Draco is such a worm; someone needs to squish him. :)

I have to say, this story just keeps getting more and more delicious with each chapter!  Your characterizations are spot on, and the storyline is so incredibly intriguing.  Colour me hooked!  Keep up the fantastic work!  I eagerly anticipate the next chapter.

Purchase, not kidnap? Either way, it's not to be born. I hope Severus hexes him out the wooha. ^_^

Hummmmm.  The quill belongs to Lucius Malfoy, so how did it find its way to Hogwarts... unless it was one that Lucius gave to Draco to bring to the school.  And if that is the case, then perhaps he hoped that the Dodo would find the little treasure and take it for its nesting collection.  And then it would find its way to Hermione and lead to his being able to "purchase" her.  (Could it have been charmed to let Lucius know if she had found it?  What a horrid thought!) 

After finding out that Draco is on a mission for his father and that Lucius wants to "buy" Hermione, I can understand why Severus was so quick to lose his temper with her for wanting to help Fazeem Noorta.  What a mess!!!  Draco is taking his father's orders to the extreme.  I hope what Severus told Lucius about how his heavy-handed manner of trying to intimidate Hermione was not the way to go if he didn't want her to add two and two together and not come up with much more than a simple four. 

Hopefully no one besides Snape and Hermione know what kind of Mage she is, so Lucius might not know that the quill would have "told" Hermione about Fazeem Noorta.  Now I'm wondering what kind of Mage this Noorta is.  A Taker, perhaps?  And Severus?  I can see aspects of him that make me think that he could be a Mender, or a Crafter, or a Shifter... or even a Middler like Hermione.  Is it possible for a Mage to be more than one kind? 

Thank you for another wonderful chapter, and once again I'm sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for your next update!

Beth

I'm not sure I'm entirely fond of your Severus. He seems a bit of a pig! He's very well written and IC, of course, but poor Hermione!

That iceberg is growing.  Draco has no subtlety.  I'm surprised he's managed to flourish in Slytherin.

Snape is an idiot...a little give at this point would help!

loveditasalways

MMM... Perhaps Hermione is the reason Fazeem Noorta is in danger.  If Lucius wants them both, maybe they need to be together to make his plan work.  Or maybe if he gets Hermione, he kills Fazeem?  Or maybe Fazeem is a "taker" and he is in danger from Hermione because he can take her power.  So many possibilities.I still think Severus' mage power is a "comforter."  He seems to do it a lot and it makes sense that Voldemort would have no use for it.  It makes me wonder if some of his bad temper doesn't stem from having a power that gets him nowhere.Hermione needs to take a "clear thinking/calming" potion.  It seems as if her hormones are running away with her, like a typical teenage girl.

Well, lUcius Malfoy has the nerve of a bad tooth, no doubt about that. Purchase Hermione? From whom?Hermione needs some kind of translation spell to be able to understand snarkspeech. She doesn't seem to get that the more he fusses, the more it means he cares:)This is a TERRIFIC story!Warm regards,Fizzabella

WOW, amazing! And you've received so many to-the-point reviews already, what can I add? You have a marvellous way with descriptions, Filch as a dandeleon from hell... Hm, it should take two Dodos to breed, shouldn't it? I also failed with anagrams... Do Mages have secondary names? Maybe F&G have an idea? My warmest thanks for another great chapter!

oh this is brilliant and sooooo intriguing! I must say I am pleased how the things are going - the pace is perfect. Details are perfect. Weasley twins are beyond perfection - "Hermione, you have your arse crack directly over the borderline between Muggles and Wizards." - this made my day, no, the whole week!!!!! :)I must hunt a Thesaurus because I seriously am starting to lack synonims of the words "perfect", "brilliant", "amazing", etc. :D I also hope you have more luck with this story here than in the previous place.

“Oh, I don’t know,” he answered lightly and gave her a reptilian grin. “Anything.”

Oh, no, that is so not a good promise to make, Hermione. Who knows what he might want in payment.

