I'm at a loss for words. You took one of my favorite no-backstory characters and made her real and beautiful. Spectacular job with emotion and such depressing reality. Keep up the good work!

This is fascinating series you've written -- almost more commentary than fiction, and yet all the more powerful because of the storytelling. Very well done.

Aww. Cuteness. And sad. ='(

Wow. This is the first Ernie/Hannah story I've read, and it was sweet. I think you should continue it, or at least tell us what ended up happening to the Abbots.

aw poor hannah

This was fantastic. Normally, I dislike Ernie on the principle that he's pompous and thus far in the books has only annoyed me. You kept him within cannon, but made him a real person, a person I liked. I feel so bad for Hannah.

This was extremely well written. I liked that it didn't end in a cliche kiss. All background info that you inserted fit very well where it was; a nice mix of past, present, and a little future.

I think the concept of "Muggle-Identified" was fairly brilliant. I like that one of Hermione's classmates, notices that Hermione has alienated her parents. You gave a new dimension to the the Muggle-born struggle; it brings up interesting questions about the Evans' struggle with Lily. The background you came up with for Justin's family was fantastic.

The emotions were completely there, I don't know how else to describe them.

"He doesn’t know if there’s life after death, beyond the veil, but there’s life after death, on earth. Here."

Fantastic line. It reminds me off the poem, that says (paraphrasing) Don't stand at my grave and weep, I'm not there. Or the saying, that Funerals aren't for the dead, their for the living to cope with the emotions they're left with.

This was fantastic. Excellently written and based on outstanding ideas.

Great story!

So many great details and observations - the 'Afterthought', the starter wand, the tug-of-war between the Muggle and magical world that seems to be the bread and butter of the Muggle-identified. All the emotions ring true; this is beautiful to read.

According to JKR's website, Squibs don't just run in pureblood families though - "A Squib is almost the opposite of a Muggle-born wizard: he or she is a non-magical person born to at least one magical parent."

Anyway, I very much enjoyed reading this (even if in a 'makes me sad' kind of way); it's going straight into my 'minor characters' C2 archive. Glad someone else likes those under appreciated characters!

As always, your use of minor characters is lovely; they're so very real. I second the request for something regarding Justin - the bits dropped in this story were so interesting.

And the category Hannah's family fits into makes a great deal of sense; I have wondered myself at how seemingly alienated Hermione has bcome from her parents.

Cheers!

More lovely stuff. I particularly enjoyed the snide reference to Hermione dropping her parents (it cetainly looks that way) and to Justin's family. More Justin PLEASE PLEASE PRETTY PLEASE. There's so much to work with there - the boy from a military family who had his name down at Eton ...

Once again the emotions of your fic blows me away--how you isolate emotions and force readers to look at characters in refreshing lights. The last sentence is almost cliche, but you get away with it. And I especially enjoyed the rich detail you put into the narrative, about Ernie's and Hannah's family and magic and just the books in general.

Wow. Just wow. I think that can best sum this up.