renfro92w posted a comment on Saturday 30th May 2009 11:51am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Hello, I have just read through the entire main dangerverse up to this chapter, and I must say you have an incredible story here. I love it! You characterizations are totally believable to me, and you really know how to make the story come alive. The way this timeline is unfolding is fascinating. I am on the edge of my seat, and I can't wait for more. I'm also enjoying your original story of the Recorder.

Carolyn Jinn posted a comment on Thursday 28th May 2009 1:16pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Another great chapter.

Can't wait for the next one.

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Thanks!

Ryan Illuser posted a comment on Thursday 28th May 2009 5:12am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Great you got another chapter out! and wow the serpent's daughter. wait I relized something is the dead woman that one girl Draco kind of like's. Oh what's her name? but anyway he said he recognized her and the it fit's with what she told Luna. Amanda that's her name! so yay that's my thoughts.

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Well, Amanda was pretty alive when we last saw her...

Chindabe posted a comment on Wednesday 27th May 2009 11:55am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

WOAH. COOL. Please update soon! :D

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Doing my best!

Anansii posted a comment on Wednesday 27th May 2009 8:26am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Lets hear it for Hogwarts and secret caverns! It's a wonder there's room for the school. (Or to quote Lord Darcy in "The Eyes Have It", is there "something concealed behind every arras in the place?" :) ) Sounds like they've found a good place, both physically and symbolically.

Meanwhile, we pause to consider that two people acting a scene probably don't appear as lying, because they themselves aren't thinking of it that way.

Then again, sometimes everybody dies. Oh, the embarassment... :)

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Well, no secret stairwells which come out in chapels here. Though Sanctuary might get a back door into the Forest. And no, there's no acting going on in the vision either.

Prongsie posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 6:31pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Hmmm... Well, my thoughts on Draco were that he has the soul (or part of it) of one of the men between whom the woman (who now lies in that cave) had to choose to save, but it was the woman who managed to get him as 'speaker' because he has that connection to her through that part of his soul. Does that make any sense? *laughs*
Right, the line-crossing-thingy: the only good idea I got out of Chapter 25 was that because Harry and Voldemort had the Priori Incantatem-effect, their lines crossed over into each other... But that's about as far as I could get :P I'll just patiently wait for the next update, how about that? ;)

Anne B. Walsh replied:

It wasn't the woman speaking--the one point at which he says "I am the serpent's daughter" he's just translating the Latin on the wall. And no, it's later in Chapter 25 you need to be looking at. *coughstorycough*

HGRHfan35 posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 5:49pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Hi Anne,
You told me that Alex had two kids. My mistake I guess because I just assumed that from chapter 20 in 'Living.....':

"So that’s why you’re a Parselmouth," said Harry in satisfaction. "You’re an heir of Slytherin."

"One of the originals." Al was sitting on another of the House tables, his feet on the bench below it. "Sadly, it’s my brother’s line that continues, not mine."

"Continues?" Hermione pounced on the word. "You mean there are heirs of Slytherin still alive? And heirs of Gryffindor, and Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff?"

So because Alex sais his brothers line continued I figured Alex didn't have kids *head desk* but never thought that his own line had died out. *sigh*

That's why you write and I don't! LOL

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Hey, where would writers be without readers?

tangentsferret posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 1:14pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Oh, right, first off, yay an update, and such a good solid one, too.

OooOOOooo, this is difficult: I have this theory, see, about the whole dead-Draco-Luna-going-to-Lucius-voluntarily thing, and if I'm right I wanna be able to gloat, but I don't want to blow the surprise if I happened to actually figure something out for the first time in this whole universe (thicker than Ron, me). So, I dunno, two words? Aging Potion.

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Well, that might be a bit tough, since Luna said she can See if people are "lying" with their appearance... besides, Lucius doesn't look much like Draco anymore, what with the scars he's acquired from being a werewolf.

BT posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 12:49pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

EEEEEEEEEEEEE please write more soon. I'm very curious to see how this series ends- I've been reading this off and on for quite a while.

I like this AU. Sometimes I am thinking or reading about the canon story and one of your characters slips in ... and I have to remember that you aren't JKR!

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Wow, I'm flattered! Thanks so much! More soon, I devoutly hope and plan!

bookaholic_au posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 12:37pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Wow. I didn't even pay at tbc. Good work. This chapter is intruiging

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Thankee. Payment is secondary, honestly--it's eyes on words I'm after more!

