By kokopelli
Reviews
Wooster posted a comment on Friday 23rd December 2005 10:17am
Wow, that letter from Harry was so...mature. Very good. Poor Ginny, though as a major H/G shipper it does my heart good to see 'she is your krulach' on the page. ;) Heehee, Lupin and Tonks needling. That was great. And I LOVED what Sirius did with the will, forcing Lupin to buy stuff for himself. Fantastic.
Wooster posted a comment on Friday 23rd December 2005 9:20am
Oh...fantastic. How lovely. I'm so in love with this story right now...
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 6:21pm
That was simply amazing. It's past one in the morning where I am though, so I better stop here. I loved the dragons, they reminded me of a cross between C.S. Lewis and Anne McCaffrey. The image of the magic inside of Harry when they were incorporating his sentries reminded me of Tamora Pierce. The sentry concept and they way they talked to him, as well as the charm for his krulach and the parseltongue thing were very original. All of these things were fantastic. I'm very excited about this story, and can't wait to finish reading it. Drat, if I didn't have to go somewhere early tomorrow...
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 5:33pm
Yay! Ron will be absolutely thrilled! Another great chapter, I like how Moey was shocked that all the Weasleys she'd heard of were related. They really are a motley bunch, so I guess I can understand the confusion...Also loved her license plate.
One small concrit: "Yeah, the girl has basically no notion of how to dress like a Muggle unless she’s going to a rave" Isn't Tonks' dad a muggle?
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 5:08pm
Loved everything about this chapter. All the lessons were interesting and I liked the idea of whistling as a focus point for wandless magic, it makes a lot of sense.
"The older resembled a character from one of Dudley’s video games, something about a pistol-packing archeologist."
...hm...Lara Croft? Neat. I love that game...it's like Indiana Jones in female form...except you have to replace the whip with a machine gun...
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 4:28pm
About the Mr. Rogers comment in your A/N: Nice. I actually read many books in Brit, including the HP books, which I own in Brit and American, so the Brit stuff doesn't bug me. Very good chappie, love the little story about Ginny and the scalping hex, surprised they didn't get in major trouble with the ministry for the underage magic...i suppose it's not as big a problem in a magical dwelling? Pleased with the Dumbledore/Abelard mystery, it made perfect sense.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 3:40pm
I actually knew that about the Seer gifts and was thrilled with their inclusion in the story, I always thought it would make sense if Harry was a Seer. I'm REALLY curious as to what Dumbledore did to Abelard...very interesting.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 3:18pm
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.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 2:44pm
I love that last little exchange between Hermione and her mom, sounds a lot like me and my mom. This comparison is aided a lot by my boyfriend being a lot like Ron. I especially like the line about her having to tell Harry what he's feeling. Loved the way you wrote the funeral as a letter instead of in normal format. It probably would have ended up slow if you'd done it the other way.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 2:22pm
This was the best chapter so far. The dreams were fascinating. For some reason, my favorite was the part with Snape...of course, he's one of my top five fave characters, (he's NOT a bad guy! i stand by that!) the mirror of erised part was also really nice though....
i love mrs. weasley's baking impulse.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 12:58pm
Oh...both those letters were so sweet. From a loving mom and sister to an only-child orphan. Great. I liked Moey a lot too. Great character, fun and friendly. She sounds like what I'd expect a friend of Tonks to be.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 12:34pm
Fantastic! Harry's letter to Mrs. Granger (I guess Dr. would be more accurate, but more confusing...so I'll stick with Mrs.) was perfect. Diplomatic, and likely to set her mind at ease without lying to her.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 11:59am
Fantastic, truly fantastic. The passbox concept is really cool, especially it's history, (The Gringotts thing). Harry as a girl flirting with Lupin...hilarious.
Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 22nd December 2005 11:46am
This is really good so far. Simple, and I like the characterization: it's spot-on.
helva2260 posted a comment on Sunday 4th December 2005 5:11am
I'm really enjoying this but re: your Author's Note - not entirely accurate!
I'm not sure where you got your brit-picking from, but in my neck of the woods at least (the Midlands (home of Worcestershire sauce, Elgar, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis et al.!)), we use both terms. Babysitting has overtones of a friend of the family doing you a favour for a token amount of money if any (I think JK talks of Mrs Figg as Harry's old babysitter in several places). A child minder by comparison tends to be a professional. I wouldn't be surprised if it was merely a difference in formality, so in your police example, the officers would be assigned to a "minding" job but talk about it between themselves as "babysitting", especially as you say, if they were joking or annoyed by the assignment.
As I said, if you have other information, this could be a regional thing, but I thought it worth mentioning for interest's sake.
Great ideas though, and I'd better get back to reading the rest... :-)
Sam Vere posted a comment on Wednesday 23rd November 2005 10:40am
Side note: I'm assuming by the location of the ignition that Mooney's car is a Saab?
Patches posted a comment on Tuesday 22nd November 2005 8:02pm
I really like this story. Of course I'm interested in the sequel. I enjoy your delivery. It is really believable. Cho on the train was a nice touch.
Thank you for writing. Now i'm going to look for the sequel. I finally got smart and I look at the stories in the order they were written.
that way I can enjoy the unfolding of the whole story.
Thanks again.
Patches posted a comment on Tuesday 22nd November 2005 4:30pm
Oh, oh. I wondered if the dragon would take over Harry and he would "mark" Ginny as a dragon. I can't wait to find out her reaction when they both wake up! This is really good. Thanks for writing.
Patches posted a comment on Tuesday 22nd November 2005 6:18am
How do you come up with these wonderful ideas? I am so impressed. This is great.Please keep writing. I enjoy your stories so much!
Wooster posted a comment on Friday 23rd December 2005 11:21am