What’s your favorite part of writing The Prison of the Phoenix so far? Any particular quote or phrase? A scene? Some dialogue? Maybe a small minute detail that you liked? Details encouraged 👀✨
Ooh yay! I love that I'm getting an ask about The Prison of the Phoenix. The easy answer to this was always going to be that my favorite part is getting the chance to write with @wisteria-lodge. But that’s hardly unique to this fic and doesn’t feel like it’s really in keeping with the spirit of the question. But I wanted to say it anyway.
My real answer is that there have been a few favorite parts about it.
In a lot of ways, this fic has been a long term dream of mine. I remember reading long Snape POV fics when I was younger and wanting to write something like that someday. At the time, I didn’t have the skills and it seemed like such a far away impossible goal. But now I’m at a point where I can write the kinds of stories I dreamed of.
I really love the way Severus POV lets you talk in narration. It let you phrase things in certain ways that other characters we've written don't. Like calling academic articles he disagrees with “rank absurdities,” or letting me casually drop in words like “hematemesis”.
I also really enjoy every time this man is wrong about something. It’s often a reasonable conclusion or prediction based on what he knows at the time, but we know more about the situation than he does. He’s a very fun man to put into situations.
One fun detail we included was the way that one of the first things Dumbledore does in our fic is call Severus “dear boy”. The same as he calls Harry. We wanted to subtly connect the degree of control he has over the two of them, and their lives. They’re two of the people he has in his collection.