Whenever I'm browsing through a member's favorites list and I come upon this story, I can't not read the first chapter. It's so erotic and titillating.  This story will always be one of my revisited repeat indulgences. Like chocolate but sexier. 

I really enjoyed this story. thanks for sharing. Kelly :)

I have truly enjoyed this story multiple times. I have always said screw DH and I say for any author's muse who is bothered, Screw HPB!!! 

JR is not an extremely skilled story teller. She gave us wonderful characters to play with and a wonder plot bunny. She has a great imagination but not great story telling prowess.

I have been a SciFi freak for 30 years. No sane author kills off so many major characters in an untimely death as she did. I can tell you the series I have never bothered to finish because the plot just got darker and more depressing the longer it went and I finally ended up despising them. I never finished the Sword of Shanara series nor the Wheel of Time past the first few books. Their authors started out with good ideas that they simply could not sustain. 

I would have never finished the HP series if I hadn't had fan fiction to comfort me through the horrible story telling past The Order of the Pheonix.  Huzzah for Fanfiction writers!

I figure Severus and Hermione were never cannon, so why does anything else we play with of hers need to be.

Thanks for the toys JR but in the end, you suck. Sorry, but it's true. 

Bless you for the Petulant Poetess and all that it means to so many notsosaintly!  You absolutely Rock!

Severus and Hermione are being very brave, and I admire their ablility to persevere through so much adversity and physical pain. Severus is of course especailly heroic in his ability to will himself to do what must be done when he is terrified and knows he will endure toruture.  I am surprised however, at Lucius' magical power to turn Hogwarts into a portkey. He never seems to be a particularly powerful wizard most of the time. Mostly, he ususally seems sly and able to use charm and money to influence others for his benefit. I hope after this the ministry hires Hermione to find a way to have the magical ability to reverse portkeys they have liciensed before they can be activated when necessary for security purposes. If anyone could do it, it would be her. Well, on with the battle. I am enjoying your story tremendously. 

Can you tell me what it is about Clearwater that holds Voldemort so smitten? 
I'm sure there are any number of crazy bitches, like Belatrix who would love to be his lover. What could Miss Clearwater possible have that he wants?
Does he feel that all the other HO's don't really love him for himself but only for his power, or they only love him for the power that he can bestow on them?
But Miss Clearwater actually thinks he's pretty. Maybe She truely loves his scaley skin against her body. Maybe she loves the way he smells. And she wants to be the mother of his children?
She loves Tom perhaps? Maybe she is much more powerfull then we know and he admires her. I'd really like to know why it is she's the girl for him. Does she play kinky games just the way he likes or is it that she is truely evil and he finds her a kindred soul. 
Let me know if you can what it is that makes Tom appear to acutally care for or have feelings for Miss Clearwater.

I do think they should have let Harry in on this sooner. He'll be all alone in that house, unless Ron's back. And a lot regrets to worry about and people to squar things with and he won't have Hermione to mother him. No one will because they can't tell anyone else. Let's see, Gennie should be graduated by now. Do you mean to tell me that Harry is still a vergin? Is Genny still underage?  He'll be thinking about the real possibility he won't have the chance to live before he dies.    
Gennie better get on the ball and make the first move before Harry decides it would be wrong to lead Gennie on, by being with here and tell her how much he loves her, then go off and get himself killed.

I can't imagine what he found out. I can't imagine Hermione not wanting to know more and I also can't imagine that he didn't have to report to Dumbledore before he got to sleep for the night. Maybe Hermione just didn't want to upset Severus and figured she'd find out when he reports to Albus. I wonder how long Miss Clearwater has been with Voldemort?  It can't have been terribly long or Severus would already be dead. Why does she keep her trysts with Voldebutt in a pensive? Is is so she can relive them or to keep them secret. Is that how Severus and Albus have never suspected her? Or is she just so seemingly innocent that they have never tried to see her toughts. I suppose there's no accounting for taste, first Percy then Voldemort, yuk!  Have you seen his finger nails? What female would allow those nasty things anywhere near her curly sex!  And so Severus has done all of this suffering for nothing? Damn! I hope Clearwater pays for her crimes.

Hee hee hee, poor little Harry. He'll have to perform a disinfecting charm before he can ever use his kitchen again. I'm so happy for Severus and Hermione. I hope this works. When this is over, Hermione will be the luckiest woman on earth!

Aw, Damn it! I don't Severus to go back there. I don't remember for sure, but the tone of the story so far gives me hope that nothing horrible will happen to Severus and they will be sucessful. I don't remember feeling sad at the end of this story. I wouldn't have wanted to read it again if it had. I don't like sad stories. These stories are my escape. Real life is sad enough. So far, I am having a wonderful time! 

Yeh! Dumbledore isn't sending Severus back to the dark lord.  Yeh! Harry almost choked on his tea! Just kidding. Yeh! Hermione and Severus are going to do more shagging! Not kidding. And I'm sure once Molly stops feeling embarrassed she'll smile for them.

I'd wondered if either of them had thought to put a silencing charm on the room last night. Hopefully, Dumbledore won't make Severus go back. I wonder who eles might have heard their tryst. If Albus heard them he should have warned them that others may have as well. I we'll see at breakfast.

The soothing hands is a wonderful plot tool. Your description of their love making is full of lust, and love and joy.  What a joyful surprise for Hermione. And of course, Severus can now have the completion and love he is owed by the cruelty of his life and two handlers. I actually read this story a long time ago and have been looking for it.  I'm so glad to have found it again! I don't remember the rest. One small benefit of short term memory problems.  Old stories become new again. I hope Hermione and Severus can free Severus from Dumbledore and Voldemort.  If I were Hermione I'd be ready to duel Albus if he tried to send Severus back. Only, since he's stronger than she is I think it fair that she not give him any warning. I'm not against a hex in the back to the head under the cirmcumstances. That would be kind of funny actually.  Hermione and Dumbledore in a duel over Severus. 

Lovely story!

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Well done!

Guh!  I do not know how many times I have read this fic.  This first chapter is just absolute perfection.  I come back to it time and time again when I need to experience the true beauty of hurt/comfort.  I am a true believer in the miracles of the healing touch.  I am at a loss to describe how wonderful this story is and how fabulously you have portrayed the healing touch with your words.

wow i really loved this fic.. great job and i honestly love the way you have written hermione, severus and all of the others great job!!!!

Great story!

Hello! I am just here doing a bit of background reading for a quiz I am working on, Removing the mark. ))))whistles innocently.

Truly believe that 5 stars are not enough for this story.Tamara

You know how to keep people in suspense.  Lovely.  I love suspense books too.    Tamara

OK How much Polyjuice potion did they allow him?  lolIt's freaking me out to think of that old man going around getting other people's hairs so he can do <stuff> to their bodies while using the potion.  Tamara

Clearwater is sick.I take it that when Voldie-butt calls his followers, he calls all of them at the same time, right? 

Tamara

Oh please like we care about Percy.  That is the one Weasley that I do not want to see in a sex story.  Tamara

While reading this chapter something came to mind.  Do they ever get to play with the Polyjuice potion?   Tamara

You are such an awesome smut writer.  I love the whole feel of this chapter.   Tamara