Merry Christmas to you! Thanks for the present, I was just thinking about this story the other day. Feels like things are going to come to a head very soon.

The best morsels are the bits where Hermione and Severus have a moment to look the other over and exchange warnings to be safe, thus expressing their mutual fondness. I am fervently looking forward to Hermoine's coming of age. 

Wow! Those French Aurors were fast! I feel very sad for Amlilia Bones. It must have been awful. Things are getting more complicated and stressful as Voldemort becomes more aggressive.  I actually felt a little bit sorry for Lucius when he was jailed. He didn't look well at all in the movie. Did Aurors torture him? We know that the Dementors have gone over to Voldemort's camp now, correct? Who guards Azgaban now? I wonder if the prisoners are treated humanely. I would like to have seen Umbrige get the Dementor's kiss. 

?!  Now wonder Hermione's parents have been like a dog with a bone trying to get her to leave school.  She needs help and her wand now!  Would Doby be able to hear her call this far away? Does she have a DA coin so that someone could get Professor Snape to make a port key and come right away? I can't remember, does Severus have a DA coin? Would he keep it on his person? Too bad Hermione can't apperate, yet. 

I realize that Harry would have gone on his own even if Hermione had decided not to go along, but it appears that Severus was thinking much the same way I was.  His assessment of Harry should make Hermione think. Technically, Severus was her friend 20 years before Harry was.  

First, I'm very glad that Severus is back to speaking to Hermione. Second, I'm really glad he looked into Harry's mind and already know's what's up and will notify the Order.  I don't remember Hermione and Ron telling the rest of the DA that Voldemort had access to Harry's thoughts and dreams. I know they went with Harry to have his back, and that Harry is going to supposedly save Sirius; but it seems like awful personal, private and detailed information to be sharing with a large number of other people in order to explain why Harry knows some things about You-know-who.  I don't know where my books are so I can't look it up. I've moved since I read them years ago. It wouldn't be a great idea for that to become public knowledge. Telling that many people are a lot of chances to take that someone might slip and say something accidently.  I love the antivenom. Of course Severus Snape knows how to counteract Nagini's venom!!! He is the greatest potions master in the wizarding world and has been spying on Voldemort for years! He also knows that Voldemort likes to kill people that way and would want to be prepared in case he offended the bastard  ...As if Severus Snape could be killed that way...Seriously! I wonder what the other students are thinking when Professor Snape was chuckling and smiling even a little bit at Hermione over her potion, while they turned theirs in.  I realize some would be too busy just trying to avoid being noticed by him and get out and wouldn't want to know why Hermione had drawn his attention, but the Slytherin students would notice. Maybe he had a sarcastic look on his face and only Hermione realized he was being nice to her. Further good news is that at least Hermione and maybe a couple of other students know how to brew it now too! Are there any other gifted students in this class? I wonder if this knowledge will come in handy later in the story? 

My Word! That was a full chapter! I think this was the funnest chapter so far! It was fun and exciting. I loved to read about Fred and George again. That was the best part of OTP too. This chapter was stuffed full of wonderful stuff.  I loved the teacher participation in The Great Fred and George Weasly Fireworks Rebellion. I loved Hermione's game, cooperation with Slytherin and the recognition from Professor Snape. Even though by the end of the chapter he wasn't speaking to her, she seems to know enough not to take it too personally.  I can't remember if it was in the book that some kids stopped attending Umbidge's classes, but it is totally awesome. 

Another really awesome chapter! I was worried that after Hermione stopped going back in time there wouldn't be any way for her and Professor Snape to have a friendship, but they do and I'm loving it!  I can't believe all the stuff he is teaching her! She is handling a lot of responsibility and doing it in spades. I'm very proud of her and the other DA students. Harry kind of has an excuse. He's distracted by V in his head, but Ron is just being stupid. Even the twins are paying attention! Hermione should start jumping out of nowhere and start jinxing them and forcing them to spar with her.  I know the twins would be willing to do it if she asked them to. Ginny would love to jump out and jinx her brother and make him practice.  No one at Grimwald Place would get them in trouble for practicing dueling except maybe Molly. But if Severus or someone else in authority told her they were suppose to do it, I think she would grudgingly relent.  I'm afraid I won't miss Sirius Black much, but until he meets his Waterloo, maybe Hermione could convince him to remember the old days with Harry's dad and teach Harry some dueling techniques to use on the Slytherins. 

