tangentsferret posted a comment on Thursday 5th May 2011 7:41pm

Oh, dude. I am so very sorry, and SO very angry right now. You have just completely blown the entire farking story for me. I was ENJOYING THIS, gorram it! It had a pretty good pace, some nice character development, a not-too-shabby plot, good mechanics... I was looking forward to seeing how it all turned out, and you just HAD to succumb to smartypants-itis at the VERY LAST MINUTE. (sigh)

The Star Wars lines were annoying, but would have been survivable, if you had not felt it necessary to flat out ANNOUNCE them. A subtle homage is one thing. Exact duplication of dialog is another, bumpier thing. But outright REFERENCING THE SOURCE in the next paragraph is a thing too many: not only have you-the-author been tacky, you have just insulted the intelligence of your reader by making the assumption that said reader *must* be too dense to get your oh-so-subtle in joke.

The Princess Bride bit was more of the same, but much, much worse. Also much, much more insulting.

You know what? I no longer care how this ends. I may look at the last bit, but I'll be looking to see how the writing goes, and if you do anything this egregious again, not to find out how Harry and Ginny got together, or if Ron married Daphne, or if Neville lives, or even if Viktor and Luna got together. Because thanks to you, they are now just characters in a story again, and I'm not involved with their lives anymore.

Shame on you! I expected better than this from you after reading that lovely AU one-shot.

Oh, and congratulations, I guess. This is the closest I have ever come to leaving a flaming review. You get the Flaming Ferret Award.

Andrius posted a comment on Thursday 5th May 2011 3:38pm

I have to say, McGonagall's decision to name Harry and Hermione Head Boy & Girl is somewhat weird. I mean, it's extra duties on top of dealing with Horcruxes. I'd expect her to try to minimize their work load on Hogwarts so they could focus on the task at hand.

Meg posted a comment on Saturday 30th April 2011 11:30am

Good to see you here!

I uploaded the epub, and just finished re-reading. Just as fun as remembered!

I'm looking forward to you loading more of your stories here, as I love having them on my iPhone. :-)

Meg

KenF posted a comment on Monday 25th April 2011 8:37am

I can't believe how long it has been since I read this story. I remembered bits and pieces, but not where they came from.

Like most long running writers, it is interestng to see how your writing has evolved.

KenF

Wolff posted a comment on Saturday 23rd April 2011 11:38pm

Three days later, this one's been a fun ride. I've laughed, I've cried, I've come within a hair's breadth of missing work to read some more, and I have to say, I like this ending best. I'm a proud harmonian, and this one just feels the most right to me.

The battle scene between the trio and voldemonkey gave me chills, because I kept expecting Hermione to make that final sacrifice. I was very pleased that she didn't have to.

-W

naraic posted a comment on Friday 22nd April 2011 4:42pm

Heya, believe it or not I had just finished a reread of your works over on FFN (as in all of them over a month) and I just want to say I enjoyed it and congratulations on getting an account here

Brian64 posted a comment on Tuesday 19th April 2011 6:59pm

Hey Chem Prof! It's awesome to see you on FFA finally, and looking forward to seeing the rest of your stories posted here. I always liked this fic, and thought the three alternative endings was a brilliant idea. Whoever said it wasn't possible to give the readers what they wanted? I kinda wish some othera had taken the same approach instead of just giving us angsty endings to otherwise great fics. ;D

Cheers,
Brian