AAAK!  You can't stop there!!!!  Well, obviously you can, but YOU SHOULDN'T!  It's just pure evil. 

Whoa.  Entrancing.  I almost forgot to stop and review! 

sniffy!!omgosh!! this is the only story that has me near tears at the end of every chapter!!  aww!! wonderful!!! I adored the way Snape fought so desperatly to save her... The passage:That place—that place behind his heart—it was aching, and he thought if he looked there, he might see blood weeping from deep within him.just killed me.... aww!! it was incredible!! I would love if i had that same effect on a guy...lol....your story is a masterpiece!!! aww!

Why can't you leave a response to a response at OWL?  That's why I love TPP (despite the comma Nazis).  "That about sums it up" ? Excuse me? You have some spanin to do Lucy!

First chapter alone has me intrigued!!

ahhh update!! Ive been waiting forever it seems for this story! GREAT GREAT GREAT read!

I'm glad Lucius' word was trustful. For a moment I feared that if he found her he would do something horrible to her.
I know that doesn't mean she's safe now. On the contrary if severus can't manage to save her both of them are lost. So I will pray very hard all Gods and YOU especially to make them a happy future (alive and NOT in jail please) because after what they'd been through, they just fucking deserve it (sorry for the harsh language).

I'm so glad Hermione put Dumbledore right in his place. And he's lucky she didn't have her wand or her magic because he would have been seriously injured considering Hermione's state at the moment.
Now I can only hope that Severus will regain his senses soon enough and won't be distracted by Her presence on the battlefield.

OMG I'm so ashamed to not have read this before. I knew I was making a huge mistake. You are the queen of drama. Te only thing that make me feel better is that I have two more chapters to go before I'll be frustrated again. And if I'm lucky maybe you'll post another before I'm finished catching up. *hope fervently*

wow...  i am amazed with this chapter.. i loved it!!!!!!!!I don´t want it to end!!! But i want to know what the baby will be like!

have been on my 3rd or maybe 4th reread and finally decided to go to your blog and have thank goodnessput myself out of my misery about when if there will be more. i also then enjoyed reading all the reviews! and i still think 'darling boy' is just the best of the best of the best HG/SS story ever... no pressure to finish and post. have even regisered at OWL as u seem to think it will be available there first...u are very clever.....so looking forward to those last chapters...well done

fucking hell she is pregnant.he gave her his magic in a different way then the last time!!! indeed!!you are so full of wonders.and ideas beyond imagination.she is alive. and he has his sarcasm back. and his wife. and his child. "thats what houselfes are for". I laughed out loud at this one. pure relieve from all the tension and suspense you held before us.Hermione is doing really well.they definitely have to write their story down. because now has happened what Hermione had anticipated. oh no, they don't have to write the story. you did.

this chaper lasted a lifetime.breathtaking and despair dripping out of every pore of poor old Severus. His potions failed, his care and caress failed. he even went to the cathedral. I'm astonished.did it do any good? I couln't read it out. and then the poison and the darkness. hm. fascinationg. what made her come back from her coma?

oh my!! this battle description was very vivid.Bringing in the houselfs to retrieve the dead bodies and getting hermione on the battle field. great.the battle has started and Hermione is wandless and without magic. No clearer, more ironic, painful picture of vulnerability could have been drawn.Did Malfoy order Draco to kill Hermione or to safe Hermione? Think it must have been the first, he just said the last to Harry to look like one of the good side. What did Bella say: "Very Malfoy" What did the curse Confringo do again? this poor girl really fought with all her heart and all her might.This repetitiously "he needs me" feels like an incantation that kept her going, kept her alife. most brilliant was the look inside Snape and what was going on withim hin. The battle inside him. And finally he could see and he could understand. took him a while I dare say. But at the right moment, he found out, what it was, that bound him to his girl. no vow, no, no promis not to be harmed. no. what one loves.tragic ending. I can only agree with the Weasley :These Aurors only arrive when it is save to show up. when it is over. just to do the next harm. grrrr. hex them please, will you?And what was this appearance of Dumbledore?

yes girl, speak up before Dumbledore!! good speech indeed!Severus Imperioused!! how ironic is that!! and that voldy could offer peace, who would have thought of that.but the curse erades ones own will and that seems to produce peace. but the price! grr.when does such a curse end? he can fight it, I hope?and what happened to Bella? healed herself, my foot.And Lucius is not bound by the vow but just by his word. To whose advantage is that?Best line was Hermiones ; today they will meet again and never be parted again. Which could also mean today they will die.o-olet's see.thrilling!

Hermione left to instincts. Lets hope it does her good.this dream-ghost-half-manifestation was a sensation.and her reassurance, we will be safe. yes. she can manage everything.show down in Le Grance vine cellar!! an almost antique gun against pureblood-magical powers. it is an irony,  fun and  priceless.severus will be dead proud I would say. and he has the reassurance he needed, she is well. he will be sulking that his enemy found his girl where he couldn't trace her. well.and Hermione has the input about the latest development. or say she has some information to chew at. and nothing to defend herself. no gun no magic no wand no nothing. you don't make it to easy for her, you beasty author!  but you were kind enough to find her a way to apparate. well done.

