rate_review Reviews

brant.ant. thanks.

you are wonderful writer, this story is going superbly well! i like chap 15 a lot! this tension between the characters are just sooooo appropriate. thanks for the brilliant work!

Once again you put me in awe of your skills to tell the Hero\'s Journey not in an outward physical journey of travel and hardship and change of places but in the interior landscape of the mind. Your style reminds me of Robert Holdstock\'s book Lavondyss: Journey To An Unknown Region. It is a very surreal fantasy, pulling the the most primal images from the depths of the Dark Forrest.

Chapter 14

A few coments about the last two chapter:

As usual I love the way you recreate past. Not a common skill in fandom.

I\'m happy that this wasn\'t another \"..as we said yesterday..\" encounter. Friendship and love are touch by time.
In some point I found my self taking another path from your fic: What will happend if Hermione is death or Ill? Would Snape take care of his daughter, and how? Just a diversion. Your Aubrey\'s is a charachter that stands alone.

Wow. Once again, wow.

Would you by chance be a literature major? You are certainly well read, in any case. The depth of this still astounds



I particularly liked your study of Dumbledore and Harry at the beginning of this chapter. The quote about Harry, \"It was Harry Potter, the father of five children, who had enough love in him to produce enough hate.\" made the workings of the adult Harry Potter clear for me.

The drinks and confessions between Severus and Hermione were perfect. I loved the tense atmosphere about them.

Where will it go now?

HI, i\'ve been reading your story and enjoying it. I normally don\'t comment on stories until they\'re finished, but I saw your note about your Grandmother being in Bergen-Belzen. That\'s where my father was. He was liberated there by the British and had much to say about the treatment received AFTER the liberation as from that BEFORE (and not to the better, I might add). I wanted you to know I don\'t find it offensive to talk about the Holocaust. I grew up hearing about veryvery day. I would imagine that if the Harry Potter Universe exists in a time somewhat parallel to ours, they would probably have experienced it too. The wizarding world probably had something similar with the story about Grindewald (or whatever his name was) that Dumbledore defeated @ fifty years ago. It\'s about the same time. I\'ve also seen the similarities with Voldemort wanting \"purebloods\" as being somewhat similar to what happened in the Second World War, when rules and laws were made a bit at a time so that the people could become \"climatized\" to accepting things before the \"next new law\" was pushed into place. Had they tried to do them all at once, I believe the majority of the population would have objected; but in small increments, \"progress\" can be made. At first it was just not allowing \"purebloods\" to be treated by their \"lessers\". Then \"lessers\" were not able to hold positions of employment at all. Then they were taken away. Then they were killed. Then they were denied. It\'s all rather chilling, when you think about it.

Forgive me if I don\'t recognize most of your quotes; I\'m not very familiar with literature, but I am following your notes and explanations. I like your characterizations and I\'m glad Hermione kept the child. That is a very difficult thing to do, given the circumstances. The atmosphere is also believable; heightened security, guards, etc. A lot of the stories I\'ve read either gloss over the \"end of Voldemort\" scenario; some don\'t even touch on it. I like stories that show more than one layer to people - humor, tragedy, loss, understanding, survival, the need to go on, love, caring forendsends, and not taking any thing for granted. Your\'s is one of these stories. I look forward to seeing what will happen next.

Best wishes, and keep them coming.

I just want to ba.tha.thanks for the update.

Wow. What an emotional chapter. I am fighting to keep the tears back (as I am reading this at my desk). This story is wonderful. I do hope you keep writing.

Chapter 13