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Title: Denial
Author: drachenmina
Rating: NC-17
Author's Live Journal: drachenmina
Warnings: some Harry/Draco and Harry/Ginny mentioned. Rough sex, angst.
Summary: Summary: Harry definitely isn’t gay, and Severus certainly doesn’t care about him.
Length: ~8,700
Reviewer: painless_j
The very beginning hooked me: Harry comes to the Auror trainee canteen and everybody's looking at him, laughing behind their hands. Of course I wanted to know what it was about. And I liked how it was written, so it's not like I had to overcome myself for the sake of my curiosity. What it was about turned out intriguing too. But in the end, I simply liked the story even though it has a feature I usually hate: switching POVs, often in the middle of the scene. So why does it annoy me to no end in another fic and didn't make me mind it here? I don't really know. I simply liked the intonation the author used. I loved Harry who's in a deep spot of trouble and Snape who's tired of being a bastard (very believably so!). Draco's cameos spice it up nicely. And the ending is like a cup of hot tea after a long walk. Wonderful story!
Title: Himself His Own Dungeon
Author: Beth H (bethbethbeth)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: future Snape/Harry/Voldemort implied, fellatio, rimming, anal, infidelity, nappies, rubber ducks, and laundry rooms
Summary: Snape isn't quite as dead as everyone thinks. Neither is Voldemort.
Length: ~6400 words
Reviewer: painless_j
It was like watching a proverbial train wreck! Compelling and crazy and creepy but wonderfully done! The author works with Harry's obsessive side, taking it to its logical end. Harry keeps a comatose Snape alive and under Fidelius, and when the medical stuff of St Mungo's admit that they can't do anything for him, Harry takes him into his own home. Ginny isn't pleased, which is reasonable on her part. Oh, if only Harry could see it this way! I liked both sides of the story, of how Harry's retreating into his mind (or is he?) and how he's drifting apart from his real family -- and it's fully DH-compliant, too, which was a bonus for me. Interesting story!
Title: Stolen, Stolen
Author: GatewayGirl
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: DH-compliant, threesome.
Summary: While Harry is visiting Charlie, he goes looking for a thief, and finds someone unexpected.
Length: ~16000
Reviewer: painless_j
Harry has a casual relationship with Charlie (who's absolutely great here!), trying to figure out his sexuality and what he wants at all after the war, while Ginny is off doing the same and trying to heal war-related traumas. He stays with Charlie in the Romanian dragon reserve (which is also absolutely fantabulous here!), having lots of hot (awesome!) sex and helping with some tasks. One day, recovering fresh dragon egg shells the reserve sells for maintaining itself, they find a poacher, who, as you could tell looking at the headers, turns out to be Snape. Alive but badly injured. I loved Snape here. Vicious and snarky even at the worst of his condition, vulnerable and starved for -- something. I also absolutely loved Harry. He sort of grew up but stayed in character. And the sex was steaming hot. Wonderful story!
Title: No Place at All
Author: Ac1d and Sinick
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: DH spoilers, past Harry/Ginny
Summary: “No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzai
Length: 28500 words
Reviewer: painless_j
This is a very, VERY strange story and definitely very memorable. My friend and I made a themed list of odd jobs in HP fics a couple of years ago. It began with a quote that said, among other things, "imagine that Snape joins a travelling circus..." But there hasn't been a fic like that on the list--until now! Whee :) The imagery and the magic in this story are so fresh and unusual! I can't say that I liked the writing style: it often seemed too heavy to me, and the small chapters that showed us the events from the snakes' POV were, as for me, superfluous, not to mention that I didn't always find the POV credible. But I sure enjoyed the story the authors told! Because Snape indeed joins the circus and it's believable! And there are lots of fascinating things there, the whys of Snape's speaking/not speaking and the magic of the circus being only the first of them.
Title: Occam's Razor
Author: RaeWhit (joanwilder)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Snape; Sex toys, rimming, bondage.
Summary: Two years after the end of the war, only desperation could make Harry seek out the help of a one-time enemy.
Length: ~90 000 words
Reviewer: painless_j
Fics of this sort are the killers of fests. It's 90K words, as those who counted say. It took me three days to read it, and now I'm days behind on everything. I didn't like it at the beginning. There was a passage that threw me out, very formal, on the surface, and I thought silly. So I quit and had to come back when a fellow Snarry mod asked if we thought it was Snarry enough (see pairings). Being a responsible person that I am, I went to check it, and that time wasn't able to stop reading. I printed out small sections when I went out to have dinner and when I had to take a train home.
Harry takes after Filch's job, including adopting Mrs Norris. His friends don't understand his choice of occupation but he doesn't seem able to move on yet. There's a portrait of Snape in the Headmaster's office, but no Snape in it. There's also a trunk of Snape's left but no-one can open it. Then one day, Draco Malfoy sends Harry a key he found sorting out Snape's possessions. Harry applies his Gryffindor tenacity to opening the trunk, and what he finds redefines his life.
But for that small false note (I'm not sure anyone but me would even consider it a false note), the writing is very smooth and easy. You read not noticing words. The story itself, although unhurried, is never too slow. The relationships are easy, and somewhere in the middle of it all I found that Harry and Draco (and Snape) are nothing like I imagine him or like I remember them from the book, but the transition was such that I didn't notice it. Magic is interesting and complex, starting from the wizarding portraits (compare Snape and Albus!) and to the final ritual.
What impressed me most was that in such a long story, the author didn't lose their way. All the clues given us and Harry work, all the ends are tied and everything holds together. And even if I wouldn't say that characterisation is the author's main strength, there are many fascinating, fine details to make you not be bothered with it. For example, the Bat. Or that Snape's portrait, which one would expect to be life-sized at least ('cos the man is larger than life, right?) is, in fact, small, about ten inches :) And the sex is awfully hot. All in all, a very pleasant reading!