Five Times Severus Snape Was Misunderstood (PG-13) for wotcher_wombat

[hpfivethingsmod]

Title: Five Times Severus Snape Was Misunderstood
Author: literaryspell (pinch-hitter)
Recipient: wotcher_wombat
Beta: Robin
Word count: ~2700
Rated: PG-13
Summary: Severus Snape reflects on the people in his life who affected him by not knowing who he truly was, including the person who let him down the most. Himself.

Comments

[wotcher_wombat]

Wow! That was great! I loved your insight into Snape's motivation--particularly the reversals at the end. (Also, those section titles were made of win!) Very good job! Thank you very much!

[literaryspell]

Thank you so much. I'm so thrilled that you liked it. I almost took it in a totally different direction, but the character study angle really appealed to me. The section titles were a lot of fun to write! *g*

[parseltonguepen]

Quite liked this! Had some really good points. Minerva, for all her fairness and whatnot, was really only fair with her own house, and not even then.

And yes, Snape fed the animosity between Sirius and him, but - only Sirius tried to kill the other. Another good point.

And owwie, the fact that Lily couldn't forgive Snape something he said when he was down (or up in the air, if we're being literal) in spite of years of friendship, when she forgave Potter years of hazing. Simply unbelievable!

[literaryspell]

Ooh, so cool to get a review for something I wrote ages ago. :D I did try to few things from Snape's perspective, so the things that we see as fair or normal through Harry's eyes are subverted when examined by Snape.

I agree about Lily. She is painted as a forgiving person, but Snape needed it so much more than James Potter did.

Thank you for reading and reviewing!