This is amazing. I had to login just to say this. One of the best HH stories I've ever read

God I loved this fic! It is so creative and yet to me squarely in canon. Characterization I thought also very on. People change as they grow older.

This fic was great!

I just read this over on the porkey archive and found you here. i dont know if you’ll even see this but i have to declare you as my favorite writer of this pairing. I’m sad because i’m literally a decade late getting into this ship and seeing how good your work for them was is just so bittersweet because you’re obviously not in fandom anymore. Regardless, i wanted to thank you for sharing your stories with the fandom and wish you well.

I cant decide if I like the song Oh No by BMTH, as a marker for Angie here or not.

I think a good song to fit the beginning of this is Deathbeds by Bring Me the Horizon. it's a bit more intense then some of your choices, which I love btw. But it came up on my playlist and i felt it fit their relationship pretty well.

I read this story about a year ago on Portkey and am so happy I found it again! There are scenes from this that have stayed with me since the initial read and I look forward to enjoying it all over again now that I can favorite it. I think this is the only first person fanfic I ever actually liked. Good job with this!

Brilliant. Just absolutely brilliant. A thill from beginning to end.

first of all: FUCKING WOW. what a ride.

may i say, this fic is criminally under-reviewed. this was a truly spectacular read from start to finish. you mentioned at the beginning that some people would think this fic was OOC, but i disagree with those people. i could absolutely see harry responding to the end of the war in this type of way. it's one of my biggest issues with canon, actually (besides the epilogue), that we skipped over the trauma and PTSD that those experiences would have instilled. what you've written here is a startling, sobering look into harry's psyche, which jkr greatly oversimplified by the end. harry was, in so many words, really fucked up. it wasn't his fault. but there it is.

you've crafted something absolutely wondrous out of that fact.

i have to say, this may be one of the most dreadfully poignant fics i have ever read. i was absolutely aching for hermione the entire time. her narration was fabulous. there comes a time in most h/hr fics that i start to get really bored with all the longing and pining...never ONCE with this one. it made so much sense, that she would be self-sacrificing, that she sees harry as a spooked animal in the dark, that she is cautious, that she only takes what little she can get; until she can't do that anymore.

by the time they got together, i was positively burning up. it was a heady, cosmic experience. you made it so, so very right. them ending up working together. of course hermione would follow him into this unknown as well. you seem to know these characters like the back of your hand and it shows. i loved, without a doubt, every single moment in this fic. all of them. it was sensual, and intimate, and nuanced. finishing it was like stumbling head-first out of a vivid dream. i didn't want it to end. i wanted to stay here, in this world you made, for a little longer. you're a very gifted storyteller for that to be the case.

i'm so, so incredibly glad i stumbled on this and will be heading to your profile to see what other work you've created. thank you so very much for sharing this masterpiece with us. i'll be sharing it with others as much as i can.

and i'll be back to re-read and re-review many times over, i should think.

-anchored

Loved this story, especially this last chapter. The angst was definitely worth it! Enjoyed your writing and look forward to reading more.

Loved the story read through it all in one sitting

Yessssss. Such a good story. I would love a sequel. Gosh, I hope you have other stories written. I'm going to go check now.

Might as well rip my heart out. That hurt.

But what is Harry doing? I feel just as curious as Hermione. It's driving me nuts. At first it sounded very mafia and now with the whole "construction" thing, I don't even know. I'm still leading towards mafia, but there doesn't seem to be enough people. This is so great, I can't wait to keep reading.

This was a moving story, but even after finishing it, I have conflicting feelings about it. Maybe it was explained in the story and I missed it, but it doesn’t make sense to me that hey have to minimize their magic use so they are not detected but the magical that don’t know they are magical. Obviously, don’t use magic around them, but how are they going to detect magic when done away from them. Another question is how none of them have managed to find The Leaky Cauldron, or any place that’s magical, because I imagine the muggle repelling wards would not work on them. So while the love story between Hermione and Harry was nice and enjoyable, the whole concept of The Unit and how they keep an eye on these unknowing magicals does not quite make sense to me, but maybe I’m trying to read too much into it.