 Nazgurl 2009-11-01 . chapter 22You updated! I'm nearly in tears of joy!
I admit, the concepts of your story are a bit boggling, especially when the two Harry's meet...
But I truly love your characters, especially when Snape and Harry say goodbye. The whole disappointment of wishing something could be between them but there can't be...wonderful!
I love the idea of real-world Snape trying to save other-world Lily with his own power. I sincerely hope it works.
And I look forward to when the Harry's return to their respective worlds, and real-world Snape and real-world Harry meeting eachother again. Snape said he couldn't be a father, and other-world Harry said he could be a friend, but I hope they're wrong and Snape can fit a father's role after all... |
 charmedgrl4ever 2009-10-31 . chapter 22konban wa
In case I haven't mentioned this before, your detail is absolutely brilliant. Often, I find myself falling back on inadequate descriptions -- but the way you write circumstances that you've created makes me feel as though I knew about it beforehand! That's a confusing statement, sorry. What I mean is that it's hard to really SEE something in a story if you've never seen it in real life. The sensations felt when being tugged between parallel worlds is obviously something I've never felt before, yet I feel as if I'm really there. Excellent. :D You leave nothing up to the imagination (and yet everything!).
"Harry." Snape's voice was quiet, but hard. "These seizures are killing you."
I'm not sure why, but this line made my heart ache.
"Everyone I care about forgets me!"
And this one. *wince* That was painful - to think of Lily, of the way she always has that shadow of distance pass her eyes before she actually remembers her own son, of the way Snape tried to pretend he didn't know that Harry noticed it, of the way Harry tried to pretend he didn't either - but of course he did.
"until he was certain none of his organs would ooze out of his sides."
*chuckles* This one made me laugh. :P Just a humorous choice of phrasing there.
"the robe rucked up to reveal a bony shin ending in a drooping sock."
This depiction is so brilliant mostly because you just can't picture cool, collected Snape in such an awkwardly compromising position, you know? His sock scrunched... so un-Snape. ;)
Aw, it's cute the way Harry tries to test Snape to make sure he's kept his word... and that Snape so easily sees through the feeble attempt. Very cute - sweet.
Oh my goodness. Oh. My. Goodness. A curse eater - for his mother. I... I am actually speechless. So long Harry went, his mother living like that, a shell of her true self; and now Snape is offering a possible cure for that. All those years...! I am speechless. I feel like Harry right now -- a possibility of his mother getting better? He thought that wasn't possible! He had given up hope something like that would ever happen! Why would his power work, though, and not the other Snape's?
That's a thought. It never even occured to me, as it never occurefd to Snape. Letting go doesn't mean forgetting. You can say goodbye without making yourself lose the memories. That's what Snape isn't realizing; he could have one without the other. He thinks himself too vulnerable for that. He doesn't want the pain of the goodbye.
Love the way little Harry thought of a bank - not as a place with money but as a place with goblins. *chuckles* Cute... and very telling of his personality at the same time.
"because that was how memories were: crisscrossing caverns, all connected."
How true, and how poignant.
"I'll tell her. I'll tell her about the boy."
Huh? Oh, wait, is he referring to the boy in Snape's story (ie, Snape)? Even so, I'm still confused about what that little blurb meant there.
Yay, he's home!
What? You leave off like that? Are you kidding? Ah, no fair! I want to know what happens next! :( Please, please, please update soon. Excellent chapter, of course. Now I have to be off - to reread from the beginning since I'm craving it right now. ;)
Ha det
-Shan- |