Rare Pair Shorts

Dear, dear, dear MA! I've read this thirty times and cannot stop quivering and biting my lip! This is AMAZING, just beautifully written and exactly everything I hoped for: Snape intently at the bench, Trelawney awkward and longing, Yule and elemental magic. And so many things I didn't even know I wanted! Absolutely perfect realizations of Albus and Minerva, for instance, and your gorgeously cinematic scenesetting. My heart stops when he probes her thoughts -- it's like the going over the big drop on a log flume, Oh my god! He sees! He knows! Yesssss! And your exquisite descriptions of sounds and smells and the play of light, and oh! her hands, and the hope in her eyes. All of it. Fantastic.

I am utterly, completely in the thrall of this little fic, and cannot wait until your identity is revealed and I can devour the everloving dickens out of your other work. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Really cannot get over how immensely much I love this, and how lucky I was to have someone put such care into this rarest of pairs.

Oh, and btw, I would totally read everything you cut from this to get to 2500 words. Bring on the rarepair_mid! The rarepair_long!