Welkin in the Wizarding World 

Just wanted to add that I currently have 48 chapters written with 31 coded and up on the site. I add new chapters each week at semi-regular intervals. I'd love to receive feedback from Snape lovers who like their romance sprinkled liberally with humor, drama and sex. If you're 18 or older come on over and take a look. Not all but many chapters contain mature content and language. If you're easily offended, you have been warned.

Hi there. So looking forward to reading your story!

Great! A real live reader and not an internet spider! Let me know what you think. This is my virgin fanfiction effort. I think the chapters setting up the situation are less interesting than later chapters and I may add to them at some point. Trust me, there's more detail as it goes along. I have Snape doing a few things that I think are out of character for him in the very beginning, most specifically at the Yule Ball, but hey, it's my story - he has to do what I tell him to...mostly. Not even Welkin can control him for long. Please let me know what you think.

Wow. I read only the first three chapters so far, but wow. I like Welkin's personality and can't wait to learn more about her.

Keep me posted what you think. What is it about her you like? She's my conception of the exact sort of woman that Snape needs of course: someone hard to intimidate, smart but not an ivory tower intellectual, with a sense of humor, charming when she wants to be, quick to anger but ultimately very flexible and adaptable. They would argue and debate a lot, but ultimately they're very compatible and accepting of each other as is and very loyal to one another, tending not to see each other's faults, or if they do, to downplay them most of the time. I see them as opposites in many ways, with each providing the other with what the other lacks. For her, it's stability and a little self-discipline. For him it's fun and enjoyment of life beyond his "mission". Not to mention it being an outrageously physical relationship.

Wait till you get to the Snape's Valentine chapter!

Thanks for reading, and for your comment.

I read chapters 4 and 5 before I went to bed; with this story I have to wait 'til I'm alone!

I like how Welkin is in control of herself; as you wrote, she's not easily intimidated. I also like her potty mouth! I can relate to that a little too easily. Basically, she reminds me of some of my female friends--I tend to be the more quiet side-kick to these upfront ladies.

The way you write for Severus and the other canon characters is true to them, I feel. I find myself laughing at the way you phrase Severus' choice of words-I can hear him saying those things.

Would it be better for me to post my comments on your site?

I hope to keep reading more later on today.

I'm so happy you're enjoying it. You picked up on Severus's semi-pompous way of phrasing things...:) I decided early on that he's a very old-fashioned guy in almost all ways, except maybe one, and I'm sure you've guessed what that one is. <grin> As an old-fashioned guy I thought he would speak rather formally a good deal of the time.

How do you like my take on Lucius? He's a real snake in the grass, and great fun to write.

Hermione may seem a little out of character at first but there's a reason for that which becomes apparent later on. I also introduce a few more original characters into the mix later on.

Whatever suits you as to where to post/send comments is fine with me. The comments made at my site get forwarded to my coffeecup.com account, which I don't get any notice from when they're made, so I don't tend to check it as often. There's also the email address I set up for "Welkin"...welkin_cooper@yahoo.c­om. I check emails a few times a day during the work week, and more often usually on the weekend. At some point, when I get all the chapters I've currently written coded and up on the site, I'll probably be finishing one to two chapters a week and will send a bcc notice to an email list of readers to notify them when new chapters are up. I also have overly ambitious plans to add supplemental material to my website...like photo galleries, links to Snape artists I like, etc.

Just pick which place you'd like to send comments. Do people get annoyed if you post too much on here? It seems a bit empty at the moment. Where is everybody?

Off to code more chapters.

I have yet to find that others get annoyed if another fan posts too much. Compared to the Snape site, this one doesn't get as much action, pun intended. It was on a whim that I remembered to check here the other day, and was delighted to find your contribution. So I guess I'll keep my comments here for now.

I like how you're handling Lucius' character; it strikes me as true to canon. On the Severus and Lucius site (don't know if you like slash!!), another fan, BlackHound, has been writing a terrific fanfic, "My Secret Heart." She's taken liberties with Lucius' character, and it's been playing out so well.

I admire all of you who write. I have an idea, but I just can't commit it to writing! The honest truth is that I'm really only interested in my lady hooking up with Sev. I've got an awful one track mind where that's concerned. Who knows, maybe I'll give it a try. In the meantime, I'm so glad you've joined.

