I'm finally getting a chance to start on this!! :) Wonderful premise, and you get right into the action. This is such a believable way that Draco could have gone in his life, too. Looking forward to more!

Author's Response: I'm so glad to hear you like it! I did think this movie had a lot of D/G potential when I saw it and I quite like to mix my magic and muggle world together. I hope you will keep enjoying! //S.

Another beautiful chapter! :) I love the images of the skaters on the pond.. you paint a picture of the scene so well. Great idea to reveal so much about the characters of these people by the way they skate, especially because it's not always what you'd expect, their words and their physical expressions not always matching. And I do understand why Ginny has that reaction to Draco-- it's easy to think they're fated to be together after reading enough D/G fics, as we both have... ;)but in real life, she would remember and know Draco as the boy who let Death Eaters into the school, who was in very deep with Voldemort, and whose family has always despised hers.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that in order for romance writing to truly work, it has to be believable that the people involved would also choose to NOT get together, and that this would happen for solid reasons. And that's one of the things that works so well about this fic. anyway... on to the next chapter!

Author's Response: Thank you so much!! Yes, what I love about this story (and, really, about this pairing), is that these two characters have to choose each other despite hundreds of reasons why they shouldn't. It's that moment when they realize that nothing else matters, that they fit together and they need to be together, that always gets me. :')

LOVE! and a little sad that it's over....
It's a happy ending. :) But, and this is important, it's an EARNED happy ending. Nothing feels forced or artificial. The easier way would have been to shove Draco and Ginny together after a few rounds of mini-golf, but it wouldn't have been right and it wouldn't have felt real. All Draco knows then is that Ginny had feelings for the man who'd been writing her letters, but he understands that these feelings absolutely do not somehow directly translate to emotions for *him*-- for all he knows, it's just the opposite.

No, it has to be a more difficult path than that for them, and it is. So the fact that they choose to be together at the end isn't just happy and hopeful, it's also realistic.

What a great short fic-- and now I'm going to try to get caught up with your other stuff! :)

Author's Response: Oh, thank you so much, Anise!! I'm glad you enjoyed the story. I don't know where this whole thing came from (it was intended to be a one-shot from the beginning), but I couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out considering how quickly I wrote the last three chapters. I'm glad you thought the ending was earned. I always strive to make D and G's coming together as authentic as possible and not forced. Thank you for reading and for all of your reviews!

Hey megglette. .. I definitely will review this fic... Just give me a couple of days
:) the review will be posted soon!

Wonderful as always! :) Yet another unique Draco and Ginny, with their own set of beliefs, value systems, desires, and plans, and a special way that they all mesh together. I have a theory about this phenomenon... there are an infinite number of parallel multiverses (the quantum physicists say), and you're somehow accessing information from what happens between Draco and Ginny in each one and then writing a fic about it. You really should share the secret with the rest of us. ;) Anyway, yes, I agree that there should be more fics in this particular universe. How about one looking back at this Draco and Ginny's Hogwarts years, and how they interacted with each other then?

Author's Response: Well, you see, the secret involves a large amount of energy that can only be produced in the Large Hadron Collider, a full moon, and--well, I can't tell you the rest. ;) Thank you so much, Anise!! I really enjoy writing Draco and Ginny as teachers. I have a bit more backstory saved up for this universe, so if I get any ideas about how to use it, I'll definitely be writing more! Thank you for reading and reviewing!

Thanks so much for posting here!! I just have this.. .thing... about having to go to FFN to read a fic. They've deleted several of mine in the past, and that's hard to get over. I do post there occasionally, but... ugh. Anyway, that's enough of a rant. ;)

Love this fic! Ginny's central dilemma is so believable: the last thing she remembers is hating Draco, although it seems that her emotions were mixed with something else even ten years earlier, and now she's woken up married to him. It'll be fascinating to see how this might be resolved and how we get there.

Author's Response: I've actually have had very similar experiences at FFN so I'm excited to be starting at a new site, to be honest. Thanks for reading! I really, really want Ginny's reactions to be human and believable so... yeah, it's definitely going to get interesting, haha.

Thanks so much for posting this! :) I love the structure-- following Draco and Ginny's relationship with each other over several years in such a realistic way. There are a lot of different ways of writing the progression of their relationship, and this is a very realistic one, that it would take time for anything to actually develop. Both of them are so guarded, so suspicious about letting the other in, and it makes sense than it could in fact take years for them to get to this point. Looking forward to more!

Author's Response: That's how I felt; all of the Things--capital T--needed to be well in the rear view mirror to make room for any other feelings between them. If I hadn't been so crunched for time, I would have written a lot more detail about those four years. I'm pondering some outtakes. ;) xx

Yay for this fic!! I will leave a review later.

Thanks so much for posting this fic! :) I REALLY love good fics set during that year before the war that actually explore just what Draco was doing... from canon, we get almost zero. (Why did we never hear anything about what he was doing at school?? I didn't even think he was at Hogwarts that year until somebody pointed out Narcissa's quote about his coming home for Easter.) And it makes so much sense that Ginny would have ended up at Malfoy Manor. This is pretty much exactly how I would expect events to go, and Ginny and Draco's behavior and choices feel so in character.

Anyway... love this fic, and hope to see more! :)

Author's Response: Thanks for your review! And I'm completely on the same page; I didn't even realize Draco was at Hogwarts until I was doing research for this fic. Glad to hear it seemed in character and that you enjoyed! Currently working on an AU Ginny/Draco, but it's going to be long, so hoping to write a bit more before posting. :)

I'm FINALLY able to get around to reviewing this!! :) Wonderful, of course. You've come such a long way as a writer... it's a beautiful thing to see. You really understand how to paint a picture in terms of both portraying physical surroundings and the relationships between people, which in turn gives us an understanding of their characters without endless exposition. This first chapter is exactly right-- looking forward to more!

Author's Response: Thank you so much!!!! Your praise really means a lot to me! :')

I just wanted to tell you, QUICKLY, that seeing this fic here again reminds me of how much I loved it during the exchange. It's fics like this that give me hope after slogging through yet another round of spammers!!! :)

I LOVE this fic!! I was finally able to listen to it on @Voice (with a great snooty British voice that definitely sounds like Draco. ;) It's such a slow burn, so much intrigue, so much mystery gradually unfolding. This ISN'T just a random serial killer-- there's much more to the story, something deeply involved with magic. And it's obviously getting more disturbing all the time, as he moves from Pansy to Neville to... where next?? The relationship between Draco and Ginny is so real and believable. I know you're busy right now to say the LEAST, but wow, I really look forward to more of this fic!

You know I absolutely love this one... ;) especially the parts told from Snowball's POV. I have a sneaking suspicion that he's seeing Ginny as a fellow cat. Looking forward to more!!

Author's Response: Snowball is the best! I’m so glad you enjoy the story so far. The next chapter should be up on FIA soon!