Feno3000 posted a comment on Thursday 8th September 2011 7:57pm

Whow... what a story. At times kind of weird, at times kind of funny but always really close to the "book personas"... except for the final small "Harmony" twist. I mean, it's so typical... Harry just doing his "buddy" thing without recognizing that a girl(friend) would want to hear other things than just the plain and simple truth like a BOY would see it or like he could always talk about with his classmates... Ginny getting all excited, possessive and finally bitchy about the most innocent things that only in the mind of an already made and sealed "Mrs Potter" could be anything close to embarrassing, humiliating or endangering her precious relationship. And Ron putting everything including his feet into his mouth and never seeing anything wrong with it...
And then there were the words of doom and the inaudible "Dun Dun DUNNNN" sounded over britain when he finally started to doubt that she was in love with.... HIM but rather just his reputation or an imaginary enhightened vision of him he never would think himself as being close to. Maybe after that you went on a little bit too fast to bring the relationship to Hermione to another level but from the point of the letters it was as good as inevitable. Maybe - if i think about it - already as early as the second or third time she forced Harry to excuse to not have included her in the "Mission"....

Well written, well played and most of the time a sheer pleasure to read. Maybe the emotional level of distress and annoyance was even better played and described than in canon but that might be just an impression of the brevity of description here compared to some of the rather tedious and boring chapters of TDH...


Regarding your question... it would depend if she did manage in the meantime to find a retrospective viewpoint on her own actions and feelings. The book-Ginny almost certainly would not have been able to step back and let another person have harry, regardless if that would have made him (more) happy than herself. But then the Book Ginny did not get some of the more disturbing and clearly warning of these letters so there was no real reason for her to find another perspective. We don't really know how she reacted after Harry declared he was going with Hermione so we cannot truly know how much she changed during the experience, but there are at least some venues that let it seem possible that she could find it in herself to change into a person that WOULD accept Hermiones offer. Just for the Harry she never accepted or knew before they started writing these letters.

So i'd be tempted to say 85% furious and estranged and only 1/6 chance of coming around the bend and making up with her two former best friends...

Feno3000 posted a comment on Thursday 8th September 2011 7:02pm

Errr okay.... i'm not very experienced in this things and surely never would count as anything distinctely like a "female whisperer" (as should be outright proven by this crude and unfitting analogy :D) but does this boy WANT to get Ginny running after him, hating his very guts and crying for his blood? This is like the ultimate 101 on "what to avoid when conversating with your (former/secret/hidden) girlfriend"....

In other words as a story it's ingenious!!! :D

Ossindie posted a comment on Wednesday 1st June 2011 3:32am

To be honest, if I imagine myself in Ginny's situation, I don't think I could pull it off. So I believe that she would show up for the wedding, but it would be too hard on her to be the maid of honour, when what she really wants is to be the bride. It's difficult to come to terms with such a thing, especially considering that she's been expecting to be in Hermione's place her whole life.

That aside, I loved this story, or rather, snippet of a story. I would have liked to see her replies to both Harry and Hermione, but we can't always get what we want, can we? All in all, I quite liked this.

Zamia posted a comment on Sunday 22nd May 2011 4:33am

Excellent yarn. As you said, Harry & Hermiones' ability to nonverbally communicate with each other is why Hermione kept in touch with Ginny. Ginny would probably lose touch with them and go chasing any available bloke at Hogwarts. Cheers.
Z

Patches posted a comment on Wednesday 18th May 2011 1:34am

I'm glad that Hermione reached out to Ginny. It is unlikely that Ginny could bring herself to stand up for Hermione at her wedding while she wished to take her place by the groom. Stranger thing have happened but I kind of doubt she could pull this off. It would be great if she could though. Thanks for writing. I really enjoyed this little collection of letters. pms

Glacialis1 posted a comment on Monday 16th May 2011 11:14pm

Estranged for sure

PhoenixAnkaa posted a comment on Monday 16th May 2011 6:41pm

I have to say I have enjoyed your writing for a while now and find you to be an excellent addition to this site. I really enjoyed only reading Harry/Hermione's side of the letters and being left to infer Ginny's responses on my own. It made for a refreshing change to the typical story.

