Thanks for the review, Pellegrina. I'm glad that you're liking it thus far. In response to your points, I never specify that Harry was abused. He's not appreciated by them by any means, but he's not abused in this story. Granted, yes, Harry did live in a cupboard for 10 years and was called a freak. So, yes, likely I should have included a scene with Lily get enraged about that, but I'd assume that Harry would feel ashamed to tell his mother about that and, well, Petunia calling people freaks isn't anything new. So Lily doesn't really know about the cupboard and this Harry has built up a tolerance you could say to Petunia calling him a freak. The table scene in the beginning is the only place where we see any implication that Harry was not appreciated, but this Harry is by no means physically abused as seen in a lot of fics.

As you yourself mentioned it was the 'typical argument.' I just used that for that scene. However, later, when Snape and Harry have a bit of a bonding session, we do get to see Snape apologize for his behavior. It's just a little bit later in the fic. Again, thank you very much for the review.