Which Snape site is that? One of the others on here? I saw one but figured this was more appropriate for me to post my website link. That was supposed to be welkin_cooper@yahoo.com by the way. Despite the fact I tried to correct the yahooo it wouldn't take my edit for some reason.

I'm okay with slash that's well written. As far as I'm concerned everybody has a right to view the characters through their own lens. Only J.K. Rowling owns the canon characters, not me.

If that's what you're interested in, you should write it that way. You have to write to please yourself first and foremost, I think. I encourage you to do that. Everybody gets their own Severus! It's Severus Snape liberation!

I started out writing a sexual fantasy that was just supposed to be a few chapters and only for myself and it just suddenly developed a plot and took on a life of its own and went crazy on me. LOL!

I get overwhelmed when I've gone on the big fanfiction sites. I just don't know where to start there's so much there! I was purposely avoiding other fanfics of Snape when I first started writing mine last fall because I didn't want to be influenced, or maybe get depressed because I ran across a really great one and decided I can't write as well as someone else and quit. I'm writing for myself basically, but I do want some other people to enjoy it, and I've incorporated a few things and suggestions into it based on what feedback I've had so far.

Two more chapters up: Welkin and the Pink Piranha and Sins of the Mother. Bet you can guess who the Piranha is...

The sites I frequently visit are the Severus Snape one and the Severus & Lucius:Beneath the Masks. I might have reversed their names. I think this probably is the best site for your link.

I read thru to the Valentine's Day chapter. I wanted to savor every bit of it, but wouldn't you know that that's when the rest of my family came home and decided that I was the most important person to talk to. Usually when I try to start a conversation, it's like speaking into a void. Put me in front of the computer, engrossed with what's on the screen, and suddenly I'm the most fascinating person in the world.

Anyhoo, I'll go back to reread that; such sweet punishment for being distracted. Snape talking dirty is almost too much to handle!

The same thing used to happen to me. Nobody's talking until you open a book to read and then suddenly a spotlight is on you. "What are you reading? What's it about? Why are you reading that?..." and on and on until you give up.

Snape likes to please his lady, and is an interesting combo of raunchy and romantic the way I write him. He's very formal and staid in public, but quite...shall we say...demanding, in private.

That chapter is one of my favorites...as well as the Catfight chapter, which has a lot of humor, and brings Lucius back into the picture. Lucius, pampered aristocratic type that he is, becomes somewhat fixated on her, largely due to the fact that he just can't have her. He's used to getting what he wants.

That fight with Hulda was so funny! Very vivid. I love how protective Welkin is. I'm not sure if I'd have the nerve to go on the offense like that, but it's fulfilling reading.

Hmmmmm...I posted a comment earlier, but I guess FP is acting up again. I mentioned I liked the Catfight chapter and how Welkin is so protective. I forgot to say that for reasons I can't explain, I like that Welkin is older than Sev.

Oooo...I also like that she has a witchy background. I got to the chapter in which Dumbledore informed her that she will begin instruction.

I'm laughing at the pregnancy chapters; specifically how Sev hopes that their more active lovemaking will resume after their son is born. Ha ha ha. He doesn't yet know that children are the best deterrence to their parents having sex. Ok, that's too much of me projecting.

Thanks...I like to think that writing sex and humor is my forte. Drama I'm getting better at as I go along I think.

Severus didn't really know how to handle Huldra, since he's never been the object of female interest in the past. Welkin had to step in and rescue him...between apple fritters and nips of firewhiskey from his flask...

Yes, Welkin and Severus are both very jealous natured. Welkin likes to think she isn't but she's wrong. He's just a lot worse about it than she is. She's about three or three and a half years older than him, but they both act pretty childish for their ages, as Dumbledore pointed out to Fawkes. LOL! I love Dumbledore. He's such a manipulator. For purposes of my story I made him bisexual by the way.

Not just any witchy background either, as it turns out. The Daily Prophet people don't know how correct they were when they made up that blurb about her in the wedding writeup.

Yes...our Severus is a very sexual creature. He's finally hit the jackpot with Welkin after years of drought.

Wait till you get to the birth and see where it takes place! It's also on a very significant night...purposely.

The birthing scene was great! Poor Welkin though. The thought of cold marble...but she managed! I love how they have potions to speed the healing. No way could she and Sev wait through the standard Muggle 6 week healing period!

