Date: 2008-06-01 20:29 Subject: Snarry Games: Team Dragon Fic Security: Public Mots clés snarry games 2008

Title: Learning to Speak
Author: synn
Summary: "Most men spend their lives trying to either brush off the ashes of their youth, or rekindle them. The truth is that the only way to move forward is to accept them. "

I almost don't want to say a word about this story. It's one of those reading experiences that you're loath to talk about--you don't want to spoil a thing for the reader; parts of the story that you love are so totally and intricately woven into the whole, that you don't even know where to begin, because if you do, you'll have to describe everything.

Here's my feeble attempt: it's postwar, and some of the heros are in St Mungo's for an extended period of time to 'recover'. Harry manages to send letters out, certain that this is just a mental exercise, as he's certain no one will ever receive them. But...Snape does.

Their identities are hidden from each other, though. Harry returns to Hogwarts to finish, changed. Snape is teaching. The letter-writing continues. There is a beautiful dance of attraction-repulsion between the two of them, Snape now culpable once again, as he knows the letters are from Harry, but continues to write nonetheless.

Soul-building is what happens in this story, all of it communicated with beautiful language and imagery. I cried. I waited for the 'aha!' moment when Snape would be found out. I worried over Harry's reaction, and whether they'd need each other beyond the 'healing' of the past and the war. They did.

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