Sweet and relationship-angsty ending... but nicely done furthering the AU plot.

Thank you. I am a fan of angst. ;)

Enjoying the AU outcome of that event. Though his blood was spilled and perhaps could be collected. I do wonder what they will do for the summer, because if she leaves the grounds the watchers might find her... unless perhaps a tailisman is made by some of the teachers?

The watchers aren't looking. Because she died so early, it was barely a blip in the time line to them, the next was chosen within a day of the previous one dying. The summer details are now up in the third story. Thanks for the reviews.

Actually, if you're going to follow parts of the books without much change, I like that most of that happens off camera.

Thank you. The next stories are going to progressively ignore more of the books, so hopefully the format will continue to work as well.

Okay, so Buffy is deliberately Mary-Sue in this story, but the angst and plot combined with the characters are interesting. The everyone can't help but love her and want to protect her (until she ends up loving them all and protecting them all) may wear a little thin on me. I appreciate the effort in twisting the worlds together, and your writing is pretty good.

I wouldn't say deliberately Mary-Sue. I tried to keep it as minimal as possible (you should have seen my first drafts) but I do tend towards Mary-Sueism. And you shouldn't worry about the love and protecting wearing thin, because in the third story Buffy is going to make a big mistake, and the people around her are going to react... well, you'll see. Thanks for the review, and hopefully you'll enjoy what's coming.

Having the phophesy and Buffy being chosen, looks like it will lead to some AU plot.... very interesting.

So very Au. Thanks for the review.

You missed a really imporant word in regards to giving Draco the antidote for the sleeping potion. Also it wasn't clear who brewed it, the students as part of the assignment or if it was given by the teacher.
I am curious if Buffy knows how Harry has been treated by Snape because Giles and Jocye told her, or if it was because of a dream, or if it was because of how Buffy and Harry shared thoughts on the train.

What was the word?

Sorry that it wasn't clear. The assignment was that one student made the sleeping drought, and the other the antidote.

Buffy knows about the treatment by watching them interact and listening to the trios Snape stories. Giles and Joyce had no idea about Harry, and the thoughts on the train were only enough to let them know who they were in relation to each other, not to fill in details of their lives up until that point.

Very interesting AU keeping *most* of the personality traits, but changing the circumstances drastically.

Thank you. I find the best review is that the personality of the characters still comes through the twisting of the universe.

Good story. Thanks for the work.

Thank you. Glad your enjoying it.

Wow....this is amazing.

I usually hate AUs, they take away from the characters and are cliched, boring, and not what I really like to spend my time reading but I adored this one. The story you worked out was easy to picture and follow, you write the characters beautifully and Buffy is still Buffy. I am a fan of the whoe Buffy is a Potter angle and you did it really well.

My favorite thing though would have to be the Buffy/Draco relationship. I am a fan of the pairing and this has got to the best written one I have found so far. You write them so beautifully and believeble. I am a fan of your Draco, you are definitely talented.

Great job and I will look out for the next parts :D

Wow! Uh... Wow! Wow. Thank you so much for the review. I'm glad you enjoyed the story, and hope what's to come doesn't disappoint. I'm always glad to get feedback on my character voices (especially encouraging feedback like that) because that's really all that makes AU still cross over. Stay tuned, more Draco/Buffy to come.

I love this fic. It's wonderful. I really really love how you finished the Challenges for the Tri Wizard Tournament. I am eager to read the next in this series.

Thank you! The next in the series should be updated soon.

Great story! I'm assuming by part 2, you mean Growing Older? I can't wait for that story to be updated! Great writing :)

Thanks. Growing Older will be updated... eventually. Sigh. I have to work on writing the third part, but I should be back to putting it up in December. Thanks for the review.

Oh that was sweet and kind of sad. Poor Draco.

He does get the short end of the Destiny stick some days. But he's in good company. Thanks for the review.

gee, poor Voldy, foiled again. He's about out of options, too (admitted in book #4 that he'd about given up hope at this point). Surely he will prevail!
Might be time to bring something in from the slayer world. Maybe Voldy hires Spike to help him out or something?

No quite Spike. But don't worry about poor little Voldemort. He's got another trick up under his sleeve. Prevailing is his strong suit.

:)

Thanks for the review.

Not to be negitive or anything but with the false Mad Eye out of the way the same things in the race wouldn't have happened. He used the Imperious Curse on Krumb to get him to attack Cedric with the Crutacious. And Mad Eye was behind Flur's defeat also. I can understand it would be easier to write it the same way but it just didn't make sense to me.

aside from that I loved how Draco stood up for Buffy. It was so sweet and how touched he was when she was worried about him.

Oh. I did not read my book closely enough, did I? Hmm. Mmmkay. Right now I'm going to leave that, but thanks for pointing it out. I will go back and fix it, because that wasn't laziness, so much as gross oversight. Sigh. Thanks for letting me know. And I promise, baring blindness or complete amensia, I will fix that.

Thanks for the review.

or maybe that should read that he was safe for now. I have a feeling trouble won't be leaving Harry alone for long.

That was the climax already. I know. It's quick. But the next one is longer. And trouble will be back.