Whoa - powerfully written - nicely done - looking forward to the sequel posted here at Lumos site - glad you mentioned in the sequel that this should be read first - someone mentioned/recommended your sequel story in one of their answers to one of their reviewers, I just had to take a look. Wow - You just drew me into your storyline and I could not stop reading - damn talk about captivating - I felt like I was lost in the long swim with Ethan and Serious - still confused as to what Serious meant by he is/was on duty - doing what?? - most likely will find that out in the sequel. CONGRATULATIONS on a terrific two chapters. Totally impressed.

Well, on that note, off I go to read the sequel now; so, please DO have a great day.

'It used to be a bear.' - NO ! It has been 3 years since you posted this segment. Please say you did write the next part that you spoke of (somewhere) and just forgot to post it to this site. I need to learn to spell "Sirius"; but regardless it sounds like he found somebody and Ethan sounds like he needs somebody and you are a damn good storyteller - so give already - lol. (Nothing like beating my poor authors over the head with the proverbial wet-noodle). But hey, you have a gem here in these two stories and I just know people are waiting on the sidelines to grasp that elusive *longer* endeavour that you spoke of. (Hint hint). lol. I'm still going to place you on my "Fav Author List" in hopes that you do continue.

Sirius without his constant prankish good humour - so human with such a depth/wealth of emotion; and your Ethan, so real. Damn, I have not enjoyed a story so much in a long time. Fantastic and congratulations.

Hope to hear from you with a continuation but either way; please DO have a great day.

Tonks needs to get on with the next nights activities - lol. You said - 'I have no ideas for it yet'. Tonks is not my cup of tea normally, but you have hit on an unusual idea. Good for you. Hope you are definitely going for the idea. LJ confuses the braincells out of me, so please posts to Lumos. Giving credit where credit is due. The story was intriguing (so was the slash - lol). It should be interesting to see what Tonks comes up with for ideas pertaining to work, to allow her to maintain her surveillance of Lucius and to afford her an opportunity to overhear his conversations, etc. Thanks for sharing, and have a good day.

damn - that was softly emotional, you could have been anybody - Harry, Severus, Remus, etc. - regardless, very well done. Have a good day, and thanks for sharing.

Author's Response: That's one reason why I left the narrator anonymous ... and thanks for taking the time to review.

Oh Come ON Readers - this was Published: 09/02/2009 - Last Updated: 12/10/2009; that is Sept to Dec of 2009 - 3 months posted and it already has roughly 369 Hits/readers and only 2 reviews - PLLLEEEEAAASSSEEEEE.

Obviously the author put a lot of work into this endeavour; this was a really well thought out project of an 11 chapter story = that takes effort on the authors part people/readers.

I don't do very well with reviews myself; but even a simple thank you, I am sure would be appreciated by the author. Even better an "I enjoyed that because ..." or an "I don't like the story because ...".

We the readers/reviewers don't have to go overboard but SOME feed back is useful for the authors.

Either we encourage them or we will not have any stories available to read. (Hint, hint).

Personally I would rather read something successfully done and completed; as is this story.

Sorry for the rant, "shadowycat".

I enjoyed your storyline and felt it was unique. You actually made me nervous when you had Snape in the cave; oh boy. Good going and congratulations on getting an emotional response from me (not easy to accomplish with me).

I enjoy when you authors come up with your own characters that supplement the original characters and where you the author decide to place the original characters.

These are fun things to read. (Plus I prefer the slash elements. LOL.) I gave you a "9" on the rating scale mostly due to the fact that I just personally feel that nothing IS perfect. So do not get discouraged by the rating (it is very hard to get a rating of "10" from me. Think I have possibly given a "10" to only 2 stories in my number of years of reading fanfiction on ANY site.

I just want to thank you for sharing and to wish that you DO have a great day. Bye for now.

Author's Response: You're right, everyone needs a bit of encouragement, and feedback is very useful to an author. Hit counts tell you that people look, but they don't give any indication whether they liked what they saw or not...and it's both helpful and nice to know what your readers think. Thank you so much for offering your support and opinions. I'm very glad to know that you enjoyed the story! :D