The Unforgotten Country

TITLE: Hate Leads
Fandom: Harry Potter
LENGTH/RAITING: 100 words, PG, Gen
PAIRING: None
SUMMARY: snape100 Challenge #159: Random Quotations #1 - "Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power." Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)


On the good days, if he dared call them that, Snape could still catch glimpses of the man Tom used to be. The cold hard core of tempered ice, of tempered self, hidden beneath the flame and fire of the madness that consumed him. Not that Tom was any less driven, any less determined then Voldemort, just more... deliberate.

On the bad days, when the fire burnt bright and siren, and the whole world seemed to dance to Riddle's merest whim, Snape had to remind himself that power and control were two very different things.

And someday Tom would melt.

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TITLE: Out of the Box
FANDOM: Harry Potter
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG, Gen
PAIRING/WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: snape100 Challenge #159: Severus Snape's Birthdays, 1989


There's something about turning thirty that makes Snape wax ironic more than maudlin. He's already seen too much, done too much, been too many things to too many people in that rough span of years. Friendly ribbing from a stranger declaring Snape's now formally 'old enough to know better' is amusing in ways he wouldn't have appreciated in years past.

Because he's right, Snape is old enough to know better, but it had taken Quirrell and not the years to prove it. Dumbledore and Voldemort; playing opposite sides, but the same damned game.

This time he's making his own rules.

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