By Anne B. Walsh
Reviews
Rebel Goddess posted a comment on Tuesday 14th May 2013 8:52am
I don't think I can begrudge you your gap when I look at my feedback gap!
Lovely to be reading this again. The Amanda stuff still has me muddled but I loved the Red Shepherds use of semtex.
callie posted a comment on Sunday 12th May 2013 11:47pm
Wedding was gorgeous!
confused about what Luna meant...
and I hate Lucious Malfoy!!!!!!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
You'll find out what Luna meant down the road. No worries yet.
bgoldnyxnet posted a comment on Monday 29th April 2013 10:44am
Wow! This was a really great chapter. And more bad stuff ahead? Oh well, we have to read through the bad things to get to the good.
_Nothing_ Rowling ever wrote made me tear up like this.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
I think that's a compliment, so thank you.
jua-chan posted a comment on Sunday 28th April 2013 5:01pm
Oh wow, somehow i missed 3 chapters.
I couldn't stop crying when I read this chapter and the previous one. It really isn't fair. I hope Fred will be able to cope. And crystal.
I am looking forward to that one shot for amanda. Have been hoping for the explanation of that tale for quite some time.
Well written and so sad.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Crystal will cope. Fred... er... yeah, I'm gonna go hide now.
ariel_boomer posted a comment on Saturday 27th April 2013 8:16pm
Thank you 1) for updating so quickly and 2) for letting Draco get his good bye. I am still holding on hope he lives but if he doesn't this will be my comfort. That and if somehow Draco could be in the wedding or at least see it. Does anyone have a jewel left? One that would let him see through their eyes? Just a thought. Also with Harry and Ginny's wedding its kind of hard to wrap my head around because I keep thinking them as cubs and them pre-hogwarts - probably because I have re-read those sections the most. Still really excited for it but I can't believe how old they are now - I sound like a mother and I'm just the readers so I can't imagion how you are feeling. So thank you for keeping up this story and as always please keep updating.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Yeah, it's kind of messing with my head too. But I can see them at all their ages without too much trouble... still weird, though!
menentesa posted a comment on Friday 26th April 2013 6:45pm
Oddly enough, when you announced various facts as a prank for April Fool's my guess as to which is true seems to be accurate. Luna is indeed and Heir, it seems. Also, my guess about Amanda seems to be as well. Is she the one Letha spoke of a few chapters back where a student almost drowned and woke up magical? My guess is that the original little girl's soul departed leaving room for Amanda to step in. As always, well done and I can't wait to read what happens next!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
One right, one wrong. Luna has no blood in common with Salazar Slytherin at all, but you are entirely right about Amanda!
oddlyalli posted a comment on Friday 26th April 2013 3:26pm
This was actually a wonderful chapter (though I won't pretend you can't ruin it all with whatever you do to Draco--or the Weasleys--next). I'm smiling at the end of it. I haven't been a fan of Amanda, but that last speech was priceless and pulled me onto her side; well staged. Basically, everything else has already been reviewed (specifically the stomach-to-throat moment with Fred and George that hasn't entirely ended), so have a great week and...
ENCOURAGEMENT!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Oooh encouragement! Thank you.... and yeah, that little moment with the twins made me cry writing it. And it's only getting better/worse...
carolebear posted a comment on Thursday 25th April 2013 3:47pm
The only reason I did not cry when I read this is that I must teach students in just a few minutes. I don't want to start the first class with red eyes. I was sobbing on the inside, though. You really scared me with the line that the Weasley twins were lying side by side.
So if prophesy is the main gift of the Slytherin line, then Luna is descended from the line of Slytherin, right? So that would mean that we now have an Heir from all four of the Houses in the Pride. Wow. Voldemort really doesn't stand a chance. Did what Amanda did allow her to turn that curse back on him? Or wait, the curse would be turned back on one of the descendents of the Slytherin line, but if Luna is the youngest Heir, we don't want it to be on her, do we? Your plots give me a headache. This is actually a compliment, because you are such a good writer, but just when I think I have figured something out, you throw me a curve ball.
