i feel a little bad for hermione, but she won't have any trouble finding someone to console her.  thanks for reading and reviewing.

so glad i could help to entertain you. :D   thanks for reading.  *hugs*

thanks for this nice review.  i appreciate it.  yeah, i think it's left a little open-ended - there is room for something else to happen in the future.  frankly, i really wasn't sure who was going to get him in the end until i wrote it - it was a pretty dead heat. and congrats on your story, too.  you earned it.  :D

thanks for taking the time to read and comment.  i appreciate it.

i think hermione will land on her feet.  and i am in no way advocating excessive drinking, though i do think remus might have thought it would be easier to get through to a tipsy severus.  thanks for reading and reviewing.  :D

Although surely Remus would never take advantage. Noooo. ;)

take advantage - of course not.  but use to his advantage just a little - maybe.  ;D

so happy you liked it!  and well deserved, you.  :D

i'm glad you enjoyed it.  sorry if you were disappointed by the outcome.  it was a competition.  if i'd put it only under forbidden forest, there would be no suspense as to the outcome.  and it does deal with the relationship between hermione and snape, which is what the category is for.  if it had turned out the other way, i would have put potions under duress first instead of second. 

thank you for this lovely review, and for understanding that sometimes, remus needs his snape, too.  ;D  and you never know - i certainly would not rule out a threesome.  (i almost thought it was going to happen this time, but it didn't end up going in that direction.) 

hmm - that would have been interesting if that was what was happening.  my muse did not plan it that way, however.  and remus definitely had an advantage here.  thanks for this nice review.  :D

thanks, pokey!  i'm glad you enjoyed it.  yes, i think hermione could have her choice of men to console her (with those few exceptions).  charlie sounds like a good bet.  thanks so much for stopping by.  :D

the primary category was forbidden forest for the snupin aspect.  potions under duress was listed as the secondary category.  if the story had ended up going the other way, i would have listed the categories the other way as well.  sorry that wasn't clear enough.

her prompt was pretty awesome, wasn't it?  i'm glad you liked my take on it.  and if these rewards spur you to review more, that can only be a good thing from the perspective of us poor, starving authors.  starving for reviews, that is.  ;D

i'm glad you enjoyed his revolving door.  i admit i might have enjoyed it, too.  ;)i wasn't sure what was going to happen, but given sunny's prompt and my bent, a competition between lupin and hermione seemed the way to go.  i kinda thought it might end up with them sharing, too, but it didn't go that way.thanks for the lovely review.  and congrats on your story, too.  you deserve it.  :)

frankly, i really did not know how it was going to end until i got there.  there was a period when i thought it would end up in a threesome, but it didn't go that way.  thanks for reading, and i'm happy you enjoyed it anyway.  and yes, persistency pays off because if hermione had not run off like that, who knows what might have happened.  :)

i'm sorry you didn't like the way the story played out, but i suppose it was predictable that somebody would be unhappy given the nature of competition - i.e., somebody wins, which means someone else inevitably loses.  i disagree, however, with your assessment that remus and severus dismissed hermione as an irrelevant little girl; i don't think the story supports that reading.  and i do wonder if remus's and hermione's roles had been reversed whether you would be worrying about his tender feelings.

Well, I freely admit that I'm usually more of an sshg shipper than snupin.  On the other hand, I've read and enjoyed your work before, so I knew there was a decent chance it would go snupin in the end, and if that had been a problem for me, I wouldn't have read it in the first place.  It felt to me like Remus's reaction to Hermione walking in on them was a rather self-serving "Poor naive Hermione ... she'll be fine ... let's go shag."  If the positions were reversed, and Remus walked in on Hermione with Snape, when Snape had been flirting with him (or at least not rejecting his clear interest) all night, I would feel just as bad for Remus, and if Hermione had responded in the manner Remus did (or anything equivalent), I'd be just as unhappy with that.In any event, I hope we can just agree to disagree about the way Remus and Snape reacted to Hermione walking in.  I do enjoy your writing, so I'll be looking forward to your future works.  Happy 2011!

well, i will grant you that remus was on the brink of getting something that he'd been dreaming about for several decades at this point, so hermione was not uppermost in his thoughts at that moment.  and he probably does think she's young and will find someone else more suitable for her, and frankly, i believe in this story snape thinks the same.  he wasn't 100% sure that hermione could possibly be interested in him, and he was pretty sure he didn't deserve her, if she was.anyway.  that's probaby more than you need to know.  thanks for reading, and we can definitely agree to disagree.happy 2011 to you, too - i wish us both lots of new beginnings and happy endings.  ;)

i'm glad you think my story was a fitting present for sunny, who surely deserved something special for all her enthusiasm.  :D  thanks for reading and reviewing; i really appreciate it.