Great chapter, livvy!  Severus is going to have to develop more patience than he has ever had to before.  I hope he will be able to pull of his funk and be able to enjoy the time he and Hermione have until she must return to her own time.I can't wait to see the next chapter.  Well done!  Beth

I can't imagine going back to my teens with my adult mind intact. I believe I would spen an inordinate amount of time in detention for telling people off!! I loved your peek into the Dept. of Mysteries!! I can't wait to see what's coming!! *squee*

Every solution sounds emotional traumatizing.

Ahh, youthen her, of course. Mind you, imagine how irritating Harry and Ron will seem, and Lavender and Parvati even more so, once she is back with an adult mind in a teenager's body! :)

That was a great chapter.

Jesus, Livvy. I'm feeling a bit down as it is at the moment but thank you for such a poignant, lovely chapter. I suppose he summed it up with his comment of how he felt having to keep his distance from her when Time catches up with them both. However, I suppose also that it could be argued that at least he WILL have the benefit of hindsight. Great stuff. Best wishes, Love Ali xxxx.

This is sad, and extremely intriguing. I'm glad that Lily was able to be happy in her marriage to James. I'm looking forward to Hermione telling Severus. It's going to be interesting. Thanks for such a great story!

Though he was clearly disappointed that she had come from his future, he still loved her with all his heart.  And this is all that really matters.  "The sweetest thing I've ever known is loving you..."This is such an emotional chapter.  My God, the tears.   Hermione's, Severus' and mine!  Will they choose to marry now?  I think probably not.  Like Severus said, “You must live in your time line. When you become the age of consent, if you want, we can be together. It won’t be long. We can wait until you are sixteen. It’s just a couple of years.”Please update soon.  I absolutely NEED to find out what happens, livvy.  Great story telling, my dear!Hugs, Beth

I can't wait to read the next part of this story!

Oh my goodness!  The time is growing near when Hermione will have to tell Severus where she came from, and I don't have any idea how he will feel when she does.  Will he be angry?  Will it color his feelings for her?  Will he feel he has been lied to?  One thing I do feel confident about is that no matter what other feelings he has, he will still love her.I can't wait... I gotta go read the next chapter!BethPS- I LOVE this story!

OMG!  He took that a lot better than I thought he would.  I can't believe he's going to send her back though!  Its been so long!  I can't wait to see how you work this out!  Please update again soon.  Much Love ~ Brena

You know, this could be easily rectified by Hermione waiting until the year her younger self goes to Hogwarts to return to her own timeline. Then Snape would only have to wait 3 years for her, and she'd be much closer to his age when she returned.I'm not telling you how to write it, lol, just thinking out loud. :)This is my favorite story of hg/ss, so I get obsessive about it, lol.

Finally Severus knows and isn't totally destroyed by the news. It seems so unfair, doesn't it. They are semi-free to love each other except Hermione is out of place in time. I can't wait to see what happens now.

oh man!!!!  great job - keep it up - I'll purchase more kleenex and meet you back here for the next update -

How very sad, sweet and tender at the same time. I'm anxious about how it's going to work out... Great chapter, as always!

AAAHHHHH she can't go back! She has to stay with Severus! But I'm glad he didn't kick her to the curb, which I kinda expected him to do being the guy he is.

Thankfully she told him!  And he didn't take it half as badly as he could have.  I'm a bit confused.  If she returns to her third year, she'd be returning as her older self.  She can't shrink herself back into her thirteen-year-old body.  Wouldn't there be two of her?She should just stay there with Severus and use a glamour!  I'll wait impatiently to see how you explain all of this.  Please don't take too long to update.

Thank goodness he doesn't hate her.

That one sentenced pretty much summed up the new few chapters, didn’t it? It totally makes sense why he treated her so meanly, it wasn’t all about the fact that she was best friends with Harry, but rather that he had a façade to keep up in order to keep her safe. I kind of feel sad for them, even though if they do end up together in the end, they will have lost so many years together. God bless the broken road, eh?

Okay, now you have to deal with a time apradox. We'll see waht you come up with, hmmm?Severus really did take the news well, but if Dumbledore was trying to fix her Time-Turner -- Or find a way to send her back/forward, wouldn't he have needed to have hers?

Well he could have took it worse couldn't he? But I still couldn't see them apart, I always thought I preferred the orignal HG/SS student and teacher. But now this, how they have grown up together I can't bear to see them apart. Look forward to more.

Wow, wow, wow!  This just keeps getting better and better!

Severus was wonderful -- Another long break in their relationship will be hard.  I'm not sure I understand when they will be together again.  If he sends her back to the time when she left, they will know each other, but only as teacher and student .... until she is 16?  HMMM ... looking forward to the progression!Great job!

Oh, I'm happy Severus took that well. I was worried, as he tends to have a certain kind of outrage that is terrifyingly malicious. But they are really endearing, it just tears me up inside. I like that Severus wants to help her. That's why I love him... Oh, it's all getting so good! Lovely as always, and as always, on pins and needles until the next chapter!

I'm very glad she told him, but what part of the future will she return to?