Excellent story!  I am glad you had them spend some time apart but i think it was enough.  It might just be the sshg shipper in me but i think ron will be better off with Lavender.  The story is well written with complex emotions all over the place - great job!  I thought her response to finding out Snape was polyjuiced as ron was dead on.  Not only was he Dumbledore's killer but he was not ron.  it was very dramatic during the climactic battle scene and ron's capture.  Unfortunately for me that is where i ended last night.  I had to go through work waiting for the answers.  Actually as i had a bad day work-wise it was good to have something to anticipate.  Sorry for running on.  Thanks for writing a wonderful story.

Now Hermione knows what it's like to be touched ... by a REAL man. Good thing she won't tell the boys that part. Poor Ron. That would totally ruin his self-satisfication, wouldn't it.

The perfect end to a facinating story. I hope it is OK, but I always print your stories and keep them in folders (alphabetically). I always read them again and again. I am usually not strong enough to hold a book and the internet opens a whole new world. However, when I need to have a kip I take a chapter and have a read. That is why some of my reviews are several days past a posting because I have saved a precious chapter for when holding one page brings no pain. It may sound silly to others, but stories like the ones posted at TPP have entertained me, made me laugh, cry, feel anxious, etc. and helped to bring me out of a great depression when I first became disabled and had to retire. I don't know why I am saying so much here. I'm sorry about that. I'll just leave it at I am an avid reader and I admire your efforts. Jean.

I'm liking this a lot! I can tell we're in for a long ride... everything's so complicated!

Write On! 

Way to go writer and way to go Hermione and Severus. You were right this chapter was just perfect and I loved it.

Well she did not listed to McGonagall in the sense that she wrote Severus and ended it with Love. I cannot believe that she is even considering Ron - he may care for her but he is a hot head, unpredictable and not a very concerned lover. The are intellectual at polar ends of the scale - really what do they have other than friendship with Harry?

Well the dark lord is dead - Severus is captured - not good for him - since he was not a trader. Hermione stood up for Rabastan and claimed him as a friends and then she destroyed the object and got hurt - cannot wait for the next chapter to find out all the whats

Oh now - the order has come and they are going to take on them all - well at least it might save Ron and Draco but this is a total mess for them all.

Oh crap - Ron and Draco now trapped because Rabastan came - I cannot believe Severus would not just obivate Rabastan's memory and let the boys go - poor Hermione

Well they both admitted to wanting each other but Severus took the high road - I am shocked that he did - I do not know whether to be sad for him or proud of him. Hermione - dear lord Ron is nothing and she would never be happy with him - girl push him out of your mind

Well Rabastan could be a problem since he has seen the way they are looking at each other - cannot wait to see what you do about that - another good chapter

A little wine and Severus is all over her but at least he does not take the final plunge against her will but between the two of them - I think lust will get the better of them.

Okay - I think Severus is seriously considering having Hermione. I do not know how she would react to it since part of her heart is still with Ron. Oh a cliffie - what memory is Harry going to be seeing?

Well 2 orgasms with Severus and none with Ron - poor girl is all mixed up and then Severus saying you liked it - was he getting over his guilt or hers.

Well he protected her from discovery that the she made the Porykey - I wondered what Lucius and Narcissa will do to Draco once they discover that they portkeyed... interesting events

Severus is so cold - especially when he says he is not tempted to look. Poor Hermione in a shack surrounded by deatheaters - eh gad what a nightmare for her. The Carrows - shivers.

Crap - Severus planned for Rabastan to scare Hermione - he is playing everyone at the same time. I still question his loyality when he seems to have no problem using anyone as a means to his end...

Oh crap - the pretend sex scene between Hermione and Severus was just gross - but better alive than dead. I see know Severus is still loyal but he is always will be a dark man. What he said to Hermione was just harsh - when he compared her to Narcissa but thing is he had Narcissa and then never touched her again - interesting

His loyalities seem fishy to me since he brought Rabastan. Poor Hermione - I do not know whether to feel sorry for her or happy that she is with Severus.

Oh how cruel can Severus get - telling Hermione it was him that she was enjoying herself so much with instead of Ron - He can be such a git at times and others - he can be so much more. Cannot wait to see about the book information exchange

Oh how disappointing - Ron taking Hermione's virginity. I always saw Ron as a bumbling man with no sensuality and yep - he was that was when they finally did it - poor Hermione - cannot wait to see the Severus/Hermione interaction in the next chapter.

Well I am not sure Severus loyalities lie completely on the side of the light in this story. He is a right bastard to all and more of a what is best for me kind of guy - cannot wait to see what happens to them all

Ron was lucky that all he got was burned fingers - I have never liked the whole Ron and Hermione pairing so I am glad she stopped him from going farther. Severus is underestimating the trio and he has no respect for any of them which is a shame really because he does not know them.

Interesting chapter - sad though that Severus thought just because he could bully Hermione that it was okay. Shocked the trio caught him on the Mauraders Map - close call for Severus.

Well Narcissa has made her bed as the old proverb goes - this chapter was interesting but did not give any answers to the problems that will come -I do like the story though.