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It's funny - I used to be really annoyed with the whole Snape-and-Lily thing. I still feel that the whole 'ugly, unpopular boy loses pretty, popular girl to handsome, popular boy who is of course his arch enemy' plot is a big old cliché. But I think that, x years later, I get the dynamic between Severus and Lily better. I don't think Lily was the friend that Severus thought her to be, and I don't buy JKR's comment that 'she could have been interested in him romantically if he hadn't been into Dark Arts'. I think Lily and Severus got on like a house on fire *before Hogwarts*. They clung to each other because they were the only magical children around. For Severus, Lily remains 'the One and Only', but Lily's focus is much less narrow.

That said, I'm having fun imagining them together as children, also because I think Lily must have seen a Severus that nobody else ever saw.



(This is from the notebook I keep for the Snapefic of Doom.)

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Here is is: my first post-DH fic... It is as canon-compliant as I could get it. I may have admitted to Snily (it's hard to get around these days), but at least I have made Brynhild fit in :-).

Title: Tidemark
Author: sigune
Beta: todayiamadaisy
Wizard/Witch: Severus Snape/Lily Evans; Severus Snape/Brynhild Bromley (OFC)
Rating/Warnings: G/PG
Genre: Romance/Drama
Word count: Exactly 750
Prompt: #6, marriage proposal
Summary: She’s a whisper in water, a secret for him to hear. He’s the one who grows distant, when she beckons him near.



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The challenge requirements - because the writing was prompted by romancingwizard's seventeenth challenge - were a pain at times, but in other ways they helped me. The word limit, especially, forced me to keep to the point and to streamline the story.

In view of the developments we got in DH, I had to do something about the fact that I'd never really drawn a proper portrait of Lily Evans. She did appear on page 3 of Vengeance is Bitter, and I drew her as a little girl in Notions, but something more was needed :-). I really don't like her, but a character dear to me does, so...



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BTW, if you have an IJ and want to friend me there, you can find me as Sigune at Knave of Spades. I cross-post my fandom entries there, though not my HP-unrelated entries.

Because my Inner Eye was very clouded when I filled out magnetic_pole's pre-DH poll, I had to atone by making gift art based on a prompt by someone who had greater insight into JKR's mind, and post it at dh_predictions :P. The recipient is aleoninc, whose art I ♥ ...

Title: "Notions"
Artist: sigune
Recipient: aleoninc
Prompt: Snape/Lily, doesn't matter if it's requited or not... doesn't even have to be particularly shippy.
Warnings or notes: Thoroughly G. Staedtler pen, watercolour pencils and watercolour paint. Inspired by an education at a Muggle all-girls primary school :-).

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