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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2008-02-26 21:58:00

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interviews, team phoenix

CHAMPION INTERVIEW # 9 - BethH!

Your Name: Beth H (aka, bethbethbeth)
Archive link(s): My web site (with a linkto my huge, multi-fandom recs page) and just my Snarry at Walking the Plank
Your Team: Phoenix, baby!

1. 'Canon compliant' is a hot button topic in Harry Potter fandom (thanks to all the 'After-Book Specials' JKR is hosting). What is your definition?

While I like the movies, I only consider the information contained in the books to be canon. This isn't to say I'm not willing to borrow an idea from one of the interviews, for example, if it suits a story I'm writing, but if it contradicts something in the actual series, I can't really think of it as canonical, precisely.

2. Has fanfic influenced your writing? If yes, was it a particular story you can name for us?

Hmm. I don't think any specific story influenced my writing (although Predatrix's ""The Love Song of Bastard and Idiot" probably created my obsession with desperate, needy sex stories). However, there are definitely authors (like atdelphi) and rexluscus) whose work has encouraged me to take more chances with pairings or plot.

3. What element(s) about the relationship between Snape and Harry do you find most intriguing?

The challenge of getting them together. Quite frankly, it's pretty unlikely that these two guys would ever look twice at each other in ordinary circumstances, but at the same time, many of the most unlikely scenarios serve as the basis for the most brilliant stories.

Also? Who better than a man with a "saving people thing" to pair up with someone like Snape, who needs saving (whether he wants to admit it or not).

4. How would Severus Snape find your team mascot most useful?

Gee, let's see. There's Snape, breathing his last on the floor of the Shrieking Shack - and there's a Phoenix, whose tears have amazing healing properties. Sounds like a match made in heaven to me!

5. What would you consider your greatest strength in writing?

Probably humor (although that might also be my greatest weakness, since humor creeps into even my angstiest stories and kind of kills the mood, sometimes.).

6. Is there something your beta(s) constantly catch you doing?

Whining about not being able to finish writing the sex scenes?

7. Have you ever collaborated/partnered with another author or artist? If yes, please describe it for us. If no, would you consider it?

Officially, only in another fandom. Three months of trading story files back and forth with another author (kelliem in the Due South fandom)...and it was extremely fun.

In HP though, well, no, I have no official collaborations under my belt (my collaborators from this year's Smutmas are busy maintaining the polite fiction that they were just beta'ing for me.)

8. Now that canon is complete, do you find it more freeing or less when it comes to writing or enjoying fanfic/fanart?

Canon always imposes constraints. Of course it was easier to imagine unlimited possibilities when we only had to take the first book into consideration, but even today, all it takes is a clever enough 'work-around' to write whatever futures we want for our favorite characters.

(And sometimes, changing the future is merely a question of Future By Fiat: "When Snape wakes up, he's a pony and Harry is the 13 year old girl who loves him!")

9. In your opinion, what kind of kink/theme does fandom need more of?

Well, personally I'm always a fan of sexual desperation (and drunkenness in fic, which is weird, since I don't drink at all), but honestly, I think HP has just about all the kinks anybody could wish for.

10. How do you feel about participating in this year's Snarry Games?

Hurrah!

Thank you, bethbethbeth!

Stay tuned tomorrow for the first volley of CRACK!ART! Plus, more interviews (and comment pr0n, evidently *g*)

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	shadowess 2008-02-27 06:40 am UTC (link)
	wonderful interview! Happy to be on the same team as you! I would love to see someone take a stab at "When Snape wakes up, he's a pony and Harry is the 13 year old girl who loves him!" I`m almost tempted to try it myself o_O (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:42 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! (and sorry for the delay in responding. Apparently being online 24 hours a day isn't enough to notice everything that's posted. g) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	simons_flower 2008-02-27 07:52 am UTC (link)
	"When Snape wakes up, he's a pony and Harry is the 13 year old girl who loves him!" ROFL! That needs crack!art I think. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:43 am UTC (link)
	Hee. If only I could do more than draw stick figures, I'd attempt it myself. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	eriador117 2008-02-27 08:55 am UTC (link)
	"When Snape wakes up, he's a pony and Harry is the 13 year old girl who loves him!" - LOL! I've never been in that stage, I'm terrfied of horses, LOL! :) Wonderful interview :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:44 am UTC (link)
	You know, I was never a pony fancier either, but most of my friends were when they were in junior high. And thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

iulia_linnea
2008-02-27 01:20 pm UTC (link)

(And sometimes, changing the future is merely a question of Future By Fiat: "When Snape wakes up, he's a pony and Harry is the 13 year old girl who loves him!")

