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• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) Cateagle 2009-09-06

  Very nicely done and as comparatively painless a way to let Ginny down as any. I'm not sure I'd want to look into that mirror myself. If cliche' (and I really don't see that many), at least you used them in unique ways rather than just the standard approaches.

  Author's response

  Heya Cat.
  
  Yeah, here, Ginny is merely deluded, not actively participating, so I was a lot easier on her than I was in another other fic I did. (Given the response I got from the last one, I'm waiting for pitchfork and torch insurance before I post it. (It involves trickery, deceit, skulduggery and GASP! Weasleycest!)
  
  Thanks for your time...
  
  Alorkin
  
  

• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) wordhammer 2009-09-06

  A part of me expected that the reason the Head Boy and Girl weren't in line was because there was no real mirror, just a scrying glass to their bedroom and the folks in line were all chosen for their known obsession with the BWL (or the-bookworm-who-orgasms-loudly-when-Harry-forgets-the-Silencio)
  
  wh

  Author's response

  I guess i did sort of direct the reader to that conclusion, although I hadn't intended for every body who came out crying to be a potter-fan.
  
  Oh, BTW< I'm gonna steal: The-bookworm-who-orgasms-loudly-when-Harry-forgets-the-Silencio.
  
  It's too good to pass up.
  
  Alorkin

• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) cloneserpents 2009-09-06

  Is it safe to assume Luna asked the mirror whether Crumple-Horned Snorkacks exist or not? I really don't see her asking "who's my soul mate" because I think she's more the type of person that would find the mystery of looking for the right one to be fascinating and fun.
  
  And Draco/Ginny? Ewewew! Blah! The only Draco/X pairing I endorse is Draco/pruning shears. Just kidding... well, I'm not being completely sincere, but you get the point.
  
  Thanks for sharing,
  
  Shawn (a.k.a. cloneserpents)
  
  

  Author's response

  Heya Shawn!
  
  Good question. Unfortunately, Luna danced her way onto my desk, demanded, in her inimitable fashion, to be allowed into the story and then as soon as I had, she danced off again without a word of explanation. Le sigh!
  
  Now that I think of it, you're absolutely right. She would never have asked such a mundane question as /"who's my soul mate"/. It would have been more along your lines. She seemed happy, though.
  
  I dislike Draco myself, Personally, I think he should be allowed to die a lingering, painful death in Azkaban. While canon has him involved with Pansy-I-chase-parked-carriages-Parkinson, most people seem to have the fixation of him and Ginny. Quite honestly, given the characteristics she showed in canon, I can say they were well matched, though the -other- Mary-Sue, Romilda Vane, would also be a good catch. After all, she's duplicitous, sneaky, deceitful and willing to use mind-altering substances to get her way. Such a wonderful girl! Her parents would be so proud!
  
  Thanks for your kind review.
  
  Alorkin

• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) MonCappy 2009-09-06

  I liked the story with the exception of the Draco / Ginny pairing. Not even Ginny should be bashed that far. In fact, were it up to me, Draco would be paired with a wood chipper or large scale meat grinder as he is fed into it feet first with spells cast on him that keep him alive until his head is ground into hamburger.
  
  I do think you succeeded in writing a sympathetic Ron here, which is hard to do since I tend to despise him only marginally less than Draco, Snape and Dumbledore.

  Author's response

  Heya Mon Cap!
  
  Unfortunately, the Ginny/Ferret pairing is one of the most popular. Personally, I agree with you, (and I think I can get you a spot as guest torturer the next time they film 'Caligula'.)
  
  'Sides, I needed someone to make her faint, and somehow, I don't think Seamus would serve.
  
  I originally wrote this long before I began to despise Ron. Back then, he was the faithful..hack...trust...Cough! Trustwor...trustworthy...AH, WHO AM I KIDDING!?!
  
  Pant! Gasp! Pant! OK. All better now.
  
  Anyway he seemed to be a f...f...friend. WHEW! And like you, I think of him as a poor-man's Draco Malfoy.
  
  Thanks for the review. Why not check out 'Snarkius Gittus'?
  
  Alorkin

• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) JaCeeisme 2009-09-07

  I actually agree with MonCappy about Ron, (and Draco, for that matter) and you succeeded far beyond what I could do to show a sympathetic Ron here. I am truly impressed.
  
  Of course, I think Ginny's next kiss should be with a tall bloke in a ragged cloak, seems to float a few inches off the floor, has a smell of carrion and has a nasty habit of dropping the room temp by 80 degrees or so...
  
  Canon!Ginny fan, I'm not.
  

  Author's response

  Heya, JaCeesime.
  
