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Reviews For The Summer of '89
Title: Becoming an Egg-neer 08 Sep 2015 6:26 pm
Reviewer: Lol8888 (Signed) [Report This]
    Very sweet story! Please update soon:)
Title: Chapter 2: Hope It's Not Contagious 16 Jun 2012 1:07 am
Reviewer: hazpotsfan (Signed) [Report This]
    Adorable story! Loved the way you wrote the interaction between Harry and Severus :) Good job!
Title: Chapter 2: Hope It's Not Contagious 20 Mar 2011 5:13 pm
Reviewer: Jyllian (Signed) [Report This]
    hahhaha...Draco the devil...what a cute family
Title: Chapter 2: Hope It's Not Contagious 07 Mar 2011 11:54 pm
Reviewer: Snapegirl (Signed) [Report This]
    Aww this chapter was really cute!

    I liked how Snape dealt with the boys, especially Ron, at breakfast, and the clock was really funny. I could see it being thrown out a window by Ron sometime in the future.

    I also liked how they watched cartoons, I grew up with all of them and it brings back sso many memories. I love how Snape uses Inspector Gadget, one of my favs, to get Harry to smile. His response to Harry saying he hated him was also very good.

    I also liked his explanation of why Ron couldn't stay with his mum and Ginny and his patience in dealing with the bickering. The church was good too, I can see them going there on Sunday like regular Muggles, since JKR did say that wizards believed in God in an interview, so why wouldn't they go to church? Chapel was an important part of a morning routine in most private schools in England, like Eton and Harrow, they have beautiful churches there.

    Can't wait to see what happens next and hope you can continue this soon! I'm loving it!

    Author's Response:

    Thanks again! 

    I was so scared that Inspector Gadget being so British, half of the readers wont get the context - also they are so old.

    Thank you for leaving a review.... 

Title: Chapter 1: Fickle Caprice 07 Mar 2011 8:09 pm
Reviewer: Snapegirl (Signed) [Report This]
    What a great first chapter! Ron, Harry, and Severus are well IC and I love how the boys act with each other and with Severus. They are the perfect blend of mischief and curiosity and daring. Love how Snape handles them too, he's a great dad. His scene with Ron when Ron wanted to run away was wonderful and so was the way he handled Harry's jealousy! What a lovely present to find when I came back from my vacation! Thanks!

    Author's Response:

    Thanks SnapeGirl!! I had been waiting for a word from u since this was written for u ...  I was really scared that maybe, u dint like it since your own stories are so much better and heartfelt always - u are like the king/queen of childfic genre.  

    Thanks so much,

    Lia 

Title: Chapter 2: Hope It's Not Contagious 04 Mar 2011 3:01 am
Reviewer: Lady Lanera (Signed) [Report This]
    The boys' argument was hilarious. Nice chapter.

    Author's Response: Thanks!!
Title: Chapter 1: Fickle Caprice 04 Mar 2011 2:55 am
Reviewer: Lady Lanera (Signed) [Report This]
    Nice first chapter, Lia. The boys are very cute with each other. I had to laugh with Harry's way of telling Ron that Snape was bluffing. :)

    Author's Response:

    I imagined Sirius having taught him the cards game sometime ... Harry uses that.

    Thanks again, Lady 

Title: Chapter 2: Hope It's Not Contagious 03 Mar 2011 7:36 pm
Reviewer: shadowienne (Anonymous) [Report This]
    You've really captured the ups and downs of the developing relationship between the boys, their individual relationships with Snape, and the endless list of activities kids have to do when they're grounded, or even when an adult wants to keep them busy to try to keep them from getting into trouble from sheer boredom. Meanwhile, the summer drones on... ;-) The overall effect really brings back all the times I wanted to spend summers MY way, instead of having to do everything my mother wanted me to do. Your chapter is so realistic, plus a touch of magic here and there! I loved especially the description of Nifsy's gardening, as well as the plants themselves. Wow! Great installment, and I'll look forward to reading your next chapter! :-)

    Author's Response:

    Hey, you made it thru the chapter - it won't stop to surprise me when people make it thru the lengthy 2nd chapter, which hardly has any dialogue.... I have already rewritten it but not sure how to edit it here so will post it on ffnet now. 

    Actually, that was exactly the thought in my mind - I had quite a few summers to get into any and all sorts of troubles ... My parents used to send us to this sports club every day in the morning and instead of actually playing lawn tennis/table tennis/volley ball/swimming, we would be found running around the trees and climbing the trees that surrounded the club! he he!!

    I remember, once, we 6 kids decided that we wanted to go to the top of this hill at some distance from our neighbourhood. Up we woke at 6 in the morn, told each of our parents that we were going for jogging and we went up the hill. We returned only around 11 a.m and told our parents that we had been playing.

    We were hardly 7 years old then.

    I told my Mum this just last year, when she was sitting with the mother of another one of those 6 of us. Ha ha! You shd have looked at both of them!

    These days, parents completely time-manage their kids. It's good in a way too - you get to learn a lot of stuff - dance/music/sports - classes after classes. 

    I am glad that it evoked your childhood memories. Snape is trying to do exactly that. Keep them busy as he works from home or when he goes to work.

    Thanks for such a lovely review.

    Lia 

Title: Chapter 1: Fickle Caprice 03 Mar 2011 4:42 pm
Reviewer: shadowienne (Anonymous) [Report This]
    Whoa! What an incredibly-detailed chapter, Lia! Not only description, but especially the childhood logic, emotions, physical action on the boys' part, as well as Snape's chess logic toward Ron, and careful reasoning with each boy in turn. And then there are the TWINS! Poor Mr. and Mrs. Weasley! I'm absolutely blown away by the beginning of your story-- I don't know where you will take us next, but it looks to be an exciting RIDE! (I TOLD you that you were a writer! -- Definitely do rewrite your other story; you CAN do it. Go, Lia! Go, Lia!)

    Author's Response:

    Thanks Shadowienne!

    Would you believe it if I told you that I actuallylost the 2nd chapter of this story as well and had to rewrite it entirely? I had even attached it to my email account and saved as a draft, then made changes in the draft directly - somewhere , sometime, did Ctrl-A, Space and saved the draft ... there went my chapter :) Realised it only when I was sending it to Wands for beta-ing.

    I was so ashamed of myself- can't tell you :) but wrote it back cus there was a deadline ( Which I anyway missed by a more than a fortnight).

    I have always been in dire need of a good editor who could go snip snip snip on my ramblings - for that is what they become when I start getting so detailed. Need to learn the art of minimal writing and letting it be open to interpretations. 

     I am so happy to see your review and so glad that you liked it despite all the weaknesses.

    Thanks to your awesome support and that of other members here, I actually managed to push this through. I will deff try to rewrite the other story's chap as well.

    Thanks again for leaving such a kind review and your support.

    Lia 

Title: Chapter 2: Hope It's Not Contagious 03 Mar 2011 8:15 am
Reviewer: hpfanficfan (Signed) [Report This]
    like this story a lot

    Author's Response: Thanks hpfanfic!

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