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I'm glad you liked the chapter. You should see when I'm writing action scenes--anybody walking by would think I'd lost my mind waving my arms around like I do, but I have to make sure it works out the way I write it, ya know? I imagine with she and Tonks it is much more of a kinship given that they are witches in a wizard's profession, so to speak. And they are about the same age. I didn't think I was much of a romantic either, but I think I've accepted that I was just in denial. And when it comes to Snape, I think he's long overdue for some.

You're welcome for the words. I have learned that any grieving parent never "gets over it," as it's impossible to do, and the only best thing is to acknowledge their loss and help remember their children (if it's someone you're closer to). I've met other grieving parents, one of whom wrote a book about the experience, so I've learned secondhand at least.

Sorry about the phone number confusion. I forget the same codes for things don't apply overseas, but you got the idea. And oddly enough, I've been indulging my Rickman fixation a little here today through YouTube. I finally got to see all the pertinent scenes from Dark Harbor. *slurp*

I love Vivienne, she's one kick-a$$ OFC. She had the right plan with the right answer at the right time. Is she the savior of the wizarding world now instead of Harry, or do they still have to find all the Horcruxes and destroy them because the darkness still lingers in those pieces of his soul.

I love the name Alastor Gumboil, for some reason the name Harvey Gumboil rings a bell, but I can't figure out why. He must be the brother of Alastor.

The sword in the stone! Will a young boy named Wart someday remove it? I wonder what Gryffindor called his sword. It couldn't be Excaliber or Nothung could it. I'm a Wagner fan so I'm partial to Nothung. It was goblin forged, I imagine Excaliber was too. Rowling must have liked the Ring Cycle, it also had a cursed ring and an invisibility cloak. It's been a long time since I've seen it, but if I remeber correctly wasn't there something about a diadem. I don't remember anything about a cup, but I know there was a cup/Grail in Parsifal.

I tried several Latin-English dictionaries to translate the spells but I couldn't do it. I know what the words must mean, but can you give me a literal translation?

I love the punishments the Death Eaters were attacked with, especially the stalagmite like icicles and Winky taking a cane to Yaxley like a pinata. I issued a challenge in my Live Journal today called The Death Eaters in Pain Challenge. This story already meets the basic requirements except for Severus's snakeskin boots. Maybe you'd be interested in writing something to answer the challenge. Here's a link.
http://trickie-woo.livejournal.com/

Snape is a true romantic hero in the Byronic mold, Rowling wrote him that way, but her ego will not admit it what her id created. That's why I love Snape romances, but they have to be with a woman near his own age for me to enjoy them. I loathe it when they pair him with Hermione, canon Snape would strangle her within five minutes of being alone with her. If she is paired with a Slytherin I can accept her with Draco or Lucius, but never with Snape. Vivienne, on the other hand, is perfect for him. You're right about that voice, if he were just starting out as a young actor today he could easily support himself with 900 phone sex.

Dreamweaver: You didn't breach my privacy, I just feel that outsiders don't need to be part of our conversation about that. There is more to it I haven't told you yet. Use the link to my LJ I put in here and you can contact me that way and we can talk further.

The curse must truly be broken now that they have both confessed that they love each other, but I hope that means that the bond they have now formed makes the sex just as imperative as the curse did.

I love seeing some of the bad guys have some violence inflicted on them and all three of them deserved it. It's too bad an auror can't use the cruciatus curse, I've always wanted to see Bella writhing in pain. It would do Rodolphus some good too and it wouldn't be amiss used on the little s**t that Draco is in this story.

It was really nice to see that the balance in the violence was topped off with some very nice smut. If Severus has to suffer some pain, he should get to have some pleasure too and you let him have that pleasure. Good for you!

Dreamweaver, go to my profile and contact me from there, I think it's now too personal now to discuss in here.

Wow. I'm sorry for you both having to deal with the loss of a child. I've only seen clips from Something the Lord Made, and it was poignant even then, but I can't imagine having the connection to it that you do, how much more so it would be.

Re: Trickie
I love using the French pastry analogy with Vivienne, because she is at once sweet and tart. It works, and of course Severus loves both kinds. His lubrication has a cinnamon scent of course because cinnamon oil has a tendency to expand blood vessels and cause a warming sensation. You just can't use too much or it irritates the skin. ;) As to the curse, it is truly broken, and naturally sex is still important. Consider: they felt it before they admitted it, and yet they were still making love in the wee hours. You just get to see the natural progression of the relationship.

And bully for the bad guys getting some damage inflicted for a change. Having Bella's rump tossed back into Azkaban is a nice little slap; she would be well and fully insulted at the fact that it had happened again, though I've always really wanted Neville to hit one home with a Cruciatus too, just once. Draco, at long last, is getting the wind taken out of his sails too though.

And I have tried purposefully to use the lovey dovey stuff as a counterbalance to some of the nastiness here. As it should be.

'Hell's Bells and hand grenades' may be clean, but to me it's just more colorful and inventive. That's why it's so much more fun.


