Well, I'm hitting both the "Snape actually does have a civil relationship with Draco" and the "Lucius gets sent to Azkaban" elements in my the_ouroboros fic. Or at least, that's the plan. So do I get extra points?
The thing is, there are so many OTPers who see canon with "ship blinders". The "joint presents" Remus/Sirius crowd ignores the (to me) incredibly slashy PoA Remus/Snape tension in the scenes where Snape gives the Wolfsbane to Remus. The "all fours in Snape's office" Snape/Harry OTPers go la la la at Harry's angry claim that Snape essentially killed Sirius. Snape/Lucius shippers point at the "lapdog" comment. And so on.
Sometimes I worry that my mind is so open my brains will fall out. But I love to be convinced by a clever, perceptive writer that some odd relationship is plausible and even inevitable. atdelphi's Snape/Dumbledore, for example, or sanj's Harry/Neville. I can hold all these contradictory ships in my mind without any problem at all, when I read fanfic. But when I look at canon - I don't see any of them. Just the potential.
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Date: 2004-07-07 09:43 am (UTC)The thing is, there are so many OTPers who see canon with "ship blinders". The "joint presents" Remus/Sirius crowd ignores the (to me) incredibly slashy PoA Remus/Snape tension in the scenes where Snape gives the Wolfsbane to Remus. The "all fours in Snape's office" Snape/Harry OTPers go la la la at Harry's angry claim that Snape essentially killed Sirius. Snape/Lucius shippers point at the "lapdog" comment. And so on.
Sometimes I worry that my mind is so open my brains will fall out. But I love to be convinced by a clever, perceptive writer that some odd relationship is plausible and even inevitable.