Ah. This left me with a happy peaceful feeling.

What a lovely story. Thank you for sharing!

Loved it. Absolutely loved it!

Congratulations on finishing this. Another sweet one.

awesome! love it!

Wow! This is amazing. I loved how you skipped the awkward teacher/student phase. Very well written. I love it!

I put you on my faves list after reading Yours and Yours and Yours, (now Strong Poison) So I got an e-mail about this chapter. Thank you for a realistic view of student/teacher romance. He did the only thing he could.


Oddly, just this summer I suggested calling our car Mr. Tilney.

Wow. This is so bright. Like the sun-rays piercing a storm-cloud.
Thank you for sharing this piece of brilliance.

Welcome back :))

An unexpectedly sweet end. Some people don't change much in their affections.

This is marvelous. I think you've captured their dynamics beautifully, and laid to waste the pretensions of many of us who write a young Hermione with an adult Severus.

Lovely story. I can understand why he nipped her infatuation in the butt. I can also see him thinking about her for so long, yet doing nothing. Glad he finally got the nerve. Seems like things worked out after all.

Truely lovely!

Very interesting. I'm enjoying your protrayal of Snape's inner dialog reasoning out his dilemna.

Great beginning. Trust Mia for a great fic rec.

This was gorgeous. I loved the subtleties of Snape's musings and yes - I rather agree that the 'I'm a monster she's too young for me line' is rather stale when taken to extremes, and the slow, quiet acceptance of Snape's emotions was wonderful to behold. I love the student-teacher relationship to death and its brought out best in quiet conflict like this.

Your style is so lyrical and beautiful as well, Snape and Hermione stayed in character throughout. I loved his musings on her childishness and his batlike persona that had become second nature - it was such an insight.