Snarry Games Day Two - Perfica and Iulia Linnea
On my way home from work today, Mambo Number 5 came on the radio. Hello, 1999! I love coming home to new Snarry...

Come Out of the West by perfica
Genre: Alternate Reality
Prompts: St. Mungo's, Miles to go Before I Sleep

One of my favorite things about the snarry_games is that I read all sorts of stories that I wouldn't normally be inclined to read. See, even though I know I can expect amazing, high-quality fics whenever I see perfica's name, I wouldn't usually read an alternate reality fic, especially one where there is no magic. And then I would have missed Come Out of the West.

The basic premise of the story is that Harry Potter is an orderly at St. Mungo's Private Hospital, and Severus Snape is the victim of a car accident. Professor Snape is an insomniac, and Harry is working the night shift, so, during the long hours between sunset and sunrise, they strike up an unlikely friendship. It is really fun to watch the relationship unfold without any of the messy background inherent from canon, but, amazingly, perfica manages to keep both Harry and Snape recognizable. Their personalities are spot-on, and the events unfold in very imaginable ways.

Harry and Snape aren't the only characters to show up. Throughout the fic, perfica cleverly inserts other canon characters in picture-perfect cameos. But alternate reality isn't the only feature of the fic. We have a surprisingly effective mix of present moment and flashback narration that keeps readers engaged, piecing the timeline together bit by bit. This also keeps us on the edge, hoping that the happy endings hinted at are actually going to emerge. All in all, I really enjoyed this story, and I am very grateful that the snarry_games provides a venue that encourages me to go out on a limb in my fic reading!


Amidst the Doxies by iulia_linnea
Genre: Postwar and Humor/Crack
Prompt: Career Change

Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. This is an excerpt from Adelaide "Laide" Alderton's (sister, perhaps, of the infamous Archie Alderton from pimp_my_3some?) tell-all autobiography, Doxies Do More than Bite: The Memoirs of this Wizard's World's Most Accomplished Lady of Leisure. It seems that Severus "Mr. Wand" Snape and Harry "Mr. Inspiration" Potter both had occasion to visit Ms. Alderton's establishment, and she, being the exquisite hostess that she is, makes certain to be in the curtains should a need arise that requires her attention.

This entire fic is quite a romp through gossipy memoirs and thinly veiled innuendoes. You'll definitely enjoy it, particularly Rita Skeeter's letter at the end. The only caveat is that the text is riddled with strike-throughs. This makes the fic a bit slow on the reading, but you wouldn't want to miss any of the revisions Ms. Alderton makes!