I think you portray Sev as many of us imagine: reserved, yet once unleashed-beware. Pretty heady stuff.

They couldn't even wait three days before the wedding so six weeks would be an eternity!

Yes...a hard man to get started, but once he does, he's unstoppable. Then again, who would want to stop him?

I'm glad I got the birthing scene right...since I've never had a baby myself, it was a bit of a stretch.

Just finished the Reunited chapter. Ha! Love the Peaches and Herb lyrics. It is so funny imagining Sev singing.

I forgot to mention, but I like the links to the birth announcement, Welkin's wedding dress, and the other images.

Ye gods, the argument Welkin and Sev had struck a little too close to home, but w/o the spanking.

I couldn’t have them singing anything together that was recorded prior to 1996, and Welkin likes the classic songs anyway. I thought the lyrics to that song fit their relationship too. Another fantasy fulfilled...hearing him sing…at least in my head. I’m throwing everything and the kitchen sink into this story. It’s my shopping list of erotica.

Glad you like the images I added. The bracelet, wedding gown and tiara helped as visual images to focus on when I was writing, so I decided to throw them in for the reader as lagniappe. The birth announcement was the result of wondering what Wizarding World couples do to announce a birth, and I decided it would be pretty much the same thing that a Muggle couple would do, except delivered by Owls. And yes, he will have his father’s nose when he gets older, despite what Severus might hope…<grin>

I think it’s funny that Severus reacted like he did when she was deceptive with him, considering that he’s been practically nothing but deceptive with her since the very beginning of the relationship. He was the master of the 'lie by omission'. His lies are about to come back to bite him in the butt though, as you’ll see in the next several chapters. She won’t believe him about something he’s being totally truthful about. There’s only one thing he could ever do that would make her think of leaving him, and she’ll be convinced that he’s done it!

This leads up to one of my favorite chapters: "Have Yourself a Very Weasley Christmas". I do love those Weasleys and their annual 'Christmas debacle' was the perfect setting for the drama that was set into motion by the scene that's about to play out in the Hogwarts library... Poor Severus...poor Welkin...the course of true love never runs smoothly as they say...

I'm almost up the the Christmas chapter. Hermione acting on impulse was great. She usually over-analyzes everything, so I had a laugh witnessing her disastrous attempt to make a move on Sev. I give her credit; however, you had Sev behave exactly as I think we'd expect. I'm kind of surprised that Welkin is insecure regarding Hermione. I mean, I know it's more that she fears that Sev is not being straight with her, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

The visit by her brother is leading to more information about their family, I hope.

Hermione does tend to over-analyze things and even in the grip of a teenage crush she was doing just that with Snape, reasoning that she was the better match for him than Welkin, because she was much more intelligent and serious than her, two qualities which she assumes would make her the superior choice. Snape, in her overly logical mind, would obviously value those qualities over any others because of his own intellect and his serious demeanor. She doesn’t seem to realize that perhaps her assessment of him might be incomplete, and that even though they have widely differing views on things at times, and argue about them, that he and Welkin might actually be more compatible because of other things.

As far as Welkin’s insecurity about Hermione, it wouldn’t have mattered who it was, but a lot of people seem to like to put them together, so I used her because it’s believable that she might have had a crush on him at some point.

Welkin isn’t a perfect person. She has her own insecurities and she can be jealous, stubborn and proud. She’s not about to play second to anybody where it comes to Severus. She knows from experience how dominant he can be and can’t conceive that Hermione, who she considers to be young, shy and guileless, might have actually put the moves on him, not the other way around!

Ah yes…Welkin’s guarded family secret will be revealed in chapter 27, “Bloodlines” due to information gleaned from her grandmother’s journal, which her brother Glenn supplied to Dumbledore.

I like Hermione, but I'm not crazy about her and Sev together, so I never read fanfics about that pairing. I see why others like the idea of them together, but something about it bugs me, and it's not the age difference. I don't know what it is for sure.

In spite of her insecurities, I think Welkin is a great match for Sev. I love how her openness is beginning to rub off on him, at least when they're alone! I also love how Sev is awkward with Sully. I totally imagine him feeling uneasy with his own son, even though he was so proud when Welkin was pregnant!

