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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2008-05-20 19:12:00

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TEAM PHOENIX ENTRY: Perverse Idyll "When the Rose and the Fire Are One"
Title: When the Rose and the Fire Are One
Author: perverse_idyll
Team: Phoenix!
Genre(s): Alternate Universe *Hover/Click for Games Definition of Alternate Universe*
Prompt(s): Flesh Memory, Spilling Fire
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: *(HBP but not DH-compliant) Violence, rough sex, character death (not Snape or Harry)*
Word Count: 81,000+
Summary: Harry's haunted by guilt. Snape's warded by roses. Each must free the other in order to free himself.
A/N: First, thank you to the mods for creating the Games in the first place and for having the patience of saints. leela_cat did a phenomenal job with this in a ridiculously short time. Whatever coherence the fic has is due to her heroic efforts and hand-holding. Also thanks to Team Phoenix for putting up with my fumbling captaincy and for helping to make this an enjoyable ride. Lastly, many thanks to my beloved rinsbane for talking me through to the images I needed. I wish this were a better first offering, my dear.

*With gratitude to leela_cat and apologies to T. S. Eliot.

"When the Rose and the Fire Are One by Perverse Idyll"

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	lady_inimeitiel 2008-06-17 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	This was an utterly amazing piece of fiction. I absolutely adored it. You captured Snape and Harry so perfectly. I hope you don't mind, but I would love to rec this over at my lj. It's truly spectacular. (Reply to this) (Thread)

perverse_idyll
2008-06-18 12:13 am UTC (link)

*beams with pleasure* I keep feeling compelled to address the unfinished business between these characters, even if it means diverging from canon. I adore them both, especially Snape, and some of that must have rubbed off on the fic - despite all the punishment I meted out. It thrills me to know that I got them right.

And by all means, rec this if you want. You're paying me a tremendous compliment, you know. Thank you so very much!

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alexis_sd
2008-06-21 04:47 pm UTC (link)

This was so beautiful, from beginning to the very end. Your ability to use words, to make pictures bloom like those fragrant roses in the mind of the reader, is stunning. The plot you came up with is great but it is your ability to infuse it with sense, feelings and beauty that make this fic the best I've read so far i the games, and it easily ranks among the best Snarry's out there.

I wish I could say more, but I am speechless. Id how realistic the feelings of Snape and Harry were, how you showed that no matter how selfless love is supposed to be, the innate human need to have, to posses what they desire is even stronger. I wish it could have had a happier ending, but I and glad you at least managed a hopeful one. I both wish you'd write a sequel - not because I want Harry and Snape to be together, but because I want more of the atmosphere - and I fear one - for I'd hate this perfection to be marred.

I can only congratulate you on a fic that will remain with me for a long time and that I'd love to reread. Thank you for the experience.

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perverse_idyll
2008-06-22 03:29 am UTC (link)

Ah, thank you. This fic was full of conflicting impulses, because I wanted beauty - it's one of the qualities I strive for in my writing, although I have to remember not to suffocate the reader. With equal intensity I wanted to humanize Harry, to make the Gryffindor golden boy face his demons, his Snape demon in particular. I wanted to investigate what kind of love could possibly withstand the history between them. And it seemed to me that Harry, once he finally worked through his hatred, would have a really difficult time letting go of his newfound love. Because Snape's always been there. Because it's been such a painful struggle for them to reach such a depth of feeling. Because he's closer to Snape by the story's end than he is to anyone else living, and he has to agree to lose even that. Most of all, because he has to let Snape be whoever he is without him - and without Voldemort, Dumbledore, or the memory of Lily controlling his life - since, once Snape finds out who he is, ghost-ridden but free at the age of forty, he may not want Harry anymore.

I did ultimately intend their sacrifices to be a testament to love, but within this story arc there couldn't possibly be a resolution. They both need to live in solitude for a while and learn what it is to exist without a sacrificial purpose. What happens when they meet again is outside the scope of this fic, but I like to think it will be a meeting of equals. And, frankly, if Harry actually makes the effort to track Snape down, I don't see Snape turning him away.

