Snapedom

Quick, quick, something for the house warming party before it's over.

Here's a short story that is for the house warming of snapedom on IJ, and for my own story journal, Tales from the Wood..

Warnings: It's not completely beta-read yet. I only put the first chapter up, the second will come soon.

Exorcism

Chapter 1


Severus Snape flung the door to the Room of Requirement open and strode inside.

Finally, peace, he had thought before he’d had entered. Give me a place where I can find peace. His head hammered painfully. Teaching Potions to dunderheads hadn't become easier over the years, and the stress of constantly having to watch out for explosions and mischief, together with the backstabbing, snide remarks and sideway glances of his colleagues, didn't help. ( Read more... )

I've already covered some of my thoughts on Dumbledore in my essay for the February challenge on Snape and Love, but I'll try to give a more comprehensive view here. I'll start off with my initial impression of Dumbledore when I first started reading the books: like many other readers, I accepted the outward image we were presented with, of Dumbledore as the kindly old mentor. Because he befriended Harry, I thought that he cared about all his students in the same manner, although perhaps he did not spend as much one-on-one time with them. Still, it never would have occurred to me that kindly old Dumbledore might only have befriended Harry because he is "the Boy Who Lived".