Surpassing Danger
Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
By Anne B. Walsh
Reviews
AnnaTigg posted a comment on Saturday 8th December 2012 4:39am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
Having been off work this week, I have used my time on the sofa extremely productively to re-read the entire DV before enjoying this latest chapter. This has served to remind me once again of your genius and your excellent plotting and has been great fun (although obviously sad at times as well). Loved this latest installment, particularly as now the whole Pride know about Horcruxes, rather than just the Trio of canon, and I would hazard a guess that Dumbledore's restriction on telling anyone about said items might not include the Pack-Parents (or their ancestors/friends "upstairs")? Loved the Quidditch match in this chater as well, especially Lindz taking over her brother's role and enjoying riling McGonagall...Note you have been updating quite a bit recently and hope this will continue with regard to SD.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Dumbledore did mean the ban to extend to the Pack-parents, but they're going to figure out a few things anyway, and the Founders already know. I'm sure gonna try!
BarnabusIII posted a comment on Thursday 6th December 2012 7:47pm for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
I would definitely read the both if you wrote them, but if I had to choose it would probably be the latter. The introduction of a non-magical into the magical world has always fascinated me and you did it really well in Living with Danger!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
I'll keep that in mind!
bgoldnyxnet posted a comment on Friday 30th November 2012 12:12am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
I'd rather read a contemporary fantasy. S&S has been kind of done to death, it's really hard to find anything new to say there.
OTOH, I have to admit that, given the quality of writing in the Dangerverse stories, it's likely that an S&S story by you would be very good.
Mind you, I've never really understood why you didn't take the shapechanger/sanctuary universe, edit it into a finished novel, and try to sell that.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Let me clarify that I'm using S&S as shorthand for "semi-medieval world with open magic". The 'verse I'm thinking of is... nontraditional, shall we say. As for "Natural Life", it was too closely tied to all the people I was telling it to/with at the time, and when our group started drifting away, I lost my inspiration for it. Sorry...
Face Toward the Dawn posted a comment on Thursday 29th November 2012 11:10pm for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
The Firebolt, responding like the thoroughbred it was
Nitpick: Really? It's descended from a long line of Firebolts? Didn't the first Firebolt get released in PoA?
And is 'thoroughbred' really the right term of praise here? Harry is fighting against Pureblood supremacists.
Horses are different, though, now that I think about it.
Wand ownership discussion: Hurrah for clarifying something JKR didn't. You need to mean it when you beat someone or the beating doesn't count.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Yes, that is definitely a nitpick. :-P Where I come from, "thoroughbred" is used generally as a term of endearment/praise for anyone or anything who does well.
Anansii posted a comment on Thursday 29th November 2012 3:38am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
I think I'd like to see the sword-and-sorcery, but would be quite happy with either. I also hope the characters let you finish this story while I still recall enough details to not need to reread a substantial amount before understanding the new chapter. Of course if another bunny as impressive as Be Careful choses to leap out from ambush... I don't suppose I'll be TOO upset. :)
As for this chapter, sometimes one simply needs an infodump. Not bad as such things go, thanks mostly to the various characters involved. (FWIW my all time infodump favorite is in a graphic novel - Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest, chapter 7 "The Dreamberry Tales". There is a LOT of info to be passed from both sets of characters to the reader, and you hardly notice, because the whole thing is also hilarious.)
Anne B. Walsh replied:
I'm working on it. Good Lord, Elfquest, doesn't that take me back...
Dangams posted a comment on Wednesday 28th November 2012 11:02am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
Most excellent! It's good to see a new chapter. And the expository nature of the chapter didn't harm it. Twas good to see the Pride figuring things out. Also, I was most amused that Dumbledore knew Pack-sign. Keep 'em coming!
And as for the story question... TRYCANTA TRYCANTA TRYCANTA
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Yes, Dumbledore can be sneaky, and also likes to remind the Pride not to take what their enemies do or don't know for granted. Trycanta is on the way -- Homecoming, more specifically, though a story in Cat Tales first of all!
yulerule posted a comment on Wednesday 28th November 2012 10:55am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
I'd read both, I think, as I'd read anything of yours. I had to reread/skim previous chapters to remind myself of what was happening, and I was wondering if there was anyplace where all the prophecies were together (the spreadsheet, perhaps?) Also, as I was rereading Danger's conversation with Alex, I saw that they talked about the major Slytherin power (at least I think they did), which is prophesying (or something close to that) though that seems to overlap with Ravenclaw's minor power of Seeing. It's been almost a year since I first discovered the Dangerverse, and I can't wait to go back and reread the main story from the beginning, to refresh my memory. (Though I'll definitely have to actually find time to do that.) I recently watched Monty Python (not least because its referenced so often here) and went back to reread the chapter of Facing Danger where they establish the Red Shepherds (though I didn't quite get what the scarlet pimpernel has to do with anything). And in that chapter, Dumbledore puts an unnamed item (that he procured from Ollivander's in secrecy, and bears a resemblence to something) in a box with a letter and Gubraithian fire, that they are to look at only in the event of Dumbledore's death. That, I think, is what Dumbledore is not telling the Pride here.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Sadly, I've never put the prophecies all together that way. Probably should, just haven't. Technically, prophecy is seeing the future while Seeing/clairvoyance is the present, though yes, they do overlap some. "Red shepherd's clock" is another name for the flower called scarlet pimpernel. Well caught on what Dumbledore's keeping back!
Paddy_Murphy posted a comment on Wednesday 28th November 2012 4:11am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
I'd read either or both.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Glad to hear it!
callie posted a comment on Wednesday 28th November 2012 12:31am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
YAY!!!! loving these chapters!!!! i'd like both stories please the more anne writing the better in my opinion!!!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
More Anne writing there shall be, then!
triciaelbl posted a comment on Wednesday 28th November 2012 12:27am for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)
I love the quiddich, very well done. The info dump was a great way to move through canon without being overwhelming or repetitive. I liked how you put in all the new stuff from the Dangerverse melded together. Can't wait to hear more!
As I said on HNKtC, I would prefer the contemporary fantasy, but would certainly read both. I love your work! :)
Thanks for a wonderful chapter!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
I did have fun coming up with it, though I have to be careful not to be too mean to JKR. She did start this whole thing off, after all.
tangentsferret posted a comment on Sunday 9th December 2012 8:01pm for Chapter 11: Because She Said Please (Year 6)