Very interesting. Good, mysterious, intriguing. But you are leaving me hanging in mid air again!  Help! More PLEASE!

Interesting - what kind of potion did he give her - this has me worried a little. I cannot wait for the next chapter - what a cliffie to hang on the end.

I refuse to believe he would poison her. He is protecting her - please I hope he is protecting her with some potion. And what was up with the book he checked out?Again, wonderful chapter.Livvy

What potion did he brew?  We know that he does not plan to kill her yet, he feeds her a potion without her conscious knowledge.  One thing it speaks volumes of her trust in him.  I think if anyone else had tried to do that she would have come awake hexing and asking questions later.  Did he perhaps brew a potion to abort a pregnancy that they are not sure exists?  Well done. Irish

Very cool chapter - Severus is just so cool and different. (I'd say indifferent but without the 'in') Still he's so furstrating  - and yet so wonderfully in chatacter. The scene of him entering Madam Malkin's to buy Hermione robes was hillarious! But the clifie - that potion? Oooh update soon, I gotta know what that potion is!

Now, what was that all about?? A birthday surprise? Or something else interely? I feel like I can't keep up with all the secret projects, so can you please put the cards on the table soon, at least some of them?But I loved this chapter and I really like the way their relationship is going.Update soon!!!! PLEASE!gab

I'm still doing my whole 'reading-in-the-queue' thang, but I thought I'd drop by and say I'm still really enjoying it. Just one question, though: at one point, Hermione was researching their Ministry rings with a view to countering the magic so they could have sex whenever they wanted, right? Did I miss the part where something happened with that or is it still to come? Or did I maybe imagine it?! LOL

Author's Response: Yet to come!  And thank you!

Curse you for turning me into a giddy FanGirl.  It took every ounce of dignity I own to contain a gigantic SQUEEE at that last line.  Please please please tell me that's a quote from a really sappy movie or something and that you didn't write that.  And by all that whining I really mean, "nice job. Again." --H

I wonder how Severus is going to respond to Hermione's statement. It seems that she believes they're soulmates. Is this information what she wrote down on the board, or did she write down other things? I'm curious what she doesn't want him to know about. I'm glad that they seemed to work out their differences on her dropping her classes. There will still probably be some arguments, but at least the topic is settled.

50 virtual chocolate fudge brownie points to you just because of lines like Severus calling himself a "shining presence"  and your having Hermione lump Severus along with Ron and Harry as "horses' arses", a term which very aply describes all three sometimes.  Nobody stands up to Snape as entertainingly as Hermione can.  Brava author & brava Girl!!!

Very very thoughful of her HoH in many ways. I'm glad to see that McG hasn't really hardened her heart towards Hermione and still really cares about her--just disapproving in her choice of spouse.  *shrug* (can't please everyone!)  So the RC's all all hung-up on propriety? bah. How Victorian. Now to see how Severus takes the news!

Rock ON!!  You seriously just keep getting better and better.

With Ms Figg gone (but not forgotten), you've become my newest addiction.  And that's quite a compliment.... now then... ahem... chapter 45 isn't going to write itself you know.  Taps foot.  Checks watch.  Refreshes page.  

Again.

"Because our story will have a happy ending..."

Oh man I hope so!!!

Beautifully written as always.

oh ho!!  and how is severus going to take that !??!!  and isn't that what we'd all like.  thanks so much and i await the next chapter semi-patiently.

"When I realized that not controlling meant you wouldn't touch me," she said. "Now, sit down and reward me.""You have Ravenclaws to humiliate and Hufflepuffs to bring to tears. Stop acting like a lovesick schoolboy and go do your job."I absolutely adore these two lines. It shows how much she has become like Severus. Simply brilliant.

Oh my, I can't even imagine how Severus is going to react to that theory.

Brilliant chapter but need more.

Awww, that was a tender ending. I especially liked the symbolic way she let all her hair loose from its confines.

"Let go of me, Severus Snape, before I hex your bollocks off!"

Go, Hermione, go! She's really starting to come into her own. The balance is shifting and it's becoming more equal between them. She's taking him on and doing a splendid job!

Livvy

I love the idea that the kisses are how their souls touch.There was a movie (not sure which one) that had a line about a kiss is sharing a bit of your soul with someone. It is a beautiful thought.

If she were a cat, she'd be purring adorably, just the way our cat snuggles up to me & my partner @ bedtime.  They argued, yes, but looks like they made up.  And they did it adorably. 

And you end the chapter with that little bomb? AARRHH. Headdesk.

:)  Destined to be together.  Indeed.  keep up the good work! 

I love how you portray Hermione's strength in this story, how she never truly backs down from Severus. And with him, you capture his personality so perfectly in dialogue that it leaves me speechless; hence, the absence of a lot of reviews from me. (Sorry!) I love this story, and cannot wait until you update again!

I like the idea of souls waiting to kiss.  But this is all so sweet and lovely and the outside world sucks big time.  

Hi there!

I've been reading your story ever since you started but I never reviewed before.

I have to say that your Snape it's one of the most accurate ones I have encountered out there.

I enjoy this story maybe a bit too much. LOL!

And  I wait eagerly for each update.

You probably have been asked this before but I have to know. The comparative religion ideas? Did you research them for this or is it a hobbie of your own?

Anyway on to the chapter. It's just so frustrating how Severus just won't admit to care deeply for Hermione (at least not to her face). But then again if Severus wasn't frustrating then I probably wouldn't enjoy this story half as much.

So hopefully I'll be a devoted reviewer from now on. Hope to see another chapter soon. I can't WAIT to see the reaction that Snape has to th

e idea of him and Hermione being something as trite and cheesy (in his eyes) as "soul mates".

~Aby~

P.S. Your line in chapter 38 "Drowning"

"Merlin, these kisses—somewhere, constellations were born because of these kisses."

It's my all-time favorite line in a HP fic. And trust me I've read quite a few. ;P