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Fascinating essay about HBP

I thought it was an interesting set of thoughts on the subject. And I also had one of the same thoughts, that as a mystery novel, HBP wasn't quite as up to the mysteries of the other five.

It's right here

The things I've found

I've been working my way through search engines, plugging in phrases about Severus and hurt/comfort, in order to find more fics.

So far my mind has boggled more than once.

• Snape is pregnant with triplets. The fathers are Harry, Sirius, and Remus.


• Snape is having an affair with Orophin and a completely mental Rumil. No, wait. He's in a relationship with Haldir. Oh, who cares. I thought it was crack!fic but to my greater horror it is not.


• A Marauders fic where James becomes waaaaaaay too involved in Severus. Severus, in fact, becomes a girl. Well, not really. But he might just as well.


• Sneezefic archive. One is called Aconite and Pudding, which made me snort. It's not bad, actually.


• Overanalyzing the Text: Hurt/comfort thoughts. Interesting, too.


• More Overanalyzing the Text. Including "Why D/HR is Possible" by tripzy. I'm very sorry, Tripzy (if that is your real name). You have little chance of convincing me.


• Well written but ultimately Sue-centric chapter of a random fic. I am glad to read things like this. It goes to remind me about how the character of Severus can so easily get distorted by the pull of wish-fulfillment.


• The Seven Deadly Fanons of Characterization: a Spotter's Guide by Dorothy Marley. It's slash-centric, and thought-provoking.


• Fic where Severus dresses as Alice Cooper.


• Severus Snape de-aged stories: Here you can find some stories where our belived Poiton Master, Severus Snape was deaged by one way or other (spell, poiton). Belived! hahaha


• Interesting commentary from 2003 about GoF. My favorite line: I am really hoping that the order of the Phoenix is a Nicholson Baker-style masterpiece of minutiae which takes 800 pages to describe the act of Harry ordering two pints of Phoenix Butterbeer at the Pointy Hat


• A fanlisting archive. I never understand fanlistings. Is it a show of support for a specific character? A way to list fen so that the outside world can mock them with the click of a button?

What is going on with Firefox? This is really getting to me. It won't let me cut and paste text, it cuts and pastes as a link, with all relevant HTML coding. Nice, but I want to paste the text! Strange. And irritating.