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| Trickie Woo | 2008.04.08 - 02:18AM | 3: Charity’s Thesis | Signed |
| Yes, the true purebloods tend to be 'Deliverance' rejects, don't they? I've often wondered how he ever got any power at all with so many feeble minded purblood Death Eaters as his followers. I bet they had to wear slip on shoes because they couldn't figure out how to tie their shoelaces either with a spell or manually. If he managed to use inbreeding like that he would have eternal power because no one would have the intellect to challenge him or try to overthrow him. Given his prejudices it would work perfectly for him. It always amaze me how Rowling paralleled him to Hitler even to the Muggle and the Jewish ancestors. This plan is so 'liebensbaum' it fits in perfectly with that. Have you ever seen a TV movie with Lee Remick called 'Of Pure Blood'? I think Rowling must have. Author's Response: I don't have TV so I haven't seen the movie. As to the other, truly it's largely a reflection of JKR's twisted moral views: you can tell who's good and evil by how ugly they are, right? But I can use it creatively in a story... and considering how small the Wizarding population is, inbreeding really will be a serious problem. | |||
| Trickie Woo | 2008.04.08 - 01:38AM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Lily was no plaster saint, she turned her back on him when he needed her help the most. She wasn't worth his devotion if she couldn't see that. I agree with all his thoughts about his years at Hogwarts.
I feel that he was driven more by guilt than by devotion to protect Harry, he felt that Lily's death was all his fault. He was really the only truly moral adult character in the whole saga. He confessed his sins to Dumbledore, truly repented them, and spent the rest of his life atoning for them. "Was there anyone who had gotten what they sought in joining? Save Bella and her ilk, of course. For anyone sane—whatever you sought in joining the Dark Lord, that’s what you lost, you paid …." That's the gist of the whole problem, if he could only project that to all the students in some way (through their minds would be the best way) along with the potion and he would have the problem solved.
Neville is the most heroic character of all the students he eveolved from the quivering mass he was as a first year into the person who removed the last obstacle to 'He Who I Found Most Tiresome's downfall and total anihilation. Moral clarity describes him well. Snape doesn't realize it but he has that in common with Neville, Snape's comes from experience and Neville's was inborn. My definition of courage is doing what you must do, in spite of all your fears, because you know it is the right thing to do. I think Snape and Neville both live up to this definition. If only Rowling had recognized this about Snape, but her ego didn't recognize what her id had written between the lines.
Author's Response: It's odd; I write Lily and Albus MUCH more charitably than I think about them; I think I'm channeling Severus, and that he loved them more because he needed to love than because they deserved it. I bet you liked how Snape used Neville in C2; you may also like c7 for that.... I did write this to be canon-compliant, but I think it leads Snape to an AU place; I think he ends as a better headmaster than JKR wrote, and I've been writing a bit of that AU last year.... | |||
| tigerlily2 | 2008.04.06 - 01:42AM | 5: Beautiful as the Moon: Breath and Water | Signed |
| Whew! Wow, I guess the potion works. Poor Snape. Thanks again!!!! Author's Response: So it would appear.... Actually, I wish I had the full recipe; I'm quite sure I'd benefit from taking it myself. On the other hand, I haven't Snape's courage, so perhaps it's as well I haven't the opportunity! | |||
| tigerlily2 | 2008.04.06 - 01:33AM | 4: House Rivalries | Signed |
| Loving this! Very clever! Author's Response: Glad you're enjoying... | |||
| tigerlily2 | 2008.04.06 - 01:17AM | 3: Charity’s Thesis | Signed |
| Very Clever! Thanks for the update! I love the scheming Slytherins - Snape is quite brilliant. Author's Response: I rather enjoy Phineas Nigellus; it was fun to make him fume! | |||
| crowtato | 2008.04.05 - 10:44AM | 5: Beautiful as the Moon: Breath and Water | Signed |
| Twisted! (as in "Compelling!"...if I can mean it that way.) Your writing has been so rich--the scientific philosophy side (or the philosophical science side?)--either way, I'm usually too lazy to read fic very closely, but this has been thought-provoking. In your latest chapter, I think I expected Snape's cynicism to be more resilient, but even considering how justified/"rational" it might be with all the childhood horrors, I guess the self-deception is pretty blatant--especially in the face of Lily. (And I think you do an excellent job of conveying a persistently misanthropic Snape to the end, where he could still care less for anyone but Lily...unless I'm deceiving myself?) Anyway, that realization in his dream is downright intriguing--three cheers for your writing, and Snape's potion skills. (It's almost like watching him punching himself in the head, and being miserable afterward--but you put it more eloquently. Poor Sev. He should've seen it coming...) I'll stop rambling--keep up the good stuff! Author's Response: Thanks for your enthusiasm! I'm very curious how you'll respond to my next 2 chapters--it's gonna get worse, and you may find yourself disagreeing with what I think he needs to learn about himself. Punching himself in the head, yes indeedy! Ah, the advantage of being a cynic. | |||
| Nadrek | 2008.03.31 - 08:29AM | 4: House Rivalries | Signed |
| Leaving a letter to the Centaurs is an interesting take. The Centaurs, I suspect, wouldn't bother to tell any wizards or witches, either, which would, at this time, result in Severus's deliberate forethought in protecting students prior to his actual appointment as Headmaster completely unknown by living humans. The two portraits, of course, though Albus might well keep the credit himself, and Phineas might not be so well received outside of Slytherin.
