Oh dear, and now I've gotten way behind on my responses! My apologies - December's a crazy-making month. But this comment gives me such pleasure, as I have two main purposes in writing: to create something beautiful, and to move and delight the reader. It's therefore wonderful to know that the emotion under the layers of prose shone through.
perpetual sunlight on one side, bad weather and bound books on the other
I love this line. I will forever think of my fic this way now. And I have to say that my version of Lily was inspired, not only by her canon tendency toward impatience, but by the very fact that she was Severus's friend. Of course she could be snotty with the best of them - how else was she able to hold her own with a temperamental street urchin like Snape? Or later, with a toe rag like James?
Thank you so much for reading and for enjoying my re-weaving of canon. I feel so much better now I've managed to get a few things out of my system. ;)