Okay, you'd never do anything like writing that "bunny," but I'd read it if you did; your characterization is always love, and I'm confident you could make even the most absurd plot work. ;)

**\O/* for Beth, Team Phoenix*

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	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:45 am UTC (link)
	Late to respond (I just saw that my interview was posted!), but thank you so much, my dear. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	alisanne 2008-02-27 03:12 pm UTC (link)
	Also? Who better than a man with a "saving people thing" to pair up with someone like Snape, who needs saving (whether he wants to admit it or not). Oh! So true. And drunken!sex, hm? How do you feel about drunken wall!sex? ;) Yay, Team Phoenix! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:46 am UTC (link)
	Drunken wall!sex is often necessary (I mean, if you don't have a wall, how are you going to keep from falling over!) (Reply to this) (Parent)

unbroken_halo
2008-02-27 04:39 pm UTC (link)

I adored The Love Song of the Bastard and the Idiot as well and I think you are right about this Who better than a man with a "saving people thing" to pair up with someone like Snape, who needs saving (whether he wants to admit it or not).

Okay, here goes, since you've not been comment porned yet and cause I obviously have nothing else to do but add porn to interviews today. Guess I need to go back and hit the others up as well. LOL!

They staggered drunkenly into one another, crashing down onto the first convenient piece of furniture that just happened to move into their path. Harry no longer even questioned the magic that occurred in Grimmauld Place, especially when he just happened to bring home an equally intoxicated Snape for a fast and furious fuck.

Snape's hands roamed over his back, pulling at his clothes and Harry sat up, straddling the other man and began his own assault. Mewling loudly as Snape's crooked teeth bit into his nipple, Harry thrust against him, clenching his fingers in Snape's shirt.

He'd always known Snape had a passionate nature and now to have it directly focused on him in this way was more than Harry had ever expected. Bits of their clothing and spells began flying as he was lifted up then came back into contact with Snape's lean, sallow form.

Both men hissed, then began rubbing hard and fast against one another. Harry came first, his back arching as he howled. Snape's orgasm was silent, his teeth cutting into Harry's skin before both men collapsed back panting harshly in the silence of the old, creaking, magical house.

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	alisanne 2008-02-27 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	Yay! Angelporn! glee And I am now wondering why I haven't written more drunken sex... adds to list (Reply to this) (Parent)

	klynie1 2008-02-28 11:33 am UTC (link)
	Yum! Drunken!sex and silentorgasm!Snape. I can smell the alcohol fumes from here. Lovely! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:49 am UTC (link)
	Oh, excellent! I love that the house has started to accommodate its new master, at least as far as making it easier to engage in drunken sexual encounters. (...and how perfect that Snape is silent at the moment of orgasm. That sounds strangely appropriate) (Reply to this) (Parent)

drunken sex

liz5843
2008-02-27 05:45 pm UTC (link)

I have friended you-- I hope you don't mind. As for drunken sex- in my experience that's about the way half the world seems to get together the first time. And given how hard it would be to get these two together in the first place it seems a given. From what I have seen, even the smartest people often wind up in bed like this. After the war, when Snape no longer has to spy, wouldn't he let go some times in the way of spirits. Scots and English drink a lot in my experience.

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	Re: drunken sex bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:51 am UTC (link)
	Oh, of course you're welcome to friend me! And I think you're right that Snape (if the poor dear had survived the last book, of course g) might finally take the opportunity to "let go." (Reply to this) (Parent)

bluestocking79
2008-02-27 06:23 pm UTC (link)

"When Snape wakes up, he's a pony and Harry is the 13 year old girl who loves him!"

~coffeespew~

I want to see that now, in a morbid, 'I can't not look' sort of way.

Who better than a man with a "saving people thing" to pair up with someone like Snape, who needs saving (whether he wants to admit it or not).

That is so very true!

Fantastic interview. It's put a smile on my face. Go, Team Phoenix!

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	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:53 am UTC (link)
	Thank you, my dear! (...meanwhile, I just wish certain people coughJKRcourgh had cared quite so much about saving Snape as we do g) (Reply to this) (Parent)

Warning: Drunken comment pr0n below

leela_cat
2008-02-28 01:53 am UTC (link)

Because too much drinking always has consequences ... of one kind or another.

Harry lay back on the settee, one foot on the floor, his other leg slung up over the back. His worn, tattered robe hung open, baring his naked body. The candles guttered, making the light dim and unpredictable. Raising the bottle to his mouth, he glugged the last of the whiskey. When the bottle was empty, he tossed it at the fireplace, where it smashed down on the shards of other bottles that had been discarded the same way.

"Fuck it," he said, "Fuck them all," and ran his fingers up and down his cock. Not too drunk to get hard. Never too hard for that. Even though he lay here alone, night after night.

"Is that really what you desire, Mr Potter?" The voice was liquid smooth, containing worlds of potential as it had on that first day when Harry was too young to know what that shivery feeling meant.

"Fuck you too. Ya greasy git, all oily hair and promises and and oily... oily everyfin."

"If you insist. However I believe we would both find more pleasure in the reverse position." A dark figure came around the settee, knelt down in front of Harry. Long fingers twined with Harry's, squeezing his cock that much tighter.

"You left. You left just like she did. Went away and di'n't come back."

"I came back. I am here now."

