Comments | harmony_bites: Book of Shadows (HG/SS, Mature) (10/?)

harmony_bites

Book of Shadows (HG/SS, Mature) (10/?)

Oct 13, 2007 12:43

Nominated in the 2005 OWL Awards for Best in Realm of the Half-Blood Prince and Best Action-Adventure.

My disclaimers may be found in Chapter One. My thanks to Djinn and bambu345 for their betas, clare009 for her suggestions and encouragement, and lifeasanamazon for her Britpick.

Chapter Summary: Dreams are not roads to nowhere in magic …

( Chapter Ten: Dreams and Nightmares )

my hpfic, ss/hg, book of shadows

Comments 9

e_danae October 13 2007, 19:27:50 UTC

Magnificent.
Recalling our discussion about dependence of quality of a fanfic and the amount of time spent on it, I feel a need slightly change my point. What makes a difference between an average and an outstanding story is not necessarily a time. It's an investment to it.
It's the investment of thinking, observing, life experience (and time), what I see behind BOS. Marvelously building your characters, their motivations and acting in this story, you are not afraid of going pretty deep to make them really live.
Book Six retold as Book of Anger and Maturing of Hermione Granger gives a new sense to many things in Harry Potter world. I'm looking forward to see more of this - whenever it comes.

harmony_bites October 14 2007, 05:07:19 UTC

It's the investment of thinking, observing, life experience (and time), what I see behind BOS

Aww--back at you with TPOS. I'm also very fond of a postDH SSHG right now--Where Your Treasure Is--it's excellent, at 45 chapters and about 200 thousand words--since August--and updated almost every day. So I really don't think you can say time = quality--not in a simple way anyway.

So, more TPOS?

clare009 October 14 2007, 00:27:31 UTC

Congrats on the nom - totally deserving. I'm definitely looking forward to the next chapter.

harmony_bites October 14 2007, 04:52:47 UTC

nom? Do you mean the OWL nomination? That was two years ago and I still keep it on the template for new chapters but unless there's something I don't know, BOS hasn't been nominated.

Thanks though for always liking this thing of mine and encouraging more.

clare009 October 14 2007, 12:37:43 UTC

It was? *snicker*

Shows you how much I pay attention to what's currently going on in fandom. I thought - cool, a nom! hehehe.

catherinecookmn October 14 2007, 16:57:51 UTC

Wow, I don't who to feel sorrier for -- Hermione or Snape! Her row isn't that much harder to hoe than his is. To be unfairly ostracized as evil while Ron and Lav get to be sluts with impunity -- eeek!

harmony_bites October 14 2007, 17:45:21 UTC

Every time I do a chapter I have to reread--at least parts--of HBP. I didn't want to go OTP and be unfair to Ron, but it's really, really hard to like Ron in this period of HBP--he really is acting cruely to her--the snogging in the stacks, the public mocking of her handraising, comes straight from canon even if I messed a bit with chronology (I figured he might have done it more than once.

So yeah, poor Hermione doesn't have it easy right now. Thanks for the review!

Great Fic miravisu August 16 2011, 19:18:10 UTC

I just wanted to say that even if this turns out to be a story you don't have the time and inspiration to completely finish, I'm still so happy to have read such an interesting fic :)

btw.. chapter 11 is linked at the bottom (that doesn't seem to exist, not yet at least..), that links back to chapter 10, is due to you keeping the chapter template handy?

Re: Great Fic harmony_bites August 16 2011, 20:47:10 UTC

Yup, it's due to the chapter template, and in fact there is a completed Chapter Eleven on LJ--just incomplete and posted private.

I don't think realistically it's probable I'll ever finish this given all the time nothing has come. Although I think about it almost every day--that it's not finished haunts me. Thanks so much for commenting and letting me know you liked it.