gara5289 posted a comment on Friday 23rd November 2012 3:58pm for Part 2

The fact that you admitted this has no plot other then showing how Ron/Hermione doesn't work kept me reading. Way to go! Doesn't hurt it's a good story and i LOVE how you had Ron work out his feelings. I'm reasonably sure that was my thought process at twelve as well (/snicker)

also, i for sure have never read a story where harry jerked one off onto a Horcrux. But way to make your feelings known right? I cracked up at that.

Patches posted a comment on Sunday 3rd July 2011 3:39am for Part 2

This is deffinitely a wild ride. Thanks for a fun read. I look forward to more of this story. pms

brad posted a comment on Saturday 2nd July 2011 8:40pm for Part 2

For some reason this is a favourite 'chemprof' story for me (I re-read this a couple of months ago), even though it's very sexual/physical, something that normally doesn't appeal to me that much (not on its own, anyway). Maybe because Harry and Hermione approach it for a totally altruistic reason rather than the selfish one which would drive most couples. And then they discover along the way how much joy/happiness they can bring the other and how they can - how they do - love each other. I think that's a big draw.

It's also a bit different from the usual H/Hr fare. Typically - at least in the stories I enjoy the most - H/Hr starts out as a ... well, not 'cerebral', they're not Star Trek Vulcans, but as an extension of their platonic friendship, with their emotional connection flowering first/next. And that's fine, that's the strength of H/Hr, something that's totally missing from any other H/X combination. So this H/Hr story is quite innovative in how they tackle the physcal side of things first.

> It was just that … she did love him. She had loved him in the non-romantic sense for years, and now that their relationship had turned physical — now she could see the two of them sharing their lives together.

That's a lovely revelation.

While I'm glad that you took pains NOT to have Harry just give back an automatic (and thus possibly insincere) 'I love you too', I did think his dialogue was a bit clumsy. "Can you explain what you think being in love means?" ... okay, he was brought up in a cupboard, with only the Dursleys as a role model for a married couple - I use that fact all the time to explain how canon!Harry thought kissing Ginny was the ultimate in 'love', and thus why he stopped there, not realising there was so much more possible in a full romantic relationship - and I fully appreciate Hermione's ensuing explanation - but I wish that you'd introduced those ideas a different way. Maybe have Harry semi-joke "I'm not sure what being in love means" rather than "please explain". Or have his response - he's a teenage boy who ended up in the canon thinking his kissing relationship with Ginny was the pinnacle of romance, he thought he knew everything, after all - start out "well, of course I love you, I enjoyed the kissing too!" only to have Hermione act disappointed, him not wanting her to be so, coaxing that explanation out of her - "Hermione, if I've let you down somehow, I would hope you'd be open enough to tell me how" - and then at the end of it still end up realising that (a) he really did 'love' Hermione, (b) he'd never realised her true value to him and (c) he'd had all of that all along.

Zucht posted a comment on Thursday 30th June 2011 8:48pm for Part 2

Dude... I think my plasma screen just melted.

Hot, Hot story.

Ron actually doesn't seem AU at all. Abusive in arguing... check. Jealous... check. Self-pity... check. Unthinking when speaking... check. Eating everything, leaving nothing for others... check. Uncompromising forgiveness from Harry... check.

No need to really continue the list.

Thank you for posting this story.