THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! Please tell me their love is enough to beat this vile curse!

Oh, be still my heart!

Draco is growing up so fast! He is such a sweetie and I'm so beyond happy that you painted him that way!

I am so fucking glad that Fred asked the question!

I've been half crying this whole damn time and it's entirely your fault! (said with love for your writing)

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Oh, by the God's that was amazing! You have a gift for pulling the readers hearts into your stories!

I wish she had grabbed his hand!

Beautifully done thus far!

OmG the best fan fiction I have ever read!YOU should be a published author

While trying very hard to be objective, I keep running into 'left behind at Malfoy manor' clichés. I know it's hard to come up with things others haven't posted, but in past thirteen years this must be seventeenth or eighteenth story exploiting this plot device.
Some do it extremely well, others very badly. Yours is firmly in the former but I keep thinking I know what's coming next and often right. Sigh. Too predictable I fear. Like those plot twists on murder she wrote you see from six minutes in.
How about changing it up and having Hermione and Luna left behind together? Just idea among my random ramblings. I'll leave this here for now. Good lock with rewrites.

As the writer, I can delete guest reviews and I debated when I came back to check on my work here, but I decided I would leave the ones posted recently up and simply address them as in some ways I think they are helpful and important

For the AU comment. I really must disagree. This is a "What if" which is cannon from the point where it starts, only taking light liberties in interpretation of internal thought. IT IS cannon in the books that Draco tried to save Hermione's life at the quidditch cup. Therefore, while I do NOT write him having immediate feelings for her romantically I do believe saying he hates her by this point in the series is inaccurate.

I do have a note in my story saying "I have been going through and editing (now up to chapter 29) and have done my best to fix typos, flesh out grammar etc. I have also added extra scenes and there are new chapters adding up to an additional 17,000 words added since I first began this story. I still have a long way to go so you may see this story come up as updated as I continue to add and edit. If you are looking for a continuation of this story I have started a sequel called "After Being Left Behind" so please feel free to go and check it out. ***NEW CHAPTERS AND SCENES - CHAPTER 24/25 (Request/Salve) and 28/29 (Monster/Dragon)"

So to address them saying: " I was originally assuming you lost will with this story" that is simply not the case. The writing isn't as good past chapter 29...not because I gave up but literally because that's the original unedited portion.

The amount my writing has improved over the course of posting this story is drastic and its thanks to positive feedback, gentle criticisms and general love readers have given motivating me to keep working on my craft. So to each of you a big thanks.

If you would like to read a more edited and polished version it is available on Wattpad under marissawalkerwriter which is where I now write full time. You'll find it searching for the "left behind" tag.

Much love to you all. Cheers

If I will temper my praise a bit, while having shower thoughts I came across two things that would be considered issues of idea and plot and not your ability to convey them before the rewrite.

1 forgive me if I'm wrong for I admit I started skimming the last 20 so chapters, the interactions with Ron and Harry and the damn dreamscape were just uhgh to me. You probably got that from my previous review. But I don't believe how Ron ever learned that curse was addressed.

2 Draco and Hermione should both be piping f****** hot mad at Ron. Draco I get is has resigned himself to death at this point but I think he would be f****** lashing out at Ron condemning him from the moment he got there for killing her blaming him because he's the one that cast the curse. And Hermione she knows Ron cast the curse on him. Aside from that he blatantly refuses to listen to her side while claiming to love her, lacking the one thing all relationships need which is trust. This guy also has the gall to say that he loves her and she should be with him and she doesn't know what she's talking about, there was no romance not really anyway before the very end of deathly hallows. What? We had the bird scene that's it. The sheer pretension of this man in her eyes to kill someone who maybe she's not willing to admit she loves at that point but she cares very much for and then say that he loves her and he did it for her. She might understand on a higher level that he didn't know but at the same time I don't think she should care, again.
Neither of them should be rational about something like this. You've made these two fools so sappy and lovesick I refuse to believe they wouldn't lash out at him. Even if they might know the reasons why "objectively" they "shouldn't" necessarily blame him. Which itself is debatable.

So her thoughts, at least this is consistent with canon, Hermione being a hypocrite. Literally what hermione said, "it's okay that I did that to my parents since they didn't find out" the only thing in question is will you let Hermione get away with it like Rowling.

It's good. Don't forget that

But this story is not point of divergence, it's a full blown AU regarding everything about how Draco interpreted Hermione
And it's certainly not fucking slowburn, what a joke.

I hope you don't let the obliviate go, that needs to come back and be relevant. I'm kinda expecting continued use of it every time they enter a situation he feels it needed. But she also is ever more aware of it, small details Draco doesn't know to conceal and the like. I'm torn on how I'd want her to react. Idk I'm hoping she's understanding, but I'd be furious even if I understood the reason. Then again, again she has done it herself so she might not see it as such a no-no.