i read this when you first posted and can't think - for the life of me - why i didn't comment.

this is very beautiful.

it has a kind of hushed feel to it. i can imagine reading it in a great hall, or outside under the sky.

i like that you didn't find it necessary to sneer at the h/g, r/hr history. and i really enjoyed the idea of ron and hermione being devoted to each other in a different way.

and yeah - the kiss and the glasses and the torrents of need and desire were just... *sigh*... lovely.