Fic rec: Mind Games

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Right--I've been gone quite a while, and real life has sadly still not released its stranglehold on my time (expect few posts from me for the next week or so), but I find myself with just enough time, today, to check through my FList and gasp out a rec. Mind Games, by Arsenic, is in many ways a simple story: Harry buys a clue, grows up, starts up his Occlumency lessons again, defeats Voldemort, and gradually comes to realise just what his emotions for Severus Snape are, underneath it all. It's the way Arsenic tells the story that makes it stand out; the lack of shouting, the absence of fireworks or flashing billboards, serves to make the underlying emotions ring clear and true despite the occasional technical flaws. It's clear that flash and noise would merely get in the way; Mind Games doesn't need such ornamentation to shine.