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Reviews For Spiral of Trust
Author's Response: Thank you! Yeah, Hermione did really well :-)
Good to see you follow through with Ginny's complications from the 'treatment'. It feels weird to agree so much with Harry hahah. People placate him so much. Even himself. I actually wish he'd really explode sometimes. A few in his life actually deserve it and he shouldn't be so 'adult' all the time. I really like your writing and pacing. You're able to make the characters interact a lot while keeping their intentions and changes in their relationships smooth and believable. I'm excited for the trial. This chapter was great. And there are so many plot points coming together. I'm curious too XD (And I can't help but hope Snape will get to insult a lot of people and still walk away unharmed hahah). Author's Response: There is another reviewer who like you is very frustrated with me because of Harry’s ’door-mat’ tendencies as she/ he calls it. I guess that trait of Harry’s is my interpretation of what growing up with the Dursleys has done to him. Even if they were not physically abusive in cannon, the neglect and lack of love from your family will make it hard, I believe, to assert yourself. You know right from wrong in theory, but you’re so used to stand back that you no longer notice doing so. This issue was addressed to some extent in chapter 26 (To trust a Slytherin). Harry is not cowed or anything, he simply has learnt to choose his moments of protest very carefully. Moreover, fighting a dark lord all of your life and really going through with it, must leave its traces. Like Hermione said to Snape at St Mungo’s: Nothing’s very important to him in comparison to what he has lived.
Thanks for the reveiws and, here you are: the inquiry!
It's probably due to having so many people in this chapter, but I feel like some of them are a bit out of character. It's mostly that they seem too open or keen on exposing themselves too much. Snape and Narcissa's conversation seems specially odd in that sense. I'm happy to see Harry as stubborn as ever (specially when it's so easy to agree with him XD). It was the best how protective and attentive he is to Teddy. I'm so glad you updated! Seems to be a tricky, difficult chapter to write too. Thank you! Author's Response: It’s true that this chapter was tricky to write. I was not happy with the dialogue between Snape and Narcissa, even after much struggle… I wanted to address the fate of the Malfoys after the war, though. The defeat of Voldemort was a major crisis for their family and I wanted to demonstrate that it might cause the most stable couple to see things differently and to break up. I stipulated that Narcissa and Snape know each other rather well, because they have moved in the same circles for years, thereof the rather intimate and perhaps a bit out of character nature of their conversation.
Author's Response: Well, I'm updating with the Inquiry-chapter right now, so please read :-)
Author's Response: I think that most of us HP fans want Snape to be, or to change into a better person than cannon Snape appears to be. The fact that we actually don’t get much information about Snape in the real books, makes room for us to invent all kind of things about him. My take was to make him a healer precisely because it allowed me to show nicer sides of him.
Author's Response: Thanks! I hope you’ll find that it gets better and better :-) I’m honoured that my story got your first review and I also think that you have an awesome fic name!
Author's Response: Thanks! I have to keep the suspense up, now, don’t I? Throw Lucius Malfoy in the game and make things uncertain again :-) I’m having a spot of trouble with the coming chapter, so it will be a bit longer than usual before I update, but I will be back soon.
I hope Harry doesn't take what Lucius said very seriously. Even if it was an interesting conversation to overhear it's still Lucius.. I didn't realise before how lonely Harry must be. And after everything that happened he has to go back to the Burrow and meet Ginny and the other Weasleys and all. It's just too much. It's so unfair that people expect him to be so self sufficient. I'm actually glad these last chapters were so dense now that it's "over". It opens a lot of possibilities and it made Harry and Snape resemble each other more and seem closer. Author's Response: You put your finger on one of the points that I wanted to illustrate with these last chapters: how lonely Harry is. Snape is in fact the one who stands by him most consistently, even if he miscalculated when he gave Harry the advice to support Ginny in accepting the Obliviating treatment. The Weasleys still care for Harry, though.
Author's Response: Thank you. Let’s wait and see what kind of damage Lucius Malfoy might cause… Or has Harry’s faith in Snape become strong enough to resist his machinations? I’m having some issues with the coming chapter, so it will be a bit longer than usual before I update… but I will be back soon :-)
Author's Response: Thank you! Please read on. The coming chapters will unravel the Parisian adventure, with some dramatic and emotional twists... |
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