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Just rereading ur work and tearing up once again how painful it was for Ginny to read Smita’s letter of goodbye and be safe before Ginny had to go back to Hogwarts. Like their friendship is so beautiful and it pained me to see how their lives were already splitting off from one another before the summer of the wedding, yet they still managed to keep in touch and not lose each other (that was until the war). It’s more heartbreaking to know how much Ginny needed Smita during the year snape took over but of course she was relieved that Smita never went through the cruelties that she had to endure. UGH EMOTIONS thank you for writing them

I'm so glad you enjoy them! I think we often only get one kind of friendship in our fiction--the ride or die, walk to the ends of the earth kind of friendship we get with the golden trio. Which is so lovely. But there are many kinds of friendships. There are friendships that get separated by circumstances. There are friendships that have to get put aside in the name of family. There are friendships that change and grow, and sometimes apart. These are all valuable and important too, and normal. I'd hate anyone to feel they 'failed' friendship but not conforming to the Harry-Ron-Hermione ideal of friends for eternity.

Ginny and Smita's friendship might look different, but it doesn't mean they love each other any less.

i was really surprised that ginny and smita’s friendship faded bc i’m so used to characters becoming best/forever friends with the first person they become attached to. why did you decide to have smita exit ginny’s life? and do you think tobias and ginny would still have the same friendship they do now if smita was still friends with them?

I think that was the reason why? In fic things are always so ‘forever’ in ways that are not always true in real life. Considering we have Harry, Ron, and Hermione who have a rough start but are then besties for life, I wanted to show that not all friendships go that way. It’s actually much more common to have people in our lives who are so important for a period of time, but then not anymore. Whether that is moving away, growing apart, having a nasty fall out, or what, it does happen. And it’s natural and doesn’t have to be dramatic, and you can still love people deeply and have them just have a different place in your life than they used to.

I think Tobias and Ginny would have still been friends, but it would have been different. They went through the gauntlet together, so to speak. But with Smita still in the picture, I don’t think Tobias would have pulled the double agent thing. And he wouldn’t have been forced to open up to Ginny in ways he normally wouldn’t have. And the same goes for Ginny.