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Past Featured Story A Place for Warriors by owlsaway starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 554]
Snape and Harry are locked in the Room of Requirement by Dumbledore. Harry's magic works, and Snape's doesn't. Will they kill each other? In response to the 72-Hour Challenge.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Violence
Chapters: 28 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 May 2011 / 30 Jun 2007
Series: None - Challenges: 72 Hour Challenge
Title: Chapter 8: Chapter 8 16 Aug 2007
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    Very good chapter. I've been thinking recently that Hermione would never have done what Lily did. Then, more recently, it dawned on me that Harry wouldn't have done what Lily did either. Oh, they'd have probably had a lot to say about the friend's behavior, but when the apology came, they'd have accepted it. Lily didn't, even though she implied to James in the Worst Memory scene that she wanted Snape's apology to come on his own accord. But then when he brought his apology, and was willing to stay all night at the Gryffindor door (imagine if the Marauders had come along - he was inviting attack), she still wouldn't forgive him.

Title: Chapter 9: Chapter 9 01 Sep 2007
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    Not what I expected, having Harry decide to use grief as the emotion to throw Voldemort out. It was interesting to see Snape's reaction to that. And the Oliver Twist line was pretty good.

Title: Chapter 12: Chapter 12 28 Sep 2007
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    “Were it not for me, Potter, the Dark Lord would never have had the slightest inclination to seek out your family.”

    I was thinking today that Snape probably did think this, and in canon, I think we, the readers, are supposed to assume this as well, but it's simply not true. Lily and James had already defied Voldemort 3 times and were in the Order at the forefront of the war. James was a "blood-traitor" and Lily a "mudblood." The Longbottoms were attacked for having just such characteristics -- not because of Neville. No, even without the prophecy ever being spoken, James and Lily would have been prime targets by Voldemort and the Death Eaters, and without Voldemort's downfall trying to kill Harry, the war would have only continued and they'd very likely have been attacked just as the Longbottoms were. Of course, that doesn't take away Snape's guilt, but it does show that it wasn't solely because of Snape that James and Lily died.

    Good chapter. It did seem just a bit awkward at the point where the snake appears and Snape suddenly jumps into action and then does the "don't know what came over me" reaction.

Title: Chapter 12: Chapter 12 28 Sep 2007
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    I just read a review by, I think, harriverse and wanted to add to my comments. Yes, I'll agree that these trials they're going through are starting to come across like a kind of psychological torture. Sure they learn and grow from it, but I'm starting to think of Nietzsche's comment of "whatever doesn't kill you make you stronger," which certainly doesn't *justify* the situation.

    Anyway, I also wanted to say that my appreciation for this story has grown a good deal with each chapter. I'm really quite interested to see where you finally end up with it.

Title: Chapter 13: Chapter 13 05 Oct 2007
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    I really liked this chapter. I've seen a lot of people speculate that Dumbledore learned the details of what happened at Godrics Hollow through baby Harry's memories. I can even see why he might take them, assuming a 15 month old might still be traumatized by seeing a parent killed. However, it does make it very hard on Harry to get those memories back as a teenager.

    Glad to see Harry going back for Snape.

Title: Chapter 16: Chapter 16 07 Nov 2007
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    Great chapter. I like the way you have the Trio agree to a Fidelius Charm regarding Snape's secrets and am glad that you had Snape insist on this. Somehow, if left up to Dumbledore, it doubt it would have happened that way. I don't actually think it's right that Harry assumes it's *his* call about what he can tell Ron and Hermione, when it is Snape's life at risk. I don't care for the way in Deathly Hallows that Dumbledore keeps vital information from Snape because he's concerned that Voldemort could possibly get it, yet allows Harry to pass the same info along to Ron and Hermione. Either Ron or Hermione, in DH, could easily have ended up captured and forced to give up those secrets, having none of the abilities at secret keeping that Snape had.

Title: Chapter 20: Chapter 20 01 Jul 2008
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    What a completely fascinating set of lines at the end! I loved the progression that their discussion takes through this chapter.

Title: Chapter 24: Chapter 24 09 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    Very, very good chapter. If, as one reviewer commented, the dialogue occasionally seems "disjointed", I think that is actually following the feelings and thoughts of the characters. Their feelings, Harry and Snape that is, *are* disjointed. Neither is sure what they should feel or what they should say or how they should act and your writing reflects that very well.

    Great to see this update!

Title: Chapter 25: Chapter 25 17 Sep 2009
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    Wow, quite a cliffhanger! Great update, but I hope you can update again soon, because now I'm worried for what Dumbledore is about to do to Snape.

Past Featured Story Whelp by jharad17 starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 361]
Harry is 7 years old and treated literally like a dog by the Dursleys. Will he be rescued by the wizarding world? Will he ever be fit to take on the mantle of The Boy Who Lived? Now Complete!

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe, Child fic, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect, Violence
Chapters: 27 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 03 Sep 2007 / 18 Jul 2007
Series: A Boy Called Whelp - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 26: Chapter 26 29 Aug 2007
Reviewer: wynnleaf (Signed)
    Good chapter. I like what you did with Molly.

    On the technique to avoid nightmares, I've used something like that before with young children and it worked fairly well.


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