Seven months into Severus Snape's term as Headmaster he finally perfects a potion. This potion could change the war for the better, or it could destroy everything Dumbledore set in motion before his death.
Dumbledore is dead and his plans seem to be falling apart before Severus's eyes. Harry is no closer to finding and destroying the Horcruxes and Voldemort's hold over the wizarding world is growing. In desperation, Severus Snape creates a potion that can send him back five years in time. Hopefully, with more time he can find the Horcruxes, find a way to save Harry from the Horcrux inside him and maybe even save some of his other students along the way. Or, he could fail and doom them all.
This fanfiction wildly varies between 1 and 5 stars. The issue with this story is that the author wants to write about every mildly interest aspect of his AU in detail. At first it’s very interesting, but soon you’re no longer reading about the plot and subplots and instead get dragged into subsubsubsubsubsubplots and loosely related side characters as protagonists with their own side characters.
The author really needs to streamline his main plot and write all of the interesting lore/side characters/world building as companion pieces. Many characters/subplots get brought up and abandoned, have inconsistent characterizations (etc), or create fundamental plot holes and logic fails.
This author is clearly talented but needs help focusing on what’s most important to the story. They also need a dedicated editor and proofreader to clear up some of the inconsistencies.
While the author had a great idea and this started out well I just cant cope with the complete change in Snape. I prefer Snape come to a slow change and to retain his snark. This everything is rosey professor is not working for me. Nor is Harry being portrayed as realistic as I prefer him. Also with the original character added there is too much going on and the length that I thought was going t be a good thing has turned rather daunting