Harry/Sev Challenge:
53. Severus is secretly the Hogsmeade contact for the Gay Wizards Advice Service. He corresponds by anonymous letter with an unhappy wizard (Harry) (Laura Beth)

Ideas:
- 7th year - after Christmas
- Harry writes asking if he is normal, etc.  Didn't know there was a gay wizarding community.  Asks how many, etc.
- writes asking how to come out to his friends/loved ones -- affraid to tell them because of his experiences with the Dursleys
  - doesn't know how his friends will react --- nothing like this had ever come up in conversation before
- what to expect when he comes out -- how prejudiced is the wizarding world?
- doesn't want meaningless encounters -- wants something that'll last (learned from lack of love in life, and preciousness of life after Voldemort)
- Sev at first replies with common answers, then begins to ask more personal questions (ie what are his friends like) to answer Harry
- Harry reveals he is a student
- Harry reveals he has a crush on one of his teachers - asks how to deal with it -- doesn't even know if teachter is gay, but suspects
- at first, Sev says none of the teachers will ever have a relationship with a student (tries to think what student it might be)
- Harry tells him about this teacher (not his name) - about how the voice and the eyes affect him
- Sev figures out that the boy is talking about him (him! of all people), but he still doesn't know who it may be...
- one day, Sev catches Harry staring at him with a certain *expression* on his face.  Could it be?
- Sev gets another letter from Harry that night - Harry reveals himself to be Harry (shyly)---because he trusts the person writing him
- Sev writes back -- how stupid it was of him to reveal himself.  Also asks if Harry is really *serious* about Snape, of if its just lust/a crush (like he mentioned before)
- Harry -- I think I've grown to love him (gets his humour, respects him as a person from working together in the Order) -- but also details some explicit daydreams -- Snape gets hard (Harry was saying these things...about *him*!)
- Snape: ::shock:: -- doesn't reply to Harry for a few days -- thinks about his feelings for Harry (how they working together in the Order), how he got to know him better from all the letters they'd be writing each other
- Harry writes again, asking what's wrong
- Sev writes back -- explaining that he had been busy
  - tells Harry to tell Snape how he feels -- he might be surprised....and what's the worst that could happen?
- Harry replies: d-day will be Saturday night
- Snape prepares for Harry's arrival - both men are nervous
- Harry stops by about an hour after dinner on Saturday night
- Snape doesn't seem surprised to see him - "Ah, Mr Potter.  I've been expecting you."
- Harry is suspicious, but still brave
- snape leads him over to come chairs by the fireplace
- Harry is unaccountably nervous
- Snape takes a bit of pity on him "I know why you're here, Mr Potter.  Just say what you came to say."
- Harry is shocked!  Thinks advisor told Snape
- Snape raises an eyebrow.  "Try again, Mr Potter."
- Horror rips through Harry.  The one possibility that seemed only minutes before so impossible - true
- Harry, despite trying his hardest, begins to cry -- thinks Snapes trying to humiliate him  -- thinks this whole setup was just to humiliate him -- tries to leave
- Snape grabs him by the arm -- confused and a little hurt -- realises that he'll have to go first

"You must have been having quite a laugh.  Harry Potter in...love with you."

"No, you idiot boy, that's not it at all!"

- tells Haryy
- Harry is very very surprised
- lovey stuff
- neither want to take things too quickly
- leaving feast is in less than a month
- then have sex :D
- Sev: you realise now that we have to deal with telling your friends about us
- Harry: yep.  Looks like I'll be in need of your advice again. --grin
- Sev: so it appears.  luckily, it would seem like I have a lot of experience in that area.
- Harry: chuckles.  you might have the job for a long time, you realise (slightly uneasy)
- Sev:  I have a feeling I'll be putting up with you for the rest of my life.
- Harry:  Smiles brilliantly.  "you will.  You will."

OWARI!!!! DA YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D