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Reviews For When the Boat Comes In
Author's Response: Thanks ^^ I've always seen Harry as a very open-hearted character, for example, he doesn't dislike his relatives in the canon, despite their foul behavour. I cannot tell you whether the owlet will be the means of Harry and Ron burying the hatchet- you'll have to guess lol ;)
Author's Response: Thanks ^^ Hope you're enjoying the fic
Author's Response: Yes, Ron does rather need to be taken in hand, doesn't he lol! Thanks for the review
Very interesting that you have brought Pettigrew, and presumably Sirius soon, into the story. I can't wait to read more and see what happens! Author's Response: Thanks: I really wanted to capture that image accurately because it really is Isis's big moment lol! Hope you'll enjoy the next few chapters ^^
Author's Response: Thank you: that was probably the most difficult part of the chapter so I'm glad it worked out ^^. Reggie's singing is based on the sort of songs children make up whilst they're playing :)
Author's Response: ^^ glad you enjoyed the chapter
Author's Response: Thanks ^^
I wonder if Severus is going to put the cloak up? It isn't really an appropriate item for an eleven year old to have. I suppose the children would go after the stone. They aren't quite old enough to have sense. I do hope that they won't get hurt. Great chapter! Author's Response: Thanks for the review. I think that it might take another year or so for Harry to understand the reality of house-elves lives, mainly because he won't see too much of it. Harry also needs to mature a little before he is ready to challenge Draco's beliefs. However, Harry isn't stupid, nor is he the type to pass by on the other side: when he realises what is happening and is confident in himself, he will do something.
Author's Response: I think it is wisest to remember two things 1. when a character speaks, it is their views, not the authors and 2. that the wizarding community is bound to feel pretty uncomfortable about Christianity in general: the Bible says that people who use magic should be killed and, in the past thousand or so years, Christians have committed atrocity upon atrocity on those who they have thought to be witches. They have burnt them (a horrible, exceptionally painful death) and tortured them (and I'm not talking about a beating, I'm talking about really gruesome, vicious, humiliating abuse.) It would be exceptionally odd that if a culture who has been so denigrated was not rather scornful of the people who have long persecuted them. I actually have nothing against Christians: Christianity is no worse than many religions and better than some. I think the ten commandments are a decent set of life rules and I think much of what was said by Jesus was wise and good. However, I will never except those parts of the bible which encourage intolerance and cruelty, i.e. homophobia.
Author's Response: I think it's a good idea to remember that it's a character talking, not the author, and that a member of the magical community would be much more likely to support pro-magic religions than anti-magic religions. Most cultures have very long memories as far as enemies are concerned and I think it would be hard for the English magical community to forget that, had a witch-hunter captured them, they would have been tortured until they confessed then burnt. I live in the Witch-Hunting centre of England and I have seen where they imprisoned them, what they did to them and anyone who has burnt themselves on a pan can imagine how agonsing it must be to burn to death. Yes, mages could magic themselves out but, to do this, most mages would require a wand and those can get lost and broken. So, while it's all well and good to say that the magical community should be positive about Christianity, in reality, it would be strange if every mage could find it in their hearts to be so. |
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