Oh yes! The silver-tongued bastid is having that effect on you too! (He'd probably be delighted.)

So many people write Lucius as a cartoony caricature of evil that I thought it would be fun to write him as a sort of devastatingly charming Mafia don instead...And we'll get quite a bit of Emily/Lucius in Part II, not to worry!

Oh, don't worry - Emily being Emily, she's doing her absolute best to avoid men during her oestrus. (Would you believe this state was suggested to me by Titania's amorous scenes with Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream?)

But yes, most of the reaction I've gotten to this scene has been along the lines of "Poor Snape! Sure, he's a crusty bastid, but it's not really fair to &%#@ with his poor head like that...!!!"

Oh, you Googled and found That Other Archive? I do apologize for all the difficulty you no doubt had trying to read the chapters in order

BUT, soon it will all be up here, in beautiful HBP-compliant, chronological order! Wheee!

I'm also thinking that by the time it's all up here, I'll have some new material written, as well. Thanks for sticking with it!

well, I heard you say something about having that sort of trouble, but honestly, sycophant hex has been working quite well, and your story is in perfect order.. ?? I haven't had a single problem with it?... now occlumency is another story, it's just plain not working for much of anything. :)

It's in perfect order for you?  Hmmm, on my end the transition between Part I, the Part II Prologue, and Part II is all out of order now, and in the Part III Prologue, Snape is eleven before he's nine.

I'm planning on keeping my shorter stuff there, but as far as my Really Long F*cker, I like the idea of keeping it at an archive that doesn't have a 12K word limit, and allows me to move chapters up and down on my end.  I'm really missing that feature right about now.   

I'll admit it - I absolutely love writing from Snape's POV. I know this chapter doesn't really advance the narrative too much, but I wanted the reader to know what he was feeling, as he's very much of a cipher to Emily during Part I, and as such, to the reader as well. (One small spoiler: I do a LOT of Snape POV in Parts II and III of this fic, not as a first-person journal entry like it is here, but in third-person limited-omniscent voice.)

I thought it would be very like him to write a long, detailed entry... linger over it for weeks... and then burn the whole thing in a fit of pique once his hopes appear to be really dashed. Whether his hopes really are dashed though... all I can say is Stay Tuned!

I have a confession to make. I, like Phedre, am an impatient bugger and went searching for the missing chapters elsewhere. Well, actually, I got the idea from Phedre, and then went searching elsewhere, but you get the picture. Am up to part II and am now totally hooked - line and sinker etc. Have given up on reading my normal novel in place of this EPIC tale. If I go blind from staring at the computer screen, I will completely blame you and your brilliant writing skills. But, rest assured, I like Phedre, will also be re-reading the HBP compliant version as it is posted here, simply because it is good enough for a re-read.  

Thank you!  Seeing as how I recently became a validated author here at TPP, I'll be able to put up my Part III chapters in their full-length glory, rather than chopping them up into Part 1, Part Continued, and sometimes Part Concluded like I gotta do at Occlumency.Personally, I consider the definitive version of this fic to be here at TPP.  Thanks for sticking with it!

HAH! You know what's funny, is that there are real Emily Swains out there. I wonder if any of them have ever read this fic?!

But yes, seeing as how she only gave him one letter of her name on their first meeting, he wanted to show her how little he recalled by spelling her name with ANY letter other than a Y - "Emilie," "Emilee," etc. Just an elaborate gesture of "See how unmemorable you are?" which would probably backfire furiously if he'd ever done it, but you know how men are... !!!

oh yes, they just gotta stick it to us when it doesn't go their way.... lol.

Yeah, I've always suspected that a man who could come up with a line like "Weasley's wand causes devastation with the simplest spell - you'll need to send Potter to hospital wing in a matchbox," had more of a sense of humor than anyone realized. Therefore I had to create an OC who appreciates sarcastic black humor, dontchano.

And yes, while I saw Snape has having LOTS of innermost thoughts - highly intelligent, lonely, vulnerable, blackly humorous, and really snarky innermost thoughts - he also struck me as the kind of man who'd be embarrassed to the core for anyone else to realize he has innermost thoughts, hence the parchment on the fire.

Anyway, glad you enjoyed it! I hope you'll like some of his other one-liners in chapters to come.

Thank you! Yes, when I created Emily, I decided not to make her TOO wildly quirky or opaque; I wanted her actions to be very understandable no matter how odd her behavior, because I wanted the reader to identify with her and have some room to BE her.

Though in thinking "I want to disappear, I want to just go away so these people will stop judging me" you've hit exactly on the Faery dilemma amongst humans. Imagine being able to just disappear and step outside of stressful situations at will... especially when you think of the people stressing you out as outsiders, people NOT like you... that's exactly the heart of the matter.

Can't wait till you see what's coming up next!

*evil laugh*  I can't WAIT till you see the next few chapters!

Thanks, sweetie!  I've been doing some revisions to it, so it might be in a different format than you're used to at That Other Archive.

I've decided to start archiving elsewhere because the other place I was keeping KEC transferred my chapters out of order, and hasn't bothered to FIX them, even though it's been months since I brought it to their attention *grrrrrrrrrrr*  I'd like it to be up SOMEWHERE where it isn't all FUBAR.

