A/N: ~Sniffles~ they're gone from fabulous Italy… so, here we are.
Disclaimer: HA!!! I OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE!!!!
The next morning, the girls woke up bright and early. The group rushed to get dressed and ready, ate a bit of breakfast, and set out on the streets of Venice.
"OK, who has the directions to get to that little wizarding quarter?" Daisy asked.
"No! No dress robes!" Marine said exasperatedly.
"You want to go nude?" Hermione asked with a smirk.
"No, I want to go in a dress, a Muggle dress," she responded.
Eleanor looked apprehensive, "I don't know Marine, don't we have to wear dress robes?"
"No, Ellie, we don't, it only said that it was a black tie ball. Plus, no one else will be wearing dresses, and we'll stand out."
"What if we don't WANT to stand out," Eleanor mumbled.
"Oh, cheer up, Ellie, you'll knock him dead," Daisy said supportively.
"I sink eet eez a wonderful idea, let's go!" Sophie exclaimed, walking out in front of them.
The girls traipsed through the shopping district, stopping in every store they could find.
First, Sophie found a long fitted navy velvet dress. It was strapless with tiny rhinestones along the neckline, and a small train in the back. She saw it on the rack, and squealed loudly. She stepped out of the dressing room and paraded around like royalty on display.
"Eet eez like een zat Muggle film 'Anastasia'!" Hermione was the only one who had any idea what she was talking about.
Eleanor, begrudgingly, was next. She discovered a periwinkle off-the- shoulder satin gown with a nice flowy skirt. She tried to hide her smile as she emerged from the dressing room to a round of wolf whistles from her friends, and blushed.
"I look stupid… But I GUESS I'll buy it."
The other girls laughed loudly. "You know you look like a fox, Ellie!" Daisy exclaimed.
Marine was next on the dress discovery list. She, like Sophie, squealed when she saw the light sage green satin and tulle dress that had a skirt with what must have been at least seven foot circumference.
Daisy found her dress in the next store, a pale yellow satin corset dress with tiny straps that had little flowers embroidered on the front.
"I look like a girl," she said matter-of-factly, and then paused a bit. "Yay!"
Sophie snorted, "Daisy, you always look like a girl!"
Daisy smirked at her friends, "Good, I'm glad I have you all fooled! OK, Mione, you HAVE to find a dress now, it's almost four."
Hermione sighed and looked around at the racks of dresses. "I know, I'm trying, but nothing really strikes my fancy."
"Strikes your fancy? Who SAYS that?!" Daisy said.
Hermione rolled her eyes and walked out of the store, her friends in tow.
By five, she was no closer to finding a dress, and she knew that her friends were getting antsy to go to get ready for the ball. Hermione stopped abruptly.
"Look, I brought dress robes with me, lets go back to the hotel, we only have an hour and a half."
"Hermione, we're getting you a dress!" Daisy exclaimed.
Hermione shook her head resolutely, "No, I refuse, I'm going to need time to get ready, too, so lets go, I really don't mind," she replied, lying a bit.
The four other girls sighed and shrugged, and they headed back to the hotel.
They spent the next hour primping and chatting about the ball, then the girls retreated to their rooms to get dressed. Hermione walked glumy back to her closet and opened it up, and emitted a loud shriek at what she saw hanging there.
The other girls rushed in quickly. "What's wrong?" Marine asked.
Hermione pointed, confused, at some thing that looked like a sack dress fashioned out of a large garbage bag, only it was swirling odd colors around.
Sophie gasped, "OH… MY… GOD! I can't BELIEVE zis, why didn't you tell us you had one of 'zose?"
"An ugly swirly-dress? I've never seen it before in my life!"
Sophie looked like she was about to keel over, the other four looked confused.
"Eet's a MOOD DRESS, Hermione. You put eet on and eet changes with your mood. These things cost more than three FireboltX12's combined! 'ow did you get zis?"
"I have no idea, I don't have that much mon-… hold on a minute."
She walked over to the door between her room and Draco's, "Alohomora!"
She found Draco sitting on his bed reading Quidditch Weekly. He looked up at her.
"Hi, how was your morning?" he asked.
She narrowed her eyes, "Do not 'how was your morning' ME, Draco Malfoy, how did that get in to my closet?"
