Amazing. That's all I have to say

I really enjoyed this story! Very in-character for both Snape and Dumbledore, and the idea about bottled spells was fascinating. Well done!

Wow. Very in character, but what i enjoyed the most was the feeling of this one-shot, of snape's narration, atumn and plans to imperio students, of routine and contemplation... just wow.

sigh, for me its thursday all over again. I loved your writing

Amazing!! Really thought provoking!

o, defiently a side to snape i hadn't seen before :)

A nice plot and , i must say, a brilliant plan

I'm not sure exactly how you'll take this review but, here goes...

I'm not a big Harry Potter fan. I've seen the movies, enjoyed them, but never read the books. For whatever reason, I just never could get into the fandom. It didn't interest me that much.

A dear friend of mine recommended this story to me, knowing my disinterest in Potter. She told me it was quite good and she wasn't wrong. I don't even like Harry Potter and I loved your story. That means you must be a fantastic writer. Snape's voice comes through loud and clear here in a beautiful meloncholy, disillusioned fashion. I was really impressed.

You could almost make a convert of me. Thanks for a good story.

Highly interesting, but unlikely at best. A different take on Snape, while remembering that he IS a potions *master* (everyone seems to forget that.) I can't picture it in my head, really, but it just fits in nicely. Not bad.

Good story and good DD and SS interaction.

Did you notice that in HBP, when Harry uses the HBP potions book to make Draught to Produce Euphoria, the printed instructions have lots of notes and revisions all over it as though it had been changed several times? And Slughorn points out that the peppermint that is added (Snape's addition, of course) would tend to take away the outward signs of the potion -- such as open acts of inhibition.

So you've got some canon backup. :)

I thought that it was absolutely excellent & really well written.

I have not read such a good short story in a long time, with lots little quotes, and reflections of human nature.

Trully extraordinary.

...I positively LOVE this. *speechless* I have never seen Snape better portrayed... I am not making my usual long critique; there are simply too many good points to make. It's enthralling and I'm utterly captivated. Without question, onto my favorites list.

dear God...I can't get over how good this is. If I have permission to print this out to read and reread at leisure?

I loved the idea of a imperio potion. And of course my favorite part:

"Let us imagine the scene. Voldemort rises up, in power, storms Hogwarts' walls. The loyal Death Eater children rise up to him, in a tide of devotion and Dark Marks. And then I tell them all to sit down, and they do. No choice in the matter."

Classic.

A genius of an idea but is it really necessary to use one of the Unforgivable Curses with it? Petrificus or Stupefy or a sleep spell would work just as effectively without needing to meddle with their minds. And after all, he can't leave them under Imperio forever, can he? So he might as well use a milder spell- just preferably one that the Death Eaters either don't recognise or can't undo. (If he could introduce the same potion into the wine at a Malfoy party or Death Eater rally, that would be helpful too.)

Also, he shouldn't be so quick to discount the possibility of other houses joining Voldemort en masse. Scared people might do anything to keep themselves and their families safe; brainwashed people will do what they're told is right; and science-worshippers sometimes go too far in the pursuit of knowledge. Do you think Nazi Germany was a nation of Slytherins? No, it was the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws among them who did the most damage.

Came acrtoss this while rummaging. It's very clever - I especially liked "People do not understand what a great skill making people underestimate you is."