I’m back for another read. This is a wonderfully powerful start to your story.
I’m back for another read. This is a wonderfully powerful start to your story.
| Title: Chapter 1
| 05 Jun 2017 4:30 pm
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| Reviewer: Fmh (Signed)
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Fantastic opening chapter thank you
You asked for it Snape. I hope Molly gets a hold of you before anybody else gets you.
Great chapter chrasima! I just love stories with a mean Snape, thinking himself so observant when Harry is right under his nose. Update quickly please.
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This is amazing, i really can't wait for the next chapter!
This is really good and I can't wait for the next part. The abrupt turn around when he figures Harry is not James is a good explanation! I saw that in one of the reviews you answered.
Well! A story which grammar doesn't make me cringe! That in itself makes me want to read it! It's complete? Truly? How often will you be posting chapters? Chapter 2 is going to be intense, I reckon!
Author's Response: It IS complete, and it's novel length. It's around 93,000 words (one massive file of 236 pages in Word!). That said, I'm going through it with a fine tooth comb, breaking it into chapters, and sending it to my super awesome amazing wonderful beta waitingondaisies. Once she gets a chapter back to me, I go through her edits and then post it. Believe me, her edits are worth the wait! This weekend is a holiday weekend, so she's on vacation, but as soon as she's back, updates should go quicker. If anyone else wants to beta, that might help move the process along faster. It's a long story, so it's lot to ask of one beta. So P/M if you are interested. Thanks for reading!
Wow. I've read a couple of your other stories, and they were absolutely incredible; this one did not disappoint. I can't wait for the update! The way you expressed Harry's anger was so well done; I could feel it coming out of the words.
Author's Response: Thank you! I'm axious to get the next chapters up too :-)
Well....you certainly painted a very vivid image of Harry's emotions and appearance. I could feel Harry's impotent rage, just the sheer unfairness of it all as well as Hate. Oh...the hate came through loud and clear.
One thing I always have trouble accepting in these types of stories is Snape's abrupt turnaround when he finds out Harry isn't what he's predetermined Harry to be, nor was Harry's upbringing what Snape decided it was with no evidence whatsoever.
So, according to Snape, his treatment of harry was perfectly justified so long as harry was a pampered prince, but once he find out Harry is abused, then his abuse of Harry is no longer justified and he's sorry for his actions. But he's only sorry once he finds out about the abuse. Not before. Snape in essence feels abuse is justified for people that are raised spoiled.
If that were so, they why doesn't he treat Malfoy and the dozens of other spoiled, pampered students like he does Harry? Rarely does either Snape or Harry acknowledge this is this genre of stories.
But, if order for anything to happen in a story, things must change, Snape in particular must change. It just sticks in my craw that Harry has to be beaten bloody for a decade in order for that to happen.
It's also funny that these are some of my most favorite stories and genre. Quite the contradiction I realize.
I look forward to more.
Author's Response: I totally understand where you are coming from and I've heard that before. To me, I see it as Snape views Harry as James Potter, and in his eyes, James Potter was a spoiled, well-loved, well-cared for child (unlike Snape himself as a child). So, to me, it's not so much that he finds out Harry was abused by the Dursleys as it is that he realizes how much Harry Potter is NOT Jame storiess Potter. It's like the abuse/neglect opens his eyes. Maybe it's all the same thing, but to me it seems a bit different. It is a well-worn theme, though. I always encourage fan fic writers to write what they want to see; that's often what drives my stories. I see something that doesn't sit well with me, so I write my own version. Thanks for reading and your review!
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