The Burning Pen

A New Beginning
by Ruth Solomon

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CHAPTER 52

Disclaimer: All recognizable characters belong to JKR. All situations are mine. No $$$ is being made from this fanfic.
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Chapter 53 ~ Snape's Results

After about five minutes, Snape's results arrived in Hermione's mailbox.  She quickly printed them out, folded them up and stuck them in her coat pocket as Snape scowled at her.

"You could at least let me see the results," he griped as they exited the cafe and stood in front of the bank for the next bus.

"When we get back," she said, smirking at him. "I want to be nice and comfortable when we go over this."

Snape sighed.

The gods only knew what those results would say.

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Your Results:

There are 8 kinds of love that range from non-love to true love. The kind of love we can find depends upon our needs for passion, intimacy, and commitment. This test is also called the love triangle because the kind of love we find depends upon how much we need of these three key ingredients that create love. The definitions for these eight kinds of love are as follows: --Non Love: the kind of love we have for people we meet at work or on the street --Liking: This is best described by good intimacy but no passion or commitment such as being great friends. --Infatuation: This is puppy love, when passion is high but commitment and intimacy is low and best described by that first heart throb that lasted 2 weeks. --Empty Love: This is found most often in couples who have been together for many years, raised a family, the children are gone, and although their commitment is high, they have neither passion nor intimacy. --Romantic Love: This is best demonstrated by couples who have been together less than 2 years; they have high passion and intimacy, but they have not yet reached a stage of commitment. --Companionship Love: Older couples often find themselves in this form of love. They are intimate and committed to each other, however, their passion has faded. --Fatuous Love: Fatuous is a psychological euphemism for stupid and best demonstrated by couples who are committed to their long term relationship because the sex is great, but the intimacy is low. These couples may develop intimacy over the years, but more often than not, they will either split up or remain unhappy and find intimacy elsewhere. --True Love: That form of love happens in less than 10% of relationships. It's when all three levels of passion, intimacy, and commitment are high.

Score 23

Your total score on this test ranks in the lowest 15% of the population. Unfortunately, this is the population that breaks up! This doesn't mean you failed the test, it just means you're not ready for marriage! To determine the kind of love that suits you best, check your score below on the three dimensions of passion, intimacy, and commitment, then look at the 8 definitions above, and determine the kind of love you can find now. What you find now, may not be what you want but, you currently lack some of the predisposition and temperament to find True Love. Look below at your levels of Passion, Intimacy, and Commitment, and determine what you need to improve. You should take the Big 5 Personality test on this site to understand your personality. Remember, the hardest passage to true love is intimacy because without it, you will never reach commitment, And, intimacy only happens with someone you like! This is why the Big 5 personality test is so important...it will tell you who you will like to be with long term. The True Love Formula is Passion+Intimacy=Commitment. If you work at it, you can do it!   Now that you have the results to this test, would you like to take our most popular FREE test that is a complete analysis of your personality? Why take this test? Because, the 30 dimensional analysis which it provides will help you understand yourself so that you can get along better with a significant other, a friend or relative, and even colleagues at work. If someone you know also takes the same test, it will tell you why you get along or why not. This test, the Gold Standard of psychological testing is called the Big Five. It will break down your personality into 30 dimensions such as friendliness, emotional control, anxiety, and your desire for human companionship. Click here Big Five Personality Test to take the test.

Domain / Facet Score  - Intimate Love 17  - Passionate Love 17  - Committed Love 47

Facets   Intimate Love - Intimacy in a relationship can best be compared to being best friends. Best friends share secrets, love to confide in each other, enjoy doing things together, and most of all, they would rather be with each other than anyone else. Intimacy is the second stage of most relationships, after passion, but before commitment. Sometimes however, like "When Harry Met Sally," it can be the first stage of a relationship followed by passion and finally, commitment. Although commitment usually reaches its peak just one to two years into a relationship, it's very important that it be maintained at a very high level throughout a relationship. You will have a very hard time forming an intimate bond (friendship) with someone. Your score on intimacy is in the lower 15 percentile of all people who took this test. This doesn't mean that you cannot find passionate love because most of us can. It just means that you will not be able to move to the second stage of love which is required before you can find commitment and eventually, True Love.   Passionate Love - Passion is all about chemistry. It's the first stage of most relationships, the stuff of romance writers, and that first love that we all remember so well. If you read the Mary articles on Chemistry, you will know that passion is Mother Nature's way of making sure that our species will survive. Passion tends to diminish as the relationship gets older, which creates a huge marketplace for writers to tell us how to get that magic feeling back. However, there's nothing wrong with "diminished" passion, provided that intimacy and commitment grow. The key to happiness is balance between passion, commitment, and intimacy. Passionate love is going to be difficult for you. You scored in the lower 30% of people who took this test. As we get older, it's normal for passionate love to subside somewhat, but it's still necessary if we are going to find True Love. Without passion, you can still develop bonds of intimacy and commitment but that is not as fulfilling as finding True Love! Sometimes, our passion dies because of bad experiences or for medical reasons that reduce our libido. If that is your case, you should seek medical treatment because these conditions are reversible with proper therapy and/or medication.   Committed Love - Commitment is all about the oath that we take: "Until death do us part." Although we are fast to make such an oath early in our relationship, it's usually the third stage of most relationships. Commitment grows as the relationship gets older, unless external events such as children and career or even retirement interfere. If commitment wanes too much, divorce will ensue, unless passion and intimacy remain strong. However, the key to happiness is balance between passion, commitment, and intimacy and keeping all three at the highest level possible. You are not quite ready for True Love. Your score for commitment was in the 30-70 percentile of everyone who took this test. Are you ready to settle down to just one relationship? If you scored high in Passion and Intimacy, you will eventually find True Love, when you're ready to commit... but don't commit until you are really sure that you want to stay in a relationship for the rest of your life because the financial and emotional costs of separation and divorce are not worth it. Think before you commit.

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A/N:  Shakes head.  Poor Snape. Lowest 15% lol.  He's going to blow up I bet. lololol.  I took the liberty (and time) of answering a 128 question personality test for my idea of Snape. Whew! :::wipes forehead::: Interested parties can read the results here
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