Hi,

Sure, I have read many of the SS/HGs, and I also like quite many. However, if the story follows an unusual line, Hermione easily gets OOC, like being very sportive ...

I admit I laughed a lot when the marriage law stories got blown with HBP--and this is in a way my take of it.

Ginny has several good, but VERY different points to connect with Severus. Certainly not academic books :-)

At times my Ginny became too Hermionish, but I try my best. When you notice that, please tell me.

BTW their ship will soon have a deep crisis--can't be helped.

Thanks for your encouraging words, they mean a lot to me,

Bettina

Hi,

I'm glad you like it and I wish to thank you for leaving me a review. Feedback always encourages me greatly!

Bettina 

Hello,

 yep, that's the book  -->  hole in one!

My muse - lol - it isn't that what's keeping me from posting quicker, it is the darn trouble with commas and other 'traffic signs' of the English language.  

Thank you for your review -- it makes my day.

Bettina 

Hi,

yep, Oliver Twist. Thanks a lot for your review,

Bettina 

Hi

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BINGO!!  I don't know any other(!) such story at all   :-)  Would you agree that Severus Snape has it in his shelf?  

Thank you so much for your encouraging words,

Bettina 

Hi Cerydden,

you won't get a second guess, cause you don't need it!! 

Yes, there shall be a happy end but you'll have to wait quite a bit, cause the Death Eaters have other plans.  Not so much with our couple here, but with the war.

SS/HG fans are aplenty, and I enjoy those stories greatly, if then they keep their characters in canon. 

I try hard to make Ginny not like Hermione. I search for other points of resonance with Severus. Hope I can convince you.    

Thanks for your encouraging words,

Bettina 

Hi,

thank you for your encouraging words!

Sorry that I'm answering so late, I was very busy with setting commas in ch4 .-) It should be up soon.

Bettina

Hi,

so glad that you like the story and even take your time to leave me a message.

Thank you for your encouragement--it feels good!

Bettina

Hi,

so glad that you like the story and even take your time to leave me a message.

I will do my best to convince you that Severus and Ginny have enough in common and a lot  to give to each other. Let's see how I manage?

At times, I'm struggling with the grammar rules TPP insists on, which slows the story down, but I can say that it is scetched to the end. Provided I don't overtax my betas, this story will finish.

Thank you for your encouragement--it feels good!

Hi,

I'm myself also intrigued by several SS/HG ships--not all though, obviously. I was so very amused that the marriage law wasn't working anymore that I kinda invented a new one. 

I'm most carefully crafting Ginny to NOT being similar to Hermione, like not bookish, not bushy, but sportive and acting impulsively, drawing strength from her big family. The resonance with Severus must stem from elsewhere than pure intellect and I hope it will show. They do have several very similar experiences that Hermione doesn't have.

I also like the inverted challenge that here it is Severus who knows Muggles while 'she' does not.

If ten chapters in, you still think one could replace Ginny with Hermione and it would work smoothly, then I've failed  .-) So please warn me in that case.

Thank you so much for this review, it always encourages me to read one.

Bettina

At least in the near future, Maud is going to face more difficulties.The Stimufidelius remains volatile until the fourth new moon after the wedding, which is Sat 28th March. Chapter 25 is placed in the first week of March.  I should add an A/N about this, I suppose. This is the trouble with slowly proceeding stories.  Thank you so much for your review and the shiny stars!

That is the trick. I remembered 4 weeks but it was 4 months. Thanks for the clarification.

Hi,

so glad that you like the story and even take your time to leave me a message.

Well Snape does trust Draco since he has bound him to obey, but Ginny cannot know that. She has only bad choices at this moment. 

At times, I'm struggling with the grammar rules, TPP insists on, which slows the story down, but I can say that it is scetched to the end. Provided I don't overtax my betas, this story will finish.

Thank you for your encouragement--it feels good!

Thanks so much for your words and stars.Not sure Albert deserved death. After all, the deed was Marcus'.

She's just a Muggle, but she has been wondering about the many oddities concerning Ginny. The one occasion she saw magic before this horror was after Ginny fell off the bike, and it has been obliviated. Thanks for your review!

Thanks sunny! Yes, I loved developing all these details. Ginny would have other adjectives at hand (in mouth) though... 

Reviews and stars are such a reward, thank you! 

Bonjour! Odd as this life is, Ginny makes quite an effort to perservere and live it, you're right. But with her newfound friend Obliviated? The damn charm/curse of Stimufidelity will terminate vs the end of March.Thanks for your review!

Thank you! Such lovely, shiny stars!

Thanks for your kind review and the lovely stars.Yes, she will need these skills, Occlumency and Legilimency. They're crucial in the end.But I loved the rest of the magical world (besides the fight against LV) so much that I have inserted school life as well as a set of crackling fight before we get there.

thanks

Ginny was puking at Hermione's horrible destiny if she had ended in the claws of Death Eaters & Voldemort.Honestly, I had expected reviewers to point out that there was a flaw in my story in the first four chapters -- there was not!! But I didn't elaborate the difference between the two girls.It is worth mentioning, and this just seems a time when Ginny would wonder.This will wait till Ginny tells H in person... loooong to go.    :-) Draco himself found out how to possibly get Ginny past her current problem with Severus. Clearly, this needs to be explained sooner, esp since Severus heard part of it. These 2 are not related.And, just in case:  no, Ginny's contraceptives did not fail--Snape is brewing them!Thanks for your review!

ok... so what was hermione's destiny going to be??? i guess the destinies chanmged cause ginny's a pureblood whereas hermione's a mudblood.... and how did ginny understand hermione's destiny without draco elaborating????u like keeping suspenses too much

Yes, Hermione being a Mudblood is a key difference.Ginny saw right through Draco --> he wasn't Occluding his mind well enough. This isn't a key to the plot though.

I fully agree! Severus had a fallback when he tried too hard, poor chap.Draco had a solution, but Ginny didn't accept it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

And Ginny? How hard is this for her?Thanks for your kind review!

Do I detect a hint of reproach? I was just saying that he can't move, or communicate with anyone. He's trapped in his mind: THAT's awful. Especially for someone like him.

Yes, being trapped in his mind IS awful for Severus. Would be for everyone, I agree.   > Especially for someone like him.I disagree here. Snape is never too communicative. Assuming he trusted that he will eventually gain control over his body (V needs him...), he might have enjoyed his peace and developed a theory on some tricky potions in such a time -- if this had happened under different circumstances. So, I believe it is not more-than-average-hard on  Severus Snape. It is much harder on people who define themselves through their communication with others. Ginny is busy 24/7 and doesn't receive any feedback on her actions. This must be terrible for someone who is used to being part of a crowd. She isn't an educated mediwitch, she's guessing from her life experience of mere 16 years. She KNOWS it cannot be perfect, but she doesn't know how Severus will judge her effort. She deserves our sympathy, too, but reviewers didn't give her as much thought as they spent on Severus. So, if you will, yes, a hint of reproach  :-))I love receiving reviews, so no reproach at all here.

Wow, you're quick today! Thank you for a wonderful review.

Hi, i know but this story is heavily beta:d so that you can read it smoothly. Sorry, but chapters are slow in coming. Maybe tomorrow.