What a terrific description! I really like Snape as a character and it isn't fair that so many people in the actual books hated him. I like the fact that you can write with love about the Marauders as well as with love about Snape. You know how to play both sides really well.

I *really* like this. I really, really like this. Your portrayal of Snape is... amazing. I have read fanfics where I hate how the author portrays him, whether it's my opinion or he's out of character; I've read ones where I like it, but something's not quite right. This was so refreshing; I think you hit his character perfectly without making him look like a cruel man who rather reminds you of a vampire bat.

So much thought!

Oh, how I LOVE this story! YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE! CONTINUE NOW! PLEASE! I don't know, maybe I have some weird fetish for fictions about thoughts of characters during different parts of the stories, inside thoughts, OH WHO CARES THIS IS GREAT I LOVE IT PLEASE UPDATE please? See, look how befuddled I am! I can't even write in whole sentences! Scoff. Anyway, please continue?

Ha ha, I was so tired of waiting for you to UPDATE I thought I'd read something else by you to make the time go faster!

KIDDING! (though that is a good reason, come to think of it...I'm going to have to remember that ;D)

Hem hem, well now I'm fully awake (note the difference in this review and the one for "Winterstar", ha ha) and can give a better review! Woot! I also decided that, as I know we all love reviews (lol), I'd review for each chapter! YEHA!

Anyway, very nice. I actually have been very interested in stories about Snape and actually wrote a snippet of one, but then realized I probably wouldn't go very far with it (honestly I've been wanting to try my hands at a Marauders fic, but I wasn't sure if I could do two stories running at about the same time period in the story without making things the same) but then, low and behold, YOU'VE written one, so I don't have to rack my brains for a story to fill in the gaps! HECK YES!

So on to the actual review! (that's what these are for, I suppose, better use them like they're supposed to be used...) very nice. You know, at first I thought to myself, "Wait, there were people there with Voldemort?" But then - why not? Why is it always assumed Voldemort is alone? Surely he would bring his followers to watch the famous Potters' demise! Surely he would not go alone, he is sadistic! And it...also seems fitting that Snape would be there, would hear James's fall, Lily's screams...fitting indeed. I kept rereading the sentence about the faint nausea that washed through him after James's death. I am the type of person who, when I find something deep in meaning and symbolism and worthy of deep thought, will think about it. Such as the true impact of James's death, knowing someone Severus had grown up with - albeit unwillingly - for seven years had just fallen to his death, never to smile or laugh or BREATHE again, falling as he protected his wife (another thing I kept thinking about - James's love, his incredible courage that led him to his unforgettable martyrship as he tried to stall long enough for Lily to get Harry and herself out of the way), Voldemort's laughs as he stepped over the now motionless body of the famous and infamous James Potter, of Lily's screams and how he knew of her sacrifice for the boy he acts like he despises. Sorry - I know, I'm ranting. I think that is a big reason why I wanted to write it, why I really wanted to read it, why most of my new stories (as of yet unposted) are like that - deep. Because I'm actually trying to explain my own thoughts.

Which is also why this review is SO DANG LONG! And I still have the next chapter to read! don't worry, I won't get all deep and stuff then (unless something in the chapter provokes it, ha ha.)

Hmm...great chapter, anyway. I'd better go...Mom's glaring at me and telling me to get off. Dang. But I'll read it...EVENTUALLY!

Interesting with merit, I'll see how this continues.

This is an extraordinaryly interesting point of view.I always thought Snape to be, err...just a git, imagine him trying to decide if he was James or Lily's son and grinning inside! I am glad you updated.

Oh, vow, I wasn't expecting this - THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UPDATE! (-: A good idea to move to Harry's first year and look at it (and I suppose also the years to come) through Snape's eyes. I am really looking forward to read more. What a great idea to make Snape not listen by the sorting - he wouldn't have to look curiously at Harry after it, if he did, would he? And him thinking of Harry as Lily's son and then seeing him and recognising just Potter - and comparing him to the twins. He is not going to be happy in the years to come, I guess. I sincerely hope Dumbledore would help him with it at least a tiny bit. But how would anybody call inviting the werwolf who tried (in one's eyes) to kill you to the place you call your home now? - a strange therapy? Never mind me, I have just decided Rowling is too cruel to our mean professor. Once again A HUGE THANK YOU TO FOR YOUR UPDATE! I have enjoyed it. (-:

Whoa - you wrote that all at once? Good going!
I love the way he thought Harry would look like Lily, and then that shock when he found out the truth - the bit about the "minature James Potter" made me laugh.
And you've incorporated JKR's dialogue into your own story perfectly - I'm glad you didn't just have it all dialogue. It's more interesting when it's punctuated with Snape's thoughts.
This is great as a one-shot - but it's pretty unconnected to the first. Sometime, you should do a gap-filler, that would be cool!

Oh, wow! I love all the flashbacks, they're really well done. And they all fit perfectly into the story. Great job.
I feel even more sorry for Lupin after reading this! This especially:

"...a spasm seemed to tear through his body and he lurched away from the casket, blindly stumbling to a seat."
It really conjures up a vivid picture for me. Don't know how you did it!

Just one thing - it's Sybill Trelawney, not Sibyll.

I'm dying to read some of your other works, it's wonderful to find such a good author - especially one who is such a great beta that their writing is perfect! But as it's currently ten to midnight, I'm going to have to save it until tomorrow, when my eyes aren't slowly gumming themselves together with tiredness...
Thanks for a great read!

You are not going to continue this anymore, are you? )-: That is a huge pity - check the site here and you will see that there are absolutely no fics (with an acception of one French story I don't understand that good, unfortunately) which would pick up the story of Snape's life after the first fall of Voldemort. Well, I don't fancy any original characters (you have promised some character of yours) but still this was a very promising start and I am sorry to support you with a review as late as now - but well, I haven't seen this before. )-:

That was pretty good! I like the little window you opened into Severus Snape's life. yay-ness to you!

Great start and nice place to begin with- the Potter's death from where it all started. Its interesting to note how you gave a different perspective to Snape's animosity with the marauders-he was only trying to impress them and it went wrong! Life is often like thatI guess, Please update!

I just followed your link to the list of rules for writing Harry Potter fanfictions. Oh gracious, I haven't laughed that hard in so long. You really have your finger on the pulse of the crap-writer there, love. *hearty chuckle* Now, about this tale; you've answered a lot of questions I had about this character. I really think I didn't give the man enough attention when I was reading the books before. Excellent use of a spell that we now know Severus probably invented, and bravo for using the word 'prat'. You rock.

Good start, well written.
I don't think Bellatrix was there at Godric's Hollow, since she tries to find out Voldemort's whereabouts by torturing the Longbottoms later - if she was at Godric's Hollow, she should have known he wasn't just hiding or being held captive.

But you have some interesting theories here - keep going!

Very nice- its good to see someone else interested in what goes on behind seemingly bad characters, their motives and inner conflicts. Although its easy to write him off, I for one refuse to believe that Snape has gone over to the dark side in HBP, so I'm interested to see what you make of him (especially since his childhood and early adulthood has only really been touched on in the books).

I look forward to future chapters.

Nakhti