Well I can't believe you were able to believably change Draco to make him able to love Harry and Harry able to love him but you did, rather nicely too.
What a amazing story I love how believable you write Harry and Draco coming together.
I agree with this part...It would have been a grand gesture, perhaps, the grandest, if Draco had been able to bring himself to kiss Harry on the lips. Then there would have been more photographs of them on the front page than there already were, and the reporters, like Skeeter, could have written about how love conquered all, even the stubborn blood prejudice that people like Draco’s parents had felt against Muggleborns.
But Draco wasn’t always a grand person. It was taking a lot of courage for him to stand here, holding Harry’s hands under all that public scrutiny, and not run away.
That he held his hand and kissed him at all instead of running away was nothing short of a miricle.
I also melted at the I'm in love statement ...what a touching and lovely story.
Draco an Harry aren't the only ones in love right now, because I definitely share that feeling of "unbounded admiration and devotion" for you, this story and this universe in general. So much love.
I will admit, in the first few chapters, I was rather wary of how the story would progress as I could neither relate nor sympathise with Draco in his racist (and scarily canon!) incarnation at all. However, I knew that if anyone could pull a truly satisfying ending for this story out of a hat, it would be you - and I was right!
You are so, so talented and not just in your descriptions but in the ways you make your characters grow, and change, and come alive in my screen. Please never leave fandom! *Clings*
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I agree with this part...It would have been a grand gesture, perhaps, the grandest, if Draco had been able to bring himself to kiss Harry on the lips. Then there would have been more photographs of them on the front page than there already were, and the reporters, like Skeeter, could have written about how love conquered all, even the stubborn blood prejudice that people like Draco’s parents had felt against Muggleborns.
But Draco wasn’t always a grand person. It was taking a lot of courage for him to stand here, holding Harry’s hands under all that public scrutiny, and not run away.
That he held his hand and kissed him at all instead of running away was nothing short of a miricle.
I also melted at the I'm in love statement ...what a touching and lovely story.
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Yes, Draco has a lot of courage in this particular time and place- maybe not so much later. But this is the moment when he really needed it.
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I will admit, in the first few chapters, I was rather wary of how the story would progress as I could neither relate nor sympathise with Draco in his racist (and scarily canon!) incarnation at all. However, I knew that if anyone could pull a truly satisfying ending for this story out of a hat, it would be you - and I was right!
You are so, so talented and not just in your descriptions but in the ways you make your characters grow, and change, and come alive in my screen. Please never leave fandom! *Clings*
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I started writing Draco and thought, "Yikes." Glad you thought it worked. Yeah, he was a nasty little shit, but he can change his mind.
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