amazin story please update soon
Love that photo, it does look like Hogwarts, or the lost city of Atlantis or something.
After all this is over, they're really gonna have some awful water damager. Somehow I don't think a simple reparo is gonna fix a portrait.
So far, I have a real hard time suspending my disbelief. Castles are built in high places, on mountains or hills (to command the high ground). For Hogwarts to be under water, well, we're talking biblical or close to it. And, yeah, I know, I'm quibbling. After all, I read a fandom with polyjuice, animagi and quidditch (really, what parent in his/her right mind would let a child take part in quidditch, with those bludgers, and no protective headgear?). Yeah, I'm a quibbler. Trouble is, I like physics and stuff, too.
Author's Response: Yes, usually castles are built in high places, but not always. There are actually a surprising number of castles around the world (and in the UK) built right down on the water. I'm not sure weather or not the books actually describe Hogwarts high up over the lake or if that's just something the movie did (maybe you can give me a quotation from the books) but I've always imagined Hogwarts lower down set on sprawling lawns leading down to the lake and forbidden forest, not up on this mountain face like the movies show it. In any case, have you considdered a flood caused by magic? A magical flood could get deep. But the reader doesn't yet know what caused the flood (though I do) and it would explain how a castle, even one up on a cliff, could come to be under water. But as far as the characters in the story know, it very well could be a flood of biblical proportions, they don't know how far it stretches, if it's local or if it goes all the way to the Ministry in London. Thanks for your review.
So far, I have a real hard time suspending my disbelief. Castles are built in high places, on mountains or hills (to command the high ground). For Hogwarts to be under water, well, we're talking biblical or close to it. And, yeah, I know, I'm quibbling. After all, I read a fandom with polyjuice, animagi and quidditch (really, what parent in his/her right mind would let a child take part in quidditch, with those bludgers, and no protective headgear?). Yeah, I'm a quibbler. Trouble is, I like physics and stuff, too.
| Title: Breaking The Rules
| 20 Aug 2013 4:14 am
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I just adore this! It gives me goose bumps. Please update soon!
| Title: Breaking The Rules
| 06 Jul 2013 11:46 pm
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Why doesn't snape send a patronus with a message to dumbedore, telling him where they are? Even if they have limited brooms, why don't they send someone to explore the extent of the flooding? Search for additional provisions? Look for survivors? Try to find more brooms? It's as if they have no sense and no magic. And wouldn't Snape risk a bit of broken glass if the second or third vial might come back unharmed? Especially to save a life. Why is everyone acting so helpless? Especially the staff, without even organizing one rescue mission on a broom...
Author's Response: Some of the staff are missing leaving them shorthanded for one thing. Dumbledore has Hooch out on broom already, but there's only so much she can do. Just because it hasn't been said yet, doesn't mean that she hasn't already done several sweeps of the area looking for people, and especially out looking for the errant Draco. Just because you don't like how they handle the situation doesn't mean that they're senseless. As for the patronus, in this story they don't send messages via patronus, it's not magic that's a part of this story. It wouldn't be much of a story now would it, if everybody just magicked themselves out of danger. That would be a one chapter story that nobody likes or cares to read about. And no, Severus sees no reason at all to call potions in glass phials to him that he is positive will break, that would be wasting good potions that other people could be using if they're in need. How many potions do you suggest he calls to himself before he quits because they've all broken?
| Title: Breaking The Rules
| 10 Jun 2013 9:53 am
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| Reviewer: Jen77 (Anonymous)
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What about the house elves? Are they dead? Couldn't Dobby help them?
Oooh I like this so far, would love to read more :)
Oooh I like this so far, would love to read more :)
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