Name: potionspartner (Signed) · Date: 06 Jul 2018 10:30 PM · For: Chapter 1

Nice job! You can really feel Severus's pain, his agony, the consequential path of his decisions. You've got a great gift of words to help the reader see those images. Some of my favorites are: 1. Once upon a time, he had walked these streets before, dreading to be thrown out by the inhabitants of the same house that he was walking to now.Tonight, he dreads the meeting so much more because there is definitely no chance he will be pushed away.and 2. It may be darkest before the dawn, but for Severus Snape there will be no more light.

The philsophy of the Theism is that our all-powerful God is omnipotent, omniescient and omnibenevolent and how to reconcile this concept of such a God with the existence of evil in our world. Severus envisions himself possessing all three of these for Lily yet evil still occurs to her. I feel that Severus is giving himself too much credit with these self-characterization, but within his walk to the house, he finds the answer to reconcile the diametrically opposed concepts, even if he doen't quite realize it--the concept of free will. Severus may have had the qualities and the abilities to prevent,(although I would argue that he did not) but he had free will too. He admits that his free will, his choices were what led down this path of destruction. "That was his first wrong choice; to join. His second; to listen. His third; to relay it. His fourth; to have gone to Dumbledore yet still be here."

So, we are left with a shell of a man whose power, understanding and love wasn't enough, but as Dumbledore once said, "It is our choices that show us who we really are far more than our abilities." 

So what does that tell us about Severus Snape?