Wonderful, visceral, compulsive reading. I adore your Snape, his unblinking intelligence and competence, the way he lives his life as if playing three or four games of Wizarding chess at once, juggling his surroundings, outmaneuvering, checkmating, thinking several moves ahead. When it's done right, the way it is here, self-destructive Snape is a major kink of mine. I love how detached he is about his downward spiral, how ruthlessly aware of his obsession and yet how little effort he makes to end it. The intensity of his hunger permeates the prose, like a dark, hot current under all the other strains of his existence. Then the image of Snape sitting with his legs crossed and his eyes closed, silently waiting it out while Moody and Dumbledore debate the merits of his killing curse, haunts me for some reason. It raises the moral stakes and the psychological cost when Snape has to perform a mercy killing to spare DE victims worse suffering. What must that do, even to someone as saturnine as Snape? To put an innocent person to death,
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And I meant to drop by your LJ to thank you for mentioning the existence of this story, otherwise days might have passed before I found out about it. Muchas gracias for spreading the word.
Ah, you DO give good feedback. I never know what to say in response to stuff like this, except THANK YOU. I'm not very good at talking about my fic, but comments really do mean the world to me.
I will say that I'm really really glad the scenes involving Snape killing the woman worked for you. I wrote them in something of a frenzy and then completely forgot to read them over before I posted them. So I woke up all panicked that I had ruined the whole thing.
I'm also glad that a lot of the subtle background stuff is getting picked up on. I'm never sure if things are clear only in my head, or if others will be able to catch it.
Anyway. Yes. Thank you for reading, and I am really glad that you're enjoying the story.
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And I meant to drop by your LJ to thank you for mentioning the existence of this story, otherwise days might have passed before I found out about it. Muchas gracias for spreading the word.
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I will say that I'm really really glad the scenes involving Snape killing the woman worked for you. I wrote them in something of a frenzy and then completely forgot to read them over before I posted them. So I woke up all panicked that I had ruined the whole thing.
I'm also glad that a lot of the subtle background stuff is getting picked up on. I'm never sure if things are clear only in my head, or if others will be able to catch it.
Anyway. Yes. Thank you for reading, and I am really glad that you're enjoying the story.
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By the way, they needed the reunion. Hell, I needed it! Wonderful as always.
~Nara
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