great story

What is remarkable about this fic is the way it continues to hold one's interest even in the chapters in which little happens. You have a great gift for story telling.
BTW there are a couple of errors or typos- firstly, there are two words; breath and breathe; 'breath' is the noun and 'breathe' is the verb, but you use 'breath' for both. This is how they should be used:Tony found it difficult to breathe but at last managed to take a breath.
Second, here;
'Soon he was sat in the chair with the firelight dancing over the curves of his bare chest.'
And here;
'Harry was sat by the fire, slouching like he used to do, to hide the physical evidence of all their training from Will.'
The wrong tense is used for the verb to sit.
The first extract should read either 'Soon he was seated in the chair with the firelight dancing over the curves of his bare chest.' OR 'Soon he was sitting in the chair with the firelight dancing over the curves of his bare chest.' OR 'Soon he sat in the chair with the firelight dancing over the curves of his bare chest.'
The second extract is the same. Acceptable alternatives are 'was sitting' or 'was seated' or even 'sat' or 'seated himself' but NOT 'was sat'.


Harry was sat by the fire, slouching like he used to do, to hide the physical evidence of all their training from Will.

I am interested to know what all the Golden references are about . Very entertaining so far.
BTW you might need to look into the difference in meaning between the words 'discrete' and 'discreet' and also, here;
'...Severus prompted reigning in his growing irritation.' it should be 'reining' not 'reigning' as the word there refers not to a king's reign but to rein in as in reining in a horse - i.e. control of a horse by pulling on the reins.

What a relief to read a HP fanfic written by a British person after reading far too many written by Americans. I am so tired of 'accommodations' 'anyways' 'gotten' etc and even worse, cruel misuse of the pronoun 'I' as an object.
Seriously though, this is entertaining so far and I'm eager to read more.

so snape slept with his brother?

Hey!!
this story is great... the way its written one wants to find out what happens in the end! I'm so glad that you wrote a sequel. I'm going to start reading that!
This story is just great! :-)!

I really loved this story! *rushes off to sequel*
Are you still writing? I hope so!

Loved the story! Can't wait to begin reading the sequal!
@nnie

i like this story! yep, someone is still reading it.

Wow... Defiantly a favorite that I might come back and read over and over as do with the actual Harry Potter stories. And now, though I've read it once already, I believe I will refresh my memory as to what happens next. =)

fantastic.
this really was. very good plot and well written.
plus you used lord of the rings =]

Well I have to admit that at first glance at the summery I had no intentions to read the story because it seemed to me it was a dark story, without the guaranteed happy-ending, and that kind of deterred me, because as sappy as it seems, I HATE sad endings!
Can't read them without crying XD

But after reading your story I am so happy to overcome my silly thoughts and read it, as I have found out it was very good and have enjoyed it very much!

I liked the story line very much even if sometime the dialogs were a bit abrupt, and I didn't allways get the sequence of the sentences. I like the way you go from one scene and than jumps quite smoothly to the other. And the way you portrayed the characters are very believable.

I wanted to ask if you have abandoned the sequel, as you haven't updated it in about 8 months. I hate starting to read a story only not to know how it ends!

I will admit I tried to read this story a couple of times especially since the summary always strikes me as interesting. But for some reason, I have never been able to get into it. Well, this time, I made it through.
Excellent! It shall be interesting to discover what has been happening in the Wizarding World while Harry and Severus have been hiking through Scotland for the past ten months.
Thanks for writing and especially for finishing the story.
Now on to the sequel.

Oh my god, what a great story :D

Uff, I needed more than a week to read it *g*
At some point in the beginning I got tired of the wandering around and thought of not reading on, but now I'm really glad I did. :D

*search for words* ^^ uhm ... it's just fantastic, I love the scene when Harry got his sword out in front of the Dark Lord. *grin*
And I think you planned it very well, with Alexian and Valarius appearing from time to time. Nice to know that there was a plot behind and that in the end als ends come together. :D


... and I hope my English isn't too bad, it should have improved due to reading such a big story *laugh*

Ah a BREAKTHROUGH (Hopefully one of many). I really like how the tables were turned in this chapter. It is not often we see a very vulnerable Severus. When I first started reading you piqued my interest from the start, even though first chapter (in places) seemed a bit rushed as well as aloof, it makes sense now with those small certain details that fit in pace like a jigsaw puzzle (like harry figuring things out).

You’re a excellent writer, but I’m not sure if a lot of people saw that (regarding your review count), which is a shame. As you write with emotional depth, beautifully. It’s not the typical angst or/and depression we see in other fics. The despondence that is displayed in the first few chapters really when taking a step back and looking at the situations (past/current/future) that Harry and Sev go through is written very well, that if I would assume if you didn’t try and get into their mind set for a minute or two, would be hard to grasp the whole situation –emotional –situation- as well. (I just trying to think of reasons why you haven’t got that many reviews, because you deserve more)

It is strange that the first few chapters (not so much this or the last chapter before, as now the chapters go at a perfect pace) every thing seemed to drag by and was a little dull, yet at the same time it went quite fast, maybe it was the time jumps to explain the last. But the whole time I was very curious to see what would happen.

The chapters (mainly 1-4) (which adds to the increasing depth) were very aloof /distant, we weren’t quite in their world yet, we were more observers, more than anything else. But now the cold world is starting to have “warm rays”. I think is/will be beautiful to watch the slow relationship slowly building up to love.

Well I could babble on but that most likely will be an incoherent bore. So I shall leave the review were it is now. I must get back to the fic. (Oh one other thing, I find that I can’t read more than a couple of chapters in a row –maybe because of the slow moving pace –but it is very much worth reading it slowly, savouring it, Getting over that slow moving hurdle and then get the satisfaction of reading something really special). Cheers. Quiet Empathy.

P.S Kaatje7 you have to live in the UK or at least have done research to know of those places/towns due to their weather conditions and scenery. That alone adds something extra to the story because it is convincing. Good work.