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Oh dear, shouldn't have started to read this after the delight of Caning Positions from you! But I suppose I didn't believe the warnings. Or, more correctly, the extent you'd take the warnings to.
HP-fandom is ripe with dark-fic and every kink known to man (more than any other fandom) but this exceeds everything I've read in several years of fandom immersion in cruelty, dehumanization, desolation and darkness. And I don't mean in a good way. That it's technically wellwritten makes it somehow even more horrifying to read....

I'm still completely baffled as to why Severus doesn't kill himself FINALLY. I've read your explanations to others questions but frankly they don't make much sense to me since there's absolutely no hope or chance for getting the bond cancelled in your set up.
And even if there were: how many people would WANT/be able to continue living as anything but a broken shell after suffering through such monstrosities and horrors?! He also gets more and more in danger of becoming a Stockholm syndrome victim in addition to the magical enslavement - and he's clearly aware of it!

So just what makes Severus want to live?! His penchant for being used, humiliated and gang-raped for real? I don't think so....
Being tortured and mistreated for the rest of his - hopefully - short life by a sadistic, psychopathic brat? That for some odd reasons he or the others still don't really wan't to put down before he destroys whole Wizarding Britain more completely than Voldemort ever could? Or the gang of monsters he helped create who can't use Horcruxes as an excuse for their depravity: George, Wood, Lee?

What to say... There a a great many things I can say about this story from chapter to chapter, perhaps even paragraph to paragraph, but this is a fantastic story. Now that they've found Hagrid they can go and tell him: great job, if it wasn't for him, Harry would have had the whole King's Cross meeting. And married Ginny...wait. ... Horray for Hagrid! lol But in any case, the idea that led up to this mayhem was clever and believeable next to the actual books. I just read that you have eight more chapters to write and I can't wait to see where you go from here honestly. A few chapters ago I was very much convinced that this final battle WAS going to take place in Hermione's kitchen. It is both frustrating and delightful that Harry is as sinister, intelligent, and more than anything: powerful as he is. The Nevile-George threw me for a loop although I hope to know what the "kink" was. Not that it necessarily should be performed from Harry to Snape...

I'm crossing my fingers for a happy ending myself. With their souls as intertwined as they are, the last thing, despite everything, Harry deserves is to go to hell, or even go through this hell. I imagine that although he is losing control, and I wonder how much of him conscious and awake to realize his actions. Not a big fancier of this new trio either, another reason I want Harry back w/o Voldy attached.

Although I don't like the fact that Snape is a very broody slave, I understand his reasons for not committing suicide I think. Belief that he deserves it, although I'm sad that what he did for that girl that was tortured by all the death eaters and Voldemort will not probably be brought to life. Is his reasons at all because of his love for Harry? I'm not sure on that one. Perhaps the idea of it is far to sappy.

Now for the next chapter: I wonder how Harry will react to a Snape that is affected by a pain killer and by a sort of coffee that is going to make him sleep for some time to come.

Hmm...so what is there left to guess.
- No matter what, I believe that Dumbledore, the bastard syltherin he is, was completely aware of what he did in everything. Only this time, as your recent one shot denotes: he will be unable to apologize for this new mayhem caused. -_-
- Not really a guess, but more like a hope that despite obvious worries that should be made: Hugo is going to be out of the picture and okay. I hope.
- The last thing I want is for a Ginny and Albus (by the way, I loved the reasons you made for the kid to be named Albus) appearance to save the day. If the day will be saved it will probably be by Dumbledore's "gracious" hand... **cough**
- The eventual King's Cross meeting...and That nail thing... I have to wonder if that has anything to do with anything. Well this is a bit convoluted of a guess but if things DO NOT turn out well, and I haven't given this side much thought as all I've been doing is holding on to that bit of hope, although the King's Cross meeting in the book was with Dumbledore, right? I would think that perhaps this time, it might be with Lily...dare I say, with Snape. Nail being the horcrux... I don't know, I saw that as a sick perverted way of Harry, making Snape...lose the kingdom/battle?

Holy crap.
Talk about crazy intense. This is SO good!
update!

Don't see how this can end happily...I don't know about Severus but I am about to give up hoping for a good ending. You said 'sort of' a happy ending, to me that doesn't bode well for our Professor. Very nervous about what Harry will do to Severus this time. Rape him and make him enjoy it... No longer mad at you but like Severus I feel defeated. looking forward to the next chapter...I hope.

I've been reading other reviews and I think I'm agreeing with Alex. Because Snape is aware that the bond and a kind of Stockholm Syndrome is affecting him and drawing him to Harry, it means that any positive "feelings" toward Harry must also evoke feelings of a sort of self-disgust and a further sense of degradation, as you've already shown. I've been concerned that there was no believable way to resolve this story with both Harry and Snape alive. If the pieces of Voldemort are somehow driven out of Harry or killed, and only the "real" Harry is left, he is still bonded to Snape. Snape, even if only bonded to the "real" Harry, still has these truly horrific memories that no person could believably "get over" even with the bond, because even if the bond was drawing Snape to care for Harry, the bond doesn't, as far as you've shown, get rid of Snape's other emotions, memories, etc. And if the "real" Harry gets left after Voldmort's soul pieces are dead, how's he supposed to deal with all the trauma and abuse that he's put others through? And as far as we know at this point, even the "real" Harry doesn't particularly like Snape.

I really hope we don't end up with a series of potions fixing up Snape physically as right as rain, and the bond stepping in to fix his feelings for Harry and override any residual memories of trauma. That's just too easy.

Honestly, the best outcome I could imagine is that Harry dies and Snape gets to have some time and peace to get over this horror.

Still, you have written everything quite well so far -- except, in my opinion, for making Snape's semi-recovery in "Dust" a bit to quick, but maybe that's just me. So I'm looking forward to how you've planned to resolve this. I hope to be pleasantly surprised, if not for the character's sake, at least for the believability of the outcomes.

Well, we are again on speaking terms. Please keep it that way! As much as I'm scared for Severus, Neville and Ron, they are adults. At least Hugo seems to be out of the crossfire. And I'm happy that Hermione could run!

Alex: Wow. Thank you for your feedback. I must admit, I'm rather queasy and sick myself on many occasions writing this, and many times I'm not entirely sure why I am taking this DarkFic this far. But to use the old writer's excuse, the story has a mind of its own now, and I am going to let the darkness run its course. As for why Severus doesn't kill himself, there are several reasons: (1) Pride

Well, that just got a whole truck load darker. Poor Hugo, he's so cute, and now he's with the nut cases.

*Chapter 26*

this story has got me stumped. for the life of me I can't think of any possible or plausibe way that this story might end in a happy ending (I love happy endings. lol. and as you can notice, I'm a complete Harry fan). I'm still rooting for Harry to beat out Old V from taking over his body, but I'm still glad that Hermione got away- if she got away judging by your almost cliffhanger.

I'm apprehensive about how Severus' gonna be treated once Harry/Voldemort gets ahold of him. Anyways, lovely chapter and I hope u update soon.

well that answers my question harry isn't that dense T__T sadly. putting hugo with lee jordan...evilness. well i have no guesses for the next part other than punishment for severus even though he really didn't do anything...