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Reviews For No Difference
-K Author's Response: I have no memories of my own childhood, and at the time not a whole lot of experience with babies. What I did have at the time were twin nephews who I was (and still am, but now the're in grade school and they have a new baby sister, who is also enthralling) enthralled by and was quickly making up for my lack of experience by being with them every chance I got. I was so gaga over them that I ended up deciding to become a teacher. I was doing a lot of observing.
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?)
There are a sprinkling of homonym errors throughout, but given the age of this, for all I know you're perfectly aware of them by this point. :) -K Author's Response: I don't know why I didn't respond to this at the time (actually I do. My health was none too good there for a while, and by the time it was, I had forgotten about this review, sorry) Thank you so much. This was my first ever fanfic, and I learned so much writing it, that it feels weird having people come back and complement it. Yeah, there are a few spelling and homonym errors, but at this point, I am way too lazy to fix them. I might make the attempt once I'm out of school and not neck deep in the Avatar: the Last Airbender fandom.
Author's Response: A lot of what the Gryffindors did is the fallout of Snape having been in charge of the school under Voldemort, where torture was a casual thing. Ginny is traumatized and nobody else seems to see this as a problem. So she lashes out. We like Snape. We know he did what he could. But to Ginny, he's someone to be terrified of. It's a bad situation all around.
Author's Response: *shrug* learning about him will certainly do Draco good.
Author's Response: Hermione has been confronted with a dangerous mystery she has had to solve regardless of the people telling her not to at least once a year since she was eleven. It builds up a habit. Ginny, meanwhile, has been treated by her boyfriend as a child and less than his friends for a year, an she spent that year in Voldemort's version of Hogwarts because of it. There's a lot of resentment there.
Author's Response: Yeah, the thought pleases neither of them.
Author's Response: Hermione is too curious for her own good, and has had that behavior repeatedly positively enforced over the course of the series. Ginny has just spent the last year in hell in a school run by Snape, and holds him to blame. and the HP verse seems a little short on therapists.
I really enjoyed this story, thank you for posting it:) Emily Redbird Author's Response: Thank you! It was my very first, and it's so much fun when somebody finds it after all this time and enjoys it. I love Snape in all his miserable, nasty, bitter glory, and I'm glad you think I did him justice.
I still can manage plenty of hate for this bunch of assholes, thought. God, why can't they each mind their own business. Author's Response: Thank you! I do my best to make everybody at fault and everybody at least partly a victim of the circumstances. |
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