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Reviews for A Merciless Affection

whitehound 2005.08.02 - 09:00PM 18: Am I Fonder of Dolls...or of Goblins Signed
A good point about Snape and Sirius both being a bit institutionalized, but at the same time I don't know that grown men need an excuse to act like kids. I know that sounds sexist but I'm feeling slightly sour about it today - having just spent about half an hour trying to get two supposedly grown men (24 and 29 respectively) to shut up and stop bitching to each other, and to me about each other, and pulling faces to me about each other behind each other's backs, about a petty argument abiut the title of one of Roald Dahl's books. Sirius and Severus have got nothing on these two beauties, and neither of them is institutionalized - although they possibly should be in an institutuion.

whitehound 2005.08.02 - 08:42PM 34: All That You Dreamed I Could Signed
Aaargh - that freaked me out, because I'm currently taking a coupke of weeks out from writing a straight SF niovel to write a fanfic (something I haven't done for nearly 20 years, but Snape just inspires me) which centres around the shamanic applications of nihilistic music - and The Bold Marauder is one of my all-time favourite nihilistic songs, although I hadn't actually used it in this particular story. When I've unpacked (from recent house-move) I might be able to do you an mp3 of the LHR version - although afaik I first heard it sung live at an sf con and it was even *more* spooky than the LHR one. [Not sure about "death will be our darling," though, in the context of the Death Eaters - they like bringing death to other people, I guess, but Old Mouldy is terrified of his own death.]

Author's Response: I'm surprised to find anyone that knows it! I wonder if it was Michael Longcor you heard at the sf con? His is definitely much spookier than others I've found.

whitehound 2005.08.02 - 08:04PM 32: Let Daylight Dry Your Tears Signed
Uurrgh - I take it the implication is that Severus is the child either of incest or of a rape, and probably of a gang rape at that? [Britpicks: should be quarter to twelve, not of twelve. No pumpkin pasties: chicken pasties; steak pasties; Cornish pasties; horrible half-raw macaroni cheese pasties - but not pumpkin. Almost nobody eats pumpkin in Britain. And whatever colcannon is it would have to be a very exotic thing to have on a school menu: I'm 46, mixed English, Irish and Scots, lived in Britain all my life, and your story is the first time I've heard of it.]

Author's Response: The story of Snape's parentage is extremely complicated. I had thought of writing up a short story dealing with it, but I'm not sure it's worth it now that my background for him has been so thoroughly canon-shafted.

The Brit site that I was checking the time thing with said "quarter of twelve." I assumed that that must be right, since it sounded very odd to my American ear--I've said "quarter to twelve" all my life.

For some reason I thought that pumpkin pasties were something they had at Hogwarts (to go along with the pumpkin juice).

I got the recipe (and the name) of colcannon from a lady in Ireland. I thought I described it fairly well in the chapter: potatoes, cabbage, shredded carrots and onions boiled together and mashed with butter. How very curious!

whitehound 2005.08.02 - 07:28PM 30: Can I Ever Prevail When I'm Only a Man Signed
Aaargh - my pet peeve - "ilk" doesn't mean that at all, at all. "Of that ilk" is a very technical Scots term, which means that the person being refered to is the clan-chief of a clan for which the clan-seat, the principal house at which the chief would traditionally reside, has the same name as the clan itself. So the chief of the Buchanans is known as Buchanan of that Ilk, since the clan-seat of the Buchanans is called Buchanan Castle: and you could reasonably refer to the Queen as Windsor of that Ilk. But e.g. the chief of the Camerons is Cameron of Lochiel, not Cameron of that Ilk, because the original seat of the Camerons was on a small island in Loch Eil (which got corrupted over time into Lochiel). You could reasonably extend "others of that ilk" to mean "others of the same name" - but it *doesn't* mean "others of the same general type." [Otherwise, it reminds me of a very sad true story by Simon Wiesenthal called The Sunflower, about a very young SS man who had taken part in a massacre of Jewish civilians, and was so haunted by the memory of firing on this little family group as they walked towards him that he became unable to use his gun again, and ended up himself walking into enemy fire and being fatally wounded. He asked Wiesenthal, as a Jewish prisoner working in the hospital where he lay dying, for an absolution which Wiesenthal felt unable to grant him - although the fact that he hadn't done so haunted him enough to write about it decades later.]

whitehound 2005.08.02 - 07:01PM 29: Here in Hell, the Blood Runs Deeper Signed
I'm mot sure whether I believe this is in character for Snape or not. On tjhe one hand it makes political and historical sense; very young men are prone to getting suckered into extremist politics, and it's analogouis to the sort of boys who joined the Hitler Yout because it seemed cool, and then got caught up in murderous mass-hysteria. On the other hand it's canon that young Severus was an uber-geek, and geeks are usually too independent and spiky and awkward to run with a crowd to the point of hysteria. On what a friend of mine calls "the third or Sellafield hand," a society of magic-users and psychics probably privides unparalleled opportunities for mass hysteria. I can certainly believe that if he'd done something that terrible he'd have to get horribly, ice-cold drunk before he could confront it. [Sellafield, in case you are a Merkin and don't know it, is a famously leaky British nuclear power station.]

whitehound 2005.08.02 - 06:35PM 28: Uptown Girl Signed
Oh yes - that's a *wonderful* version of The Scarlet Pimpernel (another story about a double agent of course - what does that make Snape - Black Hellebore?)

whitehound 2005.08.02 - 05:06PM 22: Look at Your Face in the Mirror Signed
Congratulations: you're the only person I've seen who's realized that just shutting his mind against Voldemort wouldn't be enough, and that in order to make a convincing spy Snape has to psych himself up into nearly-really beleiving he's on Voldemort's side, at least temporarily, so he can open his mind and let Voldemort sniff around in it without attracting suspicion.

Author's Response: Thanks, whitehound! I see this whole thing as a very psychologically dangerous and damaging process, however necessary it is. To pretend you are something you are not...it's very difficult not to become, in some measure, what you pretend.

whitehound 2005.08.01 - 11:42PM 15: Your Chains Are Still Mine Signed
Oddly enough, I'd already independently decided that Snape was a lapsed Catholic!

Author's Response: Hi, whitehound! It's so nice to see a new reviewer. :~)

After HBP, I'm no longer so sure. But there are things about him that certainly give that impression.

zerlina 2005.08.01 - 08:29PM 34: All That You Dreamed I Could Signed
I really hope that you write more - your story is so entertaining. Plus, with HBP, Rowling has made Snape into such a strong character - almost the true hero of the books. I am sure, of course, that she will fill us in on Snape a little more in the last book, but she probably won't tell us about his love life. (and we all want Snape to have one because he is so great) Your story parallels the books so well, fillling in the minor deatails. What is more, like what you had Snape say previoulsy in your story about teaching Harry Occlumency in payment for Sarah, Dumbledore also has the "affair" over Snape's head to get him to do whatever he asked, no matter how difficult. I hope you win the story competition and PLEASE write more. Yours is the only story I read on OCCLumency!!

Author's Response: Gosh, thanks, Zerlina! :~)

I have developed some theories about where the story may be going in book 7, and I have a feeling that the things we eventually find out are going to kill all Snape romances for all time--at least those that have any hope of staying compatible with canon. Thank goodness for fanon! I plan to post a new chapter within the week.

You really should read some other stories here, too! This is a good site for Snape-lovers. LariLee's new story about Emmeline Vance absolutely rocks! If you like AMA, you will like it. Check it out!

Osiodhachain 2005.08.01 - 07:31PM 27: I'm Here With You, Beside You Signed
>>He was more solidly built than his nephew, and clearly a good deal older, but his nose, eyes and stringy black hair (although bound back in a long pigtail) proclaimed their relatedness.<< I nearly fell off my chair laughing when I read this. I hope you meant 'ponytail,' because I don't think many grown men could get away with wearing their hair in pigtales. ;)

Author's Response: Actually, where I grew up, "pigtail" and "ponytail" were used interchangably. PigtailS (in the plural)--that would be another matter! :~)

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