A very lovely ending for all concerned, kitty babies all settled in new homes, elves happy, with visitaion and a kitty baby of his own for Quirk, Luna and Ron on their honeymoon, the Christmas Rose Potion on it's way to healing many of the worst wounds of the war, and Severus and Hermione together and happy, as it should be. thank you for a lovely story.

What a sweet idea, to reenact that romantic moment. How in the world are they going to place the kitty babies, porr Quirk will miss them, and Holly too.

Go! Kitty Babys! Percy deserves everything he gets, poking his nose in where is's not wanted or needed. I'm wondering who Dumbledor has found to help Quirk take care of the kitty babys.

It's lovely to se them both so happy, and comfortablewith eachother. Quirk is so sweet, the way he looks after the kitties is priceless, he just has to get with Severus' program " is the Castle on fire" " are you bleeding" anything else is not an emergency.  

Ok, I have one teeny weeny itssy bitssy, bit of sympathy for Hermione, if anyone "forbids" my doing something, I do tend to do it anyway, just to prove I can, cutting off my nose to spite my face, in the process. That said, MY nose, MY face, I'm the one suffering, Hermione knows that she is making Severus suffer just as much as herself, I hope she will never do that again. I guess the missing element for the potion, was passion.

Does the "enchantment " not affect Hermione as it does Severus? it just feels like the only one suffering is Severus.

Love the bits of the Muggle world that get smuggled in (the suggestion that James Herriott is NOT a Muggle, and that Lockhart owes Martha Stewart big time!), and the kitty-babies, and the elf-love, and the success of the Christmas Rose brew, and the sweetness and life all 'round.  You are indeed a lucky wench, but we are lucky to have you (and, apparently, your whole household!) writing us a Christmas treat - thank you!

that "Detention?" line cracked me up. And I like that Sev was kind of confronted with his past, but not so much that it made this happy story into one of angst and sadness.

very sweet.

Well, I'm glad they've made up, or at least are in the process of making up - they seemed to get kind of over-worked up about what didn't seem like THAT big of a fight. I guess I can see Sev. getting really upset about the Prohibition thing since he was raised with those views, but for Hermione to spend five nights away from home was a bit extreme! Especially when Sev's what she's coming home to! :)

I only just read a review response you'd left saying that this story was a sequel to Hallowe'en Tail (sp?) so I had to look it up right away - loved the last one.And this one is starting out just a good! The "Wed. activities" line cracked me up at the beginning, and now I'm rather sad for Sev. Can't wait to read the rest!!

merry and merciful.  happy happy.  Thanks to you and your DH for the loverly story.  A good HG/SS shippy story is always a gift to a voracious reader like me.  Warmest wishes to you and yours.

Lovely ending to a good story. :)

Sweet chapter.  And poor Quirk.  Hermione's such the household diplomat (I am reminded of my parents, who were very much the intelligent curmudgeon and the intelligent extrovert--she smoothed things over for us and helped us treat Dad with respect even when he was grumpy).  I expect the kitties will become both more mysterious and of greater interest in coming chapters?  I just loving seeing your name on the email notices!  Makes my day!

LOL - Severus is so funny! Thanks for the update.

About the "mistake," I just figured she read about it someplace, ya know? No biggie.I was frustrated with this chapter, wanting Snape to tell Hermione to bugger off by the time she went to him for help and not for him. I think he's doing much to "change" and realizing what he's done wrong. I just hope Hermione realizes that running off to stay with someone else and not even Floo to say anything for nearly a week is terrible. Ah, well... anyway, at least they've made ammends here.

Splendid as usual. 

"what was that" is RIGHT.  I can't wait to read more; thank you for the update..

woo hoo excellent chapter.

will there be a discussion of whose passion was happening during the brewing between Penny and the guys?

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Patty 

I kind of feel sorry for Snape. It's not like Hermione didn't know how possessive he was about her (becoming jealous easy). I think she could have explained herself better instead of getting all worked up like a brat. Then I feel more sorry for him because he's suffering from that "loss" feeling due to that magic. Poor guy. I thought it was kind of cool that he'd sent her theory in for her, trying to help her get a job. You'd think she'd enjoy being near him as well from the way she talked in the other story. LOL. Women. I dunno. I kind of hope he stays angry with her for running off like a little bint and sleeping somewhere else. Maybe he could point out she's married now. Heh, as for him feeling like he's master, well, that's a lesson he'll have to learn I suppose. The old days have long gone.

I very much enjoyed this first installment of this story.  I'm looking forward to more.  I must say, I've really enjoyed your series tremendously.  Keep up the great storytelling!

oh boy.  this is a battle royal.  how can they mend the rift and all the shouting???

Nice start. Keep up the good work.

Hooray hooray hooray!  Can't wait for the next chapter! :)

Wonderful chapter!  Wonderful story!  I loved it!  And if you write more, I'll read that, too.  I'd love to see where the kitties each ended up; that could lead to some interesting and funny one-shots.  I like your Hermione and Severus very much.  The entire series has been great!