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Marionne!!!

I´m so happy for you! I was so sure that you were going to be great in your audition, and I’m so proud of you! And to celebrate your success you gave us another chapter! You are the best!

I’m sorry about the confusion with the phrase “pathetic longing” in the previous review. You must remember that I don’t speak English and sometimes my thoughts are lost in translation… hahaha, I’m feeling like Bill Murray! I suppose that what I wanted to say is that he was acting melancholic, I guess.

This chapter really is a gift! Again, you are pulling and pushing my emotions in so many directions, and is wonderful of you to share your talent as a writer. I have so many thoughts about this chapter that this is going to be a long review… sorry about that…

The scene between Harry and Hermione is so sweet. They were so in love and there was an aura of innocence around them, even in those dark times, there was something so pure and young… It is beautiful to know how much they loved each other and at the same time is so sad to know that they would be separated for the rest of their lives. You wrote it in a way that uncovers the truth about this story: is a tragedy, a terrible tragedy. This is the story about two people who loved one another, but that were separated and destroyed by the people around them. Bellatrix’s curse separated Harry and Hermione, but Lupin, the Weasley, the Order, Narcissa and Snape destroyed them. And knowing that this is the last scene before their separation made me so sad. Nothing would be the same after that and the next time they would see each other, they would be totally different persons: one stuck in the past and the other having lost herself.

And the plot thickens!!!

It was truly, really awesome the plot behind Narcissa. I would confess that so far she was like this character lurking in the shadows, never important enough to pay her too much attention. I made the mistake to look at her as the poor and weak, sick woman whose presence was necessary to save Hermione and later to provide food and clothes.

In this chapter, Narcissa’s actions show her as a cold and very calculating woman. We can see many sides of her personality, through the eyes and memories of different people: she acted kind and sisterly to Snape (although, she has her interests at heart in that relationship: Snape’s promise to save Draco and help her with her illness), she acted cold and contemptuously to Hermione (she knows that Hermione is a toll to hold Snape in her hands, because she’s the only one that knows about Hermione’s abduction and the only one that can help them in that island) and we know that she hid many things from Draco.

You have painted a very complex Narcissa, she’s not the flat character that we saw superficially, she’s a very dark woman and I think that so far we just saw glimpses of her agenda:

·         We know that she was deadly sick and she received help from Snape, but she didn’t want her family to know about her illness. At the beginning I thought that she was being considerate, but in the light of her actions in this chapter I think that she used her illness to move various pieces in her chessboard: she chained Snape to her will (if they were friends, how he could leave her or don’t listen to her if she was dying?), she had Draco in the palm of her hand (always worried about her health) but she really didn’t wanted him to know about her illness because she didn’t wanted him knowing about Snape's help (that would make Draco ask about Snape's whereabouts), and she played that card with Lucius and Bellatrix too, the strong but sick woman (so they overlooked what she was doing with Snape)

·         She helped Hermione but she didn’t care for her: she told Snape that Hermione must live because she’s innocent, clever, pure… but I think that she did that to convince Snape to do what she wanted him to do (if Snape was with Hermione he would need Narcissa's help and she can control him in some way) and when she was in the cottage she treated Hermione horrible, even making Hermione think that she was enjoying her stressful situation.

·         And I think that she “sacrificed” herself (she was as good as dead anyway) to save Hermione because that was her most powerful weapon: Hermione would be in debt with her and Snape would believe in anything that Narcissa says, but when Snape told her his plan about his horrible treatment of Hermione (making him a rapist and abuser), she came with the idea of the Unbreakable Vow, so nobody would know that she knew about Hermione’s fate. She would have loved to know that the world would saw her as a savior but she couldn’t let the world know that she was an accomplice of Snape if he was a villain. And that’s the reason why she obliviated Hermione too, because she knows that Hermione couldn’t protect her mind if someone used Legitimens on her, and they would know Narcissa’s part in her abduction, she didn’t try that with Snape because he was, after all, a master in Occlumency.

As I said, you are a wonderful writer and you have made Narcissa a complex and dark character without putting her in the limelight. I wonder what else she have in her pocket to surprises us. What else did she erased from Hermione’s mind? Is that why Hermione can’t see what happened to her for what it was? The plot thickens!!

