Textualsphinx
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Textualsphinx is a member of the Harry Potter fan fiction community. She wrote a Snape/Hermione in December 2000 that was based on another fan fic.
'Letter from Exile One Merciful Morning', published on FanFiction.Net in December 2000, was very influential , triggering the initial mushrooming of Snape-Hermione stories. However, her best work is 'To Sever the Lining from a Cloud', a dark fairytale about teenage Snape's sacrifice for Lily Evans which dovetails into the backstory of Harry's mysterious survival of Voldemort's curse:
'Lily died wearing that lining-of-a-cloud. She was buried in it too, and it held off the maggots, could Severus but have known, but of course he never could, for this was deep in the bitter earth.'
An illustrated version of this story is at the Red Hen site, and it has been translated into Russian, Italian and German.
On the humour front, Textualsphinx's 'Why Slytherins Are Sexier' sparked much debate about house sexualities, with her notion of a text issuing from Gryffindor called 'Quidditch in Bed' becoming a fanon 'bibilographical fact', rather like 'Hogwarts a History' in canon. Angel of the North, another fanfiction writer, took up the challenge of actually writing 'Quidditch in Bed', and the imaginary text was often cited in Snape/Hermione stories, such as Riley's 'Pawn to Queen' and Theatresm's 'Brave New World'.
