fic-ish

Random unfinished fragment that I don't really intend to so anything else with. I briefly considered starting a filter for these kinds of scratchpad/"sketchbook"/"scrapbook" things, because I know there are some people who don't mind looking at such whereas others avoid anything but fully finished works and won't even touch a chaptered WIP until it's done, but I figure it's better to have it public behind a cut and them that ain't int'rested, they's don' have to click.

So. Severus and Lily genish/unrequited (whatever you want to call it - pretty much like it is in canon), off the terribly original idea of a slightly different take at the portrait hole and then follows a few of Severus's thoughts. ~600 words.

( 'Slipped out?' )

For Enemies (Severus, gen-ish with some smut, hard R)

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PROTIP: If you're going to talk about Muggle electronics and computer technology in next-gen fics set over a decade from now, it may behoove you to remember that Technology Marches On (warning: tvtropes link). I suffered from this particular blind spot in "Heavy Wizardry" - I thought I'd described a fairly fancy PC for Al's friend to have, and then realized it was only at all fancy for current times (and then decided it was too late to fix the error and bah it wasn't the overall point anyway). I don't pretend to know what the video format wave of the future is, but it's at least possible common DVD will have dropped off the radar by then as too small in capacity/fidelity for what most consumers want. (Fic that prompted this is something where it's very much a very minor detail, not even a plot point as it was in Heavy Wizardry; I'm just saying.)