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for Hogsmeade, Circa 1826

by TaranSwann

person Gj
schedule January 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM
omg omg omg! WOW ^^ i don't have anything else to say, other than that i want to read more! :)
person Ariande
schedule January 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM
Love it! Can't wait to hear Snape's opinions of the purchases. More please! :)
person Asta
schedule January 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM
Let me guess - you happen to be North American. And since slavery was allowed there at that time of course it had to be everywhere else in the world too! Never mind that in Europe - and England specifically - slavery and even weaker forms like serfdom had been prohibitted and outlawed for a long time! And incidentally also before the split between Wizarding and Muggle World!, meaning the wizards had the same view and knowledge Muggles had.... Really, setting this 1826 is just plain ridiculous!
I understand that it doesn't really matter since the amazingly unrealistic setting is only done so that you can have Snape subservient to supposedly reluctant Harry (who seems to already gotten over petty moral qualms and the fact that the whole situation is non-consensual and is already deliberately ignoring cues of his coerced sub - how nice and responsible >_<) in a "forced" situation (since it'd be about as likely as Bellatrix and Neville finding true love together and going to visit his parents, tortured into insanity by her, on sundays in the ward for hopeless cases if you'd try to keep them - especially Snape! - in character) but it might have been better if you simply went for the smut without distraction via absurd explanations and attempting "plot".

The thing is so full of plotholes aside from the "only 30 years before AD's birth Wizarding Britain was a place that made the world of Conan the Barbarian look cultured and the peak of civilization while Muggles are already past the age of Enlightenment and into Industrialisation". Why for heaven's sake would Voldemort (or ANYone for that matter) punish Harry by giving him Snape as a slave in a for wizards not-so-distant past?! God, that's really cruel to Harry and just the thing one does to beat ones mortal enemy....*snort* Why would he punish Snape thus when he could kill him or enslave him himself or let one of his loyal followers do it?! Yeah, let's forcibly team up one's biggest foes as a surefire way to defeat them! And how realistic is a sexslave twice as old (AND not very attractive to boot) as the supposed master?! Especially since Hogsmeade, the small scottish wizarding enclave, is the center of the trade according to your idea - must be because the location lies so obviously among the major trade-routes for eurpoean slavery - would be the ideal point to trade/sell the weird sexslave for a better one if one would really try to blend in with the normal slaver-crowd. Instead of wasting their resources for slavegear and lots of not very necessary clothes how about some research for getting back? Or keeping a vulnerable Snape out of a dangerous, highly hostile environment by laying low? Especially if his having magic is highly unusual and suspicious? Why is Snape knowing obscure and unimportant nuances of past slave-behaviour but has no clue about the bigger picture and time? Oh, and where is the big OOC-warning for Snape?
person Angel
schedule January 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM
This is wonderful, please update soon!
person Yaoi_lover
schedule January 16, 2006 at 12:00 AM
loved your story ^__^