Oh! I’m trying, I swear that I’m trying to be more sympathetic with Snape, I just can’t yet. Maybe is because the road to hell is full of good intentions, and from my perspective he had made a solid road to burn in hell. Yes, he’s human, and that can explain a lot of things (the change in his feelings and intentions, his selfishness and his desire to have Hermione to be happy) but that doesn’t explain why he have to treat Hermione the way he treated her, not good intention can explain the violence that a person in a position of power inflicts in another human being (less the kind of violence he inflicted in her). And this chapter show us that when Snape have to choose between Narcissa and Hermione, the last one lost: Narcissa attacked Hermione in this chapter, and it was worse than a Semtusempra, because Narcissa attacked something that Hermione value above any limb in her body: she attacked her brain and Snape didn’t do anything, he didn’t defended her, he didn’t avenged her, he didn’t even asked what Narcissa did, what she erased, he just let her go.

And didn’t Hermione learned his lessons? She used sex to convince him to let her stay. She used the one weapon that she had at her disposition to get what she wanted, just as she used it with Harry to distract him so she can escape. It was irrational and cruel to pretend that she can go alone to face people that thought that she was dead, people that she hasn’t see in seven years, people that can accuse her of running away in the middle of the war, and what was she going to say if she can’t talk about the curse? “Hey people, be happy, I’m alive and kicking, and guess what? While you were fighting and your loved ones were dying, I was having sex with your worst enemy… Yes! The one and only… Snape!” Sorry for the sarcasm, but that made me think that the supposed return was a test to see if she would have the courage to go to the world alone. But she couldn’t, of course that she couldn’t, Snape has been her entire world for seven years, she hasn’t had any contact with another human being (she didn’t remember Narcissa in the cottage and I suppose that it only occurred once) and she was afraid, so she chose to stay because it was safer that way.

OMG!!! What a long review, so sorry, it was as I told you, a lot of things to think and I can ramble and ramble about a lot of more things, but I would cut it here before you kick me and told me that I’m crazy… lol

I can wait to see the end of this road, even if that would make me sad. This is my first Snape/Hermione story, and it probably would be the last, but I want to say that you have made a wonderful adventure for me to read something out of my comfort zone. You can’t know how grateful I’m about being part of this.

Lots of love my friend, and hopeful, I would see you soon!!!

Hugs,

Inés

Congratulations 

So happy for you 

You should be really really proud of yourself

Tell your family that I 'm congratulating them for your success  ( it a custom in my country to congratulate the parents for their childrens succes, I guess it's the same in yours but I just wanted to clarify in case it seemed strange to you ) 

I don't like guessing what's going to happen in the story, or at least share my guessing with you because you'll give me hints and I wont be surprised a lot when I 'll read them hhhhhh, but I think that after the 7 years he realized that the curse was still effective. 

And I don't really get all the secrecy, yep they made the unbreakable vow so she can't tell stuff  but still it doesn't explain everything fully, fisrt we need to know exactly what they swore because it's not enough to understand their ( Hermione and snape) actions.

I guess it's enough sharing my thoughts about the story for now if have any new idea I'll let you know.

For now congratulations, keep believing in you. I'm praying for you  ( making douaa) and hope you'll make it through.

Hope we'll get to read the ending soon 

Hiii 

This is just a supportive message, although I like how you ended the chapter making it more than a sexual relationship.

Soo whenever I remember you I say a prayer (douaa). So girl make us proud, clearly you're a hard worker but don't be too hard on yourself because you have our support.

Good luck and keep the positivity going in your days of practice.

Don't worry be happy cause everything's gonna be Chopin ( I just googled the most famous pianist because my piano culture is very little ( shame on me hahahhaha)))

Have a good daay !!!

Hello Marionne!!!

We had a long weekend too and I was out of town since Friday morning. It was so good to return and find TWO new chapters!! You made my day =)

You are very clever my friend, trying to humanize Snape and the things that he did to Hermione as something that needed to be done to save her life.

And I know, I just know that there is a hint of something in the first memory in chapter 31, the question about the deeply embedded curses and the possible relation and distance or length of time, hahaha, is there the hint for the three extra years? I’m dying here my friend, just dying from curiosity.

