Reviews for Being Hermione Granger
| Bambu | 2010.02.27 - 03:46PM | 29: Twenty-Eight | Signed |
| I enjoyed this thoroughly, and surprisingly what I liked the most was the way you explored the dynamics of Hermione's friendships with Ginny and Lavender. I loved that you gave Lavender depth and resonance as an individual beyond the superficial. |
| Quickqueck | 2010.02.16 - 01:16PM | 29: Twenty-Eight | Signed |
| pleaseeeee, just one kiss!
i loved this story, but where is my kiss?!
great job anyway, now i'm off to your other stories ;) |
| Passer | 2010.01.28 - 04:09PM | 1: Prologue | Signed |
| I hope you don't mind terribly but my review is just a fragmentary reflection upon the summary. These two sentences have been plaguing me for a very long time and I have finally found a way to express my ponderings thanks to your perfectly phrazed and elegant lines. Human nature in 30 words indeed... |
| Sniv | 2010.01.25 - 01:57PM | 29: Twenty-Eight | Signed |
| Wow! I am blown away! I've read many HG/SS fics but this one is definitely one of the very best!! The way you described Hermione's feelings was so human and so amazing. I'm just so happy I found this fic after you completed it, because I'm not sure I would have been able to wait for each brilliant chapter - for there were some cliffies there...I thank you very much for a wonderful read and what a fantastic way of getting our favourite couple together. I really admire the way you made me completely fall for Snape through Hermione. A Hermione who was mature and had friends (Ginny, Harry and Ron) who all behaved in a realistic way. I really like the way you dealt with the HG/RW. Phew...this fic was really just fantastic and I will definitely return for another read when I need cheering up or just need to find an example of how a brilliant fic is suppose to be...(with a happy ending). I would keep on babbling here - when all I wanna say is: thank you for a fabolous read! =) |
| ExperimentalMe | 2010.01.21 - 10:55AM | 29: Twenty-Eight | Signed |
| Lovely story! I really enjoyed it. |
| PDamian | 2009.12.24 - 03:07PM | 29: Twenty-Eight | Signed |
| Marvelous! Simply marvelous! And now, a very special epilogue, featuring some Very Special Lingerie, please! |
| Demyan | 2009.12.17 - 07:23AM | 27: Twenty-Six | Signed |
| Sigh.
While I'm obviously quite taken with your main plot idea, I can't help but always trip over things. Perhaps I am so overtly critical because the story is otherwise so enjoyable.
I can't really say that I like your Hermione. It's not that I hate her, either. It's nice that you have created a character with some flaws. That makes her more human, gives the readers something they can recognise themselves in. Her tendency to eat when under emotional stress is well known to me. I also share her antisocial behaviour. What bothers me, though, is how caught up in herself she is. Fine, perhaps I was, too, at that age. But I can't say I would have liked me very much back then. And so I don't really like her.
On the one hand, she's insecure on a lot of levels. Her constant embarrassment in the face of everything that has to do with amorous feelings, dreams, physicality, or sex, is really tiring. I certainly wasn't thinking of myself as attractive at the age of eighteen. Coupled with my antisocial tendencies, I truly thought I'd never be interesting for a man. Still, I wasn't ashamed of my own phantasies. I didn't blush all the time. And she's already had two boyfriends...!
Then there is the other side of her, when she is so self-righteous and completely over-confident. Hell, yes I finished school at the top of my class, and I just recently finished my studies with a very good diploma-grade, so I do understand the elevating feeling of academic achievement, but actively aiming to be the best Hogwarts student in history? How arrogant can anyone be?! Hadn't she resolved to stop that at the beginning of this story? I thought you made her 'change' in priorities look too easy, but now I know nothing's changed at all, the way she talks about proving herself to Snape all the time. There is nothing she could prove to him by being a good student. He knows already how talented she is. She healed him, after all. He acknowledged her extraordinary performance more than once. What she's failing to prove to him is that she's trustworthy. She failed him by telling all his intimate secrets to Ginny (having to talk to someone is one thing, giving away every detail is a totally different - I was shocked when she brought up his impotence and the rape), and she failed him just as much by calling upon the life debt. Your Hermione is constantly acting totally unplanned, rashly, which stands for me in harsh contrast to Mrs. Rowling's Hermione.
Furthermore, there are flaws in your plot or at least passages that feel like bad solutions. As I’ve already mentioned in a previous review, I find it strange that an applicant has to realise such a huge and difficult project in order to be accepted as apprentice. Additionally, I don't see why Hermione would take on the stress of this project in addition to her N.E.W.T.s school year if she’s not intending to go through with this apprenticeship right away but will spend years at the university in between (in Rowling’s world, there are no wizarding universities, by the way). To me, this feels as if you just desperately needed for her to do it then and there so you could hook her up with Snape. I’m sure there would have been a more plausible scenario.
Also, coming back to the chapter I’m officially reviewing here, why would Hermione deliver a potion without expecting the recipient to take it immediately? Why does she give it to him and then plan to tell him that he has to come to her to activate it? Wouldn’t it be more plausible to just do it then and there? If she’s forgotten, I’d expect her to thinking in mortification that now Snape’s taken an improperly prepared potion or something, not just tell him to come to her with it.
Sorry for all my nagging. I suppose you won’t appreciate it, but I felt it had to be said.
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| Demyan | 2009.12.16 - 11:47AM | 21: Twenty | Signed |
| Why's she applying with universities if she's already secured an apprenticeship? |
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