the prince's tale in dh is what brought me to fandom.  the tragic story of snape's friendship and unrequited love for lily, his guilt and pain and broken heart, and then his ignominious death by snakebite.  the first story i wrote was stealing glances, and that was my attempt to come to terms with what we learned in that book about their friendship.  so snily was my first ship, but it's so sad to write except for the occasional snapshot.  i wrote one called 'the first time' that's just a sweet snapshot of their friendship and not so sad.  but mostly i do hew close to canon, so there's not a lot of wiggle room there.  :((with snupin, however, i feel free to reject the deaths of both characters of my otp, lol.)thank you so much for reading so many of my stories and taking the time to leave reviews.  that's the kind of thing that makes for a very happy kitty.  :D

Well then, we have a thing in common. It was the magical prince´s tale. The "original" heartbreaking chapter. Well, I still have some reading to do then! :) When I like the work of an author, I tend to read the whole other stories, that catch my eye (except for certain pairings I absolutely don´t like) With my favourite being snucius (and yes, snupin is not that bad either, you kinda love that one, huh? it becomes tasty after reading your stories, hehe.) Well, I´m happy when you are, then! You are welcome!

i think the prince's tale caught a lot of us.  :)i was a little worried you might be opposed to snupin - i'm glad you aren't - that would turn you away from most of my stories, lol. a lot of the non-snupins i've written were for challenges.  it's good to step outside my comfort zone sometimes, but yeah, snupin is my truest hp love, it seems. thanks again for all the positive feedback.  it is very encouraging.  :D

alas, no.  poor severus.  i so wish things would have worked out differently for him in canon.  luckily, we have fanfic to fix it all.  (erm.  not that this one fixed anything for him.)  thanks for reviewing.  :D

at least he has that.  i will tell you a secret - when i wrote this, my original goal was to give snape a little more "resolution" (*wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*) but alas it did not work out that way and turned into this sad snippet instead.  *sigh*  i'll try harder next time!  thanks for reviewing.  :D

*hands you tissue*  these two break my heart, so sometimes i guess i just have to share the heartbreak.  thanks for this nice review.  :D