The Fourth Year by Calligraphy (NC-17)

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Harry/Ginny, Harry/Snape
Author Website: Author's page at Skyhawke
Why this must be read:

This is one of my favorite Snape/Harry stories, bittersweet, funny and good to the last drop. After the War, with reasons for clemency and Azkaban closed due to the unreliability of Dementors, Snape's sentence is a life under house arrest with Harry as his reluctant jailor. Despite clashes over chores, cigarettes, and bad soap operas, they actually find a decent equilibrium... until one day, someone comes looking for Harry and finds a not-entirely reformed Death Eater instead:

He wasn't so fast as he used to be, but was still fast enough. He had the wand in one hand and the other around the wizard's throat before the man could form a protest.

He considered casting binding spells. That would be the way to do it: honorable, laudable, and forgivable. He couldn't form the words on his lips. His first spell in so many years wasn't going to be bloody Petrificus Totalus.

"Incendio," he hissed...

The Fourth Year

Comments

[ajat.livejournal.com]

Aaaah, Snarry ! Thanks !

:)

[ajat.livejournal.com]

But what is the story link ? I can't find it. *Goes back to look*

[ajat.livejournal.com]

OK, found it. Sorry. *Sheepish grin* Didn't sleep well ...

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

*g* Happens to the best of us. Did you like once you found it?

[sileya.livejournal.com]

Awesome story. Love the end. I'm such a freakin' sap.

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my lower lip got all wobbly there at the end, too.

So glad you liked it!

[seraphim-12.livejournal.com]

awesome, awesome fic! I actually had tears in my eyes and was calling Harry and idiot by the end of it *sigh*. It was great!

[seraphim-12.livejournal.com]

***an idiot *sigh*

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

*g* I'm so glad you liked! It's really one of those stories that stays with you...

[seraphim-12.livejournal.com]

do you have any others fics that have a post-war "Adult" snarry get together? I am loving these kinds of fics right now. Thanks!

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Sure! For one thing, you have to check out Consanguinity (http://tryfanstone.co.uk/consanguinity.htm). It's third in a series, but I think it really reads better as a stand-alone. Also, you should look at The Dreaming Spires (http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=4559&chapter=1&font=&size=). They're both good reads.

[seraphim-12.livejournal.com]

ah yes, I have read consanguinity but not the dreaming spires (which looks good. Thanks, ^_^

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Yays! Enjoy.