Zarinari Writes

Hannah | 28 | Writing Snape the way he deserves Author of Wandless & Real Enough Slow burn | Gothic atmosphere | Emotionally devastating 💚 Asks open | Masterpost pinned

[zarinari]

🔗 All my links: Linktree

A five-book Snape/OC saga spanning Prisoner of Azkaban through Deathly Hallows. An American witch expelled from Ilvermorny. A broken wand. A soul bond neither of them wanted.

📖 Read the whole series on AO3 → Wandless

✨ New here? Start with Crossed Currents.

The arc:

Book 1 · Crossed Currents · Prisoner of Azkaban — posting now

Book 2 · Embers at Midnight · Goblet of Fire — to come

Book 3 · Ashes Between Us · Order of the Phoenix — to come

Book 4 · The Severed Vow · Half-Blood Prince — to come

Book 5 · The Last Bond · Deathly Hallows — to come

(+ a post-war continuation planned)

📖 Crossed Currents — Book 1 · Heather's POV · Teen · ongoing Grief, a broken wand, and a teaching post she isn't sure she deserves—until a classroom accident binds her soul to the one man at Hogwarts she can't stand. 🤍 Enemies to lovers · Accidental soul bond · Shared dreams · Slow burn Links: AO3 | FFN | Wattpad

🪶 Undercurrents — Companion · Snape's POV · Teen · ongoing The same year from the other side of the bond. He expected the American witch to be a problem that solved itself by Christmas. He did not expect the accident that tangled his mind with hers. 🤍 Unreliable narrator · Touch-starved Snape · Mutual pining Best read alongside Crossed Currents. Links: AO3 | FFN | Wattpad

🌙 Thirty-One Nights — One-shot collection · Mature · complete Thirty-one prompts, one insufferable Potions Master, and the professor who won't leave him alone. Standalone moments from the Wandless world—no prior reading required. 🤍 Soul bond · Banter · Grief & vulnerability Links: AO3

🔥 Standard Conception Technique — Standalone · post-canon · Explicit (18+) · complete Years later, in a world where everyone lived: the war's over, the toddler's asleep, and Severus has the dates calculated. Established-marriage conception smut, with feelings. 🤍 Married life · Soft Snape · Smut with feelings Links: AO3

Real Enough — Snape/Reader · second person · Mature · ongoing You think you're falling for an AI chatbot of Severus Snape. He thinks he's falling for a mysterious entity that sends him messages through a magical book. You're both wrong about what the other is. You're both right about the feelings. 🤍 Mutual pining · Text-based · Second person Links: AO3 | Wattpad

💚 Asks open! Talk to me about the fics, the characters, or HP in general. ☕ Enjoying the fic? Buy me a coffee.

📊 Currently working on

Progress key: 0–10% outlining · 20–50% drafting · 60% content pass · 70–80% line editing · 90% beta read · 100% done & posted

In progress — priority

Real Enough — Ch 18 — 0% ░░░░░░░░░░

Wandless: Crossed Currents — Ch 33 — 10% █░░░░░░░░░

In progress — back burner

Original project (unlisted) — 40% ████░░░░░░

Wandless: Undercurrents — Ch 3 — 10% █░░░░░░░░░

Recently completed

Wandless: Crossed Currents — Ch 32 ✓ (June 12)

Real Enough — Ch 17 ✓ (June 5)

General cleanup

Thirty-One Nights — individual chapter tags

Real Enough — add message images on Wattpad

Wandless — update recent chapters on FFN

Wandless: Crossed Currents — fix the boggart haunting the chapters before Ch 30

Real Enough — add to a series page

Spotted something off in any of the fics? Drop a comment and I'll add it to the cleanup list 🙏

[cinnam0nr011]

Wandless by @zarinari

Chapter: 32 mood board

[zarinari]

How you manage to catch the exact mood every single time, I have no idea 🥲❤️

[zarinari]

Hi👋, I hope you're doing well 💙💙💙 I just wanna ask if you're going to continue "Real enough"? Or is there gonna be update chapters soon? I really hope so soon because I can't wait to know what happened and I really like your story it became you of my favorite and thank you for writing it.💙💙💙💙💙

I updated it on AO3 Friday! Though it was kind of last minute and I've had a busy weekend so I haven't quite updated it on Wattpad yet. But I'll be at work in about half an hour so as soon as I get to my computer my plan was to do it then. 🫡

[goth-queen]

[madocasmagic]

Hey there ❤️

If you been following my posts, you know that I've been struggling to keep bills paid and, recently, got another eviction notice. I will have to move once again next week because I ran out of any other options an now I only have a week left to leave.

I set a goal on ko-fi so I can find a place and not be unhoused again. I'm also lowering my prices temporarily until I reach the goal. If you can buy a commission or help me in any way, I promise to deliver my heart in your art. I will draw any OC's and any fandom you want.

Thanks for reading ❤️

Ko-fi.com/itolynart

[zarinari]

I know I say this every time, but I need to fix my note system. It works fine when I was just working on it last night and continuing it today, but it's been over a month since I updated RE, and I pulled up my notes, and I might as well be decoding hieroglyphics because what is any of this? What does this have to do with what just happened? How am I supposed to get from point A to B before I worry about whatever that is?