Your comments are lovely, and I'm thrilled that you so saw so much of what I hoped to put into the fic. It makes me feel that I did justice to these characters, both of whom I love so much. :)

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	angelbabecj 2008-06-24 03:59 pm UTC (link)
	Oh a fantastic story which I'm so glad I finally finished. I loved the poetry of the roses and the fire interacting and the intricacy of the warding. So many nuances I loved, especially the utterly painful but brilliantly written decline of Ron towards death. Thanks for such a great story :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	perverse_idyll 2008-06-26 05:56 am UTC (link)
	You're very welcome. Thank you for such a delightful comment. I'm glad you found poetry in the fic to temper the anger and sorrow, and that Ron's death rang true without being too depressing. Also, I love your icon. It suits this fic perfectly. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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schemingreader
2008-06-30 04:06 am UTC (link)

I finally, finally got a chance to read this! When you beta-read or critique a story, you always find ways to expand the description. I am just blown away by what happens when you write a sex scene or a fight using that kind of portmanteau effect, the unfolding of images. I had both a readerly visceral reaction to it and a writerly bad habit of noticing that you were doing it. I also enjoyed your fascinating point of departure at the end of book 6. I also love your OFC.

Ah, it's just incredibly satisfying to get to read your fic!

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perverse_idyll
2008-07-01 09:11 am UTC (link)

Hah, yes, it's true, I'm an image-addict; it wavers between being a pleasure and a vice. I'm not (alas!) one of those writers who can locate the perfect distilled line to convey a character, so I throw nets of metaphor instead.

I'm so glad you read this and found something to enjoy! Because it's not a style or a story that will necessarily appeal to everybody. Also, I certainly understand the double vision that comes of being a reader involved in a fic and a writer taking note of narrative technique. I doubt there are many of us who can set aside that critical scrutiny even when reading purely for pleasure. I don't consider it a bad habit, though. We've simply trained our minds to take note of things casual readers have no reason to care about.

*fiddles nervously* This probably isn't the right place to say this, but I have a big apology I need to get off my chest. I failed you miserably as a beta for "The Heart's Obligations," and I never actually said anything to you about it. Time went on and you had other betas working on the fic and I never got back to you with the sections I'd completed. Please accept my very embarrassed apologies for treating you so shabbily. I took on more than I could deal with at the time and left my own shortcomings unaddressed. I have no doubt the other betas served you well, but that doesn't excuse my own discourtesy.

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	lunafish 2008-07-01 06:40 am UTC (link)
	Here via rexluscus' rec, and I just wanted to say how utterly gorgeous this fic is. The writing, the story, the emotion...I believed it all and couldn't tear myself away (even for a minute or two to get a glass of water) because you made me care so much about these characters and the outcome of their story. What an amazing and beautiful work of art you've created here. (Reply to this) (Thread)

perverse_idyll
2008-07-01 09:31 am UTC (link)

*blushes* To have a story of mine called gorgeous and compelling is - well, it's like my writer's ego has died and gone to heaven. It's exactly what I wanted this fic to be. Because, you know, as damaged as they are, that's what these characters are to me - imperfect and yet still beautiful - and I wanted to share that belief with the reader. I wanted their story to matter.

Thank you for letting me know how much you enjoyed it. :)

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thankyou
(Anonymous)
2008-09-20 12:44 am UTC (link)

Thankyou for sharing this great fic...

I would have thought that I my age, and when I'm working full-time and using all my spare time (and not to mention funds) to study at uni that I wouldn't spend all that spare time for the last 2 or 3 days ignoring my uni work so I can finish your fic.

This was fabulous. I love how you have portrayed Snape, how he is consistently paranoid about other people's motives, can never trust anyone. And, even though he's very brave and performs acts of great heorism, he has such mixed emotions about how he acted and how others will perceive him, that he reacts badly to this as well.

I look forward to your next fic.

Do you have an email list to notify people when new fics (or chapters) are released? If so I'd like to be included (hypatia _ lea @ hotmail.com)
all the best
Lea

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perverse_idyll
2008-09-26 02:59 am UTC (link)

Sorry it's taken me so long to answer your comment! My old computer finally died, and I had to replace it, which has meant . . ye gads, no internet for a while.

I am so flattered that you pushed aside some of the more pressing things in your life in order to finish reading this fic. I have delicious memories of doing exactly what you describe - in my case, defying routines and obligations and staying up far too late when I couldn't stop reading a beloved fic. It's one of the great, self-absorbed pleasures fandom has given back to me, the almost naughty pleasure of totally sinking into a story's world. The idea that I've managed to seduce you and give you that same compulsive, hypnotized feeling is the highest possible praise. It's like sharing a secret pleasure.

