I enjoyed this story and you hit several of the secrets that JKR was hiding, not to mention Dumbledore's death scene was way overplayed and could easily have been a setup. My main complaint was inherent to canon: with competent people on the Light side the conclusion became anticlimatic, mostly because the baddies were all fairly pathetic, including Voldemort. Sigh, if you rewrite canon adding competence, you have to add it to both sides for it to play out well.

Love the story, Hope you'll update ASAP!

I LOVE U
I SERIOUSLY DO
although i would have liked a little more ronhermione fluff this is THE BEST version of harry potter 7 i have ever read in the fanfiction world.
i spent HOURS looking for a story where harry on and hermione were trained on a some what equal bases and all powerfull in their own right.
THANK U THANK U THANK U FOR THIS WONDERFUL STORY

Very good story. Very well written.

Cool idea and I enjoyed this.

Nice story, Really in cannon.

I like your story so far. I was wondering if you had seen the movie The Labyrinth (One of my favorites) because the Door knocker seen is nearly Identical

Wow! This is an incredible start to the fic! I stumbled onto a recommendation for this fic in a yahoo group, and I must admit I was a little bit hesitant at first. Tastes differ widely after all. But now, I think I'm hooked. I started reading other post-HBP fics, and they all seem very generic and identical. But this one, even though I've only read the first chapter so far, seems to be very different and original.

The first surprise, of course, was that Dumbledore is still alive and only faked his death. I wonder what will come of that. I'm also looking forward to finding out why exactly he did it. As Harry said, Dumbledore probably held Voldemort back, because Voldemort was afraid of him. So, there must have been a good reason for him to 'die' other than that he is tired or ill or something like that to risk the destruction that Voldemort will probably bring about now. Apropos...has he found a way to heal his hand?

I also liked your characterization of the characters. They are very much in character. A pleasant surprise here was that you did not make Harry be all distraught/depressed/sinking into hate and only seeking revenge because of Dumbledore's death. That would have been way too one-dimensional and very familiar from all those very generic post-HBP fics out there that I have not continued reading.

Anyway. I'm gonna go on and read the second chapter now. I should really be working on an Essay for school, but this is just too goo. Second chapter, here I come!

Great, Absoloutley awesome haha, keep up the good writing!!

I truly enjoyed your story. You did a great job with keeping the characters believable. You had a lot of creative in your story, too.

One thing that did bother was a minor grammar problem. You seem to have a problem with the objective form of pronouns. If a pronoun is used as the object of a preposition it should be in the objective such as "me" not I. The correct form of this sentence is "This story is between you and me." not "This story is between you and I." Try to remember that the subject of a sentence is I, but the object of the sentence is me.

Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the story!

This was really unexpected - they did find so soon after Harry? I didn't remember this. And Fawkes - what a clever bird he is! (-:

Holy **! How accurate - so he discovered them and didn't kill neither of them and was invited to call Snape Severus - well, if this is not nice than I don't know what else could be. ((-:

So the password was Trinity - my, my, Minerva does really like their little resistence group. (-:

Oh yes, Alastor Moody has Harry pretty much under his control (thanks God!) and Dumbledore is rightfully amused - and sure, he wasn't able to restrain the boy. Not when he allowed him so much. Good, that there are others responsible for his training now - and even better that Harry finally understands that he needs to be trained! (-:

the same as in my comment of the last chapter - yes, it's nice to see them as humans. (-: I only fear for Snape (or would fear if I wouldn't know that you were most kind to him and let him survived!) because of Nagini... It the last book it didn¨t work well for him to come close to the snke. )-: And it made me terribly sad. I hope here he would be only punished a little bit - and taht Dumbledore and Aberforth will be able to take care of him then. (-: