Measure of a Man

Mid but enjoyable. A lot of pretty prose and heartfelt moments. My main critiques are the excessive length and lack of focus. 

Hermione is introspective, and rigid. Needs to be dragged out of her own way. We are in her head. Being told over and over again about how uncertain and risk-averse she is. Which makes sense considering where she is in the timeline, but is a slog to read through. 

I loved the maturity of this romance. The fact that she falls for his mom and son first. 

However, by the end of the fic there were just convenient excuse after excuse to get Scorpious and Narcissa out of the way in favour of political/criminal subplots. I enjoyed these subplots, but felt a little sad that the best/most unique parts of the fic had to be sacrificed for that. Also, forcing in these subplots added to the length of a story and not much to the development of the characters.