I love this, it's very original and beautifully written. The use of the definitions are perfectly placed and add a lot to the story. Well done! :)

What a fantastic story! R u sure you're not jk?

Author's Response: Haha, thanks, I'm glad you liked it! :)

I absolutely loved it. Keep writing.

Great story one more to my favs!

Author's Response: Thanks! :)

Why did it have to end

Author's Response: I'll take that to mean you liked it! :)

You did an amazing job! You've got such a style. Guess this is my favourite H/G fanfic. Lovely.

My favorite fan fic on here so far. It felt totally true to the characters. I loved it!

Author's Response: Thanks :)

That story was awsome. I really loved it. Keep up the good work.

Author's Response: Thanks! I'm glad you liked it :)

I really can't pretend to have any idea which scene was added specifically for this story, because it all flows really well. Despite the sometimes large skips in time, and the fast pace at which you moved the reader from the end of the battle to almost three years later, it flowed really well. The emotion in it was clearly evident and it was very honest. It was at times conflicted, dizzying, confusing, elating, but overall it really summed up well what a relationship is, and how two people go from friends to soulmates.

Author's Response: Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it, although I know it didn't skip a great deal and all went by very fast. There are a thousand Harry/Ginny after the battle stories that go into such detail, so I really wanted simply to show key moments :) Oh, and the scene added specifically for this story was when Harry left training to visit Ginny over break.

I think there are some real Gems in this story. Some small bits that just make me go "aww!" or smile, that part about the fireworks at Fred's funeral and the friendly banter from Fred about Harry.

Other bits though, I wasn't so crazy on. There were quite a few Americanisms "Picture" referring to "film" you have film later on, and the use of the word "Picture" confused me, at first I thought you meant photograph. Toward the beginning there is a "realize" which was a 'z' instead if an 's' ( A little nitpicky I know, sorry!) But one of my pet hates, is the Americanism "Write me" To me it doesn’t make any sense. It should definitely be "write to me".

Well that is all the technical things sorted, but I'm not all too crazy about the plot. Some of it was really good, like I said before, gems. I just think you rushed some things. I appreciate that this was a one-shot, and a long one at that! But I think it might be better as chaptered, just some of the scenes like the funerals, it doesn't seem right that you describe having to go to her brothers funeral as "dreary" That just isn’t the right word at all. And Harry's Auror training? I didn’t like that bit about "Kingsley wanted him to be an Auror straight away with no training" I find this very unlikely. Being an Auror is a highly skilled job; I doubt anyone could do it with no training, even if you were Harry Potter. I’m not too mad about the condensed Auror training either, I know he fought the dark lord, but it doesn’t really qualify him as an Auror. I am glad you decided to give him some training though, and because you tied in his Auror training with Ginny’s school, it did actually flow quite nicely.

There were other parts that I felt were rushed too, the year that Ginny spent playing Quidditch, and especially the time she spent waiting over his training in France. I thought it was completely OOC for Ginny to blow up like that and write him an angry letter, she was supposed to love him, I understand her being mad, but it wasn’t his fault and she knew that. You say a lot that she had “grown up” and yet this seems like a very childish thing to do.

I am sorry if that seemed a little harsh, I did actually like this story. Surprisingly I loved the eloping part at the end. I thought that was very Ginny, and so sweet! It was a lovely concept for a story, the little dictionary definitions, a very nice touch. I just think it could do with a little tweaking here and there. Overall, well done!

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Author's Response: Thanks very much for such a long, detailed review! I'll have to fix those Americanisms, which will eventually be the death of me in the Harry Potter fandom! I understand what you mean about it being rushed at parts, and numerous scenes probably would have been better had they gotten a whole chapter for themselves. However, there are plenty of stories out there that do go in to full elaboration of the time after the war for Harry/Ginny, and this was meant more to give a general feeling than go into detail. I'm glad you liked bits and pieces of it, though!