FIC: "Look Not at the Things" (Minerva/Aberforth; Severus)

This story was my entry in the 2013 hoggywartyxmas fest, one of the best HP fests going. My recipient was dueltastic, who writes some of my very favorite Minerva/Severus fics and who asked for a Minerva/Aberforth/Severus threesome. I started out to write that story, but Minerva simply refused to participate. Still, I think I ended up with a threesome of sorts, anyway -- just a little different from the norm.

I normally write an older Severus, one who is in his mid-thirties, a man who has had time for some seasoning and experience. In this story, though, he's very young, only 22, and I really enjoyed writing him as a bitter, cynical, paranoid, naive, and yet (to me, anyway) oddly sympathetic boy. I still felt like putting him in a full body-bind, though; he's very exasperating. (In an endearing way, as long as I only have to write him and not live with him /g/).

I also enjoyed writing Aberforth. During my first few years in HP fandom, I gave him little thought. But in the last year or so, he's grown on me. This is my third Aberforth story, and while I fear I'm making him a bit too lovable (albeit gruffly so), I'm enjoying his company.

Many, many thanks to the incomparable therealsnape, beta-reader extraordinaire and a fest mod whose price is beyond rubies (or any other precious thing you care to name).

Title: Look Not at the Things
Author: kellychambliss
Pairing/Characters: Minerva McGonagall/Aberforth Dumbledore; Severus Snape
Rating: R
Word Count: ~10,000
Summary: "To see or not to see" -- that is the question facing Severus Snape when he comes to teach at Hogwarts.

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( Look Not at the Things )