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I'm doing something unusual for me today: reccing a non-Snupin HP fic! But it's a wonderful, poignant fic that's only received a couple of feedback comments, and I think that people are being scared off by the pairing (Slughorn/Lily), so I wanted to try and promote it a bit. This was originally posted on hp_unfaithful, an IJ asylum for--you guessed it--infidelity fics. (An hp_unfaithful community also exists on LJ.)

Title: Something Old, Something New (or here on LJ, if you prefer)
Author: purplefluffycat
Established Pairing: Lily Evans/James Potter
Infidelity Pairing: Lily Evans/Horace Slughorn
Rating: PG-13
Words: About 1200
Summary: "You liked her, didn't you?" said Harry Potter to Horace Slughorn, "Lily Evans was one of your favourites."

I think potential readers are being squicked by the pairing, and to be honest, I almost skipped it myself, because I was imagining something icky--Slughorn having molested or taken advantage of Lily when she was a student, for example. But there's no explicit sex (note the rating), and it's not a creepy sort of story. Slughorn and Lily genuinely loved each other (although it goes without saying that I wouldn't approve of a teacher/student relationship in real life), and it's a very sweet and poignant story.

The Snupin section of my website is now up to date, thanks to my wonderful webmistress Maxine! All 26 chapters of Scars are now up, and I'm working on writing the next one. Deathly Hallows and this whole LJ controversy kind of distracted me, so I hadn't gotten much writing done in the last few weeks, but the story seems to be flowing nicely now. The Petshop of Horrors section should also be updated within the next week or so.

Oh, and I also got everything in the Always series up on Moonshadow except for Scars, since the policy is to only upload completed works. But when it's done, I'll archive it there.

Actually, I did get quite a bit of writing done now that I think about it. Whenever I got stuck on Scars, I did some work making notes and outlines for that post-Book 7 Snape/OMC plot bunny I had. I even wrote a rough draft of about 10 pages for the opening chapter. And since it's mostly set in Japan, where the tengu have a sort of pseudo-samurai type society, I had a lot of fun doing some research on Japanese history and literature. And lots more fun watching samurai tv dramas for more "research". ^_^ I'm just having so much fun doing this regardless of whether anyone ever reads it or not. As I mentioned before, I normally hate seeing Snape and Lupin in other pairings, but it's strangely liberating to work on something different from what I usually write. It sort of helps to think of them as completely different characters from the Always series Snape and Lupin, although there are similarities--closer to the angsty Snupin in the first story, only they never really manage to get over the past. I decided that the problem wasn't so much adultery (although there will be the complication of Lupin/Tonks), but more distrust and miscommunication. And I'm toying with the idea of throwing in a bit of Lupin/Draco--which I always thought of as a very strange pairing, but the idea has been gradually growing on me since HBP and the introduction of Greyback. I really like the idea of Draco being turned into a werewolf, and needing to rely on Lupin for support.

But I will definitely finish Scars first! I was sort of stuck on how to handle the scene where Ash gets kidnapped, but something just clicked, and now it's going smoothly. Hoping to have another chapter done soon.