"and the genial approval of the professor, who seemed to get a Victorian thrill out of seeing feminine wrists and ankles." That was the best line of the whole thing. And it was hard for me to pick just one. Your work is funny with out being forced and that takes amazing talent. I await thy newest work ;-)
Author's Response: Speaking of 'newest work', I've written a story for the LJ contest that I think is one of my best. Got two betas to read for grammar, almost polished shiny enough to enter and when I do...aaahhh...the wait to be judged! I only like suspense in stories! :D
I hope you'll go read it on LJ when it posts!
mmm, Legolas... *sigh*
Loved this chapter! Fabulous, changing and all that... :)
Author's Response: Draco with Legolas hair...oh you know it's gonna happen, LOL...sooner or...okay, a lot later! :D Thanks!
fabulous!! So Terry and Draco had a manly heart to heart, and there's no need for loss of hair... :)
Author's Response: I don't want to be your friend but I don't have to be your enemy...I bet that's Draco's hope for Ginny's brothers one day!
great chapter! update soon!
Author's Response: I just have to give the chap another once over and then I'll stick it in the queue. Last chap I missed, oh, a half dozen commas that were supposed to placed in front of direct address names and I want to make sure I don't give the nice mods too much work this time! :D
As much as I love Daco.. I think Wesley is so adorable.. Luna and Wesly.. *sigh* cannot get enough of them.. Ron in a kilt.. thats.. so.. wrong.. lol
As usual.. I love your writing.. I wonder when the happy ending is going to end..?
Author's Response: I know he's English, but somehow that red hair makes Ron look pretty darn at home in a kilt, heh. You're like Draco, getting the dry heaves about it, eh? :D Wesley just gets more adorable, but how can he help it? Look at the character who inspired him! ^_^
I love this story too much! I don't want it to ever end! Keep the updates coming; it's a lovely story. =D
Author's Response: The story is fifty chapters, so no end in sight right now, lol. Thank you for the lovely compliment!
Omg, it's like you know my favorite movies! I just watched Muriel's Wedding Saturday! Another awesome chapter!
Author's Response: A deja vu review...there's been a glitch in the Matrix! Cool. :D Thank you!
Omg, it's like you know my favorite movies! I just watched Muriel's Wedding Saturday! Another awesome chapter!
Author's Response: Waterloo - I was defeated, you won the war .
Waterloo - Promise to love you for ever more.
Waterloo - Couldn't escape if I wanted to.
Waterloo - Knowing my fate is to be with you.
wooh wooh wooh ...
Waterloo - Finally facing my Waterloo.
That was the shining moment of the film for me. Loved the name 'Porpoise Spit' for a town, though, heehee
First reviewwww lol... omg!!! you are amazing, you just fit all of my favorites into one little chapter. Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Buffy?! I can honestly say that when I imagined Draco I used to imagine a younger Spike. I just laughed when I read that... good chapter and I can't wait for your next update!! ~MRG
Author's Response: A younger Spike with a posh accent, right? Didn't we all, LOL. What good taste you have in men, shows, and fan fiction. No wonder I like you so much! ;)
I have been told I'm rather good at potions... haha, thanks for the mention it was a nice surprise. I really liked Luna's dream scene btw and I love, love, love Wesley. He's just such a cool character. Good chapter and I absolutely cannot wait to see what happens now that everything seems okay again lol. ~MRG
Author's Response: It was fun moshing names together, and a nice reminder that the story has readers, lol. I'm so glad you like dream sequences, because Luna is prone to fantasies this story, and she's not the only one! ^_~ Wesley is a great guy. If a girl can't have a Draco, a Wesely would do very nicely!
I was wondering why Amber Pipper sounded familair ;-) Hey and my potion worked too. Nice chapter. Sorry it's been so long since my last review- my inter net crashed and then I coppied four ish chapters into a word document so I could read them should the internet hate me again. But here I am. I love thei idea of Draco and Terry getting forced to know each other better!
Author's Response: They'd never do it voluntarily, would they? :) Sorry to hear about your computer. Thank you for telling me you copied chapters 'just in case.' Made my night!
someone likes to ramble (a/n not story. story=amazing) lol. great chapter. update soon!
