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Thank you! I wasn't sure how Severus/Lily shippers would like the story, since it doesn't portray them as True Soul Mates, so I'm glad you liked it for what it was.
especially the way you subtly included and sometimes twisted so many lines from canon
Heh. Thanks for noticing. (Not that it was all that subtle.) And don't forget the bit about needing a few moments to discuss the distribution of the property. ;-)
It makes me ill, too, to think of Lily marrying him out of guilt or pity, rather than because she truly loved him.
Oh, same here. I didn't write it for warm fuzzies; I wrote it as a "meta" extrapolation of what we see depicted in canon, and what we see in canon, unfortunately, isn't very heartening in terms of how much the friendship meant to Lily. Even so, I think that at the time she started dating Severus in this scenario, back in her teens, she probably believed that she had fallen in love with him. What she says now, twenty years later, is likely the product of reflection and hindsight.
The canon characters would not probably have been compatible with one another, in the end.
Exactly my point. How I developed it is subject to debate and interpretation, but their fundamental incompatibility is the bottom-line point.
(Still, we can dream, can't we?)
Yeah. I'm certainly not objecting to fictionalizing a healthier, happier relationship between them! As you know, I based ,i>Severus Evans</i> on the idea that there had, indeed, been a substantial friendship between Severus and Lily, and at least enough intellectual equality for them to enjoy long conversations that she couldn't enjoy with James. (And I don't think even the most James-sympathetic interpretation would make him particularly intellectual. Then again, in JKR's worldview, "intellectual" is probably not a compliment.) But over the years, Severus will still have to replace his idealized image of Lily with a more mature and integrated, realistic view of her.
(Is "Al" still Albus Severus?
Heh. You betcha. ;-) And of course his parents didn't think about the initials at the time, just about honoring Dear Old Albus and doing the customary second name after Dear Old Dad. My own son's initials are "BM," and I imagine that young Albus Severus Snape got just as much amusement from proclaiming himself an "ass" as my son got from cheerfully calling himself a "bowel movement."
especially the way you subtly included and sometimes twisted so many lines from canon
Heh. Thanks for noticing. (Not that it was all that subtle.) And don't forget the bit about needing a few moments to discuss the distribution of the property. ;-)
It makes me ill, too, to think of Lily marrying him out of guilt or pity, rather than because she truly loved him.
Oh, same here. I didn't write it for warm fuzzies; I wrote it as a "meta" extrapolation of what we see depicted in canon, and what we see in canon, unfortunately, isn't very heartening in terms of how much the friendship meant to Lily. Even so, I think that at the time she started dating Severus in this scenario, back in her teens, she probably believed that she had fallen in love with him. What she says now, twenty years later, is likely the product of reflection and hindsight.
The canon characters would not probably have been compatible with one another, in the end.
Exactly my point. How I developed it is subject to debate and interpretation, but their fundamental incompatibility is the bottom-line point.
(Still, we can dream, can't we?)
Yeah. I'm certainly not objecting to fictionalizing a healthier, happier relationship between them! As you know, I based ,i>Severus Evans</i> on the idea that there had, indeed, been a substantial friendship between Severus and Lily, and at least enough intellectual equality for them to enjoy long conversations that she couldn't enjoy with James. (And I don't think even the most James-sympathetic interpretation would make him particularly intellectual. Then again, in JKR's worldview, "intellectual" is probably not a compliment.) But over the years, Severus will still have to replace his idealized image of Lily with a more mature and integrated, realistic view of her.
(Is "Al" still Albus Severus?
Heh. You betcha. ;-) And of course his parents didn't think about the initials at the time, just about honoring Dear Old Albus and doing the customary second name after Dear Old Dad. My own son's initials are "BM," and I imagine that young Albus Severus Snape got just as much amusement from proclaiming himself an "ass" as my son got from cheerfully calling himself a "bowel movement."