thank you for this amazing long incredible story :)
nintschi

its a great start :)
can not wait to read more I am already addicted
Nintschi

Hey, that was a wunderful story! I loved the way you made the characters so strrong and distinct without ever seeming to change them. Of course I would have liked to know the end of the story, but maby it's nicer that I can still dream something up.

Have a nice evening and please write more

Bella Lilia

I have enjoyed this story -- I never thought to search for a story based strictly on Snape -- but this is a well written story and I do look forward to reading the sequel you have mentioned. I do hope you've written it. Please keep writing.

It feels incomplete. If I would reviewed when I first started this story, I'd probably tell you the parts that felt out of place or the sequences which were mishmashed. I didn't so I can't.

I wish you would have explained any sane individual would have followed orders from either side when it was obvious neither knew what they ultimately wanted from Snape. It seems to me Snape was/is intelligent enough to make up his own rules and decide for himself. Why humor anyone who showed such an obvious disregard for his well-being?

It reminds me a little of Ayn Rand's absolutes. Her writings didn't quite reach that warm fuzzy place because I still had some questions, felt a little disbelieving and didn't know why anyone in that world worked.

Just finished this tale. I usually wait till the end on completed stories I find and I found it so ** this one. You are AWESOME! I love the spin on cannon that you took, it was not the same old same old. Well done character development, the storyline was so complex. Just the right amount of supsense, angst, and adventure. It never had a point were it drug along, always moving, keeping the reader involved in your characters' lives. Thanks so much for sharing your fantastic talent with us and I am so looking forward to reading more of your tales. Found you on ObsidianEmbrace's fav list.

Regarding author's note - plot and action don't always mean the same thing.

The character studies in this are intriguing. Hearing and seeing the events from various perspectives is very effective.

Dumbledore is the master of self-rationalization.

I despise JKR's Dumbledore. Your version provides more ammunition.

Truly enjoyed this story! Your characterisation is excellent - thank you so much for a believable, adult portrayal of Severus Snape!

This was an excellent story and I'm hoping to see the sequel make its appearance sometime soon.

At times I thought that the Snape angst and torture was overdone and I could have punched him for complaining about the potions regime so many times.

The scenes where Snape deals with the blackmail from Dumbledore by over-exercising occlumency were the most chilling. I didn't have the guts to read through the whole Bella/Draco scene. Ick.

Overall, the story was really impressive and heck, you must be really dedicated to write such a long one and maintain the quality of the writing throughout. The scenes flowed together really well and I am very glad that the good and the bad were displayed in everyone.

His apprentices are a force to be reckoned with and it's nice seeing redeemable Slytherins other than Draco and Snape.

I prefer Snape/Poppy to Snape/Molly Weasley...the hug scene was great.

I really, really, really enjoyed your other characters, Lowestein, Malachite and Flitwick's alter ego, the Manticore.

As I said before, this was really a beautiful story. Now all that needs to happen is for Voldy to say hi to Satan...

I have liked your story so far. Your writing style is very good, and I also like your view on the characters.

I also have some complaints:
Your story is very very long without many actions happening in it.

Your main characters are Snape and Harry, but it took about 23 chapters before Harry really entered the story. And even now, Madam Pomfrey has more dialogs than Harry.

Snape is one of my favorite characters, but your characterization of him has a lot of contradictions. (It is not a bad thing, it just seems strange.) He is both very sly and also a victim, and these two very rarely go together.

I like your deep analysis of the events both canon and your own ones. Still, you repeat every thing so often, that it borders on boring at times. The Shrieking Shack for example has been discussed from about every single character that know about it at least once. Then a new character comes up, hears about it and there we go again...

I haven't seen a meeting so far, either Order one or Death eaters', where Snape has attended, and he wasn't the one who came up with all of the ideas!

Having said all that, I feel I should thank you for writing this story. I will go back to read the rest, hoping that something good happens to Snape for a change.

I don't want to leave! Everyone's grown up so beaautifully -- something that not one character managed to do in canon. I want Hermione to boink Snape, and beyond! You kept them completely separate, as they should have been but -- now?

“In the Watches of the Night” and "Widow's Walk" are on my wish list -- the important one, the "before I die, I want to read..." list. Which isn't actually a joke, I'm not all that young or healthy. Sorry, was that pathetic and guilt-inducing? Good!

I don't know why that idiot would think we were anything alike; I bow to a mistress of her genre who actually posts.

Wow! This fic is impressive. I got very little sleep over the past 3 days because I needed to finish. You seem to be hinting that Severus will end up in a threesome with Molly and Arthur? I'm hoping you write a sequel.

Ouch. The trial isn't going well. By which I mean -- written in tones of tin and lead, story details are rehashed and muddled, Molly is apparently a complete idiot with the memory skills and social address of Anna Nicole Smith (after burial) and I'm disappointed.

This was coming up for ages, and its so dull! How dull is it? The entire ministerial bench is apparently fast asleep; probably in their own beds, as they aren't in the courtroom, by any account. Superior Lancrean Powers Wielded By A Mother of Seven can see through a Dark Overlord's Sneaky Disguise, but there isn't an auror in sight. The whole "dark of night, end at dawn" thing? More of a guideline, really. Could go on til noon. Oy vey.

And I've given more rousing testimony. About mold.

Sorry. I've been loving every weepy minute, the details have been dovetailing nicely -- and suddenly, its like a ghostwriter took over and hamhanded a laundry list of "in previous episodes" detail into a Matlock episode. NOT your usual standard!

Evil Guy leaves because he can't handle a smell-changing smell? He can fool Mad-Eye Moody (hem, hem -- NOBODY is sussing the balcony? Please.) but not a werewolf nose. Wow. Suddenly, not so impressed. Suddenly, he's JKR's original lunatic dunce. I'm surprised you didn't throw in a villinous speech!

Maybe that's enough of being vocally disappointed. Even beyond enough. But -- but!

What a brilliant view of Mina Harker's run-in with Dracula! Honestly, right up with "Guildenstern & Rosencratz are Dead." And d@mn, I keep crying over this story. Very enjoyable... hey, I'm Irish.