This was a nice read, though slightly melancholy. I think I'll try the sequel next.

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Most interesting and well written story.

Pretty interesting idea~ Short but nice.

Excellent story. I liked how you had the two of them dancing around each other even to the end.

This is a great story. I wasn't quite sure what I was expecting for an ending, but the graves were not it. I guess it would be fitting though.

I feel kind of bad for Tom. Harry isn't really telling him all of the truth. He also lies to him too. So when Tom called Harry a liar, he was.

I hope I like your sequel as much as I liked this story. It IS good.

sequel sequel! Sequel's make me happy. Thank you for writing one. I'm glad you made a note of it, I did wonder if Tom had been slipping a little something into Harry's meals. Not necessarily to kill him, but to make him vulnerable. I find it slightly odd that Tom hasn't in anyway expressed a question about why Harry saved his life. Maybe he doesn't realize that Harry took the killing curse for him, but surely he realizes that that was potentially possible and either way Harry threw himself in front of a curse for him. Especially once he knew that it wasn't just a protecting an investment thing. OH well, he'll figure out :) hopefully. I should go see!

So could part of the hostility be that on some level Tom is reacting the fact that a twisted distorted piece of his other self is inside of Harry? And Harry reacting to that too. It makes one wonder how much can be read, or not read, or misread, into their interactions.

This is so much fun! Overall, the idea is sort of dark and dreary, Harry's exhausted and hurt and dealing with a potential psychopath who may or may not be salvageable. One if brilliant and war weary, the other more brilliant and paranoid and suspicious, BUT at the Same Time it's the age old struggle between stubborn new parent and stubborn kid. Neither of them has any idea how to relate to the other in a productive way. It's so vastly normal in humanness, if you know what I'm saying. Yet the situation is so vastly abnormal. I love it!

Love this story. *tears of joy* X3 Gonna shuffle off to check out the sequel...

-Sked-San-san

alsome but is harry and tom ever going to get along and will harry ever tell him about his past?? i got to say he is become more friendy tords Harry thow,... well see yah latter, Jennifer

good story so far, i love how they arent all lovey dovey family but seem to be slowly getting closer... I have a vivid image in my head of tom entering the chamber of secrets only to find either harry having warded him out of it or harry sat reading with the basilisk lol!

Wow, that last line broke my heart. I feel so bad for Harry in this fic, and I think you characterized Tom perfectly.

absolutely phenomenal. (sure you wrote this 3 yrs ago but it is still worthy of praise) i loved the way you portrayed Tom, very realisitc, the writing style was excellent, their relationship was beliavable, you had nearly no grammatical errors and the plot was fantastic. i want to move onto the sequal immediatley but unfortunately can't but i assure you i will be reading that tomorrow. This story had the flair, ingenuity and realism that most Fan Fic stories sorely lack and i congratulate you on that feat.

lovely story...going to check out the next one now.

“Give me a chance, Tom. Let me prove it to you.” Harry swallowed. “Please.”-you're telling me that taking a Killing Curse for the kid didn't convince him that he cared?

Why, out of all the books he’d read, was this one the first to mention that weatherproofing charms had to be cast on the inside of the windows?-irony's a bitch

excellent job