Comments | wemyss: FIC: An unrelated one-off, with Snape, post-War.

wemyss

FIC: An unrelated one-off, with Snape, post-War.

Oct 06, 2006 16:57

The Light has won. Harry and Draco have led the Order to victory. Severus Snape now awaits execution, a double-, treble-, quadruple-agent whose only loyalties, it seems, were to himself, and whose actions can never be excused. He is allowed a final letter to the victors, and, not surprisingly, disagrees with their assessment of his loyalties, ( Read more... )

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tiferet October 6 2006, 16:50:24 UTC

It's the end I love best, but love it I do.

Thank you. wemyss October 6 2006, 17:06:26 UTC

And of course, he's utterly convinced that he's RIGHT.

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Never mention noses in Snape's hearing. wemyss October 6 2006, 17:26:23 UTC

MMA is of course the degree of Master of Magical Arts. He is also a Member of the Royal Society of Potioners and Simplers, as well as, as you rightly note, a Fellow of the Royal Alchemical Society.

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The Dragongate Universe sgt_majorette October 6 2006, 19:04:19 UTC

I like this Snape as the adult version of the "canonical" Snape, better even than the Dragongate Snape.

Oooer. wemyss October 6 2006, 21:29:08 UTC

Thank you.

And I love the portmanteau term you so casually and brilliantly spun off, there.

Gate of Water sgt_majorette October 7 2006, 16:08:26 UTC

Since the late drama at the Watergate Hotel, Americans like to tack -gate onto anything to indicate scandal, but here, it actually works...

Well, better than '-horn' for everything. wemyss October 7 2006, 16:24:38 UTC

I assume that is reserved for sex scandals involving under-aged congressional aides?

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tree_and_leaf October 6 2006, 19:35:20 UTC

A remarkably convincing Snape. However else one draws him, I don't think you can have a Snape who is not a master of self justification

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Indeed. wemyss October 6 2006, 21:31:57 UTC

Very true.

Thank you, m'dear. wemyss October 6 2006, 21:31:19 UTC

And, yes. Either self-justifying or a complete, jaded, LeCarre cynic. Or, perhaps, both.

Whew! themolesmother October 7 2006, 14:03:48 UTC

I've just read this through for the second time.

Your Snape voice is perfect - cold, arrogant sarcastic - but it's what he's saying that really gives me the chills.

That he could have been playing both sides against the middle all along in order to serve a twisted ideal of Darwinian selection is quite, quite plausible. The "meritocracy" he envisages, should come to pass, would be a tyranny of the elite. Terrifying.

A powerful piece of writing. Well done.

MM

Thank you. wemyss October 7 2006, 15:58:55 UTC

I'd hoped to hit the subtlety correctly.