About me: Um, nothing much to say, I'm your typical 16-year old brunette from the States. My name is Marie...I like to write, vaguely depressed... There's really not much to say about that. Though if you would be kind enough to review my stories I would appreciate it greatly. I am also a proud member of both Gryffindor and SPEW on the beta forums. Oh and I do some beta-ing too. If you want to contact me, just click the handy little link thing that says Contact and I'll get it, eventually...
Oh! And I do post my stories on other sites. I have the same name on fanfiction.net, but that account has been rather abandoned because I don't get any reviews. And on HPFF I have the account under the name Avada Kedavra.
Story Updates
A Muggle in Hogwarts:Chapter 11 submitted (finally!) it's quite short, a little over 1,000 words. Sorry, but adding more scenes to that chapter felt wrong. I'm 1,000 words into Chapter 12 (The Aftermath) and that will be submitted after Chapter 11.
Les Malefices D'esprit: Chapter 5 got accepted, working out the basics on Chapter 6...
I'm truly sorry to the readers of my chapter fics. I finally did do an update, but was it in one of those? No, it was some one-shot about Umbridge. *Headdesk* I'm sort of in a writer's block and I greatly apologize, plus I'm under some minor stress to find a job (me and my excuses) AND I have summer biology to take (so I can take AP Bio next year), not to mention practising for my driver's liscense (ah, to be 16) so I am somewhat weighed down. I hope you can bear with me, and the fact that these fics may not be updated for another month...
ooh, I really like your story! Update soon!
That was great! The only part I didn't like was when Lily was given one of Hermione's lines. But it was only a little thing. So good job! I hope you update soon!
I really like this story! Interesting information about the Runespoors...Keep updating!
I really love this story! Keep updating! Are they going to pull their first prank in DADA class?
I loved it, especially how the Potions professor is nice and it's the DADA teacher to watch out for. Hope the prank comes off alright. Well at least up until Filch is smashed, then it can go wrong. :-)
Okay it's getting a lot better! I liked the part about Harry singing in the shower, but why was Ron listening to him? And I cannot believe that I iz unspellable was so incredibly bitchy, so I felt like giving you a nice comment. Because you have 70 comments, whereas my little story has only, alas, 40 or so...(no, I'm not hinting at anything...okay well I am but wv.)
Wow. I read that whole story in one sitting. It was...moving, and sad. I enjoyed how you made sure that Lily and James provided many moments of happiness for Harry even though they were in hiding. I also think your choice of flashbacks were tasteful, and I'm glad you didn't try to clog it up with too many. And Padfoot's pranks were very realistic and amusing. ("Wheezy!" and "It's allergic to you!")
Though there are some questions I still have that weren't really answered, I don't understand why Voldemort was after Lily and James in the first place. And wouldn't he know that by attacking them for the third time he was, in fact, making Harry his enemy? Or was the whole attack planned so they would lose faith in Remus? Also, I found it a little bit odd that Peter came over so much and was left alone with Harry for so long and didn't do anything. But that may just be Peter, too afraid to do anything without strict orders.
But as a whole, I thought it was an amazing fic, it's definitely going on my favorites list! I think I'll read "Gone" next week!
Author's Response: You read the whole thing in one sitting? Wow. Thanks so much for doing that! Your questions were very valid. My thinking was that since Voldemort didn't know all the details of the prophecy, it would have been possible that the attacks would have happened after it was made. A bit of liberal writer's license. But hopefully, not too much. And as for Peter, I go into detail why he didn't try to do anything in my One Shot, Power. I had thought it was odd as well when I learned that Peter had waited a week before telling Voldemort their location. So I decided to touch on that a little. Thanks for the review!
It's okay, though didn't Cho and Harry finish everything fifth book? It seems kind of weird that she would be giving him presents. And doesn't Harry need to get an O in potions to get to N.E.W.T. level so that he can become an Auror? Sorry, I can get picky about details sometimes. Just make sure when you copy J.K.Rowlings style you don't copy what she's already written, like Ron's note and everything was pretty much the same as what was written in GoF.
