Random question - HP/SS related

[runespoor]

Okay, so it probably doesn't show much, but HP/SS is one of my OTPs (yes, I'm one of these multiple-OTP kind of person. Not only am I picky and intolerant, I am also obsessive-compulsive. Or something.) and I've read, huh, many, many, many fics about that ship. (Not enough, alas, but there are only so many hours in a day.)

So here's my question: where are the HP/SS fics from Snape's PoV? Does that even exist? If it does, can anyone send me a link?

That's almost like why-are-there-so-little-Snape-going-after-Harry-fics. (But I've experimented some first hand, so I know that exist.)

I wonder if it has anything to do with us, HP/SS writers. (I'm counting myself in because I say so. Dinosaur privilege and all that. The fics never got finished, I am well aware of that.) Could it be because we can identify more with Harry when he's lusting-after/looking-up-to/call-it-what-you-want Snape than the reverse? I imagine the question I'm more or less dancing around is: aren't we more attracted by Snape than we are by Harry? And yet it's not true. Every good fic provides good reasons for Snape's feelings for Harry. That's why they're good. (That may also be that I'm an easily contented reader and I like my happy ending just as much as your next fangirl after my angst, but I won't begin second-guessing myself.)

Just lookin' if anyone knows where I could read such fics.

Comments

[luthien.livejournal.com]

Others have mentioned a few of the ones I first thought of, but, off the top of my head, there's also Telanu's 'Coffee' series, and 'Noise', which can all be found on her site (http://www.amplexus.org/~telanu/), and 'Sins of Omission' by Nym, which can usually be found at http://hp.pfen.net (but that archive is down for the moment.) And another of my stories, 'Compulsion' is Snape POV, too.

Could it be because we can identify more with Harry when he's lusting-after/looking-up-to/call-it-what-you-want Snape than the reverse? I imagine the question I'm more or less dancing around is: aren't we more attracted by Snape than we are by Harry?

Speaking just for myself, no, not really, though I've certainly seen this theory put forward before in relation to pairings in other fandoms: the idea that we're less likely to write from the point of view of the character we lust after the most. That could be true for some writers, but not for me, I think because I mostly get interested in psychology and emotions when I write, and those can be explored in different ways through the point of view of either character in a pairing.

My story 'Disarmed' could only have been written from Snape's pov because the whole point of the story is his perception of and reaction to the events of the story, rather than the events themselves. I wrote a follow-up from Harry's point of view mainly to look at that particular relationship through Harry's eyes.

Being in Snape's head is a very different experience from being in Harry's head, and they bring very different things to a story as point of view characters. Snape's vocabulary is a lot more extensive than Harry's, for one thing. I find writing Harry pov more difficult, in some ways, because I have to keep the language simpler. Snape, otoh, often gets really wordy, and it can be very difficult to stop all that internal verbal diarrhoea that he likes to indulge in.

I like being in Harry's head because Snape is my favourite character and I like to explore Snape via Harry's perspective. However, I also like being in Snape's head *because* he's my favourite character, even though writing him drives me up the wall at times. Er, I suppose it's just all about Snape for me. *g*

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

I mostly get interested in psychology and emotions when I write, and those can be explored in different ways through the point of view of either character in a pairing.

I agree with that, which is mostly why I find rather odd that the statistics are so disproportionately in favour of Harry's PoV.

I find writing Harry pov more difficult, in some ways, because I have to keep the language simpler. Snape, otoh, often gets really wordy, and it can be very difficult to stop all that internal verbal diarrhoea that he likes to indulge in.

Oh, WORD. That's something I've noticed in many Harry-goes-dark (or fark grey, at any rate) fics: his vocabulary extends. In fact, in the only HP/SS fic I went halfway through, I did exactly the same thing.

Er, I suppose it's just all about Snape for me.

If that makes us get more fics from you, you won't hear me complaint. ;)