My perception of Snape is of someone permanently damaged. That doesn't mean he can't function or ever be content or ever love, but it *does* mean that his reactions will always be filtered to some extent through his emotional scars, and will emerge a bit twisted. By now, it's simply part of who he is. I can't imagine him, for example, ever feeling comfortable being called a hero. Much though he burns to be recognized, he's more likely to frame it in the negative, as in: "I'm not a coward."

I don't have an email list. If you're interested, I've got a fic due for

snarry_holidays that will be, hm, less ambitious, shall we say. I'm hesitant to recommend it, because I'm honestly not sure how it will turn out. But it cheers me no end that you'd like to see more of my work. Thank you for stopping by to leave this lovely comment.

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enname
2008-11-09 05:56 am UTC (link)

I actually read and voted for this back when it was originally posted for the games, but then I proceeded to re-read it at least twice and ruminate over it for roughly six months before finally summoning the capacity to tell you that for this games, it was the one that left the deepest mark on me for the longest period of time. It has in fact entered into my stock catalogue of stories that have resonated with me in this particular fandom, no matter when and if I move on. Considering I needed to de-lurk (and now there is a strange visual involving flashes, bangs and rabbits) to comment, there is no excuse for my extraordinarily slow commenting period.

Perhaps the only thing I can do is to outline why it took so long, and hopefully through this manage to give some sort of review. Initially when I first read it, I read it so fast (a problem that I have when I first meet a story that I know I will enjoy) that I failed to take in so much of the world you build in the story and the emotion behind it, in particular the way the story moves from one very deep and involved scene to another, sometimes (at least for speed readers) without an apparent segue. Apart from an overwhelming urge to ask, beg and plead with you to expand on the world and the original characters, all I had to say was a somewhat incoherent textual hand wave reflecting the pleasure I got from the sheer density of visual images, and the sharpness of characterisation. In my opinion neither of these are an adequate response to go with such a ... painfully beautiful story.

Thus I determined to read in a way that would at least do the story justice. So, on my second read through I took a day and immersed myself completely, reading some scenes over and over and over again until I could smell the roses, the dust in Grimmauld Place and almost reach out and feel the currents flowing between the characters. Unfortunately this left me so unable to withdraw myself from the story in order to write a vaguely objective review, all you would have got would have been endless quotations of your own writing accompanied by alternated squeeing and literary examination. This is of course after I had managed to quit swanning around for a week just revisiting the marvellous twisting feeling the ending (and middle parts) invoked in my stomach. Or stopping and getting struck by a single solitary image, of roses, of Snape, of Hermione, of fire and heat. Of the metaphors, literal and implied that twist and wind throughout.

Then I had the thought that because my visualisation was so strong, perhaps I could draw you feedback. Only one draft in, I recalled my dismal track record of finishing works of art before the recipient drops dead from heart failure in a nursing home some thirty years after my beginning. Plus the Snarry_Games already provided you with art, and perhaps unsolicited art from nowhere comes over as a wee tad stalkerish. So here I am, many inarticulate words later, attempting to write you adequate feedback. Whilst I don't think I have succeeded (and doubt I will without a line by line breakdown), I hope you have some idea of just how glad I am you wrote this particular tale.

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perverse_idyll
2008-11-20 03:44 am UTC (link)

Thank you, thank you, a hundred times thank you for the sheer intensity of this feedback. I just want to tell you that I've hugged this comment to me for – oh, much too long, and I apologize for letting you hang in silence when you’ve given me something for which I’m incredibly grateful. Your words have been among the few good things in a perfectly wretched stretch of days. You couldn't possibly know, but your timing is a thing of beauty. I meant to answer right away, but RL has been stressful and strange, and I've been embroiled in a losing battle to finish an overdue fest fic. It's lying around me in pieces, and I'm almost in despair that it will ever come together. It feels pointless and overwritten and underdone and such a hopeless mess. To have your heartfelt and passionate comment show up, a reminder that I've pulled this off in the past and ended up with a readable story, a story that touched people no matter how much I despaired of it - well, it couldn't have come at a better time.

