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Here are three fic recs for Friday: one dark and two humorous.

Title: One Echo
Author: snegurochka_lee
Characters: Snape/Lupin, Lily, James. Snape/Lily, sort of, but no more than you get from canon.
Rating: R
Words: ~3,400
Warnings: Domestic abuse. (Minor, offstage) character death. Quite far into AU territory, too, I should think. Possibly suspect magical theory.
Summary: Snape saw the moment it registered. Lupin was an idiot, to be sure, except when he wasn't. His gaze swept over Lily, pausing at the pertinent swells of purple on her arms and the way she hunched over in shame. If only both of them had looked into her eyes.

Written for the Dark Side challenge on lupin_snape, this is dark indeed, and will send a chill down your spine. I can't say too much about it without giving away the ending, but I highly recommend it. Actually, I highly recommend anything by this author, who somehow has a way of writing so well that her stories overcome all my usual squicks. (I usually don't care for dark fic and prefer happy fluffy stories, but this story is incredibly compelling and I don't regret reading it at all, although I still shudder a bit when I think about it.)

And today I'm doing my Friday fic recs on Friday! Made of win! Er, it is Friday, isn't it?

I don't believe I've recced this story before - and yet reading it has been one of the most healing experiences I've had recently. This story is extraordinary - it is so moving; honestly I can't even think of a story that is comparable.

Told from Draco's perspective, it deals with his grief, his immeasurable sense of loss at Severus's death - and his anger, his resentment and his sense of betrayal. This story spans the years between the Hogwart's Battle and Scorpius's schooldays, and is 99% canon-compliant. Even years after, Draco is shaped by his love and loss of Severus - it is central to his entire character. And Draco has not forgiven Severus, and he is not really living. In some senses, his life ended the day Severus died. And, all these years later, Severus is still trying to get Draco to forgive him, to truly live...

The Years That Walk Between by femmequixotic.
Summary: Draco finds his way after the war.
Rating: NC-17.
Warnings: you are going to cry.
Pairings: Severus/Draco (past); Harry/Draco.

If you read nothing else this week/month/year, please read this one. Please, even if the pairings don't do it for you, read this one!

"Snarry" is, for better or worse, firmly entrenched as shorthand for "Snape/Harry," but I refuse to call Severus and Charity "Sevarity." :-P I also don't get why the hell people pair Severus' last name with his partner's first name in these shorthand dealies; whatever happened to parallel construction? But I digress. ;-)


First, I want to direct you to an absolutely gorgeous Severus/Harry postwar fic. It was based--by request of the recipient, venturous (venturous1 on LJ)--upon the story I wrote for Ven for last year's Snapedom Summer Fest: Merry Meet Again. The author picked up where I left off and spun a fascinating tale of woundedness and healing, magic and love.

We Shall Meet in all Directions

Author: megyal (on LJ)
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Rating: PG
Summary: Right after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry's beleaguered mind continues to deal with comforting hallucinations and stark reality.


Second, I've continued to write drabbles for snape100 about Severus and Charity. My latest drabbles have been a series centering around Severus and Charity going out of the country on holiday for the summer (1993 is implied). Rather than link to each story on LJ, IJ, and DW versions of Snape100, I'll just provide the links on my fic archive.


The Summer Holiday series, in order:

* High Flying Lover
* Letting Off Steam
* Not Going That Way
* The Dunderheads Had Not Pained Him for Nineteen Hours, All Was Well
* Begin at the Beginning
* Whenever We Begin
* Ruminations on an Anonymous Correspondence
* No Escape from Reality

Future drabbles will also be archived on my IJ, linked on the sidebar under "Summer Holiday series - Severus/Charity."

Here's my latest "HP-sort of" fanfic:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4977310/1/

Hope you like it!
Alison

over at wizard love I found this delightful Snape/Tonks fic:

Six Ways to Sunday

also, for hp_unfaithful I have new Snapey art, too.