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8 reviewsHarry faces off against the Cognivores in the DoM, with a little help from his friends. Oh, and don't piss off Hermione.
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Battered Hearts
(#) Clell65619 2009-04-28
- Nice wrap up Prof. Very nice story. Will there be more? Harry and Hermione dealing with the reaction of their inlaws to the new relationship?Author's response
Thanx,
At least one more chapter to go, call it "Loose Ends."
How goes Distaff Side?Battered Hearts
(#) DrT 2009-04-28
!claps! Bravo!Author's response
Thenk kew, thenk kew!
At least one more chapter to go, tying up loose ends.
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(#) Cateagle 2009-04-28
Bravo!! You wrapped things up nicely in this chapter and I can't blame Hermione for completely eliminating a threat. Now, if you were to do an epilogue, dealing with the reaction of the various Weasleys could be entertaining and education. I suspect the rest of society would have far less problem with them getting together.Author's response
Thank you, as always, for reading and reviewing. Not quite a wrap. Still a few loose ends, like: who killed Ron? How will Harry and Hermione contest the Pureblood Custody Law? Will the wizarding world evolve or go the way of the dinosaur? Inquiring minds want to know!
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(#) Wonderbee31 2009-04-28
Most good, most good indeed, LOL. Loved this whole fic here, and an awesome ending, making me roll my eyes at JKR's version of wrapping things up. Sweet to see Hermione taking care of things, including Harry there, as she is wont to do, and looking forward to how you take some of these loose ends here. Excellent!Author's response
Thanx, as always, for reading and reviewing.
Yep, just a few questions reamin unanswered, i.e. Who killed Ron? How will Harmony fight the upcoming custody battle? Will the wizard-centric world ever evolve? Have you seen my dog?
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Patience, Grasshopper, patience. . .Battered Hearts
(#) siledubhghlase 2009-04-28
Sasha Karkaroff. Any relation to Igor? Still, do we know who killed who? Pardon my Nargles, but I got a bit confused there. And...the old boy wasn't pleased that Hermione's and Ron's baby isn't a boy. Doesn't Karkaroff know it's fun being a girl?
So they shut down the Cogs' server. Very clever.
Degreaser? Oh why not? LOL A very simple...er...solution. Dissolves grease and fat on contact! The Cognivores know no more and the data are free.
Okay, I realize this is not the end because we have to solve Hermione's family law issues and get her hitched with Harry. I hope Harry pounds the living snot out of Percy the Prat. The rest of the Weasleys better hope they had no idea Percy had tried to invoke those laws and if they did, they had nothing to do with it.
Hurricane Hermione bailed Harry out of a very ugly situation--twice. She fried a Cog that almost had Harry in its clutches and then cleaned house...er...tank.
I thought it was cool how she took Harry's Occlumency walls down. A simple keystone. Funny how some of the most difficult questions and puzzles can be solved so simply. It's like hiding things in plain sight.
Great Chapter!
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(#) siledubhghlase 2009-04-28
Sasha Karkaroff. Any relation to Igor? Still, do we know who killed who? Pardon my Nargles, but I got a bit confused there. And...the old boy wasn't pleased that Hermione's and Ron's baby isn't a boy. Doesn't Karkaroff know it's fun being a girl?
So they shut down the Cogs' server. Very clever.
Degreaser? Oh why not? LOL A very simple...er...solution. Dissolves grease and fat on contact! The Cognivores know no more and the data are free.
Okay, I realize this is not the end because we have to solve Hermione's family law issues and get her hitched with Harry. I hope Harry pounds the living snot out of Percy the Prat. The rest of the Weasleys better hope they had no idea Percy had tried to invoke those laws and if they did, they had nothing to do with it.
Hurricane Hermione bailed Harry out of a very ugly situation--twice. She fried a Cog that almost had Harry in its clutches and then cleaned house...er...tank.
I thought it was cool how she took Harry's Occlumency walls down. A simple keystone. Funny how some of the most difficult questions and puzzles can be solved so simply. It's like hiding things in plain sight.
