GRUESOME CLIFFIE!!!Its 1 a.m. and I need sleep!grrrrrrr((still loving this!))

Such a lecture-like way of telling him that they're soul mates.  Poor Hermione!!! 

This ch almost made me cry.The unfairness of it all ...

Oh, the tension!!!!!You *do* know how hooked I am on this fic, right??

This chapter is entirely too sad ... and much too real.Nicely done :))

Good for Severus!  Recognizing her status as an independent adult.  Now that they have obfuscated their conjugal activities from the Ministry, they can enjoy each other in as much peace as they can manage, which will doubtless be not very much.I'm rationing out the updates of my favorite WIPs as treats for making progress on my own fic.  Some days, it's the only way I get anything done.  ;)

Mia,This has to be one of the best stories I have ever read! I have read quite a few stories on here, most of them, in the more intimate parts include graphic, sordid, details. I really enjoyed how you displayed what they were doing, yet left it as something special between them.I also really enjoyed the development of Severus. His change from greasy, spiteful git, to some one who cared for someone else, to the man who would do anything, no matter how dark, just to be with the one he loved, to the loving and selfless father.Kudos! Seriously.

Dumbledore is beginning to remind me of Ivan the Terrible, but he doesn't have mercury poisoning for an excuse. *livid glare*

I love the library scene and the twins' reaction!  Classic!!!((heading to bed, will hopefully return tomorrow))

heaven help me !!! hahhanow my hubby's reading this, too :)

holy crap!

((that's a good thing btw))

ohmygosh! How will you get him out of *that*?????

ebmracing the emptiness ... what a sad way to surviveI love this chapter though, and the way she 'forgives' him without really stating that fact. ((sorry I've not been around lately.  had LOTS to do this past week/weekend))

This chapter is such a wonderful introduction to the now married interaction between Miss Granger and Professor Snape, and it includes so many of the little things that will come to have such meaning between them, such as the heavenly tea, the scent of his shaving soap, his transfigured white shirt, and of course the red sheets. The bathtub scene and the consternation between the two of them is wonderful comedy. Then their preparations to attend the Welcoming Feast and Sorting, with the Professors' passionate kiss, ends the chapter on a surge of heat. 

Even as I cringed at the beating Severus was receiving at the hands of Lucius, I loved your characterization of Voldemort in this chapter. From his petulant whining to his brazen amusement of Severus' responses to his inquiry of his motives, it was a scene both well-played and unusual for what is typically written for Voldemort.Then, poor Hermione! The TRAMA, poor dear! I can't imagine the horror, after being brutalized (for all intents and purposes), and then needing to pull her wits about her enough to care for Severus' injuries. Thank goodness she thought of Dobby, though he plainly bolted at the first chance. I'm quite sure she is self-castigating herself for her "plan".

Oh. My. God.

Your story is an amazing amalgam of the struggle to "become" ... to become loved, to become lovable, to become better than we are. I have read this most beautiful interpretation of what Milton was trying to teach us when he wrote "Paradise Lost," and I congratulate you on one of the most stunning acts of fiction it has been my pleasure to read. Well done!Please take however much time you need to "get it right"  and post new chapters when you can -- when they are right for the story you want to tell. We are all beside ourselves to find out how this will all be resolved, but this is your story, and you are the only one who can tell it -- and in your own time.Sinceely, Beth

That was very beautiful. ^^Um yeah, I'm really bad at reviewing because I get sucked into the story so much that I totally forget to resurface to write a review. But I'm still reading and enjoying it very much. ^^

Whew!  I wasn't as behind as I thought I was.Wow, what a ride!  The flirting mixed with recriminations, the utterly delicious lemons, and then ... Dumbledore.  Wow. I can't wait to see what happens next!

Dammit, I know what AD is saying, but the selfish shipper & Snapist I am wants your Hermione & Severus to grow old together with all my heart. I just hope that the latest vision the Mirror of Erised granted him is True and he will be free to let nothing and no-one but Love and his Wife 'master' him.

guess I'm still a bit Confunded by what happened in the Bed Room.  And just what the heck happened with that Healing?!?  Hermione is all kinds of Ballsy, though!!

Yowzah@!  She is sooo magnificent, it's scary.  but that Evil Bed of S.S. . . !  Oh noes.  What the Hades was she trying to prove??

I too cannot believe that the glorious, sacred something they have between them can come from the Dark!  Draco has sour grapes and is just trying to mess with her mind, the git.

What a glorious chapter, so full of meaning and emotion.  I understand now when you said it was difficult to write.  I love the emotion behind your writing.  The fist part was beautiful and fun, I love the small interations between the two of them.  The second part with Albus just made me want to know what is coming up next.....oh, and when she said 'grow old with me'...sigh, there are no words.

What did he dose her with?!?  I guess I'll have to read on to find out.  but I don't think it's poison, despite what Moldy wants.  Is she preggers yet?