Malfoy can't be an Auror, he was a Death Eater who carried the Mark.

Author's Response: Thank you for reading and for your feedback, but 1) I write fanfiction based on the books, not the movies, and its never confirmed in the books that Draco has a Dark Mark. (Harry suspects it but Rowling doesn't revisit the concept - check Draco Malfoy's Wikipedia page if you don't believe me.), and 2) This is DracoandGinny.com; clearly we are dealing with a concept that would never come to be in the canon designed by JK. Some artistic liberties have had to be taken. I wanted to write a story in which Draco has changed, in which he is trying to redeem himself and make up for his past mistakes. I thought the occupation of an Auror for him best captured that sentiment.

I know that in shipping anything that gets the shipped characters together is supposed to be a good thing but frankly I think Ginny is a horrible woman and mother.

Truthfully I think Draco and Ginny should be together, not because of true love or anything like that but because no one else needs to be shackled to two utterly worthless and selfish people.

In a way its very interesting as in most D/G fanfic you see Ginny helping Draco become a better man but in this their attraction, because I don't think I can accurately call it love, has brought Ginny down to Draco's level. now they are both the embodiment of childishness and selfishness that was Draco in HBP/DH.

I knew, when Ginny refused to let harry take the most effcient and rational steps to gt the kids back that Ginny only cares for what she wants, and not even the welfare of her children carries more weight.

Author's Response: I thought that a hundred times while writing various scenes in this. Your comment even made me wonder if I ought to re-title the fic "Selfish" which would work out perfectly I think. I do agree with you that Ginny is brought down in this fic, but I do see Draco as behaving a little better than her, more restrained. And I think the majority of Ginny's bad decisions in this fic have been in her interactions with Harry. As irrational and selfish as both Ginny and Draco have been, I have viewed a lot of Ginny's actions as not only her wanting closure from her past relationship with Draco, but also having the problems in her marriage just building up to the boiling point. She has lied to herself for years and her emotions are tangled with her current situation and her past self when she was just 17. You are a right to say there is a lot of selfishness all around, which certainly isn't right, but I do think it can be understood. That said, it remains selfish but they are trying, badly, to at least fix the situation before their children are affected further and Lily's running away really made that real for Ginny. For her, it

Its a good story but Ginny seems to be forgiving Malfoy way to early. He was a Death Eater, and proud of it, who got one of her brothers maimed and another poisioned. She just seems way to willing to essentially sell out her family.

Author's Response: Thank you for taking the time to review and for the compliment. In my story, we only are HBP compliant, and as far as I can tell in canon, Draco was not very happy about being a Death Eater (physical changes and the crying etc from the book). And so far in my story, he has confessed to acting as a spy or being basically hidden away at Durmstrang.

As for Ginny, she was attracted to him in school, and she believes his explanation of what and where he has been. Now they are completely isolated from the world, and it's been three months since she arrived. This may not be a lot of time, but she has never once considered this as selling out her family.

I like how you kept Draco in canon, evil, cowardly and selfish but not as evil as his family or Voldemort.

Author's Response: One of my biggest battles when writing this was Draco's moral weakness - he'd have a watershed moment and then back away from it immediately because he wasn't brave enough to back it up. Glad to hear that all my wrestling paid off!

I just realized the Ginny has really thought everything through. Even supposing she and Astoria somehow manage to "switch" she still going to have to go and have a conversation that goes likes this "So everybody remember the Death Eater that poisioned Ron and let Greyback into the castle so he could maim Bill? Well he's going to be around a lot more,"

Thats going to be a trainwreck in and of itself the whole divorce/swap thing aside.

Author's Response: Well, yes, but that applies to any DG fic that has any canon-compliancy, doesn't it? Thanks for the review! :)

I'm greatly enjoy the story and the premise and still I can only come to one set of conclusions. Both Ginny and Astoria are the type of people who would lie, decieve and cheat on their spouses in a particularly evil way at the risk of destroying their families. Now given Draco's Death Eater tendencies I can see how he might find that appealing but theres no way Harry, having morals and ethics, isn't going to hate them both as well as the whole of the Weasley family.

No matter how you slice it those are two cruel women.

Author's Response: Thanks for the review :)

But Draco IS a coward. Its the defining characteristic of his personality and Ginny knows it so I don't understand why she's lying. Ginny also knows all of the horrible things he did so its a bit much to believe she just okay with all that.

Author's Response: By this point in the story, she's forgiven Draco for the things he did. Yes, he was nasty at school, but he was tried for his crimes during the war, and since then he's kept his head down. She's also realized his actions in Diagon Alley probably saved her life, so she feels grateful as well. She'll definitely be confronted with those words in the last chapter though. :)