Michael Cornfoot posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 8:38am

Great chapter as always and as usual i cant wait for more!!

Wolfric posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 7:31am

I think this is a fine chapter, lots going on and some character development to boot. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your betas. Thanks for writing. W.

InMemorium posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 7:28am

I don't know about other readers, but somehow I am really not surprised that Kate turned into a complete bitch. While I was reading, those pieces about her "falling" for Harry seemed to be very fake and leading towards a nasty break-up. That and relationships hardly ever end nicely. The way you finished it allowed there to be 0 chance of Kate and Harry getting back together. Perfectly, masterfully done good sir. That is a big part of the reason why you are one of my favorite fanfiction writers.

HP-DG-SB posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 7:20am

Well shit. Everything was great. Until the end. It really is the end of Kate then eh? I'm not happy to see her go the way you did it. Stupid f*cking russians. Now what then? Natalia going to be able to work the russian scheme and get Harry allied with them? That'll really wreck it for me. Now the Chinese are in play, as well as the americans soon. And it was going so great too. Well, I'll have to stick around to see what happens next. I'm going to stay unhappy for a while, with the way it went with Kate at the end there. Damn russians messing with things that shouldn't be messed with, as usual. Anyways, besides that, the rest of it was pretty great as it usually is with you. Now I can't wait to see what happens with the fallout in the next chapter.

HP-DG-SB

Finbar posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 6:50am

I enjoyed the chapter, but it felt disjointed. It jumped from one major scene to the other with no feeling of time passed or urgency. Which is unusual for one of your pieces.

Otherwise, a great chapter.

wcm posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 6:50am

Thanks for the Christmas gift of an update!

agnar14 posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 6:48am

I'm beginning to feel like the fic should have ended, because frankly you've taken it in directions I don't want to read about a few times the last two chapters.

I don't really want to read about all this political intrigue shit in this fic, or Kate going batshit nuts/superbitch over night. Or Harry being taken in by every pretty face he runs across.

It's beginning to feel like you stopped writing that first story I enjoyed so much, and began an international espionage thriller that happens to also have a character named Harry Potter, but bears little resemblance to the first dozen chapters.

Logan_MacLeod posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 6:27am

This shit is freaking AWESOME!!!!!!!

diagonalpumpkin posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 6:19am

Wow. Plenty going on in this chapter. Two large mistakes that I'm sure will bite Harry and Gabrielle later, 2 new women introduced (with a possible third from the Americans?), and losing Kate, who, I have to admit, I thought was going to be around until the end. I did quite like her, I thought that was all part of the plan. I can believe this was a tough chapter though...not a lot of very happy things in it and it covered quite a bit. Thanks for another great chapter, and keep up the great work.

M. Scott Eiland posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 6:15am

Clearly *something* made Kate do it that way--even if she genuinely wanted to take the job and was ultimately against trying to pursue a long-term relationship with Harry she generally wouldn't have been cruel to him in that situation because she's far too wise to permanently alienate an insanely valuable contact like one Lord Harry James Potter. It could be the kind of self-doubt that caused Katie Bell to intentionally alienate Harry in the backstory of "Hope," but I suspect not. I'm a little disappointed in Harry for not demanding she look him in the eye--though Kate's cruelty might well have been calculated so as to throw him off balance enough so that he *wouldn't* think to do that. Hopefully, he'll be inclined to dig a little deeper and not lose her totally as a friend, even though Word Of J says that the romance is done for good.

Looking forward to the next chapter.

sh8ad8ow posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 6:00am

Excellent chapter like always can ´t wait to see that fallout, and I hope that he wizens up to what those new womens are up to soon, so that he can avoind another situation like the one with Kate.

csktech posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 5:41am

Simply amazing, as always. How you keep suck a complex story straight in your head is beyond me. And Im enjoying every second that I spend reading it. Thanks.

K

Davideg posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 5:02am

I love this story thank you for sharing another fantastic chapter as well as for all the time and effort put in to this story please continue to update as life allows

wilfite posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 4:07am

I find myself at a bit of a loss. I want to do something more constructive then simply pointing and wailing "b-but I don't like it like that!" I remember that the Russians made plans to make Kate an offer she couldn't refuse; it just seems like she had more class then to be so crude and cruel to Harry. Especially after what happened when Harry killed Snape. I'm waiting to see what exactly her motivation for the nastyness is. The abrupt turnaround seems like it might be motivated by fear, but what do I know? It just didn't seem to flow as smoothly as the previous chapters. That said, I eagerly await the next installment.

4rm36uy posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 3:53am

Damn, that last scene was harsh.

And yet, I'm guessing that it was somebody from the Russian Embassy polyjuiced to look like her and play out the scene to have him not look for her in the future. Either way it is a good/abrupt way to finally kick him into full adulthood as he was extreemly sheltered while he was training these past months/years.

I'm looking forward to reading how it goes from here.

Riegert8 posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 3:52am

I like minister of magic get his pay back soon

Kinsfire posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 3:32am

Is it wrong of me to hope that Kate dies alone and friendless at some later date? There's a line you don't cross, even if you're doing it for someone else's good, and she rather neatly crossed that line at rather high speed.

Commando987 posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 3:30am

I think this is the perfect way to end Kate. This story is heating up and I'm excited to see what comes next!

Drake posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 3:03am

Lord Jeebus, you took me through an emotional roller coaster. I actually gasped out loud and had my heart start beating hard in my chest at the scene with Gabrielle. I'm sad that Kate turned out the way it did, but not all great stories end with a happily ever after...

I love the darker elements that you've been introducing, but at the same time it hits me hard in the feels. Congratulations, I think this is the most captivating fanfic I've read in the last 3-4 years. Can't wait to read the next chapter. Merry Holidays and a Happy New Year! Hopefully your distractions are of the good sort!

Liedral posted a comment on Friday 26th December 2014 2:57am

Oh my..... Gabrielle thinks Harry trusts Natalia so she doesn't check her, and Harry is now trusting Natalia cause he thinks she passed Gabrielle's test..... this seems like a recipe for disaster. As for Kate... wow that was a big twist you threw in there... I somewhat think Harry should've erased several memories from her, especially since she knows several really important secrets.