YES! thanks

I am so glad you posted this. I hate that b!tch. Glad she's dead.

Sorry, Nessa! I really didn't like this one! But then I know how you feel about Lily and all, so it makes sense. But as always I liked the way you made the drabble, and i enjoy all of your work because it lets me relate to you even more.

*pulls out the hershey bars and graham crackers* room for one more over that fire kitty?

I liked it! Hey Nessy, wanna roast some marshmallows over those flames? They always taste best cooked over the ranting of the pretentious.

Okay, I understand what you were trying to exude in this fic and you succeeded, but purely based on your authors note I'm pretty confused. I don't see how Lily betrayed Snape at all and I don't think that Snape exactly betrayed her either. I do not, however, believe that Lily should have immidiately accepted Snape's apology.

SWM was the last straw in their friendship and Lily was very hurt, not just Snape. With your logic the following would make sense: My best friend calls me the N word in front of a ton of people, friend apologizes and I'm supposed to accept his apology based on the cracked out notion that I'm not like other black people so he can call them the N word, have friends who are horrible influences who he refuses to give up, wants to join the K, and I should accept that. No, it doesn't. That's essentially what people assume Lily should have done. Snape couldn't, at the moment, decide what he wanted more: Lily's friendship and love or the dark arts and the possibility of acceptance as a DE. Snape essentially picked the wrong side and that was that.

Could she have accepted his apology in time, sure. But at that moment I'd be ashamed if she accpeted his apology because WHAT she would be accepting is key here: she would accept that he didn't plan on changing his ways and accept that he would continue to see people of muggle blood as inferior (in his own, selective way). I love Snape's character to pieces and believed that he loved Lily since I read OotP, but SWM and Lily's rejection NEEDED to happen for Snape to change for the better. Lily ending their friendship was sad, yes, but in the long run it was necessary. I'm sure Lily still cared about Snape, I mean they were best friends, but how could you expect Lily to stay in such a rocky relationship with a person who saw everybody else of her blood as inferior. We never seem to consider Lily's feelings in all this.

So if you think she deserves a slap after ending something like that then I'm confused as to how you view a healthy relationship. And if you meant she betrayed Snape by falling in love with James, I don't quite get that either since James apparently changed for the better.

And for the record, I think Snape would bite his own hand off before striking Lily but I respect your creativity all the same.

Feel free to reply to me if you want. :)

I know that Snape did change for Lily. I know all of the things he did for her, thank you. But he didn't do it when he was a student, did he? Snape did screw up as a student and he had to screw up to learn his lesson. Sometimes you don't see things until it damages your loved ones. It makes me sad too, because I love Snape as a character.

As for Snape, did it occur to you that she has feelings too, and not just Severus himself? I understand Severus, I really do, but I also understand Lily too. There was no way she could have stayed friends with him when he wanted to join a group that kills her kind, sorry, I don't see it as a betrayal. I would say that he betrayed her when he was young.

And I said seven years because they were friends before, from age eight or nine.

As for physical abuse thing, I did read fics where there was violence, but I see one where the author encourages it for the first time.

As for those who "defended" Nessa, I'm sorry but I have freedom of speech.

~spikesminx (this is my sister's account)

Knowing the author personally, i can assure you that she is NOT a proponent of physical abuse of woman, nor does she think that Snape has to be perfect and that anyone who disagrees is wrong. I find it funny that you people have nothing better to do than read a fanfiction you won't even like, and then engage in a pointless comment-battle over it, when you could be off reading something you enjoy, or better yet, WRITING something for others to enjoy. Get off your lazy, argumentative asses.

To those who backed Ness up, my thanks.

Spikesminx, if you don't like what she writes then don't read it. There is no need to berate the author just because YOU don't like what they wrote. Just don't read it. And you think her mentioning of a slap is bad? Have you even read fics out there? There are ones that are so much more than a slap. Why don't you go try and tell them how to write their fics. I'm so *sure* they'd appreciate you trying to put them to shame for writing what they want to.
Way to go.

"Snape wasn't going to change for Lily." -JKR

Sometimes people don't change whatever you do. Dark Arts is kinda like a drug addiction and believe it or not, even drug addicts' family feel that they had to leave him/her at some point (I've seen examples of it in real life). And Snape reached that point. SWM was the last straw in their relationship, Lily tried to change his ways, but he was having none of it. He wanted to be DE and have Lily at the same time (I like Snape and forgive him for that), and she can't keep up with him when he wants to join a group that kills her kind. I know that he loves her and wants to spare her, but what about the other Muggleborns? Should Lily have turned a blind eye to them? If I was black and my friend wanted to join K, and didn't listen to me when I told him to change his mind, I would kick his ** before he knew it, best friend or not.

And, by the way, if she didn't want to be his friend she wouldn't have kept up with him for seven years.

Way to bring physical abuse in a fic. Are you proud?

Go Severus! I don't blame him.

You just don't get it, do you? It wasn't "just one word", it was the last straw. Snape intended to join the genocidal organization dedicated to torturing and killing people like Lily. When Lily confronted him about his wannabe DE friends he always excused them or ignored her. He apologized to Lily only because she saw her as an exception and thought that she didn't really count as a Muggleborn. If I were Lily, I'd been really insulted by that. He thought of all other Muggleborns as inferior and though "Mudblood" slipped out, it showed that this word was on his mind a lot. The whole incident was a wake-up call for Lily and after that she couldn't take his whole attitude any longer. Snape is my favorite HP character, but here he got what he deserved. I don't blame Lily in the slightest.

With friends like this, who need enemies. Though you are a Snape fan, ith this story you show that you think that Snape is a nasty abusive jerk and that you like him this way. Congratulations!

She deserves it all and some more from me personally...
Betrayal was all he ever got...

janori, But the slap wasn't just because she didn't return his feelings but because I think she betrayed him as much as people think he betrayed her. I think for many of us who had been in long friendships, we can testify that they are moments where we insult and fight each other but real friends forgive when the offending party begs for forgiveness. She didn't, she just snubbed her nose at him, hence my first line in the drabble. Thanks for the review all of you!