snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games, @ 2009-08-06 08:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | cauldron, fic |
Team Cauldron Entry (FIC): "The Gates of Dark Death Stand Wide" By IvyLady
Title: The Gates of Dark Death Stand Wide
Author: ivylady
Team: Team Cauldron!
Genre(s): Literary
Prompt(s): Underworld, Last Hope
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG; Highlight if you wish to know: * pre-slash, character death (sort of)*
Word Count: ~10,200
Author's Notes/Disclaimers/Betas: I do not own any of the Harry Potter character. I make no money from this work of fiction.
I would like to thank torino10154 for the several brainstorming sessions that lead to the development of this story. I'd also like to thank curia_regis for going over my mistakes several times (it's a much better story because of you!), and mimiheart for the title and quick betas. Also, thanks to ladyjayvee for giving me a reader's perspective and brainstorming ideas for an ending. Much love to my teammates on Team Cauldron for all their help and encouragement. Team Cauldron: Brewing Gold!
Summary: Even in death, Severus cannot escape his vow to protect Potter. A Snarry take on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.
It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of Dark death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task.
Virgil, The Aeneid, Book VI, line 126
Through me is the way into the woeful city,
through me is the way into eternal woe,
through me is the way among the lost people.
Justice moved my lofty maker: the divine Power,
the supreme Wisdom and the primal Love made me.
Before me were no things created, unless eternal, and I eternal last.
ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE!
Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto III