Name: Chi (pronounced Key) reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 04:09 pm
Hey I love the fic...but when will Draco admit his true emotions...? All of this waiting makes me want to get in there, shake Draco and tell him to face the music, or if they don't ever happen, just erm...conveniently take Draco for myself....hehehe....
Author's Response: *slaps Draco around a bit* Get on with it you jerk!
Name: Chauri18 reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 03:58 pm
Hey this story blew me away. Your description, detail and perception of G & D is unlike most and extraordinary at the same time. Keep it up oh and pleeeaase may they get together. I love the heated yet uncontrolled chemistry. And the way Ginny can understand Draco, but I hope she acts on that and won't back down from what she wants. Basically for Ginny to get a lil' even just a lil' back bone like she had towards Pansy only toward Draco in this situation.
Author's Response: Thank you very much. Whenever I read a story, I love description., I want to be able to picture every detail, so when I wrote this fic, I wanted to give the readers the kind of story that I always enjoyed. I hope I succeeded.
Name: CarEtoDreaM reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 03:51 pm
oh, i love this. but that last line from draco... 'i will never love you,' gah, that's just too heartbreaking!!! i dont know, i cant see this having a happy ending from what i've read so far but maybe you can change that? no matter how much i appreciate sad endings b/c a lot of times, its best that way, i do really adore happy endings. sappy endings over sad ones any day... tho sometimes, the sad ones are really better. but happy ones are happy!!!
Author's Response: You'll have to wait and see. ^_^
Name: K reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 03:46 pm
ENGLISH! Geeshh!
Name: Kendra reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 03:45 pm
SORRY FOR THE GRAMMAR!!!
Oh and I ment review of thhe story..uggh I need encligh class bad!
Name: Kendra reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 03:39 pm
I love this story I find myself anticipating review. I lke how you portray him expecially with his comflicting emotions and slow maturity. Even thogh some say ginny is weak. She seems to show strong qualities as well. In so many other stories shes went to Harry or someone else for spite etc. and it's good to see her acting mature about it and at the same time not whinning and sniveling to Draco. I got a feeling what Draco said to Ginny "You had to know" was both truth and not. He seemed to have to prove it to himself that she was nothing and only proved she was. As to with the "I'll never love you". In a way he seems to already which seems to be what's got to him, but I don't think it's nearly the turning point. Only an option to it.
Author's Response: Don't worry about the grammer Kendra. It's not a problem. I thank you for your review. And I'm very glad you're enjoying my fics Ginny.
Name: bellasol67 reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 02:24 pm
Okay, here I am yet again, I was in bed last night thinking about this damn story (Honestly, I have NO life)...It dawned on me that as Draco told her he didn't love her he was holding her tightly...so I don't believe him...I don't WANT to believe him.
As much as I would love to see Ginny and Draco sleep together it is soooo not the right time.
Author's Response: My story is haunting your dreams? That's such praise right there, I love that. I'm giggling. Draco's quite an enigma, isn't he? He can't keep himself straight. (*back, Harry/Draco shippers, back I say!)
Name: Anon reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 11:13 am
Wow that was just so so oh I don't have the words to explain it. I love how you write and I love how you characterized Draco. I love how you update so quickly and I love how this story is going. The last scene was so sad, and full of so much emotion :( The next chapter sounds like it will be a good one...like all your other ones.
Author's Response: Thanks. I'm glad you like my writing style. My beta said it is overly descriptive, something she doesn't enjoy. I really like having her as my beta though. She doesn't let me get away with any spelling or grammer errors! She's a tyrant, but in a great way.
Name: Jacquie reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 10:16 am
mmm... this is shaping up to be an extremely interesting story. Can't wait to see how you continue this!
Author's Response: Thank you very much!
Name: Hummie reviewed
Chapter Eleven on Mar 24, 2005 09:35 am
Oh, I forgot. Draco's mental dialogue in this chapter was very Notes from Underground. I found it fit perfectly. Delicious, darling!
Author's Response: Thank you dahling, thank you!
Name: Hummie reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 09:24 am
Oh, that was crazy and heartbreaking! What will happen now? Wheeeeeeeh :( But your story makes me happy because it is so amazingly good! Shame on you for taking down your SM fiction! [Shakes finger] I did research on you: Between Midnight, Four Seasons; those are supposed to be classics, and you took them down! ALAS . . . Anyway, you're fabulous :) You are definitely my favorite author for D/G fiction! Good luck and have a lovely day :)
Author's Response: Yes, it's strange how highly they were rated. I just didn't want them to define my writing anymore. I wanted a fresh start. Anyway, wow! My first story and I'm your favorite?? I'm very pleased.
Name: Mynuet reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 24, 2005 01:26 am
You're seriously going to kill me with this fic. Every time I think maybe there's a tiny chance a moment of happiness will come, BAM! We hit another corner. *sigh* I'm still clutching onto hope that it will end happily.
Author's Response: I didn't mean to attempt murder. I just wanted to give people something to read! *weeps* I love corners! I just keep throwing them in!
