REC: Night-blooming Heartsease by Julad

Soon you will have seen this rec everywhere, and you'll just HAVE to go read it.

Night-blooming Heartsease by julad--Novella length Snape/Neville which takes place as a prequel to resonant8's Transfigurations--and if you've read Transfigurations, you may recall some information about those characters, in that ficverse. Julad's story contains a quote from Transfigurations at the beginning, so that there should be no mistaking it.

Snape/Neville may be no rarepair, but it's not a pairing I read often, not without significant recommendation and a quick hook into the story--and oh, how quickly I was hooked. Neville is so Neville in this story, so fumbling and immature and it's such a unique narrator voice that I couldn't help reading on and on, so very terrified for the boy was I. Snape is divinely Snape. And the story is so rich, being a war story and a story of magical invention, rich in detail and plot and never sacrificing either in the name of trying to be a tale of romance as well. The author's wish to get things just right in this story is so perfectly carried/mirrored in Neville's narrative voice. My heart is aching and will be for days.

Drabble Night, July 16, 2004

The theme for the night was the five (or six) senses. The drabbles had to include at least one of those. I did three drabbles, and they were all Harry-pairings, and the word count just exploded on me once I hit the second. But it felt worth it for the third one.

( Three drabbles. Harry/Remus, Harry/Twins, Harry/Snape. )