Oh, Miss Smith - all the trust in humanity has been stripped out of you!  ;_;  I'm looking forward to more of this subplot developing!  ::hugs:: 

I love, love, love how you've fleshed out Professor Vector and brought out a magic I've rarely seen used to this extent in a story.  I'm looking forward to more of this thread! 

"It was late, it was dark, it was unseasonably cold. He was 36 years old and sitting alone in a children’s playground. He had just sworn an Unbreakable Vow to murder Albus Dumbledore in the inevitable circumstance that Draco Malfoy failed to do so."THOSE are the most powerful 44 words I have yet encountered in this story.  IN ANY STORY I have read of late.  In fact, this chapter was punctuated throughout with short and powerful scenes, one right after the other.  I liked it!  Kept me on my toes! 

Run, Hermione, run!  ^_^It's nice to see Hermione and Ron flirt....btw, you make me think slashy thoughts about Harry and Draco right in this chapter.  That makes me happy, even if that's not where you're going with this...  ^_^

I really, really love stories that focus on parts of the WW where Harry is not around.  It's not that I don't like Harry, but there is just so much interesting stuff going on when he isn't around... 

Gosh, when I read this I couldn't get out of my mind how I kept imagining how Snape was reading/watching over Hermione like Col. Brandon read to and watching over Marianne in Sense and Sensibility.  Was the film and novel part of your inspiration for this chapter or am I reading too much Jane Austen? 

Voldemort is a little creepy here.  Like "Creepy Uncle" creepy.  But I like it.  ^_^I like your handle of Dumbledore, I think you've got him pretty balanced.  Some write him too cold and some write him too warm and fuzzy, but you've got him just right.  IMHO.

Okay, so, I made it all the way to chapter 7 before I realized I was being an asshole by not leaving a review.  But I suppose that is a compliment in and of itself?I'm not sure where you are going with this, but I'm coming along for the ride.I do like how you've tapped into Snape's singing abilities - that's what hooked me and Hermione's response just nailed it for me. 

This was exquisitely beautiful.  Thank you so much for writing it.

Interesting way to exchange Felix Felicis, I wonder if that sets up interesting happenings in the next part you are going to be writing...which I'm very happy to hear.Look forward to reading your future stories.

Wow, this story is just so painful.  Of course it was painful from the POV of JKR.  These little differences give it some hope but even more sadness in many ways.  I'm glad Snape has Granger as someone who cares about him.  The hardest thing about the book was that nobody ever really cared about him.  He cared about other people in his own twisted way but nobody took care of him.  It's no wonder he joined the death eaters.  Anyway, it's all just fiction but still the tragedy of Snape pulls at my heart.  So, of course, I will read the sequel and hope that he gets something good eventually.

Am I interested.  AGG, of course.  I won't rest until I see how this plays out.  LOL.  Well, maybe I'll rest.  I also have to get off my ass and cook dinner and clean.  Still, I do want to keep reading.Poor Snape.  HBP is so heartbreaking and Dumbledore's death is the part that hurts me the most.

Oh no!  This is getting really interesting.

Snape, silly  man, is always his own worst enemy.

I'm looking forward to reading the next chapter.  Great so far!

Oh my god!  LOL.  What is going on in that potions master's head.  I can't wait to read the next bit.  Cormac is just disgusting.  Yep, this one is quickly becoming a favorite of mine, too!

There was so much humour in this chapter. I can tell you were really having fun. For example,

'Friends don’t look so goddamn smug when your girlfriend is yelling at you!'

Ahahahaha ... WIN!! Your Lavender rules. Not to mention Hermione's bed disappearing. That was a nice touch.

But the serious business was also well-executed. Hermione's notes on her logic puzzle were so IC, as was Snape's reaction to her assertions. You continually astonish me with the ways you've managed to bend canon to your will and the way you make it look so easy. *tips hat*

I got a bit sidetracked by RL (apologies), but wanted to let you know I'm still reading and enjoying. This?

'[E]ither the Order has a plan in place that, once completed, will seem so horrible that many people will lose faith and panic; or one of the people coded into our matrix is a traitor and the success of their particular plan will spell devastation for ours.'

Genius. How neatly you've reinterpreted events to give us a fresh perspective on Hermione's limited and yet painfully insightful awareness of the situation.

And further proof of your genius, as if anyone were in doubt, is that you've managed to take what I consider to be a ridiculously difficult type of magical maths and made it not just interesting but really compelling to someone like me, who barely made it through basic algebra and trigonometry. It's all in the practical application. *g* Brilliant, hon. Really.

Perfect. The story ends well. You've tied together the things that needed to be, while leaving open the pathway to the next installment. For a SSHG fic, in which Hermione is still a student, the amount of attraction the two of them feel for each other, and their actions because of it, have remained at an appropriate level to their situation. The sharing of the Felix Felices was just right - kudos to that tiny touch of RST in the midst of so much UST!I reiterate my strong interest in the sequel. It's amazing to me that this is your first fic. Everything about it was so well done. Congratulations to you and to your betas, LAxo and WriterMerrin, and the others who've had a hand in its creation. Good jobs all around! Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful story!

I'm VERY interested in a SS-and-HG-go-camping sequel, when and if you have it ready for posting. This has been a fabulous story, and I hate to see it end. The Arithmancy scenes with Vector are absolutely wonderful. The two scenes where she brought everything to him and his teary reaction later were brilliant. All of the exchanges between them, the careful way both of them approach their relationship, trying to figure out just what that relationship should mean - again, brilliance. And now, her enlisting his help with her parents' memory modification is, again, a stroke of genius. I hate that the story must come to an end, and am running out of superlatives to uses to describe how fabuliciuosly, wondrilliancely, spendiferously, um, really, really great this story is! :)

I'm getting very nervous that the end of the fic is coming soon, and of how things will play out in that amount of time between Hermione and Snape. *shivers worriedly* Selfishly, I'm glad that the story's already complete, so no waiting for updates!Your characterizations of Hermione, Snape, Viktor, Harry and Ron are just so well done and seem absolutely true to canon. And the entire coffee shop scene was a wonderful bit of 'wizards in Muggle-land.' Great chapter!

Turning this scene into Snape's POV was wonderfully done. Bravo, you! Very well written, and so poignant. Yes, I can see that he would take this moment, of any moment, to indulge.

This is a very intriguing start to a story. It's so interesting to look at the events of HBP from Severus' point of view - especially to picture this meeting, which we sometimes think didn't take place. (Take <i>that</i>, Bella!)

what a wonderful rollercoaster ride of a story!  i await semi-patiently for the next part.  thanks so much

Oh what a wonderful story.In its sequel, could you please not make the crapilogue happen, and also change it up a little so Severus ends up with Hermione? Just asking :)Thanks darl for writing this fantastic tale.Love Sonia :)