Author's Response: I do like to ramble, take nice long walks along the water's edge. I live on a peninsula so there's water on three sides and...did you mean something else? :D I'll try to get another chapter submitted asap!
Teehee, that was a pleasant surprise! Yay, Blaise and Terry are back together! And why do I get the feeling that Draco and Ginny are going to be found out by the Trio any moment now? Great chapter :)
Author's Response: Ta, Thanks! If by 'any moment' you mean after Easter Holiday, then yes, your feeling is spot on! It has to build, and hopefully build soon if I remember to submit another chapter each time one is accepted! ^_^
Awww! It's so cute!!!
Author's Response: Just because a guy is snarky and broody doesn't mean he can't have sweet moments...in private, where no one can see. :D The other guys aren't like Draco. They can show their feelings more easily.
hehe.. Lorelei and snape. i dont think i would have liked to be ginny when those two kissed... but then again.. if its next to draco.. i may re-think it..
nice to hear that laura twilight's potion worked.. keep up the brilliant writing.. i especially love luna and wesley
Author's Response: Any source of inspiration, lol. Laura Alluring sounded like a cartoon character, fighting Kim Possible or something, heh, so I went with Twilight. Nice ring to it. :D
Eeee! I'm glad Blaise and Terry are back together and that Draco and Terry kind of spoke with eachother. But what's going on with Harry? The lorelai part if weird and amusing. I hope Luna figures out what she's doing too. Keep 'em coming! =D
Author's Response: Harry's gone off his knob for a bit, which helps Luna get her emotions straight, but he straightens out...eventually. :D More weird and amusing to come, heh. I'll be good and put in another chapter right away!
great start to the story... really caught my attention!
Author's Response: Thank you! I hope you'll enjoy the story more and more as you read! ^_^
aw.. i loved it how ginny had the first aid cute..
Author's Response: I'm sure Draco would rather be considered an 'Amazing Fighting Ferret' than a bouncing one, any day, too!
great chapter! update soon!
Author's Response: Thank you! I'll chuck another chapter into the queue tonight!
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. lol omg.... one of my all time favorite movies this chapter was really cute and Luna FINALLY let herself like Wesley, thank god bc i dont know how much longer i could have stood to watch when hes such a perfect character lol, good job ~MRG
Author's Response: She stays in (rapidly diminishing) denial for a few more chapters before she allows herself to kick her dreams of Harry overboard and embark on an adventure of romance with her dead sexy pirate, but she *does* make those futile daydreams walk the plank! :D
I love that song...
Good chapter, but shouldn't Terry's hair be AWOL by now? That Ravenclaw, uhh, insinuated... Poor Blaise... I guess she's your Hero, then.
I still love Wesley... :)
Why did he poke Terry into doing something?
Author's Response: In chapter seven, Terry vows, "I willingly promise to champion Blaise Zabini against anything and anyone--satisfied, now? " He can be mad at her and still defend her...and keep the hair she likes so much. ;)
OMW! poor blaise! omwomwomwowomw! this is soooo bad! i feel sooo bad! omw! update soon!
Author's Response: What doesn't break a couple up makes them stronger...not that it's a comfort to her right now, LOL. Got the next chap in the queue! :)
Okay, I've got a lot of things to say, so listen up! First of all... oh wait, before I go all serious on you I wanna say 1 thing, you gotta add the quote from the princess bride where it's all like 'Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is selling something'... or something like that. Anyway, seriousness, you messed up, you messed up, you messed up, you messed up, you messed up, and can I say it once more, you messed up. Your story is bloody brilliant, but the Blaize character isn't right. I'm hitting myself over the head for realising this now (actually, I realised it in the shower last night) but her character is all over the place. First you start out with how Zabini is just like a groupie w/ Draco, and then you're on to how they've been life long friends, and whatever happened to the Beatrice and Benedick thingie (benedict?)... And if Blaise normally wore very unrevealing stuff, and negative makeup and jewelry, then where'd her sense of style and all that old victorian jewelry come from? I guess your beta reader(s) was/were more concerned about Draco and Ginny to notice this (no offense to them or anything), just, in the future, work on it, the slightly smaller characters count first! (like the three different relationship thing you got going on there, keep it up!)
