Snakeling’s Recs

[Harry Potter]

Title: Fourteen Fathoms
Author: Vain vain
Summary: Snape discovers something disturbing about Harry and acts . . . like Snape.
Characters: Severus Snape, Harry Potter
Rating: R
Warning: implied child abuse

Why?

Very few Harry-was-abused-physically-by-the-Dursleys stories work, for me, because the situation is often too exaggerated to be believable. Yet here, the writing is very sparse and very little is stated outright, and somehow you imagine much worse horrors than what's said.

I'm not sure that the second person, and especially the switch from second person to third, are the best possible choices, stylistically, but they do work rather well.

A dark fic that will leave a shiver down your spine.