Title: A Potter's Love
Author: Gloredhel04
Rating: light R
Pairing: Harry Potter, Severus Snape
Disclaimer: frottage, artistic nudity
Feedback: gloredhel04@yahoo.com
Beta: none
Archive: Part of the From Dusk till Dawn Severus Snape/Harry Potter Fuh-Q-Fest
at http://www.kardasi.com/HPSS/storyindex.htm
Challenge: History Challenge

Historical Notes:

Amphora with Eromenos and Erastes
Greece Attica Athens
about 480-460 B.C.
Height: 43.2 cm (16 15/16 in.)
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Ceramic, Red Figure

The piece found in the recently uncovered ruins in the outskirts of Athens has puzzled art historians and archeologists alike with its uncommon and almost anachronistic style. While side A contains the accepted stance and posture of figures, specifically the standing eromenos or young lover, Side B is a depiction of Side A only moments later, much like modern cartoons, but with animalistic frottage. This tasteless rendition and style of an erastes with his young eromenos, thankfully, has not been found elsewhere, and the find is quite the amphoric anomaly.

A clue to the identities of these two figures may be found in another recent discovery. One of Sophocles' lost plays tells the tale of an erastes, Sivekles, or Severus, who courts Apeios, or loosely translated, Harry, and after many trials, it is believed Harry accepts.

**Disclaimer* No actual historians or archeologists were harmed in the making of this abstract, although all true history has been glibly shot to hell*