I agree with makaem!

This is fabulous.

I love this transformation and history of the RoR. Seems fitting.

Love it! Love it!!

what an amazing story.  you write so powerfully i seem to feel all they're feeling.  thank you so much and i look forward to the next chapter. 

Wow, my dear, this is breathtaking.  I haven't been reading this because my list of WIP's is obscenely long and I didn't want to start another.  But since it was spotlighted, and in quite good company, I caved.  And I am not in the least bit disappointed.  This is my first review because I couldn't stop long enough to even form a coherent thought, but it is too late for me to continue tonight, so I thought I'd stop by at this point and tell you what a brilliant thing you have going here.  I'm sort of dreading the point where I catch up to the story, AKA keep posting quickly please :)

This is fabulous!

wow.  just wow.  this chapter is fascinating, the ending is a zinger.  the laws of magic that you have written out here are interesting and make so much logical sense.  I love it!

So very powerful! I am curious to see if Severus' patronus has changed, and will we see what animagus form he might take? I've always assumed a fox...

who would have thot sybil to have the answer!  loved the lotus.  this is the most facinating and complicated story i'm reading.  thanks so much and holiday smoochies

an interesting story so far! keep it up!

This story is truly inspired. I feel like I can relate to the pain and desperation Hermione, Severus and now Neville are feeling. Trelawney adds the perfect note about the cracked mirrors, plus a great cliffhanger. Must fix the damage from the other side indeed. That gave me a chill.

Wow very powerful scenes and words, amazing work.

Wow this is quite an original fic and very deep and dark.  Really looking forward to more.  Your imagery is very visual.

Oh lord! what a chilling cliffie! The terrors of the mind are so much more devestating than any we see with our eyes. Repared from the other side -- from the INside. I'll be on pins and needles until I read the next installment. :)

i can only imagin how neville feels, probably a relief to know it's not just him.  this is such an intense story.  thanks so much and holiday smoochies to you and yours

I'm so glad Neville is connecting with Severus.So exquisitly written. I love reading this story. Any story that focuses more on the characters' feelings than their actions holds my interest better. And you do an amazing job.

Yay, an update! It's kind of scary to see Neville like this. Brings everything into focus really well. I'm glad he is trying to work with them and isn't belittling them like the idiots that claim to be Hermione's friends.

I am enjoying this story and hope that an update will be forthcoming!

Great chapter!  I am so glad to see updates - with an emphasis in the 's' in updates.  This story is highly enjoyable - I am eager to see how Hermione and Severus interact with the outside world and how it relates to their relationship.

i hope we get to examin severus' remark about ginny more thoroughly.  great update.  thanks muchly

The anguish, the need, the beauty of your writing... Amazing.

Well, you have me totally delighted and transfixed by your wonderful writing again!  (I have read/reviewed this story before, but not for a while, I think, and love all of your other work that I've read so far.)  However, the beautiful, descriptive passages in this chapter in particular have left me almost speechless with admiration!I love the content of this story but it really is your word- smithery that gets me every time.  There are just too many good lines to quote, but I do love 'he held her while the silence of the room pressed against her as she emptied herself of toxins built of fear and brokeness carried for a decade - or longer', or, 'The night wound like a thread of glass around them, between them - too fragile to withstand even the whisper of words on its delicate surface'.  Wow!  What absolutely beautiful descriptions, almost poetry really. I simply can't wait to see where this story goes now.  What incredible talent you have! :-)

amazing chapter.  amazing images.  thanks so much

Wow, Ginny was really terrible!  Severus is right, Hemione is used to being in the light, not hidden away.  But it all seemed to get sorted out in the end.