this was supposed to be 500 words... man what happened
Pairing: Severus Snape x f!fat!reader
Warnings: 18+, somnophilia, cunnilingus, but with two instances of some light fingering, snape's nose appreciation!!, yes i took pshycic damage while writing the words "sweet nectar", just pussy drunk munch sev
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imagine severus coming back after a death eater meeting riled up and angry. he needs release, he needs to do something to get rid of the stiffness in his shoulders.
and there you are, sleeping so prettily in his bed. the thin sheets just barely covering your almost nude form. you were sprawled over severus' side of the bed, you were sleeping on your side but the top of your body was angled forward so you were faced down into his pillow and your hips were slightly raised.
he couldn't tear his eyes from you, tracing over your body, from the gentle slope of your neck to the soft skin that filled out your stomach and hips. oh, how he loved to grab at your ample hips and thick thighs whenever he was buried inside you. but tonight he needed something else.
severus strode forward while discarding his robes and outer layers of clothes. stripping until he was only in his undershirt and boxers.
once he reached the bed he let a hand ghost over your skin, lightly tracing a finger over your shoulder blade, down your back and only stopping once he reached your panties.
hooking a finger under the edge of the fabric he pulled it with him as his hand continued its journey down your leg. discarding it too once it was off your body.
severus kneeled next to you on the bed and your top leg fell forward a bit at the change in angle, exposing your sweet cunt for him to view. he could feel himself twitch to life in his boxers, but this wasn't about him.
no, he must stay focused. he brings a finger down to your slit, not putting any pressure there but just tracing it over your entrance, gathering the slight wetness that was there.
he uses his other hand to adjust your body, pushing your leg back over so you are lying more on your back now.
you stir slightly at the action but it's not enough to wake you.
severus moves the two of you around enough so he can kneel between your legs, careful not to wake you. he knew it would take a lot to wake you at this point, you had always been a deep sleeper, but he still wanted to be careful.
his fingers find their way back to your core, two of them now stroking over the hood of your clit but parting around it, closing again as they slide over your entrance, gathering the wetness before plunging into you.
the feeling of your pussy now clenching around his fingers made severus groan. he watched as your body writhed at the intrusion and a soft sigh escaped your lips before he slipped his fingers from your body again.
bringing the wet fingers up to his mouth severus pushed them against his tongue. your taste and scent enveloped him. his other hand went to palm at his aching cock before catching himself.
finally, severus placed himself between your cushy thighs, giving your face one last look before diving down. staring out with licking a long stripe from your hole to your clit. flattening his tongue against you.
once again groaning at the taste of you, his tongue lapping where your juices were flowing out of you. the wet muscle was working around your entrance while he was nudging his nose at your clit.
ever since severus and you started dating he hadn't minded his nose as much, you always made sure to show your appreciation for the appendage, whether it was just placing gentle kisses over it or soaking it in your arousal as you rode it to orgasm.
a string of moans was exhaled from above him as he moved up to suck at your clit, letting his tongue circle around the nub before capturing it back into his mouth again.
"wh-what,, sev?" sleep still coated your words making them slur. you were trying to raise your torso to see better but a hand quickly came up between your breasts and pushed you back down.
"ssh, darling, it's okay, just stay there and let me do this." severus mumbled from your thighs, barely lifting his head to do so.
while the hand on your upper body started fondling your tits his other hand went to find one of yours resting on your stomach. he tangled his fingers with yours and gave a quick squeeze as reassurance before returning to eating you out.
his tongue found its way back to your wet hole and switched between plunging it as deep as he could inside you to licking up all of the sweet nectar spilling out of you.
your free hand shot out to bury itself in his hair as the constant assault on your most sensitive part continued rapidly. severus was eating you out like it was his first and final meal.
he could feel you constricting around his tongue and knew you were close now, moving his attention back to your clit sucking on it harshly and grazing his teeth over it.
