Oh, you evil woman!!!!Makes sense that Ron and Hermione would've needed to keep Harry's body going for a bit, and I'm glad they got to see the memories, too.BUT YOU'RE JUST LUCKY, YOUNG LADY, THAT THERE'S ONE MORE CHAPTER POSTED NOW, OR I'D HAVE TO FIND YOU!!!  And of course there's no guarantees with THAT one either, I know!!*rushes off to the next chapter*

Fabulous! Massive sigh of relief that she saved Snape and also that she is staying with him :) very very eager to read your next chapter SG x

AND EXTREMELY WELL DESERVED!!I absolutely adore the fact that she had this whole transaction with Severus RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES!Brailliant, brilliant, brilliant!  Keep writing, keep posting, keep going, you're amazing!  (I see there is just a little more before I catch up with you.  *sigh*)  Marvelous work, my dear!

Once again, you've let us experience things from a whole different perspective, and it's terrific stuff!

Albus, as always, is no damn help at all.  Except in his ability to state the obvious.  Dangerous ground indeed....

Harry once again proves too impetuous, though I suppose one can't really blame him.  Thank you for giving Ron a bit more perception than he might seem to have had.  He is very good at chess, and one presumes that might make him more able to think strategically.  Love the little chess piece.And I love the fact that Hermione believes Severus' concern is both part of his natural instinct to protect the students and part of his cover as a spy.  I do hope there will come a time when she find she's wrong....

Thank you for making their meeting difficult with just a hint of tenderness--it has been a long time since they've seen one another, and a lot has happened in that time.  They have much to get through before they start to deal with how they feel about one another, and it won't be easy.  But I hope there will be more early morning meetings and more discussions and the chance to get through a lot before they can move on.Wonderful stuff.

You continue to fascinate me by telling the story from an altered perspective, though it's almost more terrifying seeing this all from Hermione's point of view and knowing so much more!  Bless those who are doing what they can in impossible circumstances, especially Draco.

Adore the use of both the story titles for your HBP and DH in this chapter.  The context is very clear now and brings it full circle in a way - it starting with him healing her and its going to end with her healing him.  There was a lot of healing in this chapter (and to come I suppose) and the mood you created in this chapter between them was wonderful - they clearly have a deep friendship of trust and then there's the whole undercurrent of tentativeness and Severus' uncomfortableness.

What an amazing chapter. Their love for each other manifested in the healing process. How Beautiful. Now they just need to admit how they feel about each other and they can get on with their lives in peace. I can hardly wait to see how that aspect of the story plays out.

That was brilliant. The fact her scar has healed differently, says it all really. I look forward to see how they progress.

More, more, more! I loved that she returned the favor by singing him better. Update again soon, please!

Oh, how I love this story.  I've been too long in RL, so it was a joy to come back and find abot half a dozen new chapters for what I believe is my favorite SS/HG story on this whole site!  I had hoped it would be finished, but now that I know it's not - that thrills me to no end now that I've gotten this far.  Your innovations to expand on the behind the scenes goings  on were brilliant, and I am on the edge of my seat waiting for more.  Hopefully this takes many more long chapters to wrap up, because I don't want to leave this wonderful world you've created around the original canon.  Okay, enough praise.  Get to working, lady!

Lovely.  They are well on their way down the route to a relationship! :)

What a fine chapter!  The visible results of her completely successful attempt to sing his body left him shaken. Was it her or me? he wondered. Was the incredible degree of completeness testament to her magical prowess or to the undeniable physical responses her very presence called from his body? Had it helped that she used his wand? Did it help that he’d previously used the same technique on her?I really like this concept.  He will probably never get his answer but it seems like whatever it was, it was something special shared between the two of them.So glad that he was not upset by her looking at his memories.  And after all that has happened recently, they have fallen right back into the comfortable friendship that they previously shared.  And something more dare I hope...?Still a wonderful story.  Looking forward to more.

Oh my goodness. I didn't post a comment last time because I was so upset. But he's alive, for real this time. Thank you.And he's in love. They are so close. I cannot wait to see if they get together. I love the healing of her scar too. It's perfect, showing them that they really are meant to be together, healing each other in more ways than one. And when he asked her about her Phoenix tears, that was...I don't even know a word for it. It was beyond magnificent, it was needed in every way possible for the story, it tied in so much for me. Bravo.And I have to say that his book on Machiavelli is also perfect. Wow, I'm using that word a lot in this review. I can go to bed happy now, knowing that everything in the world is right, at least in this story.

I am so glad he lived!  I hope his name get cleared in the general population and he lives to a ripe old age.

"If you’d taken your clothes off before the snake bit you, you wouldn’t have destroyed a perfectly good set of robes"Made me laugh so, so much. Excellent snark. Can't wait to see what happens next!

i can finally release my holding breath! yeah i like how Hermione healed Snape, very harmonious.xox

wonderful update. when she broke down after healing him i had tears in my eyes, too. thanks and mucho smoochies

I love this. The titles of the stories make sense now and it is beautiful. Looking forward to more.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again - your two Phoenix stories are wonder ful. But you, my dear author, are an evil, evil person for throwing in a cliffhanger at this particular moment. You must update quickly....pretty please.

Am I right in thinking that how Severus learned to fly isn't specified in canon, but that it is generally assumed that Voldemort taught him (since we know he knew how, too)?  But this provides an explanation of why he taught him that seems very plausible!And if only more of them could, like Hooch, learn to look beyond the obvious, Severus might have gained another ally or two.  Even Neville should have tried to think his way through what he was being told.Wonderful stuff!

Well, bless Ron's not-always-so-bright little heart!!  I'm very proud of him for being open-minded enough to consider the impossible!  If Harry were only so willing to apply Occam's Razor to his analysis of things!You are managing to get so much more action into things than the let's-sit-around-the-tent-and-wait-for-time-to-pass of the original adventure.  Love it!  And I do rather believe that Kingsley would have been some help through all of this.

Once again, brilliance!  Perhaps Riddle would have recognized Grindelwald on his own, but if not, how would he have made the connection between the thief and Dumbledore, and, as a result, suspected that Severus was now the rightful ruler of the Elder Wand?  And how interesting (fortuitous?) that Severus should have been given the means to run across Vector and discover all that's happened with her, as well as his own place in the matrix.  (So Vector knows he just saw Hermione because of her own calculations?  What else do they reveal about Severus and Hermione?)I am also fascinated by the place that Skeeter's book plays in this story, cutting a much wider swath through more lives, including one of its important subjects.  I love that it is bringing Severus to a better understanding of Albus--and I wonder what deeper insights he may be having when he has access to the original source material.I'm saddened by Severus' increasing sense of his own mortality, but who can blame him?  But this will turn out to rewrite implied canon, yes?  This is truly an SSHG story?  *bats hopeful eyes at brilliant author*