This is quite good. I often don't care, when reading fanfiction, if the characters stay exactly true to canon characterization. However, you do such a good job of staying close to the canon characters that I have admire your technique.

A very sweet piece overall - just what I was in the mood for this particular evening. And the little side morsels (e.g. Khazad-dum) added just that bit of extra flavor . . .

I love tonks

I really love your story. You did such a wonderful job with the characters and there was no character bashing. The story was creative and the romance was sweet. Harry wanting to learn to write "I love you" in elvish was the sweetest.

i think harry was right to yell at Ginny cause whould hat fore some one to meddle in my date

couldn't read past first 2 paragraphs -made no sense

This is the best fanfic I've read to date. I really hope there's a sequel. If not I hope to see one... no pressure.

I am not sure if you meant to to it, but after a letter there is a Post Script (PS) followed by a Post Post Script (PPS) and so on. As it is a fairly old tradition, and one that is based in Latin, I would have thought that Wizards would be aware of it. You may have been trying to show further ineptitude from the wizards but I don't feel that it is needed.

Herald

staying up late to read this :p

love this to death

I guess it makes a certain amount of sense. I mean Harry has been lied to and manipulated, especially emotionally, by just about everyone his whole life.

If you took out the obvious setup at the beginning as well as Harry giving a dumb smile and being thankful everyone basically effed him over just to stay in a relationship, you'd have a great story. True you wouldn't have had the emotional build up going from chapter thirteen to fourteen, but I think it would have been a good tradeoff to lose the dross. As it stands now, the title of this piece should have been "Harry Potter and the Codependent Relationship" since that's basically what you've set he and Luna up with (and totally managed to suck all the romance out of the fic in one go). I'm curious, would it still be "healthy" and "romantic" if down the road a married Harry and Luna found out Harry was sterile and so Tonks and Luna and Ginny decide to enact a brilliant plan to cuckold Harry and let him raise some other man's bastard kids as his own? It's just a little lie that will eventually make him happy after all!

Basically, a well written piece that is almost totally ruined by having a two paragraph resolution to a major emotional issue (trust) that for a character like Harry in particular should have led to months if not years of conflict before resolution. Wanting a quick resolution for a "happy" ending basically guts the story, which would have been better served if you'd left that element out entirely.

I enjoyed this story. Good job keeping the characters believable and in-canon. The story had an off-beat quality to it that is much like Luna herself. Who knew goblins were so powerful against dementors? ... and hid their ATCMs under the counters of the information booths at the malls.

By the time my da got the courage to explain it to me had already gotten some so it was all rather pointless and vaugely disturbing

Shouldn't they pick another place since Ginny has insured the DEs already know where the date is taking place?

This looks like a really subtle attempt to both ruin Harry's date and let Voldemort know that Luna would make an excellent hostage or someone to kill to hurt Harry.

You know at some point I expect Harry to point out that being raised in a closet and called freak for the better part of a decade before joining another world and fighting for your life every year may have left him somewhat socially stunted, and god knows it's funny to laugh at his awkward social scenes, since good humor is hard to come by, but he'd really appreciate someone explaining whatever it is he's missing as the only examples for how to behave he's had for most of his life were Vernon and Petunia and his present examples include Dumbledore and Snape.