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Help Wanted: God and Executioner by pir8fancier

Title: Help Wanted: God and Executioner 
Author: pir8fancier
Pairing/Characters: HP/SS
Warnings: Boys have sex, lots of swearing. Lots of people getting killed. Yeah, I mean that. No major characters, but we got deaths this go around. Oh, HPB spoilers (if that matters anymore).
Rating: NC-17
Link: http://community.livejournal.com/snarry_games/109761.html

Summary: The last year of the war, and Harry’s getting a first-class primer on death, loss, the sanctity of one’s conscience, and sacrifice.

Amruniel's Rec: This is a perfect story of war and its dehumanisation, of victory and loss, of sacrifice and death, of innocent and choice. It's a story about humankind, a story so true in itself it took away my breath.
The author's writing seems so effortless, so natural, that reading comes like breathing. It is one of the rare occasions you completely lose yourself in the story, in the words and the images that are conjured.

And most of all this is the perfect Snape, the one we all fell for so many years ago, the one we'll love forever.
And Harry, he's simply as wonderful as he can be. He's the one we all have in mind, we all hope for.

It is a utterly beautiful, true story. Breathtaking. Magnificent.

And moving. Touching you deep down, hitting that very special place of understanding with sentences like those:

A part of him wanted to hurt Snape, draw blood, scar him even, while at the same time get down on his knees and thank him. For choosing to kill Neville, while sparing Ron.
Three years into the war and the weaker wizards and witches had been killed off. Now it was down to the people who mattered. If he’d been more honest with Snape, he’d have confessed to horrible bargains he made with himself every night before he went to sleep. At the next battle I promise to hex six Death Eaters. If I fail, you can have Seamus but not Hermione or Ron. If I only get five Death Eaters, then Ginny will be hurt, maybe blinded, but not killed, and Seamus still dies. He never knew who the “you” was. The one thing he did know was this was nonsense, even bordering on insanity, but he continued to make nonsensical bargains, more than willing to sacrifice a Neville for a Ron without batting an eyelid.

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The Apple by rinsbane

Title: The Apple 
Author: rinsbane
Pairing/Characters: HP/SS (also mentioned HP/GW, HP/TR, HP/Nagini)
Warnings: that would be bestiality.  It’s all kind of dreamlike, though, open to interpretation.  Still. 
Rating: NC-17
Link: http://rinsbane.livejournal.com/45280.html

Summary: In which Harry gets a pet and Snarry goes to the beach.  No, that’s not my real summary.  In which Harry is a pussy, Snape flails around in prison, and Nagini rules the roost.  Ok, that’s not my real summary either.  Try this: Postwar, just.  Voldemort is dead, and Harry has choices to make.  (See why “Harry is a pussy” is better?)

Amruniel's Rec: Quite some time ago I developed quite a kink for any Harry-Snake action, sex-wise, and I re-encountered this particular fascination of mine in this fic. Wonderful. :)

And even without it, this story is a dreamlike journey - sometimes sweet and pleasant, sometimes like the worst nightmare.
I loved the way the war left Harry receding into - well, what? Madness? Isolation? An alternative reality? And I loved the fact that the most unlikely person is trying to show him the way back. I like the idea of Snape -despite all that happens- being the one more anchored in reality, in life.

I'm usually not the person for open endings but here it is simply perfect. As is the title.


A passage that sent shivers down my spine, because it is so spot-on:

Ginny tucks her feet under Harry’s leg.  “That’s right,” she says.  “You can do whatever you want now.” 

It’s one of the scariest things Harry’s ever heard.

He’s never had any real choice in his life.  First he was a freak, and that was all he knew.  Then he was the Chosen One, and his life was plotted for him by the whims of a madman, the machinations of an old wizard whom he loved anyway, and the crazed ramblings of an incense-high witch in a tower.  But this thing called choice – he’s terrified he’s going to fuck it up.  And it will be all his fault if he does because it was his choice.  Ginny wiggles her toes under his thigh and grins at him.  He can’t smile back because he can’t move.  He’s frozen, paralyzed with choice.

Edit: note that this fic is f-locked, but if you ask nicely, I bet rinsbane will give you access to this wonderful piece of work :)

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Bath Time by leelee_potter

Title: Bath Time
Author: leelee_potter
Pairing/Characters: HP/SS
Warnings: Harry is very young in his memory, so you can call this chan, but not really since nothing sexual happens.
Rating: -
Link: http://leelee-potter.livejournal.com/39785.html

Summary: Harry recovers a memory of young Severus Snape in the bath.

Amruniel's Rec: Although it's a very short story it gives you everything you want to know, you want to have in a sweet little Snarry-fic.

The young Harry is stunningly portrayed in all his innocence, but you can always see the man he's going to become in him. And Snape is simply perfect here. His reaction to the little intruder is priceless and the ending of the fic closes that circle wonderfully.

I'd have loved the story to be longer, but nevertheless it feels absolutely right and perfect the way it is.