Life is good! Nice story.

What the hell! They just stunned the man and carted him away! I hope he can press charges against Rookwood's mom!

Sorry, but I just can't buy Snape's being so careless about revealing signs of Shaun's presence after surviving seven years of relentless pursuit by the Potter gang and a couple years as a double agent. You seem to have sacrificed all plausibility for some forced laughs, that aren't all that funny anyhow, at his expense.

Ditto re. the colored robes and change in personality. The rate of change would be enormously suspicious to all those who don't know about the boy and would, if not immediately then surely, put Snape in great danger. He can't be too stupid to realize this.

Ditto the internal changes. He ~likes~ his life? After what, 24-25 years of unrelieved misery, and carrying the heavy damage that came from it, somehow a couple months with a child, however appealing, would wipe all that away? Impossible.

Very small quibble: the word "freak" should have rung a "Petunia" bell in Snape's head, perhaps not immediately but quite soon. She started that litany when they were small.

The fic is advancing nicely, writing still excellent. Since the scar is obliterated, I hope Shaun becomes visible to others at times. Since AD never bothered to check on Harry in canon, I'd guess he'll do the same here.

Excellent start except for the Slytherin comments. I realize this is AU and Snape's background is different, but he couldn't possibly be a conscientious Head of House and yet maintain a conviction that ~no~ Slytherin had friends: he'd see too many counterexamples in the kids he led.

The basic idea is fresh and opens up all kinds of possibilities, and your writing is far, far above average for this site. Go for it!

Your Snape is totally plausible. He'd have enormous fellow-feeling for an abused child; his own history of abuse here is different from that in canon but likely no less serious. He's not being "sweet," just taking proper care of an injured innocent.

IMO Harry ~is~ a bit too precocious, especially since starvation and isolation are both known to stunt the development of the brain as well as the body.

I really enjoyed this.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!

This is a wonderful story!

I loved this! It was a plesure to read this story

Wyd I hope they sue and I hope snap gives all those students hell

Ok, I love how the healer had to pay for his royal skrew-up. That was well done. Only thing, tho - aren't the papers going nuts WITH "WHERE IS THE BOY-WHO-LIVED?!" tripe? He is, after all, technically missing.

So I take it the "aurors" are going to get away with attacking Severus, stunning a small child, leaving the small child to freeze to death in the elements leading to pneumonia, triple stunning Severus, purposefully ignoring his pleas for someone to care for his son, all on trumped-up charges? Oh, of course they are...they're the "cops" of the wizarding world and are naturally immune to facing charges for extreme "misconduct".

Assholes.

And fuck those "healers", too. Fuck all of them.

wonderful and heart warming story! i always felt that JKRowling made Snape too one dimensional. :)

Beautifull story! Thank you so much for sharing it ! It’s amazing the love we feel out of it.

This is such a sweet story, although I suppose I should say bittersweet since some parts are so sad and maddening. I do love that they managed to get him feeling safe enough to let others see him, even just for a little bit, so he won't get hurt...hopefully..as much as he was.

I dont know why everyone is matter to see chicken leg dissapear. This is magic school! Ghost is true so why not the chicken leg thing?!