The Seeker posted a comment on Wednesday 22nd October 2014 4:56pm for The Big One

With Conquest just starting, I thought I'd revisit this classic. Three comments, this story should have many more reviews than is currently showing. I wonder in light of your comment about so much hate mail re your religious sections if there was a wholesale elimination of reviews. I'm sure I'd left reviews for the story years ago, but I've found none so far. No big deal, though i wonder if I'll repeat myself.

The second comment is for the excellent job you've done introducing Moey and Ms. Laurel to us, mostly through showing them, rather than telling us about them. Much better than reading a list of physical and personality qualities. I can see these two women, i like them a lot at this point; and I care for them. Well done!

As for the third comment, Harry's list is brilliant! Talk about showing what our young man feels. This is revelatory and reveals a side of Harry seldom seen and never to this depth and detail. The letter is definitely one of the best ways I've read in HP fan fiction - and stories in general - to show how much he has noticed Ginny, which strongly implies how much he cares for her.

In reading the reviews to see if I had originally left one for this chapter, I saw your response as to why you had Ginny, Hermione, and their mums discuss how to respond to the Dating Dean conundrum. While my initial thought was that she should just go to Harry and simply explain why she'd said that, it occured to me that with most males linear thinking prevails. Your answer also told me that we have some fun coming up, not just a short scene where Ginny says it was to get rid of Ron.

- The Seeker

Kokopelli replied:

Numbers - bah!

This story was originally archived at:

The Sugarquill (the first archive to toss me)

Phoenixsong

Sink Into Your Eyes; and

Fanficauthors.net

The story was the first new content at Phoenixsong.net and had something like 690 reviews before they changed the review system, which nuked the old reviews.  I'd printed them out and I still have a copy kicking around somewhere.

I managed to royally anger a number of archive stakeholders because I wasn't enough of a cannonista and I didn't hew to what they  believed were the one-true-pairings.  So, eventually I withdrew from the archives that hadn't kicked me out and left this as the only archive.

Stories begin with ideas.  The germ behind this overgrown short story is this chapter and the list.  I cared more about writing then, so yes, parts of this tale are well done.

Ginny did indeed have a  lying dirtbag shrew problem - personally I like how I resolved it more than how JKR resolved it, but she's a billionaire and I'm not.

Thanks for reading, thanks for writing.  Chapter 4 of BROC went to the betas last night, and I'm already choreographing the big scene in Chapter 5 of BROC.

pfeil posted a comment on Monday 20th August 2007 6:51am for The Big One

How do you whistle "@no comma"? :P

TxA_GunFighter posted a comment on Friday 29th December 2006 11:50am for The Big One

Outstanding, and I do think that females get together and plot against us poor guys.

gunny

noylj posted a comment on Monday 25th September 2006 6:00pm for The Big One

Why can't Ginny just be bloody obvious and truthful and say "Harry, if you would like me to be more than just a very good friend, I just thought I would tell you that I am not dating Dean. I just said that to get the great bloody prat off my back. It's your move, now."
Why be devious? This is Harry and he would appreciate simple truth and not any manipulation.

Kokopelli replied:

I'm not sure you really want a reply.   The short answer is that if Ginny did this, we'd have a lot shorter story.   The long answer is that per canon, Ginny is a deceptive person who is a gifted liar (not very attractive traits IMNSHO) and liars, when caught, try to bluff their way out.

Aaran St Vines posted a comment on Wednesday 31st May 2006 6:47am for The Big One

In romantic Harry Potter fanfics, this is one of my all time favorite chapters.

James13 posted a comment on Sunday 7th May 2006 10:14pm for The Big One

whoa harry has it BAD.

That being said, it was very sweet.

Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 3:18pm for The Big One

Oh wow. That letter. Just...wow.

That was so romantic and sweet...all those little things. Kinda reminded me of the final little monologue of Billy Crystal's at the end of "When Harry Met Sally". Which is DEFINATELY a good thing.

Patches posted a comment on Monday 21st November 2005 5:29am for The Big One

Great! Ginny and Harry just might have a chance! Good. I'm a sucker for a good love story. I really like the fact that these 2 girls talk to their mothers. It is a nice change to the way some people are. Harry's letter was great. I thank Laurel for pointing him in the right direction.
Thanks for another great chapter.

Patches posted a comment on Monday 21st November 2005 5:28am for The Big One

Great! Ginny and Harry just might have a chance! Good. I'm a sucker for a good love story. I really like the fact that these 2 girls talk to their mothers. It is a nice change to the way some people are. Harry's letter was great. I thank Laurel for pointing him in the

dogbertcarroll posted a comment on Sunday 23rd October 2005 3:22am for The Big One

Why couldn't Hermoine just tell Harry that Ginny was single and claimed to be dating Sean to get her older brother off her back?