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Title: The Care of Infants
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Snape
Categories: AU, angst, humor, kid!fic
Length: long
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: [personal profile] perfica
Author Website: n/a?

Review:
At some point in his seventh year (I think), Harry gets captured by Voldemort and is inadvertently turned into a baby in the ensuing duel. Severus breaks cover to rescue Harry and bring him back to Hogwarts. Now that Harry is helpless and Severus is the target of every Death Eater in Great Britain, Dumbledore bundles them up and sends them both to a safe house indefinitely. Bad enough that Severus finds himself taking care of an infant; things get exponentionally worse as Harry starts to grow up much faster than he should.

Now this is what I'm talking about: a cute kid that isn't perfect, a man who takes care of said kid to the best of his ability (and yet who gets tired of the job as all full-time parents must), and all sorts of emotional bloodletting as Harry and Severus have just enough time to get attached before Harry starts growing up and begins to remember his previous (far less amicable) relationship with his potions master. Plus, you have a *fantastic* version of Snape. Easily one of my favorite Snapes of all time.

Angst, drama, and, okay, a bit of mush results in a story that has a little something for everyone. Check it out, even if you aren't usually a fan of kid!fic.

The Care of Infants 

Comments

(Anonymous) wrote:
Mar. 12th, 2008 11:40 pm (UTC)
Hm... This reminds me of another HP story where Snape is the one that got turned into a child. The Living Years... I think that's what it's called.
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[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 13th, 2008 03:19 pm (UTC)
Yep, by Dementor Delta. I'm not actually planning on reccing that one myself, because Snape in that story is so different than canon that he's essentially an OC (and while that makes sense as he's being brought up in a new home with a *good* parent, 90% of my reason for reading HP fic is Snape's characterization). Still, it's a good story.
[identity profile] perfica.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 16th, 2008 12:35 pm (UTC)
I don't know if it's gauche of me to thank you for the rec in a reccing community but I'm going to anyway ;-)

This is a great summary and a lovely review. Thanks so much.
[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 17th, 2008 02:49 pm (UTC)
I'm thrilled when authors thank me (as it's often the only feedback I get:)

So, thank you for the thank you!
[identity profile] cheetahanabel.livejournal.com wrote:
Dec. 10th, 2009 08:14 pm (UTC)
Wow. This is not what I expected at all. Very...well in a sense it's kind of squicky. I mean, it's a little...well...Snape is really like his father. And actually is his teacher. And yet you can understand why. Difficult not to like it though.
[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com wrote:
Dec. 11th, 2009 12:01 am (UTC)
You know, I don't actually remember the details on this one very much, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it would probably squick me if I re-read it today. I generally am a lot more flexible in those first few weeks of discovering a fandom and end up reading/reccing a lot of stories that are good, but which don't quite hold up to the standards set by later fic.

(Also, I see scads more comments -- you must've been very busy today:)

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