Also, a response that so seriously embraces the fic – that willingly submerges inside its world – is just humbling and wonderful to have. It moves me and it feeds some secret, obsessed part of me, because I, too, have experienced this kind of connection to other people's work, the work of beloved writers, mostly. It makes me feel giddy and rather joyful to be told that my fascination with the characters and my compulsion to cram the fic with imagery, to score scenes onto the page as sharply as possible, connects with a reader somewhere and draws her into its spell. The capacity words have to conjure up fictional people and make them matter – it’s like magic, really. I’ve tried to articulate in other replies and with much babbling what this fic means to me and why I feel so fiercely about these characters – Snape in particular – but explanations never get to the heart of things. That’s why, I suppose, I’m driven to write out the stories born from those tantalizing hints in canon. Because so much is buried there, so much that’s twisted and tragic and yet has the potential for a transcendence that – well, truthfully, that I wanted from the books and didn’t get. Add to that the voluptuous side to magic; the magnetic pull of an emotional charge between Snape and Harry, an intensity that defies convention and common sense and that at any moment can veer off into self-destruction; the echoes of countless folk and fairy tales wherein beauty and sacrifice are intertwined.

So much to play with. So much to get wrong. So when you tell me you're seduced by the roses and fire, it’s like a benediction. Because your ardent response is exactly what the fic is meant to provoke. It’s what the fic is about, that kind of intensity. And because writing purple prose is such a guilty pleasure of mine, I admit that I’m glad you were haunted by the imagery, because it means I used the power of words to inflame your imagination; that I did something right.

It’s very late, so I apologize if my response is somewhat incoherent. But thank you for loving this story and for telling me so. I have a love/hate relationship to this fic myself and it’s hard for me to see it fairly, so the fact that you’re glad I wrote it helps to justify its existence. And if you’re ever tempted, I’d welcome any drawing that might come to pass, for its own sake, but also because it’s a window into how a fic, the imperfect expression of an emotional impulse, is seen by other eyes and minds. And because it seems natural that readers with a highly developed visual sense would have ideas of their own about how a scene should look.

Okay, enough rambling. As usual, despite the fact that words are supposed to be my tools, I don’t feel that I’ve managed to convey the sustained and smouldering joy your comment gave me. I have other stories I want to write about these two, so I doubt I’ll ever return to this particular version of their world and their lives. But thank you so much for rekindling the whole point and purpose of this fic for me, so that I can see for myself how it glows.

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perverse_idyll
2008-11-20 03:58 am UTC (link)

Also, apropos of nothing except my own personal nosiness, I just perused the list of interests on your profile page and decided to scamper back here and say a most emphatic Yay. Bartok! Kierkegaard! Dickens and Dostoevsky! Deserts. Byzantine. Nina Simone. Arvo Part. Proust. Sheppard & McKay. I could go on.

Okay, whew. Just wanted to get that off my chest. Since it's two in the morning, I believe I ought to go to bed now.

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enname, 2008-11-21 03:50 am UTC

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Amazingness
(Anonymous)
2008-12-26 06:43 am UTC (link)

I just read this in one sitting. It is now 1.20 a.m. Hate-sex, and Odile : both HELLS OF HOT. I loved the ward scheme with the roses. It reminded me of the twisted (but may be closer to the original?) version of Sleeping Beauty, with all the princes getting hacked up in the thorns. Of course, Snape is not that kind of character.

I imagine that it must be quite difficult to write a post-war version of Harry. Often he will be written as his child-self in the way he talks or behaves, even though he is doing adult things. I agree with previous comments; it's difficult to imagine everyone just having happy lives as in Rowling's epilogue. I think your writing of his character is perhaps more accurate than either of these approaches.

I was going to write some more things, and have forgotten them due to sleep deprivation. They probably boiled down to "your writing is awesome".

Cheers,
Em

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(Anonymous)
2009-02-24 09:10 am UTC (link)

I'm tempted to leave you a comment made of inarticulate sounds and cabbalistic signs. Because right now, I don't feel like my brain is functioning, and I'm afraid I won't make much sense. But I'll try, even if it will only be a variation on *O* and "woah". I will *try* to be constructive.

