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Seven Thousand Sunsets by FullofLife
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •
Summary: When a fatal disease spreads like wildfire around the Wizarding World, it is up to Rose Weasley to find a cure - with the help of no other than Severus Snape. But working with a man she's fallen in love with is much harder than it sounds.
First Place in the Gauntlet's Sixth Run!
Date: 07/06/08 Title: Chapter 1: Beginnings
Great beginning-- you've made her an interesting and unusual character obviously with her own life and friends (Hugo, and what seems to have been a possible interest in Scorpius, given the comment about how she had never been kissed), but also with a crush on someone brilliant and dead instead of, say, a pop star. :) And the setting and threat of the mysterious disease is a great way to drive the plot.
Author's Response: I\'m overjoyed that you find the plot and Rose interesting - I can never convince myself on either fact. Keep reading! (And reviewing, of course - reviews make the world go round!)
Fifteen by Elmindreda
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •Summary: Every year, Severus finds himself writing a class plan for a subject he believes he will never teach. However, it has become a ritual of sorts, and rituals must be observed.
This was an entry for the Summer Challenge in the Educational Decree category... and won second place!
Date: 07/25/08 Title: Chapter 1: Fifteen
I know you wrote this for a Challenge, but as with your other portrayals of Severus Snape, it does seem so very much in character. The ambivalence over teaching the course, the realisation of what it means when he receives the letter, the tone in which you write his thoughts-- all are so very much in keeping with his character. List of favorites: your observations about the two worst things happening, and his Boggart, and the part where he corrects himself and comments that rather than being "wrong beyond repair" something must just be "beyond (my) immediate influence."
Conversations with Dead People by Zetera
Rated: 6th-7th Years •Summary: Lily Evans and Severus Snape – a pair only dreamed of in fan fiction have become canon legend. This is their story told through the memories of Severus Snape, as he tries to finish the job Dumbledore has left him throughout DH.
Date: 08/16/09 Title: Chapter 5: Chapter Five: Cleanse Your Heart of This Stain
I had never thought of what Lupin must have said to Snape after his deviations from the lesson plans-- what a great conversation to write. :) Great story, also-- I know you don't get a chance to update that often, but I always follow it when you do.
Author's Response: Thank you so much, I loved writing the Lupin and Snape conversation - it was actually one I had in my head already and I hoped it would fit here. I was worried it might seem a little disjointed as I kind of used two chapter ideas together... not the best idea I know. Surprisingly I have a few future chapters written, but not the next chapter. I'm moving house tomorrow so I'll be waiting (hopefully not very long) to get internet again, but once I do I'll update. Thanks for sticking with it!
Date: 12/03/08 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter One: The Package
Not really a review, but a reply to your "author's reply" to my previous review. I'm working on a lengthy (AU) Severus/Lily fic, so the fact that it's about them is fine with me. I think their relationship has to be one of the most interesting in the series whether you look at it from the vantage point of what really happened or what could have been. Anyway, thanks for a great story. :)
Author's Response: Thanks for responding! I can't wait to read your fic, let me know when you post it. I completely agree that their relationship is intriguing - I don't believe anyone ever guessed the extent of it, many suspected that Snape had a crush on Lily etc. but that they had been friends even before Hogwarts - best friends since they were ten! Incredible, and so beautiful in light of Snape's life after her death.
Date: 12/02/08 Title: Chapter 2: Chapter Two: The Wedding Crasher
I am really enjoying this-- we all know what Harry was up to that year, and there have been a few fics about Ginny's or Neville's time at Hogwarts during what would have been Harry's seventh year, but Severus Snape's POV (with the exception of a few one-shots, I think) is a new twist. It's also really well-written-- I loved your description of the air getting thicker and the sounds duller as he talks to Dumbledore. And it's fascinating to see the same characters and bits of plot as those experienced by Harry, but from a totally different point of view. You're very even-handed, also-- everyone seems very much in character and not a walking stereotype of themselves. My one and only critique would be that in the first paragraph of chapter two, it would be easy to read it as saying that Severus had moved right out of Spinner's End two days after Dumbledore's murder and right into Hogwarts. It's a bit unclear. Technical point, though-- this is a great read. :)
Author's Response: Thanks for a great review! I welcome your critique, I think the start of the chapter was a little unclear for others too. After reading book 7 I was fascinated by Snape's behind the scenes work as well as his whole connection with Lily, so although I am telling book 7 from Snape's view to an extent, I am using this story mainly as a platform for background to the story of Snape and Lily's relationship. Hope that still appeals!
No Coward Soul is Mine by Clare Mansfield
Rated: 6th-7th Years •Summary: One wet and blustery night Severus Snape overhears something in the Hog's Head that will change the course of wizarding history forever. Marriages are made, children are born, vows are broken yet little does Snape know how his actions on that fateful night will affect the life of one woman and her child. The Dark Lord's power is growing, the Order are determined to fight but it seems that fates will be decided on the enbittered love of one man.
Date: 10/27/08 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1
OK, I will break the ice and write the first review. :) To begin, what a great premise! The "missing moment" stories can be very interesting, and this is a great and well-written beginning to one (about my two favorite characters, so I'm completely biased.) Good characterization of Snape as a young Death Eater-- I like that you don't shy from showing his having embraced that philosophy and really being a part of them, since everything in the canon would indicate that to be true. Good luck writing the rest of it! :)
Author's Response: Thank you very much for that! Someone has to go first with the whole reviewing thing. I'm glad you like the premise and how I'm handling it so far. I'm finding it very interesting to create reasons why Snape would feel so inclined to join the Death Eaters whilst remaining true to his underlying characteristics that are motivated by love and bravery. I hope I end up doing a good job :)
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Langlock by Chaser921
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •Summary: When Lily gets tired of James' constant attempts to ask her out, Severus teaches her a way to shut him up.
Date: 12/19/08 Title: Chapter 1: One-shot
Nice job keeping them all realistic instead of caricatures, and I like the bit at the end about how he couldn't get the words out, but in a way so different from what happened to James.
A Marauder's Cliche by KDTheRavenclaw
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •Summary: What happens when our favorite foursome, plus Lily, Snape, and of course some impossibly perfect OCs return to Hogwarts for their 7th year? Why, absolute bucketfuls of drama, angst, tears, jealousy, unrealistic events, and cheesy, cheesy dialogue! Also staggering amounts of random insanity. You have been warned.
Date: 01/14/09 Title: Chapter 1: Always Start At the Beginning
You have to keep going with this, because it is so incredibly funny. :) You had me at the "It contains..." paragraph, because it seems standard issue that every Marauder Era story's summary has to start, "It was the tale of four boys. It was the tale of four best friends. It was the tale of a stag, a wolf, a dog and a rat. It was a tale of a boy with something to prove, a boy with a dark secret..." And I love James-Sue and Lily-Sue, and the meta-literary nature of the characters is also hilarious. Now all you need is some love-hate Lily and James, Sirius as Lothario, sheepish Lupin, and insignificant Peter-- and Severus in full Snidely-Whiplash bad-guy mode as the deserving geeky and peevish subject of various frat-boy-style pranks. Anyway, thanks-- this was a great read. :)
Author's Response: Wow, my first review! Thanks for the helpful and detailed suggestions. You're awesome!