Abusive!James/ Lily, Potter Marriage, Snape; Liberacorpus

[terri_testing]

A/N: None of the characters is mine, though this interpretation of them certainly is. Canon-compliant in terms of facts: if anybody sees anything I overlooked please, PLEASE tell me so I can change it. I’m just borrowing JKR’s setting to tell a story about a relationship that Smallpotato (marianros) asked for…. (It’s her fault, hers, hers.

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Tolkien vs JKR

[terri_testing]

Both of them built worlds that are sufficiently compelling that other people want to live there, or at least visit. I remember my agony when a friend threw LOTR at me when I was 15, and on the third day my grandparents took the books away (I was visiting them at the summer cottage on the beach) and insisted I go outside for the rest of the day--and not read

Death Eater James

[snapesbeatrice]

Wow, your James Potter would have been a fine catch for Voldemort. The only thing stopping him was his mistaken belief that he was a good guy. The evidence was very much to the contrary.

His cutting off Lily's jeans--totally believable. I knew a woman who made herself a beautiful new dress, and when she'd finished hemming it, she tried it on to show her husband. He took an electric drill and cut it to shreds--while she was still in it, no less. And he thought it was funny. It was a traumatic experience for her, and underscored what her mother-in-law said of marrying *her* husband--"My parents told me that marrying him was the biggest mistake of my life." Of course, back then, hardly anyone got divorced, no matter the circumstances.

Great story! I need to catch up on your "Headmaster Snape," and hope you'll continue it.

Re: Death Eater James

[terri_testing]

Thanks for your review--yes, Bohemianspirit said much the same about James, that only his own belief in the myth of the Great James Potter would restrain him. I had thought the thing with her jeans came from my own perverted imagination--it's chilling that you know someone that happened to in reality.

Oh, yes, I am working on Headmaster Snape; right now the Dumbledore's Army and Sword of Gryffindor chapters are in progress. I work on HS in between gripping plot bunnies.

Right now, the plot bunny gripping me is another very twisted one. It's AU to my story "Betrayals" (on sycophant.hex/occlumency, where my name is testingt: it's been Beta-reed, unlike my lj posts). In "Winter" Snape finds himself unable to resist saving Lily instead of her son, and Lily is, um, appropriately grateful. The key word here is appropriate.

Love your name, by the way!

Re: Death Eater James

[snapesbeatrice]

Thank you for your reply, and the compliment about the name Rossetti' "Beatrice" painting has great meaning to me. (Had a devil of a time finding a url with the right-sized pic for avatar.)

In addition, I think Severus could have used a Beatrice. That said, I now discover you've written an essay about Dante's Beatrice and Snape! So I'm off to read it. I haven't seen anything on the subject before.

Re: Death Eater James

[terri_testing]

The other thing you need to read then is Rex Luscus's essay, "Snape's Supposed Great Love". About the significance of the silver doe patronus, and of being led we know not where and then having to create our own light .... Mine isn't an essay, exactly, more a Dante synopsis: hope you find it stimulating.

(One of the great experiences of my youth: listening to an Italian speaker read some of the poems in Vita Nuova in the original, while I followed on the other page in English translation....)

[sweettalkeress]

I have to say, this is a really cool story. I've read it several times, and it's both interesting reading and competent in the technical aspects.

But there's just one thing I'm a little confused by: in canon did any of the characters say anything about Lupin becoming estranged with James during the war? Because I don't remember that in any of the books. Of course, it could be that I just haven't read them for a long time....

Lupin's estrangement

[terri_testing]

Thanks for your comments, and I'm glad you like it. (Blushes

[annoni_no]

Very, very late to the party, but I had to congratulate you on one passage that I found absolutely chilling that no one else had commented on. After James used Levicorpus on Lily for the first time, he levitated her up to their bedroom. Lily was so relieved to be upright again that she didn't even register how he continued to objectify/infantilize her

[terri_testing]

No, actually, as a matter of fact, that is EXACTLY what I meant to convey by that use of the phrase "not in the mood