As to Ginny's response to the wedding invitation I would hope that she would accept the gesture in which it was made and agree to be Hermione's maid of honor. Unfortunately, as much as I do like Ginny as a character, if we kept her to just canon Ginny I don't know if she could look past the heartbreak and watch "her" Harry marry someone else, especially Hermione.

PA

Riegert8 posted a comment on Monday 16th May 2011 5:36pm

I would think from Canon that Ginny might forgive them in time, But going by your story it's be hard to tell what she would do. We never seen one thing she wrote Harry, we have go by his reply and to me that not good enough.

Wolfric posted a comment on Monday 16th May 2011 1:49pm

Not exactly nineteen years later. Good chapter. Thanks for writing. W.

00_Knight posted a comment on Monday 16th May 2011 12:15pm

Estranged, though that probably comes from more about reading H/Hr fics where Ginny is a total bitch. But probably true from a "Cannon Ginny" because she just seems like an underdeveloped "mini" Molly.

Either way an excellent read.

ThadiusZho posted a comment on Monday 16th May 2011 10:00am

In my opinion, Ginny would say yes. I believe she can learn to cut her losses and move forward.

TZ

Riegert8 posted a comment on Sunday 15th May 2011 7:22pm

Good chapter

Wolfric posted a comment on Sunday 15th May 2011 5:04pm

I have been enjoying the story. Are we going to have a 19 years later letter?Thanks for writing. W.

Wolfric posted a comment on Sunday 15th May 2011 4:14pm

Seems like a good start. I usually enjoy "letter" stories. Thanks for writing. W.

marcelhm posted a comment on Sunday 15th May 2011 12:10pm

well I'm no good at writing well thought out critiques so I'll just give you my impressions.

Obvious part first, you started out being quite detailed in your letters since they where so frequent while the last half year was only 2 which didn't make the story too comprehensive. (luckily I have a big imagination :P)

On the other hand especially for a first try I can do nothing else but compliment you. especially the start was a great read, and I loved the short letters like for instance letter 14 which added more emotion than some of the really long ones funnily enough :)

take care

Patches posted a comment on Saturday 14th May 2011 4:18pm

This is a good time for Hermione to come clean to Ginny. I saw the handwriting on the was back when Harry told Ginny how much he needed Hermione because she was so smart and helped so much in the search for the horcruxes. I look forward to more of this story. pms

Riegert8 posted a comment on Tuesday 10th May 2011 9:22pm

Good chapter

Ian Drimes posted a comment on Monday 9th May 2011 1:41pm

Well writen story. I like that you only get one side of it and I get to make up all the nasty stuff Gin was saying about Hr.

Riegert8 posted a comment on Monday 9th May 2011 12:38am

This is an Interesting story, but to me it seem half the story is missing. We can read what Harry write Ginny, but I would like to read what Ginny write to Harry. It would give a better idea what is going on, but all I see half the story.

Patches posted a comment on Sunday 8th May 2011 12:56pm

Well, Ron and Hermione are doing as well as can be expected. Ginny is jealous of course because Harry is with Hermione (as a friend) but Ginny can't be there herself. That is understandable but Ginny needs to trust Harry. The fact that the Grangers thought so much more about Harry is understandable too. Harry at least understands a lot more about the muggle world and that would help him to have a better conversation with them. It is too bad that they thought Hermione had made a great choice and then found out that Ron was the boyfriend was probably disappointing to them. Ron's lack of table manners would deffinitely not endear him to the Grangers. He really needs to learn how to eat like a gentleman. I like this story but I think I see a Harry/Hermione story developing here. Thanks for writing. I look forward to more of this story. pms