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Title: In Care Of, Part One 04 Feb 2008 12:08 am
Reviewer: Emilie D (Signed) [Report This]
    This is a really great story. I love the interaction between Snape and Harry. Snape's ongoing, intense reluctance to admit he cares about Harry is very well done, as is Harry's neediness. I loved the correspondence between them in the previous chapters too.

    Nice work!
Title: Upon Receipt 01 Feb 2008 11:11 am
Reviewer: sleightofhand (Anonymous) [Report This]
    Wow. I really love this story. I'm never the type to cry at movies and especially not while reading books, but I got rather teary reading this.

    I love your Snape. So often, authors tend to one extreme or the other, incredibly spiteful and cruel or magically reformed and affectionate. Your Snape is closer to the latter end of the spectrum, but he still has that intrinsic Snape-ishness that makes him...so very real and believable.

    Harry is perfectly, frustratingly heartbreaking. I tend not to enjoy Dursley abuse fics, because I think that emotional neglect is quite bad enough and those fics seem to suggest, by heaping physical abuse on top of that, that it isn't abuse unless there are bruises. I don't get that feeling from you; that one part when Harry thinks about the time when he was four years old and Petunia didn't hold him any more...that made my heart clench something painful. You just GET it, get both of them, and...it makes me want to just keep gushing on! :)

    Hah, getting myself under control. Love Luna; too few writers pay her the attention she deserves. I love the letters. I love that you neither villify nor glorify the Slytherins (How sad is it that I've come to expect either? So few fics take the position that all houses are equally wonderful and flawed. It's such a relief to come upon a middle ground; water in the desert, indeed! You had me both furious with and pitying those four Slytherin fools.)

    I hope you manage to catch Free-Time, that elusive beast, soon. I look forward to reading the next chapter, whenever it will come. :)
Title: Upon Receipt 22 Jan 2008 7:46 am
Reviewer: boushh (Signed) [Report This]
    I've just finished reading this series after starting it last night. Great stuff. I'm really enjoying it. :) I'm making this a general review rather than chapter specific, if that's OK.

    There are too many favorite moments to mention, but I'll list a few. :) I loved the whole idea of the letters back and forth for starters, and the use of Luna. She's written really well. :) Some of my favorite moments are the scene where Vernon goes after Harry at Hogwarts and that aftermath, drunk Snape's information session, and the use of the soldier toy portkey.

    My only suggestion and wish would be for a tiny bit more of Ron and Hermione, since they are so close to Harry... plus it might be kind of funny to have a group of teenagers hanging out in Snape's quarters to visit Harry. :)

    Anyway, I'm looking forward to more. :)
Title: Upon Receipt 12 Jan 2008 11:35 pm
Reviewer: SnowySleigh (Signed) [Report This]
    I'm not sure if I've already reviewed this chapter or not-- but I just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten this fic! I know all about real life getting in the way, and writer's block...all of those things which aren't conducive to writing (or good writing...though it feels like the same thing a lot of the time).

    I look forward to the next update, whenever that may be.
Title: Upon Receipt 10 Jan 2008 3:21 pm
Reviewer: trekker2002 (Anonymous) [Report This]
    I too love this story and have missed it desperately, but I had an old-fahsioned upbringing where I was told 'If you can't say something nice about someone then don't say anything'. This story has given me hours of pleasure as has it predecessor for which I am very grateful. I will greet further updates with undisguised delight, but if it is not to be then I will enjoy it as it stands and still be grateful that you shared your excellent interpretation of Severus and 'what might have been'. This comes with my very best wishes for your new endeavour.Ignore the negative comments they are not worth dwelling on.
Title: Upon Receipt 10 Jan 2008 12:23 pm
Reviewer: Aurora (Anonymous) [Report This]
    Hi Branwyn! Just wanted you to know this story and The Guiltless are two of the most touching - beautiful things I've ever read. I do hope your life can calm down enough for you to continue! Best Wishes! And Thank you so much for sharing!
Title: Upon Receipt 09 Jan 2008 3:38 am
Reviewer: silvers (Signed) [Report This]
    A truly remarkable tale... Your insight has made for even more vivid and deep characters than Rowling could ever have envisioned. And oh! It's so incredibly lovely to read a story by someone who actually appreciates the finer nuances of proper punctuation and grammar!

    I only regret not discovering your work earlier (and, simultaneously, that I hadn't come across it until after the conclusion as you most definitely have a talent for writing good cliffhangers!).

    I believe you said you're working on an original work? I hope all is going smoothly. You have a real gift and this series has proven to be the absolutely perfect way to while away a rainy day (though I should note that technically, I didn't actually notice the weather until after I'd come to the end).

    With much gratitude for your efforts and patience...
Title: Upon Receipt 08 Jan 2008 2:17 am
Reviewer: Kirby Lane (Signed) [Report This]
    Oh WOW. I was checking up on your story to see if you'd updated it lately, plus I like to see what other reviewers say sometimes. So I'm sending this review simply because if you're going to have to put up with rudeness from other reviewers, you should get nice reviews to make up for it.

    So allow me to expound upon what I've said in reviews past - I LOVE your story! You have great characterizations and creative writing and interesting situations. Thank you so much for taking the time to write it for us, when you're not getting anything but our reviews in return.

    And don't let mean people get you down!!!
Title: Upon Receipt 07 Jan 2008 1:42 pm
Reviewer: xoxamandaxox (Signed) [Report This]
    I love your story, and i think it's disgusting that u are getting flames for not updating, they should try writing there own fic and living a life at the same time if they are that bothered. Thanks for all the entertaining reading you have given us so far. xxx
Title: Upon Receipt 05 Jan 2008 9:41 pm
Reviewer: pissed off (Anonymous) [Report This]
    You know you should really at LEAST send a comment to your readers, but you obviously don't care at all.

    Why would Potions and Snitches feature this story for so long since you abandoned it. I hate authors like you, who have the potential for a great story, and then you just crap on your loyal readers by never finishing it.

    Author's Response:

    All right, that's it. When I post the next chapter, YOU'RE not allowed to read it.

    I mean it. No peeking.


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