These stories were all written before Deathly Hallows and the saga took a bit of a different direction, didn't it? Although Book 7 confirms that Snape loved Lily, Grindelwald is important to the story, Draco is as limp as a damp dishcloth, and Harry has to be prepared to die to defeat Voldemort - but not in the ways that I expected.

The stories revolve around the three half-bloods - Harry, Snape and Riddle, though mainly Snape. And be warned, they feature a vicious, immature Snape - both horrible and pathetic. This Snape is on the side of the Light, but he is not very nice, and his attitude towards Harry until well after the events of HBP is both malevolent and protective - pretty much the same as Big D's in Bagge's marvellous "Soul Maties": Harry is mine to trash! (go read, if you haven't already, it's a treat). I'm convinced that Snape is doomed by canon to be this way (explaination available on request), or just go read Perosha's Snape-rant (http:///54923.html) - where a much needed bucket of cold water is tossed over the more feverish Snape-imaginings. Harry is just Harry, and Tom is a psychopath.

I, Possum132, do solemnly swear to review all the fics I read, regardless of the number of reviews, its age, or anything else.

I have joined the Review Revolution.

13 October 2009

PS ivanhoe343 has translated "Who conjured the Dark Mark?" into Russian!