Aww hell. I've totally run out of good things to say about this fic and all of your work. YOU KNOW I LOVE YOUR STORIES!!!!!!!! Well you sould know by now.... LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT! Keep it coming! LOVES!! Moose xx

Author's Response: Thanks for loving my stories, my random, rambling, bizarre, sometimes almost pointless stories...more will come!

LOVE IT!!!!! Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it Love it!!!!! Write more! LOVES!! Moose xx

Author's Response: Thank you x32. More shall come!

OMG! What a twist. Roar! Damn Voldie! But wonderful chapter, as usual! Loving this fic SOSOSOSO much! how many chapters left? xx

I dont remember if I've revied on previous chapters or not, but I've been reading, and this chapter is a great as all the others! A clever plot twist making Harry, shoose! I love it!!!

Author's Response: Well, thanks for your review now...and for reading all along!! I really appreciate the support and look for a new chappie shortly!

lovin it, lovin it, lovin it! x

Author's Response: Yay!! SO glad. Chappie 28 is in the queue!!

Awwwww that was well sweet. Love it! :D:D

A wonderful story! Quite different in style to Right Here, I feel these characters started of just ever so slightly out. But this last chapter was amazing! The charecterization at this point was perfect, and the dialogue, if slightly mushy for my taste, was heart rendering none-the-less. I feel that fics that go past one chapter really need to have a conflict in them to keep the reader engaged. This story by it's very nature was in danger of being all happy-happy. Reading about happy people just doesn't entertain us sadistical humans! But you coped with it well, and especially in this last chapter, the conflict really does come to play! It was a really good chapter, by far the best. Your writing style is consistent and sophisticated, which is reliveing after trawling through so many good but poorly written (in terms of coherence) fics. It's nice to read a fic by someone who has such a firm grasp of the English language, amongst so many young, beginer writers (and I'm including myself in that since I'm only 17.) I look forward to reading any future fics. I also think you could consider writing more stories from the universe of this one; since it's so well established. what can I say, I'm a sucker for sequals. This story was an original idea, and I think you did it justice, though it could possibly have been tighter as a long one-shot. You were almost teasing in the way you kept it censored, I kept on thinking we were going to see some 'action' but you kept it suitable! You have a lot of promise as a writer! I know I seem to have pointed out a lot of 'you could have's in this review, but that's only because I think your future work could be brilliant! so please don't be offended. And feel free to tell me if you think I'm talkinf crap, i have a tendency to pretend I know stuff..... XXXXXX Keep writing!

Author's Response: Man! I wrote a super long response to this, and my account timed me out. So you're getting the super abbreviated response, and I'll come back to it later. You weren't talking crap, thank you so much for the best review I've had on this site bar none, and I'm cutting this short so I can work on the sequel to this! I will provide a more suitable response to this soon.