I pretty much feel the same way about her. I admire Hermione but I’ve never seen her as a good pairing for Snape at all, even in the fanfics where she is grown up. I’ve always seen Hermione as kind of a nag and a prude, neither of which I think Snape would tolerate or be attracted to. I don’t think she likes sex that much. Plus, she’s just not that much fun. She doesn’t seem to have much of a sense of humor. Snape’s a very funny guy in a sarcastic, dry humor sort of a way.

The few Hermione/Snape fanfics that I’ve really, really liked were written by Ruth Solomon, aka Ms. Figg and were pretty smutty. Ruth is such a wonderful writer though, that she could pair him with practically anybody and make me like it. <grin>

One of the primary things I think Severus needs is fun. He really hasn’t had much during his lifetime, except maybe during the early Lily years, which is a shame.

Obviously I see Welkin as a great match for Severus too. I think they’re good for each other. I like to think of their relationship as being perfect because of their imperfections, not in spite of them. They are very tolerant of each other, even if they get annoyed about things on a day-to-day basis. They genuinely like each other.

He actually will get a lot less awkward with Sully as time goes on, although he will always refer to him as the more formal Sullivan, while Welkin goes for the more casual Sully.

I think you hit the nail on the head regarding Hermione--she doesn't have much of a sense of humor and does seem like a prude. But thanks for the reference to Ruth Solomon. I'll check out her stories.

I just finished reading all the chapters that you've coded so far, and wow! What a fun read. When you first mentioned the "Pink Piranha", I wasn't even thinking about Umbridge! I think she's one of the most evil characters JKR created. I got more upset with her in some scenes than I even felt for Voldemort.

Huldra's revenge was really cruel. I kind of expected her to be behind it. Poor Sev and Welkin. Sex may not be everything, but that is a nasty way to get back at someone. And before I forget, I thoroughly loved the scene in which Narcissa disgustingly told Lucius of the things Welkin does for Sev. The image of him sitting there, in agony, until Narcissa asks him if that's what he wants too! So funny. I like Narcissa, even though we really don't know much about her.

Dumb question, but there will be more twists regarding Welkin's Mamie's journal? If I read it correctly, it sounds that Huldra will still have access to the copy she secretly made. Love the intrigue.

Her website is called The Burning Pen. I think you’ll like it even though it’s pretty much all Hermione/Snape. She’s such a great writer and her lemons are superb! She has tons of stuff that she’s written up on there.

I’m so happy to have a new reader! I was beginning to think nobody was interested in Welkin…except Severus that is…;) I’ve had a few people refer to it as a “page turner”, and everybody seems to love the Welkin character. I assume it’s good to say it’s a page turner. At least I hope it is. One of my favorite comparisons though was a comment that “It’s like reading Gone With the Wind, but with Magic and Wizards and lots of smut!” LOL!

I thought the Pink reference would be a dead giveaway that it was Umbridge. She is one of JKR’s most evil characters because she seems like somebody you might actually meet in real life - all sweet and fluffy on the outside and pure evil on the inside.

Yes. Huldra’s revenge plot was pretty awful, menacing poor Sully like that, and what she put Severus through with the impotence thing. Notice how his abandonment issues came out again, when he thought Welkin would leave him over it.

I loved writing that scene with Narcissa and Lucius too. I kind of like Narcissa in an odd way. I even like Lucius, although he’s still a snake. He’s such a great character to play with. I see it as he really does love Narcissa, but he’ll never really change his ways. Narcissa was fabulously prissy about Welkin’s advice, until the brandy hit her. Her refusal to use the words that Welkin had used was really funny to me, especially the way she described oral…

Oh yes, the journal is going to finally give Welkin’s secret away to Voldemort at some point. Notice how the copy was confiscated from Huldra’s room. It ends up in the office of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry of Magic. It’s only a matter of time before they examine it there.

A clue on things to watch for…Welkin’s fear of heights will be important at the conclusion of the story…so will the “health drink” and an unusual ability that she will exhibit which will be described in Chapter 40, when poor little Sully is once again menaced by me. I should be ashamed of myself. He’s such a little charmer! And I’m treating him like a mere plot device. If you haven’t already figured out where this is all heading, you will figure it out when you read that chapter I think, but I don’t think it will ruin anything for you.