A completely awesome chapter and explanation.  I hope the fact that Hermione knows that Professor Snape is there to help will improve the outcomes when Harry is tricked by Voldemort. Not because I care that much about Sirius, but for Harry's sake. I know JKR wants Harry isolated and without anyone who really loves him beside Hermione and Ron's family, but why does he have to only face tragedy to defeat Voldemort? Some powerful character traits can be learned without tragedy and isolation. Maybe Hermione contacting Professor Snape is why he comes up to Toad Faces' office so that Harry can tell him, "He's got Padfoot". If that hadn't happened, the Order would not have shown up just in the nick of time. The thing that would change if Harry hadn't gone to rescue Sirius is that Fudge would not have been forced to face the fact that Voldemort had returned. It's also too bad Toad Face wasn't actually killed by the centaurs. I'm trying to think of what would have changed that was important if Umbridge had never returned to the Ministry.  Kreature would still have been able to find Mundungus and Mundungus could have sold the horcrux to someone else that they would have needed to fetch it from. But, JKR couldn't have inflicted as much pain and suffering on the wizarding world before she needlessly wiped out half of the Order, an exceptional elf and a beloved pet.  I'm very glad Hermione has Professor Snape's support. I love this Professor Snape.

Well, our Hermione didn't let me down with Sirius, did she? HA! He was covered in boils and Hippogryph dung! I really didn't expect her to say anything in front of Professor Snape.  I figured she would know he wouldn't appreciate a student sticking up for him as if he couldn't take care of himself. Now, not all adults might feel that way, but in this case, Severus' pride and dignity are two things he guards jealously, and for good reason. However, thanks to Hermione, neither she nor Professor Snape were hit with the boils hex. I'm glad he sometimes lets her know he is proud of her.  That matters to her more than anything since they can't actually be friends.  While the other adults don't listen to Hermione, Dumbledore and Severus don't underestimate her or her opinions, but they keep her in her place only for different reasons.  I think if it wasn't for Molly and Madeye, Dumbledore would allow the kids to know at least a little bit more than they do. He doesn't keep information from them to protect them.  I believe that Molly doesn't think children should have to worry themselves over the horrible and frightening events the wizarding world is facing.  Albus Dumbledore only keeps information from Harry, Ron and Hermione when it suits his purposes.  When I was a kid it was like it is with Molly.  I never ever heard adults gossiping, ever speaking badly about another adult,  or talking about money matters. We were poor, but I didn't know it.  It protected us in a way, but gave the false impression that the adults could always be trusted to do the right thing. It gave us a false sense of safety. We also were never allowed to go to funerals. Me and my little brother were shuttled off alone, staying with the other side of the family. We weren't served well in this instance, because funerals are to help us grieve. My brother and I had to grieve all alone when our uncle was killed in a logging accident and when my great grandfather died. Though I was only 7 when my uncle was killed, no one would tell us anything.  So being all alone I felt driven to try to summon his ghost to say goodbye as I lay in the dark, sleeping in a bed and a room I had never been in before, while the adults cried together.  My 6 year old brother never got over it.  I have a great appreciation for Harry's pain when he loses Sirius. The false sense of safety is devastating when you find out your parents are not who you thought they were.  When my parents got divorced when I was in 4th grade, I not only had to deal with the breaking up of our family, but the empty hollowness of realizing your parents can't really protect you and they aren't as perfect as you were led to believe. It's traumatizing, maybe more so than the actual divorce. It's a betrayal. Harry has never been protected from cruelty, even if he was protected from danger. Maybe that is why he is able to go off and tackle problems that most kids would say, "We should tell the grownups and let them deal with it." There is no reason for Harry to trust the grownups. Well, they do try to go to Minerva the first time, but she sends them to bed and doesn't seem to take them seriously at all.  