- truth? -

[reenka]

One would think it was impossible-- surely there's no such beast as an in character, entirely canon-plausible NC17 Harry/Snape post-OoTP one-shot.... Right? I mean, Harry/Snape is a pairing that goes against the very grain of canon... right? (Not that H/D doesn't in enough ways....)

Wrong. That is to say, I've finally found an H/S I could believe in. And I studiously -avoided- reading anything but H/S smut 'cause I didn't -want- to believe in them. But thisveryinstant's `Truth' completely worked for me. I could... see it happening. Snape & Harry were... human. What's even more disturbing, actually, is that Snape became 'Severus' for the duration of the fic probably for the first time ever-- which mirrored Harry's own shift in perception rather well.

All without prettifying any of their ugliness or resentment or even the physical awkwardness. Snape wasn't the 'hot & sexy Potions Master'-- he was just Snape. And as another barometer of goodness-- Draco was well-treated, too. Not skipped over, not made into a complete caricature-- he had a in-character part, too. God, I love this fic.

I'd love people's opinions on this fic, mostly (well, given that you're at all willing to read H/S). Do you think it works? If it doesn't, why not?

Man, I'm trying to think of an H/D that's equally believable, and can't think of anything outside of Miss Breed's fics. Le sigh.

Comments

[fraught.livejournal.com]

:)))) I shall try, but every time I've tried to read H/S (and blegh, I won't call it "Snarry"), I give up around the time they start having a sexual interest in each other because I just can't buy it.

I'll memorify this entry and try to read the story when I get back from my holidays (am currently in Madrid with very little online time).

[yourpoison.livejournal.com]

Wow! I'm really looking forward to this now :D :D :D *bounces* The thing that struck me as 'different' about this story is that it didn't have that jarring "wtf, he wants Snape??" moment the way a normal H/S story does (which requires me to suspend my disbelief 'cause I'm just perverse like that). I mean, I don't think Harry would want Snape either... though actually, I can totally believe in Snape wanting Harry, heh. It's just, in this fic, it totally worked, and I was like 'whoah', thus this entry. And now I'm all at the endge of my seat, so yeay :D