Sweet! Absolutely adorable! I would have loved to have seen Rosie as a flower girl or something though, she was so sweet! And very believable too; I find it difficult to write young children, and you did it exceedingly well. Lily and James were great too; very much themselves, but not overly cliched. Lovely!

Hi! Thought I'd come read your version of events and see how different they were from mine.
To start, I really liked it! I think you caught Tonks' character really well, though I don't think she would've had more than a fleeting thought about wanting to join Remus. However, you made it believable.
I also really liked your Bellatrix, and I think it was a nice touch to have Dolohov talking to Bella and that's how Tonks ended up fighting her. Having them gang up on her was good too; I never really thought of that, but it makes sense, and you wrote it very well.
I do think Tonks and Remus had a tad bit too much time together; just b/c it was a battle and I can't see her having time to do anything but run around trying not to get killed while he's fighting. But secretly, I was still pleased they got that final little scene together. If beloved characters have to die, they should be able to say good-bye.
They way you had Remus die was believable too; the problem with wizard deaths is that a lot of times, it's AK, and they're dead without getting to have a death scene. Having Remus get Sectumsepra'd and then Crucio'ed so that it opened worked really well, and was, quite frankly, a stroke of genius.
I love Tonks' and Bella's battle of wits too; very in character for both of them, and incredibly well done. An excellent job, look forward to reading your other stuff.

Author's Response: Wow, what an excellent review! Tonks\' thoughts about were difficult to write; that may be why you think they\'re just fleeting. But thank you for saying it was believable. For this entire story, I just wrote as I went. None of it was planned. I started with the quote, and then I got an idea and wrote it. Then I got another idea etc. I did know from the start that Remus would have a better death than just AK, though. Everything else was spur of the moment. Thanks for the wonderful review! :D

You did a fantastic job with this; I really like the concept. I think, from the little we saw of him in DH, you managed to capture Albus' character perfectly. His reason for being in the Headmaster's office was very funny, particularly since I can see his father doing the same kind of thing.
Having him talk to the portraits was a brilliant idea, and I'm really glad he got to talk to both of them. I agree with you; I want a reconcilliation between Harry and Snape! And I think you caught it very well. Snape was his usual snarky self, but luckily, didn't get to say much, as Albus immediately started hero-worshiping him. His reaction was great; I can totally see him doing that.
The conversation between the two portraits was a perfect way to end this. Wonderful!

This is a really great beginning to what looks like a fantastic story. I'm always looking for good Andromeda/Ted stories, and this one is wonderful so far.

I really like that it's in Ted's point of view; most of the stories I've found are from Andromeda's, which is fine, but it's refreshing to find something different. I like that he's messy and clumsy; we see where Tonks gets it! Granted, we knew that already, but you work it into your story very well.

I also like the way that Ted and Andromeda's encounters aren't earth-shattering. You're building their relationship in a believable way, particularly for them to have been in different houses. I can see it being very tentative and slow in the beginning, and you've managed to capture that nicely.

Aveline seems like a good OC. She's believable, and not too quirky, like many are. She also seems like she'll be a good friend for Ted.

I'm very much looking forward to reading the rest of it!

Author's Response: Thank you. Writing this story, I came to love the pairing and they\'ve become my OTP. I plan on taking this relationship very slow. I don\'t imagine that either one are the type that rush into things. I hope you enjoy the rest of the story as much as you did the beginning. :] Be warned, the rest isn\'t all in Ted\'s point of view. It alternates between him and Andromeda.

Oh, this was wonderful! I always wished that Harry and Snape could have a conversation like this...and you wrote it! And very well, I might add. I really like your writing style, and I think you managed to capture Snape's snarkiness while making him gentler at the same time. Harry was done well too; very believable as a mature young man. Excellent, excellent, excellent!

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I try very very hard with Snape, and I\'m very happy to read that you find him believeable. I was trying to show both of them having grown a little, and I am glad you feel I succeeded in making Snape \"Gentler\" and Harry \"Mature.\" This is the most Harry I have ever written and I was a little nervous about how well I did him. Thanks so much for the review!

This was very cute, and fits beautifully with your other story, "Our Little Secret." I especially love the last line, "He would carve Voldemort." I think it fits with the idea that Scorpius isn't afraid to be the best, even if it means doing something that might offend people. I have a small crush on him, actually. He's awesome!

On a side note, I noticed one of your other stories is called "Dealing With Dragons". I haven't read it, as I just can't stomach the idea of Draco and Ginny together (though I'm sure you write them beautifully!). Anyway, that's also the title of a book by Patricia C. Wrede, which I think you'd enjoy immensely, if you haven't read it already.

Author's Response:

Yay for you having a crush on Scorpius! He's very worthy, :D.

In the Dealing with Dragons author note I say I got the title from the first book in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, but I actually used it before, in A Tale of Two Matchmakers, the D/G story "Dragons" follows. I think you'd like my Draco/Ginny (The stories were written pre-HBP, so they're AU, what they could have been instead of what they became in canon) but since I have pairings I don't read, I understand, and I went and cut this Dealing with Dragons quote from the last chapter of Matchmakers. ;)

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Draco and Charlie returned while she was reading a book in the lounge. Her brother had a wide assortment of dragon-related books, from the practical From Egg to Inferno, A Dragon Keeper’s Guide to the whimsical, Dealing with Dragons.

The moment Ginny had read the title among the many crammed onto shelves filled with novels, collections of myths and drawings, and non-fiction, she’d been intrigued. The author had written about a princess who wanted more from life than the stereotypical prince. Ginny had instantly related when she read, Cimorene was the youngest daughter of the King of Linderwall, and her parents found her very trying.

Diving into the novel with enthusiasm she hadn’t displayed diving into her cold shower, she had just got to the chapter titled In Which the Wizards Try to Make Trouble, and Cimorene Does Something about It and read “The door to the cottage opened,” when the front door was flung open.

This was so very sweet, and every couple was exactly right. Everyone was beautifully in character, and your writing is excellent, too. I also all the little situations each couple was in. Fantastic!

Author's Response: Thank you very much! :) I appreciate the review.

Let me say again that this was beautifully written. I love that you've chosen to do missing moments; those are my favorite types of stories, and I really think that yours meshes seamlessly with the cannon, even with the extra 15 minutes. I'm very glad you've started writing fanfiction, and I hope to read more of your work soon!

Author's Response: Thank you so much; what a kind thing to say. Missing moments are my favorite as well, or post-Hogwarts, picking up where JKR left off. I am working on something else... not sure how long it will be before it's finished though. Thanks for the encouragement, and for taking the time to leave a review. I appreciate it.

I just started reading this story, and it's one of the best I've read. These in-between stories and scenes that you don't actually see are my favorites to read and to write about - there's so much you can do with them while remaining true to the author's works. I think you've done a fantastic job with these.

I also love the way that you write. All the characters are beautifully done, and fit in with what Rowling's shown us, though some (like Dawlish) are very different in a believable kind of way.

I'm looking forward to reading more of this story, and plan on reading the all of your others.

Author's Response: I'm thrilled that you like this story so much. It really did grow out of the cracks that JKR left behind as the summary shows. Glad you found that the characters stayed true enough to canon, even though I can't help but elaborate when things are vague. Dawlish struck me as such a perfectly empty slate in so many ways. I imagined a sort of by-the-book sort of guy, set in his ways in a manner that Tonks would instantly label as chauvinistic; then the Death Eaters take over and he finds depths of rebellion that he never knew he had.

Hope you enjoy the other stories as much as this one. The tone of each one is a bit different and the AU warning indicates when I've taken my own tangent based on earlier books. Don't be a stranger!