I hope their plan works.  Looking forward to reading more.

Hopefully the Ministry will be too busy to pay much attention to the coincidence of all three being infertile. :)

I had tears in my eyes at The Welcome Wizard (the witch had been a plague victim) I know its a throw away line but it made me remember all the women who are lost. Then Snape willing to become sterile in order to stay with Hermione. I cried ! Ayerf what you done to me???

Well I guess this is better than the governemt divorcing them. I still feel awful for Hermione. That kind of news must be heartbreaking. I hope Severus' potion works for them. Please update again soon. Cheers! ~Brena

Crap, I hate being right. This is so sad. My husband and I are talking about having kids and I'm so afraid something like this is going to end up happening to me. It awesome to see her go to her mum. I know I'd do the same thing. I hope she finds a way to keep Severus after all. Cheers ~ Brena

Oh no. Oh crap. I hope this doesn't mean she's infirtile afterall! How Sad! I'm so happy to see this story updating again and I'm sorry its taken me so long to catch back up. So I'm off to read Chapter 16. Cheers ~ Brena

that's our brillient potions master!  great update.  thanks so much

'Polyandry AND OTHER PROBLEMS' indeed! Poor Hermione.But isn't Severus giving up too soon? Should he not at least get some more info before deciding that he can do nothing?And shouldn't Lucius be consulted about the whole thing? After all, he is her husband, too. First they are relieved that they can get rid of him because of this, and as soon as they remind themselves that this means another husband, they decide for him that he should become infertile so that he can stay with them, since he is the 'devil they do know'. Maybe he doesn't want to become infertile! They should at least be polite enough to ask his opinion.I think Hermione is rather unkind to Lucius. As her husband, her predicament does concern him. It's understandable that she wanted to talk to Severus first about this, but there was no need to reject Lucius so bluntly when he was trying to be nice to her.

I was hopeful for a moment that Severus could fix anything. Now it appears there will be three sterile people in the marriage. Lucius had an interesting thought: ". . . he had done far more than just look when Narcissa was still alive." Does this mean he and Hermione had an affair and she just cannot remember?

There is no words to express mu sorrow for her. Can't Severus really create any potion to help her?

Better the devil we know, indeed.Hermione's pain was so well-written and heart-felt - both her reaction to Lucius and Severus.Well plotted. I'm glad Severus was able to come up with a solution.

excellent chapter.hopefully the wizen what there names are will believe it.i guess they could use i was a deatheather and old voldmort curcio'd us so much that it left us old men sterile.could work.hopefully no one detects the potion.waiting for more.

HOLY WOW.WOW.

Absolutely worth waiting for. While I am glad that Lucius does develope feelings for Hermione, no matter if he wants to admit it fully or not, I am most pleased to what lengths Severus are willing to go to keep them together. And, he is completely rigth, they could easily get someone a lot worse to deal with than Lucius with regards to being a threesome. I look forward to read more!!

This chapter was definitely worth waiting for. Great twist!

Interesting solution. I hope they pull it off.

Sneaky.  But good thinking! :)

WOW!!!! What a chappie!  I can not wait for the next one!  Will Lucius take this, will Severus reverse his when he has had his time and children with Hermione??????  these questions and many more, like will the Potters accept Draco, will be answreed in one of the further episodes?thanks ever so much for writing,Huanita

Hmmm I wonder how Lucius is going to feel about the drowning of his "little swimmers"... but he does have Draco so perhaps he will not mind.  As Severus said, "better the devil you know"

ah! but our two  there will do away with lucius and run off to jamaica, where they're safe and lucius free ^.^hmm......LETS LOCK LUCI IN A BOX! and feed him to scarab beetles...because he's wicked and needs taught a good lesson in morality and ethics and...and...table waiting! o.o in a texas diner...o.o

Great update!  I'm sad for Hermione not being able to have a baby.  Maybe Severus will be able to do something in the future?  Hope we don't have to wait long for an update.

meeps!  will they tell Lucius, or just give him the potion?  no such thing as a surrogate witch in the wizarding world?  what was the 'malicious glint' that Lucius gave Severus?  wicked git!  well, Hermione is still living proof that her mother overcame her own problems once, so I wonder that they don't try a little harder, maybe give Hermione the Muggle injections to cause her body to be more receptive to a pregnancy.  I will be waiting eagerly for your next chapter - I know you'll surprise us all!

I did NOT see that one coming at all. Oh and poor Lucius. There's a sentence I'd didn't think would ever come from me. I really hope that the MoM doesn't muck up their marriage!  Wonderful as always.

How sad, Hermione may not to have wanted children at this time but to be told she can never have children must have been a blow.  Of course my Dr. told me I was infertile and I have two boys.  Go figure.

I think that the three of them could all justify sterility, especially Severus and Lucius - damage done by repeat exposure to the Cruciatus comes to mind.It would be nice if Hermione were able to beat the odds and produce a child eventually, when she was ready to, instead of on Ministry orders.I'm curious. Will many of the women that suffered the plague also find their reproductive systems damaged as well, making the marrige law useless? It seems like this would be a likely outcome - diseases like that rarely have just one nasty side-effect.Nice update. Sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see where you take this.