Heehee, I adore this fic. It totally makes my day!

*love, love, love* This is one of my favorite one shots! You can almost feel the steamy heat of the locker room... ;)

Oh that was darling! Totally left a smile on my face. :o)

lol! I am thoroughly enjoying this so far!! It's got a really fun and unique plot line. I adore the nerdy jokes and pick-up lines. I just graduated with my undergrad and am taking a semester off before going on... this is really making me miss my classes. :o)

It's a lazy day and I'm thoroughly enjoying bouncing around the FIA fics... and yours have been most enjoyable so far!! You've got a great sense of humor (have I said that already today? lol)! I love your play on words, puns, and alliterations. The little peek you gave us of what the other professors were up to was truly inspired!

Wow... just wow... I was so sucked in; my heart just broke. There really are no words... you've used them all. Painfully beautiful.

I loathe admitting it, but I really love the whole “secret pen pal” plot line. It’s one of those classic plots for DG interaction that leaves so much room for warm fuzzies and great character development. This was a great twist on that theme.

I found Draco simply delightful, even though he was a much “softer” character than you usually find him – not nearly as derisive as he could have been. Even though you left out that side of him, I didn’t feel as though he was lacking it. He was so often referred to as a prat throughout the story that I just assumed he really had been.

Ginny was fantastic. I loved that she had a little spice and pizzazz in her characterization. I’m a big fan of a Ginny who knows how to stand up for herself. Harry and Ron’s disgust for Malfoy wasn’t over done (thank Merlin!) but still well established. I think I might have liked to see a bit more of Pansy, but that’s probably because I’ve got a soft spot for her. ;o) I loved Arthur’s and Narcissa’s conversations with their children – great parental touch! Draco’s “sputtering” as he came out of the floo to see Ginny to the ball was amusing.

There is much more I enjoyed, but I’m working between chapters and can’t remember everything I was going to comment on. I should be grateful that I can read while at work (and I am!!), but it frustrates me when work gets in the way of my reading. lol!! Anyway, thanks for the lovely story; it helped pass the day away. (Sorry for the rambling!!) :o)

Author's Response: OH MY GOSH! Your review made my day. Seriously. It has really stunk. I think you officially are my favourite person. YAY! I\'m SO glad you enjoyed it. I\'m so grateful for the review. It means a lot - especially today! Feel free to comment ANY time. ;)

I really enjoyed it. The ending was a bit unclear, however. At first I thought that he was just in a drunken haze and thought he saw her, then I thought maybe she was there – like a second bartender or something. But why would he talk about her like that if he could see her. So I finally made a rather shaky guess that she was the bartender (polyjuice or something) which I was able to confirm with your other reviews/responses. Anyway, adored the title! Over all it was an enjoyable story, just might want to think about making the ending a little more clear.

Author's Response: yes, ginny was the bartender. there was no polyjuice she was just hacked off at him because he wouldnt tell her he loved her and he was annoyed that he had to tell her. he thinks she should know because of all hes done/given her. thats why he starts talking to her like its not her at first. i\'ll go back and try and make it clearer. it was even less clear in my first draft! im glad you liked the title. it was just temporary till i thought of a better one but then i decided that i liked it and it suited the story well. thank you for the review. :D

Author's Response: i cant for the life of me figure out how to make it clearer without blatantly stating it, which i don’t want to do. i understand how its unclear but i cant think of a way to unfuzz it. Sorry :(

I loved all the fairy tale imagery here... The pricked finger, the snow, the acceptance of nature on a marriage... Lovely! And unlike some of your other one-shots, this one feels more complete. Yeah, I still want to know more, but I'm satisfied with filling in the past/future with my own imagination.

Anyway, great piece! I thoroughly enjoyed it! :o)

Awww, this was so sweet. Just the kind of fluff to brighten up my day! :o) (And I must agree with Ginny... a sappy romantic Draco would be a bit weird.)

Heart-wrenching, brutal, and utterly captivating... The images provoked by your poetic writing were simply stunning and poignantly haunting.

I was completely sucked in from the start. The delicate “O” of Malfoy’s lips in the beginning gave him a soft, almost angelic look – hinting that there was much more to his story than simply being an evil Death Eater. Pulling his body ashore, “desperate for company of any kind,” was a particularly heartbreaking image. It seemed there was more to their relationship, or why would she look at him in the ‘tones’ that she did. “Dead, he looks so young.” That was a simple sentence that actually spoke /volumes/ about who Draco Malfoy really was.

The way you describe the underworld painted such vibrantly drab images in my mind. My breath caught in my throat when I first realized that she was, in fact, going to turn around; I could feel the pain (from them both) practically radiating from my monitor.

Honestly, there have not been many stories on here (within this category of angst) that have moved me to the depths that this one has. I immediately thought of Red Hot and went in search of the author, so I could reference the story. I’d honestly forgotten you’d written it! So it fits that these two stories conjure similar feelings for me and leave me with the same breathless, heart-broken ache for our main characters.

Exceptionally well done!

Was it difficult to end it like that? I would have had a hard time watching them walk away like that, I think. Although, the image of Harry immobilized and shocked makes me giggle. Ron upside down and in a corset – lol! Lovely! They absolutely deserved it!!

I think my favorite part of the story was the scene when Ginny asked him to run off with her. It was beautifully written and conjured up some fantastic images (dark, dusty, soft looks, and hoarse whispers…). That scene specifically was very movie-like in my mind. :o)

The story in and of itself was excellent as well. Very engaging and with the right amount of rollercoastering emotion. I would have been beside myself to get such a gift for my birthday! Lol! Your friends are very lucky if that’s what they’re gifted. ;o) I can’t wait to read more of your work.

Author's Response: HEEE! The return of my favourite reviewer! It\'m really glad you liked it. This one was actually really hard to write. I\'ve only ever written two birthday fics and both were late. Right now - this year I\'m kinda bogged in my new fic for this friend... but it\'s not Draco/Ginny. It\'ll be Tracey Davis/Theo Nott. But yeah - I loved that \'runaway with me\' part of the scene -- it was the longest part to write too. I wanted it to be perfect. I can see it so clearly in my head, so I\'m glad you could see it too. Seriously- you are the bestest reviewer ever. *smooches*