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Reviews for In Your Dreams

Javoher2023.12.23 - 06:39AM32: For Everyone ElseSigned
Thank you so much! Read this for the first time just now and it’s an excellent pre-HBP fic. I really loved the characterizations of Hermione and Severus because they’re logical extensions of the canon characters as they were at the end of OotP. Harry is a complete brat who only grows out of it when he’s dragged by Hermione. But the absolute best line is at the end when Severus tells Hermione that no matter how many good qualities her friends have, they’re not soldiers. It reminded me of the time back when the HP universe was simpler and a bit gentler. I hope that wherever life has taken you, you’re still able to write. Thank you.

Author's Response: Thanks. I'm afraid I don't write much now, and haven't really for about a decade. Part of it was because I was too busy, but part of it was watching antisemitism creep higher in the general community, to the point where I didn't feel comfortable interacting. I'll be blunt; I've been quiet about this too long. I've been tracking the rise of antisemitism since the 1990s, long before most people (including Jews and so-called specialty organisations like ADL) had begun to notice. Jews have been the group most-targeted for hate-crimes in the US and across the western world (let alone the non-western world for decades; FBI has tracked that 50-60% religious hate-crimes in US were against Jews every year since official recording began (1992/3), and throughout that time Jews have been 2-4 times more likely than (even) Blacks to be hate-crime victims. Since Durban 1 "Anti" Racism Conference (which was so antisemitic even the conference head rejected the resolutions) the week before 9/11, I've been watching an Iran-backed NGO campaign to demonise Israel gradually gain mainstream support; a UN campaign to deny and overwrite our indigeneity to Judea/Israel; academia denying our history and labelling us "whiter than white supremacists (when 6 million of my parents' generation were massacred for being non-white); rioters increasingly justifying and supporting terrorism and murder... I don't *want* to write for people who want me dead, my kids and grandkids dead, my people dead. I don't *want* to write for people who contribute to that. And every time I've tried to write for the ones who don't, I remember how many do.

DragonIris2023.09.04 - 11:14AM26: Things They RegretSigned
It’s not really fair to compare Lily not forgiving Snape to Hermione forgiving her friends. The situations are night and day. Lily didn’t drop him as a friend because he called her a Mudbllod; it was because he believed she was one. Lily wasn’t disloyal, she just wasn’t stupid. Remember, the last thing she said to Severus was, to paraphrase. "[Don’t apologize for calling me a Mudblood. isn’t it what you believe of everyone of my birth?" More importantly, Severus was on the path to become a Death Eater — someone who believed Muggleborns were trash and deserved to die. The fact that he was willing to make one exception for her was worse, not better. If he could see her worth, he should’ve understood blood wasnt relevant to a person’s value. If he didn’t believe the rhetoric, he should’ve realized the danger to their society he was contributing to. Great story, though!

Author's Response: Do you get the feeling that Lily feels threatened? I don't, not even once. *He* looks tense and wary. *He's* constantly bullied. Her Gryffindor mates have even tried to feed him to a werewolf. But not Lily. She seems perfectly secure and untroubled. She And the first time we see Hagrid, he tells us that Voldemort was trying to recruit her. What an odd suggestion, if her blood automatically made her a target. Regulus, who has DE cousins and comes from a DE-affiliated home, has no idea that the aim is to *kill* Muggles (he thinks it's to rule over them, and not have to hide), so why would Snape know? I was very underwhelmed by Lily altogether, and I don't trust her sense or judgement. Look at the post-Shack conversation, where she has uncritically accepted the Marauder-version of events ("I heard what happened the other night") without even asking Snape for his version - and it's really a rather suspicious circumstance, if you think about it, that "toerag"-James just happened to be in the right place and time after curfew and out of bounds to "save" his preferred victim). I wasn't impressed that she scoffed at his demonstrably-true "werewolf theory" (if Hermione could deduce that in third year within a couple of months, why couldn't Lily after knowing Lupin for five years already?); that she blamed Snape for what other Slytherins did when he wasn't with them (it seems strange to ask if he "knew what Mulciber tried to do to Mary" if he'd been a witness to it); that she blamed him for being bullied ("Why are you so obsessed with them?"). She's bossy, dictatorial, totally uninterested in his welfare (he did suffer a traumatic near-death experience "the other night")... and her complaint about Mulciber and Avery is that they're "creepy ... evil" not that they are DE-wannabes, or that they might attack her. So I'm not convinced her accusation is true. I think she's just repeating Gryffindor talking points - and they've judged him guilty from the first train-ride, merely because he wanted to be in Slytherin.

