Hmmm, this was really different, so cheerfully cynical, and i liked it a lot. I loved that even Poppy, usually the stoutly nurturing upright maternal female cliche, was so effectively vengeful and coniving, and really got one over on Severus! Maybe it was the Ed Wood reference, but at the end, when Snape was talking about engineering a grisly spectacle for V.'s supposed death, i got the image of Bela Lugosi wrestling that stupid rubber octopus, fake screaming "help!". (yeah, we just watched Ed Wood again) Good job!