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Reviews for Betrayals

longroot	2007.06.24 - 11:59PM	7: Wrong Either Way	Anonymous
I particularly love this chapter! Author's Response: Thanks :))

lunafish	2007.05.06 - 09:32PM	7: Wrong Either Way	Signed
Oh, you convey so heartbreakingly all the hopelessness & frustration of Snape's situation. I want to damn DD for playing God, but who else is there? So he's a loving God, who nonetheless demands sacrifice because "justice" demands it. JKR got it all wrong when she said it was bad-boy syndrome that makes Snape appeal to us. We feel for him because we sense the depth of his plight and can help but sympathize with him just as readers have for years sympathized with Milton's Satan. Author's Response: I don't see bad-boy syndrome at all in Snape's case, though it may be a factor in the widespread sympathy for Draco. Snape has long struck me as a boiling cauldron of misery, that occasionally splatters the unwary onlooker. It is his honour and his sense of responsibility that appeal, not the mistakes he made in the past, except insofar as they have placed him in this pitiable position of entrapment, where his choices narrow and narrow till he is even forced to turn wand on closest friend and mentor for the good of all. (Yes, even for the good of Dumbledore. Can anyone imagine that the headmaster would have wished another to be sacrificed on his behalf, especially when that sacrifice would have doomed everything he was fighting for?) But Snape does not want pity, only respect, and we can see that he deserves it.