"ah, ah, oh god! severus!" your voice pitched as your orgasm exploded, the warmth spreading through your entire body. hips bucking on their own volition and your vision was blurry as you tried looking down at severus as he continued the assault on your clit.
your body trashed under him as you came against his mouth, a stream of wetness almost splashed on his chin as he kept sucking on you and slurping up everything you gave him. your thighs had clenched around his head too and severus was in heaven.
when your legs finally fell from his head and your whole body relaxed severus gave you a final couple of licks to make sure he got everything before sitting back on his heels.
the vision greeting you as you opened your eyes again was delicious, severus had never looked better -in your opinion at least-, he looked blissed out, eyes glossy, his hair was a tangled mess and his face was wet with your juices.
"damn, what's gotten into you this evening?" the sentence came out in one breath, still trying to calm down after the intense orgasm.
severus was also trying to catch his breath, "just the meeting, i needed to release some energy and you looked pretty willing lying naked in my bed like that." a smirk played on his face as he wiped his mouth with the back of his hand.
you snorted at his remark, "well, since i'm already awake, mind if i return the favour?" one of your legs raised at his side and seductively stroked the side of his body with it.
sheepishly looking away from your burning gaze severus could feel his face heating up in slight embarrassment. "i, uhm.. that's not needed, my dear. we can just go to sleep."
you looked him over suspiciously before your hand found his, now flaccid, dick and you felt the wet patch at the front of his boxers. "oh. my. god. sev you came just from eating me out?" you were shocked with glee as you threw yourself at him, kissing him all over his face. "that's so hot."
pulling him down with you on the bed again, you both let out a little oomph as you landed harshly on the mattress. you straddle his hips this time with a wicked smile, "think you can do it again?"
his hands grip your plump thighs tightly and you hope they leave bruises, "give me a minute, darling, and i'll do whatever you want."
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When it comes to Snape, what about his characterization and writing worked for you within the canon? And what do you wish was approached differently, is there any aspect that you wish was explored more by r*wling?
Hi, and thank you for asking! Warning, I can already tell I'm in the mood to ramble, so this is going to get long. [Edit: yeah, did it ever. Don't feel obligated to read the whole thing.] And it should be pretty obvious, but I'll say upfront: this is all interpretation on my part. What I get out of the words on the page isn't necessarily what JKR meant by putting them there. And to be rude about it - I've always, from the start, cared more about fandom's embrace of the characters, the analysis and fleshing-out and humanizing, than JKR's writing itself.
However, I loved Snape's characterization in the books! He's all unfiltered bitterness and malice, a walking dispenser of fuming poison whenever Harry's in the vicinity (a wonderfully volcanic starting point for Snarry), brilliant and self-sabotaging, self-hating and absolutely fucking willing to spread that hate around, self-sacrificing and bristling with wounded pride. He's talented (not that the books dwell on his talents; they're mostly tossed out as side-notes to a scene) and incredibly thirsty, in the ambitious sense, and socially at war or out of step with almost everyone he knows. He's a chippy working class kid who both wants to impress and also outstrip those more powerful than he is - to prove to himself that he's not only as good as, he's better than they are. Those ambitions are gutted and destroyed by Lily's death.
