Thank you, glad you liked my alternative for 'the end'.

Thank you! I'm glad you found it funny!It was very, very clueless of Ron, even if he did have a little 'help' from Severus to make him do it...

Thanks, I'm pleased to hear it! Those Slytherin tactics were fun to write.

Thanks! The other POVs were fun to play around with, I'm glad you enjoyed them.

Thanks! As this was written as a gift, I can't claim credit for the idea- that came with the prompt.I found scheming!Severus difficult to write. Well, more difficult than my usual Severus.

oh i'm glad. i was secretly horrified that you had turned away from your other severus and i was ready to cry. but this is really good if the idea came as a prompt and you wrote it as a gift. it's usually very hard to respond to those situations compared to your own plot bunnies, but i think you've done an admirable job. i can't say with good conscience that it was the best story you've written but it was a cute stand-alone

Thanks, glad you enjoyed reading it again! Although quite a while since I wrote it, I do recall that writing those perspectives was fun.

Thank you! Poor books indeed. The fourth Unforgivable, burning books.

No offence to any R/Hr lovers out there, but I did read a convincing essay pointing to Ron and Hermione's behaviour around each other as pre-domestic violence warning signs, especially in HBP. I don't blame you for your little rant!Smooth!Snape is a joy to read, but I found a challenge to write.

I've nothing against Ron when he's nowhere near Hermione. Unfortunately for him, in canon he usually is in her vicinity. If Book 7 does end R/Hr, I think I'd prefer JKR to kill one of them before then- even if it's Hermione she offs.As for that potion, it seemed all the more fitting for Hermione to make it and Severus to administer it to the hapless Ron.As for the broom, what can I say? It'd be the least I'd have done in her place if my books were burned.

Perhaps she should have, but he needed to realise what was happening. Giving him concussion wouldn't have allowed that! Glad you thought so!

Nice smiley! Thanks for the compliment.

As this was a gift fic, I aimed to please. 'Mischief managed' seemed to fit this far better than any other alternative. I can't remember if I've seen any other fics use it before this- however much I'd like to claim credit for it, I may have read it elsewhere and even if that's not the case, it's used with the Marauder's Map in canon. I can't even claim the plot with this fic!

Thank you! It was enjoyable to write too, although Sneaky!Snape was a challenge for me to pull off.

Poor Hermione was doubtless in shock, or she'd have transfigured Ron into a broom and broken him. But Dumbledore was in the room too, so he'd probably have stopped her, although as he's presumably a bibliophile too he might have joined in.

Thanks, you're welcome.

Ron definitely deserved it! Poor thing is going to run screaming from any bookworm now, no doubt clutching his new broom.

A dodgy potion: two hours spent over a cauldron using several ingredients. A library of burning books: a bookworm's anguish. A broken broom: almost priceless. A night with true love (and hot sex): Slytherin manipulations of Gryffindors. Fellatio: hands stuck in bushy hair. Quidditch jock cowering as best mate's leg warmer: a healthy dose of fear. For everything else, there's Snape.Glad it tickled your fancy! Poor Ron- what can go wrong will go wrong for him.

Thanks for reviewing. I aimed to please. The different perspectives were largely to keep myself amused, but it's good to know that you liked them too.

It seemed to fit better than 'the end' or 'finite incantatum'. Snape definitely will find himself managed if Hermione ever finds out the part he played!