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Title: Fallen Far From the Tree
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Snape, Albus Severus/Snape
Categories: AU, dark!fic
Length: long (~19,000)
Warnings: adultery, non-con (i.e. rape), mindfuck

Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] joanwilder
Website: Fanfiction by RaeWhit

Author's Summary: Caught between two generations of Potters—literally—Snape discovers that his namesake is cut from a different cloth than his father.

Review:
Severus Snape has watched three generations of Potters (their buttocks, to be more specific); one of them has repeated screwed him over, he's screwed the other, and the third one, ah, he hasn't quite figured that one out yet. AU in the sense that Snape is alive.

I don't usually read non-con, and you've probably seen me and Jane rant about the outrageous phenomenon of a character falling in love with his/her rapist (quite the fandom favourite, in fact). Well, there's no sugar coating anything in the story -- it's simply rape (and I won't give away who rapes who), vicious, violent, and undiluted rape. No chan whatsoever (Albus Severus is eighteen), no Ginny bashing, although I suppose these might be the least of your worries.

A battle of the brightest Slytherin minds. Albus Severus has a cunning plan, but is he smart enough to out-Slytherin the most Slytherin of them all? RaeWhit takes a darker look at the characters we are familiar with and brings out their most flawed side. One of the most interesting characterization I've seen in HP fanfic. Highly recommended to the like-minded fic readers.

Fallen Far From the Tree

Comments

[identity profile] cheetahanabel.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 5th, 2010 01:45 pm (UTC)
Hmm...good rec. I had just read this story during the holidays and it actually was a bit too dark for me. I guess I just don't like characters we don't even really know being...well you read the fic. I totally do agree that it was a fantastically well written story and deserves a rec here, but I really don't think I could read it a second time. (But ironically I'm a fan of LoupGarou1750's stories, which are at least as dark...weird, huh?)
[identity profile] meishali.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 8th, 2010 02:26 am (UTC)
Yes, I agree, definitely not a fic to cheer oneself up with. I've only read it twice (and will not likely read it again anytime soon), and it made me melancholy for a few days both times. The ending seriously made me go "WTF" and "I should have seen that coming" at the same time. That being said, it's a beautifully written piece.

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