Whatever just happened, I know it was achingly sad. Tragic. Sort of Funny. Ironic.

What a chilling tale. I quite liked this.

Wow, this was really good. I loved the twist at the end.

A lil bit confusing, but a very good description. The description makes up for the confusing parts, so overall, it's great.

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HAUNTINGLY BEAUTIFUL.

That is a brilliant idea. You know I never imagined that they would switch places! Absolutely fantastic.

Intriguing. I love how you leave things open to interpretation, and your writing is lovely and so very visual. Everything was put together perfectly, and the result speaks for itself. ;)

Awesome yo

Great read, i loved how you split up the parts and how you kept in character.
Thanks for sharing.

OH. MY. GOD.

Simply breathtaking.

LOVE IT.

it was haunting and beautiful. so sad...

Wow, that was so haunting and beautiful. I had to read it several to decide if i liked it, not because it was bad, but because it was just so intense and emotional. i decided that i loved it, though, because there's just something about it that's addicting. I'm glad I read your story, it gives a really different twist to tom/hermione

dark...

Hey... this is really poetic. I like this... k I'm going to ramble.

So here there this scenario presented: where Hermione's life is slowly being drained away and taken by Tom Riddle. And maybe that's what also happened to Ginny (it's kind of unclear in this fic). And the castle, I'm guessing is Hogwarts. But by the time Hermione reaches it, she has no more strength to move on because she has already lost herself. I find it really captivating, how Hermione became addicted to his presence - she feeds him her blood until the diary itself is bloody red. Maybe he was manipulating her, and although he destroyed her he helped her face herself - naked (with all her memories being stripped away) and she admitted that she was afraid of failure the most. And that's what happened, she failed when she lost to Tom Riddle.

Your title reminds me of Ed Sheeran's song, the A team. Especially the lines "It's too cold outside for angels to fly" and "tonight an angel will die."

It's more fitting to say Hermione is the snow angel. Because in the end she regains her innocence, blindly trusting Tom Riddle and losing herself and losing her life and her energy. I assume she dies, and death is a cold innocence in a sense. YET Tom Riddle is also the "snow angel" because he is the cold angel of death. Or perhaps the angel that rebelled against God (because the serpant on his prefect badge - it connects to the serpant from the garden of eden. And in that connotation perhaps Hermione here is Eve searching for Adam or searching for God which is Harry in this sense. And she ends up being suffocated by the serpant. Or maybe bitten over and over, where the poison slowly consumes her.) Tom Riddle is the demon (cold-as-snow angel) and Hermione is the pure-as-snow angel. So your title is definitely ambigious, but very fitting as it can be tossed around :)

I like the thing you did there with the key. Hermione had the key, all this time. And yet she has "forgotten which door it opens." But why was it in the Malfoy manor? why didn't she simply find it in the Riddle manor or the Slytherein shack?

I noticed in the beginning Hermione was haunted by many memories and had obligations she needed to fufill. And in the end she lost it all and somehow it seems she fell into an eternal slumber. Hard to say because it goes unclear. Like how she herself lost clearity as the story unfolds.

But... the thing you did with the eyes - at first her reflection was hidden in the depths. And near the end she saw herself reflected in there. Yet she didn't recognize herself. So I'm thinking... K Riddle's eye-trick indicates the level of power or life he possesses. At first he is nothing but a book/projection. And near the end he's real. As well, maybe when Hermione sees herself completely in his eyes, it probably means she has become his prisoner completely. Indelible. Just like her blood on his pages.

BTW: I like her little threat that she'll spread him about. But she never does, she keeps him all to herself. In which she slowly deteriorates. Where is Luna in all of this?

Oh well, I really enjoyed this hahhaha more than I should have.

Sincerely

S