I'm sorry it took me so long to get to this chapter... It was a lovely one. The dilemma that you draw here for Snape is so difficult--to have wanted something, to have some secret desire--and to find that you have woken against all odds, have fought your way back--only to find that you cannot access your magic...Good lord, it breaks my heart. Your Snape is so well written, so believably. I just hurt for him. Looking forward to the next, despite the pain. :)

This story just makes me want to cry for Severus and Hermione. His traumas and her frustrations. Both are so off balance from what they know or expect. The lack of control for people usually with a tight-fisted control. I've never thought before about how much our memories go into making up the people we are. It seems morbid to say that I enjoy the story! How about - I enjoy your writing;)

Poor Hermione. It's like she's so stressed and outside herself that she's only getting intermittent flashes of self-awareness.  Her engagement with Ron is like watching a disaster in slow motion.  It looks like she'll come to the realisation that they should call it off before Ron who seems to be living in la-la land.  Maybe some time apart would do it.  The unhealthiness of them living out their adult lives according to their childhood ideas of 'what would happen' when they grew up is really stark here.Great chapter, and looking forward to more:)

Well and truly fucked seems quite apropos.

Oh, my.  Oh, my. Poor Hermione -- torn between Ron who wants nothing more than to pretend that life is 'normal,' and Snape, who can't remember himself and believes that he will never have anything 'normal.'  She has no idea what is going on inside her and is so absorbed in her guilt and ambivalence.  Oh, my.  I wish that St. Mungo's would get some emotional healers on staff, you know?

Another beautiful chapter. The characters are so well portrayed and believable :)

That dream was so symbolic of how they both feel, and suffer. Beautiful.

I feel sorry for Hermione and Ron. We can see that she loves him only as a best friend, but does he even love her in the right way, or is he doing what is expected in a subconscious desire to maintain the comforting status quo?

Oh dear, Calliope has been breaching Healer-Patient confidentiality, hasn't she?

Sounds like he is starting to remember a little more, hope Calliope doesn't spoil things.

Of course things aren't back to normal. Only 2 months ago their friends and family died in a vicious battle, you wouldn't expect them to be normal, much as Hermione would wish it to be so. Is hse exhibiting some denial, suppressing her own feelings as they are too scary?

I could see this happening that way, Hermione saying yes when she wasn't really certain.  Good girls do what they're supposed to do.  wonderfully written.  Thanks for not making Ron an idiot.

Fan mail and flames!   Severus will be appalled at the fanmail and the newspaper article!  Poor  man.

I let this story get away from me after chapter two.  But now I'm catching up on it and it is excellent!  Thank you f or such a wonderful tale!   Good use of dreams, by the way!

She can at least do something to help Snape, which she couldn't do for those that died, and those that recovered are managing ok and don't need her I suppose.

Interesting chapter with lots of details from Ron and Hermione to Severus and Hermione. I by the way love the healer character that you created - she is such a good woman. Poor Severus with no one really caring except Hermione and then not being able to do magic. This whole chapter was so wonderfully written.

This story is utterly phenomenal.  I wanted so badly to write a story about how everyone was affected by PTSD, but was unable to get past the first chapter.  Even if I had, it was had suffered mightily in comparison to this.  I'm in awe of your writing skills, and looking forward to many more chapters.

good start , off to next chapter

Another lovely update.  I had to go back and figure out where this story had been (the down side of reading way to many WIPs at once), but I remember how I like your Ron, who is just the right mix of insecure prat and the loyal bighearted friend he's always been to Hermione.  I also love Hermione's voice here-- bossy, but also sometimes speaking before she thinks and catching herself. You have captured her unique voice quite nicely.  Snape's plight here is still wrenching.  Look forward to more.  Well done.

Good, heavy stuff. Do keep writing, please.

Another wonderful chapter.I'm so glad you're taking your time with this, allowing their reationship to grow through angst to trust.  It's wonderful to read!

Gah. My heart really goes out for Severus here... when he puts it this way, as he did here in the end, what does he have to live for?I'm almost feeling a bit bad for Ron, too - he's trying, really, and it's not like he's a bad sort of bloke. Just ... he and Hermione don't really fit together in the long run, do they?A lovely chapter, even if rather downbeat.

*sighs.... *wipes eyes.  Beautiful.  They are both so tormented.  There are so many noteworthy lines in each of these chapters but this one captured me in this chapter:He knew that he had encountered such a soul before, and though he couldn't remember how, he knew without a doubt that he had seen to its destruction.Wow.Now I'm all caught up and can read updates as they arrive!  Yay!

Oh, this is so well done.  You've done a beautiful job illustrating Hermione's changes and her strugge to figure out what is happening to her now, even as she feels trapped in who she was.  Well done.

The plot thickens.  Excellent... *runs off to read next chapter