Thanks for the name of the Ms. Solomon's website. I'll definitely give it a look-see. A smutty Gone With the Wind!! That's a great compliment! I think Welkin is such a fun character that's it's easy to see that she would resonate with your other readers. She also reminds me of Stella, in How Stella Got Her Groove Back. In that case, Stella was the older partner, with a younger lover, and she was hung up on her age. She and her lover kept having tiffs, then making up, and it was a really fun read.

As for Umbridge, I have a knack for being dense at times. When I read your first reference to it, I automatically assumed it was something sexual! Lacking a decent imagination of my own, I can't even say what I was expecting.

Narcissa being prudish about oral was very funny. I like Lucius because he is just so awful and snotty. While I thought all the HP books were well written, I regret that JKR didn't give more backstory on all these characters. I've said that about Bellatrix, and I feel that way about the Malfoys too. Then, I keep forgetting that these are YA books, and that her target audience would probably be bored by all that info. So, who knows. Maybe someday she'll give us that. In the meantime, I so enjoy the fanfics. I'm new to reading these, and I can see why they draw such passionate response.

I figured Welkin's fear of heights would play out somehow. As before, I look forward to reading more!

Finished reading the two chapters a little earlier. I love the image of Welkin singing. I imagine her, bringing such meaning to all of those songs! And her playing dumb with Yaxley was funny. However, I sense danger...

A Meeting of the Minds was simply intense. The idea that Welkin had such powers, yet was told to hide them, contrasts with how Lily's parents were proud that she was a witch. Welkin having dreams of a dark prince...sigh...words escape me.

Welkin is a little too intent on the idea of helping Severus with his spying. He tells her emphatically not to, and she pretty much ignored that. Yaxley is definitely not someone she needs to be messing with though. He's pretty much immune to her charm and is always looking for some way to rise in position as a right hand man to Voldemort.

One of the reasons I have her singing at The Hog's Head is to give her access to that secret passageway there to Hogwarts, which will be needed by her in the future.

A Meeting of the Minds gives a little taste of what Welkin might be capable of, but the full extent of it will be shown in a future chapter. It was also a chapter that came about as a result of me wondering what it would be like if a couple were making love while practicing Leglimens. With both their bodies and minds joined it would have to be incredibly intense! She finally decided to share herself completely, not an easy thing for her since she's so independent.

Yes...Welkin's dreams of a dark prince with the funny name...like the hiss of a snake...they discuss that briefly in the next chapter: "Fears, Fate, and Fantasies"

I plan to code like crazy tomorrow and try to get a lot more up on the website, if not every chapter I've written so far.

Thank you so much for your wonderful comments. Love the use of the heart in your commentary.

As you tell us more about Welkin's family, is there also a reason why she is so independent? That came off sounding wrong. She's mentioned she had had some pretty intense relationships, and I personally don't believe that everyone needs to be married to be "fulfilled", but knowing a little bit about her family and their desire to underplay their natural gifts--it makes me wonder if that has made her reluctant to get too close to anyone in the past.

A Meeting of the Minds was just amazing. The idea of such a complete merging with another is so powerful. I love the way you described Sev's name "like the hiss of a snake." Oooo...I honestly get chills!

Lastly, I can't believe I forgot about the secret passageway from The Hog's Head into Hogwarts.

Welkin had intense physical relationships in the past with men she loved in more impersonal ways, but her family’s “training” in distrusting other people, though not readily apparent on the surface, has been so deeply embedded that she has never completely shared herself with anyone before she met Severus. And as you can see, it even took her a little while with him.

She would have been happy with him without the convention of being married. It was Severus that wanted and needed that for his own insecurities. He wanted his brand firmly on her and only marriage would have sufficed for him. He’s a very conservative guy in many ways. Dumbledore helped maneuver her into it by pushing it with the Ministry, because he knew that’s what Snape wanted. His whole thing with bringing her there in the first place was to give Severus Snape a reason to want to try to stay alive while fulfilling his spy mission and protecting Harry. Severus had lost that desire a long time ago, when Lily died. Albus was trying to give it back to him. He just didn’t know that he picked such a good candidate to help him do that!

Her family has had centuries of moving around and attempting to hide their heritage and trying to fit in with Muggles and not be noticed. On the other hand, they must be somewhat proud of that heritage too, or they wouldn’t do things like retain Morgana as a name for the eldest girl, passed down for all those centuries. And every so often you have a rebel in any family, who goes against the family grain…that was Welkin’s grandmother, who wrote down all the family secrets and practiced magic in secret, much to her strait-laced daughter’s (Welkin’s mother) chagrin. Welkin is like her grandmother…very independent and in your face about her beliefs, but also very accepting of people and ideas that are “different”.