At the point we meet him, he's a workaholic and a rageaholic. Anger and guilt are his main fuel, and he burns through them faster and faster, because once Lily dies and Voldemort reappears, what emotional sustenance or self-justification is left? (This is back-reading, of course. We don't know that until later.) And he's clearly an incredibly lonely character. He doesn't make friends. Like, at all. (I don't consider the Malfoys real friends, and I'm not on board with the "Draco's his godson" fanon - Snape's a lower class social climber to people in the Malfoys' position, even if he's got skills and smarts. They'll always see him as inferior.) He's lying to his DE colleagues - plus the DEs seem to be a pit of vipers, competitive to save their own skins. Any friendships there are false, and Snape knows it. He has cordial relations with some fellow professors, but again, not particularly close as far as we can tell. Plus he's quite capable of being a vulgar cunt - not a term that comes naturally to me, but I think some of his behavior would absolutely be seen that way. (I like that about him, to be clear.) His anchor at Hogwarts is Dumbledore, and it reads to me on his part as a combination of wanting to bring Voldemort down, but also seeking approval, submitting as a means of atonement, and - although I think Snape would set the very notion on fire - hunger to feel loved, much the same way a pet lurks around the dining table hoping to snap up a few fallen crumbs. I don't think JKR gave it a second thought, but she wrote Snape with daddy issues. (Poor bloke. If you need any evidence he's incredibly messed up, just look at the two men he turns to for reassurance and rewards - Voldemort and Dumbledore. Doomed from the start. Plus he's not Dumbledore's type, while being a poorer, uglier, unluckier version of DD's own Big Bad Grindelwald mistake.)
I'm being flippant about this, but I do see Snape as a tragic character. I'm just not sure JKR does. He hasn't much control over what happens to him as a kid, and later he cedes his choices to charismatic leaders who, even though one is evil and one's good, both see him as disposable. Again, I'm not sure JKR intends it that way. But the two three! most independent, self-determined actions he takes are meeting Dumbledore on that hillside to beg for Lily's life, to inform on Voldemort, to accept the risk that Dumbledore might kill him or throw him to the Aurors; and the "If you are prepared" scene in which Dumbledore asks him to return to the DEs as a spy. That's the last point, narratively speaking, at which Snape could have refused. He could have said no. It's an attempt at conscious redemption, and I appreciate the author singling it out. Snape knows, even if we the first-time readers don't, that he'll spend the rest of his life walking within the shadow of death. And not an easy death, either.
The one I almost forgot, that set all this in motion: ickle Severus mustering the social courage to spring his awkward, tongue-tied, hand-me-down self on Lily at the swings.
Also, I have to say - because I see the whole 'incel Snape' discourse cropping up again - that Snape's guilt is honorable. It's good that he struggles to atone, that he's driven by grief to face the worst of himself. Is he spectacular at it? Of course not. Look at how life has treated him. How the fuck would he know? He's got the moral instincts of a cat scrounging an existence out of a a rubbish tip. Is he loving and forgiving? Pfffft. JKR is exactly right to keep him malicious and unfair. That's who he is. He's not a wonderful human being; he's fucking damaged. It also turns him and his motives into one of the ongoing mysteries of the series. Similarly, it's good that he waits outside the Gryffindor portrait entrance to beg Lily to forgive him. What, should he just shrug and say "No big loss" after he destroys their friendship? To me, it's a sign that he does love her, even if his love is compromised by horrific ignorance. He botches the apology, of course he does, because he's an emotionally screwed up, dangerously bigoted kid who doesn't understand that being awarded the status of 'exception' isn't a compliment. Lily isn't going to feel all warm and fuzzy that he hates all Muggles and Muggleborns except for her. But giving up on their friendship without even an arse-faced attempt to apologize would have been worse, and I'm surprised people see it as harassment. He went away after that. Forever. I think JKR played that breakup exactly right, too. (And I'm team Don't-Blame-Lily, for the record.)
So, Snape's bigotry. The Prince's Tale - (oh, in case it's not obvious, I love Snape's backstory. I love it so much more than Pureblood Snape of Snape Manor.) Anyway, the Prince's Tale makes it clear that by the time he met Lily, young Severus already had a filthy grudge against Muggles. So where did that come from? Eileen, who seems to have convinced him, a mill worker's half-blood son, that Slytherin would be his ticket out of poverty? Tobias, who's been a figure of strife and likely violence since Severus was five? It's easy to imagine, although there's no mention in the books, that growing up, Severus was bullied and ostracized by the neighborhood kids. Weedy, ugly, inescapably weird and dirt-poor, with a somewhat inarticulate belief in his own specialness, he'd be a natural target, and any outbursts of accidental magic would just confirm he was a bad kid to be around. That would certainly reinforce the seeds of his belief that Muggles were the enemy.
