I'm still a little confused, but that was good. I wish you could have made the end a little clearer for those of us who have this thing about understanding everything, even things that aren't meant to be understood.

I don't know if you tried to do so and couldn't, but it would be nice if you would put Tom's voice in italics or do something else to that effect. It's a little confusing figuring out who is talking. You might also want to put thoughts in italics because I've had a little bit of confusion about those too.

Besides technical errors like that though, this is a wonderful fic. I keep getting angry at people, but I do believe that's how you want it, so I guess I can't really blame you.

Author's Response: Who are you getting angry with? Yep, when I uploaded that chappy, we had a booger of a time with formating and I kept losing either the italics or the sentences would look all wonkie. Have a new journal writing program now. It helps some with the HTML. Thanks for leaving a reveiw.

Please space this out. It takes time, especially if you are required to use HTML, but it's worth it. Us readers have a hard time understanding a big block of words like this. It's mesmerizing which makes it easy to get distracted.

I really like this story, but I don't think the title does it justice. I don't know, it just sounds a little bit corny to me. Maybe I don't have a sense of humor, but this isn't exactly a happy fic and that title makes it seem like a joke. It doesn't really attract the right readers.

Author's Response: Thanks for the tip. I will work on it!

I adore your voice. You write really freely, which, if you were wondering, is a good thing.

The first sentence of this fic is really an extremely amusing sentence. But, it seems like one of those sentences that doesn't seem to want to work. The sentence is:

"For not the first time in my life I bemoaned the fact that procrastination and I got along so dreadfully famously."

You have two issues here. The first one is small: You should probably say "not for" as opposed to "for not" as, generally, that is how people speak, though, I'm sure, not always. The next problem was the one is gotsnape's review and it is a little bit more annoying. It's the two "ly"s in the phrase "dreadfully famously." Though it is nice to have adjectives, here you would be much better off simply saying "famously". Not only would it get rid of that strange sounding, slightly confusing phrase, but it would be just as workable and just as funny.

Also, you need a comma after life.

Sorry for being so nit picky. I realize this is my third review. (The last one was actually meant for the whole story, though, and ended up on the first chapter.) But, I'm a beta, and a very OCD one at that. I dislike leaving pointless reviews, which is good, I think, but which forces me to tell more talented people far more that they want to hear about small problems. (You see, the less talented people have more that simply small problems, and I don't feel quite as bad being specific and critical then.)

Again, I apologize for making you read several paragraphs about one sentence, but I think that it's always good to know what other people think because this should be an environment for learning (in my opinion) and though the teachers are also our peers, which makes them harder to listen to, we have a lot to learn from them if we're willing to listen.

I saw the beginings of a possible argument against this here, but remember that if Ginny is a seventh year, then Draco should have already graduated and would not be at the school. What in the world is he doing at Hogwarts?

Author's Response: Draco\'s reasoning for being at Hogwarts is explained in Chapter One, if you\'d like to keep reading.

As reality is completely out of the question here, I don't think I'll bother critisizing that. But, the amusing factor was definetly in there, and the idea was original, if a bit crazier than one might label normal insanity (for fandom, that is.)

You can't seriously think you're going to get away with leaving it there, can you? Well, post quickly as you can.

This is one of my favorite stories. I cheer every time you update. (Sometimes rather louder than I should, but you're story deserves it. And that's high praise coming from me. I tend to be nit picky, but I'm too busy with the story here.)

Author's Response: Thanks for the review, that really made me laugh. I\'m flattered that you cheered, lol. I\'m trying to update as soon as possible, so just bare with me.

Is Say-say Sage? I've got a really bad memory. And it would likely take me hours to find it in one of the former chapters.

I'm liking this. And I'm very much wanting to know why the ancient library thing. Yes, curious would probably be the correct word to use there. Keep it up.

Author's Response: Lol, yes Say-Say is Sage. There\'s not too many nicknames one can make from \'Sage.\' Anyways, I\'m glad you like this and it is curious, isn\'t it?

This makes me want to laugh and wring both of their throats at the same time. I mean, it's so classic, how they fight, and how they (at least Ginny doesn't ) don't realize how much they love each other. But then I get angry. I mean just give it up. Ah well, I understand Ginny, Draco seems to think that the way to make her happy is to do for her what he'd like to be done for him. Shouldn't he know that never works? Keep this up. It has a feel of real life to it that keeps me in the story. That's really good.

Author's Response:
Thank you. I\'ve had several people (over at Portkey more than here) insult my story repeatedly because I had one of the FICTIONAL characters do something that displeased them because it was morally wrong or because it wasn\'t like other fics.

I mean, that was the goal. This story was the result of me purging some of my anger over a couple of particularly disturbing set of circumstances.

Some of the reviews have gotten really nasty -- especially when Draco cusses at Jayden. I had one particular review that made me want to go through the computer screen and punch the (as KateinVa would say) \"daft cow\" that wouldn\'t shut her trap. She kept arguing that only a low-life would swear at his child and act like Draco was acting. She repeatedly insulted my use of the word \"fuck.\" I happen to like fuck -- in fact, you could say it is my favorite word. It\'s applicable to almost every situation, and you\'d be hard pressed to find another word like it in the American English language.

Anyhow, I have had to explain to so many people that I wanted to write two imperfect characters that were dealing with a situation in the way I see so many completely ridiculous real-life people deal with the same type of situation. Of course, I toned it down for this fic because I\'m a sucker for a happy ending.

I\'ve just really appreciated some of the reviews I\'ve gotten over here -- especially in these seemingly redundant, difficult last chapters. Your review is definitely one of those that is highly regarded. I know that Portkey is a larger archive and there are far more young reviewers over there, but the nasty reviews always come from those with an air of sophistication -- meaning they are older. In fact, I told one of the most nasty reviewers that I\'d like to live in her life -- because it was obvious by her review that perfection dwelled in her realm and that no one made mistakes or bad decisions in her reality.

Thanks again for the review. The last chapter will go up on Sunday.

That's not bad. Most of the poems I find on here I want to yell at. This one, not so much. I actually think I might like it. And coming from a cynical person like myself, that is a compliment.

That's interesting. I think I like it. But I'm still a little bit unsure. I have trouble getting over you characterization of Draco, it's really different from how I see him. This Draco seems more Blaise like.