Re: belladonna, vervaine
Hi! Thank you so much for reading--so sorry about the late reply! You know, I never thought of the ingredients named in the story as sort of a parallel for the elements of the characters and story themselves! That's quite clever of you--it's so great to read comments like yours! I'm especially happy you liked the lack of explanation; I knew while writing that it might strike some as unsatisfying, the feeling that Snape was acting without motivation, and then again that there was no retribution for his clearly bad act. But I was sort of thinking that people kind of go along and live, you know? I'm really glad the notion that reasons and actions and consequences don't always fall in a linear fashion, or even onto the same page, made sense to you.