drusillas_rain (drusillas_rain) wrote in lupin_snape, @ 2009-08-22 00:11:00 |
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Rec: The Very Air He Breathed
Title: The Very Air He Breathed
Author: thetreacletart
Pairing: SS/RL
Rating: R
Summary: “This potion could save lives but it needed to be tested. Severus needed a guinea pig; he simply failed to tell Lupin that he volunteered for duty.”
Originally posted April 2005.
As with one of my previous recs, this story is another of the earliest Snape/Lupin fics that I ever read, and I still enjoy rereading it. It features a Snape with a gleeful, mischievous streak, and there's a hilarious scene early on where he's pranking everyone around him. His character undergoes a major transformation as a result of following Lupin around (without Lupin knowing about it), where all his preconceived notions about the Marauders and his schoolboy years are challenged. This Lupin is tired, haggard and weary, and the tone throughout the story shows the depths of his loneliness, much to Snape's surprise. But even with the slight angst, we get a happy and hopeful ending.
It's classic Snupin, and a great quick read!
Read "The Very Air He Breathed" here.
It would be his magnum opus. It would earn him a place in history as the single greatest Potions master to have ever skinned a Shrivelfig. There would be awards and accolades given during extravagant ceremonies where his name would be sung and his genius exalted.
There might even be a ball.
But, he would then have to attend said ball, and he so hated the blasted things. Okay, scratch that -- no ball. Some other method would have to be found to pay tribute to his brilliance because it was nothing short of brilliant.
Now he just had to make sure it worked.