New HP story: The Familiar

[resonant]

The Familiar
Harry/Snape -- NC-17 -- 40K
No underage
A potion goes awry.

Many thanks to Julad and Cesca and Calico for help that went way beyond beta.

Don't they sound like a line from a ballad, my betas?

There were three sisters lived in a wood,
Julad and Cesca and Calico,
And they fixed a story that wasn't much good,
All along the banks of Spey-o.

Comments

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it. There wasn't much to it, but it was fun to write.

The bit where Harry thinks Snape's voice is the only sexy thing about him is interesting. Did he really mean that? Or is he in denial? (Or is the reader not supposed to know for sure? You don't have to tell me if you don't want).

In the context of the story, I suppose it could go either way. For what it's worth, when I try to play the story out after the ending in my mind, I find that it really is the life force for Harry -- that he really doesn't feel much attraction to Snape, unless I can get them to develop a friendship first, which of course can take years. The Snape in my head, on the other hand, is rather more affected by this little interval than he lets on.

So many H/S writers seem to hate Draco. You killed him off in The Familiar, so I suspected you might be one of them.

I don't hate Draco, but evidently Snape and Draco serve similar purposes for me, because I find it difficult to conceive of a story (at least a Harry-centric story) that has both of them in it.