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Reviews For Broken Wings
Author's Response: I tried to keep it realistic, and some of what those kids did are things that my students did to me when I first started teaching. That spell can fix a lot. I should have the next chapter up soon!
hope that u update soon.... Author's Response: Thanks, I'll be updating very soon!
Anyways, this was my favorite part of this chapter: "The Re-do spell." "I never heard of that before. How do you cast it?" "Hand the paper back to the student and say "Re-do this, so I can actually read it." Severus replied. "It works quite well." Hilarious! Good work! -P.G. Author's Response: yes, i wanted to lull him at first, because generally the kids behave for the very beginning of class . . .then they start plotting and misbehaving. I hate that one too. I always got "But nobody reads this anymore, so why do we have to?" Or when we were doing Shakespeare "But nobody cares about these dumb people, so why should I?" Drove me crazy. That Re-Do spell works like a charm, LOL!
Hope our guys can find Dumbledore! Author's Response: Thanks, I fixed it. My WP has this automatic corrector on it and sometimes it drives me crazy. If it doesn;t recognize the way I've used a word, it substitutes one in its place. It did that with another story, changing the word 'empath" to "empathy" repeatedly. It did the same with this and I forgot to check it again after I posted it. Dumbledore is incognito for right now.
Though I’ve never been a teacher, I can sympathize with the illegible handwriting! When I was in elementary through junior high school, two of the boys in my class had the worst chicken-scratch. I swear it was so bad, that nowadays I can decipher just about anything! No joke :) Author's Response: They really were, and some of them really ARE that bad. I had one of the worst classes in history one year. Severus is smart and he knows his Slytherins, so he could figure out what happened. And it probably happened to him once too. Malfoy will eventually pay for that piece of work. I was continually mazed by how many kids couldn't write neatly, when i was in school, we got a grade for penmanship, and it counted as a fourth of our English grade, so we were carefully to learn how to at least PRINT neatly, as well as write in cursive. But now kids type all their assignments, so that skill will be lost, I assume. But at least the teachers don't need to go crazy any more trying to read something that looks like scribble. The next chapter's coming in a few minutes. Get ready for a major quarrel!
Great chapter :-) Author's Response: Kids! They really CAN drive you over the edge. I had a hard enough time teaching English, so God only knows what I would have been like teaching a different language. Though I might not have minded latin, since no one could correct your pronunciation too much. But my cousin teaches Spanish to high school sophomores and doesn;t mind it . . .sometimes.
Author's Response: They did, but he survived!! He tried to be fair and it worked . . .well mostly. You won't be waiting anymore, because here it is!
My condolences, on teaching 7th grade English...! O.O It's bad enough driving the little rug-rats to and from school, and doing bus evacuation classes twice a year with 'em (it's SO unfair they won't let us use duct-tape...)--I can't imagine trying to cram knowledge into reluctant little skulls every day! ::shivers:: Author's Response: He did and Severus knows it. I agree, I used to long to duct tape one little brat to his chair every period, he thought it was okay to go across the room and talk to his friend in the middle of my discussion group! It was really hard, that's why I'm not teaching right now! Plus in FL the pay was God awful!
Great job and can't wait for the next part. Author's Response: Thanks and I think harry will do well as a teacher, despite the mishaps the first day.
Great story by the way. This is one of the better "creature-fics" I've read. Keep it up! Author's Response: Thanks. I so hated homework grading, and my brother-in-law is amath teacher and he complains all the time about the proofs his kids hand in, says it's like reading Chinese, sometimes, the way they write and make up things. Thanks for reading! |
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