ravenna_c_tan

My very gradual re-posting of my fic to AO3 continues. Tonight I ported "Halfway" over there. Linky: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1910580

This is a plotty AU I wrote for the HP Summersmut fest in 2008. Original header follows:

Title: Halfway
Recipient: oni_butterfly
Pairing: Harry/Severus, with a touch of Severus/Sirius, sort of (you'll see)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 9760
Warnings: AU, sort of. First time. Some dubious touching. Snark.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.

Summary: When you're amnesiac and in the care of the state, you spend a lot of time trying not to think about why the boy named Harry Potter seems familiar to you...

Author's Notes: oni_butterfly said in her request "Any type of Non-Magical AU would absolutely make my year." She was hoping for Snarry, Severus/Sirius, Snape/Harry/Sirius. I couldn't quite get the three of them together, without Severus going on strike, so I got as close as I could! And I know this isn't what some would consider "AU" strictly speaking, but I hope it pleases you!

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1910580

The reveal has taken place at

snarry_holidays!

As usual, mine was NC-17, with lots of sex, some of the kinky variety... and I have that kind of kink of mine for canon compliancy, too, which comes out sometimes.

This time it's the Sectumsempra scene that gets the inside-out rewrite though...

Title: Hard Lessons
Gift for:

darkladyvamp
Author:

ravenna_c_tan
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 4200
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Disclaimer: Non-commercial fanfic.
Warnings: Consensual BDSM (specifically blindfolds, bondage, flogging, corporal punishment)
Summary: Harry never did master Occlumency, and Severus fears he is the only one who dares teach Harry the truly hard lessons.
A/N: Written for 2008

snarry_holidays.

darkladyvamp said "I don’t mind angst, as long as the ending is happy. As for kinks, BDSM, is my main one. I’m not particular to whether it’s DH compliant, but again, happy ending is all I really need, for our boys. I’d like Severus to be IC as much as possible, Harry as well," and suggested "Severus taking advantage of Harry’s crush on the Half-Blood Prince." A lovely suggestion, my dear, here's the plot bunny that bit me in the arse the instant I saw your request! It's not DH-compliant at all because I'd say after this, book seven would have come out so very different...! Thanks to

clauclauclaudia and

miraba for the beta-reads. Many pieces of dialogue come directly from Half-Book Prince.

(On IJ)
(On LJ)

Reveals are up over at

hp_summersmut!

What's interesting is that I thought I was being way too obvious about what is going on in the story. But none of the commenters seem to have quite got it.

Or perhaps it's that merely thinking of it as an AU leads to a happier ending/interpretation? I'm fine with that. Once stories go out into the world, as far as I'm concerned, they need to stand alone – and authorial intent can be interesting and a nice addition to one's understanding of the story, but it does not replace any reader's personal experience (nor any scholar or critic's interpretation of the work). The author gets to say what they want in the story itself... the interpretations are not in the author's control. (A lesson J. K. Rowling may not have yet learned...)

So please enjoy the story however you like. But if you are curious about what I intended... the most obvious clue I can point you at is that it's not *really* an AU. There is a canon interpretation of what is going on.

Title: Halfway
Author: ravenna_c_tan
Recipient: oni_butterfly
Pairing: Harry/Severus, with a touch of Severus/Sirius, sort of (you'll see)
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 9760
Warnings: AU, sort of. First time. Some dubious touching. Snark.
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters herein are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No copyright infringement is intended.
Summary: When you're amnesiac and in the care of the state, you spend a lot of time trying not to think about why the boy named Harry Potter seems familiar to you...

Author's Notes: oni_butterfly said in her request "Any type of Non-Magical AU would absolutely make my year." She was hoping for Snarry, Severus/Sirius, Snape/Harry/Sirius. I couldn't quite get the three of them together, without Severus going on strike, so I got as close as I could! And I know this isn't what some would consider "AU" strictly speaking, but I hope it pleases you!

on LiveJ: http://community.livejournal.com/hp_summersmut/44126.html
on InsaneJ: http://asylums.insanejournal.com/hp_summersmut/32366.html

Yes, finally, for those who have been wondering if I'm ever going to write fic again, my piece in this year's Snarry smut swap was chosen to end the fest! How fitting that it is called "Closure."

Author: Ravenna C. Tan
Title: Closure
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Rimming and light bondage. Oh, and DH spoilers, okay?
Prompt/Summary: Harry is on the verge of becoming a full-fledged Auror when he learns Severus Snape is not dead. Relevant parts of the prompt are: "Rimming, light bondage, light spanking are great... Snarky (but reluctantly, deep down caring) Snape is Love and Mature Snarky-right-back Harry is even lovelier. First-time, or first time for them."
Author's Note: Jadzia said "I love a first time fic, especially if it's a sarcastic, snarky Severus who is not at all happy to see Potter when he presents himself for whatever reason of your choosing. If that doesn't work for you, pretty much if there's smut, I'm good." So how my smutty plot bunny developed into this plotty monster, I'm not sure.
Hope you love it, my dear! Thanks to the mods who put me on to pinch hit and then were infinitely patient while my work schedule exploded and the story grew and grew. Thanks also to my emergency beta-reader

clauclauclaudia.

