that was too sweet for my taste but ok i guess

why someone would want do that to ginny?

you made sound harry like some guy that takes what he got

wow this is a Great story! i've just finished ch. 10 and im left breathless! that whole couch scene! i was flushing myself after i had read that and relized my heart rate had considerably jumped a notch or two! you are a very good writter and im sure the rest of the story will be great. i just had to stop reading and tell you :)

dude i first read this story on griffindortower.net and i loved it so much then i went back a while later and the website was closed and i was freakin out but i found it here this is the best fan fiction of all time! sorry had to tell ya that even though i know this has been written for ALONG time!
happy new years!

First note of foreshadowing - and understandable anyway - that breaking through Anti-Apparition wards is particularly associated with the second war against Voldemort, and brings up bad memories.
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In character for Harry, that he'd refuse to leave Ginny alone and unprotected. Makes sense that after their long day as members of the wedding party that neither Harry nor Ginny is up to re-casting the wards (and even if they were, since the wards were broken once already this evening, Harry would hesitate to leave Ginny alone).
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Ginny shows less reaction than I'd expect to having her house broken into and trashed like that. Since the entire chapter is from her POV, it's clear that she's not just refusing to break down in front of Harry. Of course, she is tired and shocked, but that would seem *more* likely to break her control, not to numb her (and her POV isn't that of having been shocked into non-reaction, anyway).
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"...he wasn't even as tall as Ron." A bit of a continuity error, there, since Ron in canon is noted as being unusually tall, not short, and the sentence implies otherwise. As a professional Seeker, it makes sense that Harry wouldn't be very tall, though.
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Good tribute to Ginny's common sense, that when she's had some sleep we see her considering all the obvious possibilities as to why someone would break in, and rejecting them one by one as not fitting the facts. Her financial status and dependence on her job, as shown later on, are consistent with her not having any valuables in the house. Her working hours and the nature of her arguments with her mother go a long way to explaining why there aren't any jealous ex-boyfriends to consider.
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Makes sense that after a childhood spent making breakfast for the Dursleys, that Harry would be perfectly capable of doing so here, particularly since Ginny's had a rough night and he basically wished himself on her as an impromptu guest the night before.
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"Harry was obviously ignorant of the often illogical workings of the Ministry. She was used to them, though, having been raised in a Ministry family." Good line and good characterization, both.
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Not surprising that the over-protective Molly has issues with her only daughter living alone, and throwing a fit at seeing her in a compromising situation, given what we later learn about Harry's reputation with women. (Although at this point in the story it seems OOC for her to be so hostile and suspicious of Harry, that's actually a plot point addressed later on, so it's OK.)
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Realistic, that Molly wouldn't have suddenly stopped reading the gossip rags altogether after the H/Hr slanders of _Goblet of Fire_. She'd believe that they were wrong on *that* occasion, obviously, having been set straight by Harry when she had good reason to take his word for it, but it would have taken a massive attitude adjustment for her to give up that sort of reading altogether. It makes her more believable as a character, that she'd have guilty pleasures like reading the scandals while claiming she was only in it for the recipes. :)
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Consistent note to strike, and realistic to boot, for Ginny to remember only afterwards that Molly had a perfectly good prearranged reason to come over, and wasn't just snooping or something. Makes sense that after the break-in that Ginny would've forgotten completely about the arrangement, too.
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Nice continuity, that after so many years of working on the fanatically well-kept lawn and flowerbeds of Privet Drive, that Harry appreciates the work that goes into maintaining a garden and is impressed by Ginny's. Her love of gardening helps establish her character as an individual with her own enthusiasms, as well, that don't necessarily reflect those of her family and friends.

