Wonderful! I really am competely absorbed in this story.
Thank you for writing.

It's pretty funny you wrote this before HPB, when Book 6 turned out to be nearly the same plot. Although we know Book 7 won't be H/Hr (sadface), it is still fun to read this. Thanks!

This has to be one of the best one-shots I've ever read. Hermione was so perfect, thanks!

That was dang near epic. Although the ending was a bit weak in retrospeck to the rest of the story. Seemed like it should had a bit more detail or even an epilogue.

so these is the 2 time i read it and i´m taking back all the thing i said it is slow but cause it has to be and its poetic cause you do feel it and the hole cleopatra thing just make you understand it more cause she didnt let her self down but she did not remain the same person and was only truly to her self when she knew she would be back with her love,what i love the most is the way you end it ¨It was the simplest, most powerful gesture to ever grace the surface of the earth.
I felt the water around me disappear. I was no longer confused; I no longer doubted anything. I was back on the beach, watching the sunset into the vast ocean.¨
that you cant just write you have to feel it and the way you make us feel it is so much better than saying happily ever after

It is slightly melodramatic, but the plot warrants it. very nicely done, I enjoyed it very much.

That was a beautiful story. I loved every bit of it. I especially love the comparing of falling in love to a sea and the Cleopatra references. Wonderful story.

wow... good ... im like dumbstruck that was like... wow... excellent job... long but wow it was awesome... i really enjoyed it... the sea of confusion i loved the parts where you described stuff like the cleopatra and harrys 'family' and stuff like that that was like so cool!anyways as its almost time for me to go pick up HBP from the bookstore i ll leave you with my wish for you to write more storys like that ...
hannah X.

I remember reading this fic long time ago. Though I can't remember where. Anyway, I love the way you use the sea symbolism. That is exactly how I feel about falling in love. Thank you for putting it in wonderful words.

I don't really have much knowledge about the whole Cleopatra/Caesar/Calpurnia love triangle. But it was great having a point of comparing H/Hr/R relationship to another set of couples.

I really enjoy reading this fic tremendously.

Oh, it was such a great story!! I really did enjoy reading it, and although it took me a lot of time to finish it, it was worth it... great story, very real, and I want to believe this is what's going to happen in the real story!!

Excellent... I always love stories that explain Hermione's feelings during canon moments, and I think you've hit her emotions dead on, especially the Cho stuff in OotP.

wow really really potic one you are arent you uh???? i mean i did like it but it wes kind of slow but then you totally releft it on the end it goos 4 some mabey be boring and slow but i think you wrote what you felt and its just good

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that, was the best one shot i have ever read. really long, but really good. the recommender said that by the 1000th word i wouldn't be able to stop, and you know what, i reckon he was right.
you were so brilliant in tying everything together! so brilliant. there were some rough edges along the way, you know, like you never fully explained ginny and draco, and you never fully resolved how ron and hermione ended, but still, it's just wonderful to read something like this.
thank you

Intelligent, and beautifully written. The scenes from OotP as perceived from Hermione's point of view were credible and provided support for your projection into their later years. I liked the imaginative use of the sea as a metaphor for Hermione's emotions throughout the chapter. And, of course, the classical references gave it that touch of literary finesse.

But my favorite passages were the allusions to Caesar, Cleopatra, and Mark Antony, lifting the trio dynamics and the game of Quidditch to beyond sport and suffusing it with an air of passion and grandeur such as those depicted in ancient battles.

Perhaps, the only doubt I have (and a minor one at that) is Ron's apparent maturity over the H/Hr issue. If he had known or guessed Hermione's real feelings, why did he not say or intimated something to her before?

Again, thank you for a very well written piece.

s.