I've been going through the crack_broom memories over on livejournal whenever I get bored and want so good fic and found this hidden away a bit. Ever since reading a fantastic Hermione/Millicent fic, I've looked for good Millicent fics where I can. I'm so glad I found this one. It's really well portrayed. She's not shown as something she's not. She's big, tough and not very social, but you managed to bring out the relateable, human aspects of her character. Most authors focus on characters where this has been done in the source material or at least strongly in fanon, but I appreciate the care shown to one of the more difficult characters in this sense.
The romance novel ending was worked in so well. I admire your subtlety as an author, for the ending, but also for the smoothness of your story and pacing, never pulling the reader out to explain a crucial detail, but simply working it in so that nothing distracts the reader from the story, only adding to it.