Lovely, thick and substantial details make reading your work more like a run than a walk, more like a day spent working in the garden than in the library.

Trust all is well in your world!

Cheers

Christina

I am enjoying this very much. I loved the description of the fitting of Snape's robes. I am barely holding myself back from suggesting you write some interleaving chapters. I am already distressed that it will be over in 11 chapters, but brevity is the soul of wit I guess.

I never thought about how a silencing spell might actually work. Interesting to imagine total absense of all sound. I toured a factory once and had to wear earplugs on the tour. The plant made aluminum cans. It was amazing. The sound of the dies crashing down on the sheet aluminum to pound out the shape of a seamless can was deafening. It went right through my entire body. Thus the need for the earplugs. But this combination of pounding and earplug hindered sense of hearing made all other everyday sounds dissapear completely. At one point in the process, finished cans were inspected with a laser light. If a can was deemed defective, it would be ejected from the assembly line into a large drum full of other defective cans. Under normal circumstances, one would hear a loud clatter as the can danced and settled with the others. But I observed the scene in "silence," and as a result, it all seemed to happen in slow-motion. A very strange experience. The phrase, "that's just wrong," comes to mind. I imagine that is what Severus felt in his silenced surroundings. I would have preferred the invasive call of the wireless as well.Sorry for such a ramble. I will always remember my tour of the can plant.And I will always enjoy your writing.

"Ooooh, a Lariope fic", says I. I knew it would be a treat, and it was. Glad to hear the next chapters will be coming fast and furious.

So Hermione is the Queen of the Universe (or at least Grimmauld Place), huh? This is good. Can't wait for the next chapter. ^_^

A beautiful and intriguing beginning. I love the premise of this story. And I can hardly wait to learn more about the Foundation and its far-reaching effects. Perhpas it will bring Hermione up a notch or two in Snape's eyes.

After reading the first chapter here, I hightailed it over to the exchange and read the whole amazing story there.The writing, as always, was top-notch, but what I enjoyed (and loved the most) are the characterisations and the details of Hermione`s work and crusades for justice.Everybody was written exceedingly well here, especially Neville, Pomona and Draco. Hermione, however, is simply fabulous! She is all I have ever wished she could be, and for that, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for writing a Hermione I could admire and adore unconditionally. Thank you.

Love it!

Why I am not surprised to find this story to be from you? *g* I'm all the more sorry now that I didn't review it on LJ, but I read it offline and never got around to going back for the reviews. And since I never ever so far have gotten an answer to a HGSS exchange story review, even long after the reveals, I kind of got lazy... *ahem*

Anyway, I really, reallyl enjoyed this story! So nicely hurt/comforty, and once again, so great charatcerizations wile using a new way to tell that neverending story between the Potions Master and the Knowitall. I'm just sad that I have read it already and haven't the nice anticipation of more chapters ahead of me ;o).

Author's Response: I'm very glad that you enjoyed the story!!

Lots of people have called it hurt/comforty, which is very funny to me, because I didn't expressly mean for it to be. But I guess everything I write is pretty hurt/comforty. :)

Thank you very much for stopping by to review!!!

xoxoxo

an interesting start, looking forward to see the other occupants and when Severus meets Hermione. well done chapter

Nice you are back. Killing time since the next chapter arrives... I love your way of writing xoxox

Excellent opening chapter, and the prompt looks very promising. I can't wait to read more and see where this new story will take our beloved Hermione and Severus. Awesome job you're doing. Update soon.

I am verrrry interested...lol

Awesome story. Love the great work you've done so far. The plot is fantastic, the setting great. Superb characters... can't wait for more!

An intriguing beginning, looking forward to more, thank you.

I am so exciting to see a new story from you.  I so loved Second Life.  Your writing is so beautiful and expressive.  I am looking forward to more. 

They are a bit of a bunch of misfits, aren't they?  :)

I did read this during the Exchange, and its all brilliant.  I was drawn in from the first chapter and I ate up every word. This world you have created with these characters we love is just beautiful.  I love that I get to enjoy it all over again :)Thanks

He can't cast a charm that only blocks out the sounds from her room on the wall that separates them?  

Poor big fat baby. Such a 13 year old brat he is. He must have stopped deveioping emotionally at 8th grade. Such anqst! It's very sad. I'm guessing (hoping) this story tells how he gets to finally grow out of that awkward tweenager stage of development.  I hope it is a positive experience for him. God knows he needs one. Silly boy. Just wait until he gets a crush on the girl next door!