"How did what get into your closet?" he asked all-too-innocently.
Hermione shut the door behind her, to discourage eavesdropping. She sat down on his bed.
"Draco, I don't want you spending your money on me, I can't do anything to repay it, and I KNOW you don't want to get repaid, but I feel guilty."
Draco shrugged, "You're not going to win this one, I'm telling you right now," he said aloofly.
She narrowed her eyes at him, "Draco, I will not have you telling me what I win and what I do not win!"
He simply smiled placidly up at her, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "I'll meet you in a half hour." He ushered her back into her room where her giggling friends were waiting, and closed the door behind him.
Marine thrust the dress into Hermione's hands promptly. "If you don't wear this, I WILL kill you, Granger."
Hermione sighed relcutantly and took unbuttoned the long shirt she was wearing, and threw on the dress.
It felt like a cool breeze passed over her entire body as the colors began to swirl rapidly. The dress morphed into a long, golden, sleeveless A-line gown.
"Wow, that is SO fucking cool," Daisy gasped.
"Vulgar, vulgar," Eleanor tsked.
Hermione looked into her mirror, astonished. "Wow, that's amazing… Hey! All of you, stop gawking, go get dressed, we have men to impress," she giggled.
The girls met up twenty minutes later in their common room, where they were planning on meeting a group of their friends. Hermione and Draco were the only ones actually going together. The girls crowded together and did some last-minute examinations and purse checks.
Draco, Jerome, Franco, Kevin, and Guy all shuffled in a few minutes later, looking slightly irked to be in their dress robes. They all tried to hide their looks of astonishment at their decked-out female counterparts. Draco grinned when he saw Hermione in the dress.
"Nice dress," he said cheekily.
"One of my boyfriends bought it for me," she replied airily.
"ONE of your boyfriends, eh? Lucky you."
She clasped Draco's hand, "Lets go, you prat."
The group walked down to the large ball room, chatting happily. They sat down at a table with Gwendolyn, who was from the same school as Jerome, and her date, Alex from Durmstrang.
"Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen," came the voice of the Italian Minister over a speaker. "I'd like to congratulate all of our students on a wonderful conference, and to lead off the ball, I invite our Italian representatives, Maria and Franco, to choose a partner each, in order to reflect our sense of wizarding community. Maria and Franco, if you would do the honors?"
Franco stood up, and extended his hand to Sophie, who blushed profusely. Maria stood up, smirking smugly. Her eyes travelled the room, and landed on their table. She strutted over in her designer robe. Hermione saw Maria catch Eleanor's eye and smile cruelly.
'No, please don't let her ask Kevin,' she pleaded silently, watching poor Eleanor's face fall.
Maria smiled at Kevin, "May I have this dance?"
Kevin cleared his throat, "Actually, I'd been saving the first dance for someone special, so I can't."
Maria's face turned beet red, "Excuse me?" she hissed.
Kevin looked at her blankly, "I'm. Saving. The. First. Dance. For. Someone. Special. aka, NOT you, Maria," he said slowly, like he was explaining something to a three-year old.
By this time, the entire hall was trying to stifle their laughter as the indignant Maria stood there shocked.
"And may I ask WHO this person is, who is apparently much more special than I am?"
"Well, if you MUST know, I was planning on asking Eleanor to dance, if she'll accept my invitation," he said a bit sheepisly, glancing over at Eleanor, who looked as if she'd just died and gone to heaven.
"You would rather dance with THAT than me?" Maria hissed.
Kevin narrowed his eyes dangerously, "You couldn't pay me all of your daddy's money to dance with you, Maria. I can't see how anyone could think that I would ever choose a heartless spolied brat over someone as kind and beautiful as Eleanor. Now, I suggest you go find some other poor schmuck to dance with."
Maria turned on her heel and stomped out the door. The Italian Minister, who apparently was not a fan of Maria, or her father, stepped to the front, trying to suppress a smile.
"Well, uh, lets just skip that intro dance, and have everyone begin! Enjoy yourselves, ladies and gentlemen."
Franco led Sophie out to the dance floor, and Draco took Hermione's hand. Hermione turned around quickly and gave Eleanor a wink before heading out.
Kevin walked around the table and stood in front of Eleanor, who was studiously examining her napkin.
