Bloody Brilliant!!Loved it! Thanks so much!!! whoooo.... feel a bit teary myself!

I loved this chapter!Is the story completed? Oh, please say that it isn't. This story is one of my favorites!!!

A perfectly delightful chapter, but please don't say it is the end.  Please say there is more.

i absolutley love this story :)

awesome! just wonderfully written :)

What a beautiful chapter.

Yay!!!  I'm looking forward to Grendel having fun with more visitors, maybe even seeing Hagrid after so many years.  I'm glad Harry seems to be accepting of Severus and Hermione together.  Thanks for updating!

Ah, that was wonderful. This story has gone from good to great. Am definitely looking forward to more of this one and future stories, as I dry my eyes. THANK YOU!

Excellent chapter! I so love your story I can't wait for next installment.  Hugs

What an incredible journey. You have brought Severus down an amazng road of love and forgiveness.

I'm wondering if all his memories didnt come flooding back at that moment? It was good to see Lily accepting a portion of her responsiblity for her relationship with Severus. I've always thought she was just as much to blame as he is.

Huh I wonder if that means Eileen is alive these days?

Yippie!  Jeannie, this is such a lovely chapter.  I'm so happy that Severus realized that he loved Hermione, and wanted to know if she could love him, too, even if he did not remember Raven.  Of course, she could, and did, love him with all her heart.  With their minds as well as their bodies joined, they made passionate love to each other. 

But their journey was not yet over;  Severus and Hermione had one last memory bead to relive, and this one proved to be the most powerful one of all.  Seeing with his own eyes how much his mother and Lily had still loved him after all was said and done, sent Severus beyond his present.  He remembered all of the memories Raven had from his time spent with Hermione before he had taken the potion to restore himself.  He and Raven had become one integrated person.  It was all too much for the wizard, and he began to fall into darkness.

Thankfully Hermione knew that he needed Grendel's healing powers if he were going to survive this final melding of his old self and his new self.  Her quick Summoning of Dobby to take them to his lair, and with Hermione holding him in her arms on one side, and Grendel against his body on the other side, he slept.  I am wondering (right alone with Hermione) if he realized that he loved Lily more than Hermione, but I can't see how he could had missread this own feelings that badly from this morning until late this afternoon.  I hope he is only exhausted and in need of a restorative rest.

I'm on tenterhooks waiting for the next chapter!  Thank you for this chapter.Beth

Good chapter, if a bit choppy.  I'll have to read a few chapters again to be more clear but the impression I have is that things are moving much more rapidly.

what a wrenching and emotional chapter.  but he'll finally be a completely integrated person.  wonderful stuff.  thanks so much

Aha.  Now they have integrated! :)

Very good chapter - I really enjoyed the Eileen and Lily flashback.

Oh, so glad he remembered! But what a way to get there! You know, it's lovely Lily said what she did, but it all fell flat for me. If she truly cared as she said and worried about him and his well-being, she should have gone to him and told him herself. Think of all she could have possibly saved him from. At least she realized she was guilty for what he became. Too little, too late, really. And poor Hermione. Thinking he'd realized he still loved Lily right after that breakthrough that morning. I'm sure he'll set her straight. Can't wait for that, now that everything is clear in his mind.

you're cruel :D love it

I'm hoping he was just overwhelmed by the rush of memories, and that he'll be okay in the morning.  That was amazing -- Lily and his mother together, such a fabulous last "bead" memory!  I've never read a story in which Lily visited Mrs Snape to ask for help; how sad for Mrs Snape to be all alone and still hoping for a grandson.  Thanks for a great chapter!

He's finally one, and hopefully at peace with Lily and Eileen.

Oh, wonderful! He remembers!! This chapter was absolutely wonderful...full of emotion! I can't wait for the rest! :)

A dramatic and moving chapter... looking forward to more.

I'm so glad he remembers.  what a sad life up to this point, though!

Absolutely beautiful.  I really liked the interplay between the Healer and Severus.  There have to be more stories behind Severus like that - but he will never know them all.  I hope that this one goes some distance to healing his psyche.  It seems like Frank Longbottom was injured worse than Alice.  You wrote this section well - not to overdone, not too emotional.  Since we are not observing the scene from Neville's point of view, there is not the surfeit of overwhelming emotions to deal with.  One concrit I would offer is that I didn't feel Severus' nervousness as much as I think you were going for.  Otherwise this was nicely done. I look forward to hearing more of Grendel's story later.  Right now, I do believe that Severus deserves his nap. Thank you for a very good update.  I can't wait to read the rest.Sara