nice spin - was enjoying the story very much anyway but it's nice to have clever invention and to bypass the tedious breakup business.

I have just reread this story from the beginning to refresh my memory as it's been a while since the last update (not a complaint, just an observation). I was quite taken aback by the quality of the writing; in particular I was impressed by your characterizations of Harry and Hermione. You seem to have nailed them perfectly. They act/speak/behave exactly as I would have expected them to do.

After six novels by JKR, I have a sense that I know this people quite well and have come to expect them to behave in certain predicatable ways. No matter the genre or plot, if the characterizations aren't accurate I have a really hard time getting into a story. Unfortunately, many fanfics with great plots and ideas are ruined by poor characterizations. You have done a masterful job with them thus far (all of the characters, not just H and HR). I think the best compliment I could pay you is to say that I really recognise these people.

Thanks for sharing a wonderful story, I'm anxiously looking forward to the next installment (it seems you average about a chapter every three months, again not a comlaint, is this about how often I should check for updates?). In the meantime I'm going to check out some of your other stories, and add you to my favorite author list.

Thanks again!

thanks for yet another amazing update - can't wait to read more soon. keep up the good work!

Oh, I just adore your work!
This is a great chapter of a great story. Again, I love the way it goes, it is logical and clear, but what I love most about it is your use of side-characters, and the little things that make a story real, like the talking mirror, or the owner of F&B sleeping behind the cash register. Please, go on with Year Seven, I can't wait to see more!

that is pretty interseting i think it would be hillarious if they told ron and ginny. Weasley tempers galore always make verything interesting.

This is an excellent chapter. The visit to Weasley's Wizard Wheezes flowed perfectly from the HBP canon, though I was expecting Verity (whose name means truth) to have something to say about the goings-on in HBP (perhaps I spend too much time in PK forums? I really liked how you handled Hermione's revelation. I've kind of been suspicious of the perpetrator myself. Poor Harry, though. Too dense to understand immediately why Hermione was involved too

Another nice chapter. I'm kind of with you on the idea of Hogwarts reopening and the trio returning. It does seem to be much safer for them than any place else, and they would have a good base from which to do research, find horcruxes etc. I have one question, though: How did Harry know where to Apparate to when they went to Godric's Hollow? He hasn't been there since he was a toddler. Don't you need to know exactly where you're going when you Apparate? That's something that's been nagging at me ever since Harry said (in HBP) that he was going back to Godric's Hollow. Someone (probably Lupin) would need to tell him "how to get there".

I like this chapter a lot too. It had a nice, realistic feel. I especially liked how Harry spent so much time practicing non-verbal spells, his realization about what he feels (or doesn't feel) for Ginny anymore, and the whole wedding. I loved drunk!Ron near the end; I'm sure the twins had something to do with that. I thought in HBP Ginny said she would be wearing pale gold at the wedding, but hey, this is your story and you're telling it quite well

Very nice start on this fic. You set the mood very well at the beginning, with that fog settling over Little Whinging again this summer. I really loved Harry's display of magic in the second part, and the fact that he got to enjoy using magic, finally, without worrying about the Wizengamot etc. Nice work.

oooooh! Love this story! i think i'll have a guess to why Kreacher had to drug Hermoine. Is it because she likes Harry? Can't wait for a new update!!

okay, so I've just read the 4 chapters (at work, oops) and I'm really enjoying it. you write really well and have picked up on so many things from canon - good on you. I must admit, when you brought in the love potion theory, I flinched, but this way is believable (more so than Ginny doing it) and a good plot twist. You've also introduced good leads for H/Hr. All in all, great work - well done!!

I like this story very much, can't wait to see where the author takes the story next!

When the love potion was mentioned I at once suspected Ginny or Ron (or even both) but never would I have imagined Kreacher. A very original twist on a plot device in danged of becoming a little cliched. I was a bit uncertain about this story at first but now you have me totally hooked. Please don't keep us waiting too long for the next chapter.

My initial reaction to this chapter was that it was just another mundane love potion plot line. However, your use of Kreacher really made this well used plot device quite novel and unique. An additional benefit of the path you have taken is that it also makes Ron and Ginny victims, which should create some interseting scenes in the future.

Overall, this story is very entertaining. I particularly like your characterizations. They seem spot-on.

Thanks for sharing and I hope you update soon- the story is great!

I'd just like to say that I think this is a very well-written story. I'm particularly pleased that you've managed to write a Harry who I can empathize with. (Canon Harry has become pretty unbearable in my personal opinion.) Your Harry has a certain *depth* that I think the character desperately needs.

Your depictions of the Dursleys and Weasleys (everyone really) seem spot-on, although I suppose some might argue that dear Super!Ginny would be far more aggressive than you depict her.

Every fan fiction author who wants to write a seventh-year Harry/Hermione fic faces the issue you deal with in chapter 4--how to explain (explain away) the romances of HBP. Some just accept the romances as a starting point and have them break up over compatability issues. Others take the tack that Ginny's been dosing Harry (and sometimes Hermione, too) with a love potion, and that can work reasonably well. It seems like something she might do. Some attempt to explain Hermione's behavior as her somehow deliberately choosing Ron even though she has a secret thing for Harry (as seen in a number of stories) but that is much more difficult to pull off convincingly. I've even read a story somewhere in which Dumbledore is behind it all, to give Harry the experience of love, but that requires a *seriously* manipulative headmaster.

Your version, with Kreacher to blame, is quite clever. He's manipulated Harry before--with disastrous results. And it has the virtue of a certain simplicity. It does seem, of course, to commit you in this story to an interpretation of the power-of-love business as Harry's love specifically for Hermione, rather than a larger, all-encompassing Love, which I would surmise is what JKR is aiming for (though who the hell knows with her)--but, y'know, under the circumstances, I don't really object to this way at all. ;-)

I look forward to reading more!