Editor's Notes
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Chapter 6 of 6
Ladymage SamikoA proper post-script to a literary academic offering.
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A Series of Extracts Belonging to the Epistolary Courtship of Hermione Granger and Severus Snape, with Suitable Additions of Edifying Thoughts and Actions
by Severus Snape and Hermione Granger
edited by Lm. Samiko ^_~
Editor's Notes
This letter marks the last extant missive of the Granger-Snape archive, though, as their heirs have informed me, the habit of letter writing continued throughout the course of their seventy-year marriage. It would seem, however, that the letters written after this one have either been destroyed or permanently hidden. The spokeswoman for the Granger-Snape family, Apollonia Patil, née Granger-Snape, has recounted to me a memory of her mother burning a number of letters shortly before her death, telling her daughter, "Your father would hex me into oblivion if I let anyone else read them." One can assume that the destroyed collection referred to matters of even greater personal detail than those that have been published in this collection. Mrs. Patil speculates that they would have portrayed her father's most personal side - and that such a blow to his reputation would have infuriated him.
The editor would like to thank Mrs. Patil and the rest of the Granger-Snape family, including children and grandchildren, for their cooperation on and encouragement of this project. Not only the donation of this archive but their collective opinions, memories, and spells have been invaluable in the course of collating and augmenting this text. If there are errors in this humble addition to the corpus of material concerning this famous couple, they are mine alone.
Lm. Samiko
Tortoise Greene
13 Apr. 21xx
an.s - Honestly, thanks to everyone who has read and reviewed and kept up with my erratic posting. I hope it has proved an enjoyable read. Cheers, Lm. S.
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Don't know why I haven't found this before! Great fun, despite the slight to my home town...
Loved it! Thank you!
Looking for something to read, I stumbled on the Yule 2008 challenge and started down the list. When I read your Yule story and realized it was a sequel, I went looking for this. Loved it. Reminds me of Dorothy Sayers' beginning to "Busman's Honeymoon" which was written in the mid 1930s. If you haven't read it, might I highly suggest you do. Lord Peter and Harriet Vane are very entertaining and Bunter is priceless. 
a great collection of letters, indeed!
LOL
Thank you for the laughs I had while reading this chapter of you fic.
delicious and decidedly funny. very much in character for both of them. thanks so much! 
I really loved this story!!!
This is absolutely delightful! I adore epistolary fiction, and I crowed with laughter at the Barbara Cartland reference. In fact, I inherited mine from my mother, who in turn inherited them from her father. ;) Crazy, but funny.
aaackk. will poor hermione EVER figure out how to respond to that last line? too funny! i read this on a break at work, and i giggled so gleefully i had to explain to my coworker WHAT was so funny. i read her the paragraph of hermione's reaction, and even out of context, she agreed it was most amusing. am looking forward to when you put some more words into her mouth - er, quill. ; )
More please! I Likie!! Heehee-- and I love the fact that they switched to their names without all the "HOW DID YOU KNOW!!" heehee.
This is wonderful....
another lovely chapter of this delightful story. you do such a wonderful job with establishing their voices in these letters. i LOVE that he sent her a catalog of his library! and that sure sounds like an invitation to me.
Loving this! 
You always write them so well, 
and I like the letter format with their reactions included. 
It's interesting that they haven't even seen eachother for a few years (before they started their correspondence even) the entire time this has (so far 
) gone on. 
Will be looking forward to the next! 
I remember this. I would love to read the rest.
Another brilliant chapter! Your mastery of the language sends me into raptures, especially as it is the language of love peculiar to Hermione and Severus.
Anonymous
That was indeed an invitation! I watched with interest the greetings change from Woman! to Dear Miss Granger to Dear Hermione. He is being drawn in slowly but surely....
This is the best way to court, through letters. I imagine all those WWII soldiers writing to girls back home. You can give real thought to your words and express yourself more fully. I think the Hermione in this story has hit on the perfect means to ensnare Prof. S. C. Snape.
Elegant as the first chapter, equally lovely, and stimulating.
Love it! Delightful and inventive. Can't wait for more!
A great update! I do side with Severus that Hermione should have hexed some precious bits of those two dunderheads she called friends as a thank-you for their "gift" (insult would be more correct). There wouldn't have been a woman anywhere who would have blamed her, most likely it would have been "The" thing that would have united all witches, pureblood, halfblood and muggleborns alike:-) The letters between our two heroes are magnificiant, and I am amazed how well you get the story told by their letters to each other. I do hope that at some point we will get to read about Ron and Harry finding out just who Hermione is involved with?:-))I will be looking forward for the next update!
Wonderful. Severus's presents compared to Harry and Ron's! I love the idea of a catalogue to his book-collection forming a pledge of friendship (and quite understand it - I am an antiquarian bookseller's daughter, after all).Btw - one amoeba, two amoebae.
Oh! I forgot to include a comment on her third letter this chapter. I am going to have to write it down because the words are positively moving. Thoroughly profound, and it stirs the heart and quickens the breath just thinking of having someone, anyone say something like that.
What progress... Hermione didn't even comment with Severus first called her by name. But then I suppose she knew he knew who she was, and he knew she knew he knew, so it wasn't necessary to mention it.
Brilliant, keep up the good work ! I can't wait for the pillocks to find out who her "pen-friend" is.
I am enjoying this fic so very much. I admit to delighting in epistolary fiction as well as reading the letters of various historical couples (I'm currently reading some of the correspondence between John and Abigail Adams when I'm not reading fanfic or studying math or regional studies at college). Severus most definitely has excellent taste and I must say, the voice of his letters makes me wish I was his correspondent, not Hermione! The characterisations and emotive expression in your writing are among the best I've ever read (in HP fanfic and pro-fic), I am looking forward to reading the next installment. Bravi, bravi, bravissimi!
That was lovely. I really enjoyed it. And I can't believe that "gift" from Ron and Harry. I would have hexed them into next week.
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I very much enjoyed! How witty! How utterly sparkling-ly lovely! I cannot wait for the rest. Pray tell, what would be the ages of the involved parties, and how long has our dear ZS been pining for the many-titled professor? Or do I have to wait for more letters to reveal these bits of information?