Surpassing Danger
Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
By Anne B. Walsh
Reviews
Rebel Goddess posted a comment on Tuesday 2nd June 2015 7:18pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
All I can think is "He's not really dead" and I have no idea why, except it would be too cruel an end. Loved it, loved it, loved it.
qadoshkyrie posted a comment on Tuesday 22nd July 2014 12:50am for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
Gah! Great Job! So great, that it is now costing me sleep. ^_^ and I don't think my cubs are going to understand a grouchy, sick father for my troubles of staying up to late to finish catching up.
I'm really glad others spelled it out who the heir was, or else I would be waiting another week as I am missing the clue in chappy 42. I had thought since Alex had mentioned there was a way to extend the line that somehow Draco would step into that role, so I'm not entirely surprised, but still...damn. This needs a lot of exploration. However, you are one of the few, rare and talented enough authors to have this make sense in the long run without me screaming foul and that you had retconned something in. Tom Siddell (artist & writer of Gunnerkrigg Court) is the only other I inherently trust on this account.
And for Corona being the other spy - you dropped that hint so large when you threw Elladona back into the mix (as long as people remembered who she was!). ^_^ Thank you for at least making that one easy. =c)
You said something awhile ago in one of the chapters I read in this binge fest. (i just finished rereading from the beginning to here - using the time I feed my newest cub (5 months old!) to catch up). That you were frustrated that your online readers of fanfic weren't turning into paid readers of your fiction. Sadly, you are running into the wall (I feel) of the reason some of us read fanfic in the first place: if we bought our fiction, we would go broke (I remember having this conversation with some of the beta/mods at SIYE when I was over their under a different screen name). We are the ones who are notoriously fussy and take forever to like a new author and despair of finding quality sometimes in all of the sludge out there, so that we wind up faithfully following those who write well, praying that they will someday complete their works. I know I die a little every day when I think about the amount of incredible stories left undone (Like Sovran's "The Meaning of One" - another ambitious project like this one, but one that seems at this point will not be completed as Dave hasn't written a chapter in a long time).
It's really awesome that you took that giant leap that so many online did - making their work online that they love become their job. I think your transition is probably even harder because unlike the others I know that I have done it, you have to change gears entirely: You can't publish the Harry Potter DV whereas many of the other artists I know who made the switch could publish the work they had become well known for.
Please keep plugging away and don't give up on this dream of yours. The more you can get yourself our there, and seriously plug yourself, the more fans you will get. And the more fans you get, more people will turn to your published work. You really are an incredible writer.
tocom81 posted a comment on Sunday 20th July 2014 10:18am for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
I knew it - I knew it - I knew it!!!! Okay, deep breath. Better said - I suspectes Remus to be a heir of Gryffindor since I read about his father beeing so sad about beeing unable to save his wife from a fire way back in "Living with Danger". Also, I am hopeful to see Draco soon!
But right now I am rightout refusing to believe Remus or Danger is really dead. I won't belive it, no I won't!!!
And I will wait very patiently for the next chapter - although I am thinking about your dangerverse all the time right now! So, really, really good work!
yulerule posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 10:11pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! When you mentioned a younger heir of Slytherin, I thought it might be Luna, and I was right! And there's a certian type of symmetry - the rest of the Pride consists of Heirs of the Founders, so one of them had to turn out to be the younger Heir of Slytherin. Also, Luna made prophecies occasionally, same as Alex. And I knew there was more going on behind the secenes with Luna and Draco and that all was not as it seemed. As to Remus and Danger, I won't believe anyone of the Pack and Pride is truly dead until the last chaper. After all, there can be plenty of plot twists before it. Another doubtful death is Dumbledore's - I haven't forgotten Meghan touching his tomb, feeling warmth, and Fawkes' hint.
Please tell me that the DE's that went into Voldie's wizard space last chapter to capture the Pride got wiped when it collapsed this chapter. That would totally be a case of hoisted on your own petard.
