Maybe it was just me, but I found this crack-fic at its best. Snape was all over the place, first as the sadistic teacher, then at the opposite extreme as the emotionally wounded partner. And Harry went from defiant to weepy to strangely emotionally detached at the end. I did like Poppy's part in the whole charade, and the last bit where Snape says maybe they all make up two and a quarter wizards.