Re: Dreamweaver
It's completely open whether or not Snape changes his m.o. with Neville. More than anything I wanted him to see the hypocrisy of his actions, for all he hates bullies (hello, James and Sirius) but would barely swat at Malfoy and his cronies. It did at least give him pause and he and Vivienne related through their own individual experiences too, so it was a growth moment for their burgeoning relationship. And I'm happy that you are still finding Vivienne to be a strong, imperfect character. To my mind, that is what makes her perfect for Severus.

As for Trickie and I, we met on here and discovered the commonality of being military families and living in Maryland. I'm not even there anymore, even though I graduated college there. It's just one of those small world kind of things.

Alan is the best part of Dogma really. I couldn't stand Ben and Matt in it, really. It was Alan's lines, especially the whole diatribe in the beginning--"do you douse every man with flame retardent chemicals?" still gets me going every time. And yes, in Prince of Thieves I would have said "I do" without being forced. I have always said though that if he hadn't gone into acting, Alan could have been an operator for a 900 number. He'd make a killing.

What is there not to love with that chapter? The action scenes were brilliant, I felt like I was right there with Vivienne fighting off her attackers. Thank goodness, Tonks and Snape were there in time to help. I loved how Tonks has grown to care for her as a friend and was ready to read Snape the riot act until she realised that he really did care for her. He was so tender with Vivienne as he helped her with her injuries and I love that she got to respond in kind a few hours later when he returned from Voldemort's quarters in as much pain as she had been. And although I am not much of a romantic, I did love how they whispered words of love before falling asleep in each other's arms. Now I'm wondering what's going to happen from here.....Well done!!

Trickie - my sincere apologies if I have made you feel uncomfortable in any way or if you feel I have breached your privacy, that was not my intention. I did go to your profile on here but it says your contact details are hidden. I can leave my MSN addy here sometime if you'd like to contact me but I understand perfectly if you don't want to. :)

FB - thank you so much for your kind words, they are much appreciated and I sincerely hope you never have to know what it's like to experience it yourself, of course I wish that for everyone but life doesn't play it like that. It would be cool if Neville got a helping hand and I can imagine Snape being extrememly subtle about helping him out. :) That is indeed an 'its a small world' moment for you to have met up like that. Funny how things work out at times. You threw me for a second with the '900 number'. LOL It's a '0055' number over here. :) Strangely enough, I ave the sudden urge to watch Prince of Thieves. LMAO

I feel I must start on a serious note and offer my heartfelt condolences to you and your partner, Trickie, for the loss of your beautiful little boy. There are no words that can take the pain away of losing a child and time only takes the edge off pain, it does not take it away. I began writing my first story as a way of filling the emptiness of my own loss. I lost my twins in-utero, there was nothing they could do to save them. A few years later and my daughter decided to come 9 weeks early and I spent the next 7 weeks wondering if I would have a baby to take home at all, she 'died' twice the first week she was in the neonatal ICU. I know this does not compare to what you have had to deal with but I wanted you to know my condolences were sincere.

For the story (and a little lightening up) - Oh I do hope Snape is going to help Neville to stand up for himself even though I know it would probably be better coming from Vivienne. I'm glad she had the kind of dad who could teach her how to defend herself, not every kid is that lucky. And hearing Snape confess of his own dealings, wow, never thought I'd hear him admit to that. It shows their level of intimacy is deepening. I like how he steered Vivienne away from Sirius too, probably a good idea. LOL And finally whatever's in that cinnamon scented oil - I want some. LOL

And in conversation, - Thank you for letting me know roughly whereabout's you're situated, Trickie. It's funny how the North and South consider the state of Maryland to be at such a contradictory place. I guess that's what the Civil War does for your culture. If it's not a personal question, do you and FB know eachother through living in the same state of the fact of your army background? (neither of you have to answer that) The closest I come to military is my brother who is ex Navy. I certainly haven't travelled around as much as you both obviously have. And OUCH on the Ben Gay even more now that I know I guessed right. No-one would blame you for swearing like a trooper!

FB, in my eyes, your potrayal of Vivienne is more than fine, she's good at what she does but she is not perfect, she has her faults and that is what makes her believable. :)

I didn't like Dogma, I only sat through it because Alan was in it and he was the only thing worth watching even though I do like Ben Afleck and Matt Damon in other movies. I agree, sex personified in Prince of Thieves, I wouldn't have said no to him. LOL And I have no doubt that voice could bring a woman to orgasm, none whatsoever. *grins*

I have never seen Something the Lord Made and I doubt I could sit through it without going through half a dozen boxes of tissues either. People like Doctor Blaylock are the real heroes in my eyes (meaning no disrespect to the wonderful men and women who give their lives for their country and their loved ones) - I just think these people deserve more credit then the acting and sporting icons do).

I love French pastries and Severus obviously loves both kinds of French pastries. Woinderfully arousing smut! I'd sure would have preferred the lubricant he brewed to the Ben Gay I got that night.
I like 'Hell's Bells and hand grenades', it's awfully clean for an Armyism; all the ones I know are totally profane and use the F word.

I loved 'Something the Lord Made' too. Rickman was marvelous as Dr. Blaylock. I can remember many times as I grew up seeing stories in the Baltimore Sun and the Baltimore News Post about Dr. Blaylock and the blue babies he had operated on. He was considered a real hero in the city.