Anne B. Walsh replied:
No, Luna's prophetic gift is "artificial", it came from her mom's scrying potion, remember? Alex's line died out... sort of. See next chapter!
Nenya posted a comment on Thursday 25th April 2013 3:38pm
Loved it! I'm so glad Draco got to see Danger again :)
I wonder what Luna's plotting? And I wonder if he'll have to lose the Mark in the same way that he does in BC...
Anne B. Walsh replied:
No, actually, this will be different for the Mark. But we'll see about that when it comes around.
Dangams posted a comment on Thursday 25th April 2013 8:34am
Short review because all the work, but YES, AMANDA'S SPEECH! IT WAS AWESOME!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
*bows* Break a leg on all the work.
Phil Boswell posted a comment on Thursday 25th April 2013 1:13am
I love it when your wider mythology comes into play. So many lesser authors borrow wholesale, but you manage to perform some kind of alchemical transmogrification to produce something fresh and new which nonetheless feels comfortable and familiar!
Also, your shameless plugs have little effect on those who have already bought :-P although we eagerly await the next enticement ;-)
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Well, I started out when we knew a lot less about the canon Potterverse, so I've been working this out for a looong time.
Leleni posted a comment on Thursday 25th April 2013 12:28am
Anne, I greatly appreciate the update, but now it will be even harder to get my paper written in a timely manner! We are right on the cusp of hearing what exactly has been going on with Amanda, and you stop. Now I will be forced to speculate on this instead of getting my grant proposal finished...
I am glad the Pack got to learn why they should not attempt a rescue of Draco. Also, maybe if they can establish a dream connection a few weeks later Draco can give them some information of the Death Eater forces.
Did Alex's daughter (can't remember her original name) take over Amanda with permission at the end, or was it her spirit in the body all along? I thought it was somewhat like Alex inhabiting Ezra occasionally, but this chapter made it sound like she had been there all along.
Greatly looking forward to more!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Re paper: oops? As for Draco... Bad Things are going to happen. And her name was always Amanda... it's been her all along.
karm23 posted a comment on Thursday 25th April 2013 12:11am
I think this is one of the things I love most about your stories, because even among the horrible things, you manage to introduce sweet little tidbits of the life of the Pack; of the things that make them the Pack. Having Danger say goodbye to Draco, and Meghan and Luna laughing at Voldemort's face... I love those little things.
Loved Amanda's attitude through this, I guess we'll understand it soon. Can't wait to read Anne's story... and the rest of Amanda's story as well.
I wish Draco could have one more dreamscape with the whole Pack and Pride, to say his goodbyes.
All in all a great, if sad chapter.
I'm guessing the wedding and the breaking of the year will be a bittersweet event, but I'll know that even thorugh their sadness, they'll find a way to make it special, and memorable, in honor of those who are gone.
Until next time!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Amanda's attitude is mostly because she knew that was how she was going to win. If she could just face down death with joy and love, she'd get everything she'd ever wanted. As for Draco getting a dream with the Pack... see next chapter!
ccarter posted a comment on Wednesday 24th April 2013 11:49pm
Great chapter! I loved Amanda facing down Tom. I think that alone made up for any evilness in the rest of the chapter. Thanks!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
'Twas definitely fun to write, so thanks!