Glad to hear you're enjoying the re-read!  I think by the time it's all up, I'll have some new material as well! 

Thank you! Yes, I'm a European folklore geek of decades' standing, so it's been LOTS of fun to throw all of it into this story! I agree that the other two Houses get so little by way of description that it's been a lot of fun to affiliate Emily with Ravenclaw (you'll find out later that her father was a prominent Ravenclaw, though Em herself didn't go to Hogwarts.)

And, as this is very much of a fish-out-of-water tale, Em had no way of knowing exactly how she affected poor Professor Snape when she impulsively asked him out to tea, or what sort of stresses he might be under at the moment. And naturally poor Severus doesn't think he can trust anybody...

Anyway, I've got another two chapters in the queue, and I can't wait to see what everyone thinks of them!

She's a light strawberry blonde (I imagine her as having the same color hair my little sister had when she was a baby.) Also, Harry saw her with drenched hair and from halfway across the Great Hall, and Snape was looking at her with slightly damp hair, from about two steps away (and closer), so he was in a position to notice details and subtleties of her appearance, whereas Harry just saw "light blonde." You probably know someone whose eyes are really green or gray, when you thought they were blue (read: light) until you took a closer look and noticed the details - it's something like that.

Squeeeeeeeeee!  I love it when people tell me, "I usually HATE OCs, but I liked this one."  The truth is, while people often expect me to be a champion of the SS/OFC genre, I also usually hate SS/OC fics with a passion; they seem populated by thin, insipid, snivelling creatures with no inner lives who are only brought onstage to shag Snape, and usually get unexpectedly pregnant five minutes into it.  The only SS/OC fic I've really liked so far has been Sigune's As She Likes It.  However, I'm not a fan of the SS/HG 'ship either, because, durnit, HP canon says she ends up with Ron.  (Why, I dunno, but it's not like JKR is forcing me to play in her universe... *sigh*)  And quite frankly, I think Professor Snape would eat a much younger and less experienced woman for breakfast.KEC came about because I wanted to read an adult fantasy novel with politics, intrigue, and sex set in JKR's universe, and it just went from there.  Thanks for stepping outside your 'ship & giving it a try!

well, I have to agree to disagree with your opinion that Miss Granger could not hold her own, wits, temper and all, against the likes of Snape. (To me they're as electric as Maddie & David, Elizabeth & Darcy, Jane & Rochester, etc. etc. imho.) But anyways, is your story all planned out, or is it a WIP? I love long, involved, well-written fanfics. *slurp* I'm in for the long read with your KEC.

As for canon, I will NEVER sit docilely with JKR's seeming assertion that Hermione's destiny is to be a Quidditch Weasley mom. It just points that way, but it doesn't have to BE so. I guess we'll have to wait for "HP and the Deathly Hallows" to know. IN canon, I'd much rather see her paired with Viktor or just halfheartedly puppylove "date" Ronniekins and her other possibilities but ultimately decide to stay platonic before she leaves Hogwarts. I think she'd be much too busy w/any combination of senior year studies, or Horcrux-hunting, and worrying about the safety of her parents (book 7) to play tonsil-hockey with any of the callow, pimply boy-hormones that surround her. I guess I see her as interested in older men, whether that means Snape or not. (I don't ever want to see her romantically paired with Harry *squick* cos I see them as Luke and Leia.)

cheers,

Diane

Harry and Hermione as Luke and Leia...oh yeah. I can see that and then some.

That said, I may not completely agree, but I know better than to step on a SS/HG 'shipper's toes! (Although I can see Hermione with Viktor more easily than I can see her with her canon love, Ron. (At least Viktor appreciated the fact that she was a bookworm!) )

And to think, it never quite occurred to them as to the similarity of their timetables, either... must have been some really good tea to distract them so much...

Just wait till you see Chs. 1 and 2, in the queue right now!  (The Lexicon and Prologue really pale by comparison.)  I hope you'll stick with it!)

Thank you! Yes, I was going for extreme sexiness to the point of raunchy, but with a sense of white-hot purity to it, somehow. Like a couple who are incredibly hot for each other, yet deeply and devotedly in love at the same time. (Some of the descriptions of emotions here came from my feelings about my husband during our honeymoon -- !!!) But yes, there will be more Sev and Emily gettin' it on in bed as their "honeymoon" continues, but also some very tender and intimate moments of the two of them getting to know each other in these precious moments alone.

Thank you! Yes, I was going for extreme sexiness to the point of raunchy, but with a sense of white-hot purity to it, somehow. Like a couple who are incredibly hot for each other, yet deeply and devotedly in love at the same time. (Some of the descriptions of emotions here came from my feelings about my husband during our honeymoon -- !!!) But yes, there will be more Sev and Emily gettin' it on in bed as their "honeymoon" continues, but also some very tender and intimate moments of the two of them getting to know each other in these precious moments alone.

Thanks!  Yes, one of the reasons I always sympathized so much with Snape is that he gets bullied by everyone, and none of his antagonists ever really gets a proper comeuppance.  I've never liked James Potter or Sirius Black, but both of them end up being elevated to sainthood by their deaths.  Nonetheless, of the three, Snape has always been my favorite, not the least of which because he's always had to go it alone.  And more is on its way!