Wow.

That was an amazingly epic story. I just found it recently, and got drawn into it. Reading it over my Christmas break, I had plenty of other things I could've (and probably should've) been doing. But, the story was just so good that I couldn't stop reading it. So, I ate it up, 70 chapters (wow!) and all.

You, B.B. Ruth, have a talent, whether you know it or not. I've only ever read one other of your work, The Cardinal Curses, and this (The Purple Potion) just confirms my estimations- you're definately going on my favorite authors list.

Keep up the good work, and keep putting out more good fanfiction!

Blessings!
-ThatOneGuy92

P.S.- in your Final Author Note, you mentioned how this story "started as an excuse to get Harry and Hermione into bed". Funny, isn't it? How stories that we conceive so small and with one intention become something much bigger and develop a life of their own. Ok, thats enough rhetorical questions for one day XD

Cheers.

i think all the analysis of motive emotin and general self delusion is a load of crap its not nessecary and reading bout harry try ing to justify his actions which he is doing any way of trying to make himself feel better about it less guilty is a justification jus make me not want him to get with hermione if he cant even be honest with himself bout wanting her even tho its wrong that he has to ruin the moment be obsessing over ron like as if hes ron himself he really should just let suone else have her somone who will enjoy her and not spend more time thinging about a man than the naked woman infront of him he cant have wanted her that much for hi, to be thinking about ron so ardently im suprised she didnt come to her senses and throw him out more suprissing is that she bought his ** an let him get away with all that nosing without properly questioning hiis motive we all know she is supposed to have the sharper mind be more observant and analytical not to mention inquisitive harry isnt inquisitive hes nosy and demanding anddoesnt hide it well at all for her to not olny fail to see through it but to indulge him is plain stupid of her an an inssult to the character if shes going to be that dum she deserved to to be misled it may as well heve been greasy that got to ** her and much ias i hate to see it id rather see hermione with ron or even draco anyone but harry the way this story is going and im so much a HH shipper i wont read anything that has her with anyoneelse i wont read hary ginny either theres goodness in the story but 17/18 chapters to hear harrys pathetic self righteous crap big off putter baseball stuff was genious tho onli bit worth reading really dont know why you bother with the dates we already know from the first chapter harry is roy and that he get hermione didnt need or want to know how they met just want to know wat happened after the opening scene not before after how she found out it was him and how she reacted nnothing complex to little points

i dont know why your dragging this out you really should have dune the whole fling thin ages ago rather than dishing it out in bits the way your writing we probably wont know the whole story of the fling until the last chapter and im sure a good number of readers wont make it.
fuddy duddys or old by the way stiff bureaucratic fatcats too old to understand or accept change the type that might collectively own several buisnesses but have no hand in running them a news paper is too energetic and busy an enviroment to have fuddy duddys slowing thigs up talking bout how things were in thier days and ginny sound like a type of rita skeeta not it writing content but the style is contravercial and scndalous and the disregard for what those concered will feel i doubt mos jornalists would be old and stiff if anything they would be young and foward thinking like ginny as to sexism in the wizarding world im not sure it exists two female founders two female heads of house a female headmistress female death eaters female aurors female healers ameliea bones delores ummbridge rita skeeter mafalda hopkirk bapthida bagshot sirius mother there seem to be as many powerful and influential wemen as men

Thanks for sharing your story.

What's with having Harry get his ** kicked every single chapter? He's been completely useless this entire story and I've been trying to figure out his purpose in this story and can't come up with anything other than whipping boy.

This is a great story and I like where you've taken it, but your Harry is a ** and one of the weakest Harrys I've seen and I've read a lot of fanfiction. It's excruciating to read any scene he is in because he inevitably gets knocked out by someone who has barely a tenth of the skill he should have by this point in time (I understand you don't like writing fight scenes, but that's no excuse). He's a freaking auror who killed Voldemort as a teenager (i.e. someone who would wipe the floor with every character in this story all at once) he should be one of the most skilled duelers in the world yet he continually gets his ** beat. I'm not saying you should make him into Super!Harry, but come on this is just ridiculous.

Also Draco here is entirely too smart and is way too OOC in comparison to canon. Draco from canon was not cunning at all and displayed none of the typical Slytherin characteristics. He's just Ron with more prejudice and experience with dark arts.

It's really difficult to feel any sympathy for Ron at all regardless of how hard you're trying. The guy has been nothing but a jealous prick ever since he met Harry. He's not and has never been a friend of Harry's. He abandoned him every single time the going got tough. In the real world, they would have stopped being friends during their 2nd year when Ron found out about Harry's parseltongue. I realize you're trying to make him a sympathetic character, but with him it's simply an impossible task because he cares about no one but himself.

That's not even getting into his treatment of Hermione, which was reprehensible the entire time they were at Hogwarts. I find it absolutely amazing that Hermione ever even considered dating him. You'd think that given her ability to deduce that she would realize that he's pretty much worthless in every way. Hell I'm pretty sure the only reason he ever went for her in the first place was solely because he could have something Harry couldn't. R/Hr is one of the worst relationships I've ever seen in fiction and it alone has nearly soured me on the whole series.

However I can at least handle R/Hr in stories without becoming nauseated unlike D/Hr, which actually does make me shudder. D/Hr is utterly infuriating to read because the only possible way for it to happen is if Hermione had a frontal lobotomy or if she was doused with a love potion. She could forgive him for everything he did to her yes, but she's also human and not an all-forgiving angel (i.e. she should never be put on a pedestal because she isn't perfect).

All that aside, I really like your story so far. You have a talent for writing flawed characters in a way that Rowling never could. You're relationships have a realistic edge that is missing in many fanfics. I'll definitely be sure to read more of your stuff in the future.

idk about him knowing but i knew it wasn't harry that night and i kind of like ron a little better now!!

Every moment that Ron said something i regretted ever feeling bad and sad that he had died!

whoa how did he do that? was it because of that potion!!

language language watch your mouth Hermione!

i can't believe she had it all along!

i feel kinda sad for him! and i'm pretty sure no matter how upset he was he wouldn't killed himself it just doesn't make sense!

no! hermione is worth more than that!

why doesn't he tell her about the ghost ron!! i mean that could solve a lot of problems between them!

no don't drink the smoothie Hr! or eat the food that thing of a man gave you!!