Fic rec: "The Profile" More HBP-compliant HP/SS!
The Profile takes place many, many years after the tumultuous events of Harry Potter's Hogwarts years; after a series of murders in the area, a police profiler has a chat with a suspect. Barbarella manages to concoct an utterly convincing story that seems simple on the surface, but slowly reveals the layers and undertones beneath the facade. Snape and Harry, a series of meetings, and conversations that spiral; they dance around and and around it, but it always comes back to
that; and by the end of the story, what kept them apart has brought them together.