  As I said, I wrote this several years ago. I used to be sympathetic to Ron, though the last books did tent to turn me off the character. Writing him in a sympathetic manner was both difficult and very easy. I had to work around my dislike and write the character as if he were me. Finding that the girl you are in love(lust) with, loves(lusts for) another, is painful at the very least. Trust me here!
  
  Dunno if Mr. D. is available. 'Sides, I'm certain 'SUPER-GINNY' would have no problem with him.
  
  And neither am I.
  
  Alorkin

• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) lycus 2010-02-23

  I love all of your stories and I hope that you have saved them all, beacause it would be a crime if all of your stories were deleated if this site shuts down, So please save all of your stories

  Author's response

  I back-up all my stories on my comp along with with two external backup drives plus the finished stories are stored on CD-ROM.
  
  I don't expect FicWad to go tits-up anytime soon. According to the first post it showed the site was renewed in January of '10, so it made little sense that it could be going away in March.
  
  Alorkin

• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) NevemTeve 2011-05-13

  Hi, Alorkin,
  you seem to be a dedicated Harry/Hermione shipper, maybe you could tell if there is anything at all in the canon that supports this ship. I mean Ron did realise Hermione was a girl in 1994, but Harry never never did, he has always seen her as close friend, almost family.

  Author's response

  Hello, NevemTeve.
  
  I suppose my preference for Harry/ Hermione is purely an opinion, but the seem to be the most well-matched of all the pairings in canon. Harry is the wild spark and Hermione is the careful control. Think of her as the control rods in a nuclear reactor. without that set of rods, the reactor will go critical and then you have major problems. Both are muggle-raised and have more in common than anyone in the books. She is also the only really well developed female lead in the series.
  
  With the exception of sixth year, Hermione has always been there for Harry. Hermione is the one who never turned her back on him, she was always there to help, to research, to try to lift his spirits, even when Harry truly didn't deserve it.
  
  Hermione obliviated her own parents an sent them to Australia in order to keep them safe, but she remained by Harry's side...in deadly danger, when she could have gone with them. This is not the action of your basic friend. This says 'I love you' in a clear and direct manner. It's only unfortunate that Harry was raised by trolls (At Dumbledore's behest) and never learned to understand what love really was.
  
  Now, many people say that Harry's single utterance to Ron indicates Harry's feelings for Hermione are brotherly. I disagree. Having been a police officer, (among other things) I have done come intensive study into the psychology and personality traits of both criminals and victims. Unfortunately having grown up abused, more like Kinsfire's version than Rowling's, I recognized Harry's personality straight off.
  
  In this instance, Harry had just gotten his -very first friend- back after how many months without him? (This is the third time on canon Ron had deserted Harry, by the way.)
  
  Ron, who is, in canon, an insanely jealous person, comes back after all that time and sees how close Harry and Hermione had gotten, and so decided to say he fancied Hermione. He knew what Harry was like. He knew Harry had a martyr complex a mile wide, so it is my not so humble opinion that he used that to his advantage. That is within his character as written in canon.
  
  Put yourself in Harry's shoes. You've never had a friend before, as your cousin beat them up ran or them all off. On your first day in a whole new world, where you are expecting grand.../magical/ things, you meet a friendly guy on the train, who is related to the friendly woman who showed you how to get onto an invisible platform, your cousin isn't there to threaten him, beat him up or run him off, and so, you become friends....the -very - first - friend - you've - ever - had.
  
  Wouldn't you do everything you could to ensure you kept that friend?
  
  Again IMNSHO, Harry chose to make Ron happy rather than risk losing his friendship again...possibly forever, so he told him he only thought of Hermione as a sister.
  
  (Imagine how Hermione would have reacted had she heard that! I think she'd have knocked them both out!)
  
  Pee-syy-col-o-gists call that co-dependency.
  
  Since Rowling had intended Harry and Ginny get together all along, it was a perfect solution, but to most readers, it was trite and two-dimensional.
  
  Hermione: Seriously, Can you really see the brilliant, driven, dedicated, goal oriented (and admittedly) authority worshiping Hermione Granger...cleverest witch of her generation, putting up with...much less marrying someone who cannot be bothered to study? Cannot be bothered to push himself? Someone who does the absolute minimum he needs to squeak by? Someone who insists she not only check his work, but correct it and then copy it again? Someone he argues with incessantly. Someone he insults to her face? Someone whose parents he's insulted not once but at least three times in canon? Someone he ignores completely unless he has a use for her?
  
  Opposites attract, but there has to be a middle ground somewhere!
  
  Even in the epilogue, he couldn't be bothered to actually study for a driving license...that's one of the most basic tests a teenager has to face in the muggle world. Instead, he confunded the tester into giving him a license. Would you want to be on the road with someone like that?
  
  Ron Is driven by his stomach, his jealousy and his greed...that is canon.
  