Harry flung out his free arm, narrowly missing the face that hovered over him and tangling his hand in the long, black hair. "Halluc'nation. Tha's all, yeah."

"I am not a hallucination. Although," the thin lipped mouth quirked in displeasure, "I would not be suprised if you saw a few pink elephants dancing around."

"Not..." Harry's voice was husky, cracked. "You're real?"

"Very." Severus turned his head and kissed the palm of the hand that was clutching at his hair. Then he bent down and licked the head of Harry's cock, tongue pushing the foreskin back, teasing that spot until Harry was bucking up and up and up.

"God. Missed you. Missed you. Missed you." Harry let go of his cock and scrabbled for the wand that he'd allowed to slip behind the cushions. It took him three attempts to get the flick and the wave and the words right, but then they were both naked and Harry was clean and slick and beyond ready.

Hardness pushed into him. Severus' cock, all of its lovely, thick length. Harry pulled down with his hands, pressed with his heels, twisted and thrust his hips. He groaned when his knees were pushed down against his chest, whimpered when the hardness withdrew only to cry his joy when Severus slammed back in again. Soon, too soon, he was coming and coming, arse muscles clenching and clenching until Severus was shuddering his own pleasure.

A few minutes or maybe an hour later, Harry shifted and shoved at Severus' shoulder.

"Mmm...?"

"Get off me. I gotta go."

Severus raised his head, hair falling into narrowed eyes. "You wish to leave?"

"Wishes, hell. I'm going to be sick."

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	Re: Warning: Drunken comment pr0n below klynie1 2008-02-28 11:37 am UTC (link)
	So heartbreaking, and then the last line totally cracked me up! What a great piece of comment pr0n! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Warning: Drunken comment pr0n below leela_cat 2008-02-28 03:42 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I did give Harry rather a lot to drink over a highly unspecified length of time. So consequences had to happen. snicker (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Warning: Drunken comment pr0n below bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 08:57 am UTC (link)
	Oh, very nicely done! Yay, for realistic reunions! Seriously, I love reality interfering in romantic/erotic moments (knocked foreheads, getting hairs stuck between your teeth, and...this g) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Warning: Drunken comment pr0n below leela_cat 2008-03-02 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	That is one thing about being drunk. Reality always comes back and bites you somehow, no matter how good it feels in the moment. At least he found his wand. grin (Reply to this) (Parent)

	igtow 2008-02-28 06:06 am UTC (link)
	The challenge of getting them together. And, ah, ain't that the truth. May be even the best part of writing them. Lovely interview--I look forward to reading your entry, even if you are on the ~~wrong~~ other team. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 09:00 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! And honestly? I think of us as all being on one happy Snarry Games team! (...even if some unlucky people couldn't be on Team Phoenix g) (Reply to this) (Parent)

joanwilder
2008-02-28 07:59 am UTC (link)

Also? Who better than a man with a "saving people thing" to pair up with someone like Snape, who needs saving (whether he wants to admit it or not).

I think that's key, Beth. And it seems that these 'saving' people are particularly drawn to the individuals who a) don't realize they need saving, and b) will do their best to drag the 'saving' person down with them. Which is even better fodder for Snarry writers.

I was interested to see that you listed humor as a strength--that's a fairly rare quality, I think, so good for you.

Enjoyed your interview--looking forward to your story!

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	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 09:03 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! And you know, it just struck me that listing humor as a strength might be one of those things where, well, I could be very, very wrong (...you know, like the people who think they're really funny at parties when the truth is that everybody else is rolling eyes and backing up toward the exits whenever they start telling "amusing stories?" g) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	joanwilder 2008-03-02 09:10 am UTC (link)
	I think you're safe, Beth, cause your description of that 'party person' actually made me laugh. g (Reply to this) (Parent)

	klynie1 2008-02-28 11:32 am UTC (link)
	Pony!Snape! God, I love it! Actually, now that I think of it, I had an appaloosa with an incredibly loyal, nasty temperament when I was younger. D'you think...? I can't wait to read your story! hugs (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 09:05 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! Actually, now that I think of it, I had an appaloosa with an incredibly loyal, nasty temperament when I was younger. D'you think...? I think this means you must be the one to write that story (or at least a Pony!Snape haiku g) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dementordelta 2008-02-29 04:58 am UTC (link)
	Mmmm drunkeness! There should definitely be more of that! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bethbethbeth 2008-03-02 09:06 am UTC (link)
	There is never enough! I have finally resorted to typing "Snape Drunk" in google searches, just in case I've missed something. Sadly, what I usually end up with is some doctor named Snape lecturing on alcoholism. g (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drachenmina 2008-03-12 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	g I tried that with Yahoo and got a list of pubs in N Yorkshire. With directions! ;D (Reply to this) (Parent)

	josan 2008-03-25 02:58 pm UTC (link)
	Probably humor (although that might also be my greatest weakness, since humor creeps into even my angstiest stories and kind of kills the mood, sometimes.). Very true. I can alwys depend on you to have me snickering at some point in one of your stories. (Reply to this)