i know it's improbable, but

[cimorene]

i'm still waiting for someone to write a really good snape/harry fic. i want to be really convinced. i want to sink into the world, and totally buy it, and be satisfied with it after i'm done reading, not going, 'well, it's lovely, but it's a big departure from canon, innit,' or 'the tone's just so.' or 'if only harry were a little more ___.' there's an excellent point to be made about the canon improbability of the pairing. well, at least, there're all these obstacles in the way. but people keep coming so close! it's a genre with such potential! unfortunately, a good one is rather a lot to ask. i'm not even quite sure what one'd have to do to convince me. but i want it, yes, precious, very much.

fred saberhagen, how i <3 thee. he'd better not die without writing another dracula novel. ::rubs temples:: ::refuses to slash saberhagen and zelazny::

Comments

realistic HP/SS

[kemelios.livejournal.com]

What about Contemporary Magical Innovations (http://www.squidge.org/~kali/cmi.html)? Set post-graduation, but still.

Also, two AUs I think are fairly realistic, if only because in both the wizarding world has suffered and Harry and Snape have few other choices outside of each other, are: Clipped Wings (http://www.hogwartsletters.hpg.ig.com.br/stories/clippedwings.html) and Severus and the Crup (http://inkstain.slashcity.net/isf/archive/7/severusand.html). Obviously AUs aren't canon though. Perhaps realistic HP/SS requires an AU though.

I know what you mean about remaining "unconvinced." I often have to suspend my disbelief when reading HP/SS ("Snape's hair wasn't greasy after all, it was just very fine and silky!"). Mostly I have to let go of my internal cynic who informs me every time that rarely do 17-year-olds find 40-or-so-year-olds irresistably hot. I can buy the infatuation from Snape's side though.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

have you read tradescant's fidelius (http://joyce.jteers.net/intellislasher/tradescant-fidelius.html) and secret-keeper (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=tradescant&itemid=87382)? hm, have i asked you this before? they're short and probably not what you're searching for... but i am totally in lust with them.

Re: realistic HP/SS

[cimness.livejournal.com]

have recommended all of those--but none of them met my standards for convincing. although i can't remember any of my quarrels off the top of my head, except in 'severus and the crup' where everything goes into the twilight zone around the second half.

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[cimness.livejournal.com]

yeah, i've read them. they're pretty, but they didn't satisfy. :)