Thank you so much.

Thank you very much.  I'm glad you enjoyed it.

LOL!!  I did make a promise in my bio that I would answer every review... no matter how many times you read.  No, really, I had fun revisiting this story.  It was my first baby and I will always cherish it.

And, there it is!!!  I knew you'd get there.  That's okay.  I promise that I don't mind the extra reviews.

I love writing her.  We don't get enough of her in canon, so that leaves room for playing with her character more.

Lucious, to me, is the weakest link.  I actually like Lucius.  I believe that his love for his son was the strongest part about him aside from his hunger for power.  But, Lucius was also quite mad here.  I think that anyone who looks at the world through rose colored glasses has the chance to lose their marbles like he did.  Besides, it's never the ones you expect, is it?

Funny that you would use those exact words when the title of my story is Broken.  Snape is the strongest character in HP.  Sure, he was weak when he took the Dark Mark, but it took a lot of strength to turn from the Death Eaters and become a spy.

I honestly believe that I DH had a post script for Petunia, we would find that she is quite close to the woman that I wrote.  I know she had to have regrets.  I think that her love for her sister just turned into jealousy and she never had the chance to make things right with Lily.  I also think that shew viewed Harry as all of the mistakes that she'd made and all the regrets that she had.  That made her pain more palpable in my eyes.

I know.  I've gone back and read this and cringe a little.  It was necessary at the time, though.  Nobody was to know what she'd been through.  She didn't really know herself because Lucius took her memories and she knows that Draco is a pro and he's now a friend.

Ron will always be one of my favorite characters.  He reminds me so much of my older brother.  He's a little hot-headed, but his heart is in the right place.  I think he was very clever, even in canon.  I just don't think he really ever got the chance.  He's kind of the unassuming hero, you know.

There are so many fanfic authors out there that have cleverer ways of writing Sev.  But, again, he is so much like someone that I know... I just write what I know about my friend and voila... MY Snape is born.

I love him.  I need to write another hg/dm story.

I wrote this about the time that I was easing into my hg/ss stage, so I needed to take it slow and make him a friend in this fic before they got naked in another!!!

You're so crazy.  I know you've read this.  However, I appreciate your second glance.  I hope you still like it after all this time.  Remember that tis was my first one.

I'm a lover... not a fighter.  I don't know how to write really great war scenes.  It needed to be clean.  But then again, this story was never about Harry and Voldy.  It's always been Draco and Hermione.  I just love Harry so much that I had to get him in there.

Thanks

I think he finally got some nerve in DH.  But, Harry had to grow up at some point.  Right?  Right?

I have gotten some fantastic reviews for this little fic.  I believe this one is the nicest one yet.  Thank you so very much!!~*potterbrat*~

First of all, thank you so much for the review.  I'm glad you enjoyed it.  As for your question:  This was my first story, and as I was writing, I had the whole thing playing out in my head, but it got lost in translation somewhere between my brain and my fingertips.  I wanted to convey that even though they'd been there for a little while, they haven't seen a whole lot of Ginny, because they were in another part of the house.  I view it as being a rather large place.  But, alas, it come out exactly as I'd hoped.  Thanks again!~*potterbrat*~

Okay :)  Makes sense.  Great job for a first story!

Thank you so much. I'm a sucker for happy endings!
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Oh, thank you very much.  Being my first fan-fic, Broken has a very special place in my heart.  I've become rather attached to it, so when I get reviews from people who love it as well, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy... LOL!~potterbrat~

Thank you!!  I wanted Draco and Severus to keep their Slytherin ways even though they were surrounded by Gryffindors.  Bless them.  Sev is such a complicated character because there are so many facets to him.  Even after DH, I feel like there's so much more to him that we don't know.  I think JKR did that on purpose.  It also makes him so much fun to write, because we can mould him into what we think he should be.  I just love him.  Thanks again!!~potterbrat~

I just want everyone to live in harmony... la lala la la!!!

Oh, I'm so glad you're reading Broken.  This was my first fanfic and it's my baby.  I was pleased with the turnout and the reviews were so kind.  I won't take away your cookies for waiting until ch. 23 to review.

Thank you so much.  I love writing Ron.  He's so goofy and so much fun to write.  I wanted to relate his unrequited love for Hermione somehow without taking away from his love for Pansy.  So I gave him a protective edge.  There is no way he would ever GIVE her to anyone. 

I totally agree.  And you did a great job of considering what "muggle" traditions wouldn't be a part of a wizarding ceremony--and how they would look at those, i.e., this example of Ron not "giving" her to anyone.  And that is also why I HATE Ron and Hermione being together in JKR's books...he definitely is a great protector, but hard to see him as her equal or her lover.  Ron and Pansy, though...I like that match the more I think about it!

Thank you.  Now, if you jot on over to my WIP which is called Saving Grace, you might see a different side of Ron.  Get a tissue.