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Title: A Mother's Love 19 Jun 2011 5:01 pm
Reviewer: Judy (Signed) [Report This]
    Beautiful chapter! I cried there at the end. And I liked how Severus explained things about the wizarding world to Harry. More please!
Title: Ten Years Gone 19 Jun 2011 4:57 pm
Reviewer: Judy (Signed) [Report This]
    Poor Lily! And poor Severus too! All those years . . .taken away.

    I hope that he can do what he says and help Harry control his powers.

    So Sirius really was guilty in this version that's something you don't see often.
Title: Lightning Crashes 19 Jun 2011 4:54 pm
Reviewer: Judy (Signed) [Report This]
    Wow! What an awesome start! I am glad that Harry killed Voldemort and the rotten Dursleys. Harry's power is scary but he doesn't deserve to die for it. Stupid Fudge!

    I'm so glad that Lily is awake!
Title: Ten Years Gone 19 Jun 2011 3:26 pm
Reviewer: DrSnape (Signed) [Report This]
    Great chapter! I'm so happy that Lily's awake and she's got all her wits about her. That's important. Can't wait for the reunion!
Title: Behind Closed Doors 19 Jun 2011 3:23 pm
Reviewer: DrSnape (Signed) [Report This]
    That was great! I can't stand the Dursleys, they were always abusive, even in the books. I hope Severus can help Harry with his issues and his power. I'm really glad Harry has Lily to support him and love him, that'll help more than anything.

    Can't wait till they go to Severus' home. I wonder what it looks like.
Title: A Mother's Love 19 Jun 2011 3:18 pm
Reviewer: DrSnape (Signed) [Report This]
    Aww that was so sweet, when Lily saw Harry for the first time! Brilliant! I also liked how we got both of their reactions, it makes it more insightful!

    Now on to the next chapter.
Title: A Mother's Love 10 Apr 2011 8:23 am
Reviewer: Snapesexfiend (Signed) [Report This]
    I loved this chapter. I enjoyed seeing the different perspectives of each of the characters and the moment between Lily and Harry was so tender, this is how I would have reacted with my son if I had woken up after ten years in a coma.

    I hope that Lily and Sev can become a real family and that Harry doesn't die or go mad because of his powers.

    It was a beautifully done chapter.

    Oh, and to the anon. reviewer who left a review before me:

    You need to quite telling the author how to write her story. This fanfiction, not canon, and that means the author can write the characters any way she likes. If she doesn't want Lily to mourn that fathead James, that's her choice and either you accept it or just quit reading. If you have a problem with the way the story is written, just leave it alone. Why bother reading and reviewing? Or if you think you can write so much better, write your own damn story and quit harassing the author.
Title: A Mother's Love 10 Apr 2011 4:56 am
Reviewer: Peggy (Anonymous) [Report This]
    I'm trying to follow this story, but the convenient plot points and run on sentences are making it difficult.

    How does Lily mourn for James when she is in a coma? I just can't get past that point. It's too convenient for me to believe it.

    As a writer, you want the readers to feel emotion when reading the story, but you can go too far. Hundreds of words could be deleted from this chapter, and it would probably make it more effective. All the fluff is overkill and makes everything fall emotionally flat, which is probably not your intended outcome.

    Now for the grammar. You have multiple run on sentences. Too many to list, but here is one example:

    "His face was all angles and his nose slightly prominent, he might have been forbidding if he had been scowling, but right then Severus was wearing a concerned expression, and so Harry was not afraid of this strange man."

    It's okay to use shorter sentences and that one could probably be made into 3 or 4. Go easy on the commas. Periods are your friend.

    Another thing that you do is switch POVs way too often. I can never tell whose head I'm in. Which POV are you trying to show a scene from? You should pick a character and stay there. If you feel you need to change, make that clear to the reader. The way you're doing things now is very confusing and distracting.

    Author's Response:

    I guess you didn't bother reading my response to your first review, which was to let you know that this is an AU universe and characters in it don't act like their canon selves.  So your assumption that Lily should grieve differently for James is wrong.  Lily made a mistake when she married James and she does not love him as you assume. That should have been clear from the fact that she has moved on after his death.  people in comas can understand things that are spoken to them and assimilate them in their subcosncious mind.  Plus, as I stated already, she knew James was dead and accepted the fact.  That she isn't obviously mourning him should tell you that she wasn't deeply in love with him.  That her heart belonged to someone else. 

