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Reviews For For the Greater Good
I love your fic! It adds so much depth to Severus. I love how Sprout is incorporated into it. That she sees the true Severus. Snape needs a hug, and even more of a friend on his side. I hope that the Malfoys are true friends to Severus. He needs them. I also love how Harry is also suspicious of Dumbledore's motives. It's brilliant. Snape being a Parselmouth! Amazing. It adds to the dark nature that Severus has, but it also adds to the compassionate side. It adds to his character. He desperately wants Dumbledore's approval (I don't know if that is the right word), but he also is extremely protective of what is his ... he would never harm his snake. I love it - everything is amazing. Author's Response: First of all, I'm sorry for not responding to your review sooner. For the past few months, I set aside my fanfiction and didn't log onto the site. It was fantastic to open the site after so long and read your response! I'm so glad you like my story and your observations about Snape are really accurate. He needs someone who believes in him, someone who doesn't see him as a monster. Actually, I always liked Hermione. She's a bit bossy and know-it-all but she's also strong and fair. But normally, I'm biased towards the Slytherins too. They're just the more complex and interesting characters. The Gryffindors will always pick the right path (at least in JK's world) but the Slytherins, they're more unpredictable. They're minds are simply intriguing. I always loved the idea of being a parselmouth! Communicating with snakes? What's cooler than that? I don't understand why it's generally considered such an evil ability. Thank you so much for reviewing!
Author's Response: Well, the main reason I had Snape believe Draco rather than Harry is because he's known Draco for longer. Harry, he's only really known for a couple of weeks while he watched Draco grow up. Unlike the elder Malfoys, Draco has never committed such an act of violence before so Snape decides to believe him. Yes, Snape is behaving unreasonably but he still hasn't gotten over James Potter yet. Harry accusing Draco reminded him a bit too much of his own situation with his nemesis so it led him to behave uncharacteristically. When the truth comes out, he'll regret it.
I’m impressed by your ability to describe the surroundings in your setting in such a graphic way with a few, well-chosen words. I think that is what caught my attention in the very first chapter of this story - Harry’s arrival at Snape’s house and the description thereof as well as of the garden. It sucked me in. In this chapter I see the luxurious rooms of Malfoy manor before my eyes very vividly. Of course, many fanfics are enacted at Hogwarts, or at the other well-known locations from the books, but yours is not, mostly, and therefore the milieus need to be described in more detail and I think you’re doing a really good job at it. I wonder what the Malfoys want with Hermione? It’s clever to have Draco Malfoy as the one who poisoned Harry. I wonder if Snape, having discovered the poison in the manor, realises that Draco might indeed be the perpetrator, or if he is as blind to Draco’s faults as Dumbledore was to James Potter’s all those years ago? Interesting parallell… I also wonder when you will pick up the thread and tell us who is Eva and what role she played in Snape’s past? Author's Response: Thanks for your review, Hannah. You always do wonders to boost my rather low self confidence. I actually love creating original settings and that's one of the reasons why this story is not set at Hogwarts. Snape is not entirely blind to Draco's faults but he doesn't think him capable of so much violent. Draco was always one to talk but he does steer clear of actual violence. Besides, he thinks the room was protected with an age line. He'll know the truth soon enough. Yes, the story-line has stretched out a bit. Harry's blindness, although illustrating the Snape-Dumbledore and Snape-Harry relationships, is not the main plot line. In the next couple of chapters, I'm hoping to show what happened to Eva and why the Slytherins are so afraid of James Potter.
Author's Response: Oh he definitely will! Draco won't be too happy about it.
Author's Response: Thanks a lot! I definitely will.
and teh story gets more, nad more interesting... Author's Response: Thanks! Yes, the next chapters will definitely clear some things up.
Author's Response: Thanks. I enjoy hacking into the characters' minds.
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