A Fish May Marry a Bird
Thank you for your long comment. I'm especially glad to hear you found parts of it funny, since I'm not generally a funny writer. I'm not sure that I wrote "Snape in a nutshell," since I think the canon Snape is closer to Veressna's or Junediamanti's characterisation (bitter, mean, witholding), but it's a particular Snape that I like, one that's more like some people I've known -- wounded and struggling for dignity.