how utterly depressing...but in a good way. i'm not sure if that makes sense, but i promise that i mean it in the best way possible. haha. really though, it was so perfectly characterized and sad...sigh. great job.

loove it!

Awe this is so great. I'm glad I randomly found it. :)

Ah this was good.

"She had forgotten how he could look through her when he wished, how he could read her feelings when he had the courage to try."

That line just oozed of Severus. I admire your ability to capture his character rather accurately in this story. HOW do you do it?

Thank you for writing this! It was wonderful, sad and really just something that could have fit perfectly in canon.

This is wonderful - so in character, and I'd been musing to myself earlier how the dynamics of Slughorn, Lily, and Snape in a classroom together might have worked. This is very realistic.

A teenage Snape who was in character! And I rather liked your Lily! NIce work!

And of course Lily _knows_ she's perfectly justified. No matter how cruel she is. Did she ever turn down any of Sluggy's awards? No. After all, she's a Gryffindor and therefore morally perfect, and all Slytherins are scum.

But she never did explain what it was she wanted Snape to _do_. Yes, how dare he associate with members of his own house, after all, instead of accepting her beloved Marauders (who were still tormenting him all this time, no doubt, while she laughed) as...friends. After all, they were the good guys.

Weren't they?

oh, poor severus. i don't usually read lily fics, but i do like the whole potions competition thing, and the whole issue of choice and understanding.

Wow. This was really powerful, full of emotion and startling detail. Severus's dialog was truly heartbreaking; as Lily said, he still doesn't get it. I can really see this fitting perfectly into cannon. It's so sad that it took losing her (to death, that is) for him to begin making the right choices not for her but because it was right. That last line, was a heart-clencher...

amazing...sniff..

ow, my heart. that last line from sev was lovely, soul crushing yes, but lovely. did i mention you made my heart hurt? god, who hasn't had this happen, a falling out where you can't get away from the person, so you have to learn to function near them. very relatable. you did the "pairing" justice.

Very good. Nice job on the tension between them, and that moment of tender hope when he touches her.

sweet, very nice, esp like the ending

Well-written. Snape was right, she really didn't give him a choice. He *was* the constant one and she *was* the deserter.

But I can't believe in a Lily that still cared in sixth year. She'd dumped him from her heart long before the "Mudblood" line, even before her "best friend" was almost fed to a werewolf and (what she knew had been) a near.death experience bothered her so little she didn't seek him out. Or even ask him about it the next time they spoke. Mary Macdonald's troubles concerned her more than Snape's.