Comments | lightningwave: Chapter Eighty-Two of IAATB: A Silver Splendour, A Flame

lightningwave

Chapter Eighty-Two of IAATB: A Silver Splendour, A Flame

Jan 02, 2007 15:48

Comments 29

thekams January 2 2007, 22:29:27 UTC

Wonderful, as always! I was kinda of sad that Parvati wasn't pregnant, but what can you do, eh?

I love that Harry's going to have magical creatures vote, as they should, and that he freed more Thestrals. The ritual was wonderful; everything was wonderful!! I can't wait to see the election =)

lightningwave January 3 2007, 16:55:44 UTC

Yeah. I thought it would go too much against the story's themes that bloodline is not the only important thing binding people together.

The election's next chapter, which is up now.

misagoddess January 2 2007, 23:18:59 UTC

Aw. What a lovely ritual.

lightningwave January 3 2007, 16:55:55 UTC

Thanks!

idhren24 January 2 2007, 23:31:33 UTC

I had a weird flash of almost deja vu, when Draco said:

“I suppose you know best about what to do, since you’re vates, Harry, but it’s bloody creepy sometimes.”

It sounded like something Connor might say; it has that same mix of trust and openess that was often Connor's trade mark with Harry in his latter years.

Overall, quite beautiful. I can understand Harry's reaction at the end of the ritual--I just had my first professional massage last week, and it turned me into a puddle of clear-headed goo.

lightningwave January 3 2007, 16:56:23 UTC

Draco does feel free to be a lot more open with Harry than he ever could.

For Harry, this was like a double massage: physical and emotional.

chiakidark January 3 2007, 01:53:42 UTC

Oh my!

*Chiaki purrs and pets the pretty boys and Story*

How lovely.

lightningwave January 3 2007, 16:56:35 UTC

Thank you!

satanbaker January 3 2007, 02:20:41 UTC

I love how in small ways you can show that this is a completely different Harry from the canon Harry, along side the big giant huge over-arching differences. This Harry has been raised in the magical world, so he has phrases he thinks like the 'collecting kneazles' that otherwise he wouldn't have. I just really appreciate little details like that.

*is happy*

lightningwave January 3 2007, 16:57:10 UTC

Thanks! That's something I actually have a lot of practice at doing, since I've written lots of original fantasy and that's one of the basic tricks of worldbuilding. I have had to stop myself several times when I wanted to make a Muggle reference that this Harry wouldn't know.