First thing: it's beautiful. Usually fanfictions are captivating, full of suspense, funny, heart-rending, I don't know, anything, but not beautiful. They don't make you stop in wonder, just because you are overwhelmed by the poetry of it. It's like the melody you describe, that seems to haunt the story as much as Harry's ghosts do. My God, a prison made of roses and thorns! It has all the cruelty and the bittersweet quality of a fairy tale. I could kill to have ideas like that. Entering your story is like entering a dream, or a nightmare. It has all the intensity of it.

And then, besides the imagery, there is the violence of your style, and the balance between the two is nearly perfect. That tension sums up the whole thing, really: people grasping at what they cannot have, trying to save themselves, at the very least to escape. There is something desperate to it. I have the image in my head of two blind people in a narrow space, attempting to find the way out and colliding with each other in the process, again and again.

...
Maybe I'll stop there my frenzy (delirium?).

Well, as I think you have understood by now, I loved it. I especially like the first scenes, the hate that changes into a need and an obsession, when Severus takes off his jumper and everything gets out of hand =) I like that their feelings are never perfectly clear (ahh,the joys of dealing with obtuse, stubborn characters!), and that Snape stays a kind of mystery throughout the story. And I find Odile absolutely delicious.

And I really liked the ending. A happy one would have turned it into a melodrama, and I thank you for not having me weeping over my pillow. I cannot picture the story ending any other way. Like this, it has more the elegance of a tragedy. I'd like to say more, but I don't know what. I am not *out* of your world enough. And back to the stage of inarticulate sounds:)

I really hope I wrote something understandable. English is not my language. I can read it well enough, but it is another matter to write T__T

To sum up all this, something between "congratulations" and "thank you"

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perverse_idyll, 2009-03-30 03:51 am UTC

*jaw drops*
(Anonymous)
2009-07-04 02:15 am UTC (link)

Am I to understand that this... this is really your FIRST STORY? Holy. Crap. I can not WAIT to see what comes out of you in a few years, because this was fantastic. In so many ways, this story captured the bittersweetness of finding joy and beauty and love in the face of irreparable brokenness and hurt. You made my heart ache in the best possible way.

You have a remarkable sense of aesthetic balance, to keep pain and ugliness intact (I love so much that your Snape is ugly, but also beautiful at the same time) but to place them in counterpoint to the beauty of roses that grow from blood, and of a love that seems enduring precisely because it is so against all rational odds. Bravo.

~Chrysanthemum~

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comet-jo.livejournal.com
2010-01-01 11:22 pm UTC (link)

Wow! I know this was posted a long time ago, but I can't help but let you know how amazingly enjoyable this was. I don't really read Harry Potter stories too much anymore; I think I lost interest due to overexposure or something, but this took me back to how reading Snarry felt when it was all shiny and new for me! The roses, wow, THE ROSES. I don't think that the image of a completely transformed Spinner's End will leave me alone for a while. Harry's obsession with the collar, all the magic, really, just, *all the magic*. The wizarding culture you created, from Ron's funeral to Odile, it was just pervasive and so, just, my *ideal* for a Harry Potter story. Thank you for making me remember how wonderful Harry Potter stories can be!!!

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perverse_idyll, 2010-02-08 08:12 pm UTC

thank you for the very enjoyable story
(Anonymous)
2010-03-10 07:55 pm UTC (link)

I wanted to thank you for the wonderful story. I loved it to bits. Snape is amazingly sweet (with some amount of thorns, of course) but still very in character. I liked how he is the only anchor Harry could find while struggling with his ghosts. I also enjoyed that Snape wanted to survive and t get free so bad. Usually authors make him too cynical to care for his own welfare.

I hope Harry finds Snape some day and that he can master his ghosts.
Thank you a lot for this story

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avoidetc
2010-06-14 09:39 pm UTC (link)

Wauw absolutely wauw!! This was so desperate and raw and stunningly beautiful. Your language is really a joy to read and the way you describe things and emotions are so vivid that the reader can see it and feel it and that is an incredible thing.
I am afraid, and a little disappointed in myself, that I won’t be able to remember every detail and therefore not be able to comment on all the things I would like to comment on. As it happens I was rather erh- intoxicated while reading parts of this and though it makes for an amazing experience it also means sometimes not remembering everything too clearly afterwards. So I am always a little in doubt whether to do it or not because in a way it really doesn’t do the story justices, well it does at the moment but – yeah well. Anyway this is definitely a fic I will come back to and re-read at some point in the future. I can’t say that about too many stories because, even though I enjoy them greatly there are just too many unread stories out there that are begging to be read.

