Fandoms: Harry Potter, The Sentinel Relationship: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger -------------------------------------------------- Harry comes online as a Sentinel after the war and is forced to face some very difficult realizations about the people around him.
There are some brilliant ideas in this intense, Sentinel-fusion, Weasley- and Dumbledore-bashing long-short-story (novelette?), such as Harry and Hermione's spirit animals, especially Harry's, and the interesting role the Malfoys play, but the kinda depressing, infuriating ending, since much of the harm done cannot be repaired, keeps me from going higher than 3 stars.
1/2024: I'm rereading some KM fics I haven't read in [several] years, and I decided (after waffling) to include this one. Everything I wrote the first time is correct, good and bad. Since I was prepared, the downbeat ending didn't make me regret my choice (although I probably *did* back then).