i must say love how Snape thinks of Molly. He's so condescending but in a sweet (well better word for snape would be fond) way. i really enjoyed this fic. good job

But of course James will always get off scot-free, even if he tortured Snape in the Great Hall in front of Dumbledore himself. Severus ought to realize that and leave that hell-hole--life with a broken wand would be preferable to this. He'll die of Dumbledore's love of torture pretty soon now, because I suspect that Albus will get too wrapped up in his glory to notice his subject is dead.

Oh, excellently done. Dumbledore here so dark, it actually reminded me of the false Moody of Goblet. So similar, and yet, so dark, so something's-off from what you're expecting.

And I loved Molly and Arthur! I'm actually writing a courtship story about them at the moment (inspired by Molly's comments at the end of Goblet about their 4am stroll and Arthur still having the marks, ironically enough), so it was especially odd to see them here together. They're not usual choices for stories set at Hogwarts, so I was delighted.

wow it was a good chapter thank you

Ah...yes, I think it's been many a year since I've seen a good Severus/Arthur friendship fic. Those two are grand characters. :)

It's a shame Arthur is so overlooked in the fandom (probably because he isn't classical-dashing handsome? 9.9)

They say the universe makes allowances. Where one thing pushes, another pulls, where one heats, another cools. Matter and energy cannot be created, cannot be destroyed, just moved around and transformed.

So we must now give our thanks, that in this universe, where Dumbledore was twisted into cruelty and savagery, it was arranged that a boy named Arthur Weasley and a girl named Molly Prewitt were born perhaps a decade later, and were there at Hogwarts to compensate for the dark wound of this Dumbledore's twisted soul. And a dark, angry, hurt young man named Severus Snape learns enough of kindness to turn a corner our more familiar worl;d never let him truly pass around.

Lovely, lovely stuff.

An ironic twist - since in canon it was Arthur who was beaten at Hogwarts hard enough to scar him for life.

cool

Good for Snape! Although Dumbledore will just beat him again, just because he can, even if the Prewetts are saved--and then his own Slytherins will kill him for being a blood-traitor. We all know what _his_ reward will always be.

But then, there is a place where he _will_ be rewarded, by One who sees the heart, not the House.

Aw! thats much better, I completely loved this chapter, poor little Sev needs someone to look out for him and Molly and Arthur are perfect! it made me feel all warm inside lol

*applauds* I love the fact that this version of Severus is turning from Volauvent *before* he was ever marked...

This is a brutally harsh and difficult story, and Snape's hate-filled POV is extraordinarily harrowing. Only your brilliance as a writer is keeping me in this dark and terrible Hogwarts, and I'm hoping against hope that somehow, perhaps in a tie-in with "Aura," the "true" Potterverse can reach across to this one and start to heal it.

Amazing stuff!

wow it was a good chapter thank you

This was a dark but well written idea. Please update soon thanks.

Good Lord! That was cruel, but good. Poor old chap.