Ask me what happens after the end of one of my stories. (Or, as resonant8 suggests, tell me what you think. In short, TALK ABOUT MY STUFF, DAMMIT! [g])
well, i imagine it takes snape a little while longer to be absolutely confident that harry isn't going to punish him in some way for having once had a relationship with bill. it surprises him, at hermione's wedding, to realize that while he still does love bill, in some place in his heart, it's a place that's kind of been folded up and put away; and he's with harry now and he really does love him, more every day and other cliches, so he very much doesn't want to do anything to mess that up. (such as having been happy before, which is probably something a therapist would be interested to talk to him about.)
harry, now, he quite simply loves snape. that's the prime directive, really, if i understand 'prime directive' correctly. so when things come along that snape thinks are dangers, to harry they're sort of anything but. put another way: snape's tendency is to think of them separately, struggling against all these challenges to their desire to stay together. they're facing each other and the Bad Things are flying between them, and they have to hang on through all this roughness. whereas harry thinks of them together, back to back, say, so when the wind whips up it shoves them closer together rather than further apart. to snape, things happen 'to me'; to harry, things happen 'to us'. (and other things just as trite.) but snape is coming around. especially when harry learns about snape's role in the taking of robert weasley, and doesn't turn away, but reacts more as if snape were a victim than a perpetrator, snape realizes there's something here he can rely on.
like, is that what you mean?
and then some time within the next year, ron and chiara get married and harry is the best man and remus is at the wedding with bill and snape manages to feel better about that than he did at hermione's wedding, because by now he's in that healthier place. it's possible he even smiles. :-)
I love that about Snape seeing them separate and Harry seeing them back to back. That's something I know about marriage, actually: the real danger times are the times when you stop seeing the two of you as being on the same side.
i suppose harry could get fed up with snape's certainty that something will split them up -- but the thing is, harry has no such fear, because his love for snape is true and good; and snape's love for harry is true, as well, only he's scared. and he's not scared harry will leave him, is the other thing -- he trusts harry completely, but he doesn't trust himself.
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do you mean what happens after that?
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harry and snape, post-Best Man. hmm.
well, i imagine it takes snape a little while longer to be absolutely confident that harry isn't going to punish him in some way for having once had a relationship with bill. it surprises him, at hermione's wedding, to realize that while he still does love bill, in some place in his heart, it's a place that's kind of been folded up and put away; and he's with harry now and he really does love him, more every day and other cliches, so he very much doesn't want to do anything to mess that up. (such as having been happy before, which is probably something a therapist would be interested to talk to him about.)
harry, now, he quite simply loves snape. that's the prime directive, really, if i understand 'prime directive' correctly. so when things come along that snape thinks are dangers, to harry they're sort of anything but. put another way: snape's tendency is to think of them separately, struggling against all these challenges to their desire to stay together. they're facing each other and the Bad Things are flying between them, and they have to hang on through all this roughness. whereas harry thinks of them together, back to back, say, so when the wind whips up it shoves them closer together rather than further apart. to snape, things happen 'to me'; to harry, things happen 'to us'. (and other things just as trite.) but snape is coming around. especially when harry learns about snape's role in the taking of robert weasley, and doesn't turn away, but reacts more as if snape were a victim than a perpetrator, snape realizes there's something here he can rely on.
like, is that what you mean?
and then some time within the next year, ron and chiara get married and harry is the best man and remus is at the wedding with bill and snape manages to feel better about that than he did at hermione's wedding, because by now he's in that healthier place. it's possible he even smiles. :-)
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I love that about Snape seeing them separate and Harry seeing them back to back. That's something I know about marriage, actually: the real danger times are the times when you stop seeing the two of you as being on the same side.
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at the moment. but he'll get there. bless. :-)