He cleared his throat, "I really hope that after almost getting my ass beat by Maria for that, you'll at least dance with me once, Ellie."
She looked up at him finally, her eyes were wide and almost fearful, "I think I could manage that," she choked out.
Kevin grinned and took her hand. Marine and Daisy squealed delightedly when they were out of range.
"THAT was the single greatest thing Kevin has EVER done in his life!" Daisy exclaimed.
"Did you see the look on Maria's face? And on Ellie's face? That was so fabulous! Oh, this is the best night of my life!"
"Would you allow me to ruin it by asking you to dance?" Jerome came up behind the two girls.
"Why, of course, monsieur!" Marine replied.
Guy tapped Daisy on the shoulder, "May I 'ave zis dance, Daisee?"
"Naturellement, mon ami!"
The night went on, almost too quickly. Before they all knew it, the last song was announced.
Hermione smiled at Draco as the last song came on, and her dress changed to a pouffy light pink dress, and they danced their last dance together in Italy.
Don't ask me
What you know is true
Don't have to tell you
I love your precious heart
I..........I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart
We could live for a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I'd make wine from your tears
I told you
That we could fly
Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why
I..........I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart
I don't ask me
I was standing
You know it's true
You were there
Worlds collided
Two worlds collided
We're shining through
And they could never tear us apart
You don't ask me
You were standing
You know it's true
I was there
Worlds collided
Two worlds collided
We're shining through
And they could never tear us apart
The next morning, the group of friends bid their final tearful farewells, as they were all travelling back to their homes via portkey. Hermione gave all of her friends one last hug, promised to keep in contact, and walked to their portkey with Draco. The last thing she saw before she got whisked away was Kevin giving Eleanor a little kiss, right in front of everyone.
When the swirling stopped, Hermione looked anxiously up at the massive Hogwarts gates in front of them. Draco took her hand and gave it a squeeze.
"It's good to be back."
A/N: First thing's first, "Va te faire foutre, branleur" is (and avert your eyes if you don't like profanity) roughly translated "Go fuck yourself, wanker." But, you can see that it wasn't necessary, our fine Kevin came through for poor lil Eleanor, AND gave Maria what was coming to her in the process! So, moving on… Ummmm, there's still a lot to do here, so I dunno how many chaps are left. At least 2, since I have to post a next chapter, and the epilogue, lol, but I can't really finish in one more chap, I really have no clue what's left in me, I'm hoping it'll be done before summer ends so I can focus more on All I Want and the fred fic I wanna do, and the Percy/Oliver fic I wanna do (since they're the best). And, I kinda wanna do a Snape/Hermione fic, but those have to be good, and I dunno if I'm up to snuff yet, haha. Right, so, I'm babbling, if you have any questions/comments, please review. If you don't have any questions/comments, please review :-D
Oh, and go here for some cool pics, some of which were influenced by the ~cough~ ever-fabulous "Never is a Promise" http://www.angelfire.com/art2/jadechopsticks/HarryArt (copy and paste the link into Explorer, it didn't work with Netscape) Many thanks to Charisse Jade Ling!
And, of course, many thanks to:
Chadlindberghfan01, wiccanprincessbuttercup, lilyayl, love is hopeful, volcana, HD4eva, Christine, imososweet, mandy, amo il ragazzo, Quimberly, Cyrano de Bergerac, Mage of Fire, AllyCat739, BoByN, mad mandy, FrickFrack252098, Loves_Kiss, Gryffindor Quidditch Angel, meskup, leah, Gryphon, dmbabe, Willangel101, christine (draco lover [thanks for the distinguishing, lol]), akiri pie-chan, dasani black, Cyropi, Kat097, Lizzie, Sandy, lolo, Jenna Malfoy, SilverLining, Sila-chan, landry anne, Juliast, PunkyPrincess14, mimi, citywitch110, Noelle, Chrissy, Chibi-Chi, Herbie Werbie, Mediterranean Queen, and RainDancer
DMRox- Gee, I almost didn't recognize your pen name when it was signed it! :^P jk thanks for the reviews!
Gracie- hahahaha your review was too freaking funny. I'm sorry if I'm not getting the chaps out fast enough, but I work at a camp, and we don't have computers, so I have to write this on my day off!