Lesa posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 5:52pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
I was right, I was right, yes! Now so long as my guess of Remus and Danger not being dead is correct, we're on our way to Happyville. Still touring Angsttown, but that's okay. It's a decent place, Angstville, I wouldn't want to live there, but the vacations are always emotionally packed!
bgoldnyxnet posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 1:13pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
Holy moly! How did she get free? I guess it's back to my questions on an earlier chapter, about somebody having way too much volition for what they seemed to be.
I dunno. I thought you were going in a different direction than Rowling, but here we are with the older generation that Harry relied on getting killed off, one after another, just as in canon. It's the traditional the older generation must go so the younger one is forced to grow into its potential.
But I'd hoped for better.
rynaldo posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 11:35am for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
I've just finished re-reading the main stories of the Dangerverse, only to arrive at this horrible moment in the narrative. Yes, JK. Rowling killed off Remus as well but she never made me care about the character as much as your story did. I'm hoping that all is not as it seems but there is little doubt that Remus is dead and Danger will soon follow. Can I question the wisdom of killing off your main characters? I recall a line where Danger was called the "bearer of hope" and I thought that was your clever way of foreshadowing a daughter - otherwise why bring up Aletha's "solution", unless you were trying to throw your readers off. Thank you for creating such a compelling twist on a familiar fictional world. As much as I anticipate the end, it will be bittersweet. Of course, I can always read it again,,,
Scott M posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 11:10am for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
*grins* Nicely done, Luna! Are you going to tell us what the embroidery was next chapter, or soon? I'm sure that had something to do with things. I also want to know what Bellatrix saw, though given that the Heir's Consort is here I have a few ideas. Also, I bet little Draco and Neenie just got the mother they were wishing for, and possibly a father too...
Dangams posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 7:49am for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
Ave atque vale, Remus John Lupin, Lion's Son. Great glory is yours.
As for the rest of the chapter, insert many noises of realisation here. Particularly if the Younger Heir and Consort are who I think they are. Curious to see how it happened, but that's one thing that you definitely didn't tell me. :P
What was going on with Bellatrix, though? Why her sudden realisation? Also why was Harry suddenly in the dreamworld with Voldie? (I'm assuming that was Harrycrux Voldie in there?)
triciaelbl posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 7:10am for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
Wow. Thank you for the hint. I wanted to believe, but couldn't dare. Can't wait for the rest of it!
collide-a-scope posted a comment on Friday 18th July 2014 4:44am for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
Oh. My. Goodness. Please don't let everything be what it seems! But then, you do plot twists that are so twisty that they may as well be knots...
buffarama posted a comment on Thursday 17th July 2014 11:49pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew there was something up with Luna and with Draco, I knew it!
carolebear posted a comment on Thursday 17th July 2014 11:35pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
I did think it was Luna, but for some reason, I couldn't find any evidence to support it. Or maybe you said something to throw me off the scent. I still don't want to believe that Remus is gone, and that Danger is beyond saving. I think that will hurt more than anything else. She has always been there, and we know her even better than we know the cubs at this point. AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH! I come out of this chapter only more confused than usual. another review will follow over on ff.net tomorrow after I have slept. And reread the chapter another few times. I have so many hopes, and only a little belief that some of them will come true.
Kaylee Arafinwiel posted a comment on Thursday 17th July 2014 11:31pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
*flails incoherently* WHAT JUST WHAT.
ALSO I KNEW REMUS WAS THE HEIR OF GRYFFINDOR...O_O
xD *feels vindicated*
NEXT WEEK CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH
*throws marshmallows*
love to evil panther from,
*Kaylee-lyrri*
PreseliAvalon posted a comment on Thursday 17th July 2014 11:17pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)
L;GJ';DFJG'ADFK'GJA'
That is what you do to me, dear author. OH MY GOD. Now I'm gonna go back and re-read this to make sure I didn't miss anything.
hermionegranger579 posted a comment on Friday 5th June 2020 9:41pm for Chapter 56: For I Have Sinned (Year 7)