LOL, it's been so long I hardly remembered helping you with this chapter! ;-) Poor Harry--"I'm fifteen, you know!" Man, you're going to give the boy a complex! I think it would have been better if he didn't remember being older, in a sense--so that he didn't feel so conflicted. Then again, there is the issue of him being MUCH more vulnerable in that case--I'm surprised they'll let him out of their sight at all, much less if he were *actually* six years old!
On to the next chapter, now!
Author's Response: Whoooo!!! Vulnerable!Harry yay! Let's bring on the complex!
Hmm. Snape reminds me of my dad, only he (Snape) is never in a good mood. :-P But when my dad is in a bad mood, he gets into this mode where he just wants to make everyone else miserable (as miserable as he, presumably, is). So I can completely understand where poor Harry is coming from. It's a good thing he doesn't have a long time with Snape, as he's not going to create any *better* behavioral patterns with Snape than he did with the Dursleys. Just different, really. Okay, on to the next chapter now!
Author's Response: Well I think that Snape will mellow out a little bit so it won't really hurt Harry to spend any long time with him. He will have to get used to having such a strict person looking after him- in the long run if he stayed years with Snape as a child it might do something but as this will only be 2 months (less really) it won't hurt him. Plus he has Hoppity as a balencing influence, as well as all the other children's parents around.
Well, Snape using magic is certainly not going to last long. :-P Aww, and poor Harry, not feeling comfortable on the bed. Was he just too tired, before? Why isn't crawling under the covers good enough?
I love how the perspectives of each character are so different. You do such a good job especially of capturing child!Harry and confused!Hoppity. ;-) I want to keep reading! (It really is a test of my patience to try to review every chapter--I just want to click to the next one!)
Author's Response: Yay! Thank you. :D
Abused children will often sleep under beds... it's like a way that they feel safer. Harry is more likely to miss the closed in feeling he used to have with his closet when he was a child and especially since as he is now smaller, everything seems much much bigger. It's a new place, a new room, and he's had alot going on. He might just feel an urge to have somewhere safe to rest. Well, safer.
Gah, my brain is so fried. Remind me to review this chapter again when it's less fried--it was fun to read things that I definitely had not read before, though. :-)
Author's Response: Fried brain, fried brain! *tap dances on it*
| Title: In Which Bad Choices Are Made
| 25 Jan 2005 11:27 pm
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| Reviewer: Carolyn (Anonymous)
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I love this story! I just found it recently and I am so glad you have not given up on it! I think your characterization of Snape is perfect. I look forward to reading your next chapter!
Author's Response: Yay! Thank you Carolyn! :)
"Headmaster, I'm not sure that I like that deaged part. What does that mean? Won't I loose my memories?"
I liked that bit of dialouge there. A valid question that I probably wouldn't have thought about hehe. That would be crazy if he did lose all his memories! Maybe some would be better off being gone! :) But then would Harry be the same kid we all know and love? Hmmm..... thanks for making me think ;)
Author's Response: *dances around* Yeah, losing all his memories is definitely something to think on... thanks for the review! :D
This is just a wonderful chapter and I really can't wait to see what Snape is going to do. I read this last night, but I was too sleepy to leave a coherent review.
I also loved the interaction between Harry and that bully. It's good to see him standing up for himself
Author's Response: Thank you, thank you! Harry standing up for himself.. yeah that was a good thing of you to mention. The Bully's going to do something tomorrow and I have to remember that Harry can stand up for himself. Thanks for reading the chapter! :)
trampolines? ouu fun. you know...once there was a big thunderstorm on a memerial day. My friend and I had planned to go swimming at my one cousins. But as it was raining we weren't suppose to. Only we didn't care and wnet and had fun. A trampoline that's wet is kinda fun. hehe. A wittle Harry! yay!
Author's Response: You know, when you said a "widdle Harry" I thought you said a "widdle wet Harry"! Hahahaa... that would be cute though...
haha. Hoppity mange them. I'm thinking not. And I don't think it got through my head the past two times I read it...but you put colonies...I like. :D
Author's Response: thankyou! :D
hehe. she is her name. no other words for her. Hoppity is hoppity all the way.
Author's Response: Hehehe... now do you think more of a frog or a rabbit when you hear that name?
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