Hello! Catherine here. I live in Louisiana, so feel free to imagine the rest of this in a Southern accent.
Now, it's time for some confessions:
1- My obsession with chocolate is about a trillion times greater than that of my obsession with HP. I don't think a could survive without it.
2- I'm in love with Remus Lupin I love pretty much any and all stories involving Remus Lupin. He is wonderful.
3- I have a thing for lists. I make lists of anything and everything
4- Remus/Tonks is my OTP. They are the perfect couple! Isn't it wonderful how Tonks is willing to look past the lycanthropy? *girlish sigh*
5- I have written quite a bit of HP poetry, a lot of which is posted on her. Most of it is bad. However, I've been told that "Voldemort's Day Off is rather funny and "Just Harry" isn't completely horrible. I recommend avoiding the others.
6- I am also obsessed with Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Jacob Black anyone? Or how about some Edward/Bella?
7- I write quite a bit of original fiction which is posted on The Red Chair.
8- I dislike odd numbers.
All right. That’s enough confession for one day. After all, I don’t know you people very well. Oh, you’d like some other general information?
Well, I have this very nice banner that babykitty92 made me because she is awesome and I asked her to:
Um. . . I’m 18. Is that interesting? No, I guess not. Well, I’m a proud Hufflepuff. GO BADGERS!
Um . . . read my stories . . . HUFFLEPUFF!!!!
Wonderful! I love watching Lily, James and Sirius learn about their futures. It's fun to see their reactions to everything. I can't wait for the next chapter!
~Catherine
Author's Response: Hiya, Catherine! I\'m glad you liked it! =) Thanks for the lovely review!
I just read chapters one and two and I loved them. This is my first mystery fic, which is odd since I read mystery books all the time. I can't wait to see how James, Lily and Sirius react to meeting Harry. I would also like to see them meet Luna. I thought it was cute that Lily and James didn't like their names. I liked that James' reaction to finding out about his and Lily's son wasn't too over the top. Does that make sense? I also loved the detail about The Fat Lady having a cup of brandy. That was good.
~KitKat
Author's Response: Haha. Thanks so much! I\'m glad you enjoyed it. Chapter Three\'s been in the queue for a little while, but it should be up soon! Thanks for your lovely review!
Simply splendid. I loved Lily’s little rant about being called Laureenia. That was very amusing. I can’t wait for more!
~KitKat
Author's Response: Thanks! I liked that part too, lol!
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I have read a lot of Lily/James stories and this, by far, is one of my favorites. I love it! There are so many very clichéd Lily/James stories written from Lily' POV, but this one is so different. It's great! I'm looking forward to reading the next chapter!
~KitKat
Author's Response: KitKat,
Thank you so much! I\'m glad you like it, and I\'m glad that you think it\'s different! I\'m posting the next chapter now, hopefully it will be validated.
I loved the food fight! It was great! It was very funny too. I could see it all happening as you described it. Wonderful job!
~KitKat
Author's Response: I\'m glad you could picture it and thought it was funny. It definitely was a blast to write.
I love this chapter just as much as I do the rest of the story. I giggle every time you have Lily address the "anonymous hypothetical reader". I also liked the way you wrote Peter. You treat him as another marauder and don't make the James, Sirius and Remus leave him out of everything. He plays a part in the story and he isn't OCC. Good job. I can't wait to read the next chapter, although I doubt Lily is looking forward to it, since it means another detention. Tootles!
~KitKat
Author's Response: lol, your review made me laugh. No, Lily will not like. But I hope you will.
Lovely chapter. Poor Lily. And yes, I do hate Terry. I didn't realize how much I missed this story until I opened the email and heard myself squeal "yay". I am quite willing to forgive you for the long wait as I can definitly empathize about the effects of having to spend a lot of time in a hospital and am very busy with school work myself. Can't wait to read what happens next! Tootles!
~Catherine
I loved this story. I never thought anything of Harry's life before the beginning of SS/PS. I think it's sweet that he had a teacher who really cared.
~KitKat
Author's Response: Harry\'s homelife has been woefully ignored in the actual series, and I struggled to believe no one noticed Harry before he went to Hogwarts. Someone had to have cared, and this seemed to work. Thanks for reviewing =)
Oh, how sweet! I love the story Gift of the Magi and I love this story too. I thought that working in a bookstore was the perfect job for Hermione and I liked that Harry was able to hold the Defense Against the Dark Arts position for over a year. He broke the curse!
The place had basically everything, and it was like some store that Harry had mentioned awhile back...“Wal-Tart”… he thought it was. “Sounds like some sort of food," he thought to himself. ”Which reminds me. I’m hungry…”
That made me chuckle. I loved that part. Oh, and the last sentence:
You don’t always need gifts to have a good Christmas; you just have to have a good person to share it with.
I loved that line. It is so true. Another thing I liked was the way you let the reader know what was going on in other people's lives without going into too much detail, like you did with Harry and the twins. I thought this story was very cute and sweet and much better than the Gift of the Magi parody I had to write for my creative writing class.
~Catherine
Author's Response: Awwww! Thank you SO much for your lovely comments Catherine! They truly made my day!
LOL, I\'m glad that you liked the Wal-Tart thing. I was reading one of the HP books the same day that I was writing this, and I read some sentence about a Treacle Tart, and nothing else really ryhmed with Wal-Mart! LOL, but thank you so much for the lovely review! ~Lindsey :)
Oh, I loved it. It was really sweet. I love Mary Did You Know and you did a wondful job. It was very sweet.
~KitKat
I really liked this story. My favorite part was:
Molly was willing to bet that between the three boys, they wouldn’t even be able to spell ‘Valentine’s Day’
I can think of quite a few boys who would probably fit that description. I also like how you ended it. Molly dreaming about the future was a nice touch because we all know what happens. :)
~KitKat
Author's Response: Thank you very much for the review, KitKat! :) Yes, sadly I think quite a few boys fit the description! Hehe, nothing against boys though, obviously! Glad you enjoyed and thanks again!
Phily :)
I love your style, and I really like Tracy. It proves what JKR said about not all Slytherins being the sons and daughters of Death Eaters. Lovely!
One school: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Two Girls: A freak and a chatterbox
Three blood groups: Pure bloods, Half Bloods and Mudbloods
Four Houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin
Five boys: A rebel, a pandered child, a traitor, a werewolf, and a distressed boy.
The story starts with them...
Five, four, three, two, one- Avada Kedavra!
... and ends with them.
I really liked this chapter. It was fun to see the different situations each of them were born into. :)
~Catherine
Author's Response: I\'m glad that you liked it. =)
It's such fun seeing their different situations and different points of views about similar events, if that makes any sense at all.
~Catherine
Author's Response: Yeah, it does make sense. =P
I love seeing how different their lives are, yet they end up being best friends. I can't wait for the next chapter!
Author's Response: I\'ll try to get it up as soon as possible. =)
I adore this story! Every time I finish a chapter I think "Le sigh. It's over already." And then I attempt to be patient while waiting for the next one. Corrina is wonderful. I loved the detail about the difference between manners in the fairy court and manners in the wizarding world. You do a wonderful job of showing how very different the two worlds and lives she's trying to choose between are. I also love how you portray Scorpius. He's not as mean as his grandfather or father sometimes was, but he's still a Malfoy. I look forward to reading more!
~Catherine
Author's Response: Thank you for the wonderful review! This is very gratifying, because one of the things I am trying to do with the story is talk about being an outsider, and how that feels and how it impacts decisions.
Its funny about Scorpius, I had intended him to be a very different sort of character, much less sympathetic, but he pretty much asserted himself and took over - you see the result. I kind of like him too.