I need to take a moment here.

Lucy is my favorite, because she is just this kick ass independent person, who is able to take things as they are and finances traveling the world by being my bartender (this is actually my dream in life so).

And Lysander's social awkwardness would have been enough to make me read this all on it's own, like the scene with the cigarette? I was grinning so hard.

The story about Lily making her dragon breathe fire was beyond brilliant because that is exactly Lily in my head, I'm also glad she grew up eventually because so often people don't bother showing that part and it leaves me feeling depressed.

And the twins, poor Willow, her randomly showing up at the coffee shop when she should be at school and Lysander being witty (he was wonderful for that whole conversation, especially after she called his bull, which made me like /her/ more and you can see how this is sort of becoming a cycle).

Also, Lysander working at a coffee shop, because I have all sorts of romantic notions about coffee shops and people who work at them and this solidified that.

I have more feelings about lots of things in this that I may or may not articulate in a different review but this is becoming very rambly so I'm going to refrain from stating them here.

And that gives me an excuse to read it again so there's that.

Thank you for writing and posting and being amazing.

This was absolutely beautiful! It was a poignant and heartbreaking story without ever venturing into melodrama, and I love that it had a happy ending without sacrificing the angst and realism that was present throughout. Basically I guess what I'm trying to say is that it was a perfect balance of everything that's good in a story!

I think I liked the Lily section (chapter 1) best, though the Lucy part was really gripping and I felt like Lysander's voice came across really well in his section. The first section was just stunning though, and I love the fact that Lysander and Lily don't even speak to each other at all for such a long time. It's a really original idea for a romance story, and one that I don't think I've ever seen before - that two people can fall in love and have such an intense relationship even if they don't really talk to each other except for for one night on the last day of seventh year.

I also was happy to find that I genuinely liked all of the characters in this. Usually, in love triangles, I find myself rooting for one character and/or hating at least one of them. But this made me love Lily and looooooove Lucy's character and I never got annoyed with Lysander for being stuck in the center, which almost always happens to me in stories like this.

This is really good!

This was absolutely stunning. I loved the characterizations of Lily, how she changed over the course of the three oneshots. She was so much calmer by the end. I love how you characterized Lysander, too.

I love the idea of him going away for awhile, and the little girls were so amazingly written. Everything was so well done, and it all flowed. I wish I could write like you.

Amazing work.

So, I'm on to reviewing part three, and while I still have the chance can I just tell you how much I absolutely love the title and description? I was stalking your profile and that's what had me wanting to read this. That and the whole Lilysander part. :P

I love how he was a wandmaker, and I love how he quit it too. I love how he moves to a different place to get away from it all. I just love him.

And I love how you start it with Sage and Willow because they're so cute and adorable and /ten/ and they make me smile a lot and yeah.

Their story is probably one of the most heartbreaking I've read, and especially the most in this story, because it's just... can't you just imagine a sibling being magical and you not? And the hurt only multiplies when you're twins, I'd imagine, and Willow is so lucky to have someone like Lysander around to show her how awesome life actually is so that she doesn't turn out like Petunia or someone because that'd just be a tragedy, no? :P

And I also love the little tidbit about Teddy being a potions professor not because it's really relevent but because I love knowing all of these little details and they make it seem so real, and your story does seem real, if you didn't notice from the fact that I just treated Willow and Sage as practically canon. I'm just waiting for the FF people to add them to the character list, kthanks. ;)

Notice how the review's getting longer and longer each chapter- that's 'cause you're just amazing and IDEK.

And then when Lily comes in just ASDFGHJKL and how he misses her when she walks out, but also how she makes Willow feel better and you can just tell that from that little 20 minutes time of walking and the little conversation beforehand Willow just adores Lily and i would too, and I'm so glad that Lily seems happier, and her being an auror just seems perfect, doesn't it?

And, backtracking a little, but the fact that Lucy and Lysander still stay in touch is just perfect. :) Because it shows that there's little to no resentment which is necessary 'cause it's not true of Lily and Lysander and it seems a little like they're shown to contrast because they do and yeah.

And then just the whole ending because asdfghjkl it's perfect and lilysander for the win, and just thanks so much for writing this. :)

Favourite line:

"Right now I don't want to do much but keep you here for a while."

And yeah, I'll end this now. :)

-Amy

So, here I am reviewing chapter two, and can I say that I absolutely love this one too? I love Lucy and her personality and everything about her because she's just so perfect and I don't even know.

