I really hate Ginny in this chapter. I feel her expectations are over the top. Very rarely at 9 will a child be able to say daddy is not treating mummy right (especially if the abuse is verbal) - regardless of the influence. Also factor in draco's previous neglect-and scorpious behaviour is normal- even predictable for a 9 year old.
And regardless of what the child says- there is NO excuse for abandoning a child. Ginny is an Adult - she should have behaved like one.
On a side note- I feel that both Ginny and Draco are poor parents and i feel very sorry for scrap

Author's Response: Indeed, Ginny and Draco are terrible parents in this story. And yeah, Ginny should've manned up. But I think she was overwhelmed with pain, and had to remove herself from the situation before she succumbed to it. Part of that was because of Scorpius, but mostly it was because of Draco. Oh but yeah, Scorpius is the real victim in this story.

this story keep getting better and better...i had to reread again and now I'm up to date...Please update soon! :)

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I posted another chapter and am waiting for it to go up. :-)

omg, please update soon. i really want to know what happens. please. *eyelashes are fluttering desperately. update soon! :)

Author's Response: New chapter up tonight! Hope you like it!

AHHHHHHHHHH! THATS HORRIBLE HORRIBLE I SAY!
How can she say that for f***ks sake, I mean she's like an adult and he was a kid didn't she see that he was just trying to gain approval of his shitty father, because he was never there before...it was the only way for him...OH GINNY IS AN IDIOT!
A 9 year old for f***ks sake, 9!

Author's Response: Sigh. I guess you can look at my responses to other reviewers' comments on this. While I don't entirely disagree with you, I maintain that 9 years old is old enough to discriminate between right and wrong. It depends on the kid, of course, but I think Scorpius had the necessary morals and judgment to discern that his father was mistreating Ginny. Whether the fact that he considered Draco his biological father and only considered Ginny his mother influenced his behavior, I won't say. It's an explanation that's been offered by other reviewers, and I respect. (to me Ginny was *always* as good as a mother to him, so I'm not positive I believe that. But it's a theory)

hi, the story is fantastic and very sad. but i likes scrap's initiative to get his mother back.

keep up and pls update soon...

Author's Response: Thank you! I'm proud of Scrap, too. Bad news about the next few chapters though...while I had essentially finished the entire fic, my computer completely died a few days ago. As in kaput, gone, everything lost. I'm pretty sure I will be able to recreate the rest of this fic (though it'll hurt), but it will definitely take longer than I anticipated. Sorry!

Gee, Ginny! A bit harsh, don't you think?! I know I should try to understand a bit from her p.o.v., but I can't! This is the first time I've ever actually disliked Ginny in a fanfic! Poor Scrap. Having such expectations put on you back then. Even now! :(

Will we find out who the unrecognizable man in the photo is any time soon? Is he Ginny's current partner? If so, then I'm glad; because she'll have other reasons for not leaving her 'new life' and won't be returning home so easily! And if the fic's meant to end up D/G, then that'll mean Draco will have to work his arse off to win her back, if that's the direction you're taking the story. Good!

Oh, I can't wait! Great update.

Author's Response: Haha. I love your review. It gave me a lot to think about--for one thing, I have to say that I actively tried to make Ginny unlikable. I got fed up with everyone defending her in past chapters, and ignoring the fact that she had *abandoned* her child simply because she got upset. That said, maybe I went too far. It hurts me that this is the first time you've "ever actually disliked Ginny." I guess that if a reader dislikes a character that much, and is so unable to understand her perspective, then the author has failed. So that kind of sucks, and I've got to maybe change what comes next. OTOH, it's always been clear to me that neither Ginny nor Draco are great people in this fic, and the story of Scorpius' life is that he is caught in between their disastrous behavior. Personally, I've been able to continue liking them despite their actions, but maybe I've got to work harder to make sure that my readers do, too. Lastly, you mentioned that Draco will have to "work his arse off to win her back," which is so spot on, because I struggled with this when completing the story. I wanted them to end up together, but his character had become so irredeemable that I wasn't sure it could happen. Now that I have to rewrite the whole rest of the story (see above--my computer died), I'm not sure whether he'll be able to pull it off! In any case, thank you for your review!

well that is incredibly lame. personally i think that ginny has more growing up to do than scorpious. i mean, he thought she was just a nanny, and who wants a nanny's approval over a parents? so he wanted the father that was rarely around to approve of him, and when he did something he thought that he would approve of, ginny feels betrayed? he didn't know that he was supposed to idolize her as well, she was just a nanny, after all.

Author's Response: I hope you mean that Ginny's reasons were lame, and not my writing. I'm going to assume so, and respond that way. You are 100% right that Ginny needs to grow up more than Scorpius in this story. From the very beginning, it's been that way-- Ginny and Draco are the children in this story, the immature ones, and unfortunately they produced a child together that they don't really know (or care in Draco's case) what to do with. Ginny is still reeling from her relationship with Draco, and poor Scorpius is caught in the middle. Also, you bring up a very, very interesting point--that for Scorpius, Ginny was his nanny, not a parent. I operated on the assumption that there wasn't all that much of a difference. Ginny is really his father and mother and his whole world for 9 years. Isn't she the same as an adopted mother? With this reasoning, both Ginny and I expected more of Scorpius. However, the way you have put it actually explains what happened. Scorpius needed his father's approval because he was his *father*, rather than a nanny, and that's why he starts imitating and siding with Draco. Well. Is that true? Or is it, as I have said below, that Scorpius was caught up in his father's glamor? I'll be honest: I don't know. I imagine it's a mix of both. I do hope, though, that you can see a little of what Ginny was feeling, considering she KNEW Scorpius was her son, and it must have hurt so deeply to see him turn against her.

Wow. Ginny is pretty harsh to poor Scorpius. I mean he was nine. What expectations she had for a child. Right about now I'm feeling like maybe Scorpius is better off without her. She seems to be projecting all of her problems with Draco on him. Scorpius may be realising his follly but I hope Ginny will as well.

Author's Response: Ouch! While I agree with you to an extent, I think that's a little harsh--besides, if not Ginny, who does Scorpius have? Also, you're right, Scorpius was nine. Is that too young to distinguish wrong from right? I don't think so. I think Scorpius was very carried away with how glamorous Draco is, and he sided with his father despite what was essentially Draco's verbal abuse of Ginny. Moreover, Ginny was the only parent, and the only friend, Scorpius had known for years. I personally think he should have been at least indignant on her behalf, but he was more embarrassed by her than anything else. As for your other point about her projecting her problems with Draco onto him. Um, spot on. That's pretty much what this entire fic is about--it's from Scorpius' point of view, but nearly all of his problems are caused by the fact that Draco and Ginny are in love but can't get their act together, and put Scorpius right in the middle of it. So, yeah. There'll be more of that.

Wow.. this is pretty intense! I hope Scorpius manages to convince Ginny to go back with him. & I wonder what happened in the past that made Ginny leave Draco within that one week that they were together. x__x Anyway, love the story.. please update again soon! :)

Author's Response: Yup, intense is my middle name. As for the one week thing...well, you'll find out more about how they got together and whatnot, but I won't really get into why they broke up. Mainly I think it's because Draco showed his true colors--he got crazy possessive, and when he found out Ginny was pregnant I think he sort of used it as a way to trap her into staying with him. As you may have noticed, Draco has always looked at Scorpius as a tool he can use against/on Ginny, and that behavior pretty much started at conception and has continued through the time of this story. Will he ever change? Well...I hold out hoping, but we'll see.