| Title: Nightmares and Dreadful Realities
| 21 Jul 2008 10:03 pm
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| Reviewer: GoLd (Signed)
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Love it! Please post ASAP!!
“I am wondering who it is you are trying to save.” For all that I do not like the way Dumbledore manipulates people for his own ends, I have to say he has a point here. I think Severus is trying to save himself and to make up for not being able to save Lily, to do domething to demonstrate his repentence, to make amends for his ill considered choices as a young man that in his mind led directly to Lily's death. Rather self centered of him in a way, isn't it? But perfectly human. Young people are self-centered in the way they respond to the events that occur around them. Guilt also has a lot to do with it. He wants to be able to go back and change things so that Lily will be saved but even with magic, it is impossible so he is assigning Lily's role to Harry, now that he is actually looking at the boy and seeing that he isn't just a clone of James Potter.
Of course, given Dumbledore's typical manipulation of people and his knowledge of the similarities between Severus' childhood and Harry's childhood, it wasn't vvery hard of him to set things up to get what he wants: Severus in a parental role for "The Boy Who Lived". After all, Severus is really the only person around truly capable of teaching Harry what he needs to know to defeat the Dark Lord and everything that Dumbledore does leads to that end. There may be some feelings of affection involved but the way you've got this written it feels as though the emptional relationship is going to be between Severus and Harry in spite of the Headmaster's machinations.
I like the level of description in both the characters reactions and the setting. I also like your subtlty in giving Severus and (your readers) the clues to what is really going on with Harry rather than dumping everything out in a "laundry-list" of too much information at once. You'd created an excellent piece of writing here.
As for whether it will be difficult to persuade the Dursleys...well, I'm sure the Potions Master will manage in his own inimitable way. Once again, bravo!
| Title: Nightmares and Dreadful Realities
| 21 Jul 2008 5:49 pm
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| Reviewer: Nightshade (Anonymous)
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Please please please please update soon!!! This is really getting good.
Whoot!!! It was really good. Keep it up. *takes the Pumpkin Pastie
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