omg, snape-as-kitten analogy? wow! not many people could pull that off, but you did, and brilliantly!
the whole fic was enjoyable. i love a snape that hates children but wants to protect them, even if is only so they don't grow up to be voldemort. i love viktor's constant sense that he is in a foreign country and has to translate all the time, accents, words, gestures, attitudes.