Author's Response: PS I also think that *his* experiences would have led him to think the Marauders, and their enabling headmaster (who didn't even think an attempt on Snape's life was sufficient cause to punish anyone but Snape) were the danger to society. They're clearly prejudiced hypocrites, since their favourite Slytherin target is the poor halfblood and not any of the purebloods, and frankly, thy give the anti-Voldie movement a bad name.

Joannie2023.08.25 - 12:32AM5: Startlingly ExposedSigned
Found your story tonight, and it is bedtime. The storyline is riveting. At 20, you married someone you met in a week. Awesome. Your dialogue with the parents is spot on. I lived through something similar except mine was worse. I took someone home to meet my parents who was 25 years older. We had only met 4 months earlier. Hermione’s parents were more understanding than mine were. This is a great story!

Author's Response: Thanks. Hubby and I have been married 45+ years now. I hope your "someone" was/is as lovable and long-lasting.

sandpiper2022.01.13 - 05:27PM32: For Everyone ElseSigned
Thank you! It is so nice to see a well-written and well-structured text. I really enjoyed it.

Author's Response: Thanks. It's nice to still get feedback on old fics.

sandpiper2022.01.12 - 07:51PM28: Is It Safe?Signed
Why is everyone using house stereotypes so much? It's like saying that if a family or a university has a banner, then every single member has those qualities and nothing but them. Crabbe and Goyle are as far from the sneaky and smooth Slytherin stereotype as it is possible to be, Luna may be smart, but clearly not in an academic sort of way despite being a Ravenclaw, etc. It's only a slogan, a symbol, important in some situations, but not actually life defining. Sorry, I enjoy your text so far, it is very well written and structured and at the same time ic for the most part, which is why small annoying (for me personally) thing that everyone repeats stand out (again, for me personally, it is half directed at space.)

Author's Response: Because this fic isn't set in real life but in the potterverse, and from what I can see in canon they continue to be obsessed with what House they were in at school for the rest of their lives. It's quite ridiculous, isn't it? I couldn't even tell you which house I was in at school or who else was in the same. (Admittedly that's 4 1/2 decades for me, but I don't think I could have told you 4 decades ago either.) But then, it would never have occurred to us to categorise fellow-students as evil, brainy, brave or dull based on their house, whereas at Hogwarts that's all they seem to do.

sandpiper2022.01.12 - 06:44PM19: Pulling Your ChainSigned
You write Hermione's social immaturity quite perfectly, while she does have the right to know some of the things she's asking, she does choose inopportune times and ways to ask them. And obviously intimacy doesn't automatically come with marriage, people need time to start trusting each other, and they've only been on equal footing for a month.

Author's Response: Yes. She really didn't understand what she was getting herself into when she decided to enter into this marriage, and let's face it, she's never been a mastermind at making friends or influencing people.

sandpiper2022.01.12 - 06:31PM18: If You Have QuestionsSigned
Now that's what I call patience! I would have left a lot earlier if someone was asking so many questions while I tried to work, even before basically being accused of putting children in danger. Shows her age perfectly. It's always funny how so many authors start to make her an icon of adulthood at the ripe age of 18, forgetting that no amount of maturity or intelligence at that age can make up the the lack of experience with life, other people and oneself, to be able to predict the consequences of his or her actions. Turning 18 might make one legally adult, but it takes quite a bit longer to actually become one. Thank you for showing that.

Author's Response: Well, to be fair, I had kids of around that age when I was writing this story...

sandpiper2022.01.12 - 06:19PM17: Completely DaftSigned
When were two times when Draco tried to become Harry's friend? I remember their talk at Hogwarts where he insulted Ron implying that Ron is not as good as him, and offered his friendship, not a very enticing attempt. And he did use every opportunity to insult Harry&co, including pocking at him being an orphan. But it looks like Draco will be presented as a poor misunderstood noble boy, I've seen a number of such attempts, not one of them believably canon and in character (I've seen a few where the events of the last two books finally forced him reconsider his actions and convictions that were more believable though), but that's your choice as a writer and I'll try to shut up on this account.

Author's Response: The first two times they met. You're looking at those through Harry's eyes and judging Draco wanting, from Draco's perspective he was trying to make friends and Harry kept shutting him down. Take another look at the conversation in Madam Malkins, and try to ignore the Harry-filter. What Draco sees is not the famous BWL but merely a kid in ragged clothes with an uncared-for look - same as James Potter sees when he meets Snape on the train, but look what a different response. Draco tries repeatedly to start up a conversation, but Harry shuts down every topic he raises. How could Draco know that his topics would upset Harry? He's only parroting what he's heard at home. He's almost certainly been home-schooled, so the only other kids he's ever met are other Purebloods parroting the same things. Harry's the first stranger of his age he's probably ever met, and all he understands is that Harry has rebuffed all his attempts at making friends. So he tries again on the train , with the same lack of success.

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