This is absolutely brilliant. You capture the tragedy of Severus's life and manipulations central to Albus in a really tightly written one shot.

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Well, this is a fine and dandy fic that will perfectly complement an after-lunch of soft music and lazing in the wintersun. I would recommend, as a gastronomical accompaniment, those small citrus cakes that can fit in the palm of our hand.

Maybe add a measure of honey, so that annoying breadcrumbs won't fall to your keyboard, depriving you of the use of the h, the e, the l or the p; which would be a rather bad thing, as you will be needing those letters quite soon.

The especially prudent will have added a dose of cyanide to the citrus cake, to help with the mortal pains this fic can cause in the reader's little heart.

Poor Severus, he never really had a chance. Everyone uses him. I like how you portrayed Dumbledore. Not that I hate him or anything but you can kind of see it in the way he treats Severus. How he uses him for his purposes.

I guess this pairing doesn't have much of a following by the amount of reviews you have. Surprising, since this is a good story.

LOVE THIS.

DUMBLES, YOU'RE AN ASS HOLE.

I was scanning through the site and saw this story only had 5 reviews! Scandalous! (Although it makes me feel better since I only got 4 for my Albus-Severus story For the Price of My Familiar. I mean if YOU only got 5, that's not necessarily a bad sign because you're an excellent writer.)

I loved this story when I read it. I think you have a delicate touch with character development and plot. I even like the unresolved ending although it drives me crazy and makes me want to kill Dumbledore all over again.

I love the way you make use of the unspoken realities in Severus and Albus' relationship and how the use of power affects it.

Most of all I like the way you use this short story to create the sense of a fully realized world. Most authors can't do that in a one-shot. Well done.

I like how the machiavellian plots of Dumbledore are underlined in each part of the story, I don't think it's something that appears usually

This is absolutely one of the best fiction about Snape i've ever read. And absolutely the most beautiful fanfiction about Snape of all. I love your other fanfiction, but this is so full of a desperate need for love i almost cried. I'd like to translate it in Italian and put it on an Italian Slash Fanfiction on Harry Potter, if you don't mind. I'll wait for your answer

Bye

Wow... this surprised me. Poetic, but not in a corny or sappy way. Nicely done.

After all, Severus has never quite been loved before.

-Or is now. Or ever. He is but a game-piece, and dies knowing it. What a waste of a life, and a soul.

And of the best character in canon, too.

Wow! So very interesting. What a different potrayl of Severus. And a very good dipiction of Albus - weaving in what we know of his personality in the post DH world.

So good to see fic from you again!