This is what Snarry should be. I always fall into fluff when I attempt to write them, and I sicken myself ;-). But you manage to skate that edge of madness without falling into schmoopy or into hate-sex or into any of the other cliches we all know and love. Harry's confusion and Severus's brittleness are so lovely, and so taut. I don't know how you manage to keep that tension for such a long story - it has the loveliness of a poem or a drabble. I even loved your Hermione, and that's a stretch for me! I'm kinda babbling here, but I just want to praise you and thank you.