The story as the whole alternates between Ginny's POV and Harry's, although within the bounds of sanity (not forcing artificial every-other-chapter alternation where it doesn't make sense for the story, for instance). In cases where a single chapter contains multiple POVs, the changes of context are signalled clearly to the reader, I'm thankful to say, as murky POVs and unclear POV switches are a pet peeve of mine. This particular chapter is in Ginny's POV, picking up as Harry asks her to dance at R/Hr's wedding reception.
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The author has constructed a believable scenario for arranging for Harry and Ginny to meet post-Hogwarts after not having really seen each other much since Harry's graduation six years before. Regarding their meeting, as the best friends of the groom and the bride, respectively (obviously of both in Harry's case, and in Ginny's she's the groom's sister as well as the bride's best friend), it's inevitable not only that they'd both be at the wedding but be in the bridal party as best man and maid of honour, and thus would be thrown together to some extent regardless of their own feelings.
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Regarding the separation, good construction of the background to make it believable that they'd have stayed apart. Harry's travelling schedule as a professional Quidditch player, and what we later learn is his habit of over-committing his time to yet more Quidditch in the off-season, has kept him busy professionally. (We also later learn that for two of the intervening six years since Voldemort's fall, Harry left the wizarding world entirely to try to pull himself together. More about that later, as it's not addressed in this chapter.)
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Realistic note, that Hermione's muggle background would result in the female segment of the bridal party being dressed in muggle wedding attire, and that Ginny, being from a pureblood wizarding background, would be rather dismayed at finding out what that entails. :) Also logical that Ron would've had *his* part of the ceremony in wizarding formal robes instead; good that he stood up for himself, although the issue isn't openly brought up in this story as having involved any conflict.
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The fact that Harry and Ginny haven't seen much of each other also provides a very natural way of supplying some exposition on what each has been doing lately, and how their professional lives are going, as they make small talk during the obligatory dance. (Which, as we later find out from Harry's POV, was anything but a mere obligation to him, bless him.)
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It adds a nice bit of texture and realism to the scene that Ginny's aware of the quality of Harry's formal robes as a silent indicator of how well he's doing financially, and that she's self-conscious about it. It makes particular sense as we later learn that she herself is struggling financially, since her job is just adequate for her to hang on to her beloved house in Hogsmeade.
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Not too surprising (given that this is a pre-OOTP story, based on rather sketchy knowledge of Ginny's character in canon) that she'd follow in her father's footsteps and take a job at the Ministry, especially as we later learn that she took the job at a time when she *really* needed to get *any* job, fast, to be able to move into her own place. (And as we learn in chapter two, most of her brothers are now associated with the Ministry in some capacity, so it's even more likely.) A waste that she's stuck in a low-end job, but this *is* a bureaucratic organization, after all; they're bound to make inefficient use of resources sometimes; besides, there may well be ethical issues about having her work directly for or with a member of her family, and they all have more interesting work.
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It makes sense that the Improper Use of Magic Office employees are those with low seniority and get stuck with bad hours and boring work, since they only pass assignments to the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad rather than handling anything interesting themselves. As Harry points out from his own experience with them, we already know that they send owls at all hours of the day and night, and nobody with any clout would want to work *those* hours.
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Nice touch of characterization for Arthur, that he's trying to show off his knowledge of muggle customs, but mispronouncing "automobile" in the process.
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Interesting twist that, having seen H/G dancing together, Hermione opted to throw the bouquet to Ginny. In any case, Ginny's her best female friend, and has been lonely of late, so it would've been a nice gesture anyway.
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Not surprising that Ginny and the twins wouldn't know about the custom of throwing the bouquet; typical evil twin practical joke, having doused it with an aphrodisiac. :)
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The bit about Anti-Apparition wards being standard protective measures for a woman living alone is a realistic note to strike.
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Copyediting observations:
- Pretty cleanly edited chapter, on the whole. The only odd spelling is a deliberate bit of Arthur-characterization. "Imperceptively" is used by mistake for "imperceptibly" at one point, but that's about it.

Good story mate..like it alot..

OMG! That was a terrific fic! I loved it! Please write a sequel! Keep on writing, you have a knack for it!

K@te xx

Heya!

I'm loving this fic, but it's 2.02am so I'll finish reading it in the morning!

K@te xx

I seem to miss all of your stories while they are being written but I love them all the same. You have fabulous writing and I hope that you will continue on with your stories. Please write one with everyone's children because you hinted at that sort of story in the epilogue of one of your fanfics and I think you would do really well with that.

I just wanted to say I loved the Les Mis references in this chapter. It was awesome! I'm an insane fan of the musical, and I love picking these things up. And I haven't reviewed a chapter yet, so just wanted to tell you this is an awesome story! One suggestion would be to use a little more variety in sentance openings...there seem to be a lot of 'he...' or 'she...' over and over. Great job, though!

OMG! great story! i have a question, though...what did harry mean when he said "the next time we make love will be it for me." did he mean that they were never gonna make love again? that confused me so much. other than that, this story, and your other two (ginnys gift and the long road home) are my three favorites. PLEASE make a sequel.. and please, respond to my above question by emailing me at

Yet another wonderful working of Ashwinder!

I love the way that Ginny gets mad at her mom for treating her like a child.Its so very Ginny. By the way that she reacts to it,you can just tell that she is a Weasley.Well, can't wait to read the next chapter to figure out how Harry reacts to their fighting.

Liz

OMG I totally love this fan fic,it was so sweet! I laughed, I cried, I loved it!