While at the Ministry’s Auror training academy, Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy learn that being friends might be harder than being foes. Or, “And that’s why you don’t teach your worst enemy lessons.”Category: Long and Completed
That was amazing. I really loved it! Draco and Ginny's relationship was spot on. And Ginny's alarm clock was too funny. I can't decided if I want one or if I want to stay as far away from one as possible, haha. Excellent fic. Oh, and if you felt the need to expand it into a nice long chaptered fic, I'd be there to support you ;)
Ginny is a reporter for the Daily Prophet and needs an interesting story to get her onto the front page. Draco Malfoy, serving a life sentence in Azkaban, is suddenly up for re-trial. Could this be Ginny's big break? Or could it lead her on a path of lies, betrayal and revenge?Category: Works in Progress
I've had this story open for what seems like forever, but I'm just getting around to reading it now. Part of me wishes I had read it sooner because it's sooo good, but part of me wishes I had waited so that i would have a second chapter to go to! Great work. I love Ginny and I really love her relationship with Colin and Harry and Arthur and pretty much everyone else you've had her interact with. And although we've only had about 10 sentences about Draco, I think I'm going to like him too :)
Author's Response: I'm having so much fun writing Ginny and the way she interacts with different people so I'm glad you like reading it. :)
And, of course...everyone likes Draco! :P
They say the road to Hell is paved with the best of intentions. [Winner of Persephone33's excellent Time Turner '09 contest]Category: Long and Completed
I loved it. Not sure I completely understand it, but I loved it nonetheless. However did you come up with this plotline and keep it all straight? I'm very impressed. Great job!
Daphne's new business partner changes significant aspects of Astoria's life - starting, and ending, with her husband.Category: Works in Progress
Interesting set up. I'm very intrigued to see where this goes...
Author's Response: Thank you. I do hope you'll keep reading.
That was a very well done chapter. I love the way you mixed in the letters and divided the scences between Ginny/Draco and Daphne/Astoria. It was very creative and I loved it. On a side note, I love the development of the Daphne/Astoria relationship. I can't quite figure them out, and I love the little glimpses (like the childhood nickname) that we get.
Sequel to "The Journey Home." Ginny has finally come to terms with her grief, but much of her life remains in turmoil as a new mystery beckons her back to the one place she doesn't want to be, in an effort to free her lover from his family's past mistakes.Category: Works in Progress
Great chapter! I loved Ginny's reaction to Draco's injury, and Draco's reaction to Ginny. Really, I just love them together.
Author's Response: Thank you so much. For some reason, this angle on Ginny has given me more opportunity for the pair to have some fun conversations. She's really annoyed at the world and it's so easy for her to just be open with him because he's not attached to her old life. Best Wishes!
-G
I'm really glad you decided to do a sequel! Great start
Author's Response: Thank you! I hope the sequel lives up to the first. :)
Working for the Department of Mysteries teaches Draco Malfoy many things: Play the man. Everyone lies. Collateral damage is inevitable. But when he's the man being played and Ginny Weasley becomes collateral damage - well, you know what they say. All's fair in love, war, and hard and dirty politics.Category: Works in Progress
I really enjoyed this chapter. It has a hint of dark humor to it that I definitely appreciate, and it seems to have a undercurrent of noir. I don't know if you were going for that, but I enjoyed it!
I look forward to Draco putting Zane in his place and I'd really like to know where Ginny is!
Author's Response: Oh wow, noir is definitely one of the most subtle arts and yet most amorphous of genres to pin down and get right - so you saying you get a slight sense of noir from this makes me infinitely happy/honoured. Also, lol, because I wrote Zane - or at least, Zane in my head - to be the one to be empathized with but so far everyone seems to relish the thought of Draco showing him up. oops. All will be revealed re: Ginny :D thank you for taking the time to review.
Great chapter. I love the argument between Draco and Ginny. You did a fantastic job of making Ginny seem completely illogical but making me love her anyway. And I loved Draco's inner dialogue/thoughts throughout. To funny! Especially at the end when he realizes that he messed things up
Author's Response: Haha, isn't that the way these things usually go though eh - in the heat of the moment, everyone says anything and everyone and then only afterward do you regret it. Well, Draco's situation is exacervated precisely because of ginny's no-show so he's feeling copious amounts of guilt muddled up with the panic. This despite the fact that it was all Ginny's fault to begin with, irrational bat. But we love her :) Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for your kind review!
Wonderful chapter. I really liked the way you moved back and forth between past and present, using trigger phrases. So well done! And I'm loving the mystery. It seems like you have a very complicated, well planned story here and I look forward to reading it.
Author's Response: Yes so complicated in fact that i fear it may run away from me and then descend into choas. :( but hopefully not. Thank you very much, yes i really tried with the trigger phrases to form a kind of continuity. Biggest evil ever? All those italics html tags. Killed me. Gratified that this kept you entertained. Im looking forward to writing the next ones as well :)
Two chapters so quickly! I love it. I also love the references to James Bond in this chapter. While they have been simmering below the surface (especially with L) I think it's great how you inserted Judi Dench's M into this scene. Simply wonderful. I also love how Draco was able to surprise L, and live up to her expectations, at the end of this chapter. They have such a great relationship. Wonderful job weaving in L's past, particularly the tea cart. As readers, we understand the significance, putting us in the enjoyable position of knowing/understanding more than Draco. I can't wait to see what Draco gets up to in Anatolia. I'm also assuming that this "mark" is going to end up being surprisingly important later in the story...Why do I get the nasty feeling that it's Harry or someone? Of course, I don't actually think it's Harry, but I do have the sneaking suspicion that there's a traitor in our midst!
Author's Response: The (pardon the pun) bond between double 0 seven and L is so impeccably characterised and skillfully humanised in CR and SF that I just really wanted to chance to ham it up and write frmo that perspective. What I love abotu your speculations and thoughts is that, with each one, you hit the nail right on its mark. Absolutely, as readers, we're meant to imply and I think dramatic knowledge (whether in the form of irony or tension or what-have-you) is so powerful, it's what keeps readers committed to coming back, what forges a connection between characters and readers but also between authors and readers, y'know? It gives us a stake in the characters' life and that is some heady stuff right there. It's not Harry, haha, could you imagine? So your hunch is both right and wrong - neither is it a traitor but it is someone from Draco's past thus - CUE THE FLASHBACKS! But that being said, keep an eye out on Blaise, he's a slippery fish. Thanks again for your wonderful review, one of the best so far <3