this is so good...for every diehard ginny fan and hinny shipper this is a gem , what i love about this fic is that how you perfectly protrayed the characters without any unrealistic scenes...as i am not a AU fan, this is fantastic

"I'm going to be his family, if I have one, he should have one too."

God…

I'm fighting back tears over here.

I can totally imagine five year-old Ginny saying that, and it's both so beautiful and heart wrenching.

Amazing! One of my most favourite fics
I have to confess that I saw a lot of similar fics (I mean like that story harry\ginny and whatsoever) and its the best one in its own type I think.
Rereading this after all that time (always), I, ngl, saw some things that I dont really like, for example that kind of odd and from nowhere references to the J.K. and books, but Im not complaing (damn, then what am I doing here now?)
I think I wanted to write something else here, but unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I forgot about it, so...
hello from Ukraine by the way)

This was wonderful! Read it on AO3 and came over here for the last few chapters! Love you writing, thanks for sharing! You made Ginny, and also Neville and the other members of the DA, really shine as characters.

I don't think the author will read this (after all that years) Fanfic is really not bad, I like something like this behind the scenes. this is my favorite couple. In some moments (for example, Ginny's 6th year or her meeting with Harry at night near the Burrow), everything looks very exaggerated and unrealistic. Yes, I didn't really like it, but there are other moments in contrast - for example, in the dormitory when Ginny sat next to Harry's chair (before they started dating). It was really interesting, and I want to re-read such moments (which I will do now). Anyway, thank you.

this story was so worth the entire night of sleep I lost

wow... that was absolutely phenomenal

i cried too much with this!

OMG THIS IS BRILLIANTT

LUVVV THISSSS
IT MADE ME CRY SO MUCH

THE EMOTIONS YOU PORTRAY ARE SO CLEAR

A great novel

Absolutely loved it! Your writing is incredible!

Amazing story, great perspective

It's difficult to come up with an original Harry Potter story and you did so magnificently. It was truly enjoyable. Very well done!

I loved the interaction between Bill and Ginny. It reminds me of my relationship with my big brother-tough as nails on the outside and an over protective marshmallow when it came to all five of his little sisters.

I also loved that Ginny and Harry are talking and becoming friendly with each other much earlier than they did in the books.

I found this (and started reading this) after recently investigating the SIYE site, but recognised the title from other people's favourite stories on this site, so finished reading it here (I find this site easier to read on my tablet). I think I'd not read it earlier due to its length and being worried about getting too involved and not being able to put it down - and therefore too many late nights...

How right I was to worry! It's taken me a week or so to get through (I tried to discipline myself, and I've also been busy with other things), but I'm glad I made the effort and it's up there among my most favourite of the longer stories I've read. A few things did surprise me, especially the actions of the DA which got Ginny sent home (I got the impression they'd not thought properly about what would happen after they'd captured the Carrows and Snape - but that's quite realistic, and different from other people's ideas of Ginny being 16 going on 36!), and also how Harry and Ginny reunited after the Battle. I thought the almost-telepathic connection between them was a nice touch - Ginny sensing Harry's death, as well as his thoughts (the memory of the birthday kiss) just before that.

In my reviews, I'm not very good at listing all the things I like about a story, but there were many! But I do like to give constructive criticism, which I hope is not taken in a negative way... As others have said, there are an awful lot of spelling errors and incorrectly-used words, some of which appear over an over again, including using things like "there" or "they're" when you mean "their". "Don't'" (with an apostrophe after the "t") appears many times (there should be only one apostrophe, replacing the omitted letter in "do not"), and "rogue" seems always to be spelled "rouge" (which of course means red). I think there also might have been some autocorrect incidents. There are also odd missing words in quite a few places. Just needs some proof-reading, though.

You begin quite a few chapters by jumping ahead a little, and then you go back and describe the events leading up to that scene - for example, starting by describing Ginny's horror at seeing Harry lying dead and then spending much of the chapter telling the story of the hours leading up to that point. While I think this is an excellent writing style, the way it appears confused me as it was not obvious at first that the narrative had gone back in time (or even exactly where the break was). Something needs adding to make that clearer, and I wonder if an ellipsis (…) might be all that is needed...

There are also other points in the story where there is a sudden change of scene which is not obvious to readers. Other writers insert a line characters (non-letters, HGHGHGHGHG, or similar) to mark a change of scene if it's not obvious. This would, I think, aid the clarity, and is something that is done in published books.

So, if you're reviewing and editing this story, you might like to think about these - but, even so, it's a great story and I congratulate you. I'd love to read more longer stories from you if they're as good as this.