After reading this two chapters, I wish I could tell you that I´m more sympathetic with Snape’s circumstances, but I really, really can’t. His thoughts were so twisted and dark, he thought that making Hermione fear him and coercing her to sleep with him was a good way to save her from stress and pain? I can tell you that there are few things worse than the pain and stress of a rape victim. The feeling of being used, the self-loathing, the constant fear of it happening again… not wonder that Hermione’s brain choose to transform her horrible life with Snape in a fairy tale where she was in love with him, and he was her shinning prince.

I think that Harry was right when he told Hermione about how Snape wanted to save her in the beginning, but choose to keep her for his own desires. It’s clear that Snape enjoyed having a submissive Hermione at his side. And it’s good that Hermione finally heard those things, because so far she didn’t want to think about what happened to her and how her friends saw this things. She was so afraid to face the past ten years with clarity that every time somebody talked to her about her life with Snape, she changed the conversation or simply started a fight. And the way she reacted to Harry’s words and her own words makes me think that there were memories that she supressed or that Snape changed, maybe that was the reason she was so complaint? Snape playing with her brain to modified her memories?

I really don’t think that the way Snape choose to treat Hermione was good, not even remotely, I think that Hermione deserved the truth from the beginning, I mean, she understood why she had to live far away from Harry and maybe she would have understood why Snape have to sleep with her. I don’t say that she would have accepted happily to sleep with Snape, it wouldn’t have been an easy decision to make, but it would have been HER decision, and I think that she would have thought about it and maybe found a way to make things work (at least it wouldn’t be a rape). But I think that Snape didn’t want to give her a choice, he wanted her, even before the curse, he wanted her for himself, and the curse gave him a reason to have her completely (just as Harry said). I still think that she would try to give Snape justice (now I wonder what would entail that justice? He isn’t an innocent man after all but at least he wouldn’t be receiving the Kiss, I think).

On that note, I’m deeply disappointed with Draco… even if I’m happy that he finally helped Hermione to escape Harry and now is protecting her. Draco saw Hermione’s memories, didn’t he saw how Snape treated her? Or maybe she only gave him memories where she was “happy”? On one hand I understand that he is trying to save his godfather, the man that helped his mother, but in the other hand I wish that he can be the friend that Hermione needs to start healing. So far NOBODY is standing for Hermione, not even her, not really.

But beyond my hard feelings for Snape, you have a clever way to try to make him more human, first his surprise and “reluctant” acceptance about sleeping with Hermione, then that scene with him buying the traveling bag (it was almost pathetic in his longing) and then showing us that he suffered every time he had sex with her (punishment for the pleasure he was taking and the suffering he was inflicting). Very clever indeed.

I wish you the best of luck in your audition and your recital, I would be praying for you, I send you lots of love and good vibes, and I will be here waiting for you and the news of your success

Hugs

Ines

Chapter 30

OMG Marionne!!!!

That was unbelievable, incredible, amazing…  Two out of three comments answered in less than 24 hours!!! We are so in tune my friend!!! I´m so happy that you updated and glad with the answers to my questions, even if the answers made me so sad.

This chapter broke my heart, but in a good way, I suppose. You are so good with words… I have to tell you, I felt so many things; it’s one of those occasions where I found myself unable to express in words all my thoughts. Brilliant work.

The first scene was the “worst” for me: I mean, I felt Hermione’s anguish, how desperate she was, and I couldn’t stop feeling compassion for her. She was terribly lost and confused, feeling shame and guilt about what happened with Snape, thinking that she’s “betraying” Harry. It was worse knowing how much Snape and Harry hate each other and her own hate for the potion’s master made everything so difficult for her. Her desperation was so great that she was doubting her sanity and hurting herself without realizing it. It was so sad when she was calling Harry for help… I should have known right there that this chapter was going to be one of the heavy and difficult ones.

And Snape thoughts at the end of the scene scared me… a lot. His thoughts shows how obsessed he was about her, he was lamenting that she had force to fight still, because he wanted her to surrender to him, to follow his rules, be whatever he wanted her to be (that was the scariest) and we can see how he never planned in giving her back (when he thought about how she never was going to give up forcing him to bring her back). Those dark thoughts… they were hard to read, they made me afraid for Hermione, I wonder if Snape cast a spell on her, or if he put a potion or something on her food (in most of the scenes, he’s the one cooking), how far did he go to not to lose to another Potter?

