VI of Cups - This Moratorium on Life

[lotrwariorgodss]

Title: This Moratorium on Life
Author: lotrwariorgodss
Type: Fiction
Length: ~ 10,300
Main character or Pairing: Snape-centric; *SS/LE (imagined), pre-slash HP/SS*
Card: Six of Cups
Card Interpretation (from various sources):--- Reversed - Nostalgia, inability to face reality. Reversed, this card warns of the dangers of constantly looking back, living in the

Comments

[rubymiene]

I thought Snape/Lily in canon was a little odd, but you write it so much better.
Like Hermione, I never thought of the Mirror of Erised as a work of Dark magic, but that makes so much sense. And both of them dreaming of a happy life is so sad. I'm not sure as to who Harry was sleeping with in the dream. At first I thought it was Snape, but his reaction to it was pretty limited. Then I thought it was Sirius or Cedric or someone else who died.

[lotrwariorgodss]

Aww, thanks! I really wanted to do justice to Snape's romance, since it seems like the only happiness he'd ever really had, and it got overshadowed in Deathly Hallows (and rightfully so, to let Harry do his hero thing). I seriously think she could write a whole book about it!

both of them dreaming of a happy life is so sad - I really wanted to write an alternate ending where Snape decides both he and Harry would be better off with the curse, but there just wasn't enough time.

The other boy Harry's with is just supposed to be a random other boy, so Snape's really just reacting to the fact that it's a boy and not a girl, lol.

Thanks so much for reading and commenting!

[borolin]

Now I could see positive uses for the Mirror of Erised. You could use it to find out what you truly wanted, if you weren't sure - to choose between lovers, or career options. But it makes sense that Severus, with his learned pessimism, would assume that whatever anyone might see in the glass would be forever unobtainable.

This is lovely, anyway - especially the part where Severus realises that his real memories of Lily, however imperfect they may be, are more important than the fantasy, and the whole graveyard scene and the lily for James.

[melfinatheblue]

Wow. This is a fic I'm going to need to come back to and read again. Very touching and almost made me cry.

[lotrwariorgodss]

Thanks - I'm glad you liked it!

[embergryphon]

This community seriously gets the best fanfiction. ^^() This was lovely; the whole real-is-better-than-dreaming-'cause-there're-other-people-involved aspect was really... delightful to read. =x And all the little descriptive parts, like he-only-keeps-his-windows-open-in-autumn, made it seem awfully real.

Fantastic job on it. ^^

[lotrwariorgodss]

Thanks so much! I'm glad I could make Snape seem so real - he's just so complex sometimes that I think people forget he's just a man.

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[elphaba_of_oz]

Crying my eyes out. Thank you so much for writing this! You stayed true to canon and did something that JKR could not. You made emotional sense of the few glimpses JKR gave us of Severus and Lily. This story is exquisite.

Re: Popped in from snapenews

[lotrwariorgodss]

Aww *hands tissues*. You made emotional sense of the few glimpses JKR gave us of Severus and Lily. - I'm so glad; that's what I wanted to accomplish more than anything (I needed it, lol). Glad you enjoyed it! (and thanks for saying where you were from - I had no idea the fic was mentioned there!)

[nehalenia]

This is one of the loveliest fics I've ever read. So well-written, emotional without being sentimental. So sad, but I'm glad for the hopeful, healing ending. Severus' little speech in the graveyard was perfect.

[lotrwariorgodss]

emotional without being sentimental - you have no idea how happy this comment has made me - this was exactly what I was trying to do (with the speech as well). Thanks so much!