This bigotry and self-absorption are his deepest flaws, and their consequences open the door to his ugliest mistakes and his redemption arc. If he'd never done anything horrifying, he wouldn't need redeeming, after all. JKR understood this, although I do think she was a bit clumsy about it. But then, Snape is a secondary character in Harry's story.
As for what things I wish were different or given greater depth? I'll never shake my dislike for the Lily reveal. It's so trite. I'm used to it now, but it was such a disappointment. A lost, unrequited love as the driving force behind his defection is less interesting to me than Snape, in all his rancid, sharp-tongued glory, changing sides (though not personality) for his own reasons, his own rejection of what Voldemort stands for. But the series isn't about Snape, so the answer to his mystery has to resonate with Harry's. And for me at least, Snape's shit fit about wanting an Order of Merlin for cornering Sirius strikes a weird note. It was fine at the time, but once we know the whole story, it rings false. Snape still believes (because he was unconscious during the Pettigrew revelation) that Sirius is the one who betrayed the Potters, i.e. set up Lily's death. So, yes, he might be shrieking, but it wouldn't be about Ministry recognition. It would more likely be an unhinged rant about how he should have killed Sirius when he had the chance. I think JKR just wanted Snape to have a performative meltdown that contained a red herring about his hatred of Sirius.
And then there's the dreaded Epilogue. Ah, just get rid of it. I can work with it in my own fics, but as an end to the HP series, I would have preferred a scene of the survivors rebuilding Hogwarts and one of Harry visiting Snape's grave and then ending with him at his parents' grave, telling them it's over. (Although of course Snape's death is something I prefer to overwrite in fandom.)
Everything I'd like to see explored wouldn't fit into a Harry-centric story. But I love reading fic about Severus' upbringing as a half-magic child in an area of industrial slums, with parents who are constantly fighting. What his encounters with other children were like. How he boosted his self-respect after the various humiliations at Hogwarts by doubling down on his belief that magic would empower him. How a physically and emotionally undernourished bookworm hardened himself to violence in the Muggle world and then again in the wizarding world, where he he'd hoped so hard to belong. To see what it was really like to be a Death Eater, how they operated, how Snape compromised, chipping away at his own soul. I also love seeing him experimenting with potions and crafting spells - the details of that. His first years as a professor, which can't have been all that welcoming. He was still a graceless, resentful working class lad, after all - and a pariah. A former DE. At a dead end in his own life, and grieving. Similarly, I love reading about the last year of his life, as Hogwarts' most hated headmaster. What was that like for him, playing the monster? Dealing with the aftermath of killing Dumbledore? I'm here for all the crucial moments in Snape's life that happen more or less offscreen.
Would I want JKR to write them? No. For one thing, I'll never read another word that woman writes. I'll stick to the stories fandom has to tell, even if it's rare to find a focus on certain aspects of Snape's character. Writing complex scenes about Snape brewing and applying his intelligence to his craft are harder than writing sex scenes, in my experience.
Okay, I've talked your ear off, and I'm not sure I even answered your question, since I kept going off on interpretive tangents. I hope this sort of resembles what you were asking for? And thank you for opening the floodgates and reminding me how much fun it is to natter on about Snape!
Why is a Potions NEWT a requirement for would-be Aurors?
It doesn’t seem like a wizard cop would use Potions much in day-to-day work. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a Potions lab and take any needs to an expert?
My new headcanon: someone in the Auror department decided that surviving Snape for seven years (and getting an Outstanding on your Potions OWL) showed soft skills an Auror needs, like tenacity, the ability to take orders, and a thick skin.
Severus Snape is one of the first weed-outs for the Auror program.
