I had to laugh when Luna told Hermione that she'd snatch Neville right before her eyes if she doesn't move her a***. Brilliant idea!
Oh and by the way, although I can usually live very well with the canon version Hermione / Ron, I really like the changed pairings Hermione / Neville and Lavender / Ron.


Author's Response: I'm a little ambivalent about canon Hermione/Ron, but figured I'd try to broaden Hermione's horizons a bit.

it took me awhile to warm up to this story but I'm glad I stuck with it. I like the 'changes at Hogwarts' you made. now I'm wondering if Sirius and Remus are going to have a role in this story at some point. I'm hoping they will.

Author's Response: Yeah, if I had to write this over again, I'd structure it differently--I think I took too long to get into the good stuff. I, also, am glad you stuck with it. Sirius and Remus have been annoyingly quiet--I can't say exactly what they're doing, but I think they'll show up sometime in the not-too-far distant future. Thanks!

Dormice.

Now I can't get the picture of Bill Murray in scoorged out of my head.

Thnaks alot.


Looking forward to the next chapter. Wonder what Tex and Jos will do in it.


And if Ginny's fans will team up with Harry's fans to break them up.


Yeah, the git's are gone.

LFTM


Ja ne

Jim

Author's Response: Ooh, a bipartisan Split-Them-Up committee!

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Another great one! Looking forward to more, im loveing thees fast updates

Author's Response: Thanks! I won't promise anything on the update cycle, but I do have a little more written. . .

I so adore Luna...in her own loopy way she's the smartest of the bunch.

Ginny took that well, and so sis Harry.

I loved the Bambi reference...at least I THIBK that's where you got "twitter-pated".

Author's Response: Congratulations! No one else commented on Bambi!

First, thanks for the explanation on the Veela Mate magic, I thought it was only an "internal" thing for the Veela. Making it mutual is a much better long term solution. However, that means Lucius is still carrying a torch for a certain Veela in his past...

There were some interesting hints on the history we have missed. Peter Pettigrew was exposed but still no hint on Sirius or even whether Pettigrew is in custody. There was even a hint she may have "met" Riddle's diary.

The fiercely protective Hermione was a bit of a surprise. Hopefully, it was really just talk but it is a new side to Hermione. Speaking of surprises - Prissy? How did Ginny get a semi-personal elf? Also, how is poor Dobby?

I knew that finding out he was the boy-who-lived would be a shock but I never expected potentially big trouble. When Luna brought up "we talked bad about boys" I became a little concerned. I expected Harry's explanation. When you are with people who love and take care of you, you identify with them. I'm sure he is curious about his birth parents but his Potter connection would not be real strong for him at this point. Anyway, it was not a real issue as Ginny wasn't inclined to fight against the mating magic. However, I thought she was a bit unfair referring to him lying. I'm not trying to make some excuse of an omission technically not being a lie - I mean that it is literally not important to him and it thus never came up.

The mystery about Dumbledore has gotten much deeper. I thought he was "Harry hunting" and apparently doing a rather poor job of it. However, my confidence in that conclusion has been damaged. Snape's dismissal is something he'd have to act on as Snape would be central to any plan against Voldemort as why would anyone pass up an opportunity to have a spy? I'm beginning to wonder if the old codger is up to some new plan that I haven't considered. It is hard to imagine him without an involved plan - a characteristic he seems to share with Voldemort.

I assumed I would learn a new word (chitilitude) and did a Google search and --- only got references to your story on two fanfic sites. So, is this one of Luna's made up words then?

It still surprises me every time Harry calls her "Ginevra" and especially that he gets away with it. That mating magic is powerful stuff... ;-)

I thought Luna was just saying whatever she was thinking and not bothering to filter it. For example, her response to "But. . . you’re. . . but". However then you drop the bombshell "loved it when her plans worked". WHOA!! How did the sorting hat miss putting her in Slytherin? Luna certainly bears watching... ;-) By the way, I like the Hermione/Neville pairing.

I was trying to build up some resentment of the portrayal of boys as being thick about girls (through your Tex/Josette scene) but then I remembered that we are thick about girls and decided to just go with it. ;-) My wife had to "smooth out a few rough edges" for me and since I decided to cooperate in that matter, it worked out rather well. I guess it is lucky for us that the female gender is so inclined to help us with our faults. However, there is the matter of smoothing out their rough edges and that can be quite a different story.... ;-)

Back to your story, it was nice to see the good and wise friend side of Fleur after seeing the good big sister side of her (well, other than the locking in the bathroom thing but that wasn't on purpose). ;-) I was just a little disappointed with Tex on the 'look at the tapestries'thing. I didn't think it was THAT subtle.

