Yay!  A lovely ending to a great story.

Lovely.

Awwww. *sniff* So wonderful!Thank you, thank you for sharing~

Good that she gave Lily back. :)

The whole memory thing never really occurred to me.  Thank goodness you fixed it so quickly.  I love the page that he tore out of the book.  I think they will both be very happy.

How clever.  Of course he had no memory.  They took them all out!

Awwwww.  And I'm glad she could figure out how to fix his memories.

I almost cried at the end :)

I laughed when I read the names of those bad baronets!  Their names DO fit in perfectly with JKR's nomenclature.

Oh. Poignant bit at the end there. I wonder what will happen next?

Love those coins--early versions of text-messaging!  Hermy just needs to get a house elf to pop her into the RoR for a little visit is all.  Of course, then she'd feel guilty for using a house elf...

She would feel alone with them all hiding or in captivity.  Can't she go and see them in the RoR? :)

At least they got through the Legillimency pretty easily!

The Carrows seem to me to be one of Voldie's greatest mistakes.  They gave the Order a fighting force.

I love how Severus sees Hermione differently then she sees herself.  I suspect it is that way for all of us.  I hope that the fact that they are both alone, for all intents and purposes, just serves to bring them closer together.

It's really frightening how the Carrows don't seem to fear Snape either as their boss, as a fellow Death Eater, or just as a wizard in general.  Hermione has had too many close calls.  Surely now that they've had a talking to, they will realize he means business.  Still, it could go the other way and make them mad at him so they will be even more intent on doing bad things to his wife.  I hope that is not the case.A lion patronus?  Poor guy.  But what a way to show his wife where his priorities lie.  I loved that he went to Voldemort which is quite scary indeed, to keep her safe, and that in that errand, he realized her importance in his life.  I think things just might work out ok for these two.

I'm glad that they did come to some kind of understanding.  Let me explain about last chapter's review: The reason I was so angry at her last chapter is that it seems that Hermione is really the most logical and rational out of most of the students in Hogwarts, but deliberately realizing that what she was doing by her tears was manipulating Severus, instead of using her intellect to explain to Severus her exact reasons for wanting to come along with him, though it was dangerous, showed that she was capable of book-smarts, but not of real-life smarts, which makes her come across just plain irrational and illogical. I really expected better of Hermione's character and propriety.

A lion. LOL! :)

Too funny about Severus' patronus.Looking forward to seeing what happens next!

Well, I think the last line summed it up well.  Love the angst!

The fact that she deliberately manipulated Severus into letting her come with him under the pretext of seeing Harry and Ron makes her seem like a spoiled brat, and I'm extremely angry with her. However, the fact that Severus deliberately told Hermione that he would always be in love with Lily is extremely callous and unfeeling of him. Whether or not it is true is beside the point. To any woman that he would have married - be it young or old - there isn't many that would be understanding of his answer. The point is how lousy he handled the subject instead of being considerate of her feelings on the answer. He could have handled it a billion different ways that it wouldn't have hurt her - including lying to save her feelings: "I really don't understand why it didn't. I would have thought it would considering how I feel about you." But, he didn't. By admitting he still loves Lily, of course it undermines everything Hermione thought about their affection for each other, and being that Hermione's Patronus did change only exacerbates the fact that Hermione feels all the affection has been only one-sided. Poor girl, I hope Severus realizes how badly he botched it up, and I hope he is willing to do whatever he can to rectify things.

Cute change of patronus for Hermione.  Finally, they're completely together. 

I didn't figure she could stew like a baby for too long. 

i really hate that umbridge lady she always get away with stuff and keeps her job!!!! no justice!!!! phyllidia has it right! i see she called for her husband humph took her long enough!! teehee princ charming got some hahahaha! great chapter.

You know I really hate Umbridge.  I mean an unreasonable amount of negative emotion for a fictional character.  I think it's because JKR killed & maimed the 'good guys' left, right, and center but Umbridge, other than a little Centaur scare, got away.  If anyone deserved a gruesome end, it was her. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed Severus hexing the snot out of her. (I'd have given her a few more for good measure but I know, time was short).Enjoying the story.  Looking forward to the next installment.