Author's Response: Okay, now that I finally have a bit of free time, I can go back and give this review the response it deserves. First and foremost, I truly appreciate all the kind things that you've said. And, you got me. While this is only my second fanfiction piece, I'm not new to writing. On top of being a literature major before dropping out of college, I have spent much of my life writing both fiction and non-fiction. I wrote my first book in the third grade, and I haven't quit since. In recent times, I've left the realm of fiction and have spent the last year writing for a political website, though I've been on hiatus for a few months as life developments have made it difficult for me to engage in the level of research required to provide solid political commentary. Moving on. As I said in my previous response, what you say is not all crap, and indeed you have hit on several points that have been cause for reflection during the writing of this. When you speak of the excessive happiness of the first four chapters, and how the story could be tighter as a long one shot, I'm not disinclined to agree with you. In fact, and I think I've mentioned this before, an author's note that I was going to put in the beginning of chapter five was that for the most part, you could have skipped the first four chapters had I started the final one with a sentence similar to, "Harry had a really good day with his friends in the muggle world". But there are a few reasons why I kept the first four chapters. The first is that I had set out to make this story pure fluff. It wasn't until half way through the second chapter that I realized that the story would have to take that much more serious turn at the end. You may think that with only two chapters down, I could have binned them and gotten straight to the nitty gritty, but that leads me to my second reason for keeping the whole thing. In the end, I think the final scenes were made more powerful by the lightness of the rest of the piece. In the first four chapters I had made the reader feel safe, that the premise of the story was actually going to carry through. Harry really was going to have a nice, carefree day. In the end, the effect I was going for was a kind of emotional blindside, whereas had we began at say the gift wrapping scene, the reader would not have had the time to get established into any kind of mood, and may have been a little more emotionally prepared for what's in store. Never-the-less, I still understand that I took a risk, and I think that that is evident in the summaries and responses I have left begging readers to hang around until the fluff gives way to something more. Another reason for keeping the first four chapters was that I came up with moments, that, as I read the reviews, were quite precious in their own right. People seemed to love the fact that Hermione couldn't drive. I've gotten good responses about Ron starting to get attention instead of Harry, and the scene with the ice cubes at the end of chapter 4 had one reader on another site saying she wished she was Ginny. So do the first four chapters make a well constructed story? Probably not, but they do end up making is what I like to think of as a special kind of scrapbook of memories. As an added note, I still find it kind of funny that some of the more precious moments to me have hardly been commented on at all (Hermione and Ron on the vibrating chair; Harry's little conversation with Hermione; the old couple they pass during the piggy-back race; and the locket to name a few). So while I could have omitted the first few chapters by making the last chapter a little longer, in the end, they themselves created a body of work that I just couldn't bring myself to part with. Now, when it comes to action, I have my spiel on that as well. In the writing of this, I was torn. I feel a little funky trying to write steam in this mythos. For one, they're all too young, and as a 28 year old, I feel a little dirty just contemplating putting the four protagonists in overtly sexual situations. Further, there is the issue of Harry being of age and Ginny not, which makes me feel even dirtier to think about it. At the same time, I realize that these are four teenagers, more importantly, these are two couples that are very much in love at the peak of their hormones letting loose, and it's almost impossible to put them in the kind of situation that I put them in and not have them at least take a peek over into something a little more than just snogging. This was a little easier with Ron and Hermione since much of their story could take place off camera, and I could just let things be implied. But I knew I couldn't let Harry and Ginny go the whole day without feeling at least something a little carnal, and so I chose to deal with it the way I did. Let them build up a little steam, but then pull out before they ended up doing something they may regret. And finally, I'll talk about sequels. I have three sequels planned to be specific. Each of them I plan on making extremely different from the two stories I have published, as well as from each other. The last of the three is still very much up in the air, but I've got bits of the second one fleshed out in my head, and I'm nearing the home stretch as far as writing the first one is concerned (that's to say I'm halfway through the second to last chapter). I won't reveal anything about the second story, other than the title, "The Eighth Year". But here's a little bit more of a teaser than I had posted further down as to the first. Basically, the ideas that we thought Ginny had successfully pounded into Harry's head at the end of this story weren't as well embedded as we thought. No, Harry, being the idiot that he is, doesn't go back to her, and instead leads a kind of shadow of a life in Muggle London. This story will follow Harry as he faces some inner demons in the hopes that he will return to the friends, and girl, who love him. And with all of that, I say one final thank you, I hope you do get a chance to read this more appropriate response, and I hope you'll keep an eye out for this story's sequel, "Epilogues Part I: Shadow".

YEY! Getting very hooked on this story, hun. :D xx

Author's Response: Thanks Char girl. :)

HAHA, and FIRST REVIEW!!!!


Yeah, I rock.

Love you honey

Wonderful, as always

Author's Response: Aw, baby, love you too. Okay folks, this is the lady... Everyone waiting on chapter seven, this is the beautiful woman you need to talk to, I just emailed it to her, and so now it\'s all up to her. Love ya baby.