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How was Neville effected that broke the covenant between Harry and Severus? I know he was the Guardian but he is not dead and only in for questioning at this time unless the Neville in custody is a fake. Harry and Sev have to know that something else is not right. Great story by the way. I don't think I have reviewed before but have been following it for some time.

this was very very good
and can't you take the same solution as with harry
use the killing curs and kill the dust
keep up the graet work and post soon
bye bye

Darn it, another surprise! Neville is one of my favorite characters in HP and usually gets ignored, is cool to see him getting some of the spot light, even if is not in a good way. What about Luna? Maybe she took the kids to look for whatever weird creature she is after now ;p

Well, yes, it is apparent that Neville is in a "tight bind" as you had him explain in the previous chapter. If he were to have revealed everything, it would have made him Peter, and probably have Ginny and Al killed or imprisoned out of fear for the rest of the wizarding world. And as for that position of trust, I was more thinking of the books. Yes, he has been in that position in Ashes, but it is that very position that has gotten him in this sticky problem. I brought it up because, despite all of this, I was a bit satisfied that since Neville is involved in a way he wasn't in the books, he now can't show judgement against the actions of others. He can no longer stand in judgement of people like Ron and Hermione who stood aside and watched as Harry became Tom. I can't imagine Neville is responsible entirely for this mess (stray death eater?). And although I could definitely see the kidnap of Al as a possible solution for Neville to keep Al safe as well as Ginny, I don't think he'd involve Hugo. I'm having a hard time pinpoint Neville in this story. Something in him is stopping him from going to Luna, and making him take all of the actions he has taken. Something is terribly wrong with Neville, Ginny, and Al in my opinion. I just hope Ron keeps his head. Great job.

Well, if they can figure out some way of filtering the Dust out they might be able to do something which would stop Al fathering children in the normal (Dust-contaminated) way, whilst enabling him to be a father through some wizardiing equivalent of in vitro fertilization, once his semen had been filtered to remove the Dust. Unless, of course, the condition turns out to be manageable, or he turns out to be the equivalent of a descendant of Tom rather than Tom himself, in which case it won't matter so much if he passes it on. If Tom had actually had children, in a normal way, one wouldn't think they had to be stopped from reproducing. It's the power to warp minds which comes from Tom himself which is so deadly, and Al may not have that.

In any case, on his own Al shouldn't be a personal threat to Severus, or to any of them except Harry himself. Dust-contaminated Harry was a threat to Severus because he, as Harry, already had a history of anger and resentment and distrust towards him. He didn't knowingly attack Severus because Severus had [really] betrayed Tom, but because of offences which the part of him which was still Harry imagined him to have committed, although it was the Dust which made him so certain and so vicious.

Al, taken on his own, has no personal reason to want revenge on Severus, or on any of the rest except his father, whom he may hate for "abandoning" him. So whilst the Dust might cause him to grow up disliking Severus, Ron, Hermione and Neville, he has no grievance against them for the Dust to play on, and no reason actively to persecute them.

But if he has, as I rather suspect, been kidnapped by Death Eaters who have found out what he is, then his innate dislike of Severus and the others will make it easy for them to indoctrinate him against them.

Interesting turn of events. Any chance Ginny hid the children herself? Can a person obliviate themselves? But if so, why not wait for a time Hugo wasn't around? And then I suppose she'd have had to obliviate Neville as well. Guess I'll have to wait and find out.

Nice to see you updating so frequently.

Ch 55: Beautiful chapter. I'm so very glad to be wrong in my guess about how they might move forward.

Ch 56: This chapter was very cathartic and sweet... until I read the next chapter! Then it all seemed like a set up.

Ch 57: Didn't see that coming, though you certainly laid the hints many chapters ago. All very well written, all always.

Ch 58. Wonderfully done, very tense.