Just to say...

I've seen a lot of "SPOILERS under the cut..." posts in the past two days, and, whiny as I have been, wanting to remain spoiler-free and selfishly wanting the rest of the world to stay that way along with me, I'm grateful for how careful everyone has been so far to mark the spoilers as such. Thanks, guys. Keep being careful for me, yeah?

More musings on staying spoiler-free.

I know I don't have to write a post on why I don't want spoilers for most books and films and especially HBP--no one's asking me, "But why don't you want spoilers? OMG you're a total skank if you don't want them"--not wanting spoilers is assumed to be the default, y'know. It's not like anyone has to defend their position.

But just so it's said, the reasons I really don't want them is because spoilers are by definition taking the surprises out of context, and it's the context that makes the story work or not work. I trust Rowling. I was all ready to 'ship Harry/Cho halfway through OotP, and was also satisfied to abandon that same 'ship as soon as the two parted ways with a "never-to-be" finality at the end of the book. If you'd told me that the twins would leave school or that Harry would be banned from Quidditch before the book's release, I'd have been screeching, "NOOOO! That effing sucks; the twins should stay in school and get their bloody education and grounding Harry like that is just WRONG." But as the book unfolded, it worked. And when Sirius fell through the veil, my heart was torn right out with Harry's in horror and shock a way it couldn't have if I'd known it was coming. Which was awful but was the intention of Rowling's story.

If you tell me [NOTE: NOT spoilers here, just supposings] that Sirius will never play another part in Harry's life, or that Remus dies, or that Draco will never gain any more significant role than he has to date, or that Ginny is Harry's great love...tell me any of those things right now [please don't] and I'll be all "Oh, bollocks," and on the hateful defensive for the unfolding of each of these things. But show them to me in context and I just may buy them hooklineandsinkerkthanxbai.

And that's what, as Shivering Jemmy said to the Dream King.

FIC: The Hawthorne Detention (Harry/Snape, NC-17, ~2500 words) (PPFF #4 of 8)

Note the warnings on this one, guys. Though I admit I hope at least some people won't be scared by the warnings and will have a look anyway. I rather liked this foray into something I haven't really written before.


Title: The Hawthorne Detention
Author: Amanuensis
Pairing: Harry/Snape
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Snape's lying about the nature of the detention. Not that it matters.
Kinks/Warnings: Non-con water sports. (No urophagia if you're worried.)
A/N: Written for Wave 3 of the pornish_pixies Fantasy Fest request made by jjtaylor -- "Snape forcing Harry to delay urinating (possibly using magic) and delighting in Harry's shame. Harry watching Snape touch hismelf, Snape then bringing Harry to orgasm before allowing him to use the toilet." I did ask JJ if it was all right to take this one beyond bladder-holding and she said okay, so, ya been warned.
Thanks to betas harvest_blue, silentauror, florahart, and fabularasa.

('Do you think,' said Snape, 'that I have all night?')