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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2008-05-07 08:10:00

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TEAM PHOENIX ENTRY: Tarteaucitron "Look for me here"
Title: Look for me here
Author: tarteaucitron
Team: Phoenix
Genres: Wartime, Postwar
Prompt: Treasure Hunt
Rating/Warnings: NC17; *warning for: total departure from epilogue canon, slight suggestion of previous partnerships, language.*
Word Count: 22,497
Summary: It is the fag-end of the Death Eater trials. Despite some initial reluctance, Auror Investigator Potter finds that his last assigned case gives him something to get his teeth into.
A/N: thank you to everyone who looked at or beta'd this fic, and to everyone who provided encouragement, especially fitofpique, buckle_berry, algernon_mouse, and all at Team Phoenix.

"Look for me here by Tarteaucitron"

Don't forget to review!

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venturous
2008-05-14 02:06 am UTC (link)

I absolutely adore this. The language is beautiful, odd and filled with repeating images, and that made it so echoey and poetic. I love the mystery, the relentless search, Harry's 'mediocrity' -- this felt so realistic, as if one really did 'come down' from the intensity of 'hero' and discover one's ordinariness. the depiction of Snape is incredible too, I can taste him. and, I allowed myself to grieve and weep and believe him lost, so the ending, with its leap of hope and adventure was a great joy.
Thank you for an incredible journey.

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	tarteaucitron 2008-05-15 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	god, thank you. it's like you took everything out of my head that i wanted to achieve with this fic and was afraid i hadn't and wrote it all out in this comment. i am absolutely thrilled. thank you so much. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

maggie_umbra
2008-05-14 07:05 pm UTC (link)

This was breath taking! That's my Severus! I knew he'd have a plan B, C, and D. :D I long terribly for a sequel. I'm in love with the story line and the whole universe here. I was enraged that Alecto Carrow got off with so little punishment but I also couldn't help cracking up at the thought of him working at a bric'n'brac place! Love it. Anyway, seriously, I'm begging for more!

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tarteaucitron
2008-05-15 09:02 pm UTC (link)

thank you!

I knew he'd have a plan B, C, and D.

wouldn't he, though? i love snape for his pragmatism, and whatever you may say about his martyrish tendencies, he does prize survival.

i'm not sure i could write a sequel that would add any value, but in my head they have achieved an uneasy truce somewhere very isolated, and snape is considering the merits of admitting somewhat of his feelings. he may decide against. :D

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	eriador117 2008-05-15 09:42 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I loved this. So thought-provoking and original. :) take care, Annette (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tarteaucitron 2008-05-15 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	thank you! i'm so pleased you enjoyed it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	calico_sky 2008-05-16 05:35 am UTC (link)
	So sad that Snape would think to escape to Azkaban of all places! And I loved all the flashbacks. Great job. ;) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tarteaucitron 2008-05-16 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	thank you very much! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rakina 2008-05-17 06:06 pm UTC (link)
	I really enjoyed this story. I liked the build-up, showing Harry stumbling upon evidence that Snape was still alive. But once he found him (and in such a place!) their interaction was just perfect. A lovely, lovely story I'll read again and again. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tarteaucitron 2008-05-18 10:05 am UTC (link)
	oh good. i'm really pleased. i guess the snape/harry interaction is the heart of any snarry, so it's great that you enjoyed that. I'll read again and again and that really is the best compliment. thank you! (Reply to this) (Parent)

aliciamasters
2008-05-18 10:22 pm UTC (link)

This story read like a photo album of a funeral and then, a resurrection. I really enjoyed the way the language reflected the atmosphere of the story; it was as if it didn't matter which plan Harry and Snape were on, A, B, C, or D; there was an inevitability to their moments together.

It created a sensory experience, and while I don't believe it would matter if they were in Azkaban or Iceland, the exposed truth was that they were entertwined in sorrow and life.

I liked how this story rolled over me like a wave. Thank you.

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	tarteaucitron 2008-05-19 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	goodness - thank you! i'm really surprised and flattered at how thoughtfully you read my story. that's a wonderful compliment. there was an inevitability to their moments together i think i feel that too - that they would probably both keep trying, however covertly, for as long as it took. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	athenakt 2008-05-19 02:46 pm UTC (link)
	This was a lovely piece of work. I greatly enjoyed the original ideas and spin you put on the story! (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	leela_cat 2008-05-20 01:56 am UTC (link)
	I can just see Snape deciding that giving up his few good memories to hide out in Azkaban is a good idea. And I'm so glad to see Harry needing therapy after the war to get his head on something like straight. So very nicely done. (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	igtow 2008-05-20 03:10 am UTC (link)
	What an awesome atmosphere--Snape and the Dementors--and a nicely layered mystery. Well done! (Reply to this) (Thread)

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cindyjade
2008-05-21 12:27 am UTC (link)

oh tarte. i am sorry this took me so long to read, but i have a feeling that i will now be re-reading it in fits. i can't get it out of my head. the way you tell a story, it always grips me so tightly and takes my breath away. the build up to harry finding snape was wonderful and had me on the edge of my seat, but of course, my favorites scenes were their interactions, the little moments of intimacy, harry reaching out his hand (orange!), dreaming of snape (happiness!), and obvs the crazy hot sex, fuck me anyway yes oh yes. thank jebus for plan C!

and the flashbacks to dh, oh, it gave me shivers by the end. i am so in love with them right now, i feel as if it is two years ago. <3<3<3

in concl, I LOVE THIS! A;SLFKJA;LSFJA! OMG.

