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| DRoy234282 | 2024.02.10 - 01:08AM | 24: Epilogue II | Signed |
| I have so enjoyed reading your stories, especially the pair of Nether Faries, which I just finished. Your insight into this pair is extraordinary, plus you wrapped up so many things I've wondered about. It's nice to read happy endings, which are rare, at times. I loved you stories so much, that now I want to begin reading them again, which I will, but not tonight. You have a rare gift; thank you for sharing it with us. Author's Response: I'm not really often on this site anymore as I hardly ever get feedback on my stories. What a wonderful surprise when I popped in again today after a really long time (Has it been a year?) - and to find a new review, and even a relatively recent one! Thank you so much for that! I'm very happy to hear that you liked the story. It feels great to hear that people are still reading it even years after publishing it! <3 | |||
| Annastasia Cooper | 2020.07.06 - 05:18PM | 14: What Dreams May Come | Signed |
| I'm currently in chapter 14 and I just needed to tell you how much I love that you included the reocurring nightmares and letting her have a breakthrough.
I myself have suffered from reocurring nightmares for a decade before the breakthrough dream happened, not quite like Hermione's but it also involved a person I deeply loved.
I never thought I'd stumble across something so relatable. You need to excuse me now, I have to continue reading. Author's Response: Hello Annastasia! I'm glad I checked in here once again and found your review! Thank you so much for it! I'm happy to hear that you got over your nightmares.It must have been worse than normal once, if you had such a hard time getting over them. I adit I have not ever experienced what I wrote about - it's merely imagination. But I think I somehow developed a trick in early childhood to deal with nightmares, and it works till today: I simply imagine that I woke up at a bad time in my dread - before it could get to the happy ending. Sort of like leaving in the middle of an angsty movie, you know? I fell asleep again IMAGINING the happy ending, and after a while, is became an automatism.: I never even wake up. Something happens to make the dream turn into something good. Being entombed somewhere with my dead grandma around decomposed corpses suddenly turned out into quite a party - the other deceased were really nice, and my grandma and I chatted a lot before everybody helped me out of there and send me happily on my way. Kind of absurd, but I woke up slightly amused and with a good feeling instead of freaked out. I think it's possible to train your subconcious to this kind of positiv e dreaming, alt least as long as you're dealing with ordinary nightmares. In any case, I hope your coping mechanism will continue to work! Thanks for reviewing and sweet dreams! | |||
| Shanti_Writes | 2020.03.23 - 03:59PM | 23: Epilogue I | Signed |
| This is truly one of the sweetest, most gripping, and most true to character Severus/Hermione story I have ever read. And I've read a LOT of them. I love the slow, logical growth, the personal healing and revelations, the Occlumency descriptions - all of it was amazing. I am sure this is one I will read over and over. I hope you are still writing and that we can expect more from you. I am in awe to think that English is not your native language - the story is so complex and we'll written. Bravo! Author's Response: Hello Shanti! Thank you so much for your review! I apologize for not having checked back on this site for a long while, so I completely missed it. Actually, I wrote a few companion pieces to the Netherfairies and Gloomilows in the meanwhile that I haven't yet published here. (I probably will, soon). For once, there are the Missing Christmas Chapters to the Gloomilows (practically completed, they are only missing one final, concluding chapter which I will publish around Christmas) and another story extract which could be a part of the Christmas Chapters. It is only about Severus and Harry, so I won't be able to publish it here at all, given that it's SSHG. If you want to check them out, go to fanfiction dot net and look for zaubernuss. :) Thank you so much for your kind words - they truly warm my heart! <3 | |||
| SillyWandWaver | 2020.03.22 - 05:11PM | 2: The Soothing Qualities of Potions | Signed |
| This is wonderful! I am thoroughly enjoying the story, but there's not much for me to say that hasn't been said already.
But I do have something to share!
Along with your recommendations of Rickman reading sonnets, here is a website that has adjustable potions class ambiance:
https://harry-potter-sounds.ambient-mixer.com/potions-class Author's Response: I'm so sorry that I haven't seen your review sooner! I only come back sporadically to check, and I haven't been here for a long time. Thank you so much for leaving a comment! It still makes me extremely happy to hear back from readers! Thank you for the link to the ambience audio, too! I haven't seen that before and will check it out immediatly! Looks great!!! | |||
| Hyotae | 2018.09.21 - 01:52PM | 24: Epilogue II | Signed |
| WOW! One of the best stories I’ve ever read about Snape and Hermione. And the epilogue just wrapped everything so nicely and just perfect! Thank you so much for writing these two stories!!!!