"they would have a someday" hermione, your word in gods ears.the way sev treats his Dark Lord surprise of a loving father at the dinner table is priceless. post -adolesssscence, my foot! *lol*an oath to him, poor severus! no wonder he threw up.showing us these two ways of Hermione here writing one letter, one frantic the other so collected and to the point was very fine to read, I love such details.oh no! now that Bella is on the run his calculation of being safe by the vow all deatheaters have to do to him is gone down the drain. oh thanks. you have your turns and I shiver again. *grrrr*

uproar!!how did you do this!why did you make him his son?astounding.and this idea with binding them together, so when he dies, both die and the other way round. that is tragic, and touching and unique magic.but he has to kneel before this monster, and call him father. please, say this is not true. *shiver*

heart - ripping!!Did he really lose his heart."What good was a soul when the heart was missing" pure desperation.This is most extraodinary. the cards are completely new mixed. the dark lord knows everything about the "light" side. and Dumbledores plans, reding everything in Severus' shattered mind. And he didn't kill him because of what? he needs him still?he has feelings?I'm shocked. What is displaying in front of me, I can not read in it.why is he bleeing? because his soul is ripped apart?this together with Hermiones contiuned prayers add a very religious, mystical dimension to this story. you web it into it. and it fits so well.

"not now, not here."she has to brace herself. oh my.And to turn Luna into a confident. Good choice.And now she broke her wand, and dissolved the marriage?? she is gone`?? you are a mysterie yourself, I must say. your turns and ideas are unique.

The odl master is no longer in control of the reigns.sounds like he was sulking that it wasn't on him to die, to be killed but on pure Hermione. who really didn't ask for it.did she hear the verdict?Dumbledore really commands Severus to kill Hermione, not to mock it like the monk and Julia for the world but not for Romeo. oh grief!! this insane old man

I didn't get to this story when you first started writing it, but after a while I caved in to the pimping over at WIKTT and I'm glad I did.  A fantastic story!  I love what you've done with Hermione's backstory and what you've done with Snape's backstory - I have never seen that done before and I feel like you've made it acceptable - artistically profitable - to deviate from canon.  I loved the way you described Heromine's period - I know, of all the things to zero in on - but I can relate to it.  I very rarely say this, but yours was a story that I could go on reading forever - and I really mean that.  Thanks so much for posting your wonderful story - it was epic and I look forward to everything else you've written ad will write. 

I enjoy this story so much.  It's beautifully written, and inspires your readers in the ways of love.Now, if only I could stop crying when I read this story!

I have finally stopped myself long enought to make a small review/reply before I go on to the next chapter. I have to tell you, normally I do't read unfinished work, especially work this long because I'm afriad its going to be left unfinished. (I've had one do that to me and it just broke my heart lol. I still want an ending for that story). I came upon your story yesterday afternoon and finally put it down at 6am this morning. Went to bed. Woke up. Am here I am reading again. You have done massively wonderful things in this story. I have to admit, at first I didn't like how Hermione was recieved. I didn't like how she seemed so lacking in so many ways, it just wasn't Hermione to me. The more I have read, the more things are fitting into the Hermione we know, and not some OC charrie, which I must admit, I'd not be reading this far if I still felt that way. You've done such wonderful woke. I'm just really blown away. I don't know what else to say. But you do have yourself a reader. Thank you so much for your story. I'm loving it.

What a lovely man Severus is!  The way he cared for Hermione just melted my heart.  She was so tormented by the bad dream she'd had that she was certain that she had become "contaminated" with the blood of that evil Death Eater witch, Bellatrix Lestrange.Hermione was so upset by the scars Bella had torn her chest open with that she did not want even her husband to see or touch them.   But Severus was able to break through her fears:His face was a contrast of light and shadow made alive by flickering candle light, his eyes closed. Slowly he opened them. "Don't deny me this, too."I could understand Hermione's fears that somehow Bellatrix might have been able to exact one last measure of torment upon her.  But Severus' gentle ministrations and heartfelt reassurances brought her the to a place of security and realization that no such calamity had befallen her.  It was particularly telling of their nervousness visiting Hermione's parents that neither of them wore gloves because they needed to be able to touch each other skin-to-skin.At The Grange, when Sir Alistair had said his little piece at being shocked that his daughter was pregnant, Severus took it all in hand and issued a profound statement of his own about he thought of Sir Alistair's world: 

"...we are bound by more than you can ever understand, and it all began with the traditions she loves, your traditions, your Muggle vows which I took most unknowingly and unwillingly. Your world means nothing to me. Your god, less than nothing. But your daughter—" He broke off, then forced himself to continue. "She is my goddess."And that seemed to put the matter out of reach of further discussion.  Good for Severus!

"Well," her father muttered, clearing his throat suspiciously, "he should have said so sooner. It would have saved us all a lot of bother."Sir Ali's admission of Lady Granger's two miscarriages during their visit to the wine cellar seemed to soften Severus' feelings toward Sir Alistair's comments on the Wizarding world.  And on their return to the drawing room, they felt the need to touch again:

"...then she was darting across the Aubusson rug to his side, this time not content to twine fingers but instead, rubbing her palm against his to increase the connection, and he felt her soft sigh match his. The scene when they were "entertaining the hounds" and opening gifts was so believable and funny that I had to laugh.  His thoughtful gift of a new wand for his wife was the perfect thing!  I liked very much that "Your wand had a twin"The Midnight Mass became an uncomfortable time for Severus when he began to think of his own father's childhood and how Tom Riddle would have known the songs and the service Severus was now witnessing.Just in the nick of time Hermione, whispered something to her mother and pulled her husband from the their pew and down to the Crypt.  She had her own special gift for him... a wedding ring that had belonged to her grandfather:

Staring into his eyes, she slipped the ring over his fingertip and then, sliding it slowly down his finger, said, "With this Ring I thee wed." And as it passed over his first knuckle, "With my Body I thee worship." And as it slid home, "And with all my worldly Goods I thee endow."

In the dark, she was his light. In the crypt of the Muggle god, she was his goddess. In the depths of his despair, she was his hope.

This chapter was wonderful and touching and full of hope!  So very well done, my dear.It makes me sad to know that CoMC is coming to an end, but the love story you have written is so beautiful (and has  taken root in my soul) that I will carry it with me in my heart for years to come.  Thank you,Beth