Damn. That's about the saddest thing I've read, but probably because it's more real than what is the 'norm' here. It's like "here, fast-forward, oops, you're at the end and you die." I'm really glad you have something up your sleeve, because it would be hard to go to sleep after reading this!

“I didn’t think they wore lederhosen in Sweden,” Hermione mused.

He grimaced and said, “They don’t.”

Excellent.

Just finished reading this story. It was briliant! So glad that there was a happy-end for Severus and Hermione.

Thank you very much for this wonderful story!

That was beautiful!

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh pleeeeeease let him be alive!!!!

Oh that was beautiful.  Poor Severus.

A beautiful story, and that last chapter is a real tear-jerker!

The TNG episode you based this story on is one of my favourites in the whole series.  Your HP version of it was brilliant and I had tears in my eyes off and on throughout the whole thing.  I'm so glad Severus was actually alive, though.  They needed each other to complete things, and I love that even though Severus and Hermione were complete with Rose and Hugo as their only children the first time through, they had a child of their own to add to the family dynamic.  I also liked how you worked the epilogue in to the story.

I probably have reread your story already 3 or 4 times since I saw it at the SS/HG exchange and it still moves me. I think Beth has already written down everything about the content of your story that I also like so I'm not going to repeat that. I'll just add some other, more philosophical observations about it. You know, the funny thing that struck me was that I thought 'the live unlived' might have been a key to the success of their actual relationship. It gives Hermione just a little bit more clues how to act when Severus is being difficult because of his own insecurity and this works just because it's only a vague familiar feeling for her and not as clear as a textbook instruction. I even think it's a blessing that Hermione lost the memory and not Severus, since I think it would be more difficult for her to start from scratch if she would have all those memories still fresh in mind. Severus however, with his experience of being a spy and a very private person will be much more able to separate the dream life and the development of their real life without trying to model everything in the way it was in the vision I think. By the way did someone ever tell you that you are not only writing intelligent fan fiction stories in a beautiful style with very natural sounding dialogues, but that you are also a very evocative writer? At several times when reading your story I thought it's such a shame we can't make a movie out of it. The whole picture you draw is so clear and the dialogues are so suiting for transferring to film that I felt almost sad that the characters are not yours.So just like chrystal quill I really hope you have plans to write your own stories as well, since you deserve it to tell your stories to a broader range of people outside our fandom too. Especially since you wrote in a comment that you have no personal experience with divorce and had written the first chapter with only the idea in mind what you would have felt. There is just one word for being able to use and transform a personal feeling into a convincing storyline; it's called talent.

Whoa!?!  I like this twist and like this story!!  Never thought the Weasel & Hermione were a good match despite what She says.  Ronniekins is a FOOL to treat Hermione like dirt and toss her for a blonde bimbette.  Go, go go my OTP. 

Oh, my... This is one of the best stories I've read... Your style is so compelling, my heart was beating so fast at the end of the chapter! 

Wonderful!

For some strange reason, the similarity between this story and "The Inner Light" from Star Trek didn't hit me until I read this chapter -- but it was nice to find out at the end that this is what you'd had in mind (I love that episode)!  I'm also reminded of a movie which I saw last Christmas called "Comfort And Joy" in which a career woman loses consciousness after a car accident and has a vision of what she thinks is the life she could have had with a husband and children -- only to find out in the end that it's the life she's going to have.  Anyway, I think I can fill in one of the missing pieces of your story now. The reason why Severus decides to return to England is at least partly because Hermione triggered the sphere and gave him the dream which Eglantine had designed it to give to a witch -- isn't it?  Maybe Luna even tells Hermione when Severus is coming to pick up his things so that she can be there when he comes.  (I think that the name which you gave to Luna's mother is perfect, by the way...Eglantine, the wild rose.  Lovely...)

Just brilliant! I can't wait for the next chapter!Livvy

So, will she get to live the life that was in her memories.....stay tuned

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!  How grand!  Wonderful reveal and can not wait to see the next post!  Thank you so much for your hard work! 

What a chapter. I wonder whether Severus lived the 'Unlived' as well? Next chaper is going to be interesting.. I'm waiting impatiently lol...

Oh god, I sobbed the whole way through this chapter, especially when she was sitting in Severus's cloak... amazing emotions, and it just broke my heart.But he's alive! Yaay! Simply on the edge of my seat for the next chapter...

Excelent story! Fascinating.Sigh, friday is a holiday over here. I hope my family gives my time to read!

This story is extraordinary!!!! I got up early so that I could read the new chapter before going to the university and it was SO worth it. What a great chapter!! Everything fits and I'm sooo glad that he's alive!! I'm looking forward to the next chapter.You rock!!!

awsome chapter. can't wait for the next. please hurry.

Wonderful story - I was wondering when she'd figure out that he had to be alive! Now I wonder how Luna will convince him to return -- or if he'll manage it on his own.

Ha HA!  Okay, so I was dead wrong about it being a vision of the future, but he IS ALIVE!  So I was ... sort of ... almost ... kind of barely right in a very small way.  Or something. But yay!!!   I can't wait until the next chapter!!!

Brilliant! I'm loving this story more with each chapter.  I was about to nitpick that Hermione was being bit dense in taking so long to get here but you stopped my with the reminder on her frame of mind.  I'm just glad she finally knows what's going on.  I can't wait to see what happens from here.Well done!

Oh! This is exciting! Now counting the minutes until Friday!