I don't see why readers see a contradiction in both endings. I don't. Not if you think of parallel dimensions. For Hermione and Snape, their happy ending is true. The dimension they returned to is obviously real for them, as well as for alll the characters within their dimension. For the Harry in the alternate universe, chapter 20 is the reality.

Who's to say that we're no all living in a kind of Matrix - that we are all just characters and side characters in someone's story? What is 'reality'? We easily accept multiple universes in time travelling stories. This is similar. The important thing: For Snape and Hermione (and all their friends) their happy-ending is real.

I think, the story should be rated M, warning of character-death, and tragedy.
It is not possible to believe the epilogue not to exist,
because there is lot of hints and evidence before of the very sad and unhappy ending.

Lots of greetings to Rissa,
have a blessed new year,
{Michmak}
m.

Hail wunderbare Rissa, hail ;-)
(no offence ever at all; just joking)

Nettie should have said, "One visitor at a time".
And I think, in fact, people would have visited her more often.
Go shopping, hop into St Mungos, bringing her flowers, talk about the weather, leave within half an hour.

to me, the Latin seems all wrong. dont .

Thank you for not calling a reader, who does not leave a review names.
Thank you for not threatening to not continue the story, if there are not enough reviews to come.

Hail, wunderbare Rissa! Not as mighty and beautiful as Luthien Tinuviel, but wunderbar enough for the real world!
Thank you for beta-reading.
Greetings

I wonder whether she cannot cry.

Go read "Horton hedges the egg"

Someone should visit Malfoy Manor to check what Lucius was doing.
Second, its not "anima" but "animula", which may be "aura" or something.

Legilimency, or elektro-encephalo-gramm: EEG
I thougt, they had done this at the very beginning of diagnosis

1. It is "locked-in-syndrome" , isnt it.
does not anyone try legilimency on her?
to you, Michmak, and a happy new year.

I had a dream last night, that life is the illusion, and sleep is the reality. My mind is going to be messed up for a while. It is crazy how a real life event make the best stories. I hope your life is better now. I think you oma and opa are together somewhere. The ending was beautiful.

That was a bitter-sweet surprise in the end, worthy of the whole bitter-sweet story. Well done, you had me crying there.

I'm reading this in 2015! I love Snapey woot! woot!

The story was exceptionally well-written, I loved every moment of it. I fell in love with your Snape and I couldn't get enough of Hermione.. Wonderful storytelling, amazing style, and yet...

Yet, I cannot separate it from the Epilogue, which put me in a horrible state of mind for days.

Such a cruel plot, combined with changing POV, the misleading labeling not mentioning that this story is, in fact, a TRAGEDY, and finally refusing to give the readers any kind of catharsis, locking us in the disgusting world of Lucius's parasite forever.. You masterfully crafted the biggest mind-raping I've experienced on ffnet. I love to hate your story.

Is this the perfect ending? I think some of the readers have already inhaled too much of the parasite's fumes..

Someone obliviate me please...