Gah I love this story! I think one of the best things is the characters. Firsly, I love Pierce, becuause he's such a comple and interesting character. Secondly, I feel like you understand Draco's character really well, what with him detaching himself from people/emotions, and all that he said in the last chapter about using people and constantly being on his guard about what other people want. And then at the end of this chapter, with him feeling so lonely because he feels he doesn't need anyone... it's very in character. It gives him depth without making him warm and fuzzy. Can't wait for the next update!

Oh, this chapter was great! I'm not sure if I've ever reviewed this before, but the fic, and the one before it, are some of my favorite D/G stories. I laughed so hard when Ginny found the stuffed dragon and the color-enchaning shampoo! Hilarious!

Author's Response: Thank you! I\'m happy you like the fics that much :) and that I made you laugh!

Ooh, I like this! You write Draco very well in character, which is so rare to find in a fic. Update soon!

Author's Response: Thank you very much! I'm glad you think so... I'm always grappling with character accuracy issues... it's nice to hear that I'm doing alright! Update should be in the next week I hope... thanks for the review! :)

Oh wow, this is fic is hilarious, and just what I needed as a break from homework. Although I am realy hungry now. Keep up the good work!

Author's Response: It's amazing how reading about food can make you want it. I read a book about camping once, and resorted to toasting marshmallows over the flame of my gas stove.

Wow, I love this story! You've done a fantastic job so far. I was surprised I liked this so much because I tend not to like fics that are actually fully compliant with the epilogue :p But you've kept everyone really in character, and made the kids awesome too. Keep up the great work!

Author's Response: Thank you! I'm glad you like it so much, especially when fully compliant's not your style. Thanks so much for your review! I'll try and update with more on the kids soon. ;)

Oh, man, I wonder is they're actually going to run away together! So angsty, I love it. And Rose and Bletchley are incredibly cute, I love them :)

As for beta-reading your fic, you can email it to me all at once; that works for me. (If you prefer to do one chapter at a time, that's ok, too, but I definitely don't mind all at once, either.) Umm I think you can find my email on PI, but if it's easier, it's also in my profile here on FIA too. Let me know if you have any problem with that.

Author's Response: Aw, I'm glad you liked it! As for the beta-ing, I ended up trying to contact you through FIA and left you my email address. To put it simply, I cannot figure out where your email is and wonderful at PI is, I can't seem to search and contact you as a beta since I have one already assigned to me (meaning Miss Opal for Not Quite an Affair) That's why I just tried to contact you though FIA. If you want to email me and then I can reply back with the full story, that would be great! Thanks so much, Rosalie

That story was incredibly cute! I really enjoyed it, and I laughed out loud when the baron said he was going to feed her to the dragon lol.

Author's Response: Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was a ton of fun to write!

I think you're spot-on about D/Hr. When I first got into HP fanfic, which just after OOTP came out, I started out reading both D/G and D/Hr, but I eventually stopped with D/Hr because I felt that Draco was so often written OOC in order to make the pairing work. As others have said, I find it nigh impossible to imagine that Draco would ever allow himself to be with a Muggleborn, even if he is heavily redeemed. I do like seeing them as "friends." I had a lot of fun writing them as sort-friends in EOTH, and it felt believable to me that they might come together to work on a problem. We can't necessarily conclude from canon that Draco is super intelligent or anything, but I think he can be quite analytical, and I can see Draco and Hermione connecting on some level in that way. Just not romantically. But then, I'm positively OCD about writing Draco as canonically as possible, so maybe that's just me ;)

Anywho, I'm sorry you lost the rest of the essay and good luck continuing on with it! It's really good and really interesting and I agree with a lot of points. For the most part, I was overall pleased with Deathly Hallows (at least, having resigned myself to the fact that H/G would happen and that D/G never would). BUT, Ginny's character was one of my chief annoyances with DH. She was completely reduced to "Harry's girlfriend." She got no Crowning Moment of Awesome - you look at other characters like Ron, Hermione, Mrs. Weasley, Percy, Neville, Luna, they all got their cool moments and take-downs, and Ginny got absolutely nothing. We were TOLD that she did cool stuff at Hogwarts, but since JKR chose (wrongly, IMO) to basically leave Hogwarts out and follow the trio's boring tramping around in the countryside instead, we didn't get to see any of it. (Seriously, wouldn't the Trio working to find Horcruxes and destroy Voldemort from Hogwarts as a base have been MUCH more interesting? They could have hidden in the Room of Requirement with Neville! That's my other big beef about DH.) The only good to come out of it, IMO, is that you can write fic about Draco and Ginny being at Hogwarts during this hellish year, without the trio present. (Which I intend to do :D)

Author's Response: Thanks! :) I didn't see your review until now, so I hope you read my response at some point. :) I really, REALLY would love to see your take on Draco/Ginny during the final year. I've rarely seen that topic really taken on, and there's so much that could be written about it. (And I'm reviewing your fic very VERY soon!!) Believe me, I don't think that everything about DH was bad, or that it was a completely terrible end to the series. It wasn't Jean Auel's *Land of Painted Caves* (which made me glad that I never really got into the EC fandom.) There were quite a few things that worked very well. The way that the intricacies of the plot were tied up was impressive. Snape's final characterization was great (as much as I think that there were still problematic aspects there.) But I do think that what happened to both Ginny and Draco in DH forms the key to the aspects that DID bother me about it. That's really the theme of the next chapter, which WILL be written, no matter what. (glares at evil drive. Well, it's in California right now, so it's a metaphorical glare!) ;