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Reviews For An Unfortunate Crash-Landing
Author's Response: ... I have just posted chapter three, and I hope you think that it will cover that well enough.
Author's Response: yay :) more is coming soon...
I'm surprised Snape didn't give Harry more instructions. Like "Go straight to the bath and then your room." Snape has allowed Harry to do things unattended. Like wait for Dumbledore. I guess he assumes Harry will behave? Or maybe that there isn't anything Harry can mess up? I'm really enjoying this story. thanks for writing and sharing! Author's Response: They were hard on him, weren't they? Reading it back made me realise just how hard they were being-- and perhaps it is being too hard for the level of culpability that Harry has, but it really could have ended awfully. I think that at this point Snape feels that Harry's been pretty well squashed (and he could tell Harry had been crying, too) so didn't see the need to give him more instructions; probably Harry wouldn't have been able to process them, either, since he was pretty well out of it. As for the waiting unattended, I think that Snape just wanted some time free from the "Potter irritant"-- and he weighed up that with the possibility of Harry snooping. Given that he's only there in the summer and maybe the other holidays I don't think that he'd keep too many things of a personal nature in this house, or not in the more public room of the parlour anyway. All he does in there really is read-- and that's where he has tea with anyone who imposes their presence on him. I like to think that he has a nosy old lady as a neighbour so he makes sure to keep that room as uninteresting as possible to thwart her sticky-beaking tendencies. Hmm I like how these reviews get me thinking-- thanks for the comments, and the next and last two chapters will be going up in the next few weeks.
Poor George. I hope he gets healed quick. Harry is really going to feel his bruises in the morning. I wonder what Snape has in store for him. Good start! Author's Response: Ooh I hadn't thought that it might have been Dobby, but now you mention it that's a good idea... I must admit I hadn't really thought about why the car broke down. In the book it does start malfunctioning when they are flying to Hogwarts, so I suppose I just moved that up earlier.
Author's Response: At this point, after Ron's revelations the previous night, both Snape and Dumbledore know enough about Harry's home life to know the most likely reason that he was so glad to get into that car and fly away from the Dursleys. And I suppose I'm not too sure that Harry really has any kind of sophisticated reasoning behind his actions-- it all happened very quickly and it was a chance to get away, so he took it. I do see your point about Dumbledore, though, it might have been more in character for him to ask.
Author's Response: thank you :)
Author's Response: hahaha Snape is very good at being intense, he's had a lot of practice. I think here he's in an interesting confluence of emotions-- angry, a bit resentful, shocked at such sheer recklessness, maybe he was a bit scared at what might have happened-- and really I think he is entirely aware of what could have happened to Harry and the Weasleys. He does live in a muggle town after all, and would be familiar with car crashes.
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