  By the way, your assertion is incorrect. Nowhere in canon does it say Harry wasn't aware that Hermine was a girl. In fact, his reaction to her appearance, indicated he was more than aware of that fact.
  
  Ron said: "Hermione, Neville's right! You are a girl!" and assumed that now that he'd deigned to notice her, she' would automatically accept his ham-fisted invitation to the ball. When she turned him down saying she was already going with someoen, I believe he said: "No you're not!...You just said that to get rid of Neville!"
  
  Personally, I think that's rather insulting, but that's just me.
  
  When Hermione told him she already had a date, his insisted nobody in his right mind would take her to a dance.
  
  His argument with her, was more the tantrum of a spoilt little kid who didn't get his favorite kind of candy, than any kind of protestation of love...or even like. He also immediately went back to treating her like a homework machine.
  
  ~Harry didn't say anything. He liked being back on speaking terms with Ron too much to speak his mind right now - but he somehow thought that Hermione had gotten the point much better than Ron had.~ (GoF, Ch 23)
  
  I'm really surprised Harry didn't knock him on his arse, but then you have that 'first friend' thing again.
  
  Ginny: I would have fewer problems with the Harry/Ginny ship, if Rowling had bothered to develop Ginny's character...at all! She went from background noise in book one to the damsel in distress, controlled by the evil wizard in two. And then she vanished back into the woodwork.
  
  For two and a half books she was a face that occasionally appeared but nothing else. She showed for two or three paragraphs in book four when she went to the ball with Neville, and she then vanished again until the later half of five where she returned, fully formed as 'Ginny Sue, Heroine for hire!' Suddenly, with no character development at all, she is smart as Hermione, pretty as Cho, loyal as Ron, and powerful as Harry, And just for good measure, she's as good a seeker as he is, despite having only snuck out at night once in awhile to practice.
  
  For the first five books she was Ron's little sister, but suddenly in book six, every time Harry saw her with someoen else, he had a 'monster in his chest...'
  
  Can you say: 'LOVE POTIONS'?
  
  It's also interesting to note that love potions are mentioned so heavily in book six.
  
  Speaking of: If I saw such a huge change in my friend's personalities...and I mean both Harry and Hermione, I would have them tested for narcotics...forcibly if necessary. If it turns out I was wrong and they both hated me for it, I'd wish them a long and happy hate.
  
  Coincidence? The liberal application of freelance pharmaceuticals is more likely.
  
  There you have it. Please feel free to disagree.
  
  Alorkin

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  (#) NevemTeve 2011-05-14

  Wow, what an essay! I guess you have already spent some time to examine this question; while I still can't find any point in the books when Harry sees Hermione as a potential girlfriend (lover, wife etc), I guess I understand why you think he should have...
  (PS: Sorry, I think I should not use this review area as a forum, so perhaps it should be deleted.)

  Author's response

  Hello again, NevemTeve.
  
  I have. It's one of the reasons I am a harmony shipper in the first place. Your point is valid. There was no actual point in canon where harry decided Hermione would be a potential girlfriend, but there is plenty of evidence there if one care to find it. Unfortunately Rowling wrote a Harry-centric story with no idea how the juvenile male mind works.
  
  (Ps:) As I tell my daughter, never be sorry for asking questions, A question unasked, is never answered. As for voicing an opinion...everybody has their own opinions. Fanfic is simply putting those opinions on paper(sic).
  
  Grins!
  
  Alorkin

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  (#) Circaea 2012-06-03

  Just in case anyone gives you any grief about creating OCs: You shouldn't have to make excuses for creating OCs when necessary, just because a few people have some weird near-religious objection to them. I'm sorry so many fanfiction readers are so messed up that. You made a sound and defensible literary choice! :)

  Author's response

  I agree. Sometimes an OC is necessary to the plot. (For example, Carolyn Chapman in ‘Jedi Potter’. Without her I wouldn’t have been able to do nearly so much damage.) The trick, here is to write the OC believably, without making him/her into the much dreaded Mary-Sue.
  
  Thanks for the kudos.
  
  Alorkin

• MY BUNNY HUTCH

  (#) LabRat 2012-10-01

  All of those silly children asking such silly questions. I'm willing to bet if Harry had been there, he'd have asked a question that would have made them all feel rather stupid. Although, given McGonagall's warning, he might not have.
  
  Harry: Will I survive this war with Voldemort?

  Author's response

  Heya LabRat.
  
  At that age, ‘who loves me?’ is pretty serious to the asker. Your question presumes the fight is ongoing. In this case, this story assumes Voldey has been dealt with.
  
  As McGonagall said, the ‘Speculum Veritas’ gives the unvarnished truth, if you don’t want the answer…
  
  Alorkin

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