Reviews for Give her hell from us, Peeves!

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swordbunny4486 2008-08-19 ch 3,	abuseawesome
writer with ocd 2008-07-20 ch 3, anon.	abuseFirst, I must thank you for allowing unsigned reviews, cause I'd have to sign in on my brother's computer because mine won't let me sign in. (That wouldn't have stopped me though) Anyway I think that was wonderfully in character. I especially loved Flitwick's POV. It's just that the whole Harry Potter series focuses so much on HARRY, you want to know more about the other characters and their backgrounds, and it's frustrating with so little to work with. This was extremely creative and well written, and my appreciation for Flitwick increased tenfold, I love how he's so caring and protective of Snape. He's very understanding and a good person as well. I liked Snape's because he's a VERY difficult character to write for, you never have enough info on him or his personality. I think at first he's written a bit two dimensionally, now that I look back on the HP books and I'm older. At first he's just the guy that hates Harry, the Slytherin jerk with no heart. Now that you learn more of his history in the later books you can't help but feel bad for him and it hits you that he's a real person with feelings and he's just as much a victim of life's cruelties as anyone else. I think it's great the insight you provide about how he feels about his Slytherins, J.K. Rowling wrote them so that they were kind of two dimensional as well, being only the posturing proud jerks. Oh, and Umbridge being a Hufflepuff made me laugh, I just can't picture it. But she IS a BAD Hufflepuff, if I was a Hufflepuff I'd be ashamed. All in all, this was absolutely wonderful. :)
TheLadyAthena 2008-07-02 ch 2,	abuseGreat! You portrayed them well!
snarky Beth 2008-02-06 ch 3,	abuseWow, that ending was just really emotional. Umbridge is a total and complete bitch, she puts Hufflepuff House to shame (if she really is in that House). Flitwick is a kind funny old man. Poor Severus, he needs a break from his bad memories, the poor man. I love him! ^_^ Fred and George rule. This was another great story.
RebeccaRoy 2007-11-16 ch 3,	abuseSeverus has quite the temper doesn't he?
Minerva McGonagall Rox 2007-10-12 ch 2,	abuseThis is great, do one on McGonagall Please! Have a nice day! Minerva McGonagall Rox
DailyProphetEditor 2007-09-08 ch 3,	abuseAnd yet another story that I liked very, very much. It's great how you can just slip into the minds of the different characters and write down what they think. Umbridge's ramblings, for example, were just plain brilliant. Read them and it all sounds perfectly logical, no wonder she's convinced of that. I laughed when she thought about McGonagall, and had to admit that there was nothing she could do against the Head of Gryffindor – "unfortunately a competent teacher"- and then her thoughts jumped to Snape right away, because it's so much easier to think of him as an enemy. So Umbridge, that line of thinking. (Great idea to have Umbridge questioning his students about "misconducts", and how disappointed she was when the Slytherins would be shocked at the very idea that their teacher might do something like that.) Her suspicions against Flitwick made me laugh again, how she hates the fact that the old man is so cheerful all the time. I loved how Flitwick was helpful with the swamp, levitating students across it. And another thing that was just brilliantly in character was the way she thought of her Inquisitorial Squad – first praising brilliant little Malfoy and his oh-so-nice father, and then suddenly she hates the whole IS because they don't do anything to stop the twins. Flitwick's POV was a great read, too. First because rarely ever one writes Flitwick properly, so it's a real treat to find a chapter dedicated to him. I loved the short paragraph at the beginning where he thinks about teaching and how his students need to get better at their wandwork, it just shows what a caring person he is and what a good teacher. Also liked the way he was protective of Snape, and felt sorry for Pomona because Umbridge is such a disgrace for Hufflepuff. His suspicions about Penelope and Percy were also very good. Heartbreaking idea that Flitwick would have believed the cover-up story that Snape was giving Harry extra lessons in potions, of course, it makes sense as Flitwick is no member of the Order. But it's so sad (and true) that Flitwick would see this as a sign of hope and we know what really happened in those Occlumency lessons. And of course the last sentences in that chapter would make anyone choke, Flitwick realises that sending Snape back to the Death Eaters is too much, and it's so perfect how he wants to convince himself that Dumbledore wouldn't do it, but one can feel the seed of doubt… And there were two brilliant sentences in the Flitwick chapter, I just loved the way you put that in words: 1, that Luna is "so gifted that it's frightening". And 2, the comparison of Albus and Voldemort, that Voldemort's weakness is not understanding love, but that Albus's weakness is not understanding hatred. Best one-sentence-summary I ever read of those two charaters. The Snape chapter is, I think, one of the best things you've written so far. His musings about alcohol and cigarettes, Karkaroff and Hermione were very interesting to read, it's just what a man might think in such moments. (When I read this I totally pictured a colleague of mine, standing in our staff room, cup of coffee and cigarette in his hand – what you had Snape think is about what that friend of mine would say in a scene like that, and I don#t think I need to mention that several people around here call this guy Sev because he is just like Snape.) I like the way you write the Lily-Snape relationship. Friends, he fancied her somewhat, but not this overblown thing that it turned out to be in DH. Your version is the theory I supported for years, and I am so disappointed with JKR for, well, exaggerating the thing in DH. Very sweet how Snape awarded the twins points for the swamp thing, and regretted it only minutes later. The reasoning behind it was brilliant again, reading it just made on step right inside Snape's head and heart and feel the whole thing with him. Summa sumarium: another favorite story.
