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Reviews For For Duty and Honor
If this is not going to be a Snape-rescues-Harry story, what would you call it? ^^;
Author's Response: Thank you!
Now that's intriguing. Are we planning a little "Super!Harry" later? ;-) And Miss Sarah Sue Rae cracks me up! Just be careful about any Georgia jokes! ;-) I love it when Harry gets a snake. It's so nice to see an update and I'm glad there are two other stories already in line. Author's Response: No, not really. However, I take a literal interpretation of the prophecy--Harry is Moldie's equal, and the blocks make sense. When a child is told that something is wrong, that it's evil, they will naturally suppress that part of themselves in a desire to please their caregiver. It only makes sense that Harry would repress a good deal of his magic. I think it also fits with the way Harry's been learning magic--I mean, at thirteen he managed a full-fledged patronus, but he had major problems managing a simple summoning charm. Releasing his magical blocks will make things difficult for him for a while, but what it will do eventually is just make learning spells easier for him. I suppose I could easily go Super!Harry, but it doesn't fit into For Duty and Honor. Who knows? Perhaps something of that sort will fit better into the planned sequel, For Honor and Loyalty.
So do I. I will admit that her name is something of a family joke. My brother lived in Greece for two years, and came home claiming that he was going to name his first daughter that, because that's what the Greek slang phrase sounded like that meant "your turn, dude." Her personality came with her name, and since she was obviously a Southern snake with a name like that, I had to find a species of snake that it would work with that grew really big and was horribly poisonous. (Boy-like, Ron and Neville will think that the fact that Harry has a poisonous snake for a pet is absolutely brilliant!)
I don't want to fill too many reviews for the others chapters. Just have to say I loved last chapter were the Weasley threated (promised) harm to Snape for Harry. Keep up the good work Author's Response: Thanks! I like the Weaslesys/Harry relationship, as well as the Trio, so I didn't want those to disappear. And the Weasleys are well aware of Severus's hatred of all things Gryffindor and Harry Potter, so it seemed like the way to go.
I love the snake! She sounds like she'll be an amusing part of the future stories! I'm also impressed at how you write Harry; he seems more realistic given his history than he is when most authors write him. Snape is also very fun to read! Keep up the great work and just keep posting! Author's Response: Thank you. I've tried to keep Harry IC, both as to from the books, and what he's been through. Miss Sarah's personality came with her name, and I expect that Harry will be carrying around antivenom in case of *ahem* accidents. Being an evil, mean, razor-totin' woman, she understands revenge, but not justice, so we may be dealing with snakebite victims if some people *cough*Draco*cough* aren't polite to her nestling. A bite for a slight...
I'm always a little hesitant when a snake as a pet is introduced into these stories. I just wonder how likely they are as pets even in the wizarding world and often they are entirely to smart alecky for my liking. I have to say that so far your snake isn't ringing any of those bells which is very rare! I like her and Severus's interactions. I'm very excited that you've updated, I've always really enjoyed this story and used to review over at FanFiction.net. I hope that you beta is more available soon! Author's Response: I think that Potions masters would keep snakes more than others, due to the usefulness of shed skin and venom as potions ingrediants. Miss Sarah was introduced primarily as a non-threatening person for Harry to confide in. As a general pet, I agree that most people wouldn't keep snakes, especially poisonous ones. She doesn't know everything, far from it, but she is and will be a charmingly narcissistic, fiercely protective presence. Harry finds animals easier to relate to than people, so I just gave him a pet that could answer back. Harry is mistrustful of kindness. He's had so little of it in his life that he just doesn't know how to relate to it. Severus is trying. He's not really comfortable with being Harry's guardian, but he's doing his best for Lily. I would also like to say that he has probably the most experience dealing with kids like Harry out of all the teachers at Hogwarts. While not all abused children end up in Slytherin, and not all Slytherins are abused kids, I would think that a significant portion of the children in that house come from less than ideal conditions at home.
Author's Response: I'll try, but I can't guarentee anything. Chapter seventeen, is right now unbeta'd and not Britpicked.
The snake... I probably wouldn't have made her from the South, ending up in England. :P Silly Snake. I like her color and that she's going to bite anyone who harms Harry. Cute. She seems to be stealing the spotlight for awhile. Author's Response: Unfortunately, that's where coral snakes are from. It only works because she was bought in a pet store, not found somewhere. And being a magical version of the coral snake, it was logical that she'd be in the Magical Menagerie. As Sev pointed out, her venom is a useful potions ingrediant... There are only two native snakes in Britain, and it's illegal to make pets of them. IIRC, they're also non-venomous. I wanted to give Harry a snake that was 1) pretty 2) could grow to be pretty big and 3) was poisonous. Miss Sarah Sue Rae is really there to serve as Harry's confidante--he doesn't trust grown-ups, and she's a very non-threatening person for him to talk to. It's going to take along time to break through Harry's walls. Severus is trying, and it's starting to sink in that Harry is his complete responsibility. He figures that he's already up on the Dursleys by providing Harry with medical care and adequate clothing. |
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