Professor Snape's Address
Sigune12 Reviews | 9.08/10 (12 Ratings, 0 Likes, 17 Favorites )
As Draco Malfoy, Theo Nott and Blaise Zabini enter their sixth year at Hogwarts, Professor Snape delivers a strange little speech to the Slytherins. What is he playing at? And what are the students to make of it?
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Great story. I liked how you developed Snape's character.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Thanks a lot! Snape is my absolute favourite - does it show? ;P -S.
Well done!!We can hope to see such a group surface in DH. This was one of the most inciteful stories I've read in a long time.Again, well done.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Thank you! I definitely hope that DH will give us Slytherins of this kind... I would be very disappointed if we didn't get to see one positive character among the students. -S.
Very nice take on Snape! Great story.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Thanks very much for reviewing :D! -S.
Beautifully written as ever. Very enjoyable story. I think you have Snape bang on character in this.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Thanks very much! Mind you, sometimes I complain that Snape is really the *only* character I do a decent rendering of... :P -S.
A very good, original and touching story. I liked it a lot.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
I just refuse to believe that the Slytherins are such a bad lot ;-)... Thank you very much! -S.
Brillant! I would never have guessed this was written before HBP.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
I have to confess I was very scared that HBP would destroy my story - and very elated when it didn't :D. Thank you! -S.
I liked this story very much and would be interested in finding out what happens next.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Hmm, next... I'll have to give that some thought... Thank you! :-) -S.
Very nicely done. I don't know that Snape would actually be so bold and, dare I say it, brash, but if he were to do something like that, I bet that's how he would do it!
I like this very much. Very good, indeed!
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
I definitely agree that I have Snape take a risk here, but I am pretty convinced that he would try his best to keep young Slytherins from making the same mistakes that he made himself. It would be a bit strange to me if he would just pretend he doesn't see anything, like Slughorn does. (I don't like Slughorn, so I'm blaming him for lots of things :P...)
Thanks very much! -S.
Fantastic story! Completely in character, and provides us another version of what 'else' was going on in Slytherin House that year. Very nicely done ~
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
I am ardently hoping that we will be shown in DH that something like this indeed went on... :P Thank you very much! -S.
I've enjoyed this plot.
I wish you would continue.
Waiting for more plots.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Thank you! I'll see what I can do... -S.
Oh, this is fantastic! I think we can all acknowledge that the portrayal of Slytherin is terribly simplistic, but I wonder why more people don't call attention to JKR's placement of many half-bloods in Slytherin House or the capabilities of the basilisk. I like to think that Snape would take this kind of action with his students during those years - the speech, at the very least, if not the incredibly risky and highly improbable oath - to open their eyes to the blindness around them, all the while protecting his role as a spy. This is a wonderful way to address the question of what Severus was doing with his Slytherins that Harry and the Gryffindors would never have seen.
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Thank you for your comment! This story is quite old already; I have to say I wasn't expecting any reviews anymore X). I still think the "Slytherin Question" was a mighty fascinating thing, and the fact that it completely fell by the roadside in HP7 is one of my greatest frustrations as a reader. Looking back, I'm glad I wrote this story, and reader reactions have shown that I wasn't the only one who missed a "Slytherin explanation" in the last book.
Response from ofankoma (Reviewer)
Well... I just submitted a write-up on it for TPP's weekly recommendations, so hopefully more people will find this short story soon. (It'll run in a few weeks, I think.) I wholeheartedly agree that the Slytherin question was never really answered by DH - funny, really, when you think of the ways JKR used the four humours/four houses and the alchemical Great Work as structural underpinnings for the series as a whole.
Now that was an interesting lite story. Good to see someone take notice that not all slitherins are evil. Well just not sadistic anyway. Well hope to read more from you soon. Thanks. Bill
Response from Sigune (Author of Professor Snape's Address)
Thank you! I'm doing my best to write more, but I've only just recovered my Muse... -S.