[Report This]Date: 06/11/2012 01:15 am Title: Growing Up Empty
Just discovered this story and found it surprisingly poignant - remembering that at one point, all three of them were just boys - and now are litte more than older boys playing so very hard at being men.
Author's Response: Thanks. A prison-lawyer friend once told me that more than half the prisoners in jail were of less than average intelligence, ranging from merely slow to mild-to-moderate developmentally-delayed, because they are so easily misled and so poor at understanding consequences: at once more likely to offend and less likely to escape. When you add to that a dysfunctional family or school (Hogwarts certainly falls into that category, IMO) either actively or passively feeding them the wrong ideas, what chance do they have?
[Report This]Date: 05/02/2007 10:57 am Title: Growing Up Empty
I laughed with astonished pleasure at the story synopsis and then was delighted at the tenderness shown to the characters. I thought about it for months and am delighted that I managed to find it again. So original, gentle and real.
Author's Response: Thanks. Most of my stories are Snape-based so they're archived at Occlumency and Ashwinder (and ffnet), but it was fun to write Crabbe as a real person, not just a thug-stereotype. The thing is all people are more complex on the inside than they appear on the outside; there isn't anyone who can't be the hero of a story we'd want to read (as against just the hero of his own story, like we all are.)
[Report This]Date: 12/21/2005 02:09 am Title: Going Nowhere
This was incredible to read. Thank you so much. I never thought Vincent Crabbe could have so much depth. And the poetry was excellent.
Author's Response: Every real person has depth if you look inside them. Personalities are like fractals; the closer in you zoom the microscope, the more complexity you find.
[Report This]Date: 12/11/2005 08:56 pm Title: Going Nowhere
Very interesting.
Author's Response: JK tends to make the Slytherins rather cardboardy but she leaves enough room for them to come alive if you investigate more closely.
[Report This]Date: 12/11/2005 12:38 pm Title: Going Nowhere
i love this HBP from crabbe's pov.
Author's Response: Thanks. First chapter was written and posted at ffnet before HBP, then edited to be HBP-compliant so I could continue. Second poem was also mostly pre-HBP.
[Report This]Date: 12/08/2005 12:27 pm Title: Growing Up Empty
wow. at first the thought of crabbe writing poetry just amused me, but you gave him a lot of depth. i like, i like.
Author's Response: If I get inspired to write a suitable poem I might write a third chapter, set after Dumbledore's death. No promises. Right now I'm working on an SSHG mentor-fic set during HBP.
[Report This]Date: 12/02/2005 08:37 pm Title: Growing Up Empty
I'm pretty sure I said how much I liked this when you posted to ff.net, but -- well -- someone should tell you the same here too. We rarely give a thought to Crabbe (and when we do, it's usually in the Crabbe-and-Goyle sense), so thank you for giving him a bit of humanity.
Author's Response: Thanks. I don't get many reviews here but I'll just post on anyhow. Perhaps I'll write another chapter if I get inspired with another poem; in this fic, the poems inspired the chapters.