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Title: Not Half so Pretty 05 Jan 2010 2:51 am
Reviewer: Ivy-Green (Signed) [Report This]
    Poor Harry, stuck inside with a moody woman. But it is kinda funny that Snape's mom is so much like him...but that really isn't anything weird. It's to be expected, isn't it? But Tobias isn't going to like Harry very much if he sees him in Eileen's house. Another great chapter!!

    Author's Response:

    Lol, No, Tobias wouldn't (Not that Eileen minds one bit) which is why poor Harry's only allowed out at night.

    I wrote a short story in this universe about Snape and his mom.  Similar souls.

Title: Not Half so Pretty 12 Jul 2009 3:44 pm
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed) [Report This]
    I was wondering if it was a coincidence that Harry arrived in Eileen's living room a year to the day before Snape was born?

    Great chapter, very informative. Eileen isn't the nicest of people though, is she? Why can't she brew simple potions that will help people rather than harm some poor unsuspecting person? I imagine that there a any number of wizards who cannot even brew a Pepper-up potion or a Burn salve, which I imagine are easily enough brewed.

    And Harry thinks he likes Eileen too much for her to be Snape's mother. But this has happened after he saw Snape's memories, so he should be a little more accepting of the man. And it didn't strike him as strange that Eileen hated her future husband, just as his own mother once hated her future husband. Though Lily did finally fall in love with James. It seems Eileen married Tobias because she is pregnant.

    Author's Response: Eileen makes her bread and butter making the sort of potions people don't want to be seen buying but are technically legal.  No one minds if people know they're buying pepper-up.  If it's any consolation, she also makes venereal disease treatments.

    For Snape to be born on his birthday (or in the time he'd have to be born to go to school with Harry's parents) she'd have to fall in love with Tobias pretty damn quickly (three months) and Tobias lacks the charisma and good looks James Potter had, and is an abusive, controlling drunk.  It took Lily years to reverse her position on James Potter, and Eileen only would have months.

    Snape might not be evil, he might have been a friend of Harry's mom, but he's still extremely unpleasant and outright nasty to Harry.  Harry likes and gets along with Eileen (in spite of her questionable morals) as opposed to just not thinking her to be evil.

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