Wow... that was a deep story. Thank you for writing something like that, I enjoyed it a lot.

I did certainly not expect.. well, this.
It isn't often that I find tales which have a seemingly tangible suspense woven in with such dark themes. In the first epoch, there were moments of conversation that felt like the jovial Silence of the Lambs that never was. And the depth hinted at hiding in the complexity contained within the cipher and seemingly similar systems was simply delicious. Plausible explanations for implausible things? I shall always be pleased to see such.

The interactions were pretty much everything, and thus redundantly acknowledged as my favorite part in the tale. Unique, differing characters clashing and competing for once's sympathies all the way to the end. Oh, how you toy with one's hopes.

Other than a few misplaced letters and even fewer misplaced words, I would not have any specific area to negative critique towards.
Oh, maybe though. It struck me, the one tangle untangled seems to be Ron and the Ring. There are suggestive interpretations to be made as to the reasoning behind the deed, but none of mine feels like it properly clicks. Erratic deeds due to erratic thoughts seems somehow void of the deep consequentialism otherwise present. My running theory, until the end, was soundly dashed by the tail.
The mere existence of the tail is somewhat boggling to be honest.
Okay, so maybe two tangles untangled.

Still, one of the more engaging tales I've read in quite some time. Thank you for weaving it unto completion. :)

There were really no other way to go.
Lovely little thing you did with the lemon drops.
Thank you for sharing

There are very few words used to describe this story. This is on par with the best writers I have seen if not farther. I must admit I was hoping for a happy ending but still a a near perfect story.

Wow. Had to stop a couple of times during the reading just to take a brief break. But yeah, very well done.

Based on the story, it seems like it will be a very difficult road for Hermione from where this ended, but for this story, this definitely feels like the right place to leave it.

Bit of a disappointing end. Made all the experiences they went through seem pointless. I do wish the story revolved around the characters more and less about the mystery itself. The first chapter really drew me in, it's just a shame that the story went off on a tangent and never returned.

I honestly don't know what to say. A very emotional story. Especially this last chapter. Thank you for taking the time to write this. I read it in an evening, I'll be thinking about it for days.

The story is ended, except that shouldn't be the end of all of the story. It ends the mystery and resolves the 'what went wrong and how can it be made right', but there are holes that remain.

Hermione survives, borne to safety, but we have no clear idea how she'll return to society and explain what's happened and why. Part of me even wonders if Ron is still alive or if Hermione would return to him after all she went through. The training Hermione exxperienced puts her in a strange place of understanding magic and runework and the essence of the great powers wielded by Albus and Harry- what will she do with that?

Sure, the Prisoner's Cipher has been broken, but the story started and ended with Hermione, and you haven't finished her transformation.

I guess I'm just pining for one more chapter- well done, in that case.

Quite a different story; I'll not say it was enjoyable, it is, however, fascinating. Thank you for writing and sharing it.

Genius. Simple genius.

As I finish my foray into this story, I realize that not only the ending was expected- because it was, the entire story was building up to it- but also comforting.

While reading this last chapter, wandering thoughts kept creeping in my mind.

'How will they behave after the procedure? How will society-their world accept them, Hermione and Harry, so similar, yet so different?'

In a strange way, I suppose Hermione created Harry back from bits as much as Harry did her. Who is the monster, in this case, and who is Dr. Frankenstein? Both.

'Duality', Hermione breathed, in reverent awe. Duality.

This entire story was about it. Almost everything happened in a convoluted, möbius-strip line of events, and in the end I'm left feeling like the circle formations describing Harry's life (past, present, future) would make a remarkably good job describing this story. Circles, upon circles, upon circles. Several events leading different places, but a part of the same initial path-beginning to end, left to right, always, always...

I digress.

This was definitely a breath of fresh life (hah!) in this fandom, so refreshing in the wantom, chaotically imposing aura Harry projected for most of this story. It's...very rare to see any decent representation of darkness (Not evil, never evil-just *chaos*) in this website. I've grown rather tired of the faux-dark, faux-evil I've read, but this...

Yes. Or no? Maybe.

Sorry, this story did strange things to my thought process. ('Revealed, didn't create.' Well, bluh.)

The characterization was spot-on. Of course, I have no qualms in admitting that there wasn't really a spot before for me to compare-such as it is in fanfiction, where familiar faces are mutated and stretched and deformed beyond their confines into completely new, alien beings. Your characters were themselves, but they really weren't. Does that make any sense? Not an ode, but a new, faithful creation.

I fear if I continue this review, I may end up juggling banana-ponies in the sky.

I would give this story 9 out of ten five stars. Would definitely read it again! But not so soon, never so soon. My id psyche is fragile enough as it is.

Too metaphysical...what now? Epilogue please ... Where and what is the Ron and hermiones fate now?

Enthralling, beautiful, awesome. Good job.

OK, now I see the point of the story... and don't care. I'm out. It was mostly well written, especially the battle scene in the last chapter, but it's just not what I'm looking for. 6/10.

I don't think that "craven" and "wizened" mean what you think they mean. You misused both a few times in this chapter.

I'm now more than halfway through this story and still don't see a point to it. That's never a good sign.