Oh I have just re-discovered this and am so excited. I don't know how I lost track of it but now am playing catch up.I realy loved Venla, she reminds me a bit of Luna. And in my head I picture her like Carol Kane's Character Simka, Latka's wife, on the old TV show Taxi (really dating myself here. but she was hilarious).I really liked the part when Hermione realizes that Severus was so upset because, he thought something had gone terribly wrong he had no control over the situation, nor any way to protect her.

lol, i love the dodo! <3 does she keep it? that would be awesome =Das usual, i look forward  to the next one =)

thanks for another great chapter. Teacher and student don't yet understand each other, but the problem in this is purely Hermione's to bear. How convenient for Snape that he can achieve his goal with his standard snarkiness. Heaven forbid he'd have to adjust his behaviour!I sincerely hope that your forests are cooling down now and the firefighters get their deserved rest. At least here in FIN it is now raining. Not enough agains the horrible blazes you had, but a relief nevertheless.

Sooo, if Hermione is a Middler-Mage, is then Albus a Meddler-Mage?

Poor Severus, always in a position where he cleasn up someone else's mess. No wonder he's such a pain in the neck.
Hermione best takes advantage also of the twins, even if their mage-kind is rather diametrical to her own.

Hmm, oletko suomalainen? En ole ihan varma.

Oh, yes, the Finnish language contains lots of ä, ö, and ü/y sounds.

Venla is a nice, old Finnish name and she is very well portrayed. She simply doesn't know of any hierarchy she might overstep.

Indeed Fins tend to omit words in English sentences, but not the verbs, certainly not auxiliaries. They don't have articles or prepositions in their (mindbogglinly hard to learn :) language. So they see far too little need in them also in other languages.
Finglish sentence often is endless adjectives and nouns chain. You get my idea?

I think this exercise was a necessary one, but it was one that would have scared the bejeezus out of me, too.  I understand that it would have felt cruel to Hermione, but there is nothing like raw fear to imprint a lesson that will never be forgotten... with the added benefit that she was able to get rid of the imbalance in her magical energy and learn the need to be more original in her thinking.  There is trust, and then there is trust... and Hermione needs to trust herself more.

I noticed that Professor Snape remarked that she should look around and see "the amount of magic you had pent up. And its destructive force."  Apparently the Forest could mute her destructive release of magic into utterly harmless and very lovely leaves, grasses, and flowers, and one very ugly but affectionate magical Dodo.  I smiled at Snape's reaction to her cooing and caressing the bird, but when the bird followed them back to the castle, I laughed out loud.  Somehow I think this Dodo is going to be very important in the future regardless of Severus' opinion.  Perhaps he needs to trust Hermione's instinct in this matter.

Thanks for another entertaining chapter!Beth

Hermione's a little slow on the uptake sometimes, but she's getting there.  (You'd think she'd be used to her professor's unique teaching style.)  Another wonderful chapter.  The emotions and senses that Hermione was experienceing were very well written.  I felt like I was experienceing them too.  Looking forward to the next chapter indeed.  (And possible further Dodo fun.)

She is too trusting, so that is a good thing that he's teaching her to do something else.

That ordeal sounded utterly terrifying!I went with some friends into a Haunted House (an amusement place with a cover charge) last week and the scariest part was when it was totally black inside and we had to feel our way along. Things were hanging from the ceiling that brushed against our faces. Pretty creepy, even though we knew for sure that nothing in there would hurt us. So I know what she was feeling. Our imaginations are way more terrifying than real life 99% of the time.

I love the thought of what Hermione's magical overflow created.

Flowers and a dodo.  LOL.  Wonder what Snape would have produced? :)

I'm very much enjoying this story so far. I don't tend to like starting stories that are not finished, because I get way too into them only to have them left hanging. I sincerely hope you will continue posting this one, as I broke my rule for not reading incomplete stories and started this one. (I couldn't help taking a peek, and once I'd started, I was hooked!)

WOW! You spared me a long intro, but I get to know Hermione and her problem really well. And here I am right in the thick after just one chapter.
The side effect is that I haven't much patience for a review. I have to read on!!

Ooh, very exciting! I wonder what he's going to take her to see =DI can't wait till the next chapter!