Snarry Games Day Three - Amanuensis and Jin-Fenghuang
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Um... do I really need to write anything else? I thought not.
But, in the interest of fairness, this is a wonderfully humorous (almost cracktastic) fic. Snape is dead, but that's ok because he's a portrait. Now only if Harry could get Snape to stay in one place long enough to issue his apology. Harry tracks down a myriad of ways to get to Snape, and we get to hang out in portraits, chocolate frog cards, and others I'm sure I didn't catch. (I was waiting for the porn!)
This fic is short, funny, sweet, and very hot. Fun!
I just want to start out by saying that I really loved the use of the prompts in this one. Very clever. Fridays at Half Seven features a mildly depressed Harry: Voldemort's dead, Ginny's engaged to Dean Thomas, Ron and Hermione are wrapped up in their own relationship, and the press is hounding Harry just like it always has. All Harry wants to do is be "normal" for an hour.
Enter Polyjuice - you can be anyone you want for an evening, with the ingestion of a single, foul-tasting potion. And Harry turns himself into... well, I won't spoil it completely, but I will tell you that it's a woman. As he bar hops in Muggle London, he finds a kindred spirit to talk to. The ensuing relationship is such as clever readers read between the lines of every dialogue.
I really enjoyed this fic, despite the threat of het. *g* jin_fenghuang's Harry is particularly compelling; I love her take on Harry in a post-Voldemort world. The ending was particularly fantastic, nicely ambiguous, perfectly Snape.