Minerva Granger posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 9:34am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Wow. This chapter is haunting. Who on earth is the mummy? And what on earth is all the sudden Seer-ness that everyone gets in that cave? I'm not sure it's safe, or maybe that's just my paranoid mind. Nice work.

Anne B. Walsh replied:

She's who she said she was in the wall carving, and the person who gets Seer-ness in the cave gets it for a reason. They'll check the place out pretty thoroughly before they decide to use it.

HGRHfan35 posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 5:30am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Got the update from ffnet but again, not from this site. But I like it here more. :D

Hard chapter for Draco and Luna because they might pity him and dis-trust her. Wonder what Danger said to Luna.

Sorry about misreading the reviews and how could I even think that Krum could be a DE *head desk*.

The lady in the sarcophagus. mmmmm. Descendent of the serpent so it should be from Matthias's line since Alex did not have children, right?
It was like Draco was channeling 2 ghosts because

"I see it now as I did not then," he breathed. "A cunning trap, worthy of the one who sprang it. I was hurt, the boy too young, and she had not the strength to take us both... the water came down so fast, there was no time to choose, whoever was left would die..."

while he first described himself as the serpent's daughter.

Does this have to do anything with Amanda's old soul.

I'm lost *sigh* I need to re-read some stuff first.

Glad they 'found' the place to make the sanctuary. Now to make it work with all the chosen members.

Until next time, take care. C

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Now, now, I never said you were wrong... No, Alex had two kids, and Draco wasn't describing himself as the serpent's daughter, he was just translating the Latin on the wall.

whatareyouevensaying posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 4:40am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Very interesting update...you just love to keep adding mysteries for the Pride to pick their way through.

Looking forward to more.

Anne B. Walsh replied:

I do, I do indeed... but all shall be cleared up in the fullness of time.

callie posted a comment on Tuesday 26th May 2009 12:05am for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

great chapters!

seeing a chapter from you is the highlight of my day!

Anne B. Walsh replied:

Aww, thanks!

AnnaTigg posted a comment on Monday 25th May 2009 11:43pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

Ooh, another update, we are being spoiled at the moment! Don't stop, please! Great chapter, very intriguing about the caves and the mausoleum. Glad everybody knows all about the vision now - although it's hard to see how, I somehow feel the Pack and Pride will find a way to prevent it coming true...I really hope so anyway. Looking forward to the next chapter - a terrible secret sounds very intriging, and I'm also interested to see Ron's reactions to dealing with Krum...

Anne B. Walsh replied:

They'll want to, and they'll try. No word on whether or not they'll succeed. Mwahaha. Ah yes, Ron and Krum... one of those scenes I have really been looking forward to writing.

Prongsie posted a comment on Monday 25th May 2009 11:20pm for Chapter 39: Claiming Sanctuary (Arc 6)

All right! Thanks for updating ^^
Right, my ideas on the chapter: first of all, good job :) As always ;)
I'd say the old woman is the one whose soul resides in Amanda... And it would seem Draco has a part of the soul of one of the men between whom she had to choose (you know, it was save one and let the other die). That's why they have that attraction! Wow, I'm on a roll :P And Draco (as the woman) said that apparently the Houses have reconciled, so I'd say that as Harry is Gryffindor (and has a small part of Slytherin through his connection with Voldemort), Neville is Hufflepuff and Meghan is Ravenclaw the Houses have indeed been reconciled. Or maybe she wasn't talking about the Hogwarts' Houses, but the ancient House of Black, Potter and Malfoy being reconciled through the cubs as well...

As I thought, Krum is indeed the Seeker they had to look for, but I wasn't sure why. Seems like that mystery's solved as well ;)
I'm both sad and happy that Draco told the others. I feel for them all, truly I do. And I really hope there will be a way to solve this recent mess. *fingers crossed*

I was also wondering about the whole 'serpent's daughter'-thing: so she's a decendant of Slytherin. The way she talked, it made me think of Voldemort's mum... And she was also from the House of Slytherin... Could it be that the Houses of Gaunt (or whatever her name was) and Beauvoi have crossed lines somewhere?

Let me know what you think of my ideas please ^^

Grtz,

Prongsie

Anne B. Walsh replied:

You're quite welcome. Your ideas are mostly impressive, but you seem a bit confused as to who was talking through Draco... first you said it was a man, then a woman... and if you want more information about line-crossing, I suggest you investigate Chapter 25.