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

Snape POV

[djin7.livejournal.com]

aren't we more attracted by Snape than we are by Harry?

I think that Harry IS the real reason we all read HP, no?
Putting our much maligned hero together with Snape just adds all that much more angst. What I mean to say is, if we weren't all closet 'romantic knight-in-shining-armour, but only after losing all that is dear' types, we wouldn't even be involved in HP. Snape is an afterthought, and a malleable one at that. As he is so one dimensional in canon, we can play with him all we want. *Your Snape* can be anything you want him to be. Sarcastic, snarky, intelligent, vicious, powerful, sex god, secret heart of gold, name your poison. That much freedom can be intimidating, and so the 'safer' route is to write Harry's POV, as it has already been established in canon. We all *know* how Harry thinks, and you can just build on it.
Personally, I prefer Snape's POV, everyone writes him slightly differently in Snarry.
There are alot of Snape, or both Snape/Harry POV's out there.
Enjoy them, I sure have!
Cheers!
DJIN7

Re: Snape POV

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

I think that Harry IS the real reason we all read HP, no?

It isn't, or at least, it isn't for me. As far as I'm concerned, HP is about so much more than Harry; I'd even go so far as to say that I'm in the fandom to see things that aren't Harry (or, in the case of HP/SS, to see things that will not happen in HP.) Which doesn't make much sense, but there you go...

I don't see Canon!Snape as one-dimensional; to me, he's one of the less one-dimensional characters of the books. (the others being, at least, Remus and Dumbledore - that last because there's only so much authorial intent I can take before making up my own opinion.)

so the 'safer' route is to write Harry's POV, as it has already been established in canon.

I see what you mean, but I'm of the mind that any Harry in any HP/SS is necessarily somehow OOC. (No, don't scream.) What I mean is, his attraction to Snape is generally explained away as 'at first I thought it was just hatred, and then I realised that my obsession was bound to be partly something else, especially since I started responding physically to your voice', which I can absolutely accept and believe, but I can't read canon with that in mind. Which says a lot more about me than about HP/SS fics, in fact.

Oh, well. Thanks for dropping in!

Re: Snape POV

[djin7.livejournal.com]

What I was trying to say earlier was that originally we all picked up the books for some reason. As a fan of the occult and sci-fi fantasy, it appealed on that level. But almost all sci-fi/fantasy has a clear hero and his/her trials to achieve their destiny/happiness. I'm just saying there's a pattern there.
The books are all written from Harry's POV, which is that of a young person, therefore one dimensional in my opinion. Harry can only speculate about Snape, but is too busy hating him to care what Snape does/feels/is. That doesn't mean that JKR can't make him interesting, it just means there is a lot about Snape we don't know, because Harry does not care to know, hence the incredible fanon descriptions of him. You can make him anything you like.

Personally, I want Snape to be exactly like a half dozen fandom characterizations written out there. Telanu, Cybele, Sushi, IGTOW, Dementordelta, Shadowphoenix, I could go on and on. I want to know their *Severus'*.

Thanks for having me!
Cheers!
DJIN7

Re: Snape POV

[runespoor7.livejournal.com]

Okay, I think I get what you mean about Snape. (And may I say how much I agree with you on fandom characterisations?)

About why we went to read HP: I can't speak for everyone, but I know I wanted to know what the fuss was all about, what with PoA getting published an' all. I liked PS; then I read CoS and PoA and something must have clinched because I haven't left the fandom ever since. At the time, it had rather less to do with Harry and more with scenes that played directly behind my eyelids and tickled all my kinks, such as the final confrontations between Harry and Riddle, Sirius yelling at Pettigrew and Lupin getting ready for murder... Well, drama really.