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This is a fanart to my absolute favorite fanfiction on "fanfiktion.de" by kitty thompson : "Strangers in the night" (based on the Song of Frank Sinatra)The author created an altered universe were the muggles know about wizards and keep them under their rule. Wizards who rebel against the normal people for example get deported to camps, tortured and killed.
Harry Potter grows up with the Dursleys and gets the chance to visit Hogwarts, a school where wizards shall be trained to fit into the world of the normals.
There he meets Severus Snape, who´s deputy Headmaster under Dolores Umbridge, and is immediately fascinated by the strong, dark man who seems to have lots of secrets.
The reader accompanies Harry through his years in Hogwarts, learning a lot about the dark world in which he lives, witnessing how he slowly realizes what is going on around him till he teams up with his friends to stand against the ministry who wants to break them.
Most important aspect is his relationship to Severus Snape who becomes Harrys mentor, then his first crush , and then the man he deeply loves and wants to fight for.
Though I once said I am not that into Snarrys, I truly adore this story.
About now it has got more than 100 chapters and it is well written, has a complex and reasonable plot, and covers so many interesting and emotional topics.
I love how the author portrays Severus as a broken man who covers his insecurity under the mask of the untouchable potionsmaster. I love how deep the relationship between him and Harry goes, and that she (the author) takes her time to let them develop a relationship.
After about 100 chapters, nothing more than a kiss happened between them, regarding the "physical aspect" of the relationship...
So you may think what you like of Snarrys and Teacher/Student-relationship-stories, but the story remains well-written, with a touching plot and a detailed altered universe.
Oh and I should add that Snape is a panther-Animagus in that... ^^ Meow...
I hope you like the artwork, because it took me weeks...
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This is so cool! Checking out the fanfic now
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Thank you very much!
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Yes, I can certainly see Severus as a panther Animagus. Our Sevvie is decidedly feline.
The only Snarry story that I like is "Home Fries Nazi." Snarry is simply not a trope that works for me. My personal gay-dar insists that Severus is straight, and even if he weren't I can't see him liking bratty little Harry. Harry, on the other hand, gives a strong gay/bisexual vibe; he always notices handsome men. Which means he would not be attracted to Snape, because our Sev, however much we love him, is not handsome.
It's a very nice drawing all the same. Congratulations on creating something interesting and complex.
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Thank you very much, compliments from you mean a lot to me, even if I enjoy our critical discussions all the same.
I agree with you, Sev is a cat-person: quiet, careful, sophisticated , smart, cunning...
I truly understand your opinion regarding the Snarrys. There are certainly more absurd disasters of stories than actual readable ones on the internet, if you like the pairing or not.
Usually I am not into Severus-shippings at all, but this one turned out to be a real treat, and the author really nailed Severus character.
No sparkling, sweet hero with shiny hair at all. Just a snarky potionsmaster with a dark past which he can't forget... for good reasons...
Given that it is an alternative universe, Harry is also not such a douche as in the original story.
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It's true that Harry has to be completely re-written as a new character to become an acceptable partner for Snape. Hermione, on the other hand, *can* grow and develop from her canon character into a reasonable partner for Severus, if the fanfic author is sufficiently skilled, so I find Snanger generally works better than Snarry. Beautiful and talented Hermione Sue who teaches Severus how to be an agreeable and happy person is, of course, a different matter.
"Home Fries Nazi" works because Harry and Severus both have to learn to deal with having lost their magic. When the story opens Snape has found his solution as a sarcastic, tyrannical short-order cook in a diner in Arizona. Harry, who is nearly suicidal, has to come to terms with the idea that a magic-less life with Snape can be his own solution. Unless he has something as radical as losing his magic to whack him over the head, it's hard to imagine Harry changing enough for Snape to want to have anything to do with him.
By the way, I can also see Severus as a raven or crow Animagus, but a panther is more impressive if we're thinking in terms of competition with the Marauders.
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Well, Hermione CAN be an acceptable partner for Severus, but I don´t like that pairing either, to be honest. In most of the stories the way she is portrayed is absolutely annoying. The Hermione Granger I know doesn´t grow up to be a perfect, supersexy seductive b*tch who just from one moment to the other finds out that she had always been in love with her former teacher.
The worst fanfics are those were the ministry establishes a marriage-law and decides that the sixteen years old Hermione perfectly fits to her teacher... I mean... really?
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Marriage Law stories are almost invariably bad, though for some perverse reason I keep looking for good ones. I've seen one or two I like, but they're the kind that subvert the trope. I remember a comic version in which Severus and Hermione are the only ones who end up married because of the law: they spend so much time together working to get the law repealed that they fall in love and marry voluntarily after the issue becomes moot. Another good one is Aurette's "Tattered Man," which ends in tragedy. It really yanks the heartstrings.
Aurette is one of the best SSHG authors around, and she never has Herms pair up with Sev until they're both adults. I especially recommend "Of Muggles and Magic" (Potterverse meets Jane Austen), "Unwritten Future" (time-traveling Herms and 21-year-old Sev defeat the Dark Lord), "Occluded Soul" (Snape tears his soul when he kills Dumbles), "The Caretaker" (a new take on life debts), and "Dark Ages" (Sev becomes a new Merlin after the End Of Civilization As We Know It).
There is one other Snarry story I like: "Pleasant Hope," which just updated yesterday on fanfic-dot-net after a long hiatus. It's an Alternate Universe in which Snape is a stern, guilt-ridden minister in a church in rural Missouri, and at first it appears to be magic-free. But it's not.
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