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This story gets better with every chapter, and I am impressed with your ability to keep them all in character so well. I am looking forward to updates, and hoping for a bit of lemon soon, perhaps? Heaven knows they deserve it!

Hoorah! More?

Chapter 39... BRAVO!!! I 100% agree with the path you chose to take in this chapter!!! You are writing about a very serious situation & it would not do this FABULOUS story justic swe sweep the after affects under the rug just so that they can jump into bed!!!

I think you did an AMAZING job in giving a realistic & very human look into their lives in this chapter!!! I feel for Ginny as well as Hermione!!! They are all having to deal with the tremmors of things that they should have never had to be faced with!!! Hermione is so very strong, but even she needs to allow herself relief from all that she saw!!!

I very much like how you ended this chapter!!! The humor that you included was very fitting & needed to help lighten the sad mood!!! I am glad to see that Harry is finally seeing beyond his nose to do the right thing & I think that Hermione will be very proud im wim when she finds out!!!

I look forward to seeing how these people put their lives back into some form of order!!! I hope that Ginny will see that she can lean on her friends & that she will be okay!!! Maybe the bit of growing up that Harry just did will be just what they need to help her as well as their relationship!!!
I also hope that Hermione & Severus\' relationship will grow stronger after this!!!

Can\'t wait to see where you take them next!!! Til chapter 40, Deb >^..^<

Poor Hermione, I remember cracking when my \"mother\" passed, I can relate. No lemons at all for this story *sigh* oh well. Still at great story, but you alread know that. Thanks.

Chapter 39 was perfect. Very in charicter. I loved the battle, it was nice the way you had everything in either Hermione or Severus\' perspective and didn\'t feel the need to have one of them standing there staring at Harry as he killed Voldemort. I also like hou fou finished up the battle. Some people forget that it\'s not over until all the bad guys are down and out. I look forward to the happy ending. Asumeing there will be one.

I hope you didn\'t think I was criticizing your battle-end decision -- I really liked it on a gut level (as in, \"hey, there\'s something I haven\'t read a thousand times before, neat!\"), and now that youlainlain why you didn\'t want Hermione in the center of the action at the crucial moment, I can appreciate it intellectually as well. And thank goodness you didn\'t stick lemons in this chapter; that really would have been too soon. The empty seats -- followed by smaller House tables -- were a poignant detail of loss.

Anyway, the comforting embrace is much better from a storytelling point of view than anything more physical, even a kiss. Plus it makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

Ginny\'s troubles seem only too rsticstic after such a psychologically scarring battle. But please ... can she have a happy ending too?

I have somehow missed your updates, so had several chapters to read all at once. Quite delightful actually. The scope of your battle sequence was magnificent. Congratulations on your bringing in the dragons and giants and dementors, it added so much layering of canonical icons to the tale. I like the different reactions of those involved in the battle sequence. Harry and Ginny really are made for each other, as are Ron and Lavendar. Of course Snape and Hermione we already knew were the ideal couple... mind and body (well, that last part we hope for).

Excellent chapter Barrie!
Wow, when Hermione\'s dam burst, it bursts in a BIG way. I am just glad that Severus and her friends were there with her. Lavender is way cool in your fic.
I am concerned for your Ginny though. I hope she and Harry can heal together like I expect Hermione and Severus will.
Wow (again).
Thanks again for writing this.

Finally a Final Battle that isn\'t too descrie ane and cliche and is not a \'and Harry killed Voldemort. The end\' one either...
Good job! :)

You went from one evil cliffie right into another! Evil! Evil! But oh so delicious. Loved this chapter. Keep it up!