i feel the same way. i really don't see how harry/ginny or hermione/ron would ever work, let alone last. ron pisses hermione off way too much and she's so much smarter than him it would almost be pathetic for them to get married. and ginny sees harry as "the boy who lived" and crap. hermione sees harry as harry.

who cares if it's stereotypical for the hero and the heroine to end up togther? it's natural. stupid jk.

i personally think she's a dumb ass after her crap about dumbledore. A) who says something like that after the series is finished and it has absolutely no relevence to the story? B) who says that at a children's book reading? If i'd been a parent there i would have gone up and told her how unproffessional, irresponsible and immature that was. I have lost a lot of respect for her. "Imagine the fan fiction"... idiot.

Sorry, end rant. love the story!

Hi first I want to say I have read all your stories and to great satisfaction, alas this one you have totally wrong, there can be no excuse for kissing some one when your fiance is not there, in fact I think your explanation to one reviewer sounds like something a ten year old would know was wrong, I quote

'Author Feedback: Well, kisses don't always mean something. If it did-- well, there'd be a heck of a lot less kissing in the world!
Seriously though, I think in this case, Ron and Hermione made a rather understandable mistake; they are old friends who used to be more than friends and it was (in my head at least) one of those 'i care about you but we both know it'd never have worked between us and that's a good thing' nostalgic sort of kisses, if that makes any sense. yes, they shouldn't have done it and it wasn't the right thing to do, but people make dumb mistakes.'

That whole excuse is just plain dumb, you dont kiss some one just for old time sake while alone in their flat with them, how on gods earth would Harry know she had not been there all bloody day kissing, how would he know it was the goodbye kiss after a passionate sex session, It dont matter how much you trust some one they let you down just once and you simply no longer trust them, it is human nature it cant be done any other way, this story is definitely your worst but it annoys me that people who have been through this sort of thing have told you in their reviews that their trust died instantly and your excuses seem to call them liars, why?

"No doubts about the ultimate rightness of H/Hr". You and the rest of us ; Portkey is absolute proof of that. As for the EWE (love that one! "Epilogue, What Epilogue?") - an ignominious end indeed. And I agree, JKR lost her way. I think she thought she had to stick to her original "canon plan" regardless of the fact that as she wrote, Harry and Hermione moved closer and closer and become more and more irrevocably "right". Tch. Tsk. Why else would Portkey still be going so strongly? Must be driven by the great oil of Delusion...
And um, great one shot by the way... As always!
Cheers,
JanieB

I was just rereading your story because it has been bugging me that maybe I just missed some thing, but I stoll come up with the same conclusion, just read your answer to the review by mathiasgranger, and I have to say for some one who usualy writes so well you seem to be lacking in judgment on this especialy if you think trust in a loved one isn't easily destroyed, trust is just about the most fragile part of any relationship from love to work, you need trust and it is so easy to kill.

Wow, I can honestly say that this fic made me a little sick to my stomach. Not real sure what was going through your mind on this one.

I mean, no matter how you look at it, Hermione cheated on Harry with Ron. Her excuse means absolutly nothing. Yes, maybe they could of worked it out eventually, but not that quickly.

I mean, honestly, if I saw the women I loved kissing another man, well lets just say that we would not be having sex that same night, at least together.

well i am glad that Harry and Hermione worked things out, i mean if ron and hermione actually ended up together, i don't even wanna think about it, as far as i am concerned DH never happened, well at least most of it didn't happen, when i got to certain parts of it i was like, yes this is it h/hr forever, but then JK totaly brutally killed all my hopes of it, so i just pretend it was never written. ill make it up in my head how the series should end.

Bravo, you have just inspired a fanfic in me. Thank you much. Keep up the good work.

This is a great rallying fic. After HP, I scoured the site for good fic. This warms my heart.

Passionate and sexy. It all goes by in a flash- not a drawn out love scene, but that's okay. Smut is great.
Keep up the GREAT work. I'm going to read more of your fics!

P.S. Do you know, "SMUT" backwards is "TUMS"!

ony issue i have is how forgiven harry is, i just think that he should have been a bit harsher even if he loved her, because if roles were reversed i highly doubt hermione would be as forgiven.

another story by you that i have loved. you are so great at creating angsty situations and turning them into more.

I forgot to add this to my previous review. I read your odd explanations to your other reviewers. Someone who walks in on a pair kissing doesn't know how long it was going on for or where it may have lead too, the human emotion of jealousy would instantley fill the mind with all kinds of ideas, non of which can be refuted by the guilty party, for example what where they upto for the previous times they were together like last week when they were supposed to go shopping. Your Hermione is honest wont work either because a stollen kiss is just as bad as full on sex for the being betrayed, the mind would never accept it was the first or only time it happened no matter how much trust was previously held. trust can and does die in an instant. I've been there believe me you got it wrong...

You got to be having us on with this one. Anybody catching his girlfriend kissing his best mate aint going to say ok it was nothing. Do you have any idea just how treacherous that is, it's the kind of thing that has lead to crimes of passion through out the ages. You definitely got it wrong in this story. To those it has happened to forgiveness doesn't come easy, in fact it takes a long hard time to forgive such a deed. Take it from someone who knows. oh and my ex best mate, I haven't seen for years, nor do I ever want to meet him again.

yeah, i can´t agree more with yout!
it will always be h/hr for me!
don`t know why jk didn`t end it the right way!?!?!?

The very fact that JKR had to butcher her own story and characters to make the final pairings fit is all the proof I ever needed to justify H/Hr as right.

You're story was wonderful - shocking - but wonderful. Harry is a much better person than I. I don't think I could have so easily accepted the truths I was told when hurt in that particular fashion. But the very fact that you have him struggling to *stay* angry about that kiss in the face of Hermione's explanation is a wonderful way to show just how much he does trust her.

Thanks for sharing this!