You're very kind. I've never seen the point of working out elaborate crossover scenarios, to be honest--they just weigh down the story with awkward infodump moments, because one is generally so proud of figuring out how the universes connect that one can't help sharing it with the reader. In my experience, the reader doesn't necessarily need to know all that.
I'm not sure about a sequel. I'm not entirely sure how many of Hermione's friends are still alive, actually, since this is pretty clearly a post-war scenario.
I liked that the slash wasn't overt, and it didn't revolve around them falling for each other in that 'you've become my whole world, I can't see beyond you way' that slash is prone to. I like that they can talk to each other, and I Enjoy their conversations. The "maybe one day the characters will speak to each other" had me lmao.
I thought the ending fit in so well, and definite-please sequel this. Or write more of this pairing.
I agree that the cross-over explanation is unnecessary- I don't really care how they got there; just write the pairing and interests (like the bonding over dead languages)credibly and the rest will fall in.
And I love the little details that Hermione notices that let her now Dawn is a bit more than normal. I would LOVE to read that reveal, in this setting you've created.
The "maybe one day the characters will speak to each other" had me lmao.
Heh! I'm glad you liked that -- although there's a bit of self mockery in it, as my characters tend to speak around each other, a lot of the time.
I find Dawn appealingly geeky, so pairing her with Hermione made a strange kind of sense to me, and they do have a lot in common aside from that, in their experiences of war, of evil, of a world beyond the mundane. I'm a little worried about a sequel, since it seems to me that Ron would almost certainly be dead in this future, and perhaps Harry as well, and who knows who else?
This question may seem odd, but why are you worried about them being dead?
Is it that you'd have to address the death, or that the HP world would seem less without them. I think there are other things you could explore- like reasons she would/would not go back, the ministry, the new relationships she would have formed, or the real space that absence seems to take up.
And then the whole Buffy crew- still alive, or alive and doing what?
I don't know, I'd just like to see you do it: plus the potential meeting of scientific branch of magic from HP, and the more (fantastical) version from Willow- the HP view on Buffyverse magic would be interesting.
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I'm not sure about a sequel. I'm not entirely sure how many of Hermione's friends are still alive, actually, since this is pretty clearly a post-war scenario.
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I thought the ending fit in so well, and definite-please sequel this. Or write more of this pairing.
I agree that the cross-over explanation is unnecessary- I don't really care how they got there; just write the pairing and interests (like the bonding over dead languages)credibly and the rest will fall in.
And I love the little details that Hermione notices that let her now Dawn is a bit more than normal. I would LOVE to read that reveal, in this setting you've created.
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Heh! I'm glad you liked that -- although there's a bit of self mockery in it, as my characters tend to speak around each other, a lot of the time.
I find Dawn appealingly geeky, so pairing her with Hermione made a strange kind of sense to me, and they do have a lot in common aside from that, in their experiences of war, of evil, of a world beyond the mundane. I'm a little worried about a sequel, since it seems to me that Ron would almost certainly be dead in this future, and perhaps Harry as well, and who knows who else?
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Is it that you'd have to address the death, or that the HP world would seem less without them. I think there are other things you could explore- like reasons she would/would not go back, the ministry, the new relationships she would have formed, or the real space that absence seems to take up.
And then the whole Buffy crew- still alive, or alive and doing what?
I don't know, I'd just like to see you do it: plus the potential meeting of scientific branch of magic from HP, and the more (fantastical) version from Willow- the HP view on Buffyverse magic would be interesting.
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