Surprised no one, especially girls in the story, made any obvious Yuyushiki-style comments:

Yuzuko: I wonder if Yui's little bean is delicious.

Yukari: Yui's *classy* bean!

Yuzuko: We should probably stop now.

Interesting, did you know the next chapter never posted?

an awesome fic. a real joy to read. would love some more though.

This is a most interesting story, much better than half baked plot. I enjoyed reading it very much, though it seems a touch unfinished.

"grateful for the hidden passages and private lifts that only the Headmaster and his Deputy knew," - Private lifts: So each subsequent headmaster, do the portraits in his/her study teach him/her about those as soon as he/she gets the post?

“As I was about to say … I think it’s inappropriate to talk about our students’ personal lives at the teacher’s table. We have our Common Room for such discussions.” There were soft snorts up and down the long table, the teachers trying to stifle their laughter, giggle or snigger at the reminder of their Common Room – and its enormous blackboard where the teachers’ bets on who would end up with whom and when were posted and where, unknown to the student hucksters, the bets placed on Harry and Hermione easily rivaled the combined student betting pools by a wide margin. “Who are we talking about?” The teachers glanced up as a clearly harassed Madam Pomfrey took her seat beside Hagrid, immediately reaching for a goblet and draining it before banging it down in exhaustion. “‘arry and Hermione, Ma’am Pomfrey,” Hagrid whispered to her. “Oh,” she replied, shrugging. She slumped in her seat for a moment before suddenly sitting up with an excited grin. “That reminds me, Filius – you seem to have called it correctly … Weasley and Lovegood are well on their way to becoming an item.” “Really?” Flitwick clapped his hands in glee, bouncing and almost falling from his cushions. “Oh good! Severus won’t be happy – he’s about the only one left who believes that Miss Granger and Mister Weasley would become an item.” “He’s just being bloody-minded, Filius – to say nothing of being grouchy, to boot. You know how he is,” Professor Sinistra said, and then she shuddered. “Remember how long he’s been saying that Mr. Malfoy and Ms. Granger will get together before they leave?” Shaking herself, the acting Head of Slytherin House turned to Madam Pomfrey, “Mr. Weasley and Miss Lovegood, hey? Are you sure, Poppy?” “Why do you think I look so harassed, Aurora?” The school nurse sighed as Hagrid solicitously ladled beef stew on her plate. “I was going to Stun Miss Lovegood so she would leave Mr. Weasley in peace … in any case, I asked the house elves to keep an eye on the Hospital Wing in case she tries to sneak in tonight!” “It’s that bad?” a surprised Remus asked. “The last time you had the house elves guarding the Hospital Wing – ” “ – was when Lily Evans was there, and James kept trying to sneak in,” finished Madam Pomfrey with a laugh. “James could be as hard-headed as young Mr. Potter … although, come to think of it, the house-elves would probably be keeping me out of my own hospital if Mr. Potter decides to see Miss Granger outside visiting hours!” “Or if ‘ermione tries to sneak in to see ‘arry,” Hagrid said, with a booming laugh" - This was SO funny.

“But why would she do that?” Padma’s eyes narrowed dangerously at her twin. “You weren’t flirting with Harry, were you?” “You think I’m nuts?” The harsh response caused heads to turn from all over the Hall and Parvati quickly lowered her head as she feigned interest in her plate." - As was that.

"loaded with a tureen of soup, plates of sandwiches," - What kind of soup and what fillings in those sarnies, please?

"the always roaring fire (magically conjured to give off warmth in winter and a cool breeze in hot weather)," - I never realised that, wow!

"As the others left, she quickly grabbed a couple of sandwiches and an apple from the table and lit off for Gryffindor Tower," - Yay for a fic author who has fruit at meals in the Great Hall!

"If there was one benefit that the therapy gave me, however, it was that I had been forced to re-live my memories over and over, trying to separate that which was mine and those of the brain." - Ron had therapy after the Battle at the Ministry? I would give my whole year end bonus to read the transcripts of those sessions. Though I am hugely grateful that there are mind healers in your Potterverse for this fic. Most fic do not seem to have them and IMO they are sorely needed.

very nice idea and very humorous.

love it!

I have to admit, McGonagall's not the only one with a filthy mind...I thought for a few seconds that a second pairing was about to become the feature of the chapter. Excellently funny, as with all the other chapteres.

My desire to keep going with this fantastic story has been such that I've neglected my reviewing duties- I apologise profusely, and hope that this one review shall go some some way to doing the job of six. However. This may be one of those disguised blessings- six reviews lauding the story would be a bit same-y, wouldn't they?

That was really quite sweet, and the scene with Crookshanks and Mrs Norris was so funny.

I've not mentioned Cindy and Carolyn yet. You created two fantastic little characters there, so innocent but they know the secrets of the universe.

Fabulous. Everything we could want and then some! GOOD JOB. I loved the scenes between Harry and Hermione - you made me really feel it and that's hard to do. Secondly, putting Mrs. Norris & Crookshanks together was sheer brilliance! It was funny as hell to read their reaction to being 'discovered'.

I'm also glad that Ginny didn't walk in on Harry and Hermione. That would have been bad for a lot of reasons...but would have also ruined a perfectly good evening for our favorite pair.

Thanks for all the effort you've put into this story. It's been a tremendous amount of fun to read.

Regards,

the_scribbler

yes thanks to pottergirl. that was one of my favorite harry/hermione fanfics... such a shame she's removed it from the site...