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Reviewed by Regan V
Title: The Happy Half-Blood Prince
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amanuensis1Rating: PG 13
Warnings: Nope.
Summary: After the war, Harry works through a few outstanding issues he still has with Snape.
Normally, I tend to sneer at your noble Mr. Rochester! Snape. Snape is not a gothic romantic hero, oh no. Except when Amanuensis chooses to recast him, in her own fashion.
Harry goes to visit Snape, who is living within a rather restrictive parole, and things develop from there. This is simply heart-filling. Lovely. Moving.
And you know, normally if someone said, "oh, a heart-filling Snarry featuring a noble! Snape," I would run in the opposite direction. I have read so many, many failed, unpersuasive attempts at writing a noble! Snape, both in the Snarry and Snape/Hermione genres. But this one works. It just works. After I finished it, I was somehow reminded of Mr. Rochester. Except this is Snape. And I went back and looked at the story notes and noticed something I'd missed in my haste to get to a new Snarry by Amy: she says it's a tribute of sorts to Jane Eyre.
And so it is. And it works beautifully.
Title: Two Birthdays
Author: Rakina
Rating: G
Warnings: Pompous!Snape and Cheeky!Harry
Story Link: here
Author’s Livejournal:
rakinaAuthor’s summary: Severus Snape has something in common with the Queen, it seems.
Length: 1200 words.
Reviewer: Gaycrow
Rakina has written a lighthearted, humorous little story, showing us a glimpse of Harry and Snape on holiday in wizarding Morocco.
Even on holidays, Snape stays true to himself. Despite their daily outings in the sun, Severus still looked every inch the Hogwarts teacher, still wearing his dark, full length robes, and his skin retained its odd sallow colour.
I love the thought of the two of them wandering through the casbah, discovering all sorts of wonderful and not so wonderful treasures, including a very interesting pestle and mortar.
Snape shows he hasn’t lost his Slytherin sneakiness by suggesting Harry buy the pestle and mortar as a birthday gift, even though Snape’s birthday was in January. He almost manages to pull the wool over Harry’s eyes by declaring that all Potions masters have an extra birthday, to celebrate ... Incendius Aconite, the greatest Potions Master of all time. He is almost a legendary figure, you know."
Harry has the last laugh, though - he isn’t quite as gullible as Severus thinks.