Very nice. Can't wait for you to write something similar ^_^ Hopefully?

You know, it's a really nice story, full of humour and quite realistic. I think that could really have happened it Lily chose Severus instead of James. Thank you for writing that chapter, this is great.

Author's Response: Thanks very much for the kind review-- it was both fun and tricky to write (the tricky part being keeping it realistic with regard to their characters while making it more light-hearted than the usual Severus/ Lily story, since it's a happy ending, after all.) Glad you liked it!

Aww, such a lovely story!!! You honestly tricked me into thining that the trinket was meant serious, so I loved the conlcusion in the end! And I know that's a one-shot, but I would soooooooo love to read what Petunia and Vernon think of their wedding present!!!!! xD That would be hilarious!

Author's Response: Petunia and Vernon so richly deserve the trinket in a crystal bowl or something. :)

This was such a great read, I laughed so hard! I loved your happy Severus. This is probably exactly how an alternate ending for Lily and Sev would be. Good job!

Author's Response: Thank you-- happy Severus is kind of a tricky character to write, as you might imagine. I figured that it was wartime, and Severus would still have to be his somewhat diffident, prickly, quirky self-- and yet happy. It was fun and challenging to write, and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I'm laughing like I've never laughed before. I loved Lily more and more as I read this!

Author's Response: I wrote this when I was writing the low point of my other fic, a long, chaptered one starting with his response to the end of their friendship after the "Mudblood" incident-- I thought they (and I) needed something fun. I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

This is adorable!  I smiled all throughout reading it.  Bravo.

Author's Response: Glad you liked it-- they deserved a cute story. :) I mean, if JKR herself said that they actually would have been a possibility, then why not?

Okay, so I actually read this fic a long time ago, but never reviewed it for some strange reason. I found this again after reading your other, brilliant story(speaking of--I love how it was published & last updated on my birthday :D).

Very good. Believable, and well written. I grinned to myself, loving the irony. "right--about--HERE" I think I knew then that Severus was joking, because that was so exaggerated. But poor Lily remains oblivious, haha. The pillow fight was epic. Great job! And try to update your other fic soon, okay?:D

Author's Response: Thanks so much for the review-- I'm glad someone is still reading this. :) I really am working on the other fic-- I'm just waiting for my beta to review the next chapter, and just heard back from her (new e-mail address.) I should be posting something soon.

Thank you! I have always wanted to read a story where Severus and Lily are actually in a relationship and don't break up or something tragic like that. I'm so happy-I enjoyed it. The idea of the shrunken head was great. Ha ha ha, it was all a joke. I also love the suggestion that the shrunken head should be given to Petunia and Vernon as a wedding gift!

Author's Response: Petunia and Vernon so deserve the shrunken head. :) I thought they deserved a happy story too-- the motivation behind this was JKR saying that Lily could have fallen in love with him if he hadn't turned to the Dark Arts and the Death Eaters, so I was trying to picture that. Plus, I was writing (then and now-- still working on it) a much longer fic ("Snivellus and the Head Girl") as a what-if on that topic, and was in the middle of chapter 2, in which he has basically gone home for the summer that year to his depressing house in a dying mill-town with bickering parents-- without Lily to brighten things up, for the first time in seven years-- and he's deeply depressed. There needed to be some happiness-- albeit in the context of a war. Anyway, thank you for the review, and I'm so glad you liked it. :)

fabulous story! I think it did capture Snape's personality, but I think you made him seem a little older than nineteen.... Over all, nice writing.

Author's Response: Thank you for the review! :) I think the tricky part is that they get married so young in the Wizarding world during the two wars (hence Mrs. Weasley's comment about Bill and Fleur)-- Lily would have been 21 when she died, for example, and would have had Harry when she was 20, which puts her at about 19 (or 18?) when she got married (if everything happened in the traditional order.) :) Maybe they're a bit more mature than we Muggles at that age. Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

This is such a cute one shot, definitely one of my favourite Severus/Lilys. It’s incredibly adorable, and your characterisation is spot on! Their dialogue is so wonderful and natural sounding, it made me wish they spoke more. Sev’s joke was great to read, because I love reading stories that aren’t too depressing. I admit I predicted something was amiss, because it just seemed so weird, but I hadn’t thought that he would actually be timing her.

Your description is great, there’s so much of it and yet my eyes didn’t skim anything, because it was so well written. I love your characterisation of Lily – unwilling to insult her husband, but not willing to live uncomfortably because of him, either. She’s so easy to connect to, because all of her reactions seem so real. The way she dealt with the situation was so easy to understand.

It was also very funny. I loved the line (“Hello, welcome to our home, thank you for ignoring my husband’s misbegotten reputation as a Dark wizard, and oh yes, how do you like our lovely shrunken head?”) I laughed out loud. It’s fun to read something that’s funny because it’s ironic, instead of totally random. And I love all the fluff. There aren’t enough fluffly Sev/Lilys out there.

I’m totally failing at finding something to criticise. Er, great job! ;)

~Lizzy

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I wrote this when I was writing chapter 2 of my longer, chaptered fic, which is very depressing (Spinner's End, summer after the fight with Lily, so could it be otherwise?) and I wanted to write something about the light at the end of the tunnel. The characterisation of the two of them as themselves and in the middle of a war, but in love and happy also, was fun to write (and challenging. Do we ever really see him as happy in the series, even in flashback?) I'm glad you liked the humor, also-- my beta and the moderator who OK'ed this both cracked up the whole way through, so I thought that was a good sign. I know that "fluff" and "Severus Snape" don't really fit in the same sentence together, never mind the same story, but this was one of my favorite things to write. :) Thanks so much for the review!