Your OCs were brilliant! Adrian was as so sweet and seemed just perfect for Hermione. And Odile was perfectly Slytherin, intelligent, snarky and great at her job. And "I’d take Professor Snape up against the wall in a heartbeat. Assuming he’d have me. And so, my fine Gryffindor bumpkin, would you." LOL ,indeed!
What happened to Ron was horrible, absolutely horrible, and the way they all deal with it was very well written!

Snape’s fate seems despair itself. I couldn’t help imagine how I would cope, or rather not cope more likely, in that situation. And he is perfect, ever so perfect. So very damaged that he can probably never really heal but still he wants his freedom and the life that’s left for him so burningly, and still he is also able to love even though or maybe because it’s so close to hate sometimes. I loved his pride; despite being starved half to death he is still so proud and manages to keep some dignity in the face of it all.
I really liked how you wrote Harry. Him not being really innocent anymore and not just naïve and selfless, but having become someone a lot more selfish and revengeful because of everything that has happened.
And when you put the two of them together: it’s simply magic. Harry obsessed with touching Snape’s collar, pinning him to the wall (“He didn’t fight. Beneath his limp fingers, clusters of roses slowly turned from white to red”– woman you have got a talent for language) and almost killing him several times but also apparating them to safety from the burning house, are images that will be staying with me for a long time.
The end where Harry is so very human with his possessiveness but realizing that he can love and that he can let Snape go – just. Really he has no choice because if he didn’t set him free what kind of a relationship could they ever have? But it must be the hardest thing to do, to let someone you love go like that. And again you made me think, could I have done it? Those kind of questions are kind of very scary.

And Snape’s sacrifice; he knows what he is getting and still he does it, it was almost too cruel to bear. At this point I must admit that I was somewhat reduced to tears and I am ever so grateful that you left hope in the ending or it would just have been too unbearable.
Plus all the rest which is too much to mention but so breathtaking all of it. This was really a story where all the details were a pleasure and not just something to be skipped over lightly to get to the real story, here they were the story and there were just so many parts that I read over and over again.

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avoidetc
2010-06-14 09:40 pm UTC (link)

(Sorry couldn't get it all in one so here's the rest)

Not to mention the sex. The sex was – well – delicious really (very much so if I may say so). “Seeing Snape in shirt sleeves would have been disturbing enough. But nudity, Harry was just now beginning to realize, made everything erotic. It made candlelight erotic, Snape’s belted black trousers erotic, the scuffed leather armchair off to one side a seat of impending pleasure.” That is just, for lack of a better word and because I’m not sure what exactly I am trying to say, perfect! It just works. And now I’m not sure I can ever look at nipples in quite the same way again.
I love the way you have made Snape not just the dominant one but much more fluid. He can be very aggressive but sometimes also very submissive as when Harry licks his face clean (and was that just hot!!).

I shall stop now but thank you so much for writing this!! It must have been a massive job writing something this long, but it really was the greatest gift to your readers :-D

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radiantflux
2010-10-12 12:41 am UTC (link)

God, this is one of the first fic's I've actually teared up a bit from. It's beautiful and haunting and is by far the best fic I've read. Your style of writing is so poetic, yet not so over embellished that is seems any less realistic. I don't know how to convey the lovliness of this piece, but I think all of the comments summed it up pretty well. You made me feel like a part of my heart was torn a way, only to be promised that I willfind it someday. I suppose that's how Harry felt in your story.

You must write another fic. Perhaps a sequel? That might ruin it though. Gah, what ever you write, just write!

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(Anonymous)
2011-11-01 12:06 pm UTC (link)

The early description of Harry in St. Mungo's and of his faceless ghosts, reminded me of this article: http://io9.com/5851828/10-things-an-electromagnetic-field-can-do-to-your-brain

> 1. Make you see ghosts. Electromagnetic fields, or electric shocks, have
> induced specific hallucinations in people. Those who are exposed to them,
> even in laboratory settings, have caused people to complain about a feeling
> of people following them, talking to them, or watching them. This is not
> always an uncomfortable sensation."

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liamjordan
2012-03-19 06:58 am UTC (link)

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