This is...wow. This is...
Beautiful. Thank you for the story.

this was awesome i love books with Ariana in them

I'd be delighted to! What a wonderful story! Ariana being so cheeky and yet wise! Well done, the Painter's presense ever hovering, all in the span of no time at all it seems. This was a really creative POV. The last line was definitely my favorite. ;) well done!

perfect ending...or beginning. I like the death phase better than the living one. it feels more complete.

wow. just wow. i truly enjoy the way you wrote this story; a strange mix of sci-fi, fantasy, canon, and about twenty other different things that somehow meshed together. i really enjoyed your portrayal of both albus and ariana, and i'm befuddled as hell about the painter, haha. but i'm guess that was your intention so i won't complain. .

anyway, this was very nicely written and i have no complaints. hope to see more from you!

later!

-MKL, signing out.

"Any sound can shake the air. My voice shakes the heart." -Sho Minamimoto, The World Ends With You (NDS)

I don't know what to say . . . this is lovely, really sweet. I love how you've characterised Ariana and the Painter. Actually, I like the whole concept, and the way something completely odd's happening, and you just run with it, and make it normal. How on earth did you come up with it? It's a little confusing, but in a good way, the fun kind. I wouldn't want it any different, especially given what you're dealing with. And this guy just sits there and paints portraits, does he? Hm . . . that's very interesting . . . anyway. Great work, keep it up.

Reason-Flower

aw. so cute! i've started looking for stories with Arianna in them but she's such a minor character that theyr'e aren't many, so thanks for writing this! x lilystarz x

I really enjoyed this story for so many reasons. Firstly I felt it a very creative and unusual idea about the painter and the room. I loved some of the descriptions of the painter painting Albus' portrait, and I really enjoyed the moments of humour.

And the part where he met his sister was just wonderful, it was so imaginative and very well written. Ariana is absolutely wonderful and I was so delighted that she has forgiven Albus, we should have had something like this in Deathly Hallows, then I might not have been so depressed by everything we learned about Albus.

Wow...very deep, I'm very impressed. Though my small mind can't possibly process this, lol, you are an amazing amazing writer. Luck be with you!

This is amazing. Incredible. Written in the style of Harry Potter, but with your own brilliant style. Your musings, and the characterizations that seem to fit so well...

"...fame, that fickle thing." Yup.

And then there's the keeping to that line about the fine line between "all is well" and all is ruined. You give no exact answer to who killed Ariana, whose spell. And you go on to cast Dumbledore's plans into a very true light - he can't exactly control everything. And I do think Ariana would have forgiven her brothers if they had been the ones who killed her.

Another thing to note - about the glass of water that The Painter cleaned his brush in. You catch even the tiniest details to make it fit the magical world.

"...it really was hard to keep thinking of the monstrous, pitch black shadow death so often was." "So often was." How open-minded this line is. And I find it to be very true.

Okay, I could rant about this. A lot. But I do applaud you on your excellent keepings to canon, and the musings that are so open-minded, so sensible. This really is brilliant.

~PT