Reviewer: Bella_Portia Signed [Report This]
Date: 06/07/2008 11:49 pm Title: Wholly to Be a Fool

I thought this was a wonderful story. Your portrayal of an older parent's feelings for an adult child rang very true. The way you handled the relationship between Tobias and Eileen was very much your own. It was touching and had great verisimiltude. The whole thing -- the relationships that Luna, Draco (what, indeed, was going on there?) and the others had toward Snape in his unfortunate condition -- each was beautifully done. For a story that seemed to have reconciliation as its theme (I did not even try to apply that to the cummings poem), I thought this was absolutely teriffic. If they won't let me give a numerical rating, it should be a 10.

Author's Response: Thank you so much for the flattering and thoughtful review! I'm really thrilled that you enjoyed the story. I'm especially glad you enjoyed the way various relationships were handled, because it's always people who fascinate me the most, especially in the complicated way they relate to one another. (As for what's going on with Draco, I leave that up to the reader. This was written for another writer who adores Snape/Draco, so it's a nod to her, but I deliberately left it ambiguous, so that it could simply be reflective of Draco's great gratitude to Severus.) Reconciliation was indeed one of my themes, so I'm so pleased to hear that it worked for you. The cummings poem was the inspiration for certain scenes, particularly the ending, in that it captured the sort of mood I eventually wanted Eileen to feel: happy to be a little bit of a fool for love, fully happy without censoring herself or worrying about whether anything should be a certain way.

Reviewer: Gargoyle Signed [Report This]
Date: 05/20/2008 10:53 pm Title: Wholly to Be a Fool

This is a beautiful story, beautifully told. I would love to send it to JKR, but I don't know her. I would also really like to see her reaction to it. Her responses to things are always so idiosyncratic; she could smile, spit, or sue you ;-). No, she wouldn't sue you. It's a lovely story and she is so generous about letting others make friends with her friends. The survival of SS in a coma after the snake bite in the shrieking shack is soooo perfect a way out of the dilema he was in at the end of DH. Now, can you bring back Dobby? Dumbledore? Sirius? Lupin & Tonks? No, of course not. You were able to bring back Snape, "Professor Snape Harry," only becuase she left an opening, an opening that apparently you saw. Congrats! Maybe you could do Madeye - although you'd have to explain how Umbridge got his eye while he still had breath in 'im.

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I'm delighted you enjoyed the story, because I certainly enjoyed writing it. I'm so very glad that you agree with my exploiting of the loopholes left by DH--and I wouldn't say no to a chance to 'resurrect' some of the other characters who were callously killed off. I'm working on something that features Remus and Tonks, in fact, and Mad-Eye features in there a bit, too. *g*