I love the idea of joining physically and mentally during sex. How perfect would that be? I swing wildly between raunch and romance in this story anyway, because that’s the way I view both Severus and Welkin, raunchy but ultimately very romantic.

I only thought about the secret passageway myself when I was searching for a way to do something very important to the climax of the story in a believable way. It made sense that she might be offered a job singing there, since she has a good voice and a very lively manner, not to mention she’s pretty easy on the eyes. And she likes the place as a hangout too.

Do you see what I mean about Severus being the one who needs the convention of marriage?

I understand that Sev would have a stronger desire to get married. However, I like how Welkin is more of a free-spirit. There are not enough female role models like that! Years and years ago, and this will be a major digression(!), I took an advanced class on Japanese literature. When we got to the mid-to-late 19th century, we had a set of picaresque short stories in which the heroines defied conventions in many ways, but usually sexually. To get around censors, the authors had to have these ladies punished and it often involved their deaths in order to protect their families' honor. Our final project was to write a story in the mode of any of the forms of literature we had studied. A close friend and I teamed up to do a picaresque story, but we couldn't bear to kill off our heroine. She did suffer some shame and ostracism, but in the end she prevailed. Erica Jong has a heroine who has many erotic adventures in "Fanny Hackabout Jones." I'm not sure if that is the correct title, but it was a fun read, if only because you don't often find women characters like that.

That's why I so enjoy how Welkin's ebullient personality bumps up against Sev's more constrained one. They are such a good counterpoint to each other.

You are giving me such good recommendations for reading. Now I need to look for Erica Jong’s book that you described.

The class you took sounds interesting. Women have often been punished in real life as well as literature for stepping out of line and daring to be who they really are. It’s a shame.

Welkin thinks the whole Wizarding World seems a bit sexually repressed. She doesn’t understand it, since the Witches seem to have equality in every other way.

I have been coding and now have six more chapters up: Fears, Fate and Fantasies, Slytherin Is As Slytherin Does, Masquerade, Lucius and the Pendragon Plot, The Life Giver, and Welkin’s Study Date.

The Life Giver is a particularly pivotal chapter, as it lays out the extent of Welkin’s inherited gift.

As always, hope you enjoy…

Glad you like the recommendations. I don't know if Erica Jong's book will be easy to find in your library or bookstore. It's not like it was an obscure title, but I think it's from the early 80's, and typically her Fear of Flying and non-fiction books are more readily available. I also remember that Fanny was written as if it were published in the 1700's, or whatever era that story took place. It took me a while to get used to the language, but I was also around 16 when I read it.

I like how Welkin thinks the wizarding world is sexually repressed. It gives you a lot to work with! As usual, I forget that HP is a YA series, as I was about to say that JKR didn't provide much in the way of those kind of details!

Look forward to reading more....I'll see if I can hold off and save them as an Easter treat!

I actually found it on Amazon.com. Sounds interesting.

Yes...young adult books aren't exactly replete with sexuality, even though many young adults are.

Welkin hasn't really done that much in terms of sexual variety so far in this story. She's into role play and he's pretty good at it. As I say in one of your upcoming chapters. Welkin likes to be chased, and Snape likes it when he catches her...

Lucius, that stinker! Polyjuice potion--Welkin beware. This story is so much fun to read! I keep writing that, but it's the truth.

Welkin is brave to allow Sev some back-door action! I was cringing to myself, considering his, um, dimensions, reading that chapter. What's also funny is just how "mainstream" anal sex is becoming. A few months back, Redbook magazine had an article with tips on it! What I didn't know is that back in the day, oral sex was considered taboo. When I was in high school in the mid-80's, it wasn't necessarily expected right away, but it was pretty much a given that it would happen sooner or later.

Yes Lucius...just when you think he's reformed, he comes up with a new scheme to get into Welkin's sometimes nonexistent panties.

I'm glad you're having fun reading it - I know I am writing it!

Welkin wasn't so brave about the back-door action at the beginning was she? She was doing a bit of cringing herself due to those healthy dimensions of his. I liked the fact they made it into a competition. He reneged on the House points promise though. Shame on him!

It's amazing what a little competition will do for motivation!

