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Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 12 Sep 2020 6:36 pm
Reviewer: Dimplz (Signed) [Report This]
    I really liked the story. I thought this reverse Severitus was very original! I do want to say that Harry shouldn't have married Ginny though! lol Thanks for writing. I'm going to see if I can find more stories like this.

    Author's Response: I mean that's your oppinion about Ginny, but at this point, not to be rude, but I can't bring myself to care.
Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 16 Sep 2014 7:45 pm
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed) [Report This]
    Very cool. Thanks for sharing with us!

    -K

    Author's Response: Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 14 May 2013 11:57 am
Reviewer: Saint Snape (Signed) [Report This]
    I really enjoyed the story although I thought the Gryffindors were just as mean and nasty as the Slytherins. Loved you kept Severus in character. This was such an interesting diversion from what most people usually write which is Harry is Severus' son. Very unique and fun.

    Author's Response: A lot of what the Gryffindors did is the fallout of Snape having been in charge of the school under Voldemort, where torture was a casual thing. Ginny is traumatized and nobody else seems to see this as a problem. So she lashes out. We like Snape. We know he did what he could. But to Ginny, he's someone to be terrified of. It's a bad situation all around.
Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 10 Feb 2013 5:40 pm
Reviewer: Emily Redbird (Signed) [Report This]
    Really, REALLY good and interesting story! I love it! And you don't fall into the trap of making Snape softer than he is. Your Snape is angry, mean, vengeful, but somehow you can't really dislike him. That is a very good character portrayal:)

    I really enjoyed this story, thank you for posting it:)

    Emily Redbird

    Author's Response: Thank you! It was my very first, and it's so much fun when somebody finds it after all this time and enjoys it. I love Snape in all his miserable, nasty, bitter glory, and I'm glad you think I did him justice.
Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 06 Jan 2010 8:34 am
Reviewer: Ivy-Green (Signed) [Report This]
    AHHHH!! IT'S OVER!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    Well, this is probably the most inventive fic I've read in a LONG while. It actually makes me want to write one similar, but it'd be TOO similar and nowhere near as good as yours, so I should be content with this. (Plus my mind just thinks way too much and I would probably lose some interest in it after a while if I even tried)

    I do feel kind of sad for Severus though. Harry got his real family in the end, what did Severus really get? Sure, technically it's his family too, but he still doesn't seem to like Harry very much, and how would he react to seeing his father with a new baby, cooing and kissing on him, and knowing the fact that even though Harry had to do it, his real father left him with a terrible childhood, never loving him much if any? (Not that he WANTED the love- but still) I guess I'm thinking too much on this because something similar (without someone younger from the future coming to the past thing) happened to a friend of mine and she kinda really resents her dad because of it... but then I'm over thinking this, aren't I?

    Well, I really enjoyed this story, with all of Harry and Snape's hiccups and burps along the way. Very well done!! Thanks for the story Attackfish! :D

    Author's Response: I do that too.  I read a story and go "this is a great idea, ooh, how would I do this," and then it never gets written, which is probably a good thing.  I'm really glad you liked it that much though.  I answered a challenge to write this off the wall idea completely straight, so that part wasn't my idea.  The 100,000 words that went around it, though...  Speaking off Snape as Harry's kid, I get a horrible joy out of the idea of Snape reincarnated as James Sirius Potter.

    Harry's really trying, both to form a relationship with Snape now, and to see that he forms a relationship with his siblings.  As I said, I have three much older siblings, and in "Literary Minds", I wanted to show some of how good those sibling bonds can be.  Harry's trying, clumsily, to set that up.  If he tried to lavish Snape with affection, at this point, he'd end up as a bloody spot on the wall.

    Thank you for reading this.  It was the first fanfiction I ever wrote, and I was feeling less than proud of it for a while.  You reminded me there were good bits to it too and got me to reread it.
Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 30 Nov 2008 2:54 pm
Reviewer: iluvchocs (Signed) [Report This]
    I really enjoyed this story - it's a concept I don't think I've read before, and it really drew me in. You also managed to show how everyone was adjusting to life after Voldemort, the reactions of students like Ginny and the 'old' firsties, which was really interesting. Thanks a lot for this - I look forward to your future work.

    Author's Response:

    Thanks, I'm kind of thrilled someone other than me likes the way I characterized Ginny.  The young first years (especially the Muggleborns) feel profoundly that everyone else at Hogwarts has gone through something that they will never quite be able to comprehend, and to some extent, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and the rest of the school feel that way about each other.  Ginny of course feels more outside than ever, poor kid.

