They finally used each other's names!  And you wrote is so beautifully!  That Dumbledore...  I mean, it's an excellent cliffie, but with both Severus and Hermione to figure out a way around the problem, Dumbledore and Voldemort don't stand a chance!

Oh please, don't let Hermione start to fear him now??? I don't think my heart could take it, if she thought he means to go through with it.Wow, what a gripping story and what a gripping chapter:)Fizzabella

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. . . what shall he do? Oh. . . now I'm so worried. . . but he won't kill her! He can't! Hermione dead. . . I. . . just no. It won't happen. I know it won't.Anyway, this story is as amazingly, emotionally, deliciously good, and I await the next chapter with no little impatience.Thank you so much.~Katie

What a great chapter!  I'm all agog to find out what happened to Slytherin's bed...

Dumbledore's an idiot, he can't see what's right in front of him. Severus is not going to kill Hermione, no matter who tells him to.

Oh. Wow. That was just -- fantastic. I can think of no better word to describe this chapter.

*!pounces!*You updated!!! I'm glad she didn't get broth, and she did get smex. Cuz that's love, right there! Loved that whole scene, and the fact that she gets giggly. Because of course I'm believing it was the healing potion that did it. Yeah, of course it was. Uh-huh. Couldn't possibly be the fact that he practically-almost-but-not-quite-it-was-there-in-the-subtext said he loves her. No. Couldn't be that. (AAwwwww!! Squee!)

Poor Severus, though. Now he's got two masters telling him to kill her. Which, psh! Not gonna happen. You can't fool me. However, I have to theories that I would like your input on. The first has to do with a bezoar and Dobby, or perhaps one of the boys, or even Ginny. Or Crookshanks as he is by no means your usual housecat. Do you see where I'm going with this? Am I close?

The second has nothing to do with the poisoning and is simply a question of Hermione's advanced powers. She seems to have gained her new level of magical power only after she married Severus, he soul mate. This would seem to suggest that exposure to him has unlocked a part of herself previously kept in check or simply that she was unable to access on her own. Now the issue of her not manifesting power until she was already accepted at Hogwarts makes me wonder--what if it was not so much an issue of permission as it was one of proximity? Could it be that the day she and her parents went to Diagon Alley to get her supplies a certain potions master was also there? Could even a brief moment of exposure finally have allowed her to channel her tardy magic?I'm assuming that this is why Hermione wanted the book on early childhood magic. Or at least one of the reasons since I'm also assuming that her interest in soul mates and the pensieve had as much to do with her and Sev as it did with the Horcruxes.

He absolutely cannot kill her!!! Please find a way around it. I think Dumbledore is overestimating Voldemort. He thinks that all his Death Eaters are unswervingly loyal to him and therefore would never think that Severus would use a potion to mimic death.

Wow...that was the best chapter yet. Absolutely amazing.

Way to go, Hermione! Aw, darn, I want a Snape to myself...*sighs*. He's in for a rollercoaster with her, isn't he?

"My darling boy" !!!!! Oh, I giggled like a mad woman when I read that! You are bloddy brilliant!

*lol*I'll love to see how this is going to continue...

Wow, great chapter with a good arguement between Albus and Severus.  I wonder what he has planned?

"My—my mind told me you weren't. And my—my heart told me you weren't. But some other part of me was very afraid that you might be."That line just screams of honesty. Its that niggling little voice in the back that makes us doubt what we should not.

Gosh this chapter was hard to read. It hurt my heart! All the suffering and pain needed for their relationship. Ahhhhhh Do you promise me a happy ending post voldy defeat? Promise?

Alright I will forgive Albus for his wretched behavior at the Order meeting but I am still pissed about it.

Ah well yes. There are other satisfying things that are not stricktly speaking intercourse. Take that Percy!

This is my most favorite line of the chapter "Hell, he'd absorb her straight into his skin if he could" It is so moving and powerful! Will he confess to Hermione her upcoming death?

"You've got to stop making it so obvious that you worship the ground that damn wizard walks on." Your Hooch cracks me up every damn time she opens her mouth!As always the conversations with Voldy were chilling. Snape has secured Hermione's saftey as her

 Executioner.

Some how knowing it is Percy who is feeding the sordid details of their sex life makes it even more icky.

I liked Bella all glamored up. I was glad Severus was able to take her down a peg with his questioning. 10 points to your house for an excellent witchy name: Pendragon Parkinson. Don't hate me but I do adore a drunken, smoking Snape. Somehow that just fits him.

Love this story!! I think I know what Hermione is up to with the bed but can't be sure...can't wait to find out!!Great story!

Love this chapter...Love the fact that Hermione doesn't care who hears a howler...she really lets them have it...way to go!!!

Damn, this one snuck past me while my router was down, but at least I've caught it now. Still a bit confused as t what she was doing, but patience will e rewarded, I hope. Great chappy, Hermione is not the world's best patient, is she? Fancy discharging herself A.M.A., lets hope she has a few drama free hours in which to recouperate, not oo long though, we need more drama, intrigue and suspense. Hopefully I'll catch the next update!

I am glad that the dark poison was removed and that Hermione is basically all better. I wonder if the poison would have been removed if she had kissed Severus. Or would it have spread to him? It seemed strange that she had a desire to kiss him, but that could just be her normal desire for him.Hopefully we'll learn why the bed attacked Hermione and not the others. It's not like they all were Slytherins, purebloods, or Death Eaters.

I love this! Can I gush anymore? I nearly had a heart attack when I read" Well, that was borderline psychotic." It made me laugh so hard that I had to stop reading for a while. I can't wait to finish each and every chapter.