THAT IS THE MOST ORIGINAL THING THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN!

That is quite different and unusual for this genre! Usually Harry is thrilled and 'falls in love with' Snape. I had never even THOUGHT of him wanting to escape and being 'drugged'.
Rock on!

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - what lovely childhood memories. We sang the song from the movie and even had a yellow car from a cereal box that floated via magnets in a base & in the bottom of the car. I still have that benighted thing somewhere...
Poor Harry, no one notices for quite a while, that he's not spoiled in the slightest...
Rock on

I see from your description of Severus Snape, that you have met my Uncle Frankie? LOL
Great chapter, wonderful premise
Great excuse for Hagrid not to go, usually authors don't even bother, they just write that Minerva, or Filius, or Pomona, or Albus or Severus was sent instead.
Rock on!

hm... Snape's too unrealistic imo. Who would just kidnap a kid without talking to its guardians. Here Snape is immature, slightly deranged and totally unreasonable.

How dreadfully disappointing.

I like Snape as a Christie fan. I've seen him read Sherlock Holmes in other stories, and complain there hasn't been anything decent on the telly since Dr. Who was cancelled.

I love this story! I really admire your writing style. It reminds me of Lemony Snicket and C.S. Lewis. The way you use parallels and repetition of certain phrases and structure is very effective. The characters are also very consistent and believable. Often with point divergence stories like this, you just have to accept that the characters are OOC, and just enjoy it (or not) based on whatever personality and traits the author decided to use. With this story, however, you do an excellent job explaining and showing what changes caused different attitudes, especially with Harry. There are certain points that you bring out that illustrate this, such as reminding us that Hermione does root for the underdog (like house elves) and that Harry really is just best at surviving. Snape is also realistic, though he seems a little too extremely mean to me. Maybe I've just been reading too much Severitus though, and I've forgotten what he's really like. :)

You did a really excellent job of communicating emotion to the reader. I was crying through the last few chapters! I'm also incredibly angry at Snape. At this point, i don't really want him to have a big revelation or change of heart, I just want him to die. Painfully. I want the truth rubbed in his face, and then I want him to die slowly in agony and be sent to the lowest circle of hell for all eternity. (He fights so hard to blind himself to the abuse of a small child, and contributes to it in a manner that exceeds the original abuse, while feeling that he is in the right! I hate him!) Then I want Dumbledore fired and sent to prison for kidnapping, not reporting child abuse, aiding and abetting Snape, and being an idiot. So really, I shouldn't try to write the next chapter. It would be far too unrealistic and, well, gory. :)

I've never read your other long Harry Potter story, despite seeing the summary multiple times, because the plot didn't really appeal to me. After seeing your writing here though, I'm definitely going to read it. Just as soon as I find a few free hours and a box of kleenex.

So, I could beg you for more of this story. I could promise you multi-paragraph chapterly reviews, offers to beta, crazy suggestions meant to spark inspiration, money, chocolate and my first born child. (And if any of that will work, I will absolutely do it. Well, except maybe for the chocolate. That's all mine.) But instead of that, I'm going to thank you sincerely for putting so much effort, time and talent into creating something so beautiful that you give away to the world. I can only hope that you never stop writing. Thank you, so much.

You should put an abandoned warning in this!

This was an amazing story. I mean, the last several fanfics I started were pretty terrible, the one, the first few sentences, were like a breath of fresh air.

I LOVE the writing in this. The mirrors between Snape and Harry, the reflections. I'm heart broken, honestly, that it ends where it does. I understand that sometimes the muse wanders away and doesn't come back, but, oh, this story. I didn't realize it was unfinished. I normally avoid unfinished stories, unless they were updated in the last few months. I'd read this one again, because it was that good.

Just like I'm going to read Your other Harry potter fic, even knowing it, too, hasn't been updated in 3 years. Because this writing as so spectacular.

I know I"ll probably never see this finished, but I'll follow none the less. Maybe one day... :)

You are really good at describing children. Both Harry's personality and the other slytherins - you don't make them out to be small adults in desguise.

... I don't think even Snape is that stupid.. I'v heard he is actually quite smart.. Being an old spy and all that..

Great story you have here, you should really continue writting.

it's a good fic

I love this! I think that Snape would behave like this...and can't wait to read next chapters...

But still hope that Snape turn out o be really good mentor!