Hi hun I can't use the link u said worked and I don't know how to pm anyone but if you could send me the link I would be grateful as I love your story and I'd love to read it fully thank you xx

this was a wonderful, wonderful experience.
it's now 4am lmao so my choices weren't the wisest but I enjoyed myself so so so much
thank you from the bottom of my heart I am so grateful and so happy

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

harry severus is basically holding out to you his bloody heart in his hand
why are you being like this
I know you're insecure as fuck but come on now
also after everything severus is doing for you after how fucking explicit he's been
harry you are such an asshole
years you try to get him to state things explicitly
so severus explicitly says that he wants you in his life and in his bed, that he LOVES you
and you're talking about leaving and didn't tell him you love him too and don't try to kiss him you're throwing it back in his face the impression it gives is that now that severus has revealed the depth of his feeling it's too much for you

I'M GOING TO SCREAM
I'm already quite literally crying
I am so fucking emotional right now I can't cope this is amazing

I'm having heart palpitations from this

it's a little unclear whether the change is triggered by harry's intention or the parseltongue command "change." if the latter, that's weird and also a security risk. i know it's horribly unlikely, but what if someone else speaks parseltongue and says it in the middle of the day? or harry or snape say it while having a conversation in parseltongue?

you know what they could publish with minimal questions is how to teach parseltongue
people would go nuts to find out it's possible to learn
though really they should have thought that obvious but wizards

I wonder if severus already has feelings for harry? he seems to be trying really hard to get harry to admit to his, which is a very uncomfortable experience if you don't reciprocate the feelings expressed to you.

solid gold with tungsten lining
wouldn't the material of a cauldron affect the potion made in it?
not surprised it dented gold is SUPER soft

harry why are you so surprised you got a birthday present? severus gave you a Christmas present

damn. I'm really emotional now. snape was so kind to take him. like hot damn look at him being thoughtful

harry would study by himself until he changed
are the changes stress-induced?
there was a long period when he wasn't changing and he was changing more frequently as they got closer to NEWTs and now that NEWTs are upon him he's changing every night
maybe it's distress?
he was upset during the graduation ceremony

snape you are such a good person
harry I hope you've figured out that he cares about you by now

you know what surprises me is that they didn't attempt experimenting with basilisk parts
there's a whole ass basilisk in the chamber
even if most of the flesh is rotted snakeskin lasts pretty much forever as long as it isn't touched and dead snakes look pretty fresh if they're somewhere cold
the chamber is pretty cold and the basilisk died six years before
five years after the venom was still very much active
though venom molecules are incredibly stable so that's not a surprise
seriously though why not experiment with basilisk parts for a potion for a basilisk?
maybe not experimenting with the venom though
not without borrowing the phoenix harry bought for the school
that's wild that harry did that actually
can you even buy a phoenix? like sure you can pay money to humans who can help transport the phoenix to you but if the phoenix doesn't agree to come along I doubt any force in the world could make it

sigh
they're both emotionally stunted and my irritation is now shifting to snape

okay I know I'm harping but
THERE'S NO NEED TO RISK DEATH
RISK PETRIFICATION
HAVE YOU ALREADY FORGOTTEN THAT'S AN OPTION

obsessed with snape agreeing to call him harry!
I know harry didn't get permission but he should totally call snape severus

wait a DEAD inland taipan? harry is a parselmouth couldn't they send harry to wherever or whomever sells them and have him convince the snake
they need a steady supply a dead snake will make no more
or have severus buy a live snake and keep it in its container and let harry talk to it before letting it out and convince it to let them have venom in exchange for a very warm terrarium and extra fat rats or whatever taipans eat I don't actually know
hell severus could convince it he seems to be intermediate at parseltongue now
SLAMMED THE TEETH INTO HIS HAND?! DID HARRY JUST POISON SNAPE?
wait no harry got all the venom out but holy fucking christ harry if there was even a teeny tiny bit more that you hadn't got snape would be really fucked I hope snape carries a bezoar on his person (do bezoars work against venom? a bezoar would work for ingested poison because it spreads via the digestive tract once swallowed but venom administered into flesh whether fat or muscle or vein has a much more direct path I'm not sure the bezoar would help against venom)
...dittany worked? huh. I guess if you upended a bottle of it it would close the wounds. he probably had blood replenisher on him as well. I'm mostly surprised that he managed to save himself after he passed out. maybe he was pretending unconsciousness.

harry of course snape is going to balk when you try to push him to say he cares
but you can tell when snape is pleased by an offering of cobbler
why can't you tell that he genuinely cares about you?
also, no matter what snape says, you don't take care of someone in the myriad ways snape does if you don't care about the person.
HARRY SNAPE LITERALLY BRUSHED YOUR HAIR FROM YOUR FACE AND ADMITTED IT

meanwhile:
SEVERUS SNAPE
YOU ARE NOT A COWARD
DON'T ACT LIKE ONE
you can see how desperate harry is for kindness and harry has also made explicit verbal statements that he NEEDS your affection and considers you a friend why are you doing this

HARRY AND SEVERUS YOU ARE BOTH IDIOTS THERE IS NO REASON TO NOT CONJURE A GLASS BETWEEN YOU SO SEVERUS WILL BE AT WORST PETRIFIED THERE IS NO REASON TO RISK DEATH HOLY SHIT
sorry if these comments are becoming repetitive
I work in emergency medicine and I'm familiar with some other branches of science and the recklessness with which they're treating their lives and the sloppy manner in which they're conducting their experiments and just the general lack of safety is infuriating but also isn't actually pulling me out of the story because the wizarding world is just like that
though I did expect snape to be smarter :/

also to be clear I'm already obsessed with this fic I love it so much I am having a fantastic time right now you're a gift to the world

harry snape DOES care about you
stop throwing in his face that he doesn't because he does you're just closing your eyes because you're so certain he doesn't that it doesn't matter what he does or how he acts it's not because he cares
ARGH

harry leaving Hogwarts would be SO DUMB it would be (barring him having a tantrum and roaming about) perfectly safe for other people for him to live in the chamber of secrets literally where else could he find a space that nobody else would try to go to that's big enough for a fully grown basilisk

uh-oh. I'm concerned about what kind of revelation could follow "I'm nothing"

holy shit they're idiots
what if harry accidentally meets Snape's eyes when he's trying to only look at the rat?
before they try this, they should have a pane of glass between snape and harry so that even if it doesn't work snape won't DIE, and already have a restorative potion ready if he does get petrified so that once harry is in human form he can feed snape the restorative to un-petrify him!
I know being reckless is their modus operandi especially harry (what is being a spy and endangering your life if not being reckless) but seriously you guys