Potions and Snitches
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Title: Chapter 25 06 Aug 2013 7:08 am
Reviewer: chmcm (Signed) [Report This]
    As always, I enjoyed the chapter. I am surprised that Harry did not find it curious that Snape could remember--after 16 years -- that Harry was born just before midnight. In my view, that is something only a parent would remember after that much time has passed. It went completely over Harry's head. I have been trying to remember if the challenge requires that Harry learn the secret from a letter or if he just has to learn it on his birthday. You have so many different possibilities set up. It could be from the pictures, from the pensive, from the book or Snape could tell him. You are creative so maybe you have something completely different planned; in any event, you have me eagerly anticipating your next installment.

    Author's Response:

    Thanks! Pretty much 99-percent of anything he's told goes right over Harry's head. Even if he had noticed, he probably would have assumed it was just one of those things everybody (but him) knows about The Boy Who Lived. As it happens, Snape not so much remembers it (he didn't know he was Harry's father until this summer, either), but he had a reason to know the exact time because it concerned "Hadrian".

    The Severitus challenge has 7 requirements, but only 4 of them are plot requirements (the others are requests, such as to be sent a link to the story). The plot requirements are as follows: (1) Snape is revealed to be Harry's father. (2) Lupin returns to Hogwarts for whatever reason. (3) Harry undergoes a progressive change in appearance starting on his birthday (which is the one that I'm taking the most liberty with, but it will happen!). (4) Story is mostly based around Harry and Snape (slowly getting there...).

    Many stories I've read use some kind of letter, Pensieve memory, Gringotts vault item, or some other device like that, which is why you might be thinking that that's a requirement. There are actually no requirements at all about how Harry learns any of this, or the timeframe. He doesn't have to learn on his birthday, or from any specific person or any specific method. I don't know why most Severitus stories end up being so alike in how they deal with the big announcement.

Title: Chapter 25 06 Aug 2013 2:36 am
Reviewer: Pandora (Signed) [Report This]
    This whole Harry is a Horcrux and him having to die, is so sad for Harry. He thinks Snape is going to kill him?

    I loved that scene of Snape taking care of Harry. Very cute. Very unSnapish. But still Snapish, because of course he wasn't mushy about it, but somehow it showed caring for Harry just a little.

    I can't wait for the next chapter. You are spoiling us!

    Author's Response:

    It is sad, but it's kind of his own fault for messing with something he was told not to touch.

    Yes and no, on thinking Snape will kill him. It's a very complicated problem. If he is a horcrux, then Dumbledore's message is valid and Dumbledore's orders to Snape are also still in play. He doesn't have any reason to be afraid Snape is going to stab or poison him at first opportunity, because Snape doesn't believe that Harry is a horcrux. He also has managed to understand that Snape never wanted to follow those orders. It's just that "doesn't want to" doesn't translate to "won't have to".

    Yeah, Snape managed to be pretty decent to Harry even when they were in private. The exchange in the hallway doesn't count, since that was a public space and Snape would have acted like a concerned parent out of necessity, but he didn't completely drop the act once the door was closed. Or, at least, not until Harry was well again and had managed to annoy him. He was even willing to answer Harry's questions without malice, right up until Harry made the choice to be untruthful and changed the focus of the conversation to something Snape considered frivolous.


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