Erika Shulkusky posted a comment on Monday 22nd April 2013 1:59pm
Wow....well, we knew the deadline for Draco was coming, but this is an interesting twist.......so, like it or not, he has joined the ranks of the Deatheaters.......it will be interesting to see how this plays out, because if Draco can keep his mind intact and pretend to be "turned to the dark side," what a great double agent situation that would be! He would have to tread very, very carefully, obviously, as he would be suspect from both groups alike......but he could do some major damage at the end. I know you won't tell, but am wondering if this is what is in the works. Great story, can't wait for the next chapter!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
So it would! Fun thoughts to consider...
ariel_boomer posted a comment on Sunday 21st April 2013 9:47pm
I don't even know where to start. I cried way to much for George and for Draco. I am holding onto hope that somehow Draco will live through this and the vision was in fact him with an aging potion and it was his father buried not him. Nice touch with him getting the dark mark so they could find him. I am hope that maybe some Hogwarts magic will remove it. That and I hope that Percy and Crystal will get together eventually - obviously not for a long time. That all being said - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE keep updating! I love your version of Harry Potter and want to find out what happens. Thank you for writing and thank you for continuing to write :)
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Interesting view of the vision. Things to think about. Percy would like that too, but his scruples may get in the way...
callie posted a comment on Sunday 21st April 2013 7:34am
Amanda dead? What the who? How did that happen! Though I guess that's the question isn't it? And poor Draco I hope he gets home ok and soon but I know I have no say in that matter... And as to whether this was less evil than jkr in splitting the twins I hope you realise that if/when you kill off Draco that will be more evil than she ever was with the way we know Draco in this story! This review may sound impatient but I just want to know what's going to happen next! Also my laptop just broke and it has all my uni work on it :( night!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Boo for broken laptop. As for Draco... wait and see, darling, wait and see.
bgoldnyxnet posted a comment on Saturday 20th April 2013 2:17pm
Well, this is another fine mess you've gotten the Pride into!
But really, a truly fine chapter, with a hell of an ending. Can't exactly call it a cliff-hanger: Draco is in no _immediate_ peril. But you've left us wondering how the hell he's going to get out of this one. And still no proper explanation of Luna's prophecy. Draco isn't dead, merely... discommoded. I suppose the Dark Mark might make him metaphorically dead, but that still leaves the bit about "I never really loved him."
Lots of very bad stuff, as you warned us last chapter. George, Amanda, and how many others? dead, Draco kidnapped and Marked (against his will, I assume).
But if Draco thinks that Mark on his arm will keep his Pack and Pride from loving him, he mis-estimates them n a way I wouldn't expect from somebody who has been raised by Moony, Padfoot, Danger, and Truth, who has accepted Wolf as his pack leader and Starwing as the mother of his child(ren).
One thing for sure, this'll make sure I come back to read the next chapter!
Anne B. Walsh replied:
This is true, Draco is not dead. And he knows very well that the Pack and Pride will not stop loving him. The Mark just (just) means they cannot rescue him, not without putting themselves in harm's way, and that he wants least of all.
tangentsferret posted a comment on Friday 19th April 2013 9:35pm
Did you actually just kill *both* of them? Or is Fred just unconscious? Because from the Author Note, I gotta say it sounds like both of the twins died, and to me the scene can be read both ways. And when Percy decides to break the rules, he doesn't go small, does he? Wait, didn't Fox fix it so that only Neenie could pick up his pendants? What? And on a totally unrelated note: amusingly, I find when I am reading your... more formally published works, I miss the Author Notes, and the chance to review chapter by chapter. This format gives me a feeling (totally spurious, of course) of being involved in the process, somehow. Do you miss us when you're writing to be sent out all in a lump? Or is it a relief not to have people (such as myself) fussing on at you about what comes next and clearly totally missing the point of something you have very carefully written and plotted out? Not to mention asking you absolutely non-germane questions?
Anne B. Walsh replied:
Fred's just knocked out at the moment. Backlash. But still, things are Not Good for him. Yes, Fox did fix his pendants that way. He dropped them through Amanda's body so they wouldn't be seen. It's a very different feeling to be writing all in a lump. Gives me a chance to make sure everything makes sense, but also does deprive me of some of my running feedback... and non-germane questions are fun!
Rebel Goddess posted a comment on Tuesday 14th May 2013 9:05am