Agrarrevolution 2007-03-17 ch 3,	abuse"if only there was some way to get the students to type the frigging things ..." Short references like these give your characters so much background. He may not value Muggles much, but he does appreciate the inventions they made and half-blood that he is he'd use the "best" of both worlds. "And when a teenage boy can't stop looking at an attractive girl, when he can't stop thinking about her, when he can't stop talking about how much he detests the filthy Mudblood Gryffindor and the two boys she spends most of her time with, when he can't decide whether he hates the Scarhead or the Weasel the most ..." "but he didn't really care if she was seeing Potter, no, he didn't care one little bit. And there’d been other girls, and all cats are grey in the dark, they’re all the same when you pull their knickers down, witches or Muggles, they’re all the same." So perceptive when it concerns other people, but no clue about his own heart. "But why did it have to be that memory, the memory that I put in the Pensieve for his own protection, the memory I use to fuel the Killing Curse - I won't kill him, unless I do it Muggle-style, with my bare hands - while that memory is locked away." A very interesting explanation as to why this particular memory was locked away. Most authors seem to assume that he felt ashamed for calling Lily a mudblood, but really, there must be much worse in his memories - like actually killing "mudbloods"... "But then he thinks, if Lucius has qualms, if he has doubts, if he’s afraid for Draco, he’s hardly likely to tell his best friend, he's hardly likely to tell me, the Dark Lord’s faithful servant stationed at Hogwarts for fifteen years." Oh yes, it would be so easy for him to slip Draco a potion. But it is sad indeed that these two friends can't trust each other more. The Dark Lord has no need for loyalties other than to him, he destroys any other bonds, be it friendship, family or love (although we know he failed at that at least once). "Dumbledore had said, “I know how you feel, but there were no applicants for the job this year, none at all, Alastor Moody is only doing this for me as a favour" Ah yes, it was just Snape who applied again. I wonder why Dumbledore never told anyone that the position was jinxed? Would have been much better to say "I know you'd like that position, but you're too important for me to lose you after one year". Short note on italics - you have quite a talent to use them exactly at the right places; sparsely, but always laying the stress on the one word that makes the difference between an ordinary sentence and a damn good piece of writing.
Agrarrevolution 2007-03-17 ch 2,	abuseLoved that chapter - Flitwick really is a nice guy without being annoying about it (unlike Lupin who's so desperate about being nice to everybody). "You tell us that you trust Severus but you won’t appoint him to the Defence position - and do you know how much that hurts him?" And Dumbledore doesn't understand why no one trusts his word about Snape... "Albus is always saying that Voldemort’s weakness is that he doesn’t understand love – but Albus’ weakness is that he doesn’t understand hate, he doesn’t understand hatred and envy and jealousy, and he doesn’t understand the misery it springs from." Seems like they're more alike than both would care to. Both have only a deficient understanding of human nature. "Minerva warned me that my OWL class of Gryffindors and Slytherins would be a handful, she warned me that Severus had a dreadful temper and that he’d feuded relentlessly with the Marauders since their very first week at Hogwarts." "I thought I'd never seen such an unappealing youth, so unlovely and so unloved." Good perspective of an outsider and seems like what Minerva would do and of course "her" boys are totally innocent. A pity Snape wasn't sorted into Ravenclaw. "Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience." Is that a quote or did you come up with that yourself? It really is brilliant! "And the worst of it was that James honestly thought that he was doing the right thing, teaching the nasty little Dark wizard a lesson ..." "And Severus was always a good student, he learned his lesson well, and he grew up to be a very bad Dark wizard indeed." Well, seems like James missed his calling, a very effective teacher indeed. "And Sirius couldn’t forget that he was a Black, that he was wizarding royalty, even though he was Sorted into Gryffindor, even though he was at loggerheads with his family - and one reason why he hated Severus was that he was outraged that a scruffy little nobody by the name of Snape knew more about Dark magic than the son of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, toujours