April Showers - R - HarryPotter/DracoMalfoy - oneshot

[screaminglungs]

Title: April Showers
Rating: R
Pairing: Draco/Harry, Hermione/Ron, Ginny and Neville
Summary: Sometimes it takes the rug being pulled out from under you to realise you hated the damned rug to begin with. A wake up call was exactly what Harry needed to get his life back.
Warnings: EWE, slight DH compliant.
Word Count: 10000
Authors Note: Thank you

Comments

[enchanted_jae]

What a lovely story! I like Neville and Ginny together, and Seamus and Dean certainly deserve one another, the big jerks. *kicks their shins* Harry and Draco are, of course, meant for one another, but it was a close call! You kind of scared me with Marcus at first. *gives you a gentle kick in the shin* Ha ha!

[screaminglungs]

Hehe I can't end a fic without scaring someone along the way!!

I like Neville and Ginny, they have always made much more sense to me than Harry and Ginny and I wanted them to be happy... or will they, I am thinking of building on it a little.

Thanks for the lovely comments as always!

[sleepygirl28]

Oh, this was wonderful! My favorite part was the relationship between Harry and Ginny, it was just perfectly balanced. It was obvious that she has certain annoying flaws but Harry loves her anyway. I have never really thought that Harry and Ginny are meant for one another, but neither do I think that they have to be mortal enemies. It's so nice to read a story where things didn't work out between the two of them, and Ginny isn't then made out to be spawn of the devil.

I also love the confusion you gave Harry. A lot of stories make it out to be like Harry magically gets a perfect life after Voldemort is gone but I think he has real issues that need to be dealt with and you dealt with them beautifully.

I found myself at the end, wanting to know more about Draco's past (maybe a sequel one-shot?). He was characterized wonderfully too, and I wanted to know more about him. Anyway, sorry for the ramble, but thanks so much for sharing this, it really brightened up my day.

[screaminglungs]

I definately agree with you on the whole Harry and Ginny front, JK just never sold it to me enough, there was nothing that made me think, yes this is how it was meant to be for Harry. He was always way too obsessed with Draco. Hurrah.

I also don't think that Ginny is some psychotic harpy either!! I think they'd make great friends.

I also agree with you about the issues, how could he have possibly gone through all of that and come out the other side without a hint of an issue that needs to be worked through?

I am thinking of working around this fic with an arc, exploring Neville/Ginny a little more and yeah there certainly wasnt enough Draco for me.

Thank you for the lovely comments :D

[sleepygirl28]

Oh yay! I'll look forward to it :D. I haven't seen a lot of fics which focus on Neville/Ginny, or really focus on Neville much at all. That is unfortunate because he's a really great character, especially after JKR gave him more depth in DH (in fact, I think that book gave him a much broader fanbase, but I guess not many of them carry it over into fiction). And I would really really love to see more of this particular Draco, he really intrigued me. Great job, once again. I'm really excited about what else you may have in store for us!