 I wish he could have a look at Potter Puppet Pals on youtube. He needs to develope a sense of humor. I'd like to see his reaction to "Nevilles Birthday Party". 
Ron: "Professor, you smell funny!" Professor Snape: "You smell grreaaat!"

I guess Severus is going to have to learn a thing or two about getting along with others. (Sigh...)  Let's see, the 4 orphans would be Harry, Hermione, Neville (though he has parents they but, well you know.) and Luna? Draco has parents but, well you know about them too. Hermione's parents still in Austrailia?  We'll just have to see. Intriguing start!

I've read this all in a row on Saturday and it was the first story ever I downloaded and read on my brand new Kindle. I had to work, and instead I sat in my room and couldn't put the readed down until I finished it. SLogic's prompt, in itself, could lead toward comedy - Snape and Granger start to bark over who is going to use the toilet and when, and they will argue about who is stealing the toothpaste and then all of a sudden the quarrels would turn into attraction. On the contrary, you presented a very quiet story - even if there's a lot of dialogue, probably the impression I received was one of silence, as when the winter garden is preparing for the springtime.
I loved all the surrounding characters - Neville, of course, as well as the hints of Harry/Draco (at least, I interpreted it that way), the clerk at the store, Minerva in the very background. I loved that the discussions are intelligent - not academic, not strutting knowledge, not witty - but really adult. I loved the realistic sex. I loved how Snape did not go to the ceremony, and wasn't proud of the Order of Merlin. The ending is not exactly cheerful, but hopeful. Thanks for a great reading.

Wow. This was such an amazing fic. ScatteredLogic is pne lucky fangirl. I like the mollifying of snape over time, slowly, gradually, the way he stays in character and the way both him and Hermione hesitate a lot. And, like many people, I'm a sucker for happily ever after.

Wow, again.

Good for Severus and Hermione!!! Especially good for Severus! He has a home, a lover and a cause of his own choosing. Hermione needs him. She needs his knowledge of the wizarding world, she needs him to keep her grounded and his life experience. She will be more effective with Severus as a partner...and he has a Merlin First Class! Maybe he can sway the board of Govenors. Just kidding. But together I can see Severus and Hermione doing a great deal to make the world better on their terms.  It's time for Severus to decorate. Start with hanging the Augery picture and painting over the empty spots that held the house elf heads. Hang up a mission statement.  Hang up a bill of rights for those who find themselves in need of the foundation. Put a thesis on the wall regarding the treatment of magical creatures in the empty places. Invite a few elves to the live at the house to work with Kreature. He feels sorry for elfs with no family. He can have a cause too. He can help elfs without a family. The Augery can become a family that needs those elfs. Someone that loves them. With all this Severus and Hermione won't need any children. They are too busy for children. They can love their elfs. The elfs can be part of their legacy.  Instead of having a cottage industry, or maybe as well as, they should have an adopt an elf program. Magical families of good standing, regardless of their blood lines would be able to apply to invite elfs to join their family forever. The elf and the family can choose whether or not the elf gets paid. If the elf doesn't want to, they shouldn't have to. I wouldn't want to be paid to be a wonderful grandma. Hermione will understand with maturity. Weasely elfs would be happy little elfs. Luna would be a lovely elf mom. When students graduate from Hogwarts and get a profession and marry they should be asked to adopt an elf into their family. Every new mom should have a nanny elf.  Single people who can provide for their elf can also adopt an elf.  A new family tree should be written up for each new elf family with the elf's history added to the new family's tree.  Muggle borns would be connected to pureblood families by the elfs in their family tree. The purebloods don't have to like it. Each family should have a trust for the family elfs that don't want to be paid.  I haven't decided what to do with all those galleons that would accumulate over time, except that elfs could donate money to help other elfs or the families of elfs that find themselves in need of a grant. The House Elf Grant Foundation. The house elf would have to request the grant for their family from the foundation.  I think you have a sequal here, Miss Lariope!  Figure out a way to have the Adopt an Elf Family Tree Program and the House Elf Grant Foundation with lemons, that do not involve elfs, please. But a story isn't worth reading without some good sex, in my humble opinion. 

Happy New Year, indeed! My cat won't let me type more. 

Bless poor Arugs.  Dumbledore could be such a passive agressive bastard.  Was Peeves a Griffindore or something? Bless Kreature too. I hope he is feeling happy and that Hermione can find the happy medium when it comes to the elves. I can't remember.  Is this unrelieved sexual tension between Harry and Draco?