You have done an excellent job with this story.


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There is only one success - to be able
to spend your life in your own way.
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lol those childhood flashbacks are funny.

Snape hit by bus? What a nice image and poor Rupert having him as a brother

awesome story, just finished reading it from start to finish. It was a wonderful story and I can't believe how seamlessly you blended both worlds!!!!

Absolutely loved this! You made it all work. I'm just amazed because it is just so brilliant... Actually just find a list of positive words and they'll apply.

To review or not to review that is the question.
Keep up the good work.

Sheer brilliance.

I thought you captured the two really well. At first Snape and Giles as brothers seemed such an unlikely combination, but you made it work perfectly. I liked your insight in the Slytherin world – how everything is ruled by house politics and how Giles gets away with defying Lucius.

I was really sad to see it end, and I was particularly sad to see it end so badly. I’ve always been a sucker for happy ends, but you’re probably right in letting this one end this way. After 20 years of fighting, especially between brothers, it probably takes more than just knowing a vengeance demon did it and being with each other for a few weeks to reconcile. I’m just going to be optimistic and thinking that it’ll work itself out in the future!

I'll add a longer review when I'm more awake. Excellent work.

Should see if the mods will create a 'HP - Giles Centered - Theme: Real Family' category.

You get my vote just for having Giles call Severus a smeghead

wait...but .... where *was* the happily ever after? There's supposed to be one!

that said, your ending was very nice (except not in a "nice" way) and the whole story was quite good. If a little long. I do wish there'd been more action...but I'm kinda ok with it anyway.

Oh, and I'd really like to see what home life at the Malfoys was like once Lucius and Cissa were married. Her...um, talents, were so much fun and I want to know if Narcissa stayed as in charge as she was in school. "Baa."

This took me four days to read but I love it. Wonderful job. Please please continue to write such wonderful fic's.

Okay, I'll admit that I didn't see that ending coming. At all. Well done!
Seriously, that was a wonderful story and I liked the present&past format you were using. And that was the first good version of Giles' childhood that I've seen so far.

You seriously have not seen much of Buffy past season 3? Holy crap, I never would have guessed. Which is a hell of a compliment to your writing abilities, yes? ;)
I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate you on such a detailed and involved story, with bonus points for the amount of humour. Since I'm barely half-way through the story, I didn't want to forget to tell you!

I'm happily racing through your story and will review again when I finish, but there was one thing I wanted to comment on.

You refer to Giles as an active Watcher (as does his father) and so does the Council secretary. But at this point in the Buffy series (just post season 4, yes?), Giles was still fired. He wasn't rehired until mid season 5, during the whole Glory issue. I'm sorry, but this has just been picking away at me. Was this just a bit of an Ooops? Or was it an intentional switch for the sake of the plot?

I'm glad you're enjoying the story for the most part.

As for Giles status, for the most part, it's an oops. I haven't seen most episodes past season 3, so I'm going off what I picked up from other fics or online synopses. Of course, that being said, I think the Watcher's Council is a bit like a mafia, you're never really "out" you may just not have any active paying assignments. So, while I wasn't really sure what Giles' position was during the later seasons, I didn't think it would be a big plot hole either way. Sorry.

Hear my tears of sadness as this wonderful and beautiful story ends.
Not once was I bored when I read this story which was quite remarkable especially considering it's size.
I loved, loved, loved it. If this fic is ever nominated again for an award, you have my vote.
Keep up the wonderful writing.

Wover
(p.s. Is there a sequel coming up?)