivable sin was using a bad word, not physical assault. Was that Cruciatus that James used on Lily? I think it would have to be something like that for Remus to stiffen his spine and do something.