except Shacklebolt, who, tragically, was killed by a tiger while on holiday with Narcissa Malfoy. Narcissa was fine, though she was overheard to say "three down.")

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Snrk ;)

What a talent you have. Your writing is clever, humorous, subversive and with a HEA to boot! Thank you.

Omg, that was fantastic! Lol, never go against the team of Hermione and Narcissa...

ok, the last line? freaking GOLD. LMAO

I've just read Fairy Stone and this, I love love love love. Loved Narcissa in this.

I love the triumph of this story. Especially now, when the world is doing *waves hands* all that. Seeing new charges in Minnesota was encouraging today (I’d have commented yesterday but iNtErUpTiOnS. Seeing crappy laws subverted and then destroyed is glorious. Hermione in the wand shop is great, and the short bits about Narcissa and the exiles have this sneaky power. “They should have killed Narcissa Malfoy” is great. The bit about making partisans is great. There is a lot of between the lines while being clear that feels cheeky and subtle and smart and fun. I’m glad you wrote this.

I love the Department of Mysteries bit almost as much as the ending. S. Both of them.
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Best political take over in all of fiction. And the tiger metaphor you highlighted and then used shamelessly was just perfect too. The bureaucrats not caring about the coup! The Unspeakables super not caring! It was all so funny and perfect! Even the two sentence epilogue which really, really shouldn't be funny but absolutely is.

Thanks for posting this short, serious, yet funny story.

It does indeed enhance it.

It might even be better.

it's funny how harry and neville were considering becoming minister here and both turned it down. in a marauder's plan (that's what i read before this), they both take high positions each in their own place in wizarding britain (in case you haven't read it yet i will not specify). i never would have thought of draco becoming minister but then he was raised to be someone in a high position. the plan was brilliant! again i would like to reiterate that i love dumbledore's army. i hate that fred is dead here because this follows canon but still. they're all as together as they can be. congratulations to the new minister and new regime. sad to see kingsley dead as he was part of the light side in canon but i will never have forgiven such a part in executing the protective custody act. i never really liked narcissa but i do believe i understand that she'll do anything for her son. mothers. go figure.

i hate the fact that the regular citizens didn't know that the ministry is detaining children. actual children. this is like our government. on the verge of martial law right now. i hate it. but then the coup happened and all will be well. i guess there's no point in dwelling in the wrongs of the past. they will be corrected now. hopefully, sooner rather than later. justice served.

dolores umbridge. if i had my way i wouldn't have crucio-ed her immediately. something like the ways of the carrows would be in order first. and then, crucio. let her bleed. feel pain. slowly. maybe i would have used her quill on her. all over her body. till the room reeks of her blood. maybe i would have thrown her to the territory of the centaurs in the forbidden forest again. who knows. but she's dead. and that means is a compromise i'm forced to accept.

have a great life hermione, draco, harry, ron, ginny, neville, luna, all others. love lots! thank you once more for a great story, stacie ,

"I hope he appreciates you," Ronald Ronald Weasley, I love you! He's always a character quick to annoy me but I love him nevertheless! I thought he would be bitter here too but thank god he has someone and he's happy despite having faced a war at a young age of 17-18.

Who are you doing it for, Hermione? For yourself? For everyone else? Just because it's the right thing to do? If the last, then I rally behind you.

"Harry asked. There isn't much I wouldn't do for him," AND THAT MY FRIENDS. Is what I used to ship. Maybe I still do. I just read the wrong fic (not this but a harmony one) to think otherwise. But oh my! MOM! MY HEART!

OH MY GOD LUNA! HI LUNA MY BABY!

WHY DOES RON KEEP ON FLUSHING HES SUCH A CUTE LIL SHIT ! IS THERE SOMETHING GOING ON WITH HIM AND LUNA WHY ARE THEY THERE TOGETHER UWU and i approve

Oops ... okay Ron and Lavender then! AND OH GINNY AND HARRY! YAY

I love the dumbledore army so much! I can never stress that enough! I love you harry potter!

"Things don't stop being wrong because they aren't happening to me,"

Damn ma. Powerful.

Hi Stacie! Thanks for introducing me to dramione, it's a wonderful ship. I've actually read Rebuilding first and I will drop comments soon. I'm sorry for being a silent reader there! I'll make it up with you soon.

For now, I'll read this and be as vocal as possible!

First of all, why is Umbridge still in power? That bitch! I hate her. Ugh. They should be more lenient with Draco. He was a minor when he got himself Marked! They should have taken that into consideration, given that he didn't really kill Albus. Yes, he helped with the Dark side's plans but he was being threatened. This argument is thanks to yours from Rebuilding, by the way. I myself wouldn't bat an eyelid a month prior at this treatment. I never thought I'd actually dwell on dramione but hey! Quarantine makes you do things. I'm glad I did, just in case that still wasn't clear.

On to the next: Harry! Yay! Thanks for letting him be here. I love that boy a lot. Of course he'll do good deeds. He never tires from doing so, huh? He must have done this knowing Draco wanted to change sides but couldn't, or not, just purely his morals acting up. I love him all the more either way.

Hermione getting Draco a wand! Mom! My tears! My heart ;u; and Harry getting Draco's mom out. TTATT must he be so perfectly imperfect?

And of course, your humor is top class! I just really love it! Hahahahaha that scene Draco cooked after Hermione lost the appeal and that scene where Hermione got home and hugged Draco. Stop making me feel so strongly! I'm adkjghdajkgad idk what to do with this much feelings! My heart!

And the double meanings, half meanings GOT ME SCREAMING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA you teenagers !

;u; and the last scene, Draco asking her to kiss him. Mom, I had to read it twice, thrice, four times, before I got what was truly happening IN THIS LIFE! My god! Go get her, lad!

I loved this story. Characters beautifully written, Hermione & Draco together and a happily ever after. Perfect!

Yay :P

Brilliant.