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Reviews For For The Boy Who Has Everything
Author's Response: I'm glad you're enjoying it! I think Harry and Snape are really having some sort of misunderstanding when it comes to Harry's childhood. Snape might be more sympathetic if Harry would focus on something that doesn't sound like, "Oh, poor me, I didn't get what I WANTED." That said, he is clearly aware that Harry had a rotten time with the Dursleys. He just hasn't moved on from being aware of it to caring. Harry won't be getting many warm fuzzies in the very near future, but Hadrian might. I agree that Harry is very lonely and worn down right now. He's under a lot of stress from multiple sources, and we all know how tiring it is to be under constant stress day after day. That's why he's started having panic attacks. He just can't deal with everything without being allowed a way to vent.
Author's Response: Fortunately for Harry, it's finally his birthday, so he won't have to shuffle around like a pathetic Squib anymore. That will be one load off his shoulders. :-)
Author's Response: Thanks! Snape already knows (he found out at some point between Dumbledore's death and the time he took Harry from the Dursleys). Harry will find out eventually, but not very soon.
Now to figure out what'll happen when Harry goes to the chamber of secrets, and when the horx will be revealed. Author's Response: Thank you! I LOVE reviews, especially when readers tell me what they like, what works for them, or what doesn't work for them, since I can then try to fix any problems (plot holes or a lack of clarity). But, I really don't care how many of them I get, or how many per chapter. I don't know if waiting longer between chapters would increase the number of reviews (I'm not convinced it would), but it would be silly to keep a completed chapter un-uploaded. :-)
Can't wait for the next chapter :) Author's Response: Thanks! Yes, I think that is the biggest and best-developed talent Harry has. LOL Next chapter will be out soon. My beta got it back to me this afternoon, so I just need to edit it and discuss a few things with her (we usually argue/discuss at least a few things).
Author's Response: Thanks! Pretty much 99-percent of anything he's told goes right over Harry's head. Even if he had noticed, he probably would have assumed it was just one of those things everybody (but him) knows about The Boy Who Lived. As it happens, Snape not so much remembers it (he didn't know he was Harry's father until this summer, either), but he had a reason to know the exact time because it concerned "Hadrian". The Severitus challenge has 7 requirements, but only 4 of them are plot requirements (the others are requests, such as to be sent a link to the story). The plot requirements are as follows: (1) Snape is revealed to be Harry's father. (2) Lupin returns to Hogwarts for whatever reason. (3) Harry undergoes a progressive change in appearance starting on his birthday (which is the one that I'm taking the most liberty with, but it will happen!). (4) Story is mostly based around Harry and Snape (slowly getting there...). Many stories I've read use some kind of letter, Pensieve memory, Gringotts vault item, or some other device like that, which is why you might be thinking that that's a requirement. There are actually no requirements at all about how Harry learns any of this, or the timeframe. He doesn't have to learn on his birthday, or from any specific person or any specific method. I don't know why most Severitus stories end up being so alike in how they deal with the big announcement.
I loved that scene of Snape taking care of Harry. Very cute. Very unSnapish. But still Snapish, because of course he wasn't mushy about it, but somehow it showed caring for Harry just a little. I can't wait for the next chapter. You are spoiling us! Author's Response: It is sad, but it's kind of his own fault for messing with something he was told not to touch. Yes and no, on thinking Snape will kill him. It's a very complicated problem. If he is a horcrux, then Dumbledore's message is valid and Dumbledore's orders to Snape are also still in play. He doesn't have any reason to be afraid Snape is going to stab or poison him at first opportunity, because Snape doesn't believe that Harry is a horcrux. He also has managed to understand that Snape never wanted to follow those orders. It's just that "doesn't want to" doesn't translate to "won't have to". Yeah, Snape managed to be pretty decent to Harry even when they were in private. The exchange in the hallway doesn't count, since that was a public space and Snape would have acted like a concerned parent out of necessity, but he didn't completely drop the act once the door was closed. Or, at least, not until Harry was well again and had managed to annoy him. He was even willing to answer Harry's questions without malice, right up until Harry made the choice to be untruthful and changed the focus of the conversation to something Snape considered frivolous.
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