Whoa! This is exactly, as if it was written for a DLP Challenge.
Great execution of a well-used idea.

 

Wow, okay, not fluff. >< Here I was looking for something to read after a sad fic. The five star story is good yes?

Well, yes, very good, excellent really, but holy CRAP its not something to read when you're trying to cheer up!

*Grumbles and goes to re-read Black Comedy or something, 5/5s it on his way out.*

 

This is one of the reasons why I avoid angst as much as I do, even when done by competent authors. I'm looking for entertainment, not tear-jerkers.

On topic: The story definitely ages very well, I don't think I'll ever see a better take on this concept.

 

I'm all for H/G sometimes but the way I have heard it is the epilogue was rushed and fast for even the stricter H/G shippers out there. This is a good little bit of an explanation for it.

 

I actually found it interesting. 4/5 from me.

 

I've gotten quite a few interesting reviews for this story. This newest one really made me laugh so I thought I would share. Who knew the Ginny fans were so articulate with their oh, so sharp backhanded insults. Thank you, reviewer. I feel properly slapped down now. I see now the light and the true brilliance of the Harry/Ginny dynamic that Rowling setup ages and ages ago, when Harry was jerking off to Cho Chang.

 

The girl (it has to be a girl) read to the end of your story despite her devotion to Ginny. Then, flustered by her lapse in fidelity, she whips up this review in order to atone.

A tough life, that of an HG shipper, beset upon with temptations. My heart goes out to her.

 

The above comes from his profile page at ff.net. Well, definitely not a girl but then for someone who claims maturity and eventually experience he Should know that any man with his right mind would never, ever go for a girl which would bring him the Weasley's 'patriarch' as a mother in law...

But then, "the poor boy doesn't know better" and he suddenly feels the woman in question, as close to a mother figure as one can feel not an actual parent... yes indeed... that is a genius set up "a long way before Half-Blood Prince or Deathly Hallows" I should admit... bravo JKR, I shouldn't have doubt your abilities, after all you did create the character of Dumbledore and even made him the good one...

 

Hate to burst your bubble, but it's a guy.

Judging from his hatred of slashfics and his opinion of Snape and Draco, as well as his peeves about HP fanfiction, he would have been a perfect fit for DLP if not for his obsessive loyalty towards the H/G pairing.

All we had in the first book was the knowledge that Ginny had a fangirl crush on Harry. I don't see how that shows JKR supporting the relationship. Besides her one-sided attraction, there is no build-up or foreshadowing to the relationship, given that Harry spent his Third to Fifth years crushing on Cho.

H/G just popped up out of nowhere in the sixth book, at the same time when JKR transformed Ginny into a Sue. H/G shippers need to accept this fact as much as everyone else need to accept the fact that JKR went bonkers and made H/G the canon pairing.

 

Aw........

 

It's a guy...Damn. That's sad. I was expecting a fangirl for sure. Five bucks says that he's also watched/read Twilight and loved it.

 

I'll take you up on that. His supposed to be 40+.

Now who's going to ask him?

 

I went to the first chapter of his story.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4175909/1/Furious_Angels

One word: Rofl

 

I hit alt+F4 after merely reading the concept.

You?

 

I managed to read the concept, moved the cursor to the x, and clicked as soon as I saw 'Soul Stones'.

 

Agreed, that guy is a moron. I intensely dislike his type: self-righteous and unwilling to consider differing opinions.

The guy is old, and he writes about eternal and fated love? I'm likely not even close to half his age, and I grew out of that concept years ago.

I feel sorry for his children.....

 

Well, actually it was always pretty obvious that Harry would end up with Ginny. Not because it was cleverly foreshadowed or slowly build since beginning, but because it fit to JKR's style of writing. Remember how she likes the big, happy Weasley family... *gag*

Um, wait! Did you actually read what you wrote? You say you hate people who are unwilling to consider different opinions, and then call the reviewer moron and say that his opinion sucks? Self-righteus much?

 

It does seem that way doesn't it? I was afraid of that when I posted, but by then, it was too late....damn.

I hope I'm not actually self-righteous, but something about that guy just gets on my nerves. I agree with some of his opinions, especially those about Snape, Malfoy, and slash in general, but it's mostly the way he presents his thoughts on his profile which annoys me. To me at least, it reeks of obstinacy and a general lack of respect on several points.