Oh! And the scene with Harry and McGonagall! That was so touching! That’s how I expected Lupin to act! Firm but kind, telling Harry that he was not allowed to act without thinking, it was something that Harry clearly lacked in his life post Hermione, someone that loves him but firm enough to not let him throw his life away. Is a shame that McGonagall acted that way in that moment, when was too late to put a stop to Harry auto destructive tendencies. But it was also exciting to know that we are near the point where past and present come together!!!

The last scene nearly made me cry, oh! Poor Draco!! Taking decisions in such a hard moment, and despites his pain and fear for his mother, doing the right thing and letting the Aurors inside his house to take Lucius. It was so sad to know that he was doing what was right in the hardest moment of his life, and he was alone, and the only person that he loves was dying and he couldn’t do anything to help her. So sad!!!

This chapter was a wonderful rollercoaster, is one of the darkest chapters in all this story, but at the same time, was an amazing way to know more about the feelings of the characters.

I have to confess that I’m dreading what Harry would find in the island, but at the same time I can’t wait to see that first encounter between Harry and Hermione!

I want and don’t want to know what happened in those three lost years, even if I know that you are going to make me cry, I know it, I know it!

Can’t wait to see Hermione having the courage to think about what really happened to her in Snape’s hands, think about what is happening now in Harry’s hands, and her Griffindor side taking over and leaving behind the shell that she was now to be again Hermione Granger.

I love you my friend (because after all this long adventure, I would like to think that we are some kind of friends). I’m sure that you are going to have an excellent recital and an even better audition. Best of lucks, I would be here waiting for you.

Hugs,

Ines

Chapter 30

OMG!! I’m so happy!!! You had time to post!!! I was a little worried that we wouldn’t know about you until May, after your recital, not that I wouldn´t understand, these are really important times in your life, and I wish you the best, for your audition and your recital, I’m sure you would be great and you can be sure that I would pray for you.

Back to the story!

Sorry dear, but it´s very hard not to hate Lupin and the Weasley for what happened to Harry after Hermione´s abduction. He was alone and lost, and they were his friends, the closest thing that he had as a family, and they didn’t help him to try and go on with his life, but let him be obsessed with Hermione, just so he can fight Voldemort, and later because they didn´t want to face a problematic Harry. It´s sad because I can understand that they (especially the Weasleys) had their own lives to put in order, but Harry was like a weapon to them, and once he wasn’t useful anymore they let him alone, and you don´t do that to someone that had made so many sacrifices for the Wizarding World’s good, especially if you claim that person is your family.

This was a great chapter that made me think a lot and let me with a lot of questions that I hope the next chapters can answer: while I read the first memory and then the situation between Hermione and Harry in her room, I couldn’t stop thinking about some things:

All those years while Hermione was with Snape, did she thought about Harry? Not about his wellbeing, but about her feelings for Harry and Harry’s feelings for her? We know that she wanted to know about “her loved ones” and return to them, and she was engaged with Harry at the time of her abduction but so far we hadn’t see a memory about her thoughts and feelings for Harry while she was with Snape. And we don’t know what she thought  about what would happen with Harry if she returned in a “relationship” with Snape. She started a sexual relationship with Snape very fast for someone that was so deep in love with another person that was capable to sacrifice her freedom (you know what I think about Snape and that “relationship” and how he manipulated her), so where were her feelings for Harry?.

Another thing that called my attention when Hermione asked Harry if he thinks that he’s any different from Snape (well, in reality it’s something that has called my attention for a long time), was why she was so compliant with Snape. He abused her, that is an undeniably fact: he used physical and emotional violence against her, he raped her, he hid things from her, he constantly lied to her, he didn´t let her use her magic and she didn’t fight and she acted as a doormat, always forgiving him and in fact begging him on her knees (!!!) to forgive her. From time to time she had a tantrum but for what we could see so far in the end nothing changed and he continued with his awful treatment to her. I know that is the usual behavior in violence victims, to blame themselves about the acts that the abuser inflict on them, what I can´t understand is why she isn’t thinking about that now. It is unbelievable that the Brightest Witch of Her Age could think that she has to be alone with Snape so she can be saved, I mean, he did the potion, and he sailed the curse so why he couldn’t take her to a hospital in Russia (for example) so some healers could take care of her? Why they couldn’t live in South America where she could interact with other persons? In fact, why she couldn’t interact with other persons in the island? Didn't she asked herself this questions?

