I am extremely disturbed that Dumbledore admits he knew the Dursleys mentally and emotionally abused Harry, but thought it permissible as long as they didn't hurt him physically. Anyone who understands anything about psychology, or has lived through abuse themselves knows that the physical bruises heal the fastest! Whereas psychological abuse or emotional torment can last a lifetime and take years, or even decades to be healed at all!
If anything, Dumbledore is taking Harry's revelation far too calmly.

Amazingly well written story with great character development. I was so impressed with your characterisation, particularly of Harry, Snape and Dumbledore. It is so rare to find Snape written so perfectly in character. I look forward to reading the sequel. Thank you for writing this!

I want to know what the letter says! This was a great story! :)

come on a little crucio could have gone wonderful with this one lol

I loved this fic, I think everyone was written in character skillfully and particularly Snape was very well written. You walked the line between callous and just very well and to lend credence to his empathy tying it with Snape's troubled childhood. I very much enjoyed the visit to privet drive and to see dumbledoor's calm sinister threats contrasted against Snapes very forthright response to Vernon.
Genuinely enjoyed every second reading this, well done!

just made it 700

Four syllables, just like Darcy! Enjoyed this sensitive and realistic view of a very serious situation. Thank you for writing. I am off to read the sequel.

Please update this story

I hanve to admit, this was really nice. Even he did not reveal truth about Lily, they're so sincere

I am so in love with this story. I am not done reading yet (I am at chapter 6) but I love every bit of it so far. But here I was thinking I couldn't hate the Dursleys more than I already do, but you managed to do so with this fic. What they did to Harry...I can totally understand Snape and why he snapped and threatened Vernon. I would have done the same. Or even worse. Poor Harry. He is such a kind and sweet boy. He doesn't deserve any of this at all :(.

Not moving around with skele-grow in your system is a very sensible precaution even if you actually have fully healed. When your body is under physical stress, it'll sometimes replace stressed connective tissue with bone in order to protect it. This is good in the tendons of your feet and in your knees, where sesamoid bones are to be expected, but very bad when it happens where bone is actively harmful, causing bone spurs or stone man syndrome. If I'd just been exposed to a potion that made my body jump at any excuse to grow bone, I'd carefully avoid stressing my connective tissue until it wore off. The last thing Harry needs is for his Achilles tendon to completely ossify, leaving him unable to flex his feet.

Really lovely. You navigated two very difficult relationships with a great deal of finesse and caring. I loved this a lot, thanks so much!

Lovely looking forwards to the sequel and thanks for writing

I don't know why but that last line got me laughing.

Great