Then there's Hermione who feels a little like a grown up all ready, being an only child from a family that obviously shows mutual respect for one another, including Hermione. Hermione also goes along to make sure Harry and Ron don't do anything too stupid. And Ron has his brothers as role models showing that kids can do things behind the grownup's backs that are dangerous and get away with it. As you get into the next part of the story, I always wondered why it never occurred to the kids sooner that if they needed help or to get a message to Dumbledore, they could go to Professor Snape, that he is a member of the Order and Dumbledore's spy. I realize that Harry knows Professor Snape hates him and might think that the Professor wouldn't care about Sirius' life. I know it appears that he is in cahoots with frog face, but they know that Dumbledore and Hagrid trust him and things are so desperate. It's life and death!  I guess because I'm a grown-up, even though I didn't know what Severus Snape's agenda was, I always trusted him.  Early in the books it frequently amazed me that he would immediately obey Professor Dumbledore without a word, no matter how bad you imagined he wanted to disagree with the course of action, argue or didn't want to do what ever it was.  It always made me go, "Hmmmmmm...There is something else is going on here between these two." He was a total bastard and the behavior didn't match.  I always liked my meanest teachers' classes the best in high school. It was like a psychological game to figure out what their agenda was, to beat them at their own game and not let them freak me out when the rest of the class went right along with the game and cried and moaned and protested and grumbled. I was a total control freak and a rebel. I was and guess I still am a nonconformist and still feel an urge to question certain kinds of authority, to not be one of the sheep, not to just go along with something because everyone else is dose.  I got better results when I was younger, however.  I'm working that out in my mind.  I was on the honor roll, involved with student government and drama, but I was angry and my anger gave me power. I refused to be cowed by anyone because of abuse in my family.  It gave me a rush to look them in the eye and cooly follow instructions or sometimes not, but never gave them the satisfaction of letting them see me cave. The vice principal was a man that tried to intimidate you with his height and bearing. He made me want to challenge him. I wanted to say, "Does it make you feel like a man to intimidate little girls?" The last thing I did was when they read your name to walk out on stage to get your diploma, I wrote my middle name as "Conehead" after the Saturday night live skits. He stood behind me in the wings of the stage telling the student reading the cards, "Don't do it! Don't do it! I was saying, "Read it! Read it!" The kid did and Mr. Wright was furious! But he didn't prevent me from getting my diploma. Back then they didn't punish kids for childish pranks they way they do now.  I've had to let go of a lot of my control issues. Reality in grownup world is that it isn't always possible and if you can't bend you'll break. But I think part of Harry's strength is his ability to stand up to bullies like the Durselys with flinching. Maybe his anger is his strength. 

How utterly frustrating this entire thing is for Hermione and frankly everyone involved! I like reading details that were not in the book.  Albus Dumbldore is very lucky to have such a compliant group of people. No one is happy about being stuck at the Black House but it seems they are all making the best of it.  He is lucky that Hermione is so mature for her age since they aren't giving her enough information to be certain her parents their friends are safe.  At home I have a feeling Hermione is treated more like an adult that she is here. Mrs. Weasly is right about idle hands and there does seem a lot to do.  Boredom gives the kids more time to think up novel ways to entertain themselves and breeds discontent when they aren't being given enough information. Maybe that is why young teens are so full of angst. I am surprised that Hermione hasn't told Sirius, "I don't know why you always call Professor Snape Snivillus, but it's very rude!"Better yet, I'd like to hear her say confidentially as a friend but loud enough for others to hear, "I don't know why you keep calling Professor Snape Snivallus, but it sounds very immature. I just thought you'd want to know because you don't want to embarrass yourself and it lessens your credibility when you're giving your opinion to the other adults. You don't want to appear childish. Right? You want them to take you seriously! I should know.", then she should walk away leaving him to wonder what that last bit was about. Of course, I would only recommend it when he is referring to Severus and Severus isn't there.  I don't really see how anyone could take her to task for speaking to an adult that way without laughing and the kids there are used to Hermione being bossy to them.

