The New Zealand Chronicles: Part IV, Chapter Twenty-Six

[stmargarets]

Title: Chapter Twenty-Six: Spectacular Mistakes
Word Count: 5,789
Warnings:unbeta’d

I had the worst time with this chapter! Uh. These realization moments are so hard to write.

Comments

[almond_joyz]

everytime I see that you've updated, I get a happy feeling inside. This just rings so true and the way you have the two of them relating to each other through their insecurities and stubbornness is wonderful...

[stmargarets]

Oh, thanks. I get a happy feeling inside when I update, too! I'll be so glad when I finish this! The next few chapters are the ones I've been building up to, so it's great to finally be there.

[girlspell]

It's always great seeing an update. You're showing a protrayal of a marriage, everything about it as it grows. It takes a lot of patience to pull this off, and you always do.

[stmargarets]

You are so right about patience and this has been a long, slow progression to realistically get H/G to this point. Uh. I never dreamed this story would turn out so long! It's great everyone has stayed for the ride.

[liriop]

This chapter is really amazing! Ginny trying to understand herself and Hary and then telling him, the way they bond over their realizations, it's wonderful. and we have the bonus of news about Ron and Hermione! Very well done. Really good stuff.

[stmargarets]

I'm trying to figure out how not to give too much info away about R/Hr, since H/G is one key to their resolution. I know I'm going to write an epilogue for this story when I finish Ron the Builder, so I can really tie those different storylines together. I'm glad you liked the bonding - it's taken me a while to get them to this point.

[snarkhunter]

If you struggled with this chapter, it truly doesn't show. Ginny's realization is rendered just brilliantly--hesitant and painful and cathartic all at once.

And maybe it's b/c I've been reading your writing for so long, and your Ginny has become a significant part of the Ginny in my own head, but that's very much how I imagine she feels about things, and about herself. Haunted by those mistakes she believes she made, and unconsciously terrified of every giving absolute trust to anyone--even Harry.

This chapter just makes me happy...and is it totally wrong of me to want Niall and Hezzie to work out? It's realistic, somehow, and poignant. Though if Hezzie and Kenny get back...well, I'm okay with that, too. :)

[stmargarets]

That's so true about the absolute trust. It's difficult enough to do that in any relationship - but Ginny got burned bad at a very young age and at some point I would think it would come up. What's great about having canon to rely on is that Harry already knows the story - has already heard how TR treated her. If she had to explain that to anyone else . . . Well, reason #999 for H/G and not D/G or some other horror pairing. :)
Poignant is a good word for Niall and Hezzie. That's all I'm sayin' Thanks for reading! I imagine this is a very busy time for you.

[grandma_kate]

Oh Mary! This story keeps getting better and better. Harry and Ginny are teaching themselves so much about how to live and love together. And it's getting close to its conclusion but we have Ron the Builder to look forward to (and the Epilogue tying both stories together).

Maybe because it took me so long to learn, I love this sentence-
"The older she got, the more she realized that the past didn’t always go away - you carried it around in your heart and mind until it showed itself later in unexpected ways. "

It even might be a clue about Hezzie's choices.

Have a grand Easter.

[stmargarets]

I'm glad this all made sense - it's always helpful to hear back from readers and see what they are picking up on. (You always manage to pick up on a clue here and there) Yes - that sentence has been hard earned - both from the author's and Ginny's PoV. You have a great Easter, too.