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tarteaucitron, 2008-05-21 11:57 am UTC

	xikum 2008-05-21 03:16 am UTC (link)
	Top marks throughout!! This was excellent - I really can't think of adding anything that someone else hasn't already written - but I Do so wish to see Harry Catch up with Severus in Iceland, and a happily ever after, but then I am a romance/happy ending whore. This was hopeful, promising happiness, but I'd love to see more of this relationship!! Any chance for a sequel? (Reply to this) (Thread)

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tarteaucitron, 2008-05-21 12:18 pm UTC

	(Anonymous) 2008-05-29 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Tarte. This story is exactly what I expected of you--rich, darkly-woven brilliance tempered with moments of humour and light and characterization that takes hold of you and won't let go. I adore this, and you. ♥ ♥ ♥ Pip (Reply to this)

	galad222000 2008-05-31 06:52 am UTC (link)
	Lovely story that runs the gambit of emotions. (Reply to this)

	angelbabecj 2008-05-31 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	Oooh, slightly ambiguous endings make me happy when they're like this. :) It just worked somehow. My favourite line has to be "You're touching my orange," just because I can hear the indignation in Snape's voice. Great work :) (Reply to this)

silly_rabbit
2008-06-17 05:50 am UTC (link)

O.K., so Snape's out to prove magic's not magical, but this story absolutely IS (magical, I mean.) It's like the very best kind of dream -- with a logic all its own that's much more exciting than waking could ever be, where every image explodes with possibilities, unfurls the more you think about it. So even the parts I don't quite follow (which I may very well figure out after a couple more read throughs) feel right, I'm content with the pattern they weave, how events swoop down out of the blue, then suddenly zoom off again, leave you wanting more and more. . .

You can write in so many styles -- the legalese of the courts, gossip about hair-dos, Snape's academic babblings, those beautiful still tableaux of Snape's journey through the woods in winter-- so effortlessly, it's simply breathtaking.

And the emotions are so fresh and burst out unexpectedly, kind of ambush you from behind. Snape and Harry are just so funny and strange together, I felt uncontrollably protective about them. You just could feel them teetering on the brink of horror. I mean, if the Dementors had got Snape because of that one moment of unguarded happiness he broke down and allowed himself. . . I would've, I dunno . . . but thank God, you were more benign than that, and the promise at the end didn't feel like it was just pulled out a hat either. When Harry (not so dense after all) remembers how of course, Snape would have Plan B/C/D . . . it was perfect.

This story makes me feel like writing is the most exciting thing in the world!

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	sophinisba 2008-06-19 02:24 pm UTC (link)
	This was such a treat to read. I love your beautiful phrases, the creative uses of magic and magical theory, and most of all the characters you've written. (Reply to this)

loupgarou1750
2008-08-04 01:32 pm UTC (link)

I wish I had access to a tenth of your subtlety and skill. Your writing is gorgeous. I'm not sure I can express this adequately, but you have an exquisite way of expanding on minor details and withholding major ones that comes together beautifully in a way that leaves me breathless and hungry, yet wholly satisfied.

You characterizations of both Harry and Snape are perfect. I felt a little like Harry in the end, a bit clueless but getting there. I was delighted with the way you strung clues together so that afterwards I was thinking, "Yes, of course," but during I was metaphorically covering my eyes and yelling, "Oh no!"

Less than halfway through reading, I stopped and started over. I have a bad habit of skimming just enough to get the sense of something but every once in a while, somebody manages to pull me up short and make me want to linger over every word. You did that. I had to start over to see what I'd missed, and I'd missed a lot -- not a lot in the way of basic plot and characterization, but a lot in regards to your use of language and imagery. Mostly, I guess, you created in me a sense of wonder, and by three-quarters of the way through the fic I had to stop entirely and walk away, because if I didn't stop I was going to finish and I didn't want it to ever be over. And yet the ending, when I finally had to read it or die, was perfect.

Thank you so much for this fic. It instantly became one of my all time favorites.

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elethian
2009-01-13 11:59 pm UTC (link)

I love all the Snapey hints as they're snooping through his library.

as opposed to the relentless reminders of his intellectual snobbery

*laughs*

Gringotts® – part of the MBNA family

LOL *is ded*

Inflagrante was the password of the month. It hinted at unknown dimensions in Percy

*chuckles knowingly*

The extra memories are very interesting -- I especially like the one with the mystery boy and Severus complaining about the DAD syllabus.

"Dementors are not attracted by magic, Potter. They are attracted by happiness. Not to be melodramatic, but I fall somewhat under their radar."

Ahh, hence leaving the happy memories behind. Eeenteresting. I'm amused that he's the one who's taking Bellatrix's macabre book delivery.

Perhaps you would also like to hear in detail about plans B, C and D? Do let me show you my collection of wigs and my open ticket to Iceland!"

lol! I can't tell if he's still being serious or not.

I'm intrigued too by the idea that Snape, having given up all his happiness, no longer can cast a Patronus. Logical, just interesting orchestrated in his circumstances. Clever indeed. So of course coming up with one means he must have found and reintegrated those memories...

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	hogwartshoney 2009-03-26 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, this was really beautifully written. Here via a rec at crack_broom (Reply to this)

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