I understand the sadness of the necessity to do this all again, but Dumbledore would have had him behave no other way. Severus will tell Albus which secrets he needed to reveal to regain Voldemort's trust and they will adjust the Order's plans accordingly. What else was he supposed to do?  If Hermione finds out he's spying for the Order, she will not feel betrayed. He should know that she will honor him for putting himself in such a vulnerable position to defy the Dark Lord. There must be a way for him to let Hermione know that he is not really Voldemort's man. He has been through a heavy personal trial this night and so for the moment he is underestimating Hermione's perceptiveness and her loyalty to him. Poor Severus. How horrifying and repugnant it must have been to sit and look Voldemort in the face once again. He'll be forced to play a sociopath and be hated by all now. He must believe that Albus and Hermione will always believe in him and keep a sliver of hope.  

I'm enjoying Severus' internal dialogue very much.  I enjoyed his watching Krum before and the couple at the dance.  Even though he realized that Hermione was attracted to the person that most resembled himself, rather than being flattered he's jealous.  It's very cute.  (Don't tell him I put him in a sentence containing the work cute.)I really enjoyed the interaction between him and Hermione as he got her ready for the task in the lake.  If Minerva was helping Ron, Pamona Cho and Madame Maxine Flure's sister, who decided that Severus would help Miss Granger instead of Ronald Weasly? It might have been sensible for Minerva to help Miss Granger because she's a female and her head of house. Madeye could help Ron since he's a male and obviously a Gryffindore if Severus didn't want to deal with Mr. Weasly himself.  Would Minerva need to be persuaded to let him take care of her pet?   It's interesting that he's so busy thinking about Hermione and helping Harry, that he isn't spending much time fussing over his dark mark and the imminent return of Voldemort.  He's more annoyed by the distraction.  Poor Karkaroff doesn't have enough to keep him occupied. I get the feeling he isn't looking forward to The Dark Lord's return.

It was fascinating to know the details of Hermione's tooth hex ordeal. I wonder if cannon Hermione would have any scruples about helping Harry cheat if necessary.  I'm sure she would do it if necessary to save Harry's life. She does seem surprised at first that Professor Snape is trying to help Harry, but she doesn't seem to see it as possibly cheating. Though, I guess it isn't cheating to have people suggest solutions to problems as long as they don't do anything to actually intervene during the actual competition. Hagrid already technically cheated by showing Harry the dragons.  But since it's Hagrid, we don't feel like he's really cheating. I don't remember that there was a rule that would prevent the teachers from coaching a contestant on improving his magical skills during training, so to speak.I'd say that as far as interesting story lines go, this book was the one that least interested me.  I just muddled through the whole lead up to the tournament waiting for the writer to get to the point. The point was that Voldemort had come back.  Maybe it was my subconscious shutting down because I hate to see people made fun of or betrayed and Harry is really treated horribly by all the kids and Rita Skeeter in this book. Harry just kept getting kicked in the teeth.  It's not that he was being treated any worse than the Durslys had treated him, but I guess it was because Hogwarts and the wizarding world was supposed to be his escape from persecution.  I admired the way he held up rather well through it all.  I guess being raised by the awful Durslys had given him the ability not to have a pity party when people mistreated him and he was used to being constantly insulted and blamed for things he didn't do, so he didn't give up or pout.  I think I also disliked that the story felt like there was constant conflict. The writer didn't provide any little islands of relief between crises so that the reader could enjoy the amazing details. I was too worried and irritated about the circumstances to pay attention to the really cool things the magical world had to offer.I disliked this movie the most of all the movies because Hermione seemed like she was on her period the whole time. I just wanted to slap her. She was annoying, hormonal, overemotional, and such a girl! I suppose she was just acting her age and  I know she was having a lot of stress but so was everyone else.  Adolescent girls are so annoying. I was even F-ing annoying at that age. Gods, I can hardly stand to even think about it!  I could never understand why she passed Ronald's stupid message to Harry, but then when Harry asked her to answer Ron, she yelled that she wasn't an owl and ran off.  I wouldn't have minded if she had punched Ron as she'd passed him, but Harry hadn't started this BS.  I like the way you had Severus make an effort to throw Hermione little bones that let her know that he isn't just a mean bastard and that he doesn't despise her in this timeline the way he does in cannon. But you keep him completely in character. In the books we don't know whose side he's on so she couldn't give us hints, but when we know that Severus Snape isn't evil, we get to see behind the curtain. It provides comfort amidst the conflict. 