I love how she quit the ministry and then went on to work in a bar of all places, because it seems sto strange for a Ravenclaw to be fine with working in a bar and happy and content there as she saves up to travel which is another bit of brilliance on her character, might I add. :0

She's just so unique and quirky, and she intrigues me, I dont' even know why. And how she doesn't want to settle down so she breaks up with Lysander to go travel? That was even more perfect. I love the words she greets him iwth too. The whole 'your a Scamander, right?' because it just seemed so perfect. And how she ignored other people waiting in the line to talk to him, haha, just brilliance, i don't even know. :)

And, like, Lucy and Lysander, just the way they talk to each other seems so real and I just love it, just saying. Agh, thank you for writing this piece and if you can't imagine I love this way more than I thought I would, haha. :P

-Amy

'Kay, so first of all, I just want you to know that I think you're an amazing writer and you will forever and always be one of the ten or so people on my favourites list because I love nextgen and I love your writing, just saying. :)

I also loveloveloveadore Lilysander so when I first opened this I was excited 'cause, y'know one of my fav writers writing one of my favourite pairings? What's not to love, right? But also a little wary, 'cause what if you have it end up Lucysander instead of Lilysander? I might cry. ;)

First of all, can I say that I love your Lily? She's so messed up and broken and it's kind of beautiful. :)

I love how you describe her and her obsession with Ly and I love how you have them start talking again, it's so wonderfully written that it almost seems real. :)

favourite line:

And so it's strange that he is one of her favourite people, but it also isn't, because she is Lily Potter, she is a Slytherin, she likes sprouts and sour sweets and hates tea. She is contradictory, so of course she likes Lysander best of all.

But really, I just love the whole thing! Off to review the next chapter now.

-Amy

Fuuuuuuuuudge - this was good! I read it yesterday but I didn't have the words to review.

The whole moving from the city, away to a little town where he can just do his own thing, is one of my favourite things for some unknown reason. And Willow and Sage are so great, except I couldn't help but feel sorry for Willow being jealous (not so much the not having magic part, but the fact that she felt she was missing out on so much). I mean, it would, arguably, be harder for her than it ever was for Petunia because at least she and Lily weren't twins.

The fact that they called him out on being a wizard was also great, especially since he was like 'is it really that obvious?', but I love how he became like a big brother to the girls. Especially Willow. That just makes me all teary - it's so sweet and lovely and I WANT TO CUDDLE HIM.

And Lily. I'm sort of glad - even though I preferred Lucy on the whole, Lily is definitely the match in this story.

Oh, Lysander/Happiness, what a chapter you do make.

Brilliant writing; I still don't think I found the 'right words', but at least there are 'some words' now.

GAH THIS IS BEAUTIFUL :) and sad :( I couldn't believe how perfect this is - I know I've kind of had situations like that and wished it turned into something like that! I absolutel this :)

Okay so I may be wrong, but I quite possible love this even more than the last chapter. I mean, it's an incredibly tough call, because everything you write is my favourite, and it's Lily and then it's Lucy and, argh, you know you write too convincingly? Like every time I read something new by you my head goes "right, that's it, they're my new OTP" and then you write something that contradicts it and I sit dithering for ages and then decide /that/'s my new OTP and, I just, I don't know how you do it but I love you for it.

So onto the actual story - oh, how can I tell you the ways I loved it? Everything about it, really. I love that Lucy's a bit older than Lysander - usually it's the other way around but I really, really like it like this. You make it very believable and Lucy in particular I just adore. I love that she's working in a bar, love that she doesn't speak to him the first time, love that she can't tell the difference between the twins (especially that, I dunno why, it just stuck out for me!). Her personality is fantastic. I think that's what I love about your characters - they're all so different and complex and I feel I could examine all the aspects of their personalities for hours and still not understand them which is perfect, because that's how people /are/. And this Lucy, I don't know why, but I love her more than usual. I love her messiness and her hatred of working in the Ministry and her aims to travel and her sort of acceptance of the inevitable, first with going out with him again and then sleeping with him and then breaking up and, I don't know, it's almost like there's something a tiny bit sad about her even though she seems perfectly content.

And Lysander - well, you already know I love him, but here he's so aldskhg;ka and gah and he's still messed up over Lily and he's all obtuse and going to bars and being embarrassed and the thing with the cigarette and, okay, please can I just run away with him and marry him? HE'S SO PERFECT.

I loved the sequence of events here - and also their settings. Do you have any idea how good you are at imagery? Actually, I'm not sure that's the right word, but what I basically want to say is that whenever you write a place into your stories I can literally /see/ it - the slightly dingy bar with the sticky countertop and Lucy's incredibly messy flat and just all of it. It's like the atmosphere of those place leaks out of your words and all around me. I adore that about your writing. You can literally get lost in it, it creates whole new worlds around you.

This is another point about atmosphere but a slightly different one - you do it with emotions too! Anything you want us to feel, I swear, I feel it so much and I really can't understand how you do it but I want you to never stop. The way this one is written in particular I adore, I have to say - it's like, it's generally happy on the surface, but there's a real undercurrent of unhappiness and malcontent and I love it. I don't know if that's deliberate or I'm reading too much but all of it, from Lysander's attitude to the break up at the end, it just, wow. Seriously. You're amazing.

