... and I was going to ramble about dark magic and dark!Harry and what I'm trying to do, but I failed spectacularly. I think it's best for me to make my points with fiction. :)
I didn't realize how much I'd been needing this story until I read it. Dear Christ.
The build-up to their reunion was incredible and Snape is so perfectly wonderfully in character it hurt...but when Harry finally showed up...sweet Jesus. Dark!Harry is still Harry and I don't know how you do it. He's still vulnerable and impetuous and desperate for affection, but he's fucking DARK and Snape not even attempting to fight what he knows is going to be bad news is just incredible. This last chapter was just so understatedly hot, so frank in its savagery, and Snape getting turned on by the Dark magic was a crowning touch. I love how you write Dark magic: as an addiction. And obviously their relationship has more than a passing resemblance to an addiction as well.
I'm so glad this story is happening. It feels like the sun coming out. :)
Hee. I love that my dark and twisty story is "like the sun coming out." Seriously, though, I'm really glad you liked it. And the points I was trying to make about dark magic (which I am completely unable to explain in any other way) seem to be coming through, so that's also good. Mostly I'm just glad people are still around and reading. :)
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.
I don't know how long it took you to write this part, but the first thing that came into my mind was "oh please, let Snape be as dark and IC as in IBD!". I was afraid that he could have softened, but you didn't disappoint me. He hasn't lost his magic, his sharpness, his unbelievable intelligence and his terrific humour. He's so fucking amazing *is in love* And Harry...this darkness inside of him makes him more believable and at the same time more fragile, because - and here is your talent as a writer! - he's so innocent under that dangerous power, and this is stunning.
The sex scene...I was howling when Snape blocked Harry on the wall (I trusted you to write more wall!sex and you did it *_* YAY), but the rest was also unbearably hot. I'm so happy I need to put on some silly rock music and make a joy-dance in my room. ;_;
Actually, when I finished IBD, I couldn't quite stop writing. I think the first part of this is posted somewhere in my journal, maybe in June of 2005. I got pretty far into the sequel before I finally lost steam, and so a lot of this was written way back then. This story is vastly more complicated than IBD was, though; there's a lot more going on. So I'm not comfortable posting it as I'm writing it; I need to be pretty ahead of myself and pretty sure I'm not going to change something before I actually post. Anyway.
Thank you for reading! I'm really glad you're enjoying the story. And of COURSE there is wallsex. My hiatus hasn't changed me. ;)
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I wasn't sure if I would like Potter this dark but the story is too good not to trust you. I can't wait to read more.
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... and I was going to ramble about dark magic and dark!Harry and what I'm trying to do, but I failed spectacularly. I think it's best for me to make my points with fiction. :)
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Brilliant writing.
Good to see you back.
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I didn't realize how much I'd been needing this story until I read it. Dear Christ.
The build-up to their reunion was incredible and Snape is so perfectly wonderfully in character it hurt...but when Harry finally showed up...sweet Jesus. Dark!Harry is still Harry and I don't know how you do it. He's still vulnerable and impetuous and desperate for affection, but he's fucking DARK and Snape not even attempting to fight what he knows is going to be bad news is just incredible. This last chapter was just so understatedly hot, so frank in its savagery, and Snape getting turned on by the Dark magic was a crowning touch. I love how you write Dark magic: as an addiction. And obviously their relationship has more than a passing resemblance to an addiction as well.
I'm so glad this story is happening. It feels like the sun coming out. :)
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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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He hasn't lost his magic, his sharpness, his unbelievable intelligence and his terrific humour. He's so fucking amazing *is in love*
And Harry...this darkness inside of him makes him more believable and at the same time more fragile, because - and here is your talent as a writer! - he's so innocent under that dangerous power, and this is stunning.
The sex scene...I was howling when Snape blocked Harry on the wall (I trusted you to write more wall!sex and you did it *_* YAY), but the rest was also unbearably hot.
I'm so happy I need to put on some silly rock music and make a joy-dance in my room. ;_;
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Thank you for reading! I'm really glad you're enjoying the story. And of COURSE there is wallsex. My hiatus hasn't changed me. ;)
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