My my! Severus is such a decent chap after all.  I could just kiss him!  How kind of him to let her brew with him.  I luf him!  It helps that she's a good girl and is careful to stay within the bounds he sets as long as it doesn't involve Neville. Doesn't Professor Lupin know she uses a time turner? I have assumed that all the teachers know that Hermione uses a time turner to take extra classes. If Lupin knows, is he simply not aware of the mistakes she made? Maybe he knows she messed up and needed to be sequestered but has no information regarding the details or the extent of her miscalculations.  I suppose there really isn't any need for him to know any of that as long as she shows up in his classes at the appropriate times.  I do hope she can forgive him.Won't Sirius be a surprise when she meets him! I doubt she will ever be as fond of him as she might have been if she hadn't known him as a nasty teen, no matter how much Harry will love him.

Such a sweet goodbye.  He really is making friends with his housemates. It will be very difficult to betray them later. Even though he'll know what they will be doing with Voldemort is wrong, it sounds like these guys have his back, and it will be difficult to deceive people who like you and look out for you. I'm already feeling sorry for him.  He'll be totally isolated from the good guys and will feel like crap for liking the bad guys as people and worse for betraying the only people who are nice to him. 

This will be her saddest time to leave.  This is her last time turner mistake, isn't it?  It's too bad in a way. She'll remember it more keenly than he will. As you said before it will have been much longer ago for him.  I'm amazed they didn't accidently share information that could change the timeline as familiar as they have become. She told him he calls her an insufferable know it all. Does he know he grows up to become a professor at Hogwarts? I don't remember Professor Snape telling teenSeverus he was a professor, but maybe he did.  Does he know he becomes a potions master or is she just reflecting what she thinks of him as an individual now? It would be so easy to slip up and say something wrong.  I loved it!  Bed time now! Kisses!

'Tis so sweet!  I love the hike and the comedy of errors! The goodbye is so sad.  At least Severus knows he gets to see Hermione one more time, doesn't he?

Spoiler Alert for people who haven't read all the books yet:Why didn't Severus go to detention with all of his hexes so that Minerva could see what her precious cubs had done to him? I know he has his pride, but it might have gotten those pricks in trouble too.  Wouldn't it be worth it? Add a witches hat and pretend it's Professor McGonagall. I see now where Hermione learned the spells she will need when they are on the run in the forest of Dean! Ron and Harry just think she's pulling them out of her butt cause she's a freaking genius. LOL! She is a genius, but she learned them somewhere. I would think this experience will also affect her knowledge about the Half Blood Prince. She knows Severus writes in his books.  I'm glad she is learning so much from Severus.  I love the way he is before he has to do his death eater gig for Anus Dumbledore.  Even with all the persecution from the Marauders Severus is a good guy! Someday he and Hermione will be able to be together. I trust you to do this for me. I expect it will be really hard for Hermione to watch what happens to Professor Snape from her 6 year on. At the end of this year, or is it her 4th year, she's going to find out he's a death eater, right? I can't remember if Dumbledore erases their memory when Severus shows his dark mark to Fudge in book 3.  If we saw all this stuff before JKR killed Sirius off, people wouldn't have been as sad about it. She does tell us about it, but she never really gives Severus' POV until much later.  There's always a question about whether he was asking for it, until Harry sees his memories. As a mom, I was mostly sad for Harry when Sirius dies. He is so pitiful when he's trying to look in the broken mirror and talking to Headless Nick. He's just a 'ickle boy. I believe it is safe to say that, those of us who were always pulling for Severus Snape were never as sympathetic towards Sirius as the Gryffindore lovers were. I took a test that says I'm a Ravenclaw. I was disappointed not to be a Slytherin, but quite relieved I wasn't a Gryffindore.  I hope I don't catch up with you before you get enough posted.  I'm terrible at waiting. Thousands of Kisses and Hugs!!!

