Name: PlutoniumBunny reviewed Chapter 6 on Feb 14, 2016 08:49 am

This is a LONG review, with possible grammar horrors. Ye be warned!!!

There's this friend that came to visit me the other day after almost two years of not seeing each other. We were talking about a lot of stuff and then the HP topic started (we actually met each other 14 years ago in a local book store where "Harry Potter fans club" meetings used to be held), when he suddenly burst out in annoyance because of the way things turned out to be in the whole story, and said "You know what? I hated the way Malfoy was portrayed in the last books. He was actually my favourite character because he was far from perfect, and yet, he had an incredible rich background of family issues, dark stuff and inner feelings such as rage, jealousy and despair. I just hate those pathetic attempts to kill Dumbledore with those cursed artifacts, JKR constantly reminding us of him being just a "bully" and nothing else, the way he didn't seem to know obvious things despite being born and raised in one of the most powerful wizarding world families", and so on... I was startled. And then, out of the blue he says "The most stupid thing was the way Harry and Ginny ended up together.I mean, Harry suddenly realizes that Ginny is there, then they start dating and then he broke up with her because of a pathetic excuse of Voldemort knowing about them-because you know, if Voldemort can see inside your head and you break up with her but still love her, he won't realize. Right.-, and then they go back and marry and have children? What kind of example is that for girls? Oh, he dumped me but it's ok, because he is the hero and I have to wait for him and do as he says. Even though I know he is leaving with my brother and another girl. Nice. And in that fatal epilogue, Ginny quits an amazing Quidditch career because she gets married so young and has like 3 children? What??? Think about it. If Harry's got Voldemort inside him, and Ginny was possessed and consumed by his teenage horcrux, then if they one day have a child, the most probable thing is that he or she becomes the next Dark Lord." And then, the miracle, he ACTUALLY said it: "Malfoy should have ended up with Ginny. I mean, it would've been perfect. When Harry leaves to go find those deus-ex-machina-horcruxes, Malfoy turns out to be the man for Ginny. He is clearly not amused by being a Death Eater, and maybe, he could've been "saved" by her. Maybe because they share some darkness, they both know Voldemort. So, he could start seeing the poor abbandoned Ginny as an ally, or as a person he could share his thoughts whith. Then, they start dating, and it is perfect, the bloody damn Romeo and Juliet thing. That way, he gets his "redemption", Ginny gets to be with an actual strong (but until then undeveloped) character that challenges her, and maybe, hey, maybe we are all saved because he helps Harry defeat the Dark Lord, as a spy or whatever, and there's not that stupid black or white no more, because, you know, thi isn't a children's book anymore, and some things are just plain gray or complex and deserve to be developed..." Genius, indeed. I felt like kissing him, thank goodness he is gay, otherwise I would've had a lot of trouble with my boyfriend. I never expected him to say that, but he did. And I was HAPPY because I didn't feel like a crazy "canon sucks" fan. So, maybe we are not that crazy, maybe there is a lot of reason in the love we share for this couple. The A-MA-ZING stories i've been reading from this page demonstrate my point, most of them are far more real than canon, more consistent and touching, just because of the ying-yang way that Draco and Ginny connect, the perfect balance and the almost infinite posibilities of plot developing that connection can lead us to. So, never stop writing. Hugs!!!!!!

Author's Response: YAY, AMAZING, AND WONDERFUL! The review, I mean. :) I didn't see this until now. I really think that there's a lot more to say in this essay, and I've kind of been holding back from really writing it... but at some point, the truth will come out! ;)