Thanks for the fast chapter but damn he just can't be on the side of Malfoy!  That would be disgusting.  Is he trying to get the information from Hermione so he can destroy the formula once and for all, get money out of Malfoy and then destroy him????  What a good mystery and I'm sure it will all be reveiled in the last six chapters.  Quick please like a bunny......

Oh I don't no what to believe! If Snape is really fooling Lucius I don't no how he can bring himself to say those things. Please hurry, put my mind at rest lol.

Very dramatic, and I'm looking forward to more! This is certainly a story where it's plausible to believe Severus is on his own side... and a real betrayer of Hermione after all. :(

*waits for next chapter*

I did not realize you had taken up torture as a hobby.

How can you leave it here?!?

I saw this update when I was about to head off to bed, and thought, "Oh, I HAVE to read this before I go to bed!"--and now, sleep will have a hard time finding me, I think.

My heart is still pounding. 

I can't even catch one of my whirling thoughts long enough to speculate on what Hermione will do.  Just--please--get the update to us SOON!  Don't make us wait a week--SOON, ok???

Groan...More please!

So I hate myself for not reviewing sooner.  I'm such a lurcker and will review stories that I think are well written.  So this is like a review for all the past chapters.  Haha.  I love your story.  And this chapter: wow!  It blew me away.  I have to admit, I usually don't like a mean Snape (I mostly like a happy ending) but I would love your story to end with Snape being a bit of a villain.  I loved Hermione's anguish.  My first reaction was "No! Snape how could you!?!" But as the chapter went on I was started to like the idea of his betrayal.  I don't know why (maybe it's PMS, ha!) but it kind of would be a different ending to a Hermione/Snape story.  Anyway, I look forward to those last 6 or so chapters you are promising us! 

This is so amazing and intense.  I both like and hate how Hermione is so quick to jump to conclusions and act on them wrecklessly.  I think it's appropriate for her personality but it is exasperating.  Then again, maybe at some point her quick thinking will be useful to her.  At the moment I think maybe she's being irrational.  I love the story.

OMG!  What a revelation.  The master spy is an excellent actor, fooling either Lucius or Hermione.  I'm all angsty, thinking poor Hermione has been played, duped, her heart trod upon.

Oh, so excellent chapter.

Such a short chapter! No! I want more! Please hurry with the next chapter. I can't wait. I wonder what his explination will be. I want to believe he's good, but so many fingers point at him. Argggg!(love the story by the way.)

That was so good.

You realise if you leave me hanging for too long, I may just die of curiosity. I really, really, really need to know what happens next! Excellent chapter, but then it's an excellent fic! *applauds*

I love how you are writing this story. I grow more excited with every chapter that I read.

Great chapter, I loved the delicious ending.

Wow, that was one hell of an ending for the first chapter! Well done!

Oh NOOOOO!  and I have to wait for an UPDATE?!!!  AGG.  LOL.  Excellent story.  Of course patience is something that always vexes me, too.  I'll have to make an update bookmark.

i have to be honest, this story is very lovely, but painful to read. i feel so bad for hermione, being in love with someone who is unwilling or unable to love her in return (since he's stuck on a woman who died decades ago, how messed up is that?). my heart just breaks for her,  she deserves so much better.  i don't understand why severus is with her if he's not open to any significant feelings for hermione, but perhaps his heart will open a bit soon!

Obviously a tribute to 9-11. Very tasteful and well executed.I'll have to read your op-ed piece.

What a simply awesome chapter!!! Thanks.

What a thought provoking chapter.  These lines I found very moving:“It’s amazing,” Sandy whispered. “Beautiful and horrible at the same moment.” Hermione nodded. She had felt the same way the first time she’d seen the monument. “I think it needs to be a bit horrible,” she said. “I think the day we’re unmoved by such a sight is the day they died in vain.”Loved the Kama Sutra line as well.:) Am I the only one who thinks that Sandy Creevey would be perfect for Neville, he's in to Herbology... she runs a florist busines?  Hmmmmm......

Ohh, the last part of that chapter was quite powerfully written.

You really caught me up in the the character of Colin's sister. I wonder if some great joy might bring the magic back into her life...maybe the birth of her first child.I think you wrote the passing years and the ability of a moment to transport us back to that awful day very well. In fourteen years, a class of first years started Hogwarts and graduated, and now another is about to do the same. Your seventh-years are concerned with passing their NEWTS, not with something that happened when they were three. The wars are history to them. Teddy Lupin will be starting school in a year or two. A year or two after that, the first years won't even have been born when Voldemort was finally defeated. The years of terror will be only something their elders talk about at family gatherings, if their families ever speak of those times at all. I applaud McGonagall's ability to be sure the sacrifices of the past are never forgotten, without allowing them to become all-consuming.I read your op-ed piece as well. I encourage other readers to do the same.

Incredible chapter. The memorial is an amazing idea.

The humour was wonderfully done, as was the whole idea of the memorial.

Great chapter! And I congratulate you on that wonderful piece of writing in your blog. I'm German, I know how impotant remembering is...

This was an amazing chapter, not least because of it resulting in 'a day of absolutions', but also because of the humour you have, as always, still maaged to inject into the more sombre theme.Minerva keep catching them together (especially when she mistook them for students) was very amusing!  "There isn't a single position in the entire Kama Sutra that could change Severus' mind once it's been set" is one of the best lines I've ever read! (My advice to Hermione on this would be that it would be fun working on the theory of that!)  :-)