Steve- I thank you for reading the story all the way through. Few people read for quality and plot, I appreciate that you do. And I thank you for taking the time to review. Again not many people do.
I'm sorry you were unhappy with the ending.
Ginny pushes Harry away, but he also pushes her away. It is mutual. And while it may sound stupid and childish, he does love her. The entire ordeal was never about a lack of love between them. She loves him very much as well. While one can say, "I would never treat someone I love that way." It is much harder to live that way. They have a cycle of pain and forgiveness that can get confusing. But they never really stopped caring for each other. They just forgot how to act on it.
As for Ginny sending the children away, she was acting on impulse. She thought they would be safer there. In her mind she was trying to keep them safe. She couldn't know that Draco was going to hunt them down or that Harry would end up hurt. It was Harry's own actions that got him nearly killed. If he had slowed down and listened to Draco first and not taken him with him things would have been very different. The fault is mutual, though I will admit that Ginny is not easy to like. Harry has a tendency to be impulsive and angry and not to listen when she's talking. Though in the story she turns him down often when he comes to apologize, he has been ignoring her for years. The fault it their own and not just hers.
As for Neville. Ron doesn't know what happened between Ginny and Neville. And he really doesn't want to know. He is aware that the situation is bad but he doesn't know how bad. Harry is not angry at Ron because Ron is unaware. Ron chose not to know in the end and that was a choice that Harry respected. Not only because he cares for Ron, but again because he cares for Ginny.
My intentions were not to insult anyone. Or to be a "chickenshit" and I'm sorry if I came off as one. As for the brothers acting like brothers.... I have a somewhat different view on family.
Perhaps if Harry had ever had brothers before he would have reacted differently. But Harry never knew family until he went to school. He has a greater appreciation for what it should be. Family is more than people who are related to you. Your real family are the people you choose to be your family. They can hurt you much more, but it's also a closer bond. That is someone chosen to be your brother or sister, not just someone who happened to be born to the same parents.
Harry loves his brothers and true love goes beyond the cruel and horrible things we do. He doesn't trust Neville. Not totally, but he recognizes that he chose Neville to be his brother and there isn't any going back. He doesn't trust Ginny totally either, or he would believe her about the paternity of the baby. I meant to clarify that Ginny's and Hermione's children were conceived the night of Harry's welcome home party at the Burrow. Perhaps that would have cleared a few things up.
As for an alternate ending, I don't think it needs one. I'm sorry you feel that I sold out or whatever it is that I did. If it offends you that much then don't read any more of my things. But remember, it's just fan fiction. It isn't life. It reflects life, but in the end it's just someone taking characters that don't belong to them and making up a story. If that story doesn't please you then you don't have to read it. That's the glory of fiction. Again, sorry I was such a disappointment.
Thank you for reading and taking the time to review.