I read this entire story in two days and simply couldn't stop long enough to leave meaningless little comments at the end of each chapter, so I saved it at all up for the moment when I hit a wall. Which I hope will go away soon!! The manipulations and games are fascinating! I usually don't have ANY patience for things like that in stories - I get frustrated and stop reading, or shout at the screen and storm off if it's a movie - but I obviously didn't respond like that to this story, haha! And I enjoyed your extremely Slytherin Harry - something I've never managed to do more than tolerate before.
And Harry's mental issues are deeply disturbing and frightening, especially the scene where he completely lost himself in Horace Longbottom. MY SKIN WAS CRAWLING. I hope he (literally) pulls himself together ASAP because, wow, I love Harry and I miss him. And it's really sad and painful that he's so broken, and he can't even SEE it. I've read dozens of stories about insane!Harry, but they're always fake, forced, stilted ... This is something completely different and it's heartbreakingly real. I can't even really express how I feel about this psychological complexity - I don't even know what I'm SAYING. But I can feel that he's coming back because he doesn't feel as wrong in the last couple of chapters as he did throughout the rest of the story. So that's a pretty amazing characterization talent you've got there. I've been completely on edge and filled with this awful sense of wrongness the whole time I've been reading, and it's really close to the feeling of my "out of character alarm" going off, but it's not quite - and I know that's because you deliberately wrote him that way.
Draco is lovely, Kingsley is endearing and threatening at the same time (wtf), Narcissa is unexpected, Lucius is predictable, Ron and Hermione are a source of concern, and Draco's friends are simultaneously annoying and admirable. And Nusante needs to grow up! I hope you update soon, because I - okay, I'll admit that my main motivation to keep reading is the promise of seeing Harry happy and (relatively) whole. With Draco.
But I don't think I'll ever be able to like Horace Longbottom.
PS - This is the first time I've ever reviewed/commented on a fic I read on LJ. Sshhh! >_>;
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And Harry's mental issues are deeply disturbing and frightening, especially the scene where he completely lost himself in Horace Longbottom. MY SKIN WAS CRAWLING. I hope he (literally) pulls himself together ASAP because, wow, I love Harry and I miss him. And it's really sad and painful that he's so broken, and he can't even SEE it. I've read dozens of stories about insane!Harry, but they're always fake, forced, stilted ... This is something completely different and it's heartbreakingly real. I can't even really express how I feel about this psychological complexity - I don't even know what I'm SAYING. But I can feel that he's coming back because he doesn't feel as wrong in the last couple of chapters as he did throughout the rest of the story. So that's a pretty amazing characterization talent you've got there. I've been completely on edge and filled with this awful sense of wrongness the whole time I've been reading, and it's really close to the feeling of my "out of character alarm" going off, but it's not quite - and I know that's because you deliberately wrote him that way.
Draco is lovely, Kingsley is endearing and threatening at the same time (wtf), Narcissa is unexpected, Lucius is predictable, Ron and Hermione are a source of concern, and Draco's friends are simultaneously annoying and admirable. And Nusante needs to grow up! I hope you update soon, because I - okay, I'll admit that my main motivation to keep reading is the promise of seeing Harry happy and (relatively) whole. With Draco.
But I don't think I'll ever be able to like Horace Longbottom.
PS - This is the first time I've ever reviewed/commented on a fic I read on LJ. Sshhh! >_>;