The movie spoke personally to me; I met both Helen Taussig and Vivien Thomas at the Pediatric Cardiology Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, but Dr. Blaylock had died a few years before. My son was born at Hopkins with a serious heart defect and was a patient in the Pediatric Cardiology Clinic from birth. Unfortunately, he didn't survive the corrective surgery and died a week after the operation, 11 days before his second birthday. Today they use a heart lung transplant to correct that defect and the survival rate is somewhat better, but it's still far from a sure thing.

"Have you ever seen a picture of him wearith the prothesis they made for him to wear under his costume?" Yes, I did. 'I'm as anatomically impaired as a Ken doll.' He has some of my favorite lines in that movie. What I thought was funny is that I've always thought he could talk a woman into an orgasm, but there, they have him tell her she's pregnant and so it is. lol

"I think it's also such a self contained entity that I feel like I need a pssaport when I cross the eastbound span of the Bay Bridge."

It is definitely another world. It's a definite urban to rural switch just crossing the bridge.

"Their DI was a master of profanity and my vocabulary increased by leaps and bounds while I worked there. At least every other word he used was profane and his favorite word wa m----rf--k. He was extremely creative with it and I now can curse up a blue streak and know literally hundreds (maybe thousands) of ways to creative use the term m----rf--k."

That sounds about right, and they're usually little guys too. Ones with Napoleon complexes. But I can't say much, thanks to the Army lifestyle, I can do a few blue streaks myself. I think my favorite Armyism of all time is "hell's bells and hand grenades"--makes me snort into my pumpkin juice every time.

Glad you enjoyed 'A More Merciful Man', I was sure you would. I know you'll like 'Wolf's Moon' too.

"As to Alan's movies, I think the third best casting (after Sense... and Harry Potter, of course) was Dogma. He was the. voice. of. god. I think that says it all. Someone in casting knew the effect his voice has on women and utilized that. Very funny. That said, Prince of Thieves and Die Hard do tend to leave me rooting for the bad guy."
I loved him in Dogma too, even though the costume designer tried to make him as genserless as a ken doll. Have you ever seen a picture of him wearith the prothesis they made for him to wear under his costume? He was the only reason to watch 'RH:PoT'. His Sheriff of Nottingham was sex personified. I also agree with you about 'Diehard', Hans Gruber had a lot more appeal than Bruce Willis.

"Eastern Shore Maryland is broad, flat, and smells perpetually of chicken poop. There are huge farms over there for Perdue Corp, and the business school at my old alma mater was named after it. Bleh."

I think it's also such a self contained entity that I feel like I need a pssaport when I cross the eastbound span of the Bay Bridge.

And to continue the Ben Gay joke, it's ironic since my step-dad injured a groin muscle the other day doing assault training. When I suggested he put some of that on it, he gave me a few choice (Army approved) words. He's very fond of the f-bomb, which I think is military standard jargon these days.

The Ben Gay is no joke, I understand completely how your stepfather feels. I've also learned to never let a man touch you amorously after he has shaved until he has washed his hands several times or scrubbed them with a nail brush.

When we were stationed in Mainz, Germany I worked in the Ed Center at Lee Barracks, an infantry kaserne (base). The window behind my desk opened onto a courtyard 3 floors down when an infantry company har formations 3 times a day, morning, noon, and retreat. Their DI was a master of profanity and my vocabulary increased by leaps and bounds while I worked there. At least every other word he used was profane and his favorite word wa m----rf--k. He was extremely creative with it and I now can curse up a blue streak and know literally hundreds (maybe thousands) of ways to creative use the term m----rf--k.

Glad you enjoyed 'A More Merciful Man', I was sure you would. I know you'll like 'Wolf's Moon' too.

"A More Merciful Man" was fantastic. I loved the humor and wit in her/his writing and how well Snape was kept in character. that was loverly. I have yet to read "Wolf Moon," as it was the other took me a couple of days. More importantly, back to school has reared its ugly head so I want to finish this story in the next week or so. Deadline comes... and more lovely lemons.

Re: Dreamweaver 2008-08-01 id # 3001218035
See, I told you this girl's a fighter. She's hell in battle too, and more than a match for him, if I do this right.

As to Alan's movies, I think the third best casting (after Sense... and Harry Potter, of course) was Dogma. He was the. voice. of. god. I think that says it all. Someone in casting knew the effect his voice has on women and utilized that. Very funny. That said, Prince of Thieves and Die Hard do tend to leave me rooting for the bad guy.

"Maryland is really neither a northern or a southern state, people in the North consider it the northernmost southern state, while Southerners think of it as the southernmost Yankee state." That is the absolute truth, it's just kind of in the middle. Eastern Shore Maryland is broad, flat, and smells perpetually of chicken poop. There are huge farms over there for Perdue Corp, and the business school at my old alma mater was named after it. Bleh.

And to continue the Ben Gay joke, it's ironic since my step-dad injured a groin muscle the other day doing assault training. When I suggested he put some of that on it, he gave me a few choice (Army approved) words. He's very fond of the f-bomb, which I think is military standard jargon these days.