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Reviews For No Difference
'Snape descended on him like a walking, raging, ink stain.' And this was very funny. Great chapter. Will father and son ever find a modicum of positive feeling for each other, I wonder. Loved the confrontation between Andromeda and Harry. Teddy was very cute. Why isn't HArry, almost an adopted son, with the Wesleys? Why wouldn't he want to be at Fred's funeral. It seems strnage to me that he is not at the Burrow. Lesley~ Author's Response: Thank you! I wanted to keep parts of this light. The journey to whatever the two of them come to as an emotional status is the point of the story. You get no freebees. Isn't he though? He appears later and I was worried I'd have to warn for kidfic. They'd certainly have him go with them if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to intrude. He's almost but not quite part of their family, and he feels the almost stronger than they do.
I wonder if he will want to remove the glamour. The mass funeral seemed a touch impersonal. I would have thoughmost of the families of the dead would have wanted to bury their own. Were Remus and Tonks part of that? Why wouldn't Andromeda have wanted to at least bury her daughter in a place of her own choosing. Though I would hate to think that she would separate remus and Tonks in death. Harry still doesn't seem to chuffed to be Ginny's boyfriend. Lesley~ Author's Response: Snape's in shock, poor man. Snape? Want to remove glamour? Oh Hell no. It's a bit impersonal, but they're being buried as war heroes. Their funeral is a state event. Lupin's body wasn't claimed by family, and Andromeda couldn't, so she wanted them to be buried together. Besides, I doubt anyone there thought it was impersonal. They were all a bit overwhelmed. Harry isn't. He doesn't want to tell her anything and can't think of anything to tell her if he didn't get back together with her.
It doesn't seem as if there are going to be any reprisals for snape. I hope this is true. Most of the post DH stories I have read where Sev survives, he is given hell and even with Harry's testimony at trials, no one believes that he wasn't a DE and everyone still believes he killed DD. I hope that if Harry and Ginny remain a couple that he isn't pining for Eileen the whole time as you stated that he had not thought that he would miss Eileen so badly. Sounds like he might have loved her. Will he love Ginny or just be with her because it's easy and familiar. Can't wait to see Sev's reaction to the revelations he is going to view. Lesley~ Author's Response: A little thing like nearly fatal snake bite? Mellow Snape out? Yeah right. Erm, you get to find out a bit of that later in the story. I shan't say more. Familiarity breeds comfort, and that's enough reason for many people to stay together. He certainly likes her.
And to meet DD near the forest. I suppose he had to tell him what had to happenin the future. Though, it has happened! It seems that everything is going to keep going around and around in circles. The concept boggles my mind. So, Harry is going to go all the way through Hogwarts knowing that Snape is his son. See, I am totally confused. Still, am looking forward to reading how things transpire. Lesley~ Author's Response: Harry learned it in class. With as few spells we know about from canon, they have to be learining others. I just filled in. Harry does have his wand, and I think power has more to do with the wizard, and Harry's quite powerful. Harry's meeting with AD made it possible to avoid a paradox. No, AD isn't going to tell him, he will know nothing. Thank you!
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.
Author's Response: Thank you! Lol, just a little bit.
Author's Response: Harry is quieter and more reserved than his father, and not more than usually fond of jokes and pranks. He has a serious caring disposition, whereas Ginny likes pranks, noise, and causing a bit of chaos. Therefore, she's more like James Potter than Lily Evans and Harry is more like Lily than she. I also forgot an apostrophe and an "s". Wow, I'm really surprised, most people don't come around to her. It makes me happy!
Author's Response: You're in good company, but then, tha harry/Ginny ship was not the intended focus of the fic.
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I try so hard to read minds, but whenever I wave my pen around muttering "Legilimens," I just get strange looks. I most confess though, this is a challenge fic, so the "Harry is Snape's father" prompt wasn't strictly mine.
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. |
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