Lucius "Mephistopheles" Malfoy... An interesting name.

You must really leave poor Faust -I mean, Severus alone, Lucifer -I mean, Lucius.

swet!

This was beautifully written!

Well done!

nice piece.

oh that was so sad, very well written.

Damn, this was good as well. Your angst writing is truly brilliant. Poor Snape. I always think there must have been SOMETHING very horrible in his past to make him so bitter.

Although the mention of sodium thiosulphate made me shudder in memory of my GCSE assessed practical. *Hisses*

I need to make this quick.

I loved your story, and hope that you do another chapter. I have been reading some of your other stuff too.

Dragon_Slayer_13

It's always good to see stories which explore the Slytherin/Gryffindor bias from an angle we just don't get in canon. Sirius really comes off badly in this, I must say. Then again, it's in keeping with his canon character too - did he *ever* apologize to Severus for the Shrieking Shack incident?

What a shame about those Aurors, really, my heart bleeds for them. Well, it would. If I had one.

And Lucius' middle name *would* be Mephistopheles, wouldn't it? Highly appropriate. And quite terrifying.

Brilliant! I wonder if McGonagall ever looked at Snape the same way again. Can't the Maurauders see what Snape was going through? Don't they have any sympathy (except for Good old Remus)?

Why did Snape continue in Potions when his father, whom he obviously idolizes, was so disparging of it?

So now we see Snape's decsent into darkness. What made him come back, made him realize what he was doing?

Julia

Keep writing. I'm hooked on this story and really want to finish reading it. I would've reveiwed it sooner but I forgot to.

How sad. I always thought Severus had to have some deep dark trauma to make him so bitter. You write very good angst stories.

This was frustrating more than 't someone talk to the kid?Aren't there teahers there to offer some psychological support or something?What is this,we saved his life and then we let him fuck it up?Sheesh!

Ooo, wonderfully done. I enjoy and appreciate the Classical references (it being my field of study :).

The final footnote regarding the fate of the 4 aurors was nice and subtle and creepy. I need to go read "Scars" now...

Whoo. This is a good companion fic to your saga "Not All Scars are Visible". I'm quite fond of that fic... probably because it puts the Slytherins in a light that shines more favorably. *grins* I really loathe automatic assumptions that since a person's a Slytherin, he or she's evil. *sigh* Anyway, it was a good connection. No wonder Severus didn't want to talk about it anymore. Can't wait for more parts of "NASaV"!

Wow.. this was amazingly well written! Love this fic... _ Are you going to write more? *demands more*