I'm crying this was beautiful and sad

I almost can't believe I'm crying over Voldemort but you've written this so beautifully and thoughtfully that I can, in fact, believe I'm crying over Voldemort. His emotional growth throughout this story is *chef's kiss*! Emotionally-intelligent-but-also-mildly-alcoholic Harry is such a fresh take that I love and deeply appreciate. The way Harry's last work ties into the title and story itself was a sucker punch, and ending the story on Voldemort deciding to become whole again and live his mortal life without Harry is such a power move!

This story was such a joy to read. Thank you so much for writing this!

This is an absolute marvel or a story. It is a very eloquent piece of writing, and has all the emotion of a life well lived. This story was utterly heart wrenching at its end, and the rollercoaster of emotion one feels with this story has advice that will continue in your own life. This is an excellent work or art, and I wish I could do more to commend this piece of writing.

It was incredible ! I ' m crying, I don't even know because the end is perfect. But it's hard leaving them
Really a beautiful story ! Bravo

Rereading and still crying in the end

This story ist lovely. The last chapters were a constant emotional back and forth. I had to take a lot of handkerchiefs. I was totally captivated by the progress of Voldemort and the story itselves.
Well done.

I honestly don’t know how to start.
This story has been really touching to me.
I don’t know why it doesn’t have more comments, but I would like to say that I appreciate how you have wrote each chapter. Your epilogue was perfect. Harry didn’t broke what made him his own person and Voldemort understood at the end his feelings and matured in every way. I would’ve liked a lot more chapters, obviously, but you created something so whole that I feel it was the right moment to finish.
I suppose that a lot of readers already said this, and I hope that even two years after you continue to receive good comments: you are a great writer!

Oh, and forgive me if my comment is weird or sounds off, is just that English is not my first language.

So sad, Alexa play Despacito.

wow
i just.. wow
this is genuinely such an amazing story!
it nearly made me weep in the end here.
great great great job!

I'm crying.

I confess that I read the last chapter with fear... fear and hope that Harry would get immortal somehow. Even if I didn't beliave that it would happen.

It was incredible to see that he didn't bow to nothing in the end. And to see Tom acept love and mortality in the end. I think that Harry would be proud. And happy.

It was a incredibe history. Thanks for sharing.

(And I really, really hope they could find themselves somehow in another life or something like that).

A very bittersweet ending. While I wish Harry could have found some way to be immortal with Voldy I know that for this story this is the best ending. And as much as it touched me I am feeling very melancholy now. Thank you for the incredible writing and characterization of two of my favorite fictional characters.

I feel like there should have been a chapter between 10 and 11. What happened to the actual battle and immediate aftermath? Where is Dumbledore and what exactly happened to him and his followers?

What. I thought it would be Voldy topping. But then it seemed Harry had more experience and Voldy most likely a virgin so their first time should be like that. Still I hope you write another sex scene where Voldy returns the favor.

wow this isa unique plot and a reaaally good one, thank youu

So, I saw your first chapter in ao3 and as you said it was finished here, I decided to read it here. Now that I'm finished, I'm not sure I did the right thing.

Don't get me wrong, I loved reading your story. Right now my throat is blocked, my cheeks are wet and my eyes glistening. There are so many things I loved in this fic! How you set the stakes between Harry and Voldemort, how you showed their flaws, how you made them work, how I saw what would come in the end and how I wanted it to witness it, how you made me care for them so much.

So I'm extremely grateful for this story. It was beautifully structured, from the title to the end. But maybe I feel this way because I'm completely biased on story about stories, on the impact of that last bit of memory left behind, legacy and forgetting are wonderful themes to tackle. I loved that you made your characters grow. Well, Voldemort mostly and I see him as the protagonist of the story. To me this is the story of him accepting death. And I love it.

So I forgive the moments I may have thought the pacing a tiny bit awkward, it's easy to when I forgot exactly when it happened. I can tell that I preferred the second part, when the difference between Harry's mortality and Voldemort's lack of became central. But 8 liked the struggle for dominance in the first part. And that first real argument between them, when they had to order their right hands out of the room was blissful.

And see, all this is why I'm wondering if I should have read it as you published it on ao3 instead of running to here.

By doing so, I denied myself the joy of discovering your story slowly, chapter by chapter, getting better and better. I denied myself the excitement of seeing a new update on it. It's okay, I had some wonderful hours reading it and maybe the immersion was stronger this way...

Anyway, I'm extremely grateful for the little time I spent on this wonderful journey. I loved your story, loved the end, and find myself extremely content with what I read now. So thank you for sharing the beautiful story :)