I need to make a timeline or something.

[zarinari]

My stepdaughter just made it back home today. ❤️

(I know I didn't mention it here but I said on Discord earlier she got sent to short term behavioral care a little over a week ago. 🥲)

[zarinari]

I would like to skip to the end, please.

I woke to the slow awareness that she was already watching me. This was, in itself, irregular. I tended to wake before her—habit and constitution conspiring against any morning during which I might otherwise have slept past dawn. It was not, by my reckoning, past dawn, but the grey light at the edges of the curtains suggested it was not far off either. I had slept longer than I usually did, and I had slept more deeply. She was on her side, propped on one elbow, her gaze fixed on me. Her hair was still loose from sleep, and she had the patient, unhurried expression of a woman who had been content to wait for me to find my way back to the surface. She reached over and cupped my jaw, turning my face towards hers with the certainty she applied to most decisions concerning my person. "Good morning to the most handsome man in the world." She kissed me. It was the slow, lingering kiss of a woman who had nowhere she needed to be, and I, having nowhere I needed to be either, let her take her time about it. I would have let her do a great many things in that moment; I was not, by any reasonable measure, awake. I was somewhat more awake when she pulled back. I studied her for a moment. She was watching me with the expression she wore when she had decided something and was waiting to see whether I would catch up. "I cannot imagine why you bother lying to me. I am not that gullible." "It is not a lie." She slid out from under the covers and swung her legs over the side of the bed. Her mouth had curved—the small, private smile she wore when she had set a trap and was waiting to see whether I would walk into it. "You are the only man I look at, Severus. The competition is rather light." "Charming. So I win only when I am the only contestant." She had begun walking towards the bathroom by now. At that, she stopped, turned, and continued backwards—her eyes on me, her expression the particular kind of triumphant that meant she had been hoping for exactly this. "What—are you complaining you have no competition?" I declined to answer. Instead, I reached for her pillow and threw it at her. It caught her square in the chest. She caught it on the rebound, her hands closing around it on instinct, and the look on her face—the genuine, startled outrage of a woman who had not expected the projectile—was, I confess, not without its rewards. A laugh escaped her before she could stop it. "I cannot believe you just did that." She tossed the pillow back onto the bed beside me and pointed at me—a gesture of considerable conviction. "I am going to get you back for that, Severus Snape." I made a small noise that I judged adequately dismissive, lay back, and closed my eyes. The bathroom door clicked shut. I heard her laughing through it—properly now, the unrestrained version she had been saving for the moment she was alone. Only then did I allow myself to smile.

[zarinari]

Currently revising the last Wandless chapter I posted. I had my husband read over the posted version for me, and he snickered when he read this line, thinking it sounded like an innuendo, and now I'm having a hard time reading it as anything else. 😐

[cinnam0nr011]

“Wandless” by @zarinari

[cinnam0nr011]

“Wandless” by @zarinari

[cinnam0nr011]

This reminded me of Snape for some reason

[cinnam0nr011]

@zarinari the 2nd chapter of undercurrents 💀

[zarinari]

This post was legit the inspiration ✨

[zarinari]

Good morning everyone! I keep getting messages asking for updates, so I figured I'd post publicly rather than trying to explain individually.

My stepdaughter is going through a rough period with her mental health right now. We found out at her therapy appointment this past Wednesday, and her therapist wants us to keep a closer eye on her until her next appointment. So since Wednesday, I've been more than a bit distracted.

For fic: I didn't get the RE chapter out by Friday like I was hoping, and I'm not fully satisfied with the last Wandless chapter either (it reads more formulaic than I usually do, and I'd like to revisit it). For now I'm removing the due dates I put on myself and just following the dopamine wherever it leads until the immediate stressors pass.

(I know some of you are tempted to tell me to put it down completely, but I still have to go to work, and I have one of those jobs where I just monitor constantly, so if I have to stare at my computer screen for 8 hours with nothing to pass the time, it'll likely just make it worse lol.)

Nothing is abandoned, updates will come as soon as I can make them. Thank you guys for continuing to be so supportive. I really appreciate it. ❤️

[zarinari]

I need a little spoiler about this: "Why did me trying to figure out her birthday end up with me sketching out a Deathly Hallows plotline for the past hour? "

🤭🤭🤭🫣🫣

As vague as I can be:

I already had a planned subplot about Heather's blood status in the Deathly Hallows book. So to figure out her birthday, I had to consider when her parents' relationship would be to figure out when she would have been born. It let me flesh out the subplot quite a bit. :)

[zarinari]

Do you have a date for Heather's birthday? If it was in the text, I either missed it or forgot it, and I was wondering what sign she might be 🤔

Why did me trying to figure out her birthday end up with me sketching out a Deathly Hallows plotline for the past hour? lol

February 28th, 1961

[cinnam0nr011]

“Wandless” by @zarinari chapter: 31 mood board

Thoughts

- snape finding any excuse to touch her 😭

- wait are they, working together for once 😧

- okay so Heather was in a neglectful marriage…

- I’m surprised he didn’t ask for more details on what she saw of him. Then again maybe he doesn’t want to know.

[zarinari]

The most civil they've been in 31 chapters 😬

[zarinari]

Of course his first concern is the herbs.

From Wandless - Chapter 31