~a detail nit-picker
Author's Response: You're a bit of a wanker when it comes to details, aren't you? No offense or anything, but come on. 1. Harry and Cho are finished, why can't you people be patient? 2. I could have sworn I already said that the Potions thing was taken care of? 3. I'm not trying to copy what she's written, I'm trying to make it similar, though not exact. That was the whole point of this; to get off of my normal style and sound like Jo for a little bit, is that so wrong?
can I be a winner? Or do I lose? :-(
Author's Response: Sure! YOU WIN!!! (the contest is FINALLY OVER!!! THANK GOD!!! That was so MUCH STRESS!!!) YOU GET TO BE EITHER A BEATER OR CHASER!!! BUT BE QUICK!!! FIRST ASK FISRT GET POLICY!!!!
Santa is DEFINITELY a shifty guy. Kids sit on his lap and later get toys. That's like introducing them to kiddie porn. If you do something slightly uncomfortable that the grown-up wants, they'll give you something. And what's with yelling "Ho!". Besides, he wears a lot of red, and red is the color of sin. SANTA IS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
"AAH! It's Dumbledore! RUN!" Too bad they didn't notice the purple beard. teehee. Though my favorite line was: "Harry laughed at the sight of Sirius's messy hair." or something like that. I laughed just becuase it was so unbelievably corny and silly. About the clowns though...Is it a good or a bad thing that they were turned into clowns? Now there's a horde of insane (scary) clowns around Hogwarts! RUN FOR YOUR PUNY LIFE! THE 'HOGWARTS CLOWN TROUPE' IS COMING! NO ONE IS SAFE!!! *Ahem*, sorry...I got a bit carried away. *Shudders and mutters to herself* "curse those clowns..."
Ooh, can Dumbledore's hair turn purple during the Quidditch game? I could be flying aroud carrying...erm...grape juice? Whatever, I love it! Hope those 38 hours and 23 minutes take forever!
Author's Response: Oh no! I have SPEICAL PLANS for THAT event! *grins snisterly* It'll happen sometime right before the game. THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING!
Ooh, or alcoholic grape juice! Aka wine for you squibs.
Author's Response: same response as above...or is it below? BELOW!!!
It's forbidden forest, not dark, not black, forbidden. But good try anyways :-D. Yay I'm on the Quidditch team! I like the part about the teddy bears, maybe, at the orphanage, Voldie accidentally enchanted a teddy bear to go after a mean boy and it wrecked havock on the whole place. :-)
Author's Response: R U SURE??? I could have sworn it was either Black or Dark...I'll watch the first movie during spring break and see about that...
Wait, how was the jelly fish able to traverse on land? Or was Snape just running around in the water. *Shakes head* Poor silly, stupid Snape...
Author's Response: well these jellyfish are FLYING jellyfish! tehehehe my creation!
Fun. I want to be on the Quidditch team. *pouts* but I'm not crazy like crazy to post 20 times. (teehee...crazy like crazy...)
Author's Response: tehe! Crazy like CRAZY!!! That's funny! It's not that hard to post 20 times u know!...........
CHASER!!! Sorry it took me so long to reply
Author's Response: that's ok! CHASER IT IS!!!
you only typed Ron once in this chapter! I think, oh well. I loved the unfortunate events tie-ins. Or maybe they weren't there and I just saw them there because I just read one of the books. Haha, keep it up! Go chasers!
Author's Response: tehe....OH! OOOOH!!! SOMEONE'S ON TO SOMETHING HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome chapter! I love how you included McGonagall as one of the students. I hadn't really thought that they would fit into Voldie's age group before. By the way, what did the "Draco Dormiens" latin inscription mean?
Author's Response: Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon. I love McGonnagall, she's so cool. I made her fit. In about three school years, Hagrid is going to be there to!