That was beautiful. I loved it. I especially enjoyed how MM learned to read SS. The hands thing was great. And the last lines rocked my socks!
Kudos from Brazil!

Absolutely brilliant. No more needs to be said.

Wonderfully brilliant, impossibly sad.

Hey:)
Great one shot. I really like the way you write and how you describe the character of Severus Snape. The impassive face is one of his trademarks, I think. Your idea to show to McGonagall what he thinks through his hands is really brilliant and an idea I´ve never heard before.
The repetitions while depicting his relationship with others (`Sympathy was met with disdain. Courtesy was met with insolence. Respect was met with mistrust. Compassion was met with near violence`.) and also when desribing what every movement of his hand means emphasize his distant and cold character even more.
And I also really like the ending of your story. When Snape describes what he sees to McGonagall, I had to smile a little at imagining Snape as a very young boy, and the meaning McGonagall sees in this made me a little sad. After all, don´t we all want to change some aspects of our past? Of course, Snape wants to start a new life instead of changing little things, and this realization is pretty depressive, I guess.
So, really well-written story :)


greets

truly great one shot. you really captured what could have been a great canon relationship and the tragedy that is snape. love the interaction with minerva, and especially how the other professors react to him as a student and as a colleague

My eyes, however, are burning. That was powerful. I loved the second to last line. And the hands are so creative--as is the pairing, which I adore. You are unbelievably talented. Just wanted to share my admiration--

--H

Holy frick...That was simply amazing. I usually detest this pairing, won't come near the stuff. But the summary on this one had me on edge from the beginning. It was beautifully written, not something you see in fanfic very oft. It was a simply amazing piece. Told through the eyes of one who had seen it all, but had never quite been acknowledged as being. This was an Epic, I kid you naught. It's worth more than many of those badly written, overly used plots out there. Kuddos to you for coming up with something original.

Super-K.

wow!! You leave me speechless ! This is just wonderful, especially the end. Thank you so much for your Minerva.

This is delightful. You have a remarkable turn of phrase and have beautifully captured an intricate and changing portrait of Snape over time. I love that you use McGonagall's perspective; it's an interesting way to look at a complex man.

I really like this story - I read the German translation first, and then your English original. Very good! Actually I like the original even better, maybe that's just because English always feels better with Harry Potter stories... but anyway the style in your original writing is way better, some of that was lost in the translation.
And the plot is just plain great.

Very beautiful. You've left me rather lacking words to describe the experience of reading this, and a little teary-eyed. What more can one ask for? Thank you for this.

What a fabulous piece. You revealed so much more with the minutae than many do when they tackle larger swathes of life. You managed to not only convey the emotions you ascribed to the characters but make the reader fell them - quite an achievement.

There was one typing error, but looking back I cannot find it, which may be why it has remained. It was a negative determiner, something like having left the "t" off "not". Not important but with how well crafted this is, I thought that you might like to know.

Aw... that is simply gorgeous. You really are a master. This is so finely crafted, and so painfully beautiful. The Minerva/Severus relationship has always interested me because there are so many different takes on it, but I think that you may have just found the best. Wonderful, poignant imagery, and beautiful descriptions. I love the idea of his hands betraying what he really feels, and that only she understands it. I loved it. Thanks so much. :-)

-Kat.

Oh good Lord? Where HAVE you been all my life? AH! I have no words! No words!

Stunned.

HulaHula

So I've been working my way through your collection. this is your best. there is so much understanding. Mcgonagal is a way undedeveloped character. So much beauty and pain.