How did I not have the brains to check if you were on LJ? Thank you for rectifying that situation! Nice to meet you.
Since I'm here now and I remembered this laying in bed last night: I forgot to mention how impressed I was with your grasp of Snape's character. Of course, we only get a few glimpses of him young in canon, but it's enough to know he's socially awkward, immensely insecure, shy at times, but covers all that up with being a (sometimes pompous) shit. You banged that so hard on the head! It read like you invented the character Snape, for goodness sake. Okay! That's what I have to say on that subject.