Author: Acid, Sinick
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Snape/Harry
Warning: R, slash, character death (Harry, Snape), post-war, school
Length: Novel
Status: Completed
Haunted by the ghost of a former student, an ex-wizard struggles to preserve magical knowledge for future generations.
When Harry Potter died, twin wands' explosion wiped Europe clean of magic. Enchantment-free, Gringotts crumbled into a mass grave for goblin bodies. Pixie corpses covered the meadows. Romanians buried their last dragon.
Wizards remained. Thousands flooded Muggle streets with useless chanting, unable to return home through non-existent wards.
They had nothing except pride. Remember that when watching a middle-aged, redheaded waitress and her daughter taunted by children for their strange way of talking, passing the sallow-faced, somber neighbour who prefers candles to electricity, finding a sky-blue twinkle under matted hair of a homeless man.
Pride was the reason they survived.
At AO3
A beautiful, mysterious and sophisticated post-war story. There's a lot going on "beneath the surface", paired with the dream world, a touch magic realism in there.
Nonetheless, one of the classics out there which are must-reads.
Sequel:
We've Got a Thing Going On
Same Author as:
Commonplace Magic
The Snidget
