Now, after seventeen years, he had found Ginny again only to have her sleeping. Any second now, he expected to hear Voldemort's high, cold laugh just before he killed him. This had to be a nightmare. Fate couldn't be this cruel.

"Just like in the fairy tales, mate," he heard Ron speak. "There's only one way to break the spell."

Ack! Wow, what a beautiful story, and a very original idea. I loved it! Great job!

umm...

wow?

this was an amazing story...the only thing that i think couldve made it better is if it were stretched out as a full novel-length.  aside from that, it's great!!  definitely deserves the "best one-shot fic award" that it won.

one thing though...i cant help but feel as if things were left unfinished between Harry and Giselle...i mean...the last couple of scenes with her, they still kept things feeling a bit incomplete i think...

and as for the ending, that was great...very well done.

:D

What a wonderfully written, beautiful story.  I read this from the Voting competition, and absolutely love it (as if you couldn't tell :)).  It was so sweet the way harry called Ron and Hermione "Daddy and Mommy", and it's such an unusual concept.  It nearly made me cry.  I hope it wins an award, it deserves one. 

oh my god.

that ending is perfect i love it!

will you be writing a sequel? because i really hope so

thankyou for this it's great

Aimee

This was excellent, Harry growing up all over again in a loving family.

Will you be doing a follow up story with him and Ginny? Crikey it would be tough for her to fit back in to her family after seventeen years.

That was amazing.

I don't ever remember reading ANYTHING like that EVER.

It was very good and very powerful. And it made me sniffle. A lot.

Congratulations.  You win.  Everything.

Quick question though.  Would Harry now have Fawkes' powers?  I mean, did he integrate with Fawkes, or was it a one time thing?

Wow, I don't even know where to start.

The premise is amazing for this.  The conflict of emotions that Ron, Hermione, and Harry dealt with would have been unbelievable.  You did a really good job of that early on especially with Hermione, it fell off as you dealt with just Harry later on in the story.

The manner in which you saved Percy, that he was a spy even Dumbledore didn't know about was brilliant.  I have never seen anything so clever in any fanfic, and I have read 100's if not 1000's.  It is worthy of JKR herself, and I'm not even sure she would come up with something that good.

I spent the whole thing wondering what happened to Ginny.  After the first argument between Harry and Ron, I suspected Percy had killed her, though you did not say it directly, and I never once picked up in the story that you talked about Grammy a number of times, but never Grandpa.

Your ending was perfect, that she wakes up from his kiss and knows it is him.  Of course it was, for her there could never be anyone else.

This is the absolute best fanfic I have read.  Great job.

Wow, I must say that this was the first story using this concept that I have found and I really enjoyed it. Although Harry had a much more pleasant life the second time around, you really have to feel sorry for the guy of having to technically live through hell twice, and still have to put up with the usual teen problems.
Really enjoyed it, and understanding that it is almost impossible to write a sequel for this with the same effect makes it sad that there isn't more.

Thank you very much.

That was brilliant!  Not nice to make a guy teary-eyed at work though. 

For a fic that takes the other side - Voldy gets turned into a baby try:  The Phoenix and the Serpent by ReaderRavenclaw.

http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=2308&chapno=1

o my goodness, that was an incredible story!

i loved it, will you be writing a sequel?

thank you for an enjoyable afternoon.

damn, that was a great read - had no idea what you were doing with H/G but boy, am I glad you did.

Exellent stuff

Oh, this is so sweet!  I love the ending.   Kinda didn't get Harry's relationship with Gee though.  B/c they still fooled around even though they weren't together...so they were, like...friends with benefits?

All I can say is that this more than brilliant. Original, touching, and genuinely moving.

I hate having to describe unique stories. I never know quite what to say.

I did particularly enjoy seeing that 2nd time around Harry had things a lot easier, both with lessons and just life in general. That he played pranks as well was the icing on the cake.

His essential Harryness shone through in the end, as I always knew that it would. The ending was sweet, and surprising as well. Your skillful false trail had me fooled until very late on about what happened to Ginny, and only at the very end did I guess what had actually happened.

This is a wonderful story, and I'm delighted to have stumbled across it. It deserves to be better known, and I'll be doing my best to get more people to come and read it.

Brilliant. Simply brilliant. There are so many unique points in this story and they all flow together amazingly well to make a truly compelling storyline. And it's really to the point, too. That you put this together in 23,000 words and not five times that many is almost as impressive as the story itself.

