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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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josan
2008-05-23 11:28 am UTC (link)

Okay. Printed it out and used it as a bedtime story which denied me a lot of sleep.

Sleeping Beauty/Briar Rose were some of my favourite fairy tales. I love what you did with them.

Odile Lalique (Delicious name) is for me one of the best things of the story. What a character! Creates the wards and sneaks in a way out.
Her Slytherin-ness is wonderful. I think she has jumped to the head of the list of great OCs for me.

The roses...Severus's roses...wow.

Harry and his need to grow up...yes, he does. And he needs to learn to love and to understand what love really is.

Severus. Bitter, challenged, tortured, sexually/erotically HOT!

Ron and the rest of them with their scars...no one walks away scar-free from war.

George and his need for Fred/s.
Owen
Hermione and her lover (she found someone intellectually her equal, and loves him in spite of his less than hunky figure...I so approve -- not that you needed my approval LOL, but it makes such a nice difference!)

the runes
OMG, the runes...which respond to Parseltongue, which only Harry can speak. Which makes one wonder if this is part of a plan.

Then find me.

Sigh. THAT is so erotic!

The stack of marking didn't diminish a lot, but you know, who cares!

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perverse_idyll
2008-05-24 06:38 am UTC (link)

Oh, how delicious! This is like a stream-of-consciousness commentary as the fic unfolds.

*smirks* When I first started writing about the wards and of course Sleeping Beauty came to mind, I pictured Harry as this odd cross between the prince and the wicked fairy.

I'm delighted you like Odile, because, um, so do I. Maybe a little too much. I had to write a smart, attractive, good-natured Slytherin. Had to.

Argh, Harry. One of the (many) compelling reasons for writing this fic was my desperate desire to have Harry change. Not become a different person, but be so affected by pain and loss and confusion and love that he, yes, grows up. So that when he's free again, innocent again, he can't/won't go back to being the person he was.

I'm surprised that nobody's kicked my arse for what I did to Ron. And the Freds . . I have a hard time imagining George doing anything but this: populating his life with versions of Fred. I guess because I really don't see George as whole without him.

Ah, the snake runes. Nobody's noticed yet that they're also a sort of meta reference to Snape's death in DH. Well, okay, so Nagini was one frickin' huge snake and these are small and insubstantial, but . . In any case, I also enjoyed inflicting such an ironic obsession on Harry. Because snakes are the symbol of Slytherin, and, um. . enough said.

I don't know why I find Snape's bitterness so erotic, but I do. Maybe it's that edge of desperation.

I have a LOT of thoughts about Snape's last line and whether or not it's a good thing for Harry to follow him, but yeah, I basically wanted the hair to rise on the nape of Harry's neck when Snape whispered those words. Way to feed Harry's obsession, Severus.

Thank you for snuggling in to read this (good lord, I don't know if I'd choose this fic for bedtime reading material) and for touching on so many of the points that I struggled like a maniac to express. When I read this over, I kept nodding and repeating, "Yes, she got it. She got that. Hallelujah." Which makes me feel - well, happy. And I'm almost never happy about my writing, so this is a gift.

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