I've been rambling for too long but basically I loved this. I love your Lucy, I love your Lysander, and let me say THANK YOU again because, ohmygod, this is the most amazing thing ever and I really don't deserve it but thank you thank you thank you you're amazing.

Holy moly. You're turning me into such a fanatical Next-Gen reader! This is *amazing*.

The way Lily and Lysander's peculiar non-relationship starts so far back, and continues all through school until that point where Lils - decisive, destructive, shining Lily-Luna - makes her move, is so nicely done.

The background is different and intriguing, though Lily is a still a raging mess of a girl, and the whole ending to that is just... surprising, but at the same time it's not because it's *Lily* and it really, honestly feels like her.

As for LysanderLucy, I kind of adored their chapter. It's a little bit like healing, but also a warning and a nudge in the direction of self-affirmation.

The fact that Lucy is working in the bar despite her Ravenclaw sorting is a nice touch, especially when she's explaining herself to Lysander, and the build up of their relationship is lovely and, like Lucy says, "ordinary". It was sort of needed though, following the spontaneity of Lily-Luna.

The idea of them being impermanent is a spectacular way to go about the relationship, and I love Lucy all the more for her insights in this fic, I really do. Regardless of the coming chapter, I think this might be my favourite, but we'll see - I don't want to speak too soon!

But yeah, the final conversation between Lucy and Lysander was just brilliant. Speaking of which, it makes me so happy that you have them say 'Brill'; I keep using it and my mates continue face-palming every time I do, but I love it.

Superb writing.

Awww, poor silly Lily...there are more ways than one to self-destruct. And poor Lysander! lol

Okay, Jenny. I have been trying to decide what to say for about twenty minutes now. Because, god, I just love this so much and I feel like all my usual gushing won't be sincere enough because I need you to know, really properly know, how much I adore this.

I still can't believe you really actually wrote Lysander for me, and not just Lysander but LysanderLily and LysanderLucy and even LysanderHappiness, which I don't see much! You just, argh. You're an amazing, amazing person and I don't deserve you as a friend. I wish I could find words to thank you enough for this. I don't know how! I still, just, I love you so much, thankyouthankyouthankyou.

But this - this is /flawless/. I swear. The whole of has such atmosphere - like I can actually feel the walls of the classroom around me and hear the silence between the two of them and, I just, it's like being picked up and placed right in the middle of all the events. The dust and the corridors and the parties - everything comes so alive when you write it and I don't know if you know it but your writing is the most visual I've ever seen, if that makes sense. Even out of authors of my favourite books, they don't do that as well as you. You make it so that I can hear the noises and feel the music in my chest and be aware of the castle all around me and I don't know how you do it but I am in awe of you for it and it is one of the many reasons why I love to read your writing so much.

Your characters, of course, are equally flawless - if not more so. Lily, Lily, Lily - she's perfect. I could not imagine her better. She just burns and blazes at the centre of this and carries it along so brilliantly. She's so intriguing and private and deep and I love all the facets of her character that you just reveal, piece by piece until we have an almost-but-not-quite complete picture of her. Her mysteries make her even better and more interesting and she's just so vital and alive I can barely believe it.

And then Lysander - oh, Lysander! Can I just marry him? He's just so, ooh, I don't even know the right adjective to describe him. He's so wonderfully aloof and removed from it all and I just adore the way Lily likes him because he doesn't notice her. And then the way they have a little contest about being early to class and then he speaks and, God, when she couldn't talk back I was actually just sitting here like "LILY NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING COME ON WOMAN TALK, TALK!" and it made me so sad that she didn't talk back. But Lysander, the whole way through, he was just so magnificent and I was rooting for them so hard by the end and I was unutterably sad that Lily didn't stay to talk, but I think it added to the story when re-reading to know that all this time she tries so hard and then when it comes to it, she just can't deal with it. It's very Lily and my heart broke for Lysander but, as always, I love the ending even though it makes me sad!

And your minor characters too, they are just fantastic. I love Bee Zabini, and I hope to see more of her in the future! And I always adore seeing Ris and Hugo appearing - Ris is canon in my head now, I do hope you realise - and all the others who come in even for a second. They contribute so hugely and you weave them in so seamlessly, it astounds me every time. It's like you've taken the world that JKR invented and created your own new one inside it or overlapping with it. I'm telling the truth when I say I like your world better. Your characters are so intriguing and some of them almost dark but still so incredibly, compulsively readable that it takes my breath away every time.

I loved every second of this. I am so excited to see the next two parts of it too! This one, though - I just, I love Lily, and Lysander, and I still can't believe you wrote this for me. I don't know how to thank you enough, I really really don't.