Name: Maureen reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 11:12 pm
Wow. I mean wow. This is absolutely one of the most canon stories I have ever read. Draco Malfoy is so in character that it's mind boggling, truely. You have a wonderful talent of playing out on their emotions in this story and everything is so well placed and wonderfully written, its just beyond amazing. I adore how you play the hostile relationship between Ginny and Draco, its just perfect. I've been reading loads of stories at this site for many monthes now and this is the first story I have reviewed. Truely a piece of art. Keep up with the wonderful work you're doing
Author's Response: Thank you very much for such extravagant praise! I hope I can keep meeting your expectations.
Name: Elle Blessingway reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 09:00 pm
I really, actually, almost cried at the end of that chapter...it's all so tragic and hopeless. I absolutely love your characters...so close to what the canon would be. I'm still recovering from the angst and emotion from that chapter and can't really find the right words to say how much I liked it. Just keep it coming.
Author's Response: It's a comin', it's a comin'. Tomorrow there will be another update. I'm kind of pleased to have left you speechless. It's because I stole all the good words for my story. Bwahahaa!
Name: Maleficent reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 07:50 pm
Well, fuck. I feel like I just got an emotional ass kicking. Gin can't seem to catch a break in this story. First her dead garden, then falling towards her death, then Draco mind games. But, oh the worst, "I will never love you." I cringed. Outwardly. Fucking ouch, GM. But I'm still enthralled and still wishing you'll start updating every day instead of every two to three days. Do I stalk this story much? Maybe just a little. But for good reason. You're fabulous. Sex in the next chapter?
Author's Response: Ginny really has gotten the emotional mind fuck these last few chapters... Unfortunatly, I will most likely be waiting for two or so days between updates because my beta is busy. I have up to chapter fifteen ready to go though. Oh, and thanks!
Name: Pam reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 06:30 pm
::tries not to cry:: Wow, can you write the angst or what? I wish I had like a speck of your talent! You write Draco as such an asshole - don't get me wrong though, I absolutely adore him that way, but I wish Ginny would show a spark of revenge. She could totally make out with Blaise to piss off Draco! lol. Awesome work. You rock.
Author's Response: Don't sell yourself short! Thank you though... But don't sell yourself short!
Name: blondie07 reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 06:03 pm
omg that was so sad i think im going to cry. i feel so bad for ginny esp since i know what it feels like to care for someone so much and know they care for you but you are unable to get close to them because they just won't let you. part of me hates draco but part of me kind of understands why he is doing this. i sure as hell hope he doesn't go running back to pansy though. i like how ginevra always seems to handle herself so well even when she is being so open with her emotions. i do hope things start looking up soon.
Author's Response: Don't cry sweetie, unless they're the good kind of tears. The kind that come from watching a sad movie, or hearing a beautiful song. I'm glad you're still enjoying the fic.
Name: imelda reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 05:08 pm
Is that true? I don't even know anymore. Does he really believe he can never love her? Or does he already? I don't dare to hope that. But let me start earlier on...the Quidditch match. As soon as the game begun, I thought "Oh, well, ginny's going to fall from her broom, and Draco's going to swoop down to catch her." Because that's just a given. But of course, you masterfully altered it. I didn't realize just how masterfully until...well, I'll get there. The first way you improved the standard scene was with that tiny paragraph of foreshadowing, of jumping forward and then backward in time--when you give us Draco's later thoughts on the fall just before it happens. That sort of slowed the whole narrative down perfectly. And then, after all, Harry caught her, and Draco was left with the Snitch. I loved that. In some way, I can't pinpoint how, you made the Ginny-snitch comparison (which has been made before) into something that doesn't objectify her, and into something very poignant. And painful, in Draco's case. But you even surpassed yourself later, in a moment I didn't remotely anticipate, in a scene that was so beautiful my heart squeezed (sorry, I'm getting sappy again). I'm speaking, of course, of "...the regretful crush she had harbored for him swerved dangerously down another path, blossoming with bittersweet petals into a violent, all-encompassing love." Man oh man. Just the fact that it took place in a single moment, that it had a pinpoint-able cause, and that, of course, you put it into such beautiful language, basically revolutionized the Ginny-falling scene. Man oh man. What I don't really understand about the chapter is how Draco made that sharp turn around from being convinced he could have everything, including Ginny, to spurning her. And when he says he had never "intended" for Ginny to hear "because you had to know," why was it put like that? Is that really why he slept with Pansy? Thinking back, I guess it was and it wasn't. But it seemed to me that, more so, it wasn't. So basically I'm wondering what he really feels, although I guess he doesn't know himself.
Author's Response: I'm glad that I could affect you so strongly. That means I've done this story justice. As for Draco's motivation, you will have to wait and see how he progresses. He isn't one for rash desicions, and yet he keeps making them because of Ginny... That means so much.
Name: Bellasol67 reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 05:02 pm
I forgot to mention in my last review that while I am not a Crabbe and Goyle fan, I do like that you have not made them blundering idiots. I can't believe that Draco (esp. your Draco) would hang around people that were that stupid.
Author's Response: He still sees them as protection though. He's such a tyrant, lol.
