[MISC] Happy Birthday Snarry! ;p

[anyssia]

IT'S THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PAIRING SEVERUS/HARRY!!!

O.O Oh Gaia, can you believe it?! Ten years! Ten years that we've been reading/writing fics about Snarry!!! ^________________________________^

Even if for me it has 'only' been 6 years. Somehow, my friends' descriptions and particularly the first movie didn't appeal to me and I didn't read the books before 2006.

I still remember what pushed me to buy the books.
I was reading the fics of a great, French author (lychee_ln) and when I finished reading her fics in whatever fandom I was in at the time (probably Gundam Wing), I couldn't stop.
I saw that she had written HP fics as well, but didn't want to read fics when I hadn't even read the books. So I dithered for a while, but finally caved in.

And that how I read my first HP fanfiction which happened to be a Severus/Fred/Georges fic!!! ^_______________^

I guess that how I caught the Snape mania virus ;p From there, I read and read and read and bought the books. XDD I read the first four that very week ^^;;
I found a website that archived a lot of French HP fanfictions (it was Ombre et Folie. The website doesn't exist anymore, but the yahoo group is still there, even if inactif: http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/leena_et_dod_cie/). And I read, hundred of fanfics. At the time, I was already mostly reading Snarry fics ^___^ I think that there that I began detest WIPs as well ^^;;;

So I read and one day, I read a translation of Cybele's If You Are Prepared Series. But the translation was incomplete, so I went and read the thing in English. I had very little experience with English at the time. I wasn't particularly a good student, even if I had learned English for years at the time, and I had only read one other fic in English: Askerian's Teamwork Naruto fanfic.
Now that I think about it, it's pretty funny: I probably didn't understand a word out of three, but I still cried like a baby when I read If you are prepared's end. (there goes my appreciation of angst fics. I love well written fics, but afterward I feel so depressed T_T).

Then I found Midnight Blue's Mirror of Maybe. Six years later, I'm still waiting with starry eyes for the next chapters. I hope she'll finish it one day ^^ For this one, same song: read the translation first, but it wasn't finished, so I switched to English.

After that, I didn't bother anymore. I only read English fics, except for the few French authors (lychee_ln, zazaone) that I really loved.

And that how I spent the last six years reading HP fanfics, especially Snarries ^___________^

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Here is what accioslash posted on snape_potter for the evenement :

On October 23th, 2000, Majolique posted the first Snape/Harry fic, Midnight Confessions. Today, ten years later, [info]snape_potter on IJ, LJ and DW are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the first Snarry fic ever written.

We invite all of you to join in the celebration by sharing your views at the discussion posts and by posting your thoughts about the happy couple or congratulatory wishes for 10 more decades years together here in this post. DON'T BE SHY! EVERYONE WHO LOVES SNARRY IS WELCOME!!!

You may even want to post (or even re-post) to the community itself some of your Snarry creations like drabbles, fic, art, crafts, rec lists, anything Snarry is welcome. I know I will! And we already have some gifts to the community and a bit of fun that I'll be posting throughout the day.

Happy Anniversary, boys! Long Live the Snarry!

Comments

[fire_by_fire]

10 years... I've been reading Snarry for three years now ^^ I still cry reading "If you are prepared" and like you I started read it in my native language and finished in English ;) Did you read "Tea Series" by Telanu? It's great, long Snarry - because of it I've fallen in love with this pairing :)

[anyssia]

Oh yeah, The Tea Series ♥.♥

It's funny how many people began reading in English because of IYAP. I wonder if it's, like accioslash said, because it was one of the first novel long Snarry death fic.