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I ~SO~ love this story!!! I haven't been keeping up with your updates enough lately to review but I shall try much harder! Its what you deserve (at least!)for updating as fabulously as you do!!!! Thanks so much!!! How did Harry develop so many personas? Did the final battle do that or is he consiously doing it?... I'm a little confused... Just a bit! Ha!! Anyway, just wanted to thank you!!!
~dani

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THE ANGST IS NEVER-ENDING!!!!!!!! (and how we love it!!!) I am SO SO SO SO SO glad that Draco is NOT falling for Harry's act! So far, he seems to be picking up on the fact that Harry's struggling and isn't holding that against him...now I just want Harry to let Draco help him!!! But I know that will come soon, so I shall be patient.

This is SUCH an amazing story! I love it so much!!! (and I tell you that every time, but it's still true, every time!)

Ah well, hmmm, that got me an interesting insight on the way Harry builds up his concept of success and the way to put him back together.. wouldn't have thought of that on my own really, you still have it in you. And BOY is he a good actor, but not in the way to leave Draco (in which he'll definitely not succeed, thank you very much..)
I want the next chapter!!
Cat

Sooo need chapter 23!!!

another great chapter! well done!

Regarding the pensieve, that wasn't quite the point I was making. The point I'm making is that it seems Harry's main reason for not using the pensieve is the idea that doing so would stop him from doing his job because it would mess with his memories. The thing is, it wouldn't. It's the work of a few minutes to make a personality that *includes* the ability to keep Metamorphasis running, and any particular traits he likes along with the necessary memories etc to keep flitting from persona to persona.

That's what I'm pointing out though. If Harry really sat down and started working on a persona to become, it wouldn't be a matter of *becoming* something so much as creating the same persona as he is, but replacing certain traits. Effectively, excising what he percieves as his flaws.

I'm not suggesting he WOULD, just pointing out how easily an artifact like that pensieve can be abused by an intelligent person.

All that aside however, this chapter has gone some of the way to convincing me that Harry's psyche is potentially bad, but on the other hand, I'm sticking to my guns. Harry has problems, but his problems are also his way out. As I've said, it takes extraordinary strength of character to, instead of buckling under your problems, attempt to circumvent them. Which is what Harry is doing- what he doesn't like about himself, he avoids by becoming somebody who does not have that problem. That's potentially bad, but only if he loses himself in that persona.

Harry's pleasure at flitting from persona to persona means that so long as he keeps it up, he almost *cannot* lose himself in any one personality. The thing is, as I see it his different persona's are so well fleshed out that he's not so much becoming different people as simply choosing to only act on certain parts of himself. Gah, now I'm confused and rambling.

In any case, I have to admit a savage glee at seeing Harry start flinging magic around. I enjoy fight scenes immensely, especially fairly cerebral ones where success is achieved by guile and intelligence, rather than brute strength.

That potion of Draco's, though... Glee. A thought-bomb, effectively, and a wonderful one.

I don't think that Harry can help what happens when he gets into a battle situation. Its as if, while he's there,
all of the angry parts of all of his personalities get together and decide to kick ass. And for him to be confronted
with Draco so soon after a heady situation, it didn't give him a chance to re-seperate into his assorted people.
It will eventually be the end of him, I believe, that he's trying to divide even the real him into so many different
people to pull off the break up operation.
Thank you,
Lunatic with a Hero Complex

about # 20...

Let me tell ya'...by tha' time I got to tha' middle I was like ''Go! Draco! Go!'' :-)
Whether Harry realizes it or not, Draco has him. Now, our boy, Dray has to
play his hand veddy carefully.
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about # 21...

You know Harry really IS losing himself and that's dangerous. It's gotten to the
point he wouldn't/ doesn't know when to stop. It's like a freakin' addiction.

It's really sad.

I hope *Dray can get through to him, but he may have to knock some hard-core
sense into Harry's head.


*Note: I, unlike a few folks, like the nick 'Dray'.

about #22...Dang, you're fast at posting..

Ooo...Draco and Harry fighting back-to-back in sync.

I lurve it! :-D

As a matter of fact, you don't EVER read stories where D & H/ H & D
develop a innate sense of...connection? Where they fight as a unit.

Please don't mind me mentioning this, I'm sure you have enough on your plate
BUT, have you ever played with te idea of doing a story where Harry & Draco
have to learn how to fight together as a team?

Anyway, about what I'm liking most a the past couple of chapters thus far, is
seeing Draco's Slytherin side emerge more & more.

As a matter of fact, this story seems to be told from Draco's POV. Are you
a 'fan' of the character and can just relate more to him than Harry?

I, personally, consider myself a Slytherin with a few Gryff' qualities.

LOL!!! @ Draco saying "I don