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Reviews For No Difference
I did read a study that said, however, that the more educated a zealot becomes, the more likely they are to become even more zealtous - because they're searching for ways to argue against what it is that they're learning. And hearing the opposite point of view over and over again makes people more stubborn rather than more receptive. Open-mindedness is its own virtue, connected to, but not the same as, being well-informed. -K Author's Response: Most Zealots are converts to zealotry, which is to say they grew up in familes that don't believe as they do and became disenchanted with something about the everyday world. Malfoy is a second generation zealot, and second generation kids like him actually often do become deconverted through information. There is usually a period where their beliefs harden, but then they pass through it and start opening up to new ideas. This is especially true after profound shocks, as the events of the previous year must have been. (I have my degree in the social sciences, can you tell?)
Author's Response: *shrug* learning about him will certainly do Draco good.
And poor Harry and Snape getting all kinds of threats. :( That's never any fun. But I did think it was funny Harry didn't really know what to say to Snape so he told him about tossing the howlers out the window. XD SLAM! Poor Harry...but it was amusing. But YAY!! Teddy's going to come back. YAY TEDDY!! I hope it's full of fluff. But then I always like babies in stories...I just not so good with them in real life. :S Another excellent chappie! Author's Response: Stalk really does rock, doesn't he? Draco won't know what hit him with that book. Harry's at the point now where he's trying, but he doesn't know how to go about it. If only it wasn't Snape. I wrote the chapter with Teddy right after visiting my baby nephews, but it's not as fluffy as most kidfic.
Author's Response: This story cleaves pretty close to canon, including the epilogue, (the only difference is that I suppose Albus Severus would have a different middle name) so, I hate to disappoint you, Harry will get back together with Ginny. Yes what she did was inexcusable, especially the spying itself. She will come to her own mental and emotional reconciliation with this fact and grow up for it. She still really is a child, and all the more so because everyone around her, including Harry, kept her deliberately childlike. Her outburst in the common room was neither malicious nor planned. I come from a family in which nearly everyone yells when we’re mad, and we yell exactly what we’re mad about for the whole world. Because of this, no one in the family is ever angry for long, but dozens of hurtful secrets have been thus revealed. Ginny is this way. When she’s angry, things she doesn’t intend to say come out. And I believe I did mention that Snape at least thought she deserved to be expelled several times over, but he couldn’t prove any of it, because no one who could would speak against her. I rally have shown Ginny’s worst side in this fic, and Harry would deserve far better if that were her only side, but she does have others. More importantly, she will grow up.
Author's Response: There are many sorts of ambition and cunning, aren't there? I like writing Stalk out-Slytherin Draco, but this story isn't really about Draco, so I don't think I'll be writing much more of him in it, though I might have Snape make a snide remark about his new choice of reading material.
Author's Response: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. Actually, I wasn't planning to write any more of Draco, and actually, I only have a few chapters to go. draco isn't my favorite character to write. I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the chapter after next for Teddy and Andromeda. You know, as much as I like conflict(it's a requirement, it is) I don't like conflict within the trio. I'm glad they made up too. Poor Ron and Hermione. they were trying so hard.
Author's Response: Oh don't worry, it won't end up as Bad!kidfic. I have year old nephews, so I know how they act, but it will mostly be Harry, Andromeda, and Harry's conscience. Snape and Harry will be back soon, and after the trip to Andromeda's, it will be almost entirely Harry and Snape again. I'm gatting close to the end of the fic.
Author's Response: Harry's just the sort of person to whom it wouldn't occur to him to move. The life he wants and the people he wants are in Britain, so that's where he will stay. Draco doesn't get away with it. This sort of detention will be very hard on him indeed. |
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