The poor children are becoming attracted to one another. Maybe Professor Snape doesn't dislike her as much as he pretends.  She'll have a crush on him by the time this is over, but they can't be together in either time line until she grows up. I can't help but worry that something may go wrong yet, and they run into some rough patches where she gets caught and Severus has to go back and fix it again. I hope not.  I still wonder where the books went. 

"I'll keep to this room as much as possible"?  Does that mean she isn't promising to stay there?  How is he like the professor? He is certainly looking to her comfort more than I would expect. He dislikes Divination and is aggravated by her incessant questions. He's more polite than the professor is, but he has a perfect poker face and has all the makings of a perfect spy. He can make up an alibi or a fib in a snap.  He rubs his face and his hands through his hair. I notice that some of those books don't make it back to the library at some point before Hermione's time line.  I wonder if that will be important to know?  How in the world did he get a bed for her room? Did he transfigure something or did he shrink one down and bring it with him? Does it have anything to do with the room Dumbledore showed the adult Severus when they were talking about where he had kept Hermione hidden?

Thank you so much for the new chapter!  I love this story!  It's such an easy one to enjoy because there have been no moments when I've rolled my eyes and thought, "Did the author even read any Harry Potter books before writing this?"  You are wonderfully successful at staying true to the personalities of the characters while introducing new facets to them. Yay you!

I read all four chapters at least 3 times to get it straight. I think I have it straight, but I'm not sure. This time Severus is fixing the one where she stays with Lily and leaving information regarding two more jumps that haven't happened yet. Am I correct? Sorry to be so dense.  I guess when you write this type of story you end up having to answer a lot of questions.  Just know that I care enough to read each chapter 3 times. Hopefully, that is some compensation for having to answer questions. 

First, I don't understand why Hermione has to hide for a week when she gets back and see's herself disappear? I'll look back at chapter 1 to see if you explain.  Second, I think Albus Dumbledore is an idiot for letting Hermione take these chances with the time turner. Now that he knows that she goes back two more times but things worked out OK because Severus hid her, is it safe for him to not allow her to use it anymore? If Severus fixed the time line where she died so that nothing bad came from her going back, does she need to go back again to keep this timeline the same? Is it because of what she learns while she's hiding out? I think Dumbledore should tell her it is too dangerous for her to use it anymore and stop it all now. Is he letting her continue to make these time turner mistakes because he thinks she has a positive effect on Severus' younger self, or is he really just a crazy old codger that is that curious and careless? Why isn't Severus telling them that she needs to stop using it because he has to keep hiding her?  What am I not understanding?

I really like that Hermione isn't beautiful in this story, since she really isn't supposed to be. I know we like to write her much more attractive in her grown up version.   I am guessing Severus is 16 from what Professor Snape said to him. I don't see why he thinks Hermione is just a little girl at 13 or 14 and is embarrassed at finding her sexually attractive.  I was mature for my age and I always dated guys much older than I was.  It didn't seem squicky since we weren't having sex and none of the guys I dated expected me to, either. "Back in the day" only so called 'sluts' slept with their boyfriends. We would have been embarrassed to even tell our very best friends if we weren't virgins and we were terrified of getting pregnant.  We did like to 'make out', though. That was really fun, wasn't it? I miss 'making out'. It's really amazing how much has changed and what hasn't. I suppose access to birth control has made some difference. I guess I don't need to say that it's totally and absolutely foul that girls who are known for having multiple sex partners are still called sluts but the boys aren't.  In any case, Severus shouldn't be so hard on himself. Hermione is mature for her age and smarter than a 7th year.  I'm surprised she didn't tell him she could brew poly juice potion, but then he'd know about when she got back to her own time.