Closure

Brilliant Snarry story rec!

Title: The Cinnabar Sling, a story from Not Groom Lake
Author: dingochow (on IJ)
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Let's see: AU. Masturbation. Dirty talk. Wall!sex, library!sex, pickup truck!sex, outdoor!sex. Voyeurism. Very mild bondage. Just rather pervy all around. (Also, some attempts at humor.)
Prompt/Summary: ravenna_c_tan wanted a story with a mature, confident Harry, angst along the road to a happy ending, intensity in the smut, and Snape's POV. She also thinks AUs are fun! (so do I …)

Wheee! The above is all verbatim from the header of the story at this year's Snarry Swap, known by its full name as the Snape Potter Daft Day Snarry Swap and now found on IJ.

I came late into the fest, as a pinch hitter, which explains why this isn't a contradiction from my earlier post about how I was burned out on doing fests and how after "Burning Day" how could I ever really top that writing experience? Well, then I saw the call for pinch hitters and...

But you'll have to wait to see the story I wrote, which isn't posted yet, but will be this week, and which is one of my best Snarries ever, I think.

But this post is about how totally fucking awesome the gift I received is. What's nifty is how really appropriate and fitting the story is for me.

I hate spoilers, so most of what I'll do here is gush. First, the writing style is excellent. It's 3rd person, Snape's POV, and is written with very nice narrative flair (read: snark). It's also an intriguing AU, yet not totally AU--you just have to read it to know what I mean by that. Very nice extensions of magical theory in it, too! Ah, I'm such a geek. The sex is wank-worthy, and ... yeah.

In my comment to the story I wrote I thought it should be considered a Snarry classic. So go find it here:

The Cinnabar Sling

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has marked as possibly inappropriate for anyone under the age of 18. )

All right. Some of you know I'm working on a post-DH H/D, but I took a break today to write a gift fic for a friend. So here is a thousand words of Hallows-compliant Snarry. Yeah, Snarry.

Title: Sleeping Beauty
Author: Ravenna C. Tan
Gift-Fic For: Jadzia7667
Rating: NC-17 of course
Pairing: Snape/Harry
Warning: This story is Deathly Hallows compliant. In fact, it's a bit of a canon rewrite. DH Spoiler, therefore! Oh, and, the consent is rather ambiguous, too.
A/N: There's no proof it didn't happen this way...! Written for

jadzia7667 with love.

( warned for DH spoilers )

Well, the reveal has taken place at the

hds_beltane fest, and d’ fic me wrote is heah:

Title: Secrets
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Harry/Draco, Harry/Snape, Snape/Draco,
Word Count: 4200
Summary: Harry has a secret lover, whose secrets he would love to divine for himself. But there is little time for contemplating the mysteries of live when you are trying to kill the Dark Lord.
Warnings: None.
Beta-read by: My very own Severus

clauclauclaudia.
Request: "I want angst - it can have a happy ending, but try to put the characters through their paces. I prefer some kind of HP/SS/DM relationship. Not necessarily NC-17, but a dynamic at least. Please include a reaction to the events of HBP - How do they deal? How did they end up there? I am also more interested in character driven things, too. Plot isn't as important to me as character."
A/N: I started and threw out two previous stories for this request before this one caught fire! I love this threesome but found I kept going back to writing stories of how they ended up together rather than ones in which they are already in a threeway dynamic. I hope that's all right. In particular what struck me in the request was "a reaction to the events of HBP - How do they deal? How did they end up there?" That was what really sparked the following:

(SECRETS)

All right, I was so busy in January and February that I missed the reveal for the Snape/Potter Daft Day Swap, and only just now went back and answered my comments!

Herewith, the fic, which I do not think anyone would have guessed was me.

Recipient:

lesyeuxverts00
Title: A Proper Holiday
Author: ravenna_c_tan
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Cross-dressing
Prompt/Summary: Things (kinks) you would like included in your gift: cross-dressing. Optional- Include a scenario (plot device) you would like: I love jealous!Snape or jealous!Harry equally ... also, I love the sort of misunderstandings where one of them catches the other cheating and much angst ensues with an eventual hopeful ending (no sunsets and white horses perfection, but hope.) AU perfectly acceptable as I'm still in denial about most of HBP anyway.
Author's Note: Beta:

miraba
Disclaimer: Non-commercial fanfic. Copyrights and trademarks on these characters are held by others.

(Snape, Harry, and a red satin dress)

Title: Hero Worship, Part 25/25
Author: Ravenna C. Tan
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Snape
Word Count: 36,901 total, 1227 this part
Disclaimer: This is non-commercial fanfiction. Trademarked characters are used for non-commercial purposes.
Beta:

miraba,