Neville is an ass.

Nice to see an update.....it has been such a very long time. I'm glad things are getting back on track for you, and I hope they stay that way. Not a whole lot in this chapter to comment on as you are just finishing up the rest of the story. It has been an amazing ride, and I cannot wait for the final few chapters. This is easily the best H/HR fic to come out in a very long time.

Sorry to hear it sucked. Winter was awful for me as well. Let's hope spring will be better. Loved the update. And nevilles little bomb, where oh where is this going. Ill be waiting!!!

OMG! Getting this chapter update in my email is like getting my own birthday present! Glad you've recovered and are writing again. Your own of my favorite authors and this is one of my favorite stories.

Have harry return to hogwarts for seventh year? Classmates with his godson? He would certainly be a cub to hermiones cougar then. Not recommended. Harry could stay at godrics hollow and apparate to and from hermiones everyday.

Welcome back. Glad you're back and recovered.

Neville! Damn your indisputable logic! And they were so close, too. Oh well, that's a relatively minor obstacle. More interesting by far is the continuing Rose plot, and I can't imagine you're going to let the Malfoys go unmentioned in the remaining story.

Looking forward to more.

I am really enjoying the story so far and look forward to reading the rest.

Awesome story! It reads like some of the finest mystery novels, giving just enough clues to keep the reader guessing until you drop the hammer on the bad guy. For some reason though, I keep waiting for the evidence to come out that Kingsley was being slowly murdered, via the potions he was forced to take by his healer. And the healer to also have memory blocks...

I did guess how Ron and Hermione's marriage would end, so to speak. I thought that Ron would die...permanently... oh well...

yyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy, the next chapter is coming! good god now I'm going to have to read it all again! This has been one of my favorite stories on Portkey. Glad to see it coming back. Thanks a bunch!

RT your response to my review (lol) :

awww. I'm so glad you remember me! I've been away from portkey for so long I feared I was forgotten.

yay! I can't wait. )

oh. this is good. i missed this. (and it's my fault).
but i'm all caught up now. can't wait for more.

It's not bad. Certainly well written, the romance is decently developed and the concepts are sound. There are parts though where I need to back up andf say "Wait, what?"

Yeaaaaahhhh, he lives,,, through devastating personal ordeals from beyond the veil and has responded to all. Thats the first sign of getting better when you think you've gone insane with stress. You start to right about it, maybe you can use some of the personal problems in the storyline...its something that isn't hard to right because you already know how its going to turn out.
Well I'm certainly happy to have you back, so now how about that next chapter?

Ooops. I'm really sorry, I didn't want to offend anyone with the "normal people" remark. I should have phrased it differently: people who confess their love to someone *for the first time* do not usually talk like that. "And for the record" sounds exactly like something a married couple might say - there is tenderness in there, and playfulness and some good-natured teasing (and first-time confessions are usually serious business Thank you so much for responding - I'll be on the look-out for future updates. - morr

Did you abandon this? It's been quite a few months. I was just wondering....I hope you get back to this story soon. We were so close to the end at least I think we were...Ugh, updates, I need them.

Wow. I might be an English major (not my first language, though), but this story left me dumbstruck and struggling for words other than "wow". I haven't read portkey fanfiction for a long while, and just recently someone recommended this story to me. Believe it or not, but on that very day I stayed up reading until five in the morning, until I almost fell asleep and broke the keyboard with my face, because I could not force myself to stop in the middle. I cannot remember the last time I was so excited about a story. After reading the final HP book, with the godawful epilogue, I totally gave up on the series for a while - on that day I felt like a little kid who found out that her broken toy had been fixed.

I really liked how you took care to describe Hermione's workplace, her colleagues, her flat (loved the name, BTW) and her daily routine, giving the reader a realistic glimpse of what her life might be like post-Hogwarts. I liked how you described her job and her efforts to introduce a new piece of legislation - this was something she would definitely do. And I absolutely LOVED how you handled the long, drawn-out reconciliation between Harry and Hermione. It was very guarded (but still emotional) at first, and then we could slowly see the barriers drop, one by one. You have a great hand for dialogue - their first meeting was heart-wrenching and then, later, when Harry said: "Eggs?" I felt my heart skip a beat, because that short phrase conveyed so much. The ending for that chapter is probably my favourite bit (oh, and just because I'm a sucker for references, I loved how Hermione was like Scotland )
My only reservation about the H/Hr plotline was with their first long-awaited intimate moment. With the whole build-up, which was wonderfully awkward, subtle and superbly done, the bed scene seemed sort of... heavy-handed. Just a feeling, but... seriously, it took Hermione this one look from Harry to a) establish the true nature of his feelings towards her b) come to terms with them, and become comfortable enough to perform the equivalent of using a sex toy in the bedroom - just like that? And I'm really sorry to say this, but: "And for the record, Mr. Potter, I love you too." sounds like something straight from a corny fanfic written by a 14-year old girl. People don't talk like that. I loved the rest of you story, but this scene just doesn't ring true.

Romantic bits aside, I really enjoyed the political/criminal plotline - it was clever, chilling, and gave the story a wider social background, plus, your characters are generally well-written, even the ministry employees are fun to follow around. Canon characters are great, except that Ron and Ginny usually get the hard end of the stick (although Ron is not that bad: he is still Harry's friend, he's fiercely protective of Ginny, and he has his shining moments of glory - loved the rubber haddock scene )

Thank you for putting so much time and effort into this story. I really hope that you'll be able to finish it someday, because such a good story deserves to be completed. Take care! - morr

Just marking my place in this fabulous story... in case you decide to add som more to it that is...