Just finished with chapter 43. What a roller coaster ride! I feared that Lucius's plans would have worked, and his punishment was hysterical. Plus I love how Persephone is taken with Sev. Such a funny image of her lingering at his side.

Welkin's sentiments that she and Sev must have known each other from previous lifetimes were very touching. That is unabashedly romantic and a lovely thought.

Poor Sully--he's been in a couple dangerous situations now, but at least Welkin now knows how gifted she truly is. And Sev announcing that he's ready for another child! I got such a laugh at that. I can so see him announcing it like that, and Welkin taking extra precautions regarding her birth control.

And Hermione with Julien...that sounds promising, and I hope he's one of the good guys.

Lucius is very persistent, you have to admit. Dark magic saves the day though. Severus will be less reluctant from now on to teach Welkin what he knows.

I don't remember animals liking Severus very much in the books, but I love the idea of Persephone being besotted with him. She's the perfect animal for him. Capricorn...sign of the goat...and also historically associated with dark things, like Satanism. LOL! Fits his Death Eater past.

Welkin believes in reincarnation. Severus doesn't necessarily, but he's probably not going to automatically discount it anymore. He tends to at least listen to Welkin's ideas even if he doesn't agree with them because he loves her so much. I loved what he said to her about it. It is terribly romantic.

I know - I treat poor Sully like a plot device. He'll be exhibiting some abilities of his own soon. Severus wanting another child even surprised me when I was writing it. What's his hurry? Does he think he's not going to be around that long? Has he suddenly decided that he likes kids after all. Sully is such a charmer and he does love his Da.

I haven't decided about Julien yet. Is he good or bad? Or is he "Severus light"? A little bit of both?

The picnic chapter was lovely. Poor Sev, trying to get as much loving in before the wizarding wars erupt. And him going on about more children again! Why do I have the feeling they'll have another one sooner rather than later?! The image of Sully levitating his "nake" was too cute.

Talk about being a dunderhead! I completely forgot that a goat is the symbol for Capricorn! Nice touch!

Severus has had more loving in the past year and a half than he has all his life. That will not abate anytime soon.

There will be another child, but no, you and Severus will have to wait. Welkin will need to be able to hit the ground running when the war erupts and she needs to continue her studies for that. She's being the logical one this time. He'll keep occasionally "not nagging" her about it though, I suspect. Sully is awfully cute though. I'm a little apprehensive about Severus naming the next child himself...

Just finished chapter 48. I can just see Sev perusing internet porn, deciding what he wants to do next with Welkin! This has been such a good read.

Thank you so much. I love getting comments on the story. It helps me see what aspects of the characters and the story are most or least interesting to readers.

I don't know how many more chapters there will be before the climax (no pun intended) of the story, but I imagine quite a lot since it's about two years away. I already have the ending basically planned, and it will be MOST dramatic I assure you.

I just finished re-reading the first several chapters. It's even better the second time around! Thanks again for sharing this!

Thank you for reading...and re-reading. I actually added a little material to some of the first chapters because I thought they needed to be rounded out a little, but I'm not sure that's up on the website yet. I'm adding more to chapters as I re-read them myself.

I've started the next chapter, but keep getting sidetracked. I just got on Pottermore and have been playing around on there. Sorted Slytherin, yet again.

Lucky! I haven't checked out Pottermore yet, but I have no doubt I'm a Hufflepuff. The rest of my family are so Slytherin, it's almost tragic.

I can't tell you how much I love The Inevitable Tumble. There's something about their first time that is so delicious.

Their first time was rapidly followed by their second and third, although I do not detail it in that chapter. I like the fact he felt he had to rush the first time, so she wouldn't have time to reconsider. He didn't know she set the situation up to get him over there.

I reread chapter 3 just about every day. Obsessed much?!

LOL! Don't worry. You're not alone in your obsession. I have other "obsessed" readers who come back for certain chapters. I'm very flattered. It's just really hard to get people to comment though. That part's discouraging. I'm putting chapters up on Occlumency now, which is the Severus Snape archive of Sycophanthex.com , and the numbers show it's being read consistently, but only a few brave souls comment.

Oooo...I'll have to check out that site. Sometimes I wonder if I comment too much, as in RL I'm usually quiet. When it comes to Snape, I just can't shut up.

You can't possibly comment too much when it comes to Snape.