Category: Long and CompletedRomance for three couples when Blaise and Luna use Shakespearean styled matchmaking to hook up Ginny and Draco. There's Much Ado about...something!
Nominated for a Quicksilver Quill award for Best Romance- Non Canon on Mugglenet* Written before the HBP, this tale presents an alternate sixth year in which Dumbledore lives, Draco is more than a foil to Harry, and Blaise Zabini is a girl. I hope readers who ship Draco/Ginny will enjoy the story which includes dancing with faeries, Celtic and Norse mythology, school holidays in London and Spain, and loads of fantasy and romance. "Is this a kissing book?" (to quote the Princess Bride) Yes, it is.*
Rating: Definitely Naughty
Characters: Blaise Zabini (girl), Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood
Compliant with: None
Era: Hogwarts-era
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes
Series: Tales of Two Matchmakers
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1. Matchmaker, Matchmaker (Reviews - 45) 2785 words
Special thanks to die Loreley who confided her addiction to this site and suggested I submit this story! ^_^
2. Let's Get it Started (Reviews - 11) 2456 words
3. Getting Girly and Green Eyed (Reviews - 15) 2567 words
4. A Kiss, A Dance (Reviews - 24) 3136 words
5. Protesting too much and Testing Potions (Reviews - 26) 2609 words
The quote is from Hamlet and I had way too much fun with the names...but hey...it's a perk, and hasn't everyone known someone with the same name as a famous person? I've known two girls named Jennifer Lopez. Poor things, one even dated a guy named Ben. :D Professor Lorelei is an OFC from another fic, where Snape gets a romance, because I heart Slytherin guys, lol. I also heart readers who review and make me whistle while I work!6. Oh gods, a Gusher (Reviews - 10) 2732 words
Eddy and Cissy aren't Eddy and Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous, but there are--hopefully amusing--similarities in characterisation, and the 'Gusher' was filled with favourite bits of phrases gleaned from the show. :D7. Black Knight (Reviews - 21) 3262 words
8. Dancing with Faeries (Reviews - 15) 5186 words
9. Getting Closer (Reviews - 10) 3573 words
10. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (Reviews - 8) 4451 words
11. Good Girls and a Bad, Bad, Boy (Reviews - 12) 3924 words
I don't include the name of the song Blaise and Draco danced to in the chap, because the song that inspired wasn't from 1997, :D, but if you want to 'hear' it in your head while you read, the song is Franz Ferdinand's 'Take Me Out.' Also, This wasn't a chapter that lent itself to an insertion of Shakespeare, but it did bring to mind lines from Romeo and Juliet, when Benvolio is chiding they'll be late to the masque and Romeo responds,I fear too early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels.
12. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream (Reviews - 9) 3449 words
13. Affection and Aftermath (Reviews - 15) 4326 words
Happy New Year!14. Happy Hallowe'en! (Reviews - 14) 5797 words
15. Love and Quidditch (Reviews - 7) 5307 words
16. Snow Day (Reviews - 6) 5250 words
17. Quidditch and Love Lessons (Reviews - 10) 4629 words
18. What a Girl Wants (Reviews - 6) 4954 words
19. Partings and Other Sweet Sorrows (Reviews - 3) 5892 words
20. Song and Dance (Reviews - 5) 6588 words
21. Yule (Reviews - 3) 7156 words
22. Christmas Eve (Reviews - 4) 8968 words
In this story, you will find that love is not always holly jolly, but it does make Christmas merry and bright. This chapter is among the most romantic I have written. If you do not have the stomach for such things as touching moments between fathers and daughters and a sexy Father Christmas, if you cannot stand a pair of lovers who express their feelings any way other than those three little words, or a poor little rich girl whose visit to meet the parents brings new meaning to bittersweet—I would advise you to read another fic instead.Please note that I am not J. K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket, although I adore them very, very, very much, (so much I've borrowed some of Snicket's words for the A/N, lol.) With all due respect, Kerichi
23. New Year's Eve (Reviews - 13) 9686 words
24. A Bump in the Road to Love (Reviews - 7) 5611 words
25. Friends (Reviews - 6) 6134 words
26. Lovers (Reviews - 12) 7490 words
27. With a Little Help from My Friends (Reviews - 10) 8146 words
28. Rollercoaster of Love (Reviews - 6) 8533 words
29. Be My Valentine (Reviews - 9) 8911 words
30. Secrets (Reviews - 7) 8336 words
31. The Things We Do for Love (Reviews - 7) 9141 words
32. Breaking Away (Reviews - 5) 8079 words
33. Holiday in Spain (Reviews - 6) 7014 words
I'm not able to have a holiday without a few burrs (sand spurs) to step on! The title is from a Counting Crows song.34. A Lover's Holiday (Reviews - 12) 6588 words
35. On Holiday (Reviews - 6) 6985 words
36. Sixteen Candles (Reviews - 13) 7043 words
37. Captain, My Captain (Reviews - 19) 6094 words
38. Good Intentions (Reviews - 5) 6136 words
39. Things Revealed (Reviews - 5) 5814 words
40. Backlash (Reviews - 13) 6751 words
41. Turn, Turn, Turn (Reviews - 5) 6864 words
42. When Dreams Do Show Me Thee (Reviews - 12) 7766 words
43. Wonderwall (Reviews - 6) 8348 words
44. Actions and Reactions (Reviews - 6) 8716 words
45. Something Wicked This Way Comes (Reviews - 6) 7712 words
46. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing (Reviews - 9) 7558 words
47. Circle of Friends (Reviews - 6) 7687 words
48. Love and Madness (Reviews - 7) 7982 words
The end of the school year is the end of HP books, but since I’m not Jo, my story isn’t over once they board the train for London. Hope you’ll enjoy the places they’ll go! The Shakespeare quotes are from The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer’s Night Dream respectively.49. Love is the Sweetest Thing (Reviews - 6) 8063 words
50. The Long Goodbye (Reviews - 21) 13973 words
I’ve had so much fun writing this fic, that it’s definitely ‘sweet sorrow’ to post the final chapter. Even so, if readers have enjoyed the journey our characters have taken to reach their happy endings, then I’m a happy writer! The quotes within this chap are from Patricia C. Wrede. If you haven’t read her ‘Enchanted Forest Chronicles’, you should! The quotes at the beginning and end of the chapter are from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The chapter title is from an old Raymond Chandler mystery with the kind of visual prose and intense characters that I've always loved but I always thought needed more romance. :D It seemed to fit.