Oh my!!  heartbreaking!!

Poor Crooks.  I doubt he will ever understand.

This series is quite sad.  However, if we excuse that canon/fanon Hermione would not be that type of woman, her feelings and actions are realistic for a woman with low-esteem in that situation.  I knew a woman very much like that, and their relationship was exactly like you described.  They cared about each other, but could not seem to stop the anger and derision whenever they spoke, and the more they spoke, the worst it got.  An attempt to soothe conversation was treated with instant suspicion, and it always went down from there.  The lack of proper communication between them stemmed from a single incident which he refused to explain.  This broke her trust, and then his in return when she displayed no trust in him.  She always had to back down under his unrelenting force and fury, and so became more smaller with the years.  There were no physical abuse, thankfully, but the emotional abuse was worse in my opinion, because she then stayed with him.  Physical abuse would have had other people advising and forced her to come to a decision to leave.  Emotional abuse only had people saying:  "you're being silly; it's just words, he doesn't mean it, suck it up and put up with it."  She did think about suicide, but having children to take care of, and the fact that he is not a parenting type, made her restrain such action.  Her story did not have a happy ending either.I hope you will add a conclusion to the series that explains the choices these women CAN make for themselves and their children.  It would also be nice to point out how the reluctance to bring up issues of shame, or personal devils, or just matters of importance can be stretched into something that becomes a wedge in relationships, simply for lack of being able to word it.  This is compounded by the partner's ability or inability to express in such a way so as to foster communication.  Often is it mens' pride that make them hide things.  Heading back to the topic of your story, I do see it must be Snape's pride that he won't tell Hermione that he's been seeing a shrink, but he also has an issue with blaming others.  ie:  blaming the shrink for messing his mind up, blaming Pomfrey for suggesting seeing the psychiatrist, blaming Hermione for being weak...  Of course, in "consequences of desperation"  He does admit to himself what he shouldn't say or do, but his conditioned habitual responses to Hermione is what damns her, and himself.  It is a well-written, heart-wrenching series. 

ADMIN: THIS REVIEW WAS CENSORED DUE TO UNACCEPTABLE USE OF LANGUAGE AND OUTRIGHT FLAMING.

It's been interesting to see this scene from three perspectives.  Very creative, going with Crookshanks' POV here.  Wrenching.  It's sad how two people can care about each other and be so trapped in their own thought processes that they can't communicate. And how tragic the results can be...

wow!  I am speechless.....very good series. 

Oh this is just so sad! What happened to going 11 years into the future? I would really like to see that. I'm going to beg now... Pppplleeeaassseee!!!!These are so good, and now the cat answers if she has been pregnant before, I was wondering about that. Makes me really want to cry!

Such a hopeless situation for her. And I like Crooks's pov. Animals share our pain, don't they?

Oh my you were not kidding about the horror warnings on this were you! Somehow learning about it from Crook's POV made it all the more chilling. !

sad and wrenching.  thanks

My heart breaks for poor Crooks, waiting for his mistress to return, and now she never will.

My heart breaks for poor Crooks, waiting for his mistress to return, and now she never will.