Some fics I like

[donnaimmaculata]

Very much to my surprise, I've finally got to read Snape/Lupin fics I really like. I've liked this pairing - in theory - ever since I discovered HP slash, but it's so difficult to write and not many authors manage a Lupin who is believable in my eyes.

Unsurprisingly, both fics have been written for the Snape FQF. "Hidden" by Nny villainny is basically a PWP featuring a highly believable Aggressor!Lupin, a needy Snape, and some very hot sex. The main reason I like it is that she doesn't have them proclaim true love in the end and be-happy-ever-after, and instead creates an atmosphere of resentment, aggression, and painful need. The passage

"Snape rolled over and raised himself onto protesting hands and knees - the angle of entry would be easier and...

And he wouldn't have to see Lupin's face."

really did it for me.

The other Snape/Lupin author is the brilliant Juxian Tang, who also wrote a heartbreaking Snape/Firenze ("Gross Infringement") and a Snape/Harry ("Plight") I actually enjoyed reading. Well, "enjoy" is probably the wrong word. It's a heavy punch right in the solar plexus, dark and compelling, but with a ray of hope in the end.

"Lukewarm", her Snape/Lupin fic, features a dark and angry Lupin, and the slow development from a convenient, stress-relieving arrangement to something resembling a relationship between two very damaged characters. Go read!

And finally, an older fic but one I've only come across very recently: vignette00's Phineas Nigellus-centred story portraiture. (Have you read it yet, isiscolo?) It contains major spoilers for OotP, so I'll cut the rest of my rec for the sake of the two people who haven't read the novel yet.



"portraiture" is a mild Phineas/Sirius from Phineas's PoV and basically deals with Nigellus's view on Sirius and the development this view experienced over the years. Written in a very laconic, dry style, it pictures a Nigellus who, after so many centuries as a portrait, is rather blasé and bored with everything but Sirius, whose vivid, fierce personality becomes a point of focus for Phineas. As I said, the style is very laconic, and the simple sentence stating Sirius's death
delivered a much harder blow to me than JKR's entire description and Harry's subsequent mourning-cum-anger scenes.

And it was nice to find a Phineas-centred fic, too.

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Heehee. I'm going to have to hunt this down and check it out. It does sound interesting!

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

It certainly is. A short recommendation doesn't do the fic justice, because I wouldn't know where to start and what to point out. So yeah, the atmosphere. And how she includes the Snape/Black conflict in the fic as a basic motif.