Reviews for Looking for Magic in All the Right Places
| Jong_Kahn | 2024.02.25 - 02:21AM | 12: Epilogue--A Theory Worth Testing | Signed |
| Ha! It's 12 years later I'm rereading this story and enjoying it. This time what struck me was Sev's line: "'I had forgotten that the most effective invocations are like a binding contract, requiring complete commitment from both parties to work properly.'
So beautifully you combined your two loves poetry and the magic world. Glad to give you yet another "10". Well done, you! |
| Jong_Kahn | 2024.02.25 - 02:08AM | 10: Hold Nothing Back, Miss Granger | Signed |
| Utterly, perfectly wonderful. Excellent! |
| snapefan1983 | 2021.07.10 - 09:06PM | 10: Hold Nothing Back, Miss Granger | Signed |
| I thought it was meant to show love? This shows hate and anger etc !!
You are the hollow man.
You are the uncrying man.
You are a shape filled with darkness.'
Her voice rolled over Snape like smoke. The room seemed to dim.
'Your cold hand crushes dried roots.
Your dried voice whispers cold spells.
You are quiet and chill
As wind in dead grass
Or rats’ feet over spilt potions.
You raise the dungeon stones,
And seal heart and soul within
A cage of bones.'
A vast wall of grey air swirled between Hermione’s extended hand and Snape; from this inchoate mass she could hear faint shrieks as if people were being tortured. She could see Snape only dimly, as though the room were filled with fog. He fell to his knees, his back bowed as if something huge and heavy were pressing down on him.
How good it felt to cage him. To crush him.
Arms pinned her from behind and pulled her hand down. Hermione struggled, crying out.
'Hermione, no, no! Break your focus. Don’t look at Snape! Don’t look at him!' Hands clamped over her eyes. Immediately her urge to crush Snape vanished, and all she could feel was a stunned, abject horror. She slumped, eyes squeezed shut. The arms supported her to a chair.
When Hermione dared to open her eyes again, Lupin was crouched in front of her, and Harry sat beside her, one hand on her shoulder, his brilliant green eyes wide with concern.
'Hermione, are you all right?' Harry said as soon as she met his gaze.
She took a deep, shaky breath and nodded. 'I think so.' She turned to Lupin. 'Professor—what happened? Did I—oh gods—did I hurt Professor Snape?'
Lupin gave her a crooked grin. 'I broke your concentration on time. He felt some discomfort, but otherwise Professor Snape is fine.'
As if to confirm this, Snape moved into her field of view. For a moment, Hermione kept her eyes fixed on the front of his robe, with all those tiny buttons. She considered counting every single one of those tiny buttons-- anything to avoid meeting his eyes.
Summoning that much-vaunted Gryffindor bravery, Hermione raised her chin. Snape met her apologetic look with the raised eyebrows and long, slow nod of a seasoned knight realising he had been bested and was sporting enough to concede the joust. She swallowed. She didn’t deserve such graciousness.
'I’m so sorry, Professor.'
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| snapefan1983 | 2021.07.10 - 07:40PM | 6: Sex-Starved Little Swot! | Signed |
| What? Hermione, stop acting like a sex-starved little swot
There was a moment’s shocked silence. Ron’s eyes were wide. Neville cleared his throat and pushed his face back into his poetry book. Hermione stood rigid, her face deadly pale.
‘So,’ said Parvati sweetly. ‘Hermione. Speaking of sex—tell us more about your pash for Snape.’ She and Lavender collapsed into giggles.
Hermione flushed brick-red. Pressing her lips together, she started picking up her books, elaborately ignoring Ron and everyone else in the room.
Ron pulled his long legs away from the pile of texts and stared at the floor.
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| snapefan1983 | 2021.07.10 - 07:27PM | 5: Acid and Digestion | Signed |
| I thought hermione and Severus would be paired together? |
| snapefan1983 | 2021.07.10 - 06:10PM | 3: That Strange Prickling Feeling | Signed |
| Why don’t they do muggle self defence classes? |
| braye27 | 2021.02.26 - 11:56AM | 12: Epilogue--A Theory Worth Testing | Signed |
| I've just finished reading your lovely story, and wanted to tell you it is as perfect a tale as I ever read. Well done!
Beth
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| Ive | 2019.06.24 - 08:55PM | 9: The Art of Winning | Signed |
| The comment about pens reminds me of the Seamus Heaney poem. This is really working for you! How talented you are! |
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