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Reviews For For The Boy Who Has Everything
I love this story so much! Can't wait for more!
I am looking forward to more.
Really enjoyed this chapter. I hope that you'll be posting more chapters for us soon :)
Snape as well. Of course this is a not a fluffy fic and though I love those, I love anyielding Snape as well. Makes it so much juicier to feel for Harry. I do want to smack Spape around the face, but you are writing him brilliantly. I like wanting to smack him! LOL I agree that Harry is getting his basic needs met. Emotionally, not at all, but what can you expect from these two men who clearly are so emotionally starved/warped to be able to give him? Not much. Though I see some tolerance seeping through Snape. He's a git for sure, but maybe he won't always be quite an arse. I am amazed that Harry doesn't go on the run. I would! Gotta love a Harry who just takes it though. I am really glad at least that Harry is going to be able to see his friends and I am hoping that is Lupin's influence so I don't have to hate him so much. LOL All right, this was rambly. But I just want to tell you that your story is brilliant and I love it. Mean Snape, weak Lupin and sad, pathetic Harry and all. Thanks! Author's Response: Running off would be such a dumb and Harry-like thing to do. I'd love to have him try, but I fear that he will have to tough it out after all. I mean, after Snape catches up to him, the poor darling wouldn't be able to sit down for a week, and then I'd have to amend the warnings on this fic. :-( I will now admit to being a slimy toad: I have read your fic and I love it, but because I read like a million chapters in one go, I never left a review. I left it in the middle of chapter 20-something and since then I haven't had time to go back! I swear reviews are forthcoming. You're right there's room for many interpretations of the characters. I love different takes on Snape, Lupin, Ron... anybody, really. We authors are such an awesomely creative bunch. :-D Sometimes it scares me a bit that I have chosen a Snape who seems so irredeemably mean. I'm giving him a chance though.
I think the predicament you've put your characters in makes for a lot of tension, but I find I can't blame any of them too much. It's natural that Harry would feel a good deal of anger, resentment, guilt, loneliness, grief, etc. He needs the support of adults who have the emotional ability to help him. But then all he's got are Snape and Lupin who have their own problems. They're risking their lives, or at least imprisonment, to protect a boy that they feel is so prone to reckless behavior that he could at any moment jeopardize everything with some imprudent action. Lupin has both physical and emotion stresses to deal with, and Snape does, too, even though he's not displaying them like Lupin does. By the way, it's interesting that you show Snape as being well aware that Lupin is going through a lot of stresses, but we don't see any corresponding understanding on Lupin's part for Snape. Maybe that's just because we only see their interaction through Harry eyes? I've noticed some reviewers commenting on Harry's "rights." I realize that ideally he should have a lot more support and understanding, but I'm not sure how he can get it, or what could reasonably be given to him. That Lupin and Snape are working on a way for him to regularly visit Ron is actually pretty good, considering the circumstances, even though Harry doesn't necessarily see that. Love the story and your insight into all of the characters. Good to see this update! Author's Response: I'm slightly confused about Harry's "rights" as well. As a human being, he deserves to be treated with basic kindness/consideration, but his entitlement to anything beyond that is debatable. In my eyes, he *is* being treated with basic kidness/consideration, even by Snape. He's being protected, fed, clothed, his education provided for, he has not been cast out among strangers, and (unknown to him) Lupin is trying to ensure some kind of future for him by trying to get Snape to accept some responsibility. He's not being beaten or starved, in any case, and Snape's treatment of him is really nothing new. Aren't we used to Snape's ways by now? You can't change Snape (and why would you want to?). Really, the only thing Harry's not getting from anyone is support for his emotional issues. However, like you pointed out, all he's got is Snape and Lupin, neither of whom have their own emotional issues under enough control to help anyone else. If Harry's problems were not so huge and overwhelming, would it still seem like he's being treated terribly? Ah, but there is progress creeping in on the Snape and Harry front. It's just that... I think it will disappoint the fluff-lovers. Hey, I did warn that Snape wasn't going to turn into mother of the year. He grew up with a crappy role model for what family means, his child/teenhood was warped, he has issues up to his neck, he's not a nice person, his emotional range is somewhat stunted, and he has spent years cultivating a dislike of Harry. I am not going to rehash the old "I only acted like I hated you because I had to" excuse. They'll just have to deal with the reality that you don't always like the people you love. I'm just going to go with my own interpretation of what it means for Snape to care for Harry as a father. |
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