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Reviews by Bil
What was it that drove him to the point of insanity? They say a wounded mind may never heal, but he knows he isn't mental. Maybe only a little crazy. One shot.
Takes Place: 8 - Post Hogwarts (young adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None Tags: None Categories: Misc
Rated: K+
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jun 2006 / 04 Jun 2006 Series: None - Challenges: None
That was really great! I like the slow unfolding of identities. Like the *they*, I thought they must be some nasty people at first, and then they turned out to be friends trying to help him. The Snape-Harry interaction was great too. The line about Snape, "The enemy’s eyes were deepest, darkest black, glinting with anger and pity." is wonderful, the "pity" just turns it all around. I like how Snape is working so hard to save the mind of someone he doesn't even like. Poor guy. Your portrayal of Harry's madness is wonderful too. I really enjoyed this fic, thank you very much. Hedwig, Harry's loyal owl, delivers a message to Professor Snape. The fallout from that letter will be long lasting. Will Harry ever be able to live with Snape knowing his deepest secrets? Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. In Response to the Morning Post Challenge by Jan_AQ.
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None Tags: Alternate Universe Categories: Fic Fests > #7 Challenge Fest, Misc > Strictly Canon Universe
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 01 May 2009 / 01 May 2009 Series: None - Challenges: Morning Post
Author's Response: Thanks so much. I like repetitive phrases as devices in short stories. I think they convey a world of ideas with a few words. I'm glad that the Professor Snape bit did it for you. Thanks for the kind words and the support you showed this story. T Harry discovers something interesting about Snape. Entrant in the 2009 Challenge Fest. Response to the Weird Collection Challenge by Ponytail Goddess.
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None Tags: Alternate Universe Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Fic Fests > #7 Challenge Fest
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 May 2009 / 03 May 2009 Series: None - Challenges: Weird Collection
I love how it's a while before we figure out just what Snape's been doing and what Albus's plan is and how it's gone wrong. The unfolding mystery is great. The line about the twins "able to scent a prank a week and ten miles away in their sleep" is hilarious and spot on. Albus's confusion about the lack of reaction is great and the idea that he's a prankster himself is unexpected but works so very well. And it's a much better explanation for his behaviour towards the Marauders than most of those out there. (And I love that the difference between Dumbledore and Sirius is that the former actually thinks things through.) Harry's reaction to what Snape and Hermione are doing is great. And I absolutely adore the mental image of Snape with a My Little Pony in hand. And accessories! Can't forget those! Such a wonderful, crazy idea :) Your explanation for why they were doing cleaning up the ponies by hand was quite believable too. Hermione and Snape's interaction re revenge was fun, and it was funny that even though Harry wasn't really involved he was still the one to come up with the Howler idea - and I love Snape's growing realisation of how well it could work. The delivery of the howler was great, everyone wondering what's going on and Albus's fear. Then the "IDIOT" and the green... and the pile of ponies! Hilarious! I laughed so much reading this story. Thank you! It was great. And it's even hilarious on a second read through when I know what's going to happen because I'm anticipating what's coming up. Brilliantly done! Author's Response: ::beaming smile:: I'm glad you enjoyed it! The storyline kind of took over and went where it wanted, quite separate from what I originally had planned out. Heh--I might have to do another humorous fic, this one went over so well! Remus, Sirius, James and Snape all take a paternity test. Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. In response to the Whose Son? Challenge by ObsidianEmbrace.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None Tags: Alternate Universe, Baby fic Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: T
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Warnings: Alcohol Use, Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 May 2009 / 04 May 2009 Series: None - Challenges: Whose Son?
All the First Year students have been told that a certain Potions Master is a Vampire but only three students are willing to venture into Severus Snape's private chambers. Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. In response to the On a Halloween Night Challenge by Missy Eye.
Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None Tags: Alternate Universe Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 May 2009 / 06 May 2009 Series: None - Challenges: On a Halloween Night
Harry's reasoning for why he's so set on discrediting Snape is wonderful. His thought that Hogwarts without Snape would be perfect is to me just what Harry would think; it's also so sad, poor boy. I like the idea that Snape spends the anniversary of Lily's death remembering her; that's (dare I say it) sweet. The confrontation between Harry and Snape is great. The unfolding similarities between the two and Snape's understanding of that are well done. And I love the line "His eyes seemed less haunting and more haunted." The quiet handing over of the photo was great; understated, because Snape would never admit to doing something so sympathetic, yet exactly what Harry needed. The ending was great, especially knowing how the canon version of the scene went. I like this one better :) Snape sticking up for Harry! Great stuff. I enjoyed this story. Author's Response: The sheer length of this review makes me deliriously happy. I had to think like a little boy. I tried to take away all rational and thoughts of consequences and just think about immediate action - in other words - think like Harry :) Snape, if I've said it before I apologize, really is a big softie :))). He'sy just a toasted marshmallow. All crunchy and burnt on the outside, and sweet and gooey in the inside. If Snape ever found the records of me saying that, however, I might be glared to death. I'm so glad I seemed to have found a balance between my GUSHYHUGGYSNAPE urges and my SNARKYEVILSNAPE urges. I wanted him to be understated and quietly nice, but snarky and hateable all the same. Thank you! Severus Snape, high ranking Death Eater and Headmaster of Hogwarts, finds out that his son is not his own when the boy's glamour begins to break. Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. In Response to the Cruel Reversal Challenge by FoolishWishmaker.
Takes Place: 6th Year - Snape flavour: None Tags: Alternate Universe Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K
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Warnings: Profanity, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 May 2009 / 07 May 2009 Series: Good People and Death Eaters - Challenges: Cruel Reversal
OK, I just read it a second time. And still, seriously, wow. The interaction between Severus and Lily is great. I love Severus's reason for coming to her, that bit about "it being someone he knew, someone real made a difference"; that's really cool and makes a lot of sense. And then Lily's frantic, desperate plan... The way you've written it really works, because she's so set on saving Harry and goes through with her plan even when she doesn't want to. The stuff with Harry and James, Harry and Severus, Severus and James, is just excellent. You really make the characters real and interesting and set out this alternative world with all its changes so well. The stuff with Harry unable to do the Cruciatus is great and then the optomitrist and the unveiling of Lily's big secret is wonderful. It's a scary sort of world you've created here, but it's so well done! I really really really love this story. It's amazing! Author's Response: Thank you! This story was one of those stories that just demanded to be written right now damnit, and that worries me, because sometimes those stories work, and sometimes they’re absolute crap. I did my best actually to keep everybody really in character, though I did give James the chance to grow up, and even as this takes place in a demented frightening dystopia, I wanted it to be centered really strongly on the relationships of the people in that house.
I’d actually been waiting to use that particular line about Snape since before DH came out (so before I started writing fanfic, even), and I hadn’t written the right story for it until now. Of course his unrequited love for Lily screwed it all up for me in canon, but in this story, I can have my cake and eat it too.
Poor Lily, she feels like such a rat.
As for the Cruciatus, I wrote myself into a corner with that (because I wasn’t planning the sequel yet) and only last week figured out how to write myself out of it (and dump more angst on these poor tortured souls). I have to pity the poor optometrist, because he’s so frightened, and in the middle of all this nastiness that he has no clue about, and then, snap, Snape obliviates him. Forget me using him as an object, the other characters are!
The thing is, as a writer, I know as soon as Snape gets out that pensieve, he feels like a fool, which of course is buried under all his other messy emotions. It was fun to play with it in my head before I wrote it down, just seeing which ways I could go with it.
