It's interesting to see Fleur listening to Hermione's frustrations. She definitely had nobody to talk to in canon.

What the F ck?! People actually wrote all that $hit?! As much as I want Fleur and Harry to get to banging like a couple of bunnies, a realistic and meaningful relationship takes time to build and nurture. To be corny, it's like growing a tree from a seed; time, attention, care and love must be cultivated.

Besides, anticipation is the best aphrodisiac. Period. Just throwing them together kinda kills any character development 98% of the time. And Harems? They're a mixed bag. And 99.9% of them are poorly written smut. It makes me wonder if any of the authors of those stories (most of them, anyway) have ever dated, let alone have had sex before. Read a couple of them and you realize that the only sexual experience they have had is watching porn.

As much as I love OP!Harry, I like it to be believable; exhaustive training, studying, a competent instructor, etc...

Well, maybe not OP!Harry, but Badass!Harry, definitely! And by 'banging like bunnies' I don't mean a graphic, detailed accounting of their act. The only time I feel it's necessary to have a graphic scene like that is if it gives insight to a hidden aspect of their character that wouldn't, or couldn't, be expressed in any other fashion; it progresses the story somehow; a sex-based ritual; or it's a Hellatrix pairing and you're showing her psychosis expressing itself in a different fashion (BDSM, being dominated or punished by the one she 'loves', has defeated her in an all-out battle, (I can give you a 100 reasons or scenarios with her) etc...

Having digressed...a lot, let me get back to what I should have led with: ignore them. The chapters are perfect, as is the character development and progression of Harry and Fleur's blossoming romance. I look forward to you're next chapter and the true beginning of their romance. Until next time. Laters.

Those guest review lol. I'm loving this story so far, though! Your portrayals of Ron and Harry are a breath of fresh air.

Holy shit that guest was salty! Keep up the great writing. Love the flow of relationships and action. Thanks!

As lauded unsigned review yesterday, an update, woo hoo, I yee haw.

Regarding the demented Troll. My first thought checking the update and reviews, the Troll 'reviews' reminded me of whom I refer as "ArseWanker", my childish warp of one of his older long lived usernames,
"Arsene Wenger".

I PM'd Arnie(Currently Arnie1701) yesterday, who despises and combats that particular Troll more than most anyone here. He agreed with my take, that the Troll resembles the sort of really bad original vomit, of a particular OCD prolific plagiarizing nutjob. Very good chance the extremely poor ACTUAL writing, is via ArseWanker's own shit for brains head. Not his usual modus operandi, of the usual regurgitated sort of shit, that the xerox NUT does: copy, paste, rinse & repeat, dozens of old stories, updated daily to hourly, the NUT seeking praise for 'his writing', & on VERY rare occasions (likely in a PM more than the turd posting on his profile or in a stolen copy/paste fic) making looney arguments that nothing is wrong with plagiarizing.
Only truly shitty thing, is the few non sock puppet reviewers, who agree with the nut.

The nut several times, has plagiarized reviews. In one Troll campaign, as usual, on rare occasion of attempting to edit and modify other persons' words, as his, another FAIL...botched editing, smoking gun, the plagiarizer can't even slightly edit stolen text, without fucking up. Xeroxing fully, is about the only 'writing' he's capable of doing that doesn't turn into obvious crap.

Many months ago, I stopped keeping track. At the time he seemed to perhaps need new accounts, as many sleeper old accounts (often created in 2013 I think I recall), getting banned after awakened for an OCD plagiarism rampage (ever so slowly (usually) eventually being banned).

So newer names, I wouldn't know, but past names, often posting dozens of stolen plagiarized stories at once...
upon search of bookmarks in my phone, for "plag":

Plag ArseWanker - DNR DOA banned Beyonce2 1047882 ~3.25.18 as few other ACCTS banned

Plag ArseWanker 10411273 DNR DOA ~3-25-18 suspect sock- Master Eldryn 1 FanFiction

Plag ArseWanker DNR DOA banned 10473509 around 3-25-17 as few of his ACCTS banned 10473509 Rihanna1

Plag ArseWanker suspect sock 10414664 or justanIdiot- Shad0wRider97

Plag ArseWanker4.16.18 8accts 10623970 others 4561340 5695504 4894364 5076880 4673975 10605814 10582901

Plag nutjob id: 7957504 DNR DOA ~3-25-18 i hate Ron Weasleybellerophone dssfg the Santi 2Active 2-21-17 I Hate Ron Weasley joined 6-13-16

Plagiarist nutjob DNR DOA banned 4655634 Christopher Nolan Δ fasfafs (L_ Osiris 1000, Skykes ) R dude 1/Martin Luther King Jr/Luis Suarez/Arsene Wenger/Guptill/Hazel6/Hazel7/Krish2/Jos Butler/Obama_ Trump_MLK_

Plagiarist nutjob DOA DNR 5122605 John Ronald (L stole username Arnold DeVillena, R dude 1/Martin Luther King Jr/Luis Suarez/Arsene Wenger/Guptill/Hazel6/Hazel7/Obama_ trump_MLK_ (DNR u/9094199/Republic1, u/8006262/Donald-John-Trump )etc

My hunch could be wrong. But the tone, and style/theme, of the Troll, wafts certain particular odors that seem consistent with ArseWanker stink.

It took that guy ten hours to read this?
Can see where his anger is coming from, losing the genetic lottery must suck.

Normally don't read ans but those troll reviews are hilarious

Great chapter, looking forward to reading more. I really enjoyed seeing Ron opening up and getting a glimpse of his mind.

That guest reviewer needs help..

Minerva is grammatically wrong: Fleur was using predicate nominative, since the verb is "be".

How is it that Ginny, a fourth year, is in "an elective course for fifth, sixth, and seventh years"?
Re Hermione's 'spit take': LOL

Hahahah are those reviews real? Sounds like one angry, lonely teenager.

As always, another great chapter, I was glad to see When A Veela Cries get an update, so I hoped this would soon as well.

Hopefully another update somewhat soon?

Those reviews wee absolutely insane. I sort of get the feeling that this will end up as Ron/Hermione side pairing which frankly I'm cool with, particularly after the set up. However I also think their relationship like harry and Fleur's needs building both in story time and in character development. So far you are doing a good job on just that.

Shipping is serious business bro.

Its good, shouldn't listen to what others say...as long as your happy with it that's all that matters, good story thanks.

Wow so many negative and hateful comments. And has anyone really not heard of a slow burn story. Some are done poorly. Some like this one are done correctly. Anyway great chapter. Awaiting more.