Thank you so much for sharing your story with us. I really appreciate how their relationship evolve,it was so sweet and slow burning for me.

I do really appreciate your research and analysis, I couldn't have done that! XD

Wow, what a great story. I didn't expect to feel so much sympathy for each of them, but I did! Love the characters and the idea, and the romance was beautiful. Thanks so much x

Oh I am enjoying this already! Really cool storyline evolving, I can't wait to get to more.

I fucking hate that just because Malfoy came back into the picture Hermione's problems would just magically go away. That she would instantly be eating again like she won't puke it out after. That she's instantly glowing after she had sex like she didn't deprive herself of nutrients. And the fact that she accepts him willy nilly makes my fucking blood boil. He left and he had the audacity! I don't give a shit if he said sorry. These two are better off going separate ways.

You probably don't check reviews anymore but I wanted to let you know this is one of the best fics I've read in quite a while. Thanks for the wonderful insight.

It was messy and dark. It was full of pain and loss. And yet, it was about connection and rebirth. It was complex; I loved it. My only wish is that you not be afraid to delve into the darker sexuality of the piece. In this only, did I think you perhaps shied away, leaving only suggestion and assumption. Thank you for your gift. It made me think about these two lost souls completely differently. With literally thousands of works out there, your originality and insight are fascinating and wonderfully disturbing.

I like that you didn't bog the ending down with romance because there wasn't any in any other part of the story. I'm actually not sure why it was categorized under that heading, honestly. I will say that the final chapter was too short, too unfinished, but am glad it didn't contain useless lists of who gave birth to or married what, etc.

Overall, the story vastly missed its preliminary overreaching mark, but it was a pretty good effort.

What was that convoluted mess?

The date part was really, really nice. I enjoyed seeing them finally on the same page with neither of them acting like a demented moron. Very nice.

Bye Ron.

As a fellow master procrastinator, we're in the same club. We'll meet...someday.

I've been waiting so long for any sort of "romance" that I've given up on it. There's been a bit of sex, a lot of cruelty, some dispassionate verbal exchanges, and that's about it.

He's been gone a year. How has he been dancing with Hermione? Is he still delusional? He was when he fucked her. Had to have been given that she was his torturer.

Burnt orange/rust ("russet") is a great color! I can't wear it but others can. Love that the magically appearing Vulpe is nice and that Blaise is decent, too. They're the best part of this story.

That author's note is ridiculous.

Very glad Hermione finally thought to do something positive for someone, and I'm glad Draco has enough sense to realize that Hermione is poison. Seems to me that Hermione needed to break down because she needed to put herself back together again properly. Hopefully this new version of her won't be so cruel and horrible.

So glad Snape was allowed to molder away for an entire additional year before Hermione thought to bother perhaps maybe visiting him again. So "sympathetic".

(Ouch - twisted ankle pain hurts!) Love the incorporation of Vulpe and Blaise.

So not much happened in this chapter, seemed very short.

The only thing I can say nice about this chapter was that it was well-written in terms of grammar and punctuation.

LMAO at Hermione being so delusional as to consider herself "too sympathetic" and excusing her cruelty and deceptions as something she "had" to do. She knowingly took him to watch his insane father being tortured like it was a day-trip to a zoo. Real """sympathetic""" there, Hermione...

So Hermione gets horny from torturing Draco. That's freakish. Will she orgasm from beating him with a brick or taunting him about his mother being cursed into insanity?

*sigh*

So six lessons is somehow supposed to magically change peoples' minds about traditions that have been handed down from entire families to their children for countless generations? Yeah I don't think so. Actually the concept is quite silly if you think about it. I'd had great hopes for this story but it's too...disappointing in so many ways. I will keep reading, though, but mainly to see how much more ludicrous it will get.

I know that this story is somehow supposed to be delving deeply into, well, something, but all I see are weak characters acting strangely for no plot reason. The reason you're having such a hard time getting in the writing mood is because you know this story is a bunch of trite, simplistic elite-sounding but otherwise well-written blather.

I've never understood how it was somehow supposed to be ok to torture prisoners in the HP world. Constant cold is a great way to have prisoners die sooner rather than later as it lowers the body's ability to fight off infection and can lead to organ failure because of hypothermia. Constant drear, loneliness, boredom, and unappetizing food will lead to psychological failure. Constant diets of insubstantial, malnutritious food will lead to both physical and mental weakness. Yet, in JKR's world, this is fine. And Hermione thinks studying the prisoners as though they were rats in cages is the right thing to do regardless of privacy, legal, or decency concerns.

Strange, that. Leads me to believe that JKR, and you by virtue of blindly following along the party line rather than daring to add originality to this fic by making Azkaban into something more in line with Geneva conventions, would both approve of the American prison-for-profit system.

A little late for "pity" from the stupid cunt. Hermoine knew what she was doing, she knew she was taking advantage of her power over her prisoners and she knew she was torturing them. She's coming off Slytherin cruel in this piece. Is that on purpose? Did she get off on torturing her victims with visions of their own family members being torture and then the reality vaguely began to get in the way during the torture? Oh, that's right, I forgot that she bothered to shed a few crocodile tears for dear ol' Draco. Nice way to treat a 17 year old girl - dragging her through the insanity her parents had to endure. I think Hermione needs to be beaten hard then committed.

It doesn't matter what she supposedly told the Ministry, unless she's retarded she knows they don't give a shit about Death Eater children or her.

Draco, too, is retarded if he still manages to fall for Hermione after this deliberately cruel cockup solely designed to emotionally break him. Unless the plot of this story is a perversion on Stockholm Syndrome where instead of Draco falling for his kidnapper he instead falls for his torturer?

So, unless you somehow manage to inspire yourself into giving Wizarding Britain something called "ethics", have Hermione grown a conscience and crusade to have Azkaban brought up to being only mildly cruel, and have Hermione bash her head against a brick wall one time for every second she tortured her victims in that place, I can't see anything redeemable with this horrible story.