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| kittylefish | 2008.05.14 - 05:48PM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| well, i had thought i'd just read the rest and review at the end, but i had to mention how much i appreciated listening to snape's musings about what quality neville has that makes him a 'hero', although i'm sure that's not the word either of them would choose. and also your detailed musings about the alterations to the potion - i'm always amazed when people can write about that stuff so naturally. i'm frankly amazed that this was your first foray into fanfic. Author's Response: I used to be a software engineer; redesigning a potion follows much the same rules. You break the problem down into smaller steps, and solve each sub-problem.... I think Neville is the Gryffindor child Snape comes to admire the most--aside from his potions-brewing skills. In one of Duj's fictions, Snape comments to an adult Neville (a propos of Snape's being his boggart) "yet you never missed a class." | |||
| Trickie Woo | 2008.04.08 - 01:38AM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Lily was no plaster saint, she turned her back on him when he needed her help the most. She wasn't worth his devotion if she couldn't see that. I agree with all his thoughts about his years at Hogwarts.
I feel that he was driven more by guilt than by devotion to protect Harry, he felt that Lily's death was all his fault. He was really the only truly moral adult character in the whole saga. He confessed his sins to Dumbledore, truly repented them, and spent the rest of his life atoning for them. "Was there anyone who had gotten what they sought in joining? Save Bella and her ilk, of course. For anyone sane—whatever you sought in joining the Dark Lord, that’s what you lost, you paid …." That's the gist of the whole problem, if he could only project that to all the students in some way (through their minds would be the best way) along with the potion and he would have the problem solved.
Neville is the most heroic character of all the students he eveolved from the quivering mass he was as a first year into the person who removed the last obstacle to 'He Who I Found Most Tiresome's downfall and total anihilation. Moral clarity describes him well. Snape doesn't realize it but he has that in common with Neville, Snape's comes from experience and Neville's was inborn. My definition of courage is doing what you must do, in spite of all your fears, because you know it is the right thing to do. I think Snape and Neville both live up to this definition. If only Rowling had recognized this about Snape, but her ego didn't recognize what her id had written between the lines.
Author's Response: It's odd; I write Lily and Albus MUCH more charitably than I think about them; I think I'm channeling Severus, and that he loved them more because he needed to love than because they deserved it. I bet you liked how Snape used Neville in C2; you may also like c7 for that.... I did write this to be canon-compliant, but I think it leads Snape to an AU place; I think he ends as a better headmaster than JKR wrote, and I've been writing a bit of that AU last year.... | |||
| Nadrek | 2008.03.31 - 08:11AM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Very interesting - a gift to wizardkind that will be forgotten and banned as soon as wizardkind realizes what a lack of self-deception is, perhaps to survive only in a few rare tomes.
A cloudless night with the moon is trivial, if Severus is capable of transcontinental Apparition. If Apparition is about control, then yes. If about raw power, it's more ambiguous. Author's Response: Tsk, tsk; a gift that will be forgotten and banned? I'm shocked at your pessimism. If nothing else, Wizarding parents will be using this as an anaphrodisiac(as Snape noted), where they suspect their offspring of having been beguiled. I admit, I hadn't thought of intercontinental Apparatition. On the other hand, had we established that Snape is free to leave Spinner's End? I had rather thought otherwise. He can easily, after all, come up with excuses for having been busy brewing er, grossly failed, by Riddle's view--variants upon Veritserum. | |||
| MW Waters | 2008.03.08 - 10:41PM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Keep the chapters coming! I start going through withdrawal when there are long lulls between updates to favorite stories!
Wish I could beta for you, but haven't yet posted a fanfic. Currently am developing four, so some day... Author's Response: All right, you win. I'll post before my beta has reviewed, so I'll just have to repost when she's cut me into (much better, much more readable) shreds. So here's V1! Enjoy the less-edited version. | |||
| MW Waters | 2008.03.03 - 11:05AM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Really enjoy this story. Your "Snape logic" is cunning and thorough, and your truth/knowledge recipe may qualify you as a potions mistress. ;-) Would give this a higher rating except for the choppy grammar, which makes it hard to follow sometimes. Author's Response: Thanks for giving concrit as well as praise! My beta disappeared this chapter and I haven't had the courage to replace her--apparently I need to. I was trying to restrict the "choppiness" to internal dialogue where it might be appropriate--but that is so hard to judge for oneself. I will try to get good betaing before I post more. Glad you appreciated the potion. You do understand, Severus considers himself a cynic: he thinks that will protect him from the potion he has brewed.... | |||
| tigerlily2 | 2008.02.26 - 10:25PM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Wow! Very good! I really enjoyed reading this! Author's Response: Thanks for your review; there is more.... | |||
| Scaranda | 2008.02.26 - 06:50PM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Interesting. Do keep going!! Author's Response: This is actually the first fanfic I wrote; fiction is not, perhaps, the best term, as most of it is a purely internal conflict. Hope you enjoy the rest of it as well! Yours is, er, extremely different, nothing I could think of writing (besides being AU when I try to stay CC) but I always read you even when I can't review intelligently... | |||
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