Oh well, not the house-elves.  Draco does make more sense, if you're going to be all logical about it...

My main suspect?  The elves!  It's got to be the elves, the meddling little buggers.  Only they would be able to replicate his favourite recipes, would know his wines, and would have the connections with the exclusive elfy restaurant.  Well, maybe not.  But that's the theory and I'm sticking to it!

Calling the love to learn and the hope for a carreer "eccentricities" is truly a remarkable stupid thing of Ginny. Good Hermione dumped her brother!And like others, I just love the cat ;-)

This is really neat.

I am absolutely trilled to see this upsdat to this wonderful story, thank you so much!I love this Hermione who have ditched Ron, and her little black kitten, it reminds me of a certain someone:-)) I hope to see more of your story soon, but I will wait for however long it takes:-))

Nice! Very glad that you updated this story. The list of things that Ron was willing to overlook in Hermione made me want to kick him (and Ginny). What Hermione needs, is a man who is interested in her because of those things, not in spite of them. Such men do exist, though they're rare (I had to wait until I was 30 before I found mine). Let's hope Lucius will turn out to be one of them...

I love Lucius and so far i am enjoying this very much.I can see Draco's little hand in this and i suspect Lucius does too!

Oooh!I'm intrigued (sp?)Really enjoying it so far, there are so few HG/LMships about. Without SS added into the mix anyway. Well I really liked reading it and hope for more soon.

Hmmmm- interesting. I am dying to know who set them up - great evening. I wonder what will happen next.

yum, I want dinner with Lucius too, pretty please? I wonder too who is behind it all, maybe one of his house elves ?

Intriguing.  Like Lucius and Hermione, I wonder who set this up.  Looking forward to more.  I do like how the unexpected dinner did allow them to get to know one another a bot more.

That would be a bit surprising, and who would set it up.  Now I have to go back and re-read to get my suspicions in line. 

So happy to see the update, and soooooo curious to who have arranged for their dinner:-) Update again soon!!!

Ooooh now who is behind all of this one wonders.

Somehow the 2 first chapters escaped me! I love this! Pls update soon!!Sorry, but I cannot let you keep Lucius just like that ... Shall we draw lots? Or take turns??

Well this certainly is interesting. I love stories about Lucius, i find them so rare.

Oooh, intriguing. You had me fooled with the flower to Hermione. Now I'm wondering who the mysterious matchmaker is and how each party is going to react when they realize they were tricked. I love the mystery in this one and can't wait to read the next chapter.

Lovely start. :D Of course, I love a good LM/HG fic and this looks like it will be one. For the life of me, I still cannot understand why JKR thinks Ron and Hermione belong together. Their personalities are worse than oil and water. Now on to the next chapter.

somebody is playing matchmaker...

Mmmm.. charming Lucius, dancing, who wouldn't consider it?

OOoo the dream! nice. And those letters. Who sent them? And why? They were beautifully written and really seductive... Intriguing chapter.

OMG who sent the letters???

It's either someone who actually thinks they would be good together, but that would be too easy.

Obviously Rita Skeeter is still writing gossip for the paper (the beetle) so it could be her in hopes of creating a scoop for herself.

Or it could be someone trying to trick them or set them up as revenge. I'd say Ron, but he wouldn't be that sophisticated. But perhaps another Weasley? It feels like a woman's doing, so perhaps Molly and Ginny together?

And that same daydream they're having? There's something about the paper the letters are written on. Perhaps they're treated with some sort of potion or charmed somehow.

Also the cat sort of reminds me of Severus. :)

oo now things are starting to get intruiging.. I wonder who is setting them up?

Oh! Oh I like this!

It sounds like Ron and Hermione getting engaged was primarily something they did because it was expected of them. Like they hadn't even considered that nobody was forcing them to. Of course Hermione says that Ron loves her, but then his almost reluctance to go and talk to her when George tells him and the comment that 'she's almost a bloke, never making a fuss' makes me think that maybe he does love her, but not really in the right way. You know?

Also his answering Lucius' asking her to dance for her. At first I thought he just didn't expect her to want to dance with him or all people, but then I started thinking about the above and realised that maybe he didn't expect her to want to dance with him because 'she's almost like a bloke' and therefore in his eyes not the slightest bit interested in dancing with anyone because he isn't. Did all this even make sense or am I over-interpreting the text? (I am, aren't I? A lot or just a little bit?)

Lucius. I can't figure out if it's just the Lucius-y polite distanceness or if I suspect he's up to something. For some reason I started wondering exactly what Narcissa died of...

I'm looking forward to the next bit.

I love this beginning, and look forward to reading more!