Calypso in love- LOL, nightmares, huh? I'm truly truly sorry :^P
Michee- I honestly can't believe anyone has read this more than once…. That's simply astounding, it's very flattering, but still surprising, lol!
Honey31- you're not the only one who's printed this monstrosity out, oddly enough! I'm glad you enjoy it!
Lizzi- Well, I'm glad you checked back, too! Sorry abt the delay!
Kearie- Well, it's not that Draco was ever BACK in his good graces, this is kind of the straw that broke the camel's back kind of thing
Darksorceress- No one's going to die! Well, no that's a lie… but Draco won't die, in any event.
Anne- thanks for saying I'm your fave author, it means a lot to me! But, "…Paris" is still wayyyy better, lol.
Rackel- 1. I call her squinny because her nickname is squin, and squinny's just a nickname for her nickname, lol; 2. Yes, I have the epilogue written already; 3. A few people have printed this whole thing out, lol… how many pages was it??
Ryoko- lol, I was afraid I'd lose people during my 2 month break, but I'm glad you came back!! Squinny's pen name is Squin, and she's got a bunch of fabulous stuff. She's a R/Hr shipper (for some unknown reason, lol). But, her stuff is highly recommended, especially the Goddess Diaries, it's hysterical!
Alanna Roseguard- Damn, you've been reading this fic a long time, lol… that's my intelligent comment for the day
VyingQuill- Draco could be 'tan for someone so pale' because he's usually pale, but was surprisingly tan… I guess. And, the first few chaps of this fic reeeeeeeally suck, just in general. Though I'm not sure if you actually finished the damn thing, so I dunno if writing this is relevant or not! Haha, I'm babbling.
Madame Padfoot- I hope you and your husband are enjoying the fic, and this lastest installment wasn't too tedious to read, heehee (
Kikimachi- Well, I HOPE it comes to a definite conclusion, lol… but I think it will, you'll have to let me know!
Amaryllis- hahahahahahahaha I hope your mom doesn't think I'm some horrid trash mouth now!!
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Aaaaaaaaaand, of course:
Squin- To whom I have nothing to say! Love ya lots!
Disclaimer: HA!!! I OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE!!!!
The next morning, the girls woke up bright and early. The group rushed to get dressed and ready, ate a bit of breakfast, and set out on the streets of Venice.
"OK, who has the directions to get to that little wizarding quarter?" Daisy asked.
"No! No dress robes!" Marine said exasperatedly.
"You want to go nude?" Hermione asked with a smirk.
"No, I want to go in a dress, a Muggle dress," she responded.
Eleanor looked apprehensive, "I don't know Marine, don't we have to wear dress robes?"
"No, Ellie, we don't, it only said that it was a black tie ball. Plus, no one else will be wearing dresses, and we'll stand out."
"What if we don't WANT to stand out," Eleanor mumbled.
"Oh, cheer up, Ellie, you'll knock him dead," Daisy said supportively.
"I sink eet eez a wonderful idea, let's go!" Sophie exclaimed, walking out in front of them.
The girls traipsed through the shopping district, stopping in every store they could find.
First, Sophie found a long fitted navy velvet dress. It was strapless with tiny rhinestones along the neckline, and a small train in the back. She saw it on the rack, and squealed loudly. She stepped out of the dressing room and paraded around like royalty on display.
"Eet eez like een zat Muggle film 'Anastasia'!" Hermione was the only one who had any idea what she was talking about.
Eleanor, begrudgingly, was next. She discovered a periwinkle off-the- shoulder satin gown with a nice flowy skirt. She tried to hide her smile as she emerged from the dressing room to a round of wolf whistles from her friends, and blushed.
"I look stupid… But I GUESS I'll buy it."
The other girls laughed loudly. "You know you look like a fox, Ellie!" Daisy exclaimed.
Marine was next on the dress discovery list. She, like Sophie, squealed when she saw the light sage green satin and tulle dress that had a skirt with what must have been at least seven foot circumference.
Daisy found her dress in the next store, a pale yellow satin corset dress with tiny straps that had little flowers embroidered on the front.
"I look like a girl," she said matter-of-factly, and then paused a bit. "Yay!"
Sophie snorted, "Daisy, you always look like a girl!"
