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Goat Song by Delphi (R)
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bethbethbeth - and I'll be steering the magical Harry Potter crack van for the month of September. For those of you who don't know me, my HP fic interests are very much centered on Severus Snape, but I'm not much of a One True Pairing gal. That being the case, you'll see stories featuring almost a dozen different Snape-centric pairings recced before the month ends. And...fair warning: some of the stories I'm going to be reccing are longer than the first of the HP books.
The first story I'm going to be reccing, however, is also the shortest:
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Snape/Aberforth Dumbledore
Length: 4200 words
Author on LJ:atdelphi
Author Website: Singing the Body Electric
Why this must be read: This isn't the first time Delphi has been recced here, and I'm sure it won't be the last. Amongst her many writing strengths is her ability to find [believably] attractive and loving qualities in those characters who are usually considered too old or too ugly to be featured in anything even approaching a romance.
In "Goat Song," the character who is both "too old" and "too ugly" is Aberforth Dumbledore, brother of the Headmaster of Hogwarts, proprietor of the Hogs Head pub, and possible goat fancier. And the object of his blunt, un-sentimental, and occasionally dubious affection is Severus Snape, who's known Aberforth since Snape was barely more than a boy.
Despite the subtitle of this wonderfully-written tale - (A Tragedy in Five Parts) - "Goat Song" is a tale imbued with hope...particularly for those of us who wished for a slightly different ending to Snape's story in Deathly Hallows.
Read "Goat Song"!
bethbethbeth - and I'll be steering the magical Harry Potter crack van for the month of September. For those of you who don't know me, my HP fic interests are very much centered on Severus Snape, but I'm not much of a One True Pairing gal. That being the case, you'll see stories featuring almost a dozen different Snape-centric pairings recced before the month ends. And...fair warning: some of the stories I'm going to be reccing are longer than the first of the HP books.The first story I'm going to be reccing, however, is also the shortest:
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Snape/Aberforth Dumbledore
Length: 4200 words
Author on LJ:
atdelphiAuthor Website: Singing the Body Electric
Why this must be read: This isn't the first time Delphi has been recced here, and I'm sure it won't be the last. Amongst her many writing strengths is her ability to find [believably] attractive and loving qualities in those characters who are usually considered too old or too ugly to be featured in anything even approaching a romance.
In "Goat Song," the character who is both "too old" and "too ugly" is Aberforth Dumbledore, brother of the Headmaster of Hogwarts, proprietor of the Hogs Head pub, and possible goat fancier. And the object of his blunt, un-sentimental, and occasionally dubious affection is Severus Snape, who's known Aberforth since Snape was barely more than a boy.
Despite the subtitle of this wonderfully-written tale - (A Tragedy in Five Parts) - "Goat Song" is a tale imbued with hope...particularly for those of us who wished for a slightly different ending to Snape's story in Deathly Hallows.
Read "Goat Song"!