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Title: A Tome Amongst Books
Author: bonfoi
Rating: G
Pairing: Remus Lupin/Severus Snape
Summary: If “The History of Hogwarts” could talk, just what would it say?
Challenge: snupin100 ~ Challenge #250: Outsider POV
Word Count: 100 x 2
Genre: Alternate Reality; Marauders’ Era – Post-Hogwarts; Post First Voldemort War
Warnings: Established Relationship
A/N: Alternate Reality arc:

1 ~ Sorted	2 ~ Under Observation	3 ~ Shadows at the Willow	4 ~ What Rita Missed	5 ~ The Auror's Call	6 ~ Angel’s Eyes
7 ~ Reflections	8 ~ Phoenix Memories	9 ~ In the Headmaster’s Office	10 ~ Bedstead	11 ~ The Robe	12 ~ Whither Goes the Wand
13 ~ Flying Time	14 ~ Traitorous Musings	15 ~ Release and Recognition	16 ~ Set Free	17 ~ Written Suspicion	18 ~ Hallowed Hogwarts
19 ~ Charmed, I’m Sure	20 ~ Reflection Upon Reflection	21 ~ Slytherinesque	22 ~ Janus Undone	23 ~ Stood Up

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Disclaimer: The world of Harry Potter, its characters and settings are the copyrighted works of J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros., her publishing companies and affiliates. No profit was made from the writing of this story nor was any malice intended in any way, shape or form to the author or the actors/actresses who so brilliantly have brought them to life.

This author is not responsible for underage readers. Please observe the ratings, warnings, and age of legal consent for your country.

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For two years, decades ago, they shared me between them often, flipping my pages from front to back, pressing a wet finger to my page corners as they debated the merits of which wand flick or swish to use with what charm or hex.

I most especially liked the blunt, calloused fingers of the fuzzy one. His nails didn’t lift the ink from my ancient pages nor did he lay me face-down, my spine crackling at the abuse. The thin one’s fingers always stroked over my pictures, tracing the wafting smoke of a peat fire or a missing friend’s name.

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I’ve been used for a doorstop once or twice in their lives, often enough that there are boot heel marks on my cover. More than once, I’ve even caught the blood of a wound after skirmishes. Now, I hold the Boy That Lived, or as I write about him: Harry James Potter, adopted son of Remus Lupin, Lycanthrope, and Severus Snape, Hogwarts Professor.

They’ve written their names inside my frontis piece in Slytherin Green ink, something that Remus still traces it on days he misses them. I would show him how Severus does the same when he must go away.

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