Ginny is ready to kill whoever put magical mistletoe all over the castle. Draco finds the situation rather amusing.Category: Long and Completed
Really good. Interesting twist on Wizarding Universities... I would hope she'd pick Oxford... it's my favourite, but I have a feeling Draco would be a bit of a Cambridge kinda fellow... anyway -- another brilliant chapter, as usual! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you. I don't know where Ginny would go to college. In the USA, you go wherever you can get a scholarship. I think I read somewhere that college is much less expensive in England. That could be completely wrong and is a bit off topic. Thanks again.
It was really really wonderful. I second that shagging on the Common room sofa thing. And you must write about it! ;)
ANYWAY -- I had to copy down some of my favourite lines of the chapter... these made me giggle out loud:
Do I look like the type of girl who would shag someone as old as her father, because if I do, I’m getting a new haircut or something
Do I look like the kind of girl who throws her knickers at Quidditch player’s head?”
If Ron and Harry were gay, they’d be Quidditch groupies
You have such an amazing way with words. ;) YAY for chapter updating! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you. I giggle to myself while I type, and my husband just looks at me like I'm a nut.
HA HA HA HA! You are a fic goddess. Yes, yes you are! Firstly, Luna and Celeste had me almost applauding... and then Hermione... HA HA HA! I have actually purchased chocolate body paint (shhh. don't tell Jay I told you) and it IS quite wonderful! And the cowboy comments... *no comment* ;)
And yeah for Hemrione being the one with all the knowledge to pass on to the girls. Very very funny!
Great update! You rock my socks off! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you. I have to admit that I have sampled the chocolate body paint myself. Red Envelope has really fun things in their catalog.
OH MY GOSH, Christine... if I weren't totally heterosexual, I would kiss you! THIS WAS BRILLIANT! A sequel a sequel -- so I can finally rec one of your completed fics over at Know-It-Alls! ;) Come to think of it, I suppose you have one-shots that need reccing there too... Huzzah! You are absolutely brilliant. The resolution was perfect. Perhaps we shall see some post=Hogwarts knicker wearing in her apartment Ginny... that would be amusing! Who am I kidding? You could make staring at my cornflakes amusing! Wonderful wondeful job! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you. You are too kind. I did type up an epilogue, and I am plotting a sequel. I just need to pick a time frame. I hate to do Ginny's last year because then I would have to invent reasons for Draco to show up at school. Maybe I'll start after both of them graduate...
AGHGHG! It was fabulous. There were so many fabulous parts... i kept out a few -- these made me giggle the most...
Luna. She's brilliant!
"That is probably just because you are emotionally stunted due to your father’s infidelity up to this point.”
and
“I don’t really see how yetis apply to this conversation.”
And then Blaise and his, "...she would probably get whatever she wanted anyway" Those two were brilliant.
But then the whole last scene with Draco and Ginny - when he asked her those questions when they were so obviously how he feels about her. Great job!
*stands up for ovation*
Brava C! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you! I've never had a standing ovation before. I love that Luna can say whatever she wants. I also wanted to show that Draco didn't really know what he was feeling. Thanks again.
In the midst of a very unique Halloween Ball, Draco will forever change the careful, unspoken understanding between himself and Ginny Weasley.Category: Completed Short Stories
I adored it! Wonderful Halloween fic! Fab!
"Perhaps it really didn't matter what he was, perhaps it just mattered that he was." Unexpected events lead to unexpected relationships. Can one person be so important to the destruction of Voldemort? Nothing happens by chance, but sometimes, life might be simpler if it did.Category: Works in Progress
What a fabulous beginning. I love his snooty snorts and Hermione's POV is brilliant. Unique and brilliant! YAY for more chapters! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you! I must say, I'm a sucker for alliteration, though I try to keep it to a minimum. I'm always afraid I never hit quite the right balance with her... I'm glad that pov worked out well enough. It was definitely a risk. =D
Really Really fantastic chapter. From beginning to end I was on the edge of my seat. I loved that all Ron had to do was see the twins and their ire towards Harry to join in (I get really sick of the stories that have Clueless!Overprotective!Ron and make himthicker than a post - you did well with him here.
And then Malfoy. You have dissected his psyche and done it well.
"Mummified human body parts do not make good conversational art pieces, nor will they ever... " No no they don't but I can completely see Draco saying it in his wry tone.
Great Great chapter! ;)
Author's Response: Again, thank you! Malfoy's psyche is confusing business sometimes, quite often he brings up inventive strings of curses I would never have thought to put together on my own.
And the mummified line is one of my very, very favorites - if I do say so myself. I fancy myself witty sometimes. But really, the Blacks were twisted folk, some artifacts would've had to been missed, or horded by F&G. How else would he react?