It’s supposed to be a scary world ;) I was going to write a perfectly normal answer to the challenge, with everything set in a world with only a minor change, and then it hit me in the grocery store, surrounded by people who did not appreciate the staring into space thing, that if Harry weren’t the child of both James and Lily, Voldemort would have no reason to go after him, and would go after Neville instead. Furthermore, Neville’s mom wasn’t the object of affection for any of the Death Eaters, so he had no reason to offer her life the way he did Lily (“Stand aside you silly girl” and all that) so there would have been no mother’s sacrifice, and no early fall of Voldemort. Then this wrote itself in three days, and I was weirded out as much as anyone else. Everyone makes mistakes, even great men like Dumbledore. But was placing six-year-old Harry Potter with Severus Snape the biggest mistake of them all? Or maybe…it could work out after all. Entrant in the 2009 Prompt Fest. Prompts: Bravery is Overrated and Boggart Under the Bed.
Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None Tags: Child fic Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Rated: K
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Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 Nov 2009 / 16 Nov 2009 Series: None - Challenges: None
I liked the way you portrayed Harry, all silent and scuttling; the poor kid must have been scared out of his wits. The library scene was great, I love the image of a frustrated Snape shoving Harry in front of a book. The humour in this story is wonderful, Snape's sarcasm is great. Lines like "Was he really so low down in the hierarchy that Prince Potter could not even bring himself to speak to him?" are just so Snape and so funny. But the imaginary boggart is the best bit, that's just so funny! I love that he checked Dumbledore wasn't around before looking under the bed. But oh boy is he not going to be happy when he wakes up! Awesome! I really enjoyed this fic, it was heaps of fun and made me grin like an idiot :) Thanks for writing! During an emergency, Severus is forced to make a choice with horrific consequences. Can he justify his actions? Entrant in the 2009 Prompt Fest. Prompts: Pandemonium and Traitor
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None Tags: Alternate Universe, Physical Impairment Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Author's Response: I'm glad you found my emotions vibrant--that's what I was hoping for. Poor Snape, it was really a lose-lose situation for him. No matter what he did, he wouldn't like the consequences. Thanks for reading! -P.G. A midnight escapade does not go as planned when Harry finds himself injured, locked in Snape’s storage room and worst of all, doused in Veritaserum. And this is all before Snape finds him. Entrant in the 2009 Prompt Fest. Prompts: Locked in Snape's Storage Room and Veritaserum
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None Tags: None Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 22 Nov 2009 / 22 Nov 2009 Series: None - Challenges: None
I really like the first paragraph; it makes it perfectly believable that Harry would do something so silly as sneak into Snape's potions stores. The conversation between Snape and Harry is wonderful. Snape's making full use of the opportunity at hand - and yet really he isn't, he isn't doing any taunting or anything and in the end he offers Harry some advice. I like this side of Snape. Very cool. The idea of Harry and the Boy Who Lived being two different people was well described and I like Harry's realisation that Snape's one of the few people to notice. It's cool that Harry loosens up enough to ask Snape for advice and then immediately after gets defiant and tries to stand up; it's very Harry to refuse to admit limits, especially from Snape. The ending is great: dreamless sleep, scar remover... and threats :) And now we return you to your usual programming... Great, great story. I loved it! Author's Response: Snape can only be nice so long, then it seems he must make up for it by being extra despicable, lol. ^_^ A comparision to canon? I don't know whether to blush or hyperventilate, ^_-
Severus has some fun, finally. Entrant in the 2009 Prompt Fest. Prompts: Castle Roof and 'The wind whipped through his dark hair as he flew through the clouds.'
Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None Tags: Alternate Universe Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Fic Fests > #9 Prompt Fest 2009
Rated: K+
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Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 23 Nov 2009 / 23 Nov 2009 Series: None - Challenges: None
“Harry would bet that if Snape turned crazy, he would start poisoning people all around, not crashing into them.” lol! I really loved this. Amazing job on the drabbles - I hadn't noticed, but well done! It was great that Severus noticed Harry was spying on him, that made me laugh. The pranks were brilliant and I loved the end paragraph (especially the fact that none of the chocolate was poisoned!). This story was heaps of fun! Author's Response: Thank you very much. I had so much fun writing the story :-) |
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