Epilogue: Full Circle
Finally! Here are the annotations on the epilogue, after which I will begin posting annotations on the sequel. I'm still undecided about covering the third installment of the Trilogy on its own and then the prequel or doing the chapters of those two fics in the order that they were posted. (Both were being posted at the same time.) I'll decide soon; I'll have to, since Time of Good Intentions is only 21 chapters (though it was originally going to be 15 or 16).
Anyway, here are my surprisingly brief notes for--
Epilogue: Full Circle
1. It was time for Harry and Ron to duel. Hermione turned to Harry and kissed him on the cheek. "Good luck." She stopped Ron from going and stood on her toes to kiss his cheek also. "Good luck," she said again, more softly. Ron glanced at her, then Harry. He nodded at Harry. There was a strange look in Ron’s eyes.
I had to give Ron one, I just did. And the stinging hex seemed perfect as something annoying and hard to deal with, but not something giving overwhelming pain or potentially causing permanent damage. I also liked having Ron's disarming Harry be an echo of Flitwick disarming him.
2. He tried to think of what wizarding jobs might take place out-of-doors, for he'd decided that, when possible, he didn't want to work in cooped-up, enclosed spaces. Quidditch player was all that came to mind so far. Oh, well, he thought. There’s time to consider all that.
More foreshadowing for the end of the PS series...
3. "There's my little Dunkirk! My little Dunky-wunky! What a good boy..." Aunt Marge had brought the terrier over the day after the funeral. She had thought Petunia could use the companionship.
Many people thought Petunia using a dog as a substitute for Dudley was the most horrible thing I did! As in they thought it was hilarious and what a really horrible person would do. It WAS instigated by Aunt Marge, after all, who's pretty consistently horrible. I enjoyed doing something truly dreadful to Marge in Replay, but I only mentioned her in passing here.
4. Harry smiled at the cute little dog, then started to also pat him on the head, as his aunt had done. The dog turned his head and gave a growl low in his throat when he saw Harry's hand approaching. He pulled his hand back abruptly; he had thought the dog was just in a mood and hadn't grown used to him when he'd tried that upon returning home, but now he was wondering whether he was possessed by the spirit of Dudley Dursley or something.
More foreshadowing for the sequel!
5. We each have a place where we are meant to be. This is mine.
I think more people told me that they cried about Sandy leaving than Dudley being killed. Which just means that I did my job.
It still blows my mind that, thirteen years later, this month alone, I've received 44 notices from people at ff.net who are favoriting Psychic Serpent, Time of Good Intentions, The Triangle Prophecy or The Lost Generation (mostly PS, though); following one of those fics (mainly PS again, even though it's completed); favoriting me or following me, though I haven't posted in ages (and only just got around to repairing the damaged files on ff.net).
Work on my original fiction has had me thinking more and more of these fics lately, because I will owe a great deal to the plots of the PS series in this (also) four-book cycle, though one of the ways I will owe a great deal is by diverging from the PS series in significant ways, to throw off anyone who thinks they know what I'm doing, plot-wise (but HOW will I diverge?). The universe in which it takes place will be a major divergence, of course (NOT Britain, NOT a school of magic, NOT a magical boy famous for vanquishing a Dark Lord, among many other NOTS). So it seemed a good time to remind myself what I did write, way back when, and show some appreciation to the readers who are still faithfully going online to read my stories, even after all these years.
See you Wednesday, with the first annotations for Harry Potter and the Time of Good Intentions!
Anyway, here are my surprisingly brief notes for--
Epilogue: Full Circle
1. It was time for Harry and Ron to duel. Hermione turned to Harry and kissed him on the cheek. "Good luck." She stopped Ron from going and stood on her toes to kiss his cheek also. "Good luck," she said again, more softly. Ron glanced at her, then Harry. He nodded at Harry. There was a strange look in Ron’s eyes.
I had to give Ron one, I just did. And the stinging hex seemed perfect as something annoying and hard to deal with, but not something giving overwhelming pain or potentially causing permanent damage. I also liked having Ron's disarming Harry be an echo of Flitwick disarming him.
2. He tried to think of what wizarding jobs might take place out-of-doors, for he'd decided that, when possible, he didn't want to work in cooped-up, enclosed spaces. Quidditch player was all that came to mind so far. Oh, well, he thought. There’s time to consider all that.
More foreshadowing for the end of the PS series...
3. "There's my little Dunkirk! My little Dunky-wunky! What a good boy..." Aunt Marge had brought the terrier over the day after the funeral. She had thought Petunia could use the companionship.
Many people thought Petunia using a dog as a substitute for Dudley was the most horrible thing I did! As in they thought it was hilarious and what a really horrible person would do. It WAS instigated by Aunt Marge, after all, who's pretty consistently horrible. I enjoyed doing something truly dreadful to Marge in Replay, but I only mentioned her in passing here.
4. Harry smiled at the cute little dog, then started to also pat him on the head, as his aunt had done. The dog turned his head and gave a growl low in his throat when he saw Harry's hand approaching. He pulled his hand back abruptly; he had thought the dog was just in a mood and hadn't grown used to him when he'd tried that upon returning home, but now he was wondering whether he was possessed by the spirit of Dudley Dursley or something.
More foreshadowing for the sequel!
5. We each have a place where we are meant to be. This is mine.
I think more people told me that they cried about Sandy leaving than Dudley being killed. Which just means that I did my job.
It still blows my mind that, thirteen years later, this month alone, I've received 44 notices from people at ff.net who are favoriting Psychic Serpent, Time of Good Intentions, The Triangle Prophecy or The Lost Generation (mostly PS, though); following one of those fics (mainly PS again, even though it's completed); favoriting me or following me, though I haven't posted in ages (and only just got around to repairing the damaged files on ff.net).
Work on my original fiction has had me thinking more and more of these fics lately, because I will owe a great deal to the plots of the PS series in this (also) four-book cycle, though one of the ways I will owe a great deal is by diverging from the PS series in significant ways, to throw off anyone who thinks they know what I'm doing, plot-wise (but HOW will I diverge?). The universe in which it takes place will be a major divergence, of course (NOT Britain, NOT a school of magic, NOT a magical boy famous for vanquishing a Dark Lord, among many other NOTS). So it seemed a good time to remind myself what I did write, way back when, and show some appreciation to the readers who are still faithfully going online to read my stories, even after all these years.
See you Wednesday, with the first annotations for Harry Potter and the Time of Good Intentions!