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Title: Blood Magic by Gatewaygirl
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: essentially gen (with het, slash, and femmeslash
background romances)
Categories: AU, angst, action/adventure, hurt/comfort
Length: Really Freaking Epic (340,000 words)
Warnings: n/a
Author on IJ: http//gatewaygirl.insanejournal.com
Website: http://www.the-archive.net/viewuser.php?uid=224
Review:
Harry finds out that Snape is really his father, but they both must hide this fact so that Snape can continue to spy for as long as possible. Around the same time the Dursleys are killed, which means the Minstry's trying to adopt Harry. Plus there's the whole Voldemort rising thing. Set during Harry's sixth year, AU after book five.
Very minor quibble first: the romances in this fic (aside from Severus/Remus) are very true to high school romances. In other words, not very interesting. Fortunately they only make up about 1% of the fic as a whole (hence the 'gen' classification).
Which leads me to the gushing: I've read a lot of Snape is Harry's father and Snape adopts Harry fic over the last few months and this is one of the very best. Snape is perfectly in character and yet still manages to grow into a good (if conventional) father figure, the plot
is detailed and interesting (and features lots of very interesting magics, including some of Fred and George's which are thankfully fun, rather than cruel), and the non-romantic relationships are fascinating. My favorites are probably the burgeoning Harry/Draco friendship, the troubled Ron/Hermione/Harry friendship (lying about Snape's relationship to Harry was bad enough and then Harry *told the truth*), and of course, Harry's relationship to Severus (my absolute favorite and the focus of the story as a whole).
Full of realism, relationship angst, adventure, love, and family, this is a truly great offering for anyone who would like to see a thoughtful, fascinating interpretation of the Harry is Snape's son genre.
Blood Magic (at FFA -- Fanfiction Downloader works for this site)
Blood Magic (single file source -- thanks![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: essentially gen (with het, slash, and femmeslash
background romances)
Categories: AU, angst, action/adventure, hurt/comfort
Length: Really Freaking Epic (340,000 words)
Warnings: n/a
Author on IJ: http//gatewaygirl.insanejournal.com
Website: http://www.the-archive.net/viewuser.php?uid=224
Review:
Harry finds out that Snape is really his father, but they both must hide this fact so that Snape can continue to spy for as long as possible. Around the same time the Dursleys are killed, which means the Minstry's trying to adopt Harry. Plus there's the whole Voldemort rising thing. Set during Harry's sixth year, AU after book five.
Very minor quibble first: the romances in this fic (aside from Severus/Remus) are very true to high school romances. In other words, not very interesting. Fortunately they only make up about 1% of the fic as a whole (hence the 'gen' classification).
Which leads me to the gushing: I've read a lot of Snape is Harry's father and Snape adopts Harry fic over the last few months and this is one of the very best. Snape is perfectly in character and yet still manages to grow into a good (if conventional) father figure, the plot
is detailed and interesting (and features lots of very interesting magics, including some of Fred and George's which are thankfully fun, rather than cruel), and the non-romantic relationships are fascinating. My favorites are probably the burgeoning Harry/Draco friendship, the troubled Ron/Hermione/Harry friendship (lying about Snape's relationship to Harry was bad enough and then Harry *told the truth*), and of course, Harry's relationship to Severus (my absolute favorite and the focus of the story as a whole).
Full of realism, relationship angst, adventure, love, and family, this is a truly great offering for anyone who would like to see a thoughtful, fascinating interpretation of the Harry is Snape's son genre.
Blood Magic (at FFA -- Fanfiction Downloader works for this site)
Blood Magic (single file source -- thanks
in_interval!)
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