She’s fighting Harry (Good for you girl!!) and I can (reluctant and doubtfully) understand that she wants to save Snape’s life (NOT good for you girl) but what I can’t understand is why she hasn’t questioned what really happened to her. That is not Hermione Granger and she needs to be Hermione Granger again. It would be good to see her alone with her thoughts about the past ten years, what she thinks now that she isn’t in that situation? Now that she can see the situation from afar after all this months of freedom? Would she really understand what happened to her? It's the question to Harry about he not being different from Snape a sign that she's starting to see what happened to her all those years? Is she recognizing the abuse she suffered in that island? I hope so, I would like to think that she wouldn't do that comparison otherwise. I know that she would still fight for Snape’s freedom, she’s that kind of person, always fighting for what she thinks is fair but it would be good to see her do it with her eyes really and wide open, knowing that she was a victim and thinking what is really good for her too.

Finally I have to tell you that I’m confused: In chapter 5 Hermione said that she didn’t know that Narcissa was dead, but in chapter 8, she talked with Snape about Narcissa’s death, in Chapter 19 you said that Narcissa died with Draco at her side, after the war, and Harry was at her funeral but in this chapter it seems that Narcissa died during the war (she said that Draco and Lucius were coming) and with Snape at her side. (Yeah, I'm so obssesed with this fic that I read it constantly and almost know the chapters by heart, sue me, lol)

I wish you the best in your recital and audition, I know that you are going to be great, is a shame that you can't post pictures here so we can see you shine in your great moment. I would pray for you dear Marianne. I would patiently wait for news from you about your success.

Hugs and lots of love!!!

Ines

Chapter 29

Hello my dear Marionne,

I’m so glad that you posted another chapter this week!!!

I want to repeat: the last chapter was WONDERFUL!!!! It was an amazing way for Hermione and Harry to be open and express their pain, even if that pain was so different: Harry pained by his love for Hermione and Hermione really pained by her love for Snape… It was so breakhearting to see Harry begging for the life he dreamed with Hermione and Hermione begging for Snape’s life.

And this chapter was a great mix of emotions.

I laughed a lot with Draco being a badass and punching Harry, and Harry going to the Minister to cry about what Draco did. OMG, you are the Head of the Aurors, go and fill a complaint and take Draco to Azkaban for attacking you, don’t go to the Minister as if he can take points from his House!!! Ha,ha,ha!!

And there are more secrets that Snape keep from Hermione!!! Because even if he said he loved her, he didn’t trusted her… but he wanted her all to himself. So, no Hermione, you can’t know what is happening outside this little cottage or you would want to be free again and you are only allowed to think about me, and me alone, capiche? I can’t stop myself from hating him and hate her a little for being such a complaint prisioner.

And you are make me hate and I mean really hate Lupin. What a bastard. He was using Hermione’s memory to make Harry do what they wanted to do: be an obedient sheep, and get well so you can go and face Voldemort and kill him or die fighting him. I really hate him because he was James’ best friend, but he didn’t care about Harry. No wonder Harry wanted so bad to believe that Hermione was alive, he felt that nobody else loved him, and then he found her just to know that he waited in vain.

And now I don’t want to know why after the seven years, Hermione didn’t came back. Did she have a child and the little one died? And she was so depressed that nothing mattered and only after Snape asked her to marry him she was well again? That was the reason they were found?

If that was the reason, it would break my heart again, especially after seeing how Harry proposed her.

Thank you again for your wonderful story, I know that everything is going to be wonderful with your recital.

Hugs,

Inés

Chapter 28

The Thursday was my birthday, and it was wonderful to have another chapter to celebrate it!!!

Poor, poor, poor Harry!!! It broke my heart to see how much he’s suffering. The last two scenes were full of emotions, and you wrote it so wonderfully. So far this is my favourite chapter, you did great in the proposal, it was so full of love and it was so tender and the Snitch was such a Harry’s thing to do.

But the last scene, with both talking, with all the hurt and angst and desperation, it broke my heart, because Harry was so open with his feelings, and Hermione was hurting but unable to do anything to try and make things better, because she saved his life for love, but he stayed alive looking for her just to found out that she doesn’t love him anymore. What is the meaning of his life now?

Hermione, willingly or not, moved with her life, but Harry was stuck with her memory and his love for her, and now both are suffering.

