Thoughts of a Snape/Harry writer on HBP, plus lesbo cinema

[pen_and_umbra]

To add to the flood of HBP posts: My thoughts as a Snape/Harry writer on HBP, and where I will go from here with said pairing.

Comments

[straussmonster]

All I can say is that if you write it, I might give it a chance and read it. Only after beer o'clock in the afternoon, but still.

[There are so many holes in the non ESE!Snape theories, but they make sense of things that don't otherwise...le sigh.]

[pen_and_umbra]

Ahaha! You, reading Snape/Harry? I just might die of the shock. XD

Holes, yes, and so many possibilities and plausibilities. I've yet to put my ducks in neat rows, but soon-ish.

[straussmonster]

I've *read* almost everything under the sun in fandom, if even just for the game of "Can I get through this without running to the freezer?" But to actually read Snape/Harry, that would be odd.

I've figured out what the thing which kills the whole plan is, but even it can be explained. Le sigh. It's going to be a long 2-3 years.

[pen_and_umbra]

The plan-killer? There are many... my clincher is, why the hell didn't Dumbledore tell Harry of the possibility that Snape might have to AK him? Or anyone else in the Order? What is the usefulness of Snape as an undercover agent if no-one knows he is one?

Asfadsfasdgf!

I've come up with theories to overcome these obstacles, but damn if it isn't complicated. I'll need to make a flowchart thingy soon. :P

[matyas_adina]

Yes! Thank you! I'm so gald most of us are not giving up:D

[pen_and_umbra]

Oh, no. It's a challenge, and challenges are wonderful indeed. :D

[titti]

I give you another theory. Dumbledore was dying. The burnt hand is the clue. He and Snape both knew about this, just like they knew that Voldemort wanted Draco to kill AD.

AD said several times that his life wasn't worth as much as Harry's, which makes more sense if he was about to die anyway.

Snape killed him because it would have happened anyway, possibly soon, possibly even sooner if Severus wasn't there to help AD. If Harry saw this in a pensieve or if the Headmaster's portrait would tell him why he trusted Sev so much.... Oh the possibilities.

[pen_and_umbra]

Ooh, hadn't thought of Dumbledore saving memories in the Pensieve, perchance... good one, that.

Oh yes, so many possibilities! HBP closed a lot of doors, but opened up a whole slew of new ones. Dayumn.

[titti]

See, it won't take us long to come up with explanations. *g*

[pen_and_umbra]

I'm getting déjà-vus about the Shrieking Shack incident and how big of a problem it was to me in the context of Lupin/Snape shipping. XD

[laurelwood]

"Oh, so you killed Dumbledore because you had no choice and it was a strategically sound decision? Okay, then! How about some hot buttsex?"

:D I woke up feeling all depressed over the ending of HBP, but you've just cheered me immensely.

[pen_and_umbra]

Thoughts of hot buttsex tend to have a cheering effect! ;P

[cordelia_v]

I think that 7th year Snarry is going to be terribly difficult to write. I'm not sure if it can be done. But a post-war Snape/Harry, set during Harry's 20s? Perhaps. Assuming that it became clear by the end of the war that Snape was indeed deep undercover! Snape.

I'd love, love to see you try. At this point, I cannot tell you how great the emotional impact would be, of any Snape/Harry that was HBP compliant and also not non con. It would be balm for the masses, indeed.

So, perhaps that's a motive? My end of the fandom, at least, has never needed good Snape/Harry more than we do now. You have a chance here to write something that will have twice the emotional impact on the reader than it normally would, simply because of where we all are right now, emotionally.

/begging.

[pen_and_umbra]

I wouldn't write 7th year Harry anyway, I think, because I like adult!Harry better -- more leeway story-wise, and perhaps also emotional maturity. Plus, I severely suck at writing teenagers. ;P

I'm on Post-It note 21 in plotting (some recycled from fic ideas I've had) so the chances are, I'll start writing it soon -- as soon as I have all my ducks in a row. It'll take me a good while, though. I love it for the challenge, simply put. I'm very much looking forward to how the fandom will step up to it in general; IC fluff seems to be out of the question now and I know I won't be reading the non-con stuff, but ah, the possibilities! Wow.

[auctasinistra]

I think that 7th year Snarry is going to be terribly difficult to write. I'm not sure if it can be done.

Oh yeah. It can be done. I'm sure lots of Snarry writers are working up their theories. I'm not sure it's that much more difficult than it ever was. All Harry needs is the right facts from a source he trusts -- I'm sure lots of folks can come up with ways to pull that off. :)

[pen_and_umbra]

(Damn -- I go to bed and then all this interesting discussion happens. ;P)

There are theories. Oodles. But for me, it's become harder -- not because I can't marshal up the facts to explain why Snape simply had to kill DD, though. It's all because of #2 reason up there: nothing changes the fact that Snape killed Dumbledore. Harry clearly loved the man and hates the fuck out of Snape for what he did; such feelings really can't be rationalised away with facts. There needs to be actual healing (and not in the buttsex sense ;)

Furthermore, can't really see Snape going out of his way to make Harry believe or help Harry in understanding the reasonings. I mean, the man is a, well, an asshole.

Ah well. Where there is a will, there is a way. Me, I'm actually looking forward to writing my take on things! :D