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Reviews For Never Say Remember
Title: Chapter 17: The Other Side of Morning 13 May 2008 5:32 am
Reviewer: Kirinin (Anonymous) [Report This]
    Update?

    -K

    Author's Response:

    Sorry!  No free time.  I basically just work and sleep these days.  I'm working on the next chapter on my breaks, and signs are good that I'll be able to post tonight or tomorrow.  Fingers crossed!

     

Title: Chapter 6: Catching Up 10 May 2008 7:51 am
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    I liked the way Parallel Harry gave Known Snape the bubblefruit, which he accepted, then ate. Very nice touch.

    Author's Response:

    I think he needed a little bubblefruit at that point.  :) 

     

    Thank you for all the reviews!  :D   

Title: Chapter 5: The World, Altered 10 May 2008 7:37 am
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    You must know by now (I've left about 5 or 6 reviews) how excellent I consider your writing. Therefore, please understand I'm not being critical if I observe that the noun "legilimens" refers to someone who performs "legilimancy". In the 19th from the bottom paragraph which begins "James Potter was the focus of the attack", I think Severus would be telling Harry either:"It took all my skill in Potions and Legilimancy" OR: "It took all my skill in Potions and as a Legilimens", to use the right form of the noun in that sentence.
    Forgive my temerity; you've got a Ferrari here--I'm simply handing you a tool to keep it purring perfectly.

    Author's Response: Oh, I don't mind...I don't have a beta, so I'm happy if the readers can point out things that need fixing.  Just don't expect an immediate edit; I barely have free time to add new chapters right now. I will look at it later, though. 
Title: Chapter 2: The Long Night 10 May 2008 7:02 am
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    I know how I got initially confused. This chapter's sub-heading is "Known World: Harry". But isn't this Parallel Harry in the Known World? Or otherwise put "Known World/Parallel Harry"?

    Author's Response: Hey, good point.  I was referring to the world they were in, and then the person whose POV it was.  But your way might (finally) solve the confusion issue!  I used that on the most recent chapter update. 
Title: Chapter 1: A Parallel 10 May 2008 6:58 am
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    I read all 17 chapters this late morning & early afternoon. Now, at nearly 11:00 p.m., I'm rereading it, and better able to follow when our Harry slips into the other one's world. Much clearer, now that I've got my "sea legs", so to speak. Well done!

    Author's Response:

    Wow, you really must be hooked to read it and then re-read it in one day.  I'm glad it makes more sense on the re-read, but feel free to let me know about places where it could be less confusing. 

      

Title: Chapter 13: The Other Side of Night 09 May 2008 9:39 pm
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    Geez, you're a good writer.

    Author's Response: Thank you!  You're a lovely reviewer.  :D
Title: Chapter 8: A Potent Brew 09 May 2008 8:36 pm
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    "All that money, and you're still just a bunch of glorified house elves"--GREAT line!

    Author's Response: Thanks.  :D  I get the feeling Harry's been holding in that insult for a while.  :)
Title: Chapter 5: The World, Altered 09 May 2008 8:25 pm
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    Some of your jumping back & forth has been a little confusing for the rest of us, not just Harry, Snape, et al!

    Author's Response: I think this is the biggest problem with the fic: the jumping back and forth is confusing.  I've done what I could to make it clear, but the nature of the story make the jumps necessary, I'm afraid. 
Title: Chapter 1: A Parallel 09 May 2008 7:46 pm
Reviewer: trust severus spy (Signed) [Report This]
    Wow! What a great premise! I'm hooked already!

    Author's Response: Yay!  A new reader!  :)
Title: Chapter 17: The Other Side of Morning 30 Apr 2008 7:47 pm
Reviewer: Cecilia Farrell (Signed) [Report This]
    Bugger you made me cry. Well that's a first. I can honestly say that I've never cried over fanfiction and I've read a lot! This story is so beautifully crafted, everybody should read it. The subtle shifts and turns are genius, the high point for me being the conversation about the plants, ohh its not Dragonwort that they're talking about me thinks.........


    "No. They'll never be the same." Snape gathered soil around the last flower and pressed it into place. "Do you see the scars along the stems? Do you know what they're from?"

    Harry traced a long, jagged scar on one stem and shook his head.

    "From struggling out of the rocky earth. It tears at them, shredding some of them. But some survive their wounds to grow and bloom."

    "Couldn't you plant them in softer soil?"

    Snape shook his head. "Then they wouldn't be dragonwort."

    *then they wouldn't be dragonwort* you can just feel the tension. Poor Harry. Hopefully he'll find stronger roots in this plane, and he'll bloom. Well one can only hope he definitely deserves it after the crappy life he's had. On another note, it must be even worse for the other Harry who's lived a comparably 'softer'-if that's the right terminology- life, to be planted among the rocks, or more appropriately the 'wolves?', lol.
    Hope to read more soon.
    :)

    Author's Response:

    Well, that's good!  Writing this affects me emotionally all the time, so it's nice to know I'm not alone!  :)  

    The dragonwort can represent a lot of things.  I tried not to get too message-y with it, so you can just take it literally, or interpret it in different ways.   But yes, the clearest interpretation is that it's about Harry.  :) 

     

    Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts!  


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