Name: lilactree reviewed Finding an Equilibrium on Dec 16, 2011 10:15 am

:) Katie is awesome!!

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I really started getting into Katie as a character when I played her in an RP. It was all downhill from there, so now I love her as much as Ginny. :)

Name: Anise reviewed Finding an Equilibrium on Aug 03, 2010 08:47 pm

This really is so believable as a "missing piece"fic for DH. First of all, Harry's lack of interest in what actually happened to Ginny during that year was just awful and made me want to shoot him (um... except that he was a fictional character... yes, that's it. :P ) But we get CLEAR information that things just like this have got to be happening to her. And the Draco in the film version of HBP (which is another type of canon, for reasons explored at great length in essays which will not be reprinted here, to everyone's relief) is obviously experiencing some of the guilt that your Draco does in relation to Katie. Everything fits, and you actually make me care that it does. :)

Author's Response: Thank you SO much! I checked the timelines for DH so many times to be sure that events would fit neatly into it. I don't buy JK's handwaving of trauma for the plot purposes. I know that Harry wasn't around and he wouldn't know about it, but he should've known about *Ginny* of all people. Draco's behavior, of what little Harry actually saw, tells me that he was waffling even as he was doing things he had to do. I don't believe he's the evil git that JK does. He was a prat and an idiot, but still a boy. The war forced him to grow up in all sorts of ways he wasn't ready for, IMHO. And this was a chapter full of uneasy choices and ramifications, so it was time for Draco to face his guilt. Hopefully you think I take it to a reasonable conclusion. :D