I usually avoid Snape Harry stories like the plague, but the reviews convinced me otherwise, and I'm glad they did. Very good read!

this story was so good! loved it!

love this chapter!

this chapter is so good! so glad that ron still wants to be Harry's friend and that he and neville are sticking by harry! i hope sirius and remus do eventually keep trying to apologize to harry again. i love how harry has destroyed some of the horcruxes here differently from canon! Dumbledore is very frustrating and infuriating in this story. i don't understand why he's not willing to acknowledge harry as the subject of the prophecy anymore when neville wasn't the one who was marked anyway! i wonder if Dumbledore is still dying here the way he was in canon in the 6th book!

great chapter! love how harry is taking this all into his own hands!

i feel so bad for harry! dumbledore has given up on him so coldly and has switched to neville! and i'm disappointed with ron and hermione for not staying close to harry after all this! especially ron since i expected more loyalty from him than hermione! i'm glad that harry got rid of umbridge and is doing his own thing though i feel so bad for the weasleys and for how mr weaslsy died! i'm glad that harry was able to find and destroy a horcrux this chapter without knowing it and that the vanishing cabinet being gone will probably change things for draco in 6th year. i'm frustrated by snape not caring for harry! in canon, he was willing to die to protect james and lily's son but he cares so little for his own son with lily here? i guess maybe he is trying to keep harry from being targeted by voldemort and the death eaters. i wonder if snape did defy Voldemort 3 times. i think he probably did, at least that many! so harry is probably still the subject of the prophecy. I'm so disappointed that sirius and remus both don't want anything to do with harry now!

omg poor harry! sirius was so cruel! snape is being awful by not helping harry!

This was great. The most realistic “Snape is actually Harry’s father” story I’ve read that has the secret coming out after Voldemort comes back

I really liked this story. Of course I really wanted Harry to say screw you to pretty much everyone and not forgive them...but Harry is better than that.

A well written story. I think that Harry should have cursed both Dumbledore and Snape at some point in the story.

Great story

Great story!

Wow wow wow wow! This was really good! A breeze of fresh air into the fictionland. Thank you for writing it.

Perfect example of how fickle people are

This likely one the best Severitus/Snape-as-Harry's-father fics I've read, in my twenty years of fanfiction. Everyone always rushes to make sure it is known that Snape is his father, but RARELY, if ever, do they explore the thorough fallout that would occur.

I really believed this was the best response from Sirius and Remus that I've seen, specifically. I was warmed by Ron continuing to stick by Harry with their usual growing pains and felt that Hermione was a little too rigid, but still in character. The most pleasant surprise was that Lily was a PERSON and not just a plot point; that's a fantastic characterization of her that is simply human, but not neither out of character/wishful thinking or plain Mary Sue.

The time jumps were a little jarring, but that was more my quick reading while binging more than anything else. I love this fic and is a really genuine, solid depiction of the classic fanon trope. Cheers!