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chipper

Snarry Games rec!
Today, it is grey and damp and cold, and I have a day off work so a bloke could come and fix my washing machine, and I wondered if there would be a good fic in the Snarry Games. A mug of hot chocolate and a nice comforting Snarry, I thought.

Comforting? No. Heart-wrenching, brilliant and compelling, yes. Rook Castling Kingside by WhiteCotton is the latest offering from Team Snitch and boy, is it stunning! An emotional roller-coaster ride, with a clever use of flash-back and subtle twisting of canon, a wonderfully real Lucius with humanity as well as pride, relationships that need only a slight tweak away from canon to sent the story careering along a parallel path towards triumph or tragedy and descriptions to die for....  seemingly throw-away words or lines that resonate long after I finished reading. Clouds, broken doors, Harry asking Snape, in seemingly simple innocence, if Snape was a copy of his own father, since he obviously believed that Harry must be like James, forcing Snape to rethink everything about him.... Snape's relationship with Albus, and the palpitating delicacy of Snape's friendship with Lucius, their communication carried out in hints and the angles of their gaze. This is a DH-compliant classic and I loved it.