pur." I always thought it funny that these "good" purebloods are just as prejudiced as their evil counterparts, they're less open about it and sometimes even feel ashamed for it, but it is there. You portray that very well in your stories: Molly who's afraid of getting a Muggle daughter-in-law, Sirius who asks Snape in their first confrontation if he's a mudblood... And as out of hand Snape's response was, it was the best way to react - a Bat-Bogey-Hex wouldn't have stopped any rumours, but after that vicious hex nobody doubted that he was pureblood. "And he feels guilty about using Severus as his spy in the last war, he feels guilty about making him do a dirty job that I suspect he’d never ask a Gryffindor to do." "Ravenclaw doesn’t have a monopoly on intelligence, any more than Gryffindor has a monopoly on courage, though it would be nice if Minerva would appreciate that and give a little more credit to the other Houses." Very nice touch in showing what other houses think of the Gryffindor-domination in school. Most authors overdo it in my opinion, but that is just the right amount. Not bitter, furious or even vengeful, but gently reproaching. "and then he has a horrible vision of black eyes glittering malevolently through a Death Eater’s mask and he thinks, no, Albus wouldn’t send him back to Voldemort, he wouldn’t make Severus spy for him again, he wouldn’t do that, surely Albus wouldn’t do that to Severus." Oh yes, he does and Flitwick "knows" it, even though he doesn't want to admit it. Sorry for so much copy-and-paste, but there are just too many good sentences in this chapter.
Agrarrevolution 2007-03-17 ch 1,	abuseIt was great fun to read Umbridge, I like her nastiness and and her delusion. In fact, I think she's much more like Lucius Malfoy than Snape. Both are sadistic bastards, but Lucius knows better than her how to play nice when necessary. Her plans of showing Lucius Snape's confidential file are hilarious. Good woman, that man could tell you a lot nastier things about Snape than those recorded in that file. And somehow I can't get this image out of my head: Umbridge running into Lucius on a Death Eater mission: "Ah Lucius, so good to see you. But what is this funny outfit you're wearing?" Anyway, I think Lucius would find a way preventing Snape from being sacked. Apart from the fact that Snape is his best friend, it is much riskier displeasing the Dark Lord than it is displeasing the toad. It's easier to get rid of the latter when she's becoming overzealous in sacking the staff. And Snape would surely help him setting up a little accident... Lucius' quill - good idea, he would have such things in his hidden chamgers. I wonder whether Snape knew about that quill? But Lucius probably didn't tell him, I guess, Snape doesn't get only funny about raping women before killing them, but also about hurting students. Good take on the position of the Slytherins - on one side the Dark Lord who expects their loyalty and on the other side the Ministry which will be on them if they put a toe out of line, they really are caught in the middle. Snape a vampire? Are you mocking all those "Snape-is-a-vampire-theories/stories"? ;-)
Prieda Solo 2007-03-02 ch 3,	abuseOh, please write more stories soon. I do feel so sorry for snape. but also for sirius and lupin and they're all so dispicable. You explain all thier thoughts perfectly. Thanks for all the great stories. Prieda
Prieda Solo 2007-03-02 ch 2,	abuseI knew it. Quiddich is the source of all evil in the world. This is great stuff, eveything you write just makes so much sense, and I love your characterisation of flitwick. I'm kind of sad now, because this is the last one of your stories for me. Only one chapter of slimy severus left before I'm wading through a fandom of unrealistic swave double-agent sevvies. Ah well. I'll look through your favourites and stuff.
Prieda Solo 2007-03-02 ch 1,	abuseDie Umbridge Die! How dare she even think of sacking Snape...gr. The worst thing is is that she is convinced she is doing the right thing. In her mind she is perfectly justified. Scary shiver
Dead-Luthien 2006-05-27 ch 3,	abuseyou captured Snape perfectly. It's so him. Interesting idea to have Grindewald responsible of The Second World War.
Dead-Luthien 2006-05-27 ch 2,	abusewonderfully written. Indeed at school only the prety or the sportives are popular. The smart ones are considered nerds and people don't talk to them. (i'm one of this cases although I prefer my brains than going to parties and getting drunk just to show that I'm cool) The perpesctive on Severus and the Maurauders relationship is wonderfully written. You did a really good job.

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