OOh, I can't wait for the next chapter! Please tell me that Harry is going to get a spanking!

After a second reading of the second chapter some more observations:

I love Snape's reaction to Harry's 'the bathbrush hit me'. "How unusual" indeed. Snarf, snarf.

The whole breakfast thing (and bath and checking for a fever thing etc) breaks me up. Harry wants to be treated like or at least equal to an adult. He adresses Snape as 'Snape' instead of 'Professor' or 'Sir', he thinks his breakfast is inferior ('for a baby') even though it is delicious and superior to anything he would get at the Dursleys and he insists on getting all the information and having a say in matters. And Snape constantly reminds him to the fact, in word and deed, that Harry is a teenager and not an adult. This is better than Shakespear! Instead of 'The Taming of the Shrew' we get 'The Taming of the Tantrum-happy Teenager'. *snicker*

Oh, and I love the way how, for all Harry's complains, whinings and misgivings, Snape in fact treats him quite well. Snape has NOT bruised him, does NOT lock him up, does NOT give him inferior food and is in fact very reasonable and hospitable. He just demands the consideration and respect a fifteenyearold should show his teacher and elder. And Harry, having been spoiled to bits by Dumbledore, McGonagal, Lupin and Sirius and having learned to dismiss the Dursleys as inconsequential, is not ready to accomodate. Ohhh, there's going to be some fireworks at Snapdragon Manor!! ;-)