I really enjoyed your story.  Your writing is very good and a pleasure to read.  However, after I finished I kept wondering what would Harry have done if Ginny never "figured it out?"  He obviously cares for her a great deal to go to so much trouble to keep her safe, that said, would he have let her continue to think it was all real?  If he really cares for her could he allow her to hurt so much.  Or, was he testing her to see how well she knows him?  I can understand the need to keep it from her beforehand in order to keep it real and secret, but why afterward?  His behavior was so cruel to her (flaunting his new fling in front of her family)  I can't imagine he would just continue on with his life with her thinking so ill of him???  Perhaps I overanalyze, but I really did love the story.   

Wow. That was awesome! The beginning was a tiny bit ... yegish... but I still loved it. Gabbi and Ginny had nice chemistry, and  it was really believable that they would be friends. And I liked the ending as well. ^^ Great job, and I'm off to start the sequel! xD

Thank you, I really liked this.  I absolutely loved LOS, as well and look forward to new fiction from you!  Wondered why in your AN you said you hadn't planned on any new fiction based on HBP?

Well,  anyway, thanks.

holy that was awesome!

i mean , that was great. all the new characters seemed real, not over the top, and still interesting, the plot advanced nicely throughout, and well yeah... fine story!

wow...one helluva long one-shot...

but a great story nonetheless.  the plot was very ingriguing, and it was very well paced and written.

the way you developed "Gabbi"'s and Ginny's friendship was very effective, but i thought the story sort of emotionally flattened out towards the end...

it seemed to me like you got impatient with the story after the climax ended, and you just wanted to wrap it up...haha.

in any case, it was very well done, and i hope to see more post-HBP fics from u!!

What a brilliant long fic! I loved it! Haha Harry the Slytherin. Nice job!

I had no time to read when this was posted, so I've been sort of saving up reading it since then.  It was certainly worth the wait, as I enjoyed it hugely.  As always, your touch with Hermione -- and her relationship with Harry -- was quite adept.  I really enjoyed seeing you bring the Delacours to life.  Each of them was well developed; especially Gabbi.  Thanks as well for having Ginny figure out what happenned on her own.  I think that was key to the success of this story.

I'm not sure that I find the deception too devious for Harry and Hermione to have developed.  They might have been better inspired by Sun Tzu or Liddell Hart than Clausewitz in plotting their ruse, but they are going to have to practise dissimilitude if they hope to win.  I foung your title very apt; victories must be won in an opponent's mind before they can be won on the field.

Thanks for sharing this with us.  I hope you work again in the new canon.  I've always liked your thoughtful approach to these stories and I think that the situation as HBP ends requires just that kind of treatment. 

“Blimey,” Hermione heard George Weasley say to his twin, “that’s not dancing.”

“That’s foreplay,” Fred replied sombrely.

Love those twins and these lines!

Maybe she wouldn’t have to castrate him after all.

I love your Molly!

You gave the Weasleys all the best lines which was great! I loved the story.

 I think in HBP we do see Harry being more Slytherin. Though he may not have succeeded like when he snuck into Malfoy's compartment in the train. But in the end he's running his own game, without DD's permission and encouragement, with his own agents when he tells what is left of the DA to look after the castle. And then refused to tell anyone, other than Ron and Hermione, what he and DD were up to, therefore being secretive. I believe in the next book we will see him more as a leader and a bit secretive as well and fustrating the hell out of many adults.

I think your story illustrated very well the role Harry may play in the future. And Ginny, she elaborated Harry's plan nicely and compliments him very well in this story! I'd love to see more of this H/G but alas I fear it will only be through your fine work. I can just imagine they were sitting in the parlor or at the table having Harry's cake and she asks him "So, when are you going to teach me how to tango?!?".

Great work!

Intriguing, involving, and rewarding, as expected.

Harry really seems much better read and more articulate than canon gives him credit for; do you think JKR is catering to the "anti-elitist" demographic? :)

I love it! You're one of my favorite H/G writers, and this was superb. Good work.

P.S. I wouldn't mind seeing Gabbi again. She's fun.

Great story. I really enjoyed it. Hope to read more of your work soon,

I don't know if you've read "Something Gold" @ checkmated (url: http://www.checkmated.com/story.php?story=6105 ), but that is another great fic about H&G meeting at Bill and Fleur's wedding. Your story and "Something Gold" is currently compeeting for the top slot in my list of best post HBP-fics.

I don't mind not seeing Gabbi again; however, I would miss your take on Book 7.  I do hope that you continue this fic.

I loved the misinformation project and your handling of veela powers. 

Brilliant! Just brilliant!

S.S. Van Dine wouldn't do better!

Congratulations!

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Well. I really shouldn't have finished reading this before going to work, and I really shouldn't take time to review before I go, but it deserved it and you deserve it.

I'll try to stop back later, but in short this is a wonderful story, your writing talent is growing even from your high level, and one nit: Parvati's the same age as Harry. What's she doing being General Manager of anything?

im i the only one who noticed the reference to Shakespeare's Macbeth? 'If we fail? We fail! But screw you courage to the sticking point And we shall not fail.'

Absolutely marvelous! Thanks for this story! I loved it (as you can probably tell from my overuse of exclamation marks)!

I can understand your initial idea to not write based on HBP, as it threw my own fanfic for a real loop as well (wip on sugarquill) and left me feeling like a fish out of water.

Congratulations on yet another great story!!!

I really think that to be fair to Ginny you should have given her some revenge.  No matter what or why it was a rotten thing to do and both Harry and Gabriel got of scoot free.

PS. Just a suggestion alternate ending to please the vengeful, Ginny sets Gabriel on fire with the accidental magic.

PPS. I really love your writing, but the rabid H/G shipper had a gut reaction

im feeling evil rite now so im going to try and send a plot bunny your way!

what if jasmine had to do security for gabbi because of harry's little charade?

ATTACK PLOT BUNNIES ATTACK I SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

MUH HA HA HA HA< evil laugh

i really liked this story and i must tell you that your gabbi is every  bit as captivating a charecter as jasmine who is my all time favorite o.c.

 the only thing that i could think of that would be better then another jasmine fic is a gabbi fic or even better a jasmine and gabbi fic .

you are still in my humble opinion one of the best fanfic writers on the web and i cant wait to be able to buy your own storie from my fav. book store someday

This member of the "LJ Peanut Gallery" wishes to express his most sincere salutations to you for a superbly written and brilliantly executed story!!!

The plot is so wonderfully fresh and unique and presents a whole new take on HP-fanfic. It can be argued that this particular Harry is out of character - but for me that isn't really important as this Harry was too enjoyable to resist or critisize.

I think you managed to bring the characters to life in great way, but by far the best protrayal is that of Gabbi - I think you've given her depth and credibility as a character like no other.

Very, very pleased to finally have been given the opportunity to read the finished version - excellent work!!!

Thanks a million for writing and sharing this - it's been a true pleasure to see this grow from it's infancy to this final work, that  has been the memorable part of being in the "peanut gallery"!