Name: Bellasol67 reviewed
Chapter Twelve on Mar 23, 2005 04:46 pm
My favorite moment in this chapter was the 'thankyou' Ginny spoke to Draco on the stairs. So simple and yet not.
Author's Response: Often, few words are the best words.
Name: imelda reviewed
Chapter Eleven on Mar 23, 2005 01:34 pm
Eeep. As if I'm not enough of a review hog already, I'm going to add one more today. See, I was reading back over your responses to my reviews, and I stumbled upon the first one I wrote...erp. It really was a lot meaner than I realized, and I'm sorry for that. Starting out a review with "What rot," I realize, kind of defines the tone for rest of the review, and I don't think it at all accurately explained what my response was. See, I have never flamed anyone and I never would, but that's the closest I've come. I could only have responded in such a strong way to a fic that affected me. And I think it was because I saw so much in your Ginny, and so much depth and accuracy in the rest of your characters, that I came out with such a strong, rather mean statement. What I think I really meant was..."This Ginny is so strong, so real and so canonically accurate that I don't think it makes sense for her to be behaving that way." Basically, I thought her behavior was 'rot,' and not the writing, or the characterization, or the story....*imelda realizes she is inexcusably justifying and slinks away sadly* .........Um, in any case, I hope my subsequent reviews showed you how much I think this fic ROX. Because it does.
Author's Response: Oh, hey, no problem at all. I can take constructive criticism, and the rest of it was, just not the first line. Anyhow, no harm done. I just hope I was able to allieviate some of your misgivings with my reply, and later chapters. Speaking of which, I am about to go post chapter twelve.
Name: imelda reviewed
Chapter Eleven on Mar 22, 2005 05:05 pm
I'd forgotten some things. First, Draco's whole reputation-manipulation. I'm not entirely clear on how what he's doing ties in with what Dumbledore and Snape are doing...should I be? I'm a bit confused. But I think it's great the way his reputation keeps getting built up in positive ways even when he isn't trying. It's kind of exactly the opposite of Harry's canon experiences, isn't it? Perfectly appropriate. The other thing I forgot to mention is how much I like Pansy. I was actually pretty darn surprised when she so blatantly attacked Ginny's garden, because previously she had been such a cool character. Cool as in her temper, I mean. Mostly she had seemed curious as to why Draco was interested in Ginny, and only inwardly bitter even when she knew he was sleeping with her and thinking of Ginny. I liked that a lot about her, and hope we see more of her control, because it's certainly interesting to compare with Ginny's brashness. :-D P.S.-- I am greatly looking forward to some yummy Blaise-induced angst. Hope it comes!!! ;-)
Author's Response: The Snape/Dumbledore ties become clearer later. Right now, it's kind of like a web that's only half spun. I want people to focus more of Draco and Ginny rather then the political backstory, because this fic is about growth. I'm glad you caught to Draco/Harry contrast. I thought I was being so sneaky, too. You know what? I really like my Pansy. I think she's really cool, both emotionally, and actually. And ah, poor Blaise. I didn't know he'd be so popular!
Name: imelda reviewed
Chapter Eleven on Mar 22, 2005 04:49 pm
Oh man, oh man, oh man. This is what I call a goddamn fanfic. You know, at the beginning, when you wished for half the talent of Jedi B and Arabella, I thought it was incredibly conceited of you. I mean, no one (but Anise!) can approach RfA. But man, oh man, I take it back. This is good. I love it; it kills me; it makes my heart ache and my eyes water. See, Ginny's emotionality (whatever) makes sense, now, because she actually has things to be truly upset about...whereas earlier in the fic I didn't really get a sense of that. She was very silly. But I like her much more now, in her efforts to make do without him, in the hope she gets from his gestures, and I even understood her meekness in the gardens, when Pansy had destroyed her plants. Ginny is a real, valuable person now, I think. And this is a romance to the nth degree. I admit, I may be saying all this because I am the biggest sucker in the world for angst, but I still maintain that this fic has gotten fabulous, and I am going to go recc it on my LJ's fantabulous list of reccs. Sigh. I do hope you update this frequently, because I am dying to know what happens next. It was a treat having 12 chapters to read at once--I really lucked out. Now go on and make me even luckier, and stick another chapter on there, won't you? ;-D
Author's Response: I never meant to appear conceited, I meant it as a compliment. Rising from Ashes is like, my bible. I adored that fic. I could only read it once, because it left me weeping. I adore it, and I don't think my story will ever be half so good as that one... But I damn well tried. I'm glad you're finally seeing Ginny in a better light. I was worried for a bit there. I didn't want to alienate you. Thank you for teh recommendation, by the way! Wow!
Name: imelda reviewed
Chapter Five on Mar 22, 2005 03:20 pm
*Sighs.* That, exactly, is why I love D/G.
Name: imelda reviewed
Chapter Five on Mar 22, 2005 03:10 pm
Hahahahaha!!!!!!!! OK, I haven't finished the chapter yet, but I have to congratulate you on achieving an actually funny pun... "Now there was a girl to wet any man's desires." Teeheee!!!! Love it!!
Author's Response: You're just a little review bug now, aren't you? ^_^