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[rm]

This gen fic is blowing me away:
http://cda.morris.umn.edu/~webbrl/SmallestSlytherin

This is quite old, branches after book 4. Great OCs, great Snape characterization. Great McGonogall characterization and great Slytherin commentary in general.

"Miss Bulstrode," warned Snape sternly, "if you cry at what I'm about to say I will thrash you. I am truly sorry that being a Slytherin means you have to suffer injustice from allies more often than attack from enemies."

I can think of some times in my life when I could have stood to sit quietly with that insight for a long time.

Comments

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Great. I read the first chapter -- there goes my morning, as I keep reading!

[rm.livejournal.com]

heheh it has sequels too

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

I love the characterization and the social commentary. I also thought that later on the author does a splendid job of incorporating magical elements. I found some of her little episodes incredibly immaginative.

[rm.livejournal.com]

IT's really great. I rarely read gen fic, but this is amazng. And it's all Snapecast's fault i found it.

[miep.livejournal.com]

dammit, r, you just made me use up a whole afternoon!


it was great; perfect for a rainy afternoon. I baked and read.

[rm.livejournal.com]

If you haven't read the sequels you have yet mroe days to lose.

[miep.livejournal.com]

There's more???

Twelve chapters, and there's more?

[rm.livejournal.com]

two sequels and a WIP sequel

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Wow.. that's kept me entranced all afternoon, thankyou.

[rm.livejournal.com]

the sequels are pretty ace too.

[torenheksje.livejournal.com]

You're lucky that you get to read these in their entirety...I would go mad waiting for months between updates (Rebecca tends to update something like quarterly). Especially in the break between the 3rd and 4th part of Salazar's Orphans.

They're in many ways very AU...not just because the plotlines have been made moot through subsequent HP books, but the characterizations are kind of "off" in places. And she can be very heavy-handed with the morality lessons. While I agree with a lot of her points, it's not what I personally look for when reading fic. I do very much like the fact that the Slyths are finally portrayed as be real kids, not Minions Of Evil. And you can't help but admire an IC Snape who obviously cares for his Snakes without being all schmoopy about them.

I'll stop here in case you haven't had a chance to read the other sequels, because I don't want to give anything away. :c)

[rm.livejournal.com]

I didn't find the first one to be more heavyhanded than necessary, but the later ones, I've run into that a bit, as skillful as the craft is. I do give her kudos for amking these peopel random varieties of Christians however -- spirituality in the wizarding world is one of those things that's almost a problem in cannon and is definitely a problem in fannon, and other than their being more of it than I have interest in through her presentation, I do think she gets it right more or less.

I also love that as much as I don't buy Snape as this casually sleeping around guy (although, I must say, she manages to make it work in the context of the story), I do like that we're absolutely aware that he's a young man. My biggest peeve about the films, as much as I love the performances from Rickman, Thewlis and Oldman is that these are not young men, and that's really the tradgedy of the lives of Snape, Lupin and Black. They're so young, and they've lost so much so stupidly. And it's just been wiped out of the films. And that's a shame.