Well...first the bad...unless the Ron and Hermione fight was a set-up then you missed something key in OotP...they've cooled the bickering down...and Ron no longer goes after S.P.E.W. and Hermione no longer taunts him about Krum. After the kiss and the perfume...the two no longer go after the jugular like that.

Now the good...granted...I was leary of reading anything else by you after seeing what you've done in Adaptations...but I think that you handled both Harry and Ginny's character marvelously in this one. You didn't have Ginny leading poor clueless Harry around by the nose and you didn't have Harry and absolute fumbling moron like many like to portray. You didn't make Ginny into this in your face sex-kitten and you didn't make Harry a complete and total moody prat. In essense it seems you took what JK gave us and extrapolated to where they would be a few months later. I love good characterization and in this story at least you have it.

The events in the story were humorous and believable with Ginny shopping in the Lingerie store, nailing Malfoy and his goons, the two just talking and being silly together, the pouring of souls at the Shrieking Shack, the way they both didn't want things to end. Just wonderfully well done.

I have to admit after Adaptations I had vowed I would never read another story by you...but I'm glad I relented...I'll never read Adaptations...I just think you are going places there that the characters would never go and have seriously missed the characterization...but I will be open to giving future stories by you a chance based on this one and Fairy Tale Ending.

What a lovely twist!  That was so great I never would have thought for this story you would have made Hermione and Ron get Harry and Ginny together.  I it was just enought fluff to not make me puke.....actually no amount of fluff could make me puke.  Anyway...I'm going to go see if you wrote anyother stories...keep up the brilliant writing!

Lady Ginny

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I absolutely LOVED this!!!I do hope there will be more.. pleeeaaasseeeee? But you didn't write the end, so  maybe I could hope?I liked everything,. from the date to the kiss (which, by the way, was my favorite part)

As Ginny's arms moved from pressing on Harry's chest to wrapping themselves around his neck, Ron and Hermione looked at each other, grinned, and exchanged a very enthusiastic high five.

 Absolutely brilliant!

~Maria~

Hooray!!  Thank you for starting my day on such a high note! I don't know who said you couldn't do fluff, but they were obviuously mistaken.

Loved Ginny telling Harry that it WAS a date.  That was so funny!  Their time was sweet and fun and seemed so charmingly right.  Thanks for sharing.

Hooray!!  Thank you for starting my day on such a high note! I don't know who said you couldn't do fluff, but they were obviuously mistaken.

Loved Ginny telling Harry that it WAS a date.  That was so funny!  Their time was sweet and fun and seemed so charmingly right.  Thanks for sharing.

I was so excited when I saw you had submitted a new story!  As one of the authors I keep a look-out for you delivered a story that is both entertaining and heart-wrenching at the same time.  Harry's lack of self-esteme when in comes to girls was so close to canon that JKR herself could have written his lines; your Ginny was everything I love about her, too.  Basically, I don’t know which part I liked best...the near-food fight in The Three Broomsticks or Ron and Hermione’s reaction to the Harry/Ginny argument and subsequent kiss.

I  hope you don't wait too long to post again.

Sincerely,

Arnel

I'm glad you liked it.  And I am hard at work on Part 18 of Adaptations.  I hope I bought myself enough goodwill with this fluffy little thing to get you folks to read another tough couple of chapters for Ginny there.  What doesn't kill her will ultimately make her stronger.

BJH

Tricked him???  Nah, she just made the most of the opportunity he afforded her.  Although that little stumble thing to get to lace her arm in his was nicely done, wasn't it?  The little minx.

That was the point: to surprise the reader at the end as much as Harry was.

Thanks for reading.

Thanks, I'm glad you noticed that.  I wanted Harry to choose to act normally rather than always hoping to be seen as normal.  If he wants to be thought of as normal he has to choose to act that way, right?  Let's just hope that together with Ginny, he can make the twins, as well as Sirius and his Dad, proud.

BJH

Thank you.  I am sorry but this is a one-shot story.  I'll leave Ron and Hermione to sort out their own issues.

Well, maybe not exactly a one-shot, I am in the middle, so to speak, of a smutty little sequel called 'First Times' but it DEFINITELY isn't suitable for PS.

BJH

That was wonderful!  I loved Harry coming up with the need for a good night kiss...

Will you continue it?  The new couple still needs to get Hermonie and Ron together and pull some pranks.

Thanks, it may take him a bit to catch on, and catch up, but when he finally gets up to speed he's as good as anybody.

BJH

Really?  I'll have to think about that.  I was hoping, from Ginny's reaction when Harry suggested they go to Hogsmeade together and her 'stumble' as they walked there, that the reader would understand that Ginny thought this was a date from the asking.

Maybe Solly is right, I do tend to be a bit too subtle.

Thanks for reading and the review.

BJH