I am so pleased to find this story! Ginny as a romance novelist - great idea. I can't tell you the little thrill that I got when you mentioned Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice - and Georgette Heyer! Hardly anyone that I know has even heard of Georgette Heyer! Yes, Draco is a perfect specimen! I can't wait to read the other chapters! Elise

Author's Response: My sister introduced me to the great Heyer. Venetia is my favourite of her books :)

I only just caught up with this story. Your characterization of Draco is realistic, and great - he is snarky even under pressure. The relationship with Ginny remains a mystery, even though Draco seems to realise more and more what she means to him. I can't imagine that there will be a happy ending for d/g, but I don't care. I am hooked. I even like Christo - who is definitely a strikingly similiar polar opposite of Draco.

Author's Response: ladyendymion- Thank you for the wonderful review! I\'m glad you find my characterization of Draco realisitic. It\'s a great compliment. And, yes, he is snarky through and through! You like Christo? So do I. However, we make up a minority of ACAW readers. Most folks would like to kill him! -fallenwitch

This was the most powerful chapter I've read yet. I love this saga! You write d/g so passionately, and wonderfully, and so unique.

Draco's possessiveness towards Ginny and Snape nearly makes me cry. My favourite passage was: In this strange, in-between place, Draco saw his selfishness and his smallness of heart dispassionately, and understood that these things existed side by side with his choice to take on Snape?s unimaginable pain, and his desire to die rather than to let Harry Potter hurt Ginny in any way at all. He did not try to puzzle out these contradictions, but simply knew that they existed.

I adore this story - as someone only beginning to 'really' appreciate wine, it is very enlightening. Draco is deliciously snobbish, and unwillingly intoxicated with Ginny (intoxication is apt word, isn't it?). Looking forward to the next chapter.
Elisebeth

Author's Response: Intoxication certainly is an apt word! I\'m glad that you are enjoying the information as well as the story. Wine is a wonderful hobby--I hope that you continue to appreciate it. Thanks for reading and for the review!

I adore this story - as someone only beginning to 'really' appreciate wine, it is very enlightening. Draco is so deliciously snobbish, and unwillingly intoxicated with Ginny (I suppose intoxicated is the apt word, isn't it?). I look forward to the next bit.

perfect end - poor Draco and wine withdrawal. Beautifully written.

Author's Response: Thanks! I\'m glad you enjoyed it.

So beautifully written. I loved the gradual build of their relationship, and when Ginny swore that she would go to Azkaban with Draco - heartrending. The ancient magic based on love and the artwork symbolising the different kinds of love was a perfect backdrop.

Author's Response: Thank you very much! I\'m glad that you thought it all worked well together.

Snape and Ginny - well, that is a pair that I'd never thought of together. Love Ginny's "mental imbalance". On with the snarky men!

Author's Response: More snarky men to come. : )

I love this story. Thank you for posting a story that reminds me why I fell in love with d/g in the first place. I love your characterisations - I love the plot - and your sublte, economic style.

Author's Response: What a sweet review. Felicitas (I\'m sure) and I thank you very much.

I cannot wait to read this fic! What a teaser!

Author's Response: Thanks!! I think I'll start posting it after *Sun Breaks* (which, believe it or not, WILL all be done and posted this spring.) And I'm going to R and R your fic!! LOTS going on.

Yes he is a Malfoy, isn't he?

I always adore d/g, but I'm quite enjoying Harry/Astoria as well - and I never expected that.

Scorpius is such a perceptive little thing, isn't he?  I really like the contrasting families in this fic - and how each woman reacts and tries to get by.  I'm still amazed that Harry and Draco do not seem to notice!  It doesn't say much for their marriages, does it?

Author's Response: I'm glad you picked up on that! I don't want D/A and H/G to HATE each other, but I don't want them to have picture perfect marriages, otherwise this story would never happen! Thanks for the compliments, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the fic :)

This chapter is one of the creepiest chapters I've ever read in fiction or fandom - in a very good way. I have chills and gooseflesh and I feel all of Ginny's horror.

This chapter reminded me of scenes of old mental hospitals - the patient protesting their sanity and no one believing it or not knowing why they are there. I don't know if you watch Orange is the new Black, but the opening scene of this chapter reminded me very much of Pennsatucky in the mental ward, held down and drugged.

Anyway, brilliant work and I can't wait to get home this afternoon to read the other chapters. Stupid work getting in the way of reading d/g.

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I was definitely inspired by those kinds of situations. The stories of women being institutionalized for depression, sexual arousal, etc. being perfectly normal human beings, you know, have always made me shuddery. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman still haunts me years after I first read it. But in this case, Ginny isn't the only one institutionalized. Draco is there for company, and his guess is just as good as hers as to why they are there. So even though she's not alone, she's still in a heap of trouble. And, yes, I do watch OitNB! Pensnsatucky is an awful, awful woman, but you just can't help but feel horrified for what she went through. And then to realize that this probably happens more often than we think in real life, not just in prisons, but in hospitals, in abusive homes... It's a scary thought.

So I'm really glad you thought this chapter was creepy, because I really wanted it to be!