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Title: It Chooses the Wizard
Rating: PG
Characters: Severus Snape
Word Count: 100
Prompt: #210 New beginnings (xpost to [livejournal.com profile] snape100)

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Shortly after Lily's murder, Severus began to notice an increasing feeling of unease whenever he used his wand, like it was distancing itself from him. Foolish though he felt ascribing speech to a tool, he could almost imagine it saying, "I don't know who you are anymore."

Put like that, it had a point; Severus himself wasn't certain the person who had wielded it until now was the one whose muted reflection gazed back at him from the shop's window.

Severus steeled himself and entered. He would begin again with a wand that had never done a Death Eater's work.

Date: January 2nd, 2008 07:17 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] venturous1.livejournal.com
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yesss. How did he make this journey, into that dark world?

Date: January 2nd, 2008 08:54 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] elethian.livejournal.com
Into it? There's plenty of fic attempting to answer that question, since JKR left it so shadowed. Not a piece of the story I feel competent to tackle yet. ;)

Date: January 2nd, 2008 11:59 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] lunylucy.livejournal.com
I quite like the idea. At first I thought Snape would be more the kind to keep the wand as yet another way of harboring the guilt "secretly" within himself, but that seems to be more Dumbledore's style.

Date: January 3rd, 2008 08:29 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] elethian.livejournal.com
I don't know that he wouldn't keep it, but I don't think he'd purposely make himself ineffectual by trying to use a wand that wasn't working.

In the first draft of this it did include the idea that he wanted to "burn, break, or bury it", but in the end decided to keep it somewhere.

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