Within Slytherin, though... is it better to keep Severus's machinations secret, and if so, for how many centuries? Author's Response: I think that we're seeing the evolution of Snape's reaction (15 years ago he insisted that D. promise to keep S's reactions totally secret; over time this became a war secret; now, I think, he'd rather like it to be known--if he could reveal it without cost to anyone else). I don't think Snape has recognized his attitude has shifted: privacy above all!! is his banner, and has always been. Except, oops, now it's not. Severus still doesn't expect--or wish-- that anyone give him anything after he's thought lost. | |||
| Nadrek | 2008.03.31 - 08:20AM | 3: Charity’s Thesis | Signed |
| Very nicely done - well crafted deliberate manipulation with a reasonable attention paid to the actual effects, and without assuming that one can bully people into believing something.
Consulting with Phineas was interesting, and a marked contrast to consulting with Albus - certainly Albus has proved to be a poor choice for encouraging multigeneration belif in a wide-ranging audience, only blind obedience with a carefully set up history. Author's Response: So glad you enjoyed this; with whom else would a Slytherin consult? Snape wants to consider the effect of the suggestion upon an impartial, and, er, intelligent, audience, after all.... | |||
| Nadrek | 2008.03.31 - 08:11AM | 2: The Potions Master | Signed |
| Very interesting - a gift to wizardkind that will be forgotten and banned as soon as wizardkind realizes what a lack of self-deception is, perhaps to survive only in a few rare tomes.
A cloudless night with the moon is trivial, if Severus is capable of transcontinental Apparition. If Apparition is about control, then yes. If about raw power, it's more ambiguous. Author's Response: Tsk, tsk; a gift that will be forgotten and banned? I'm shocked at your pessimism. If nothing else, Wizarding parents will be using this as an anaphrodisiac(as Snape noted), where they suspect their offspring of having been beguiled. I admit, I hadn't thought of intercontinental Apparatition. On the other hand, had we established that Snape is free to leave Spinner's End? I had rather thought otherwise. He can easily, after all, come up with excuses for having been busy brewing er, grossly failed, by Riddle's view--variants upon Veritserum. | |||
| Nadrek | 2008.03.31 - 08:02AM | 1: Breath and Paint | Signed |
| While the mysterious summary kept me away until now, the first chapter is quite good, and as far as I know, unique.
I particularly like how Severus does so much, and Albus gets credit for each - reminders of The Birthday Present (fanfiction.net, over 80 chapters), though much more pleasant for Severus. One suspects, of course, this has been going on a lot longer.
Severus and Albus forgot that if Severus could get the Felix, he could deliver it directly to Hermione/Harry/Ron - and the latter two, at minimum, are quite willing to use it if Hermione says it's probably Felix (on the Bones/Spock premise of 'your guesses are better than other people's facts'). Phineas should have the ability to report on them shortly... or Severus can, perhaps, allow him to hear while in the bag, continuously. Author's Response: The summary was meant as a teaser--obviously it failed as such with you. Thanks for moving past it. This is my first fanfic, and written (in the post DH heat) before I'd ever read any. Thanks for comparing me to ExcessivelyPerky--I read her after writing this, and am flattered by the comparison. I think I'll say, I'm writing Dumbledore in this one more as Severus would wish (in S's loyalty and love) to have seen him, than as I myself would currently see D.... Yes, Dumbledore manipulating Snape into doing the dirty (or hard emotional, which is another, but related, question) work, then taking the credit himself is rather a propos. RE Felix, I disagree; I don't think Hermione would have considered herself an expert on perfectly-brewed Felix, or would have advised Harry to trust it. I do use Phineas--hearing from the bag--in my Headmaster Snape series, so far mostly unpublished. So glad someone else noticed that possibility; it confirms my connivings. Thanks for your review! | |||
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