Wow. Completely blown away. Yes, I am completely blown away. Ginny's raw power... the secret room. WOW!
Author's Response: Thank you! I believe the story I got the memory wall idea from was in a one shot (that might have been expanded to be a trilogy? I never followed up...) by OriginalDarkAngel. She was all for sharing, as what I had in mind was different (and hopefully, at some point or another, more involved) than her mentioning the wall as part of a location. Of course, there was no such room... soo it was time to play. =D
Totally absorbing. The cuts from his dream to reality, SO well done. Great Great chapter. Ginny's muttering was very real - paints her in exactly the picture that I think she is meant to be - my only complaint is that now Ron seems to have reverted into Harry's whipping boy -- giving Ginny dark looks instead of the supportive Ron he was a few chapters back. But yeah -- I have really really enjoyed this. Totally a classic in the making!
Author's Response: Again, thank you for the review! I'm glad you find the changes in pov well done - I was worried that they were choppy / confusing. As for Ron, I try, I just don't seem to hit that balance very often - like with Hermione. He's Ginny's brother, and yes, if she's upset he's upset and by golly, someone is going to pay - Harry or not... but when it's secret-trio-business, I suppose I feel like he feels that Ginny doesn't really have any business there anyway. Perhaps I should work on clarifying that.
SO good. Well, first of all, you KNOW a chapter is going to be brilliant if Ginny is underneath Draco... but then everythig else -- Harry being slow on the uptake - the interesting developments... Really well done! I'm just hoping you will complete this before HDH comes out this summer - I've seen too many brilliant fics stopped and left uncomplete because new canon comes out and they don't want to write AU. ;)
PS. If JKR kills off Draco I am reading this as the 'proper' books 7 -- just so you know! ;)
Author's Response: Well. No pressure or anything, lol. Though it is my goal to finish before DH comes out (not likely, unfortunately), I can't quit. I've irritated far too many people with my D/G natterings to back out (and hope to live) without finishing just because the 7th book came out. Thank you again for the insightful review(s)!
HEE HEE HEE! Really Really good.
And it was blond fringe. Yes, she was having a sex!dream about blond fringe! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you! And yes, I never said what kind of fringe... but there was definitely a smirk in there.
Holy Crap! A prophecy. Wow! I was going to comment on the humour and the hillariously well written Trelawny -- but holy hell - a prophecy. My guess - Draco is the one marked... no? Ginny is the one being guarded -- strength is gaurding her? Ahghg... I'm all a flutter! ;)
Author's Response: Ah good. I worried I was taking far too many liberties with Trelawny. It doesn't really matter, because I was going to attribute them to lack of alcohol, as I like her this way too. lol. She's surprisingly accurate on her teacups (what, even old bats should get their day! ) as well. It must be the increased spirits in the room.
And yay, I've not made the prophecy entirely see-through.
OUCH! Could Draco be MORE clueless? Seriously. This was so incredibly well done. I am really floored. You have captured all of them characterizations just so well. Really Really great job! I am totally favouriting! ;)
Author's Response: Awesome! Thank you for reviewing all of the chapters (I think I've been following right behind you with the reviews, as every time I come back there's a new one to do, haha.)! I'm glad I've at least hit the characterizations right. If you have them mostly right, it's hard to screw everything up completely. =D
Oh my gosh. This was perfect. I was near sobbing. From start to finish, Luna saying that quirky remark and then saving Ginny. Draco casting the repelling charm. The twins. Everything was perfect.
Why do I do this to myself? I get myself in love with WIP? WHY?
Anyway - lovely chapter. Thank you for the update! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you! I promise not to abandon - is that helpful at all? haha.
Oooh interesting ending there, missy!
Some favourite parts:
Hermione was convinced that if anyone was left up there for too long, they'd eventually be asphyxiated, and Ginny thought she might be onto something with that, especially after the other girl had explained what asphyxiation was. After all, who wasn't to say the reason Professor Trelawney was so batty was because she'd killed off the majority of her brain cells by lack of oxygen – and then given the rest a good fight with the cooking sherry?
This actually gave me a good long laugh very very funny.
I just want it clear that I too would babble like a fool around Draco Malfoy. ;)
The writing is spectacular. I loved even something as simple as his eyes changing colout became this:
"The boy's eyes flashed from silver to gunmetal" -- really really nice!
All in All -- very very nice. YAY for updates!
Author's Response: Just for the record, it\'s my opinion that any girl who does not babble like a fool in front of Draco Malfoy did not get issued all of her proper X chromosomes. However, I do feel that the Trelawny line was particularly inspired... especially since I got the idea in the middle of a Chem Lab review on the importance of fume hoods and wafting. \r\n\r\nThanks for the review!
