Oh, I grabbed and hugged this comment and jumped around the room with it. Because all through this fic there are emotional or personal linchpins, all involving Snape, and for me, they hold the fic together. They're the landmarks on the map. I can point to them, the hands, the head-touching thing, all these small, incandescent moments that came first, before the scenes themselves. And this one – it occurred to me late in the writing, and I was aware that a beta might argue that it doesn't move the plot or it slows down the pacing or whatever. But I would have fought tooth and nail to keep it in, because it's so important to me and I couldn't even tell you why. The whole sense of who we are in private, of Lily seeing this side of Snape that no one else sees, that's still there after all these years and all these horrible events – and it's something so ordinary, so innocent almost, and then the fact that it's books -