I have 6 cats... but I need a kneazle like Marlowe!
| Title: Essays
| 11 Nov 2016 10:23 pm
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| Reviewer: Fmh (Signed)
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Very insightful thank you
| Title: The Sorting
| 11 Nov 2016 10:03 pm
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| Reviewer: Fmh (Signed)
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Loved the start lots of questions and angst
I've read this before so this is my second time reading. You did such a beautiful job. The characters were always spot-on, and the children were wonderful. Even Hermione, so insufferable, at first, I grew to like her. Your portrayed Hermione not so much as a Muggleborn that wanted to fit in with witches and wizards but as a lonely child who simply wanted friends.
Brava!
As an unfortunate witness to an exorcism in 'The Bible Belt' of Missouri, I can tell you that this scene, as horrifying as you wrote it, does happen. Thankfully, what I saw what not this horrid, but I've never gone to church since. That was over 30 years ago.
Well done! Your writing is beautiful. It is a true joy to dine at your table of words so artfully prepared.
This was a wonderful, and totally terrifying story. It made me cringe, weep, and ultimately laugh in relief and joy.
Thank you for sharing your talent.
| Title: Epilogue: Malfoy Manor
| 25 Mar 2015 6:15 pm
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| Reviewer: tb_ll57 (Anonymous)
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Another excellent one. I enjoyed the familiar elements of many of the stories on this site twisted just enough with your unique imprint... Again you brought nuance and realism and let the pace control the slow awakening of a softer relationship between Snape and Harry, to considerable benefit. The Draco/Harry/Hermione threesome felt well-reasoned and worked as well if not better for me as the Harry/Ron/Hermione trio in the book, which had little reason other than coincidence to exist. You do such a great job of making every interaction deliberate and earned.
Dumbledore casting the killing curse! I gasped a little aloud at that! It does come right to the point, though I think he was patting himself on the back a bit too much for wishing Harry would live through it. It's both entirely plausible and surprisingly surprising-- in that so much of the books is actually quite implausible, stuffed with MacGuffins and quests and ridiculously symbolic games. Dumbledore cut right to the chase with that curse, but that you brought back the theme of Harry's basic goodness and forgiveness still allowing him final triumph over Voldemort, it was lovely. I am coming to think yours is the best kind of fanfiction; you build on something beloved, tease out small elements into larger motifs, and find your way back to the original just enough that we arrive at the ending newly informed and thoughtful.
| Title: Essays
| 03 Oct 2014 6:09 pm
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| Reviewer: Steph. (Anonymous)
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Hey,
This is really a lovely story, and I enjoyed the whole thing, but what really haunted me was Harry's essay in this chapter. I adored this chapter--of course while I read it, I was dying to know what Harry wrote, but you managed to make all the little peeks into the lives of the other Slytherins terribly interesting as well. And Harry's essay just destroyed me. He revealed everything there, but in a way that Snape didn't understand. Man. Especially when compared with the other essays--it was crushing. I might have teared up.
Anyway, very nicely done!
Love this story. You succeeded to give me creeps!
Nice job slipping in the Potter Puppet Pals reference... I wonder if I was the only one who noticed.
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