This is AMAZING!! It's unlike anything I've read before. How did you think of such an awesome idea? Joanna sounds really nice and it's nice to know that Snape is trying to make an effort with Sam. I really like the dialogue between Harry and Sam too. It sounds so natural, like they've known each other for years. I'm so excited to see where you take this:) This is awesome!!
Author's Response: It's been in my head in one form or another for awhile. I've started a cpl stories where Snape gets Harry out of jail but they didn't stick with me. This one has some loose basis off of "The OC" a tv show I used to watch in High school. Troubled teen steals a car and gets thrown in jail, good public attourney gets him out and offers to help him. Kid gets kicked out of his house by lousy drunk mom and does accept the attourneys help and then has to figure out how to integrate into this wealthy upper class family. What I took from that show is Harry getting taken in by Snape (who in this case has issues of his own trying to hold together his own life with his new family), as well as Harry returning home to find everything gone. Other than that the rest just came to me. I know this story doesn't have a lot of angst, but where this story is going just feels... right to me. I can't yet recall feeling right about where a story is going, even if they turn out good in the end. I've pretty well got planned out where they're going from here. I don't usually write too much that the characters wouldn't already be doing. To me I put them in a situation and then they take it from there and I'm just writing to keep up with them and how they're feeling, what they're saying etc. Hope that helps.
Thanks for the awesome review!