Makes me wish

Great but sad story and I certainly would have wanted to do the same thing if this happened to my kid. One thing I am curious about. How do you picture SS finding out? Did he read (mind) his daughter or HG or CW?  Or did he overhear or what? This is well written and thought provoking.

Sadly this kind of thing happens all the time in real life. A well written story, Southern Witch!

Perfect! I can totally see Severus and Hermione acting in such a manner. It is completely appropriate to have those feelings when their daughter has been violated, and I think the daughter responded realistically as well. Better than her falling in love with Charlie!

I'd kill the bastard too. 

Its a good and very sad story.This happens so often to children and what a pitty there's no Severus or Hermine around to hex them.

A very well written thought provoking piece. I'm against the death penalty generally but I have to say that if anybody abused my daughter, I would take it upon myself to make sure they were never in a position to be able to do it to anybody else ever again.    

I don't know what to say other than this is very well written. My usual statements seem inappropriate. You've made me think.

Does it make me a horrible person if I say that I would do exactly the same?  I have a little boy and if anyone ever touched him I would probably rip that person apart with my bare hands.  I wouldn't exactly call this a good story, but it moved me.

This hits close to home. I'm a survivor as well, I was three years old and the offender was an in-law. On the one hand as a Pagan I am very aware of the three-fold law of returns. On the other, I can certainly understand a parent taking the law into their own hands under the circumstances, and I have the feeling that magical law would probably come down on the side of the parents anyway in a case like this. Their culture is patriarchial enough that a father probably does have an absolute right to avenge his underage daughter's honor, as long as he doesn't use an unforgiveable. It's just better for all concerned if it goes down as natural causes. Molly can mourn and move on without ever having to know what a monster her son became.

This is a tough story indeed. I do not like the self-justice part of it, though. In our area, there are specially trained female police officers who go to schools and primary schools to teach children that they have a right to say no whenever someone does things to them that don't feel right. The kids even practise shouting "no!" to an adult's face as loud as they can! And they are told that it is all right to do so, even to the face of someone they love.If something similar happened to a child of mine, I'd make sure to go see the police straight away and fight for the harshest punishment I could get. I would not want to set an example like yours, though. Taking a person's life leaves a stain on the killer's soul and it is a borderline I would not want to cross.

This story is tastefully done, and outlines just what I'd want to do in Hermione's place. People — men or women — who use positions of trust to take advantage of others in any way, but especially taking sexual advantage of children, must be stopped from ever doing the same thing again.  And, if left alone, they always will.  Once someone starts on such a path, they almost never turn away from it without extreme social and legal pressure.I'm basically a non-violent person, but I'm afraid that I'm also rather vindictive in some areas.  This is one of them.  Putting him to death may seem extreme, but he ruined a little girl's peace of mind and killed her faith in other people.  He would have done the same again (probably had before).  I think his death would hurt his family less than the horror of knowing the truth, which would have split the family apart; he was right about that.  Charlie's biggest mistake, after choosing to prey on a child?  Making his choice of victim the daughter of the greatest legilimens since Tom Marvolo Riddle.  Stupid, stupid, stupid, Charlie, my lad.Having said all that, the question occurs: was Charlie simply a sociopath who enjoyed wielding power over others and arrogantly thought he was clever enough to get away with it?  Or was he a past victim of sexual abuse who was acting out his own confusion and anger at having been placed in the same situation?  (When something feels that good and that bad at the same time, it's like a volcano building up inside a person. It always erupts, and someone always gets hurt when it does.)Good story, Southern.  Very thought-provoking.

Brilliantly done! I believe in God, and in right and wrong, and in the law, but when it comes to my daughters, I'm not sure I could show any more restraint. I have overcome what happened to me when I was young, and learned to get passed it. But there is something in me as a mother that would be unable to do the same if they were victimized. Good story. I'm glad you've written about this. People murder characters all the time, and no one bats an eye. At least this murder was for a justifiable reason.

OH WOW! Very Powerful.. Well done! I know that there are such people in this world, and it is ashame that stronger actions are not enforced against them, and that children are too afraid to tell. I'm glad Severus took care of it...Well done!!

Can I get some of that poison?

If only every victim could receive our justice.

Not a very pleasant story, indeed; but one that is very well written, and hopefully thought provoking to many readers.

I, too, keep my child very close for the same reasons as you - unfortunately, this sort of experience is one that you never truly "get over" - I think the worst thing it did to me was to make it very difficult to trust.

A very well written piece on a very difficult and touchy subject - kudos to you!

Heart-breaking and horrible! Poor Elizabeth and her parents; I really empathise with their emotions and predicament.
That said, while I don`t really feel comfortable with the form of retribution they took, I can certainly understand the driving force behind it. Marvellously done, and all the sadder because things like this happen all too often, and many perpetrators get away with it.

Thank you.