Hermione Granger couldn’t have been more shocked if Madam Pince had pulled up her sleeve and revealed the Dark Mark on her forearm.  Love it! You have a fine way of inserting humor into in-character behavior, my dear.A wonderful first chapter. I hope to see many more.

Yay! I'm so glad another story that actually looks like it's worth reading is up. I hope the next chapter comes soon ;)

Hello! A really really good first chapter! I'm looking forward to the next part... Bravissima!!

"no coincidence that the chemical symbol for Mercury was Hg, Miss Granger’s initials" Now that's clever of you!

Intriguing! Sneaky Irma! LOL. That line about firing assistants who couldn't align a book with the edge of a shelf reminds me of a line from a book I read where a librarian character did the same thing, lol. Looking forward to more! :)

Any updates in the near future? I'd really like to see this story finished!!

This might be one of the most intriguing starts ever. It's not the direct way, but the more delicious one.

Your Irma is treasure. Precious. I love her. I can hardly express how much I love her. And when I read this first I thought: Uh-Oh. A Irma-Severus story? I don't know whether I can deal with that. For the same reason I have problems with Poppy or Minerva and Snape: I'm not so much into Oedipus. :D But after several more sentences I thought: I CAN! Your described her so lovingly as the imperfect person we all are. Though, we might be all imperfect in different ways. And I loved it. But of course all my struggling with this pairing was for nothing as it's going to become so much more delicate.

Another outward lie. - I could literally feel her reaching the point were she's going to implode. Or slap herself and scare Hermione to death. She's exploring the little teenage girl who's fancying someone unreachable. I can totally understand the pleasure she takes in just watching her object of desire. She's a little like my mother in that behaviour: Childish and mature at the same time.

Now, let's pretend I don't know anything about the next chapter, so I can go on – all happily excited!!! ooh, how exhilarating!