Author's Response: Cue the major applause for a great review! Thanks for taking the time to write so much. Yes, Lucius is still carrying a torch for his Veela--but working with Voldemort kind of pushes any type of "love" issues into the background, so it's just a small lusting by now. Good call on the hints about missing history. Eventually we'll find out what happened to all those important events. Hermione's protectiveness of Ginny comes because Ginny's her first real friend. They met before first year and just clicked. So she's definitely willing to back her up in anything. Prissy isn't really Ginny's elf, it's just that they've been having ice-cream evenings for a long time, and Prissy's been the one helping them, so they've become really good friends. Ginny didn't know how to react to the revelation about Harry's name. Her knee-jerk response was to accuse him of lying, but she was able to take the time to really discuss it with her friends, and realize that he wasn't doing anything to hurt her. Ah, yes, Dumbledore. He's been busy, but perhaps not the way you thought he might be. We'll see him again, and find out what's been going on in his life. And once he was out of Hogwarts, he didn't really have any say in Snape being kicked out--it was all McGonagall trying to make Hogwarts a better environment for learning. "Chitilitude" is most definitely a Luna-word, although she has neglected to define it for me. Harry calls Ginny "Ginevra" because it sparks something in her. Back in the chapter where he learns that's her real name she tells him that he can, because from him it's special. Luna's very intelligent, which puts her in Ravenclaw. I like to think that she's developed her cunning as the years have gone by with Ginny and Hermione as her friends. And we boys are always less aware of things than girls are. It's a common stereotype, but I think it has some merit. Tex isn't really terribly thick, he's just being put into a strange situation (no Harry) and having to forge ahead blindly. It's not like he's had a lot of examples from Harry how to be smooth. Thanks again for taking the time to tell me your reactions!

I find Ginny a bit of a hypocrite here and I'm surprised her 'smart' friends haven't pointed out that fact to her. She's thinking of spending the rest of her life with Harry but she hasn't considered the fact that he might want to know that she's adopted much in the same way she wanted to have known that he is Harry Potter. I understand that this whole relationship thing is new to her and she's not used to thinking about others but she shouldn't expect the same of Harry either. At least he told her he was adopted and she could understand why he didn't tell her about who he is, but she hasn't even given him half as much trust as he has given her. She knows she's adopted, she's been trying to find her real family, she's told her friends as much but she couldn't tell the love of her life. I know she's young but she's a Ravenclaw, she should be smarter than that.
Good chapter though, thanks for sharing and happy holidays!



Author's Response: That's quite an interesting take on Ginny's attitude and lack of revelations. Putting myself into her mind, I would say that it's not that she's trying to hide it, she's just been rather caught up in all the new-ness of her relationship. There probably was a time that would have been perfect to tell Harry that she was adopted--Harry says, "I'm adopted." Ginny responds, "so am I". But it didn't happen, obviously. Perhaps she didn't want to interrupt Harry's life story, or something else came up. She's not consciously trying to hide the fact of her adoption--it just didn't seem that time-critical a piece of information. Or, maybe we'll find out that she really did tell him, it just happened off-camera. I suppose the truth will come out sooner or later. Anyway, thanks for reading and reviewing!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
A new chapter and soooooo fast.

So glad Ginny calmed down enough to listen to reason. Harry was just adorable and I love how you manage to describe a woman's feelings eventhough you are a man (at least, I do not think men usually dress up in special fun lacy underwear?)

Curiouisity consumes me when I think about what will come for our friends.
I did realize that Harry is not known as the Harry and so there is no reason for his name to come out of the Goblet but...... He is Fleur's brother and so it could be logical to think that Harry will be the hostage in the Lake. If it even plays pout that way.

Wow. You made me happy Bob. I, again, had to clear snow from our grounds (at -8 Celcius) but seeing your update made me tingle. Either that or it was the heather defrosting me.

Hugzzzzzz. C

Author's Response: Hi Collinda! I'm glad I did okay with describing Ginny's reasons for her lingerie--I like to think that 18+years of happily-married life give me at least a little bit of insight. And I must point out--there isn't a Tri-Wizard Tournament--it's a Tri-School Quidditch Tournament instead. But, if I had kept it as in canon, it's a safe bet to guess that Harry would have been involved in some way, whether he was a competitor, or a hostage. I'm sorry you had to shovel snow in such cold weather. We got about five inches, but most of it melted off by the afternoon--rather disappointing to my kids.