And I’m afraid because how can you save Harry? He said that without her love his life doesn’t have any significance, and I wonder, if the Wizengamot let Snape free, and Hermione chose him, what would happen to Harry? He’s going to die, or end totally crazy in St. Mungo’s, and is so unfair, because hasn’t he suffer enough? And, can Hermione really be happy with Snape knowing what her rejection did to Harry? After all, she chose to stay away to save Harry’s life, and that sacrifice would be in vain if he just can’t have a real life.

She said that she longed to return, but she stayed three more years away, did something went wrong with the cure? Had Snape prevented her from returning?

I wish you luck with your studies and rehearsals, and thank you for your wonderful gift, it was a great birthday this year and you made it better.

Hugs,

Inés

omg you're gonna die for messing with me so much harry isnt supposed to be an abusive fuck xD, and i think that hermione and snape, however fucked up that is, they would be great together... jk about you dying xD

Hiii 

I liked the way you set the part where Hermione sees harry for the last time. 

While reading your comment I was thinking of the paryers ( we call them douaa, yep I'm muslim )  my mothers says to me whenever I'm facing an important stage in my life or going through exams or work assignments. So I'm making douaa for you from all my heart using the same words  my mother uses ( they are very effective, no it's not magic hhhh, I like to think of them as positive energy your loved ones send you ) so you'll make us all proud. Keep on working hard for your dreams only you can make them true. 

Good luck, send us a part of you concert in May.

All the positive energy. 

Hello!!!

So good to know you are alright!! I´m sure you are going to do great at your graduation, just keep the hard work, and you would enjoy the results…

Wow, I don’t know where to start, Chapter 26 was a heavy one, and Chapter 27 broke my heart to pieces. Both chapters were so full of emotions, new clues and mysteries… you are giving us answers that lead to new questions, great work.

First Chapter 26

Poor Hermione, I can feel her anguish about the loss of her magic, but mostly about not knowing what was happening to her and the feeling that she can´t trust Snape telling her the truth because she knows that he’s keeping her in the dark about many things, and she’s angry but is incapable to express it for fear at his reaction.

Oh! and how much I despise Lupin and the Order in this story!!! They used Harry to defeat Voldemort but they didn’t help him to get better about what happened to Hermione. They claimed to love him, but they didn’t care that he rotted inside, he became an alcoholic and violent man, and nobody was there for him. And now Lupin wants to act all rightful and look down to Harry, he wants to act as if Harry’s aggressive behavior was a surprise? What a hypocritical man! Why he didn’t take Harry to St. Mungo’s? Why he didn’t make Harry face the fact that Hermione was gone? (She was absent for years, all the signs pointed that she was dead). Lupin, the Weasleys and the rest of the Order’s members are the worse kind of human beings: the ones that are in their high pedestals believing that are the epitome of goodness, but without any care besides their own agendas. Harry paid the price of their selfishness and now Hermione is another victim.

Now Chapter 27

Oh my God! What a bunch of idiots!!! I swear to God, I don’t understand what Lupin and his merry band of airheads were thinking making Hermione met Draco with Harry so close to them!!! I can understand Hermione’s desperation to meet with somebody that can really help her, and her disregard to Harry’s fury, after all, this can be her opportunity to escape but are the others so blind that they don´t see how unstable Harry is? This is another example about how simple is their view of the problem. In the long run, they are not trying to help Hermione (or Harry), they are trying to pass the problem to another person (Draco). They know that something is wrong, but they don´t take Hermione away from Harry, as they didn’t took Harry to St. Mungo’s for mental help, because they don´t want to get their hands dirty. And what was the result of this poor planed encounter? Harry losing his fragile contact with reality (he really believes that locking up Hermione was the better way to protect her) and of course Hermione captive again (next time: run Hermione, run!! And let Snape, Harry and the rest of the wizarding world go to hell, they deserve it!!!). Thanks for your invaluable help Lupin!