Author's Response: Thank you for telling me your thoughts. It gives me the chance to show why you are mistaken, you are mistaken, you are mistaken!Unlike canon characters familiar to readers, Blaise's past and character is revealed, like those of 'real' people, as 'life' (the story) goes along.
She and Draco are friends, but not best friends at the beginning of the story. It's through Blaise's matchmaking that they draw closer and become best mates. They aren't Hufflepuffs. They don't do touchy-feely.
In chapter 2, when Luna says Blaise sounds like she's Draco's friend, Blaise says, "If by friend you mean I hang round Draco because he's smart and funny even though he can be a git, although I'm not a flunky like Crabbe or a love slave like Pansy, then alright, we're friends."
She's not portrayed as a groupie, and nowhere is it claimed that they're 'life long friends', either. In chapter 17, Blaise tells Terry, "Narcissa and Eddy became inseparable right before first-year, and we've spent holidays together ever since." In chapter 23, when Ginny finds a photo album, it has pictures "of Blaise and Draco doing holiday activities...skating, building snowmen, opening gifts, swimming, playing games, and all the other things children did on holidays." Their mothers became best friends so the families spent holidays together from first year (age 11!) on.
If anything, Blaise always wanted to be Draco's friend and was a better friend to him than he was to her. (she's the one who thought to cast the friendship spell) He used to keep people at a distance—that includes friends—until he became more open due to his growing feelings for Ginny.
As for how she knows about clothes and jewellery, just because Blaise previously chose to wear baggy robes and no jewellery, it didn't mean she was clueless. In chapter 2, she told Luna she had makeup and jewellery. She's a 'jeweller's child' as it says in ch 21, and her mother has bad taste in clothes, but she buys designer!
In chapter 11, Luna thinks 'Blaise had hid her emotional streak very well under an act of indifference and baggy robes, but now more than her figure was revealed.' It's thanks to Luna and Terry that Blaise came out of her shell. Luna was the catalyst. It's plainly stated at the beginning of chapter 3. Somehow, asking Luna for assistance in bringing Ginny and Draco together as a real life Beatrice and Benedick had gained the mellow Machiavelli's aid in changing Blaise's life too.
The 'Beatrice and Benedick' Shakespearean styled matchmaking was just that...Luna and Blaise matchmaking for Ginny and Draco. In Hamlet The play's the thing, but in this story the play isn't used to catch the conscience of the king. Much Ado is the reason Luna and Blaise partner up and become friends. It is the means to catch Draco and Ginny in cupid's net, and capture the interest of readers, so they'll read a story that isn't a re-telling of a play—it's a telling of a romance for three couples that spans 50 chapters, with Ginny and Draco centre stage.
Can you tell I'm passionate about the story and the characterisations? That they were carefully planned out? :D I hope you continue to read and enjoy the story, and that this chapter length reply clears up some misunderstandings!
I guess Terry's hair won't last much longer then...
Very good chapter, but poor Blaise!!! Maybe the situation will bring Luna and Wesley together, though... I know you said Harry would stop being a prat, but can he be somebody else's prat? Myrtle's, perhaps?
Can't wait for more!
Author's Response: Terry will only lose his hair if he doesn't defend Blaise, not if just gets mad at her. Couples fight...especially if someone like Draco is the girl's best mate. Only human to be jealous! Harry will...eventually...stop being a prat, and he does hook up with someone. LOL at Myrtle! She did like the view underwater, didn't she?
"She didn't know. Could he?" That was what my English teacher used to say when we asked if we could go to the bathroom...
Lovely chapter, and I love Wesley!!! Harry's still a prat...
Can't wait for more!
Author's Response: I'm sure students said in their minds 'I could if you'd let me have a pass to the flippin' bathroom!' :D Harry will be a prat for awhile longer, but he comes right in the end. He's a hero, just not the hero of THIS story, LOL.