I'm certainly glad you went with a happy ending. It really wasn't that overly sappy and fit right in with the story. The story itself was excellently paced from beginning to end. The mystery kept building until the reveal. I just wanted to clarify - so because Harry should have died and that last piece of Voldemort was never destroyed, it ended up creating this alternate timeline. But once Voldy was destroyed and Harry went on to the afterlife, that timeline dissolved and everyone was brought back into the original timeline. Is that right? I'm really amazed at your ability to weave all these fairly unique story lines and be such a prolific writer at the same time. I've no doubt you'll easily 'win' NaNo. Best of luck with Death Train!

Author's Response: Thanks! I could NOT resist this ending... this was a softer Draco than the others I've written; he has less of a hard shell, and I think it's the kind of ending he'd like. :) And yes, that's what created the alternate timeline. It went wherever dissolved timelines go. ;) Nobody in the 2nd one remembered what happened (except for Draco, Ginny, and Luna.) And I think I'll make it through NaNo! :) I have 26,998 words as of 11/9. Check out the 30 Covers, 30 days project at my website. A different cover every day.

Just when I thought we'd get some answers, the intrigue is still building. So glad I can read on to the end with all these questions bubbling in my mind! Great job on conveying the creepiness that is Voldemort - or of what's left of him that is. Though now, because I have a rather active imagination, I can't get that image of him from my head. Eek.

Author's Response: Thanks! Yep, the mystery did kind of continue to the very end. Sorry about the Voldie image... Death Train has Satan (the one I've written before, of course!) and I think he's much more fun than Voldy.

Every once in awhile it's okay to have a sappy ending! We all need that sometimes, I think. I thought this was a perfect way to end this story. They really did love each other. It just had to be. I thought it was just lovely, Anise! :)

Author's Response: Thank you so much! :) I don't think I've EVER written such a sappy last line before... but this time, as you correctly pegged, it had to be. P.S.: I'll read your fic very soon! I need a NaNo break.

Aaah, a happy ending. Real life is so dark, a good happy ending is needed, from time to time.

Anyway, I'm relieved that Draco and Ginny remember. I was really afraid that they wouldn't. Now they can begin to build their future.

Author's Response: Thanks! :) I agree... there are times when we truly all NEED a happy, soppy ending. :) More fics coming after NaNo!

Ouah! It makes sense, now. Harry should have died and because he didn't... that's so Doctor Who. Like when Rose saved her father when he should have died, it almost destroyed the universe, because that was a fixed point in time. Kind of the same, here.

I get now why Ginny and Draco were dragged into this mess. Ginny couldn't give her virginity to Harry, it would have given him power, a power Voldemort didn't want him to have. And Draco, well, Draco could be of used as a back up plan, if plan A didn't work with Harry, for Voldemort?

Now, I really hope that Ginny and Draco won't forget this disappeared universe and will remember what they were for each other.

Author's Response: ALL questions will be answered in the epilogue. :) Thanks so much for being such a great reader and reviewer!

Well done :)) i hope you can finish it soon, i still hope that our couple will be together, but need to know for sure *feels faint trying to join the dots*

Author's Response: Thanks! Yes, there's much more in the epilogue, and I will NOT make people wait until December to read it. ;)

1. Good luck with NaNo!!!!

2. Well, I liked that Harry chose to die and not let Ginny and Draco take his place. I think that's really what he wuld have done in the end.

3. Where's Draco going??!!! Tell me he's going to be all right and Ginny will be there with him!

4. I hope Voldy finally died.

Author's Response: Thanks!! :) The first write-in was today. Lots of screaming kids were there, but I got a lot done anyway. I agree about this Harry, and what it was realistic for him to do. I do think that Harry is a character with a lot of genuine goodness, but it's very capable of becoming twisted, which is what tends to happen in the other Anisefics. ;) And he doesn't show that goodness to Ginny, either. And yes, Voldy did die, and that's the last anybody will ever see of him in this fic. All the details will be cleared up in the epilogue! :)

i LOVE your stories...but i can't help but cringe every time you make harry out to be a bastard...but that's expected since you don't like him. i've been reading all your chapters and love the premise of it! this is sooo suspenseful. i wonder what's going to happen.

Author's Response: I know; I'm not very nice to Harry, but I think that this fic in particular represents something might have been a logical outcome, given the canon we have. And Harry actually isn't as bad as you might think here... maybe. It will all become clear... ;)

Aaah, this not clear at all.. I hope Draco behaves for Ginny's sake.

Author's Response: Oh, you'll see (cackles evil-ly, thinking of Chapter 10)

I thought that the story was taking place during DH, that scene between Voldemort and Harry, but it has already happened and Harry has killed him. But a piece of him has survived, right?

Hmmm, so it's post DH, but how on earth did it manage to... destroy the wizarding world? Or how did it create this fake world, to attract Potter? Because I assume that it's that last piece of Voldemort which is the cause for that coma like world. It or he wanted Harry. Why take Harry before he has sex with Ginny, though?

And did Draco play a part in "it" getting Harry? Even unconsciously?

Author's Response: Okay, which questions can I answer, and which ones would give too much away... Yes. A piece of Voldy survived, just as it did in canon. The thing that always struck me, though, is that we never actually saw anyone kill or destroy that last piece. There's no way to say what actually happened if we don't take the ridiculous epilogue of DH into account (which I don't think we should, not only from the POV of the tragic lack of D/G, but also because it just does not fit into the rest of the narrative at all.) A lot of other questions will be answered in the last chapter (and a couple in the epilogue.) But I WILL say that Harry chose not to take what Ginny was offering, and that this was important.

Wow, what a chapter! Revelations that just churns out more questions - that's always a mark of a good mystery. I get the sense that Harry's talking about going on to the afterlife, and now we have that bit about different realities as well. You're just doing an amazing job at building on the intrigue with each chapter.

Author's Response: Thanks! :) This one is definitely in the mystery genre. And your guesses are very good...

Another great chapter, Anise. I'm so glad you're still an active DG writer. So many other great DG writers have moved on, sadly. Anyway, back to the story.

I love the banter between the two and, as expected, you're fabulous at generating unresolved-sexual-tension. I have a couple wild speculation as to what is going on, but really can't tell anything for certain, so you're doing a great job with making things not so obvious. I was glad to see that they found Luna, and I laughed at how Luna-like she sounded - mentioning the walking shoes bit while normally people would be freaking out about not being able to find their house.

Author's Response: Thanks! Basically... I was completely ready to quit D/G and starting to write BBC!Sherlock (still a Sherlolly shipper, btw) and classic ACD Holmes fics. Then a number of things happened... and I realized that I really did NOT want to quit D/G writing-- I wanted it to EVOLVE. That's what really is happening with Death Train. But as far as new, long D/G fics... not so much.