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This is a wonderful look at who Severus could have become had he just got the heck out of Dodge.
Thank you! It started out as a silly joke about Severus and his greasy hair fitting in with the grunge scene in the early 90s, but turned into something more substantial, and I am glad you found it moving. I am very partial to writing AU, exploring the other possibilties for a character that didn't get written in canon, and in the case of Severus Snape there are just so many areas in which his environment, rather than "who he was," played a crucial role in shaping his direction in life.
Love the balance between the magical and muggle world in American wizarding culture
Thank you! I'm sure it has flaws of its own, but American culture is far too laid-back and informal to allow the kind of rigid culture and separation of the British Wizarding World. I'm not sure even the British NON-wizarding world would be at home, in this day and age, in the British Wizarding World. The WW sure turned out to be more of a nightmare than a dream, didn't it?
It's so easy to see canon Teacher!Snape being like this with the right foundation and support.
Yeah, it is, if you look at the glimpses we get of him "behind the scenes" and not just the child's-eye view of a Snidely Whiplash villain that we get in the early books. As I said in the story, Dark Lords are made, not born.
Thank you! It started out as a silly joke about Severus and his greasy hair fitting in with the grunge scene in the early 90s, but turned into something more substantial, and I am glad you found it moving. I am very partial to writing AU, exploring the other possibilties for a character that didn't get written in canon, and in the case of Severus Snape there are just so many areas in which his environment, rather than "who he was," played a crucial role in shaping his direction in life.
Love the balance between the magical and muggle world in American wizarding culture
Thank you! I'm sure it has flaws of its own, but American culture is far too laid-back and informal to allow the kind of rigid culture and separation of the British Wizarding World. I'm not sure even the British NON-wizarding world would be at home, in this day and age, in the British Wizarding World. The WW sure turned out to be more of a nightmare than a dream, didn't it?
It's so easy to see canon Teacher!Snape being like this with the right foundation and support.
Yeah, it is, if you look at the glimpses we get of him "behind the scenes" and not just the child's-eye view of a Snidely Whiplash villain that we get in the early books. As I said in the story, Dark Lords are made, not born.