thank you so much. it's been a long time since i was a sweaty anxious misfit teenager, but i guess these things never leave you! i really like that when you write missing scenes or chapters for characters with a lot of canon you have to write (and read) with an awareness of that canon. i am coincidentally currently watching hpatdh2 on tv, and it is hugely enhanced by the fact that i am remembering your beautiful fic about that terrible chapter in snape's life.