LOL  We're glad you agree.  ;)

Aww, you're sweet.  ;)

Oh I want to hug Snape.  He'd probably hex me, but he needs SOMEONE to give a crap.  JKR sure and hell didn't.  Mean old thing.  Have I told you I'm married to a Snarky scientist with a phd in chemistry?  ROFL

Ah!  You have our Potions master in Muggle form then.  Good on you!  ;)

We've been married almost 22 years.  He doesn't look like Snape but he does seem to have a lot of similar personality traits.  Fortunately, he has had a lot of good people around him or I expect he could have ended up making atrocious choices in his teens.  Very rigid in his thinking.  Always wears Khaki and polo type shirts (solid colors or big horizontal stripes).  He'd never be caught dead in a hawaiian shirt.  If he was a wizard he'd be all in black, I'm sure.

That was a fun chapter to write.  ;)

You've done exceptionally well and you'll hear no complaints from us!  ;)

Thank you so very much.  We had fun with it, as you can probably tell.   ;)

The "curse" has been broken already.  When Hermione called him back from the "grey" zone where he was alone with the sobbing Lily is when that was lifted.  She accidentally used the "release phrase" DD had built into it.  The potion - which DD used in conjuction with the curse - is the stumbling block that's left.  It's a very old potion and one that - at this point - has no antidote.  It will not allow another love to grow and blossom while it's there.  :(

Honestly, to me it's like  he's already in love with her.

Well, I can see where you're coming from, but in my experience just because you're "in love" with someone, doesn't mean you don't appreciate, have affection for and perhaps lust after someone else.   In my 30's, long time after being married and still in love with my hubby, I developed an attachment for another man.  Nothing came of it, because I wouldn't allow it to, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for him.  I haven't seen him for almost ten years, but I think of him now and then.

That would be a nice change, wouldn't it?  ;)

He is and it was.  ;)

She saw him die, there should be no question, really.  :(

Oh god, I can't wait for the last movie just for this scene which I know will have me bawling my brains out why my kids throw popcorn at me or try to act like they don't know me.  I can't wait and I also dread it.  It's definitely a weird feeling.  LOL.

I don't know if I want to see it or not to be honest.  It took me a long time to recover from reading about it - as far as being able to write him anyway.  Seeing Rickman - as Snape - die.  I don't know.

I hate it when Rickman's characters die in films.  Though he's really GREAT at it.  Which is why I kind of can't wait because he will be great.  I cried for days when I read the book, though.  If I think too hard on it I cry again.  That damn doe patronus...the thought of it was just agony.  But I KNEW.  I knew by book 5 about Lily.  That stupid moment with that stupid spell turning snape upside down and calling Lily mudblood.  I knew.  Gave me a chill right up my spine and I went to my lovely Snarky husband and said, "He loved Lily, he loved Harry's mother."  Of course my husband did not care at ALL about this.  But he remembers it.  He read spoilers about book 7 before it came out and said, "You'll like it."  Then once I read it I knew he was referring to my thoughts on Snape's motivations.  I wasn't reading fanfiction at the time, I had no idea about all the snape/lily stuff.  It was just me, in my own silly head.

We're always happy to snag a new reader!  Especially one who enjoys reading it as much as we did writing it.  ;)

Ah, thank you so much for letting us know that you continue to enjoy it.   We really do appreciate it, a lot!  ;)

It was very fun on this end too!   Thank you.  ;)

I don't think we'd really thought about how it would affect Ginny and her feelings - those that we've portrayed here - toward Snape.  I have a hard time imagaining her naming one of her sons after him, but I guess in JKR's world all is rosy.  ;)

Thank you so very much.  I thought long and hard about how it would have affected him for all those years and to think about losing a major part of "yourself" would be scary as all get out.  

LOL   I always thought he'd be very ticked off to find a Potter named after him.  It only added insult to injury to have it follow Albus.Well, I love bookstores myself, so I don't know that it's mundane.  I'd probably get myself fired for reading too much and not doing enough other stuff.  As far as my view of Severus is concerned, if you can do Potions - what else is there?  ;)He was quite serious about using humans.   Not only would they make a few gallons, he wouldn't have to put up with the danged mice! 

LOL.  That was a fun and yet difficult chapter to write.  Thank you. 

Welcome to our little corner of the world!  And thank you for such a wonderful review."I resisted reading this story for a long time because the orginal is such a sad story."We never intended to follow the original step by step, but we thought it was a delightful way to have them "meet" and get to know each other without all the old stumbling blocks in the way. 

You may be right. 

I'm so terribly sorry it's taken me this long to respond.  I'll need to check the area where it's supposed to tell me there's been a new review left.  Thank you so very much for leaving such a nice review.  

LOL  Thank you! 

Whisting noises barely cover the sound of a shoe shuffling the dirt around.  "Cliffie?  What cliffie?"

Hee!  We're very happy to hear that.  Thank you so very much.

I cheated and I shouldn't admit it.  Your other reviews gave me a hint what was in the chapter you were reviewing.  Your declaration of love, while highly prized, didn't tell me a thing.  LOL.   This part was quite fun to wright and we're quite pleased you love it.  Or - uhm - were you referring to the story as a whole?

Write that is.  It is late and I almost wrote right, but then stuck a W on the front of it and didn't look again until I posted.   Head/desk.  I need go bed.  Night!!!

well, yes, I do mean the whole story...but I think the particular things that prompted me to declare my love are just the way simon thinks in this chapter.  the way his eyes are no longer completely under his control, the line "Did I eat the... Yes, I did. Thursday last. Blast!" was just absolutely perfect (it's so realistic)the way hermione is mostly under control of herself.  just the interplay between them works so well!  If I had to describe your writing, I would say that as opposed to taking a romantic story and heightening the color saturation to make the colors more vivid, you've simply adjusted the focus so that even the more humanly ordinary parts of love seem extraordinary.  does that even make sense?

Sorry, I didn't get notified that you'd responed to my response and after reading it, I just had to respond – again.  LOLDarned Child and I try so very hard to make it "real" and you don't realize exactly what high praise that is when you say it, but it is.  We want the "that could be me!" feeling when someone reads it.  Aside from the actual use of magic that is!  LOL

Such a beautiful word, exquisite.  Thank you seems so inadequate somehow when placed up for comparison.

We'll see quite soon, won't we.   ;)