Love it! Please continue!

My goodness, a happy ending!

Not really for Bellatrix, but then she did get two slave girls and was quite horrible to them and Hermione. She also gets to -possibly- reunite with Lily so there is that.

You really know how to spin a tale. Consider rejoining in 2012?

What's gonna happen next?

/This is what the little one would have over her.

"Leave her to me," she said coldly./

Damn! You don't disappoint :D

Good introduction of the two. I wonder what you plan for Hermione...

Ah so this explains it; part dream and part memory.

Ginny went with Dean to try and forget Hermione :0

I thought she was trying not to forget her to escape Bellatrix. She obviously has a lot going on though, so I can't fault her for illogical actions.

Love hurts eh? Especially when one's confessing it while balling and apologizing.

Just dove right in to it. I would have liked to see how Bellatrix apprehended Ginny (is she at Hogwarts or at Bella's estate?) as inevitable as the outcome is.

The ending line was really accurate when it says, "as she came the world vanished and she was gone." No more Ginny, hello Lily.

I like that you show Bellatrix is aware that Ginny isn't the same as Lily. Even though Bellatrix doesn't seem to remember Lily as Lily. She is starting to remember a little.

Bellatrix's mind is very confused in what she wants Ginny for, but she wants her.

I like the pet name of "little one".

Because Hermione and Ginny's 'relationship' is so precarious, it will help to isolate Ginny and allow Bellatrix to ensnare her easily.

It was good to see Bellatrix actually plotting on how to get at the "little one," through Draco. It shows that her mind isn't all gone.

Mmm, what a way to begin!

/her way of driving all the boys to distraction was irritating, infuriating, especially to Ginny who couldn't help but be drawn to her despite herself./

That's cool, I like that Fleur's actual thrall is affecting Ginny since she's attracted to women.

With all of Ginny's pent up (except when she self-satisfies) sexual tension, I'm expecting an agressive approach to happen with her towards Hermione. I wonder if Bellatrix will exploit the Hermione love/lust to get Ginny in her web.

Here it is...

/She wove her fingers through Hermione's, the girl not resisting, not pulling away, but not responding./

...

/And Ginny was an explorer, discovering uncharted territories, placing her flag on Hermione's stomach, the hollow between her breasts, mapping the long slope of her side, the ridge and valley of her collarbones, claiming her./

Yeah!

I like that they didn't really talk, they didn't stop, and Ginny was so enthralled that she didn't really open her eyes until it was to stare at the sky again.

Hermione is in for a treat, until Bellatrix throws them all in a blender.

I wonder how this Bellatrix thrall is transferring to Ginny...

Is it conscious on Bella's part? Is she like a reincarnation of Lily? (That could help explain the Harry Potter closeness that turns platonic-not that any explaining needs to happen since she isn't attracted to boys much)

Bellatrix's rage is so misguided:

/she forgot about the boy, all Bellatrix wanted was to kill this mirror of the girl, to make her pay for the fate of the one she had held so closely./

She should be killing Voldemort, but he mind fucked her too good.

I like how Ginny is seducing Hermione. I like how nervous Hermione is; she really is conservative.

This is pretty powerful as it's the first time these word are 'heard' by Bellatrix and not only from her reading the other's mind.

/Bella would see the piercing green of her eyes, the words urgent, undulating, making the air ripple—

Bella, Bella I love you/

How sad that all that love and devotion, and Bellatrix only has a feeling of the memory, not real memories.

I like how you tie in the hatred of Harry Potter to your previous story's explanation. It really serves to make sense of it all.

I like how you led up to the moment of Bella's freedom.

Very funny!

/"At least one person in this house has been eating like that since before I was born," she said. "It just becomes part of the landscape."/

/Ginny's imaginary charting reignited the ember low in her belly, the map of Hermione's body was the map of a strange continent, dark and mysterious. Ginny wanted to feel all of it, to explore it, to possess Hermione with her hands and understand a girl's body better than she understood a boy's./

Great imagery.

And Jesus, they need a muggle-lock on the door. I'm feeling very frustrated for them both.

Hey look, it is a muggle-lock! :D

And Ginny shoots and gets the shy shoulder. Oh, well, there's hope.

Except that this story has Bellatrix coming into it, so perhaps there isn't any hope...not for a happily ever after anyways.

Good depiction of the simple/complex life of a teenager before things really start to spiral out of control.

I've read both this and Blood Memory before it in one go, I couldn't stop until I'd finished! The way you incorporated most of what actually happens in the series was excellent, and I love the Lily/Bellatrix and Hermione/Ginny pairings especially with Ginny and Lily being somewhat similar in looks and attraction to Bellatrix but so different in their outcomes. Great stories, thank you

Amazing story. I'm so happy that love triumphed.