Daisy smirked at her friends, "Good, I'm glad I have you all fooled! OK, Mione, you HAVE to find a dress now, it's almost four."
Hermione sighed and looked around at the racks of dresses. "I know, I'm trying, but nothing really strikes my fancy."
"Strikes your fancy? Who SAYS that?!" Daisy said.
Hermione rolled her eyes and walked out of the store, her friends in tow.
By five, she was no closer to finding a dress, and she knew that her friends were getting antsy to go to get ready for the ball. Hermione stopped abruptly.
"Look, I brought dress robes with me, lets go back to the hotel, we only have an hour and a half."
"Hermione, we're getting you a dress!" Daisy exclaimed.
Hermione shook her head resolutely, "No, I refuse, I'm going to need time to get ready, too, so lets go, I really don't mind," she replied, lying a bit.
The four other girls sighed and shrugged, and they headed back to the hotel.
They spent the next hour primping and chatting about the ball, then the girls retreated to their rooms to get dressed. Hermione walked glumy back to her closet and opened it up, and emitted a loud shriek at what she saw hanging there.
The other girls rushed in quickly. "What's wrong?" Marine asked.
Hermione pointed, confused, at some thing that looked like a sack dress fashioned out of a large garbage bag, only it was swirling odd colors around.
Sophie gasped, "OH… MY… GOD! I can't BELIEVE zis, why didn't you tell us you had one of 'zose?"
"An ugly swirly-dress? I've never seen it before in my life!"
Sophie looked like she was about to keel over, the other four looked confused.
"Eet's a MOOD DRESS, Hermione. You put eet on and eet changes with your mood. These things cost more than three FireboltX12's combined! 'ow did you get zis?"
"I have no idea, I don't have that much mon-… hold on a minute."
She walked over to the door between her room and Draco's, "Alohomora!"
She found Draco sitting on his bed reading Quidditch Weekly. He looked up at her.
"Hi, how was your morning?" he asked.
She narrowed her eyes, "Do not 'how was your morning' ME, Draco Malfoy, how did that get in to my closet?"
"How did what get into your closet?" he asked all-too-innocently.
Hermione shut the door behind her, to discourage eavesdropping. She sat down on his bed.
"Draco, I don't want you spending your money on me, I can't do anything to repay it, and I KNOW you don't want to get repaid, but I feel guilty."
Draco shrugged, "You're not going to win this one, I'm telling you right now," he said aloofly.
She narrowed her eyes at him, "Draco, I will not have you telling me what I win and what I do not win!"
He simply smiled placidly up at her, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "I'll meet you in a half hour." He ushered her back into her room where her giggling friends were waiting, and closed the door behind him.
Marine thrust the dress into Hermione's hands promptly. "If you don't wear this, I WILL kill you, Granger."
Hermione sighed relcutantly and took unbuttoned the long shirt she was wearing, and threw on the dress.
It felt like a cool breeze passed over her entire body as the colors began to swirl rapidly. The dress morphed into a long, golden, sleeveless A-line gown.
"Wow, that is SO fucking cool," Daisy gasped.
"Vulgar, vulgar," Eleanor tsked.
Hermione looked into her mirror, astonished. "Wow, that's amazing… Hey! All of you, stop gawking, go get dressed, we have men to impress," she giggled.
The girls met up twenty minutes later in their common room, where they were planning on meeting a group of their friends. Hermione and Draco were the only ones actually going together. The girls crowded together and did some last-minute examinations and purse checks.
Draco, Jerome, Franco, Kevin, and Guy all shuffled in a few minutes later, looking slightly irked to be in their dress robes. They all tried to hide their looks of astonishment at their decked-out female counterparts. Draco grinned when he saw Hermione in the dress.
"Nice dress," he said cheekily.
"One of my boyfriends bought it for me," she replied airily.
"ONE of your boyfriends, eh? Lucky you."
She clasped Draco's hand, "Lets go, you prat."
The group walked down to the large ball room, chatting happily. They sat down at a table with Gwendolyn, who was from the same school as Jerome, and her date, Alex from Durmstrang.
"Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen," came the voice of the Italian Minister over a speaker. "I'd like to congratulate all of our students on a wonderful conference, and to lead off the ball, I invite our Italian representatives, Maria and Franco, to choose a partner each, in order to reflect our sense of wizarding community. Maria and Franco, if you would do the honors?"
