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I finished Rising From Ashes that night. Too depressed to write about the ending here, but this is what I tried to write the author on their message files:

Hi. I heard about your story a very long time ago, but only
recently managed to access it. I read the first three chapters one
day, then tonight read the rest - all the way to the end. The time
is 4:07 a.m.

It's difficult to know where to start - one, I'm already a fan of
your writing, I easily point to your story The Very Secret Diary as
the best-written fanfiction I've ever read. Not to mention it's
utterly gripping and had me enthralled the entire time I read it and
then some time afterward.

I'll give you my honest opinion of this. The prequel and beginning
chapters were simply mediocre - not terrible, and certainly not
great. I can frankly compare it to Cassandra Claire's story: the
beginning of her trilogy is not good at all compared to the latter
half. And yours is a little worse in the beginning than hers.

But it did get better. My first especial appreciation came during
one of the Quidditch matches - where Draco sits behind Ginny and
they end up touching. I felt I could connect with their emotion, in
my own experience, which is a definite plus for the author.

The summit of it all happens the first night they meet in the
storeroom - the makeout scene rivals none. I was grinning so much
through it. There are witnesses online who can tell you how I
declared to them how it made me miss my lover, and made me want to
have beautiful sex. And I saved it.

I read on, and on. The angst that happened is very understandable -
conflicts. However, the ending - well, what happened is also
understandable - it's the fact that it _was_ the ending.

I had this recommended to me as the best Draco/Ginny story out
there. How could the best story end so depressingly?

Of course, you're not responsible for that. You may not have meant
this to be a serious Draco/Ginny story at all. I did read your
conversation with your co-writer - this was a spin-off, I
understand, though I wonder if that remained what it was or if it
grew into something else.

However, I do hold you responsible for building up such a powerful,
passionate, fantastic, beautifully written relationship - and then
dashing it merrily and by all appearances, without regret against
the rocks.

For that, I will not forgive you.

Of course, I could hope I'm wrong about that being the last
chapter. But the date for it gives me little hope.

It is late. I won't forget this read. I'm still mainly bitter
about it.

But thank you for a beautiful, beautiful make-out scene.

message files The ending...was unbelievably terrible. I could not believe the proclaimed best Ginny/Draco story could end that way.

They broke up, it put it plainly. In a very irreversible way. Their meeting place was burned. Draco absolutely blew Ginny off. It was awful.

It was also highly realistic. I hate the authors for it, but it was. They even admitted they weren't Ginny/Draco shippers. So their purpose in writing the story is clear: "You want a Ginny/Draco story? Here's how it goes, fuckers."

And it nearly killed me. Yesterday, I could not stop thinking about it. It was driving me mad. There was only one way I could make peace with Ginny/Draco and my mind.

I wrote another story.

I wrote it like I wrote Someone to Look Up To. Except I couldn't do it all in one night, so I wrote the rest this morning. And it's all done. About five pages, front and back, on notebook paper. I'll type it up when I have time and send it to fanfiction.net and Fiction Alley.

Only thing it's lacking is a title. I want to title it, "The Success of Ginny/Draco - Screw You, Arabella and Jedi Boudceau," but that wouldn't fit. So I'll probably pick part of the lyrics to a song.