    Secondly why should I limit myself to one POV? As a writer I have a choice to show multiple POV's and not just one so you can see the characters better.  I don't know why you find it confusing, I clearly start out with Lily remembering what happened to her and mourning her lost time with Harry while waiting for Severus to return from checking on Harry. Then I move from her to the conversation between Snape and Harry. You get two POV's here because I want you to see both characters reactions.  Then they go to see Lily and I divide the scene between the two again so you can see how the moment affects both Harry and Lily, and lastly you also get Sev's reaction because he is also important.

    Lastly I don't know why you are still reading this if you don't like either my writing, my portrayal of characters, or anything else about the way this story is going?

Title: A Mother's Love 09 Apr 2011 9:31 pm
Reviewer: Whitetail (Signed) [Report This]
    Great chapter! Definitely made my morning!
Title: Ten Years Gone 26 Mar 2011 7:13 pm
Reviewer: Peggy (Anonymous) [Report This]
    This is an interesting start to a potentially unique storyline. Your first chapter was good. But I have to admit, I was turned off by the second chapter. It seems emotionally flat. The emotion is there. I just don't buy any of it.

    I can't see how anybody, upon waking up from a ten year coma, could possibly have anything to do with romance on their mind. This is ten years gone by like the blink of an eye. She would be grieving over the death of her husband, not thinking about how appealing Snape is and how he could take James's place.

    I also think that Lily would feel bad for her sister's death, and that you said she didn't was a huge turn off for her character. No matter what the relationship was, you grieve for your sister's death because you loved her.

    I recognize that the storyline is different and that circumstances might have changed the characters a bit. But if it were not for their names, I would never have guessed they were supposed to be JKR's characters.

    Now perhaps you're attempting to write completely different characters than canon, because Snape is obviously a completely different man here. So if that's what your intentions are, then much of what I have to say here is irrevelant.

    But if you do want to keep your characters recognizable, then I might suggest giving some more thought to who they are, and possibly rewriting this chapter.

    Author's Response:

    She is grieving for James, but perhaps their marriage wasn't the one you're thinking of from the books, but something totally different.  Perhaps he wasn't her one great love after all.  She was crying in Sev's arms after all, but her emotions are very fragmented.  She has recieved one shock after another and isn't reacting perhaps as a normal person would. She looks at Severus differently because he is the last link she has to both past and present and though she is admiring him as man, she is not at the moment ready for a romantic relationship with him.  However, one can admire a man and not jump immediately into a relationship with him. Think of it as if Lily left for ten years and then returned to Britain and the old friend she left behind has suddenly become someone very handsome, she would definitely notice it. 

    Petunia and Lily didn't have a good relationship at all, they broke apart from each other when Lily chose the magical world and Petunia the Muggle world.  Petunia hated Lily for her decision and wanted nothing further to do with her, and Lily accepted that, though she regretted it.  Lily might have loved her once, as children, but Petunia's nasty and spiteful attitude has since turned Lily away from her, and so there is little love between them.  Just because they are blood does not mean they have to love each other, I have known many sisters who hated each other's guts and couldn't stand the sight of each other, and once Lily discovers what her sister did to Harry she will probably hate her, since Petunia had no reason to do what she did to her nephew.  Lily feels guilty because she knows she SHOULD love her sister, but Petunia has done and said things to her and about her child that make that impossible.  Consider the fact that Petunia wouldn't even come and see her newborn nephew, telling his mother that they didn't want to see a freakish anomaly, not even acknowledging baby Harry as a person.  Would that be something you could forgive a sibling for saying or doing to you? I know I could not, and Lily is not a saint.  The Dursleys in canon prove time and again that they are heartless and cold people who care for nothing save themselves and their status quo.  Other things were said as well, which have not been mentioned yet, that further soured Lily on her relationship with her sister, which is why she never named Petunia as a possible guardian in her will.

    And this is an AU story, which means the characters, due to different life paths, choices, and so forth, have different attitudes and personalities.  Severus not being a spy, dark wizard, or otherwise involved with DE has become a different man, he is not bitter and angry, but he still has his sarcastic side and he still loves Lily.  Whether or not Lily will grow to love him is another matter. This Severus has hope where canon Snape had nothing. Canon Snape had regrets because Lily died, but here she lived and that makes a huge difference in everyone's lives. 

     


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