Great Chapter!
SAuthor's response
Thanx for reading and reviewing, I’ll try to address your questions and concerns in order.
Yep, the Karkaroffs are related. Sasha was one of Grindlewald’s lieutenants and Igor Karkaroff’s dad.
Sasha, unfortunately, is from a culture that subjugates and denigrates women. Makes me wonder if misogynists ever had mums.
I hope to have Paul Kemp’s efforts recognized by magical Britain – it will certainly fly into the face of the pure-blood purists!
Yep, degreaser, a solution by both definitions of the word!
Harmony will hit Percy where it hurts the most, no, not there, satisfying as that would be. They will destroy his credibility, and any chances for a political future beyond that of lowly civil servant.
Hey, Hermione is finally with the man of her dreams, she’s not about to let him get away!
Thank you for noticing that, sometimes, the simple solution is the best.
One chappie to go.
Stay tuned!
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(#) jjracer24 2009-04-29
Hey Professor,
Great chapter, I'm glad to hear that there is more to come in way of a 'loose ends' kind of chapter. I hope to read that soon, as well as a new story from you perhaps?Author's response
Thanx JJ,
No, no plans for any new stories, beyond finishing Achieving Clarity.
You never know though, if the bug bites I gotta scratch, y'know?
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(#) GuitarGurl1983 2009-04-29
Hi everyone, GuitarGurl here. If you ever need a friend, really need a friend, I hope you have one like our beloved PerfesserN. He was my teacher, the best one I ever had. Oddly enough, he didn’t teach English or creative writing, but he required us to keep a journal of our daily lives. When I described something that was happening in my home, he sat down with me and asked exactly the right questions.
Yes I was being abused.
No I didn’t want to tell anyone, because I’d heard horror stories of foster care.
Long story short, he and his wife, both teachers, took in a 12 year old stray kid.
This was in 1992.
I stayed with them until I graduated from High School in 1998. I joined the Army and met Prince Charming in MP training.
I got out of the Army in September of 2001 – you all know what happened then.
Prince Charming re-upped and spent half his time away.
Meanwhile, I’m an Army Wife living in Savannah, Georgia while Sergeant Charming is sleeping his way through half the other Army wives whose husbands are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I hadn’t seen PerfesserN, okay, his name is Norman, I hadn’t seen Norman in maybe five years, even though we talked two or three times a year, just to keep up.
He asked if I still liked to write, I didn’t have the guts to tell him then that I hadn’t written anything since that journal he had me keep back in 6th grade. But we talked about stories and I said, “How about a story where the wife is being battered.”
Norman picked up on that right away.
Almost 20 years later he still knows the questions to ask.
I got rid of Sergeant Charming last December. It got ugly, he said bullets were cheaper than lawyers and that he’d just have to have an accident. Happens all the time, sorry ‘bout that.
Apparently he’d never heard of digital recorders.
So, anyway, how was your Christmas?
I couldn’t finish the story I’d started, well, the story that Norman helped me with every page along the way, and I said, “It’s a shame it’ll never be finished.”
I guess I pushed the right buttons, ‘cause Norman finished the story for us.
Someday, I might write again. But for now just let me say, Thank you, Norman, the best Dad a messed up girl could ever have.
GGAuthor's response
Okay, that may or may not make it into the final draft, but GuitarGurl is not the pitiful little thing she makes herself out to be, she’s strong and independent and smart. Battered hearts is her story; I was just the guy who finished telling it. There’s a great line from an episode of Firefly, “If you can’t run, you walk, if you can’t walk, you crawl, and if you can’t crawl, well, you get someone to carry you home.”
It was my pleasure to carry this story home.
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P.S.
Having GuitarGurl join the family was good for all of us, she made us apprecieate what we had even more, and my two girls adore her and stay in touch with her no matter where she goes to this day.
What I'm trying to say is that I'm not the saint she's made me out to be - I've screwed up probably as much, if not more, than any other dad.
We had room in our home and our hearts for one more daughter, and we're all better off for it.
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