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• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) mirabilos 2011-01-13

  Heh, I like the Unicode. I use it often
  myself❣ And that you even _know_ what
  Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift is sets you
  aside from the usual “teenaged american
  girl fanfic author with horrid spelling”.
  Great! (Wow, you got my first review on
  this site. I’ve gotten out of it since
  it built up too much on another fanfic
  site, under a different name, different
  language even, but I rate over here.)
  

  Author's response

  Thanks! I felt like I was missing something, since I couldn't figure out what that sequence would do. It took me about ten seconds to get it. :)

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) mirabilos 2011-01-13

  Heh, I like the Unicode. I use it often
  myself❣ And that you even _know_ what
  Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift is sets you
  aside from the usual “teenaged american
  girl fanfic author with horrid spelling”.
  Great! (Wow, you got my first review on
  this site. I’ve gotten out of it since
  it built up too much on another fanfic
  site, under a different name, different
  language even, but I rate over here.)
  

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) mirabilos 2011-01-13

  Heh, I like the Unicode. I use it often
  myself❣ And that you even _know_ ☺ what
  Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift is sets you
  aside from the usual “teenaged american
  girl fanfic author with horrid spelling”.
  Great! (Wow, you got my first review on
  this site. I’ve gotten out of it since
  it built up too much on another fanfic
  site, under a different name, different
  language even, but I rate over here.)
  

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) mirabilos 2011-01-13

  Heh, I like the Unicode. I use it often
  myself❣ And that you even _know_ ☺ what
  Escape-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift is sets you
  aside from the usual “teenaged american
  girl fanfic author with horrid spelling”.
  Great! (Wow, you got my first review on
  this site. I’ve gotten out of it since
  it built up too much on another fanfic
  site, under a different name, different
  language even, but I rate over here.)
  
  PS: Reviewing doesn’t seem to work with
  Lynx ☹ so I had to fire up Opera. (Since
  I read in uxterm anyway – otherwise I had
  not seen the Unicode proper – not that
  much a bother, but… still.)

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) mirabilos 2011-01-13

  Heh, reviewing doesn’t seem to work at all…

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) siaru 2011-01-13

  @mirabilos: It works, but it's a rather slow background process that goes around updating tallies and such. The site lagged terribly when it was updated promptly.
  
  @Circaea: You sound like the characters surprising you is a frequent occurrence. Can't wait til you bring in Luna.
  
  I try to completely ignore any and all bandfic that shows up in the sidebar (just the summaries often sound squicky), so I appreciate the warning; jet-powered skimming skis at ready.
  
  Oren sounds like a lot of arty types I've known (self included, tho I got better, into engineering; they no kid when they say 'starving artist') -- schooled to be stolid and unassuming by the looming weight of all the peers and critics ready to pounce, and thinking more by associative than logical processing. (this and next chapter:) Let's see if he can actually put off the extraction. A lot of grand art projects get put on the 'complete it tomorrow' stack repeatedly until they fall off in back. This one has consequences.

  Author's response

  Well, I'm not planning on speeding up the pace in terms of the ratio of calendar-time to words-in-story. I seem to be advancing a conservative couple of days per chapter, while still resorting to occasional flashbacks. And I haven't decided how much I want to actually delve into Harry's inner circle of friends -- part of the concept of this story is to have the luxury of playing around with the periphery. Also Luna is one of my favorite characters and I'm terrified of not doing her justice, so there's a bit of me waiting until I'm a more experienced writer to check in on her. :)
  
  This isn't great literature, but I'm pretty sure my "unsettling" is a more sophisticated "unsettling" than a lot of the bandfic, and anyway "the creepiest thing I've ever written" is relative pretty much just to the rest of the story so far! I have a really dim grasp of what might disturb other people. I have this problem in real life, too.
  
  Oren isn't supposed to come off as wholly illogical, actually, but I'm really glad he comes off like real people. I think he'll seem a little more logically-oriented, if not actually logical, soon enough. His role is supposed to be someone who finds the world, and the wizarding world in particular, to be something one can make sense of at a fundamental level, and to spend a decent amount of time struggling with finding explanations for the weird things wizards do. In that respect Oren, and to a lesser extent, it's turning out, Charlie, are the closest thing this story is going to have to a Mary Sue. Which isn't to say I agree with a single thing Oren says -- I don't necessarily. I just like that he takes a stab at saying or thinking it in the first place.

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) SomeGuyFawkes 2011-01-22

  Oh, dear, another OC in a somewhat sparse, ensemble piece. I have yet to see any fanfic author pull this off without wrecking the story.
  
  So far, no huge problems with this story -- which is really more a loosely related series of scenes. Maybe you'll be the first.
  
  >> you can use strings of weird Unicode characters
  
  You do know that in typical, or security-conscious browser installs, that the characters you are using don't render, right? All we see are unicode-error markers.

  Author's response

  Actually I think that has to do with what fonts are installed -- the most common font that has that character is, according to one survey, only installed 67% of the time. Darn! In any case, that's still really helpful information, and I'll try to find some characters with better font support.

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) tricorvus 2011-09-08

  I'm sorry I read this far in without reviewing, but honesty, I like it so much I just had to. Please forgive me. I like what you're doing with the time-traveling against their wills, and I REALLY like what Oren does. :D A few other fan fics would profit from someone who does that. :D Hell I could profit from an Oren, come to that. I like how you're doing Harry and I like how you portrayed Sybill right from the get-go. It's good to see other ways to view familiar faces... Keep up the marvelous work. :D

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) pheonixsling 2011-10-23

  I just started reading your story and so far it is OK. I like the fact that someone is expanding the HP universe. It worked well with Star Trek, Star Wars and other well written series. I will continue to read as I find it interesting and moving at just the right pace.

  Author's response

  Thank you!
  
  I'm pretty pleased to see expansion of the universe listed as one of the notable features of the story -- _I_ think it is, but it's not something all that many reviewers have talked about explicitly.

• Let's Try That Again, Shall We?

  (#) lleon 2013-08-06

  Hmm Oren huh? Well lets hope he gets upto something interesting.

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