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snarryhols (snarryhols) wrote in snarry_holidays,
@ 2007-12-12 20:27:00

Entry tags:

au: book 6, au: book 7, fic, rated: nc-17

Between The Lines, for who_la_hoop
Title: Between The Lines
Author: dementordelta
Giftee: who_la_hoop
Word Count: Approx. 23,000
Rating: Adult
Pairing: Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Warnings: Massive spoilers for Book 6 & 7, though the story goes happily astray sometime in Book 6.
Disclaimer: Not mine, though some of the dialog, as necessary, is from the published books.
Summary: Harry discovers a secret in his Potions text and a friend in the Half-Blood Prince.
Notes: Based on a plot bunny provided by maeglinyedi, gratefully beta-read by CD

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salvadora
2008-01-04 08:09 am UTC (link)

I'm also slow on the uptake for this one, but you've just outdone yourself this time!

To begin with, there's HBP-crush-fic, which makes me happy. I love the fact that Severus is into "men, not boys" ("I know exactly what you want, and I didn't get it at your age either," I could picture and hear with awesome clarity); and what's especially excellent (and you don't really see this in too many Snarry fics) is the fact that Severus sees it as a, well, potential issue that he was the one who told Voldie-darling about the prophecy and feels a smattering of guilt about getting off with the boy he helped orphan.

That Harry and Snape spend a long time oscillating rather uneasily between the book-buddies relationship and the student-teacher one just ends up adding fantastic tension. And it is such a great advantage that part of Snape's affection for Harry comes from an earlier, more forgivably passionate time of life; it seems to assist the pair in relating to each other.

I love the extent to which it follows canon: meeting up with the books at key points, but then adding great (and much, much hotter) scenes in between. Oh yes, and the sex. First-times sometimes make me happy (aside from the prince's worst first time ever, hee!) because someone - usually Harry - is so intent on the newness and the sensations that the writer can get a lot of delicious descriptions in.

Which brings me to: the sex is hotttt! And I lol'd far too many times for my flatmates to think I was doing homework for real:
Harry went still. Partly because Snape was nearly crushing him back onto the desk and partly because he had to absorb the idea that he'd just made Snape come. Or at least he was pretty sure he had--the sticky wetness spreading between them wasn't neatly labeled.

You are a gem, I tell you.

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	dementordelta 2008-01-05 02:22 am UTC (link)
	blushes profusely Thank you so much! And thank you for taking the time to leave this lovely feedback! We seem to like the same things in our Snarry! (Reply to this) (Parent)

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