Brilliant. So much to comment on, I hope I get to it all.
Love the allusion to a Draco with an inner!Ravenclaw. He's very smart - so I appreciate that line of thinking. Also - I like the grudging respect Hermione gives him there near the end etc. Really smartly done. (Though what does being called a 'weed' have to do with anything?)
Ginny's headach over whether a person's 'House' makes them who there are is wonderful. And Moody as a Slytherin (I realize you mentioned it earlier) but yeah - BRILLIANT!
I enjoyed the whole bit. Draco being all obsessive... and I love that Ginny doesn't seem Mary Sue (not with that big pimple on her nose) but that she's still brilliant.
Another great great chapter! ;)
Author's Response: Thanks for the awesome review, as always! As for the weed comment, I always thought being called a weed was something akin to being a nerd. Maybe I just made it up, but that\'s my story and I\'m stickin\' to it. =D
Lax with Hermione? NO! You rock with Hermione. Sod Harry and his 'I think I might' -- daft bugger!
So many brilliant lines that I adored:
"Not a Mudblood, the Mudblood. None of the others offend me so terribly." --- Why is this so endearing?
'please don't hex him' quickly became "Please don't use an Unforgivable." -- HA HA HA! THis is so Ginny that I just can hardly deal.
"You wouldn't hurt her if someone paid you to." -- Things like this make me all giddy! *squees*
"If a book had been within reach, she would have thrown it at him. She supposed she could have spelled one to hurl itself through the air and at his head, but somehow that didn't seem nearly as satisfying." -- SEE this is why your Hermione rocks so much. She's awesome. Don't change her! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you, as always, for the awesome review!
SUCH a good chapter. I adored it. Draco really has no idea abouther in so many ways. The bad memory thing. The Chamber thing. Everything is just moving So well. I think a highlight for me was these lines... "It would have felt safe, and might have been sexy, if it weren't for the wand digging into the soft spot between her jawbone and neck muscle. And damn it all if she didn't find that a little bit sexy too." -- I sensed the danger AND the hotness... Really well done. I'm looking forward to more.
Each chapter reminds me that this is one of those fics that will be a classic as soon as it's done. Really really well done!
Author's Response: Thank you, as always, for your super encouraging reviews. They really do make my day. =D
I thought it was brilliant. I loved that he looked at her the way Ron looked at Hermione... and that Ron was the one to notice that. I actually teared up when Percy died... and laughed out loud when she used him as a hanky. I adored this. Much better than the DH spoilers I've been reading! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you so much for your always sweet reviews! I know I'm only 3.5ish years in getting back to things, but alas, that's how the cookie crumbled. I just wanted you to know that I seriously (still) appreciate each and every one of the reviews you've left for me.
*claps* Another whizz-banger of a chapter! ;)
Author's Response: Thank you!
Excerpt: It was always like that. Always. Passersby would wonder if this relationship was somehow abusive in some way. Always painful, always passionate. They poured it into each other, sucked it from each other as if it was the thing that sustained life.Category: Completed Short Stories
It was really really brilliant! I especially love the line, "If she didn't leave him, they would never be separated" Totally fabulous!
Author's Response: Sometimes the girl has to be the responsible one. We all know that boys will think with only one of their heads, and it usually gets them into trouble. Glad you liked it. Thanks so much for reading.
It was a few days before everything went downhill. Dumbledore was still very alive, Snape was still snootily discriminating, Harry was still drooling over Ginny and she had aquired an admirer.Category: Completed Short Stories
WOW! Just WOW!
Author's Response: You are such a SWEETHEART!! I am terribly flattered. Its eight in the morning, I\'ve pulled my laptop out to check my email (still in bed) and had to wake my boyfriend up to tell him the good news (which he, of course, didn\'t understand). I\'m glad you liked it, and I hope to continue writing to make people like you happy.
The war rages on. People find comfort where they can.Category: Completed Short Stories
HA HA HA!
"Of course it does. I’m a very handsome man. I look fabulous all of the time."
This was wonderful! A new favourite! ;)
Author's Response: Thankyou. I like a Draco that can make fun of himself.
Ginny is a spy for The Order. Can she accomplish her mission, or will Draco trap her in a prison of her own making?Category: Completed Short Stories
LOVE this story. Love that Ginny was sick with worry (and with baby). Love that he was only doing that to keep her safe. LOVE IT!
You must continue. For the sake of all that is holy in the ship. *I really hope this wasn't a one-shot- it's against my personal code to request updates when they are actually complete fics -- it drives me to distraction when people ask ME to.*
Author's Response: It was supposed to be a one shot. I am hoping to get back to it and add more once I finish up the mistletoe fic. Thank you for the lovely review. I feel appreciated.