I really--I really--liked this. The tone, the setting, the language, the length of it--it was just the perfect thing to read to make me fall in love with Snarry again. Not that I fell out! But it refreshes, it reawakens that sense of new love, you know? It's just--it's like seeing someone at a random odd angle and not recognizing them at first but finding them attractive and wanting to know them--and then looking again and realizing wait, you DO know them and they are yours. ♥
I especially liked the puzzle and the ending there! And the poem of course, the poem--I could hear Snape (Alan Rickman, I'll be honest) saying it. And the classroom scene, so intense. You brought it out quite vividly, Harry stepping on toes as he ran out. And the line about his walking carefully when he wanted to run, run, run. You have such a way with rhythms, I love it. Thank you so much for writing.