Name: Renacera (Signed) · Date: 18 Jan 2019 08:27 PM · For: Remembering You.

 

Hi there!

I’ve made my Magical Menagerie goal to read and review every Dramione story on the site! So...here I am!

This was a really sad story! It reminded me a lot of one I’d written years and years ago about Hermione passing away from cancer. It’s an interesting thing to consider: that the magical community can cure colds and broken bones and things in a second, but they still can’t do anything to prevent Muggle catastrophes. Draco being killed by being hit by a car felt like that to me.

I really felt Hermione’s pain in this story. To lose someone you love is never easy, but it’s especially painful when that person was taken in such a senseless way. I actually lost a really close friend when he was hit by a car while riding his bike, so this story resonated with me especially poignantly.

I do love that Hermione will go live with Scorpius and her grandchildren. I hope that that helps her heal. It seemed so natural that she was his mother, even though in canon that’s Astoria. I like that this story was able to achieve that naturalness.

Finally, special shout-out to your portrayal of the specifics of grief: the way that certain things remind you of the one you’ve lost, the depth of that emptiness in your heart, the desire to start new somewhere else, etc. It was all very realistic to me.

Well done!
Emily

Name: M C Crocker (Signed) · Date: 06 May 2017 04:12 AM · For: Remembering You.

This was very lovely piece Hayden.  You did a very nice job of conveying the emotion from Hermione.  As I was reading I was feeling along with her. With loss like this I think you have Hermiome's actions spot on. I think for a time when you lose love like that you do kind of stop functioning on some levels. Still I like how Hermione is trying to move forward at the same time despite all the pain and hurt she is feeling.  It leaves the reader with a glimmer of hope amongst all the sad.  Very nicely done.