aalens03Unsigned | Chapter : 6 | Date : 16/08/09
This fic is outstanding – not least because it is so rational, so satisfyingly sensible, and shows you to be the same. You have not found it necessary, (either from some strange emotional need of your own or as a cheap plot device) to demonise Dumbledore and/or Snape, and Harry has been made to face the realities of war, and that indeed, sacrifice of the few may be necessary for the survival of most. So many fanfic authors seem so out of touch with those realities - they may hate Dumbledore virulently, for example, for sacrificing Harry for the greater good. There is indeed such a thing as the greater good , even especially in wartime. (Judging from entries I’ve seen in discussion groups etc , it seems some people hate Snape, Dumbledore, Ron or Ginny for something they may never have actually done in canon – only in some other fanfiction! LOL – E.g. ‘ I hate Snape because he did such and such’ but in canon ‘reality’ he did not do that at all! )
‘…Under a cloth there were hot biscuits with chocolate icing ladled on generously….’ Did you really mean biscuits? Biscuits in the UK are what you call cookies.
Funniest line in the fic so far:
"What did you do during your O.W.L.s that was so wonderful, sir?"
"Oh, I solved the problem with Aberforth's goat."
BTW long chapters are fine – far far better than too short ones at least!
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