Day 12 word count = 2827

[hobgoblinn]

Well, I got a very interesting scene with Severus and Minerva written tonight, one in which I get to do a little more with the Charity Burbage backstory-- a significant flashback to Snape cleaning out her office and having Minerva burst in on him and figure out that things are not as they appear. It fits into canon because they mutually agree that

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[sunsethill]

Congratulations, and the scene sounds wonderful. I assume this means you're writing about the year he was headmaster. It still steams me that a supposedly intelligent woman like Minerva McGonagall was presented as totally oblivious to what had to be going on. Detention in the forbidden forest with Hagrid. Yeah right! And to think that none of the people who knew him for 15 years could figure out what was going one! But, of course, we all know Severus was a "deeply horrible person." Yeah, right!

[hobgoblinn]

Thanks. Yeah, I had something like this in mind for the hallowed_moments ficathon, but they wouldn't let me in late, and I was busy with the Lost Boys anyway. I'm happy I found a use for the idea, which doesn't really work as a story on its own. And while sad, it's not as depressing using it as a flashback/ frame for a present day reconciliation.

Hmmm-- reconciliation. That word strikes me just now as what this story could be about. Minerva and Severus, Petunia and Severus, Severus and whatever enemy I dream up to be after him. And reconciliation with the dead/ the fact that the past cannot be changed, no matter how one might wish to. And Severus with Albus, if he can bring himself to do it. I'm not there yet, but maybe....

Wow, thanks for the comment. That's helpful. Want to see the first draft of that scene, as a reward? Or a punishment, maybe.

[whitestar]

Reconciliation. What a great idea :)

[sunsethill]

Want to see the first draft of that scene, as a reward? Or a punishment, maybe.

Of course I would! Reconciliation is definitely what Severus was denied in DH and I think that bothered fans even more than his death. We expected the death (though as I've said before--no body, no burial, no ghost, no portrait--no death!), but didn't expect there to be no real resolution between him and Harry ... and Lily and Dumbledore and the students and Hogwarts, etc. ;-)

[shyfoxling]

Sounds like an interesting scene indeed.