Franco stood up, and extended his hand to Sophie, who blushed profusely. Maria stood up, smirking smugly. Her eyes travelled the room, and landed on their table. She strutted over in her designer robe. Hermione saw Maria catch Eleanor's eye and smile cruelly.
'No, please don't let her ask Kevin,' she pleaded silently, watching poor Eleanor's face fall.
Maria smiled at Kevin, "May I have this dance?"
Kevin cleared his throat, "Actually, I'd been saving the first dance for someone special, so I can't."
Maria's face turned beet red, "Excuse me?" she hissed.
Kevin looked at her blankly, "I'm. Saving. The. First. Dance. For. Someone. Special. aka, NOT you, Maria," he said slowly, like he was explaining something to a three-year old.
By this time, the entire hall was trying to stifle their laughter as the indignant Maria stood there shocked.
"And may I ask WHO this person is, who is apparently much more special than I am?"
"Well, if you MUST know, I was planning on asking Eleanor to dance, if she'll accept my invitation," he said a bit sheepisly, glancing over at Eleanor, who looked as if she'd just died and gone to heaven.
"You would rather dance with THAT than me?" Maria hissed.
Kevin narrowed his eyes dangerously, "You couldn't pay me all of your daddy's money to dance with you, Maria. I can't see how anyone could think that I would ever choose a heartless spolied brat over someone as kind and beautiful as Eleanor. Now, I suggest you go find some other poor schmuck to dance with."
Maria turned on her heel and stomped out the door. The Italian Minister, who apparently was not a fan of Maria, or her father, stepped to the front, trying to suppress a smile.
"Well, uh, lets just skip that intro dance, and have everyone begin! Enjoy yourselves, ladies and gentlemen."
Franco led Sophie out to the dance floor, and Draco took Hermione's hand. Hermione turned around quickly and gave Eleanor a wink before heading out.
Kevin walked around the table and stood in front of Eleanor, who was studiously examining her napkin.
He cleared his throat, "I really hope that after almost getting my ass beat by Maria for that, you'll at least dance with me once, Ellie."
She looked up at him finally, her eyes were wide and almost fearful, "I think I could manage that," she choked out.
Kevin grinned and took her hand. Marine and Daisy squealed delightedly when they were out of range.
"THAT was the single greatest thing Kevin has EVER done in his life!" Daisy exclaimed.
"Did you see the look on Maria's face? And on Ellie's face? That was so fabulous! Oh, this is the best night of my life!"
"Would you allow me to ruin it by asking you to dance?" Jerome came up behind the two girls.
"Why, of course, monsieur!" Marine replied.
Guy tapped Daisy on the shoulder, "May I 'ave zis dance, Daisee?"
"Naturellement, mon ami!"
The night went on, almost too quickly. Before they all knew it, the last song was announced.
Hermione smiled at Draco as the last song came on, and her dress changed to a pouffy light pink dress, and they danced their last dance together in Italy.
Don't ask me
What you know is true
Don't have to tell you
I love your precious heart
I..........I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart
We could live for a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I'd make wine from your tears
I told you
That we could fly
Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why
I..........I was standing
You were there
Two worlds collided
And they could never tear us apart
I don't ask me
I was standing
You know it's true
You were there
Worlds collided
Two worlds collided
We're shining through
And they could never tear us apart
You don't ask me
You were standing
You know it's true
I was there
Worlds collided
Two worlds collided
We're shining through
And they could never tear us apart
The next morning, the group of friends bid their final tearful farewells, as they were all travelling back to their homes via portkey. Hermione gave all of her friends one last hug, promised to keep in contact, and walked to their portkey with Draco. The last thing she saw before she got whisked away was Kevin giving Eleanor a little kiss, right in front of everyone.
When the swirling stopped, Hermione looked anxiously up at the massive Hogwarts gates in front of them. Draco took her hand and gave it a squeeze.
"It's good to be back."