    Heroic fiction tends to end abruptly when the main villain is done away with, but I've always been much more interested in the fumbling rebuilding after the battle is over.  That's what brings about the new world system.  I'm also more interested in the way things work during the rise of the major villain as well, which is why the novel length fic I'm working on now centers around the school days of Snape, Lily, and the Marauders, but (sadly unlike most of the fics about that era) focuses a lot on Snape living in Slytherin and the rise of Voldemort.

    As I said, I'm currently working on a novel length fanfiction, but I can't post it here because Harry isn't in it. (It takes place during the Marauders et. al.'s fifth and sixth years, so Lily and James aren't even dating).  I have it and all the rest of my fic posted on my LiveJournal account under the same username and conveniently linked with summaries on my LJ profile.  The title is "Children of Mars" and it only has one chapter up right now, but I post on the first of every month.

Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 16 Oct 2008 2:06 am
Reviewer: ObsessiveaboutSnape (Signed) [Report This]
    ok.
    Oh. Wow.
    This was actually quite awesome.
    I had no idea i would enjoy it this much. I love this chapter, the epilogue. It was really well done.


    I wonder how snape acted at Harry and Ginny's wedding.......?

    Author's Response:

    Lol, I think you're my first reviewer to have read through my whole story at once the first time around.  I'm glad thw whole is to your satisfaction.

    He sat in the back, folded his arms, scowled, and bit his tongue.

Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 07 Oct 2008 4:55 pm
Reviewer: little-sun (Signed) [Report This]
    It is a really nice story. Long and lovely. Mila

    Author's Response: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.  Writing it occasionally felt a bit like an epic undertaking.
Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 07 Oct 2008 2:32 am
Reviewer: Ebony StarStorm (Signed) [Report This]
    The one thing I'm curious about is this, does severus still look like a Potter, or has the glamour been replaced at this point.

    Author's Response:

    I stated earlier in the story that the glamour can't be replaced because of the type of glamour, so he still looks like a Potter. Poor bastard.

Title: Epilogue: Six Years Later 30 Sep 2008 3:30 am
Reviewer: Harriverse (Anonymous) [Report This]
    I think you did a nice job developing Harry. He seemed so mature in the difficult situation he was in when he time traveled. Then again when he had to develop a relationship with Snape--after being a kid again. He showed signs of growing into an incredible man in both instances once he realized that his anger was actually getting him no-where. As for Snape, I'm sorry that he had no resolution left to him besides a grudging acceptance of the situation. Wasn't realizing that he never could have had Lilly enough for him to finally move on? I thought he was going to destroy Harry when he mocked him over creating the death of the Potter's through his actions and condemning himself as well as Snape to the life's that they had lived to that point. And Harry's reactions in wondering about his own unhappy childhood I thought would have broken anyone else. I was surprised that two points were left unexplored that I was interested in following: The Belby thefts and the Wizengamot letter. Considering Harry himself pointed out that Snape would have been ideal for the subterfuge and backstabbing it would have taken to navigate that august body, I'm sorry you couldn't have manipulated the situation that another Potter had accepted it (Snape). And the Belby thefts played such an important role in Snape's life--denying him the respect and fortune he deserved for his brilliance, left me hanging. Otherwise, your ending was good and as you noted it did stick with the most important relationship central to your story. Congratulations on a terrific story!

    Author's Response:

    I do address Belby briefly in the short story "Literary Minds" that I'm writing in the same universe.  I contemplated having Harry manipulate the Wizengamot into accepting Snape instead, but I rather thought that even if Harry had, Snape would have refused.  He deserves his rest.  Harry is outspoken in his later days against the Wizengamot, if it's any comfort.

    Snape is never someone to make things easy on himself.  On the other hand, I don't think this leaves him more tortured than he was before, just differently tortured, if that makes any sense.  He isn't well suited to contentment.  Even if he had gotten over lily, he probably wouldn't enjoy sharing his life with someone else.  He likes his solitude.

    I'm glad you liked my characterization of Harry.  In canon, he goes through so much at such a young age that toughens him and grows him up before his time.  I tried to bring that maturity, but also his youth and temper to him in this fic.  It's been a lot of fun to write, but I do get a lot of pleasure from finishing.


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