I really like how everything you did was so creative but still rooted in canon. Bending Fawkes' rescue of Dumbledore as a way to give Harry a second chance at life is such an amazing premise for a story. The notion of Hermione mothering Harry is just hilarious. And the dreams were a great way to add emphasis. You really did a nice job building up the contrast for the characters as Harry gets older: Harry seeing Hermione and Ron as parents or best friends; Hermione seeing Harry as best friend and son. Hermione's angst really personalized things.

Hermione's angst also added to the mystery, which is the other impressive thing about this story. It was obvious Ginny was going to work her way back into this somehow -- especially after Fleur says Giselle knows Harry's heart belong to another -- but you do a great job keeping the secret until the end. That it's simple, a true story-tale ending, works all the better because I couldn't help wonder why I didn't figure it out earlier.

There was a lot more I liked in this -- Giselle's spunky character, Percy's story, Harry's fight to find himself, "Grandfather" Dumbledore -- but I think I've rambled on long enough at far to late an hour. Superb work, though!

-KC

Umm . . . how embarrassing are typos? My review was definitely supposed to say, "I know a guy named Gabe," NOT "a guy naked Gabe"! Way different meaning, huh?

So sorry, and so glad it doesn't diminish the quality of your story.

Wow - I am really blown away by this story. The idea is a great one, and one that could have gone really badly if handled wrong. But it was really well done. I think I will be thinking of this for a while (kind of like the first time I saw "Terminator"!)

I, too, really like Giselle, and feel free to bring her back. A funny side note - I know a guy naked Gabe who is exactly as you describe. A big lug of a guy, way soft-spoken. That part of the story was easy to imagine!

Thanks for sharing this. It was great.

BJ... you constantly amaze me!  This is absolutely brilliant, and I love it!!  I think I've read it about three times already (I haven't reviewed til now b/c I've been soaking it in  )... it's just awesome, and it's so obviously *yours* -- always something just a bit different, but you make it fit together so it seems like it's just the way it's "supposed" to be!

BLOODY <bleep> AWESOME! LOVED IT! Hahaha, you totally had me fooled! Awesome story!

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The only problem with a fairy tale life is how much it has to suck before you get your happy ending.

Very cute story. I adored reading it.

I have to say that this is one of the best one shot post-Hogwarts stories I've ever come across.  I love how you worked it out for the two of them to be together.  It moved me tears.

Dennis Adkins

wvchemteach

I congratulate you on several things:

First what is, as far as I know, an original idea.

Second, a well-written and executed story.

Third, a series of incredible scenes of Harry (who is still Harry) growing up again.

However, I have to stick in one negative point. I don't like the ending. It feels... incomplete? I'm not sure how to express it, but it doesn't feel like the story ENDS here. It feels like a chapter break, not the end of a story.

Regardless, this is a wonderful fic and I'm glad we didn't wind up with Death Eater Percy (though why Harry didn't mention about him being a spy earlier...)

What a lovely, lovely story!  Not your typical fluff, either.  I absolutely loved it. 

It was so interesting watching Harry grow up without having to worry about Voldie.  Although you did scare me a couple times with Giselle; I love them as friends, but even putting aside my rabid H/G shippiness, I had issues with them as a couple.  After all, they were raised as cousins.  So I was happy when they broke up.

The Draught is definitely something that Ginny would do.  I can see her knowing about it and keeping it in the back of her mind, and one day just impulsively doing it. 

I am currently hyperventilating, and shaking like never before. That is how brilliant this was. But it can't, it just can't be over. Not so abruptly, at least. Please, just add something small. A sequel. Please. Just to truly conclude this and to satisfy our apetites! Don't leave us hanging. You are one brilliat writer. You truly have what it takes to become a professional writer. All during the story we where waiting to see what was going to happen to Ginny, and now that we know the truth about everything, and that she's just fine (btw, you sure as hell know how to build up suspense) you just finihs it off. I hope that the fact that you didn't write the end tell sus there is more.

~Maria~ 

Brilliant.  A wonderfully original story carried out with aplomb.  I particularly liked the fact that you ended it as you did, although it does leave me widhing that you'd write a follow-up even if it isn't necessary.  All in all, you'll get no complaints from me, not for this story anyway (I mean Harry/Cho in Adaptations??  Honestly!)