The Ghost Beneath the Curtain | PG | Harry Potter

[ubiquitousmixie]

Title: The Ghost Beneath the Curtain

Prompt: I want Severus and Lily's last conversation/encounter. I'd like for her to tell him something GOOD and that's why he tried to save her. Did she give him false hope? Tell him she would always love him?

Fandom: Snape/Lily, Harry Potter

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Comments

[burningeden]

Oh this was achingly beautiful!

It's so hard to imagine that the same little boy that grew up telling Lily all about Hogwarts and Azkaban is the same Snape. He loved her. I think that the love Severus had for Lily was magical.

And so was this story.

The bottle of hellebore being left behind was so telling, D. He couldn't deny her anything. And that came through beautifully. And I love that she gave him just a little bit of hope and human touch before all was said and done. His empty pockets made me ache. Poor Snape. :(

This was absolutely gorgeous.

And I'm feeling mucho love right back at you! :)

Thank you for this!

[ubiquitousmixie]

i'm beyond happy that you liked this! i was worried because it was a little different from your prompt, so i'm relieved you liked it!

snape's love for lily really is beautiful and inspiring. i wanted to find a way to subtly capture that with this fic and i'm glad you think i did :)

thanks for the wonderful prompts, for reading, and for the awesome comment! *big hugs*

[ellipsisoveruse]

Oh, this was so heartbreaking - seeing Lily longing for a child, all the while knowing she’d never see her son grow up. Your detail here is just gorgeous - the wizard, the robes, the dusty bottles.

Oooh, wow. I feel like I can hardly provide commentary on this, it’s so good. You really nail the detail - you’ve got Snape absolutely perfect - and again, so sad to know that they once were friends.

Is there a special significance to the hellebore? /bad nerd

This was so sad and lonely, but so beautifully written.

[mac_beth13]

It's really a bittersweet feeling at the beginning seeing Lily full of hope that she'll be buying school supplies with James for there child someday when we all know that day never came for them. I love that you remember to put in little details like what the apothecary smelled like. It's the small details that create easily imaginable atmospheres for the reader to visualize. When Lily spins the ring around it made me wonder if she'd done it to make the ring less noticible hoping Severus wouldn't see it or if she had the intention of it looking like a wedding band so he wouldn't have a chance to gain false hope that there was still a chance. Oh, Severus, such a tragic man. One wonders what he'd have been like if his love for Lily had been returned, if he'd learned to tell her how he'd really felt, if he'd never fell into league with the Death Eaters. I love how you had him leaving the bottle of hellebore and the mystery of did he leave it because he could deny Lily nothing or that he simply couldn't afford it, either way it is just

[missbevcrusher]

And you write Severus/Lily, too? This is almost too good to be true.

These two are my newest ship, and I absolutely adored this story.

On this note, would you mind terribly if I added you? I don't know if you plan to write more Severus/Lily or more Laura/Lee, but if you do, I would definitely love to be able to see them on my flist.

[ubiquitousmixie]

I'm so glad that you enjoyed this story! I totally thought that this story was long buried, so I'm glad to know someone around here enjoyed it! Feel free to add me! I don't write as often as I used to, but I'm hopeful that I will! Thanks so much for the great comment!