I hope this review and many others encourage you to continue writing such amazing stories.
Thank you so much for this experience, I shall cherish it forever. Author's Response: Thank YOU, Hyotae, for this wonderful review that made me smile all over my face! I'm currently back in my vampire universe, but I have no doubt that I'll eventually get back to Snape and Hermione again. Readers like you are so much fun to write for! | |||
| DragonIris | 2018.09.12 - 02:54PM | 3: The Ballroom Incident | Signed |
| I know what you mean about controlling nightmares. I had nightmares, every night, for about two years. My mother’s grandmother taught her some techniques to cope with bad dreams that I now realize were old folk magick. Some of them worked, eventually. I have always been a logical minded girl so I rolled my eyes initially but sheer desperation made me try them until something worked. However, it didn’t work in the way I expected. I didn’t stop having nightmares, I developed a knack for lucid dreaming.
When a nightmare began, I would realize I was dreaming. The weird part is my consciousness would divide into two parts—the first was the person in the dream and the second was the part of my mind that knew it was dreaming. I could stay in both places — watching the dream and experiencing it. This including my dream-self experiencing the emotions evoked by the dream. Additionally, the me that was still in the dream knew what was going to happen right before it did.
When the nightmare started to get too scary, I could change the script of the dream into something not scary. I could designate “not scary dream” and then choose to experience a new dream. If I sunk into it completely, it became like any other non-scary dream; my watching awareness would rejoin the one in the dream. I lost the awareness it was a dream which meant I no longer knew what was going to happen.
If I opted to completely stop the dream, I could either wake up or do something entirely different in that white, misty space. This is a little embarrassing, but probably not surprising: I always opted to go flying. I didn’t sprout wings or anything like that, I just flew. It was the most exhilarating experience ever, better than any roller coaster. I didn’t fly over terrain or anything; it’s really difficult to describe, but I’ll give it a try.
If it were possible to fly in a space only big enough to contain yourself while having the perception of a vast space around you that you neither saw nor flew in, that would be it. As for the path, imagine diving into a pool and the initial arc you take through the water before you ascend to the surface. Imagine doing that either repeatedly in a straight line or over and over again while not being able to see or feel when you started over, it just happened. I hope that made sense. If I could draw the path, it would look like the bottom curve of a “U.” Flying sessions never seemed to last long enough but when I woke up, it was morning. Author's Response: Wow! I really envy you for your lucid dreaming ability! I never got as far. I have dreams in which I realize that I'm dreaming, but then I wake up. Or, my subconscious changes my dream without me becoming aware of it being a dream - by having people running thorough it screaming 'cut', 'cut' - and then the scary scene is on reapeat, but I'm aware that it's just a movie. The thing is that I am hardly ever myself in a dream. I'm mostly like a character in a movie. I have a personal perspective, but hardly anything has do do with my own life, not even the people in it. That makes nightmares more difficult to begin with, as I'm always rather detached. If I could control my dreams, I'd be flying the entire time! I only experienced it a handful of times, but it was beyond description. The funny thing is that I'm aware I shouldn't be flying, and other stare at me and wonder how I do it. And every time, I give the same explanation, wondering why they are so amazed, as flying is really easy: Jump up and simply don't come down! :) | |||
| joannie | 2018.09.09 - 03:40PM | 13: Family Matters | Signed |
| Really! Draco is not Snape’s godson. Oh for crying out loud! I thought he was. It doens’t change my view, I will stick with Draco as his godson. Thank you for pointing that out. joannie | |||
| joannie | 2018.09.09 - 02:47PM | 13: Family Matters | Signed |
| Really! Draco is not Snape’s godson. Oh for crying out loud! I thought he was. It doens’t change my view, I will stick with Draco as his godson. Thank you for pointing that out. joannie Author's Response: Yes, that blew me, too! Did you know that Bella carving Hermione's arm only happened in the movie? She suffers no such injury in the book, which totally surprised me when I read it again. I guess after a while, for true fans, all these ideas and images kind of merge. But that's the beauty of it - it makes the HP world so much richer! | |||
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