A/N: First thing's first, "Va te faire foutre, branleur" is (and avert your eyes if you don't like profanity) roughly translated "Go fuck yourself, wanker." But, you can see that it wasn't necessary, our fine Kevin came through for poor lil Eleanor, AND gave Maria what was coming to her in the process! So, moving on… Ummmm, there's still a lot to do here, so I dunno how many chaps are left. At least 2, since I have to post a next chapter, and the epilogue, lol, but I can't really finish in one more chap, I really have no clue what's left in me, I'm hoping it'll be done before summer ends so I can focus more on All I Want and the fred fic I wanna do, and the Percy/Oliver fic I wanna do (since they're the best). And, I kinda wanna do a Snape/Hermione fic, but those have to be good, and I dunno if I'm up to snuff yet, haha. Right, so, I'm babbling, if you have any questions/comments, please review. If you don't have any questions/comments, please review :-D
Oh, and go here for some cool pics, some of which were influenced by the ~cough~ ever-fabulous "Never is a Promise" http://www.angelfire.com/art2/jadechopsticks/HarryArt (copy and paste the link into Explorer, it didn't work with Netscape) Many thanks to Charisse Jade Ling!
And, of course, many thanks to:
Chadlindberghfan01, wiccanprincessbuttercup, lilyayl, love is hopeful, volcana, HD4eva, Christine, imososweet, mandy, amo il ragazzo, Quimberly, Cyrano de Bergerac, Mage of Fire, AllyCat739, BoByN, mad mandy, FrickFrack252098, Loves_Kiss, Gryffindor Quidditch Angel, meskup, leah, Gryphon, dmbabe, Willangel101, christine (draco lover [thanks for the distinguishing, lol]), akiri pie-chan, dasani black, Cyropi, Kat097, Lizzie, Sandy, lolo, Jenna Malfoy, SilverLining, Sila-chan, landry anne, Juliast, PunkyPrincess14, mimi, citywitch110, Noelle, Chrissy, Chibi-Chi, Herbie Werbie, Mediterranean Queen, and RainDancer
DMRox- Gee, I almost didn't recognize your pen name when it was signed it! :^P jk thanks for the reviews!
Gracie- hahahaha your review was too freaking funny. I'm sorry if I'm not getting the chaps out fast enough, but I work at a camp, and we don't have computers, so I have to write this on my day off!
Calypso in love- LOL, nightmares, huh? I'm truly truly sorry :^P
Michee- I honestly can't believe anyone has read this more than once…. That's simply astounding, it's very flattering, but still surprising, lol!
Honey31- you're not the only one who's printed this monstrosity out, oddly enough! I'm glad you enjoy it!
Lizzi- Well, I'm glad you checked back, too! Sorry abt the delay!
Kearie- Well, it's not that Draco was ever BACK in his good graces, this is kind of the straw that broke the camel's back kind of thing
Darksorceress- No one's going to die! Well, no that's a lie… but Draco won't die, in any event.
Anne- thanks for saying I'm your fave author, it means a lot to me! But, "…Paris" is still wayyyy better, lol.
Rackel- 1. I call her squinny because her nickname is squin, and squinny's just a nickname for her nickname, lol; 2. Yes, I have the epilogue written already; 3. A few people have printed this whole thing out, lol… how many pages was it??
Ryoko- lol, I was afraid I'd lose people during my 2 month break, but I'm glad you came back!! Squinny's pen name is Squin, and she's got a bunch of fabulous stuff. She's a R/Hr shipper (for some unknown reason, lol). But, her stuff is highly recommended, especially the Goddess Diaries, it's hysterical!
Alanna Roseguard- Damn, you've been reading this fic a long time, lol… that's my intelligent comment for the day
VyingQuill- Draco could be 'tan for someone so pale' because he's usually pale, but was surprisingly tan… I guess. And, the first few chaps of this fic reeeeeeeally suck, just in general. Though I'm not sure if you actually finished the damn thing, so I dunno if writing this is relevant or not! Haha, I'm babbling.
Madame Padfoot- I hope you and your husband are enjoying the fic, and this lastest installment wasn't too tedious to read, heehee (
Kikimachi- Well, I HOPE it comes to a definite conclusion, lol… but I think it will, you'll have to let me know!
Amaryllis- hahahahahahahaha I hope your mom doesn't think I'm some horrid trash mouth now!!
Damselindistress-asif- LOL, I know I'm not much of a summary buff… and there will be no angsty ending here, worry not!
Aaaaaaaaaand, of course:
Squin- To whom I have nothing to say! Love ya lots!
