all i can say...is that this was AMAZING. it has completely touched my heart in every way. thank you so much!

hahaha your AN at the end had me rolling on the floor. It totally is a Darth Vader/Luke Skywalker type deal! I'm looking forward to spending quite a bit of time reading this fic =)

Brilliant... Simply brilliant

I was amazed at how your story affects me, I almost headbutted a wall, amazing I almost headbutted a wall.

I struggle to think of something that has been both so disappointing and mind numbingly boring.

Absobloodylutely amazing!! This is probably the best hermione and snape fanfiction I've ever read!! Their characters are perfect and amazing, and although I was unsure about hermione at first with her car drive with Severus I understand why it was like that. Ahh I hate Draco Malfoy. 7 years! I love Poppy as well, and Dudley was a good idea. I knew from when Neville said he loved somebody but they were already taken he fancied Hermione and I thought they were sweet together before Snape came properly into the picture. Just one more thing.. what are Snape's favourite biscuits? x

I enjoyed reading this story. It took a long time to get to the actual pairing of Hermione and Severus but really I suppose the whole story was about it.
Anyhow I enjoyed it and definitely a story for my favorites list.

Thanks for writing and sharing your story with us.

Draco Malfoy at the station - that was a bit weird. Even more strange that they nodded at each other for greeting. Feels wrong.
I can understand that you didn't want to kick him out of the epilogue as you tried to wrap up the story as J.K. Rowling did.

But would you acknowledge someone who raped you and tried to kill your friends and professors?
And the ending "All's well, my love," is a bit flat for my taste. I'm not sure how I would have written it though.

Despite these two minor points I do love your story. Love, romance, mystery - you got it right. Having read the story Falling Further In I noticed the similiarities between these stories. But I don't blame you for them as you managed to write a unique story.

I'm not sure what more I could say, not right now. I'll have to reread this story and then I might be better abled to review it.

You are an evil, evil women for that cliff-hanger...loving the story even more the second time around

I wouldn't mind if you had put Neville into this chapter... You took away his love from him, and his carrier as a professor too.

"Chapter title is a nod to the wonderful (and, sadly, abandoned) fic Falling Further In, by KazVL."

God I love you! I've searched for KazVLs story for a while now, couldn't remember the title nor the author.
Oh, and your own story is great too. Twists and turns and surprising plots. But why is Ron such an ass? Will I find out?
<.< I probably would have reviewed the earlier chapters too, but I can't stop reading.

a beautiful interpretation! thank goodness that i found this story through another, i wouldn't have thought of searching for it this far since it has been so long since it was published.

i think this is by far the best version of sev and lily's love. so sad though*sigh

i never thought of looking at it that way. and i also liked the part about him being taught potions by lily.

this is in all honesty a wonderful rendition to a love easily misjudged for lack of a better word.

Excellently done!

So far I've loved this story. I have a quibble about having to read an Author's Note at the end of *every single chapter* because it's distracting and largely pointless to most readers.

It took me 26 hours to read the whole thing with barely time to sleep and work. The pacing of your story was superb. The subplots were interesting, even parts I would normally skip in a fanfic - the meetings of the Order, the war and the exposition. You thoughtfully put in characters woefully lacking in other stories, and kept their characters believable. The scenes of violence and sex were written with great care and the tension between Snape and Hermione was goodly-angsty. Poor Ron, though. I agree with other comments that Ron would not resort to the use of 'mudblood.' I do not think it was necessary to include the mirror which reveals Snape's desires. You have already provided enough 'enchantment curse' subsidiary effects to play upon, the shared sexual dreams, calling-out Hermione's name, staring at her, the confiding in Dumbledore, Poppy and Minerva, Snape's need to be near Hermione, etc. Also, for me, I do not think it was necessary to explain Snape's point-of-view as he placed the goblet of water for Hermione. I would have prefered to discover the water, and the significance of Snape's deference to Hermione by such an action, when Hermione discovers it. It would be more vital, more touching for Hermione to drink the water, gather her things to leave, and suddenly stop, stare at the goblet and slowly realize Snape had 1) seen her asleep, 2) taken care not to wake her, 3) made her surroundings comfortable, 4) had remembered her habit and 5) forsen her need. Hermione could easily ask the house-elf to be certain it was Snape's care for her and not the elf's. This could even be repeated as the trope by which she puzzles over whether Snape actually loves her desipite his avoidance of her eyes and the cold commentary to her face. Well, I am going to take a break and re-read your story all over again! If you change the expostions, the proper names and the place, your story is a complete romantic novel unto itself. Thank you so much for writing it!!