The memories where a great way to know what happened to convince Hermione to stay with Snape and that was heartbreaking, it was so painful to read how she begged Snape to take her to the cottage.  And this is the first time that Snape acknowledges what happened to Harry and Ron as a consequence of Hermione’s disappearance, and of course he has to think that they “foolishly” ended in the Death Eater’s trap. This is one of the reasons I can’t sympathize with Snape: He have all the information, all the knowledge, all the power to prevent so many things, but his reasons changed over time and not for the better: first he said he wanted to protect Hermione and the others, that he swore to Dumbledore to save as many members of the Order as he could, but later he wanted Hermione (which don’t surprise me since he was lusting after her since she was fifteen!) and let everyone else go to hell: He was an Order member, and instead of helping, he left without interest in the fate of the magical world, he left the Order without a spy, he left Hogwarts full of Death Eaters, he left Draco (there is no way that he could have protected Draco as he promised Narcissa) and all this brought only horrible consequences: Ron is dead (he went to that raid to try to “save Hermione”, got hurt and later he needed a potion that only a Potion’s Master could do and guess what? Snape wasn’t there to help) and Harry is crazy because he was living in a limbo without closure about what happened to Hermione (Snape saved him in the hospital, but that was because he promised Hermione to do it, not because he believed in helping Harry and if we are honest it was better for Snape’s plans if Harry defeated Voldemort).

Part of me is anxious to know more, and another part of me don´t want this to end, is such a great journey!! But I need to know, what went wrong with the cure of the Urduja Curse? I mean, I suppose that something went wrong since Hermione couldn´t come back after the seven years and there is no way that, after the way her last encounter (before her voluntary captivity) with Harry was described, she just said “You know what? I don’t want to see my friends and family anymore”. Yeah, in many chapters Snape tried to convince her to never go back, but this is Hermione Granger, and she would never just forget about her loved ones.

Good luck my dear friend!! I know everything is going to be ok, and that you are going to be great in your graduation and in your recital.

Hugs

Inés

Hello,

I miss you, hope everything is ok in RL and you can have a little time to let us know that you are ok.

Hugs

Inés

Chapter 24

Hello,

As always, great work!!! It’s good to see the flashbacks and know more about what happened in the past.

I’m so sad about Harry’s fate, because it seems inevitable that he ends in St. Mungo’s with Neville’s parents. He lost it, and now he thinks that replicating the cottage, Hermione would feel at home. It’s so sad and disturbing…

Still hating Snape, sorry, I know that you want to paint him in a sympathetic way, but I can’t stop feeling that he must had said something when Hermione was his captive, he could have found a way to let her loved ones know that she was alive, and let her contact the outside world (a two way mirror, an owl, her patronus, etc.), that way she wouldn’t be in direct contact with them, but can still be in touch. He could have prevented so much hurt, even some deaths (Ron is dead because he was looking for her). That make me think that he wanted her all to himself, because that was the only way he can have her heart, soul and specially her body.

As I said before, I have conflicted emotions toward Hermione, I´m frustrated with her only being a victim, refusing to see the hurt in others and refusing to tell the truth to those that were her family but wanting that everyone believe that Snape is innocent.

You let us know that Hermione wasn´t doing magic while in captivity, I wonder what she did all those years? How she lived all those years without her magic, when that was such a great part of her? In the books she always was trying to show what a great witch she was, even earning the title of the brightest witch of her age, how she become almost a muggle? How she coped with it?

I’m glad to know we are near the end, I can’t wait to see all the pieces in the puzzle together at last, I´m dying to know what would happen with Harry (would he be fine someday? Could he can have closure?), Snape (would he go to Azkaban for his other crimes? Would society accept him?) and Hermione (would she be a strong person again? Would she stop romanticizing what happened to her? Can she live in the wizarding world after being a muggle so much time?)

Thank you so much for your work and efforts, hope to see you soon.

Inés

Hi

Thank you for sharing your writing with us. I like the way you set the story line I find it interesting. 

First of all does Hermione suffer from the Stockholm syndrome??

Second thing is pleaase no Dramione romance, I think that you want to give her a partner by the end of the story but do we really need it maybe draco should just be a friend to her.

The last thing I want to say is can you please finish the story faster if it were a book I would finish it in 2 days but now I have to wait and sometimes I just feel like your making it longer. 

By the way I would like to salute you for your hard work I wasn't an art major but I know what it's like to have to work hard to reach your goals. I hope you'll be a great musician and writer.

Good luck with liife. 

PS : please don't change the way we see Hermione for us she's a strong independent woman and sometimes it doesn't seem like it in the story, maybe she's acting like that because there's the thing we're still waiting to know and which what the story is all about but still I wanna see her make her way out of this the smart way she should.