Name: spazzingqueen reviewed
To The Last on Jan 04, 2013 06:58 pm
I can't believe I missed this story and found it so late! As always, it makes me so happy to find your stories! :)
Author's Response: Oh wow, I'm sorry I missed your review! I'm glad you enjoyed the story, no matter when you found it. :D
Name: lilactree reviewed
To The Last on Dec 16, 2011 11:43 am
All is right as rain in the world as long as those two are together :)
Author's Response: I'm glad you enjoyed the story! I had a lot of fun writing it. :)
Name: MissDramatic reviewed
To The Last on Sep 11, 2010 09:27 am
Wow. This story was fantastic. You did such an amazing job at honestly portraying every character. Most people can't simply be labled as good or evil, and you captured that beautifully.
Author's Response: Thanks so much for your comment! I really tried to make this story dovetail with canon, and accurately portray them. It's only fair to the characters, and something most kids realize as they grow up. The world exists in shades of gray, but it's choosing how you respond that's the real story. Thanks for reading. :)
Name: Anise reviewed
To The Last on Aug 16, 2010 09:50 pm
Well, now that I'm FINALLY at the end of the Oregon Trail (and it might have been easier to take a covered wagon), I can actually get online again. :) A great and very realistic end to it all! While you've obviously gone *beyond* canon, everything that happened also fit potentially into canon, if you see what I mean. What happened between Katie and Marcus made perfect sense given how their characters have been delineated up to this point-- she herself knew that he really might do anything at all to save her, I think, and she wouldn't let him destroy himself by giving him the choice. They both made it through, and actually it wasn't a foregone conclusion, because if I remember correctly, we really *aren't* told in canon whether they did or not.
Draco and Ginny's journey is extremely believable, and a very intriguing thing about it is that everything you've written could have happened within the boundaries of canon (because we're ignoring the Epilogue of Doom, because it was clearly written by evil aliens from the planet Zoofelfutz.) Given that all we have is Harry's POV in DH, he easily would have been oblivious enough to miss all of the D/G interactions. Of course, even HE might have figured it out at SOME point afterwards.... I really, really liked your final ending for them, because I think it had to be. It was a different choice from what some readers would expect, no doubt about it, but again, it was realistic as the *best* choice for them. While we don't know exactly what's going to happen in their future, we do know that they've built something real between them in the past. A short D/G sequel to this fic would be fascinating to read (although I don't know if you would write it), because there are still a lot of issues for them to work out, and the way that they'll manage to do it is very much up in the air. But I don't think it could be any other way at this point.
Happy to read this fic, sad to see it end, looking forward to more from you! :)
Author's Response: woo for being online! Having moved recently, I can feel the pain. :D No, we're never told what happens to either Katie or Marcus in canon, and it's not even mentioned if they're at the Final Battle or not. But given that Katie was in the DA, I can't see her *not* being there, and especially not in this iteration of her that I've written. So yay for adding that element of suspense for you. :D
And thank you so much for feeling that the D/G could have been canon. I was trying very hard to have this fit into what we do know of DH and still have it believable. (Harry conveniently ignores things that don't immediately apply to the situation, after all...) In keeping with canon!Draco, though, I couldn't have him immediately sweep Ginny off of her feet and declare his love with wine and roses. This simply wasn't that kind of a story. I don't know if there's a sequel to this, so I can't promise anything. Some other stories I thought for sure I wouldn't write one, yet I did... even if it was a few years later. ^^; We'll see about this one. I do want to write more D/G, and I do have some more boxes left on my hc_bingo card before I get a blackout. :D
Name: waterwhistle reviewed
To The Last on Aug 16, 2010 12:25 am
That was a pretty nice ending. It looks to a brighter future (no matter how corny that sounds) but it's a dim sort of optimism considering Draco's whole stance on his relationship with Ginny.
You mention not meaning to portray the girls as victims, but first couple of chapters notwithstanding, I rather think of them as not victims, but survivors. If that makes any sense to you, that is.
All in all, I definitely think there was room for improvement, but it was a good ending. :)
Author's Response: Well, it wouldn't have made sense for Draco to be all shiny and happy at the end. He's willing to start over, which was a big step for him. I see Ginny as completely overwhelming his defenses, tho. :) Your observation that they're survivors makes perfect sense. That's exactly how I see them, and how I wanted to portray them here. Not as a helpless role, but as someone who transformed her past and made something more out of it. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Name: lily_malfoy reviewed
To The Last on Aug 15, 2010 09:31 am
Great fic. you really made me appreciate the katie+marcus ship. And your ginny was very feisty, I liked it!
Author's Response: Glad you liked it! I've written a lot of Katie/Marcus since about November or so, and for this story I really wanted to avoid the victim role for either of the girls. JKR shoves them in there and doesn't really go into their recovery or try to make them whole during the course of the books. So I really wanted the story to be about that. I'm glad it worked for you.