I really like the ides of this story! How many more chapters will be about the school? I hope we will be introduced to Draco soon. I can't wait to read more! :)
Author's Response:Not too many more. I'll hopefully be updating soon, but I'm working and in school right now and off to take testing for a (hopefully) second job this afternoon so I'm afraid updates will be a bit slower.
Thanks!
its ok it was interesting
Author's Response: Thank you!
Loving this! Not thrilled to get to the "oh-no-she-actually-is-going-to-be-married-off" part because there just seem to be a million of those stories, but I'm hoping you pull it off in an original way.
Your french is a bit off, but still good! It's nice to be able to read in my native tongue!
Author's Response:Thank you! I'm really glad that it's intelligible to a native speaker. Reviewing it all was actually quite helpful, I work in a library and one gentleman came up to me the other day and started speaking to me in French and I was luckily able to grasp enough to understand what he was saying and let him know I really can't speak it too well.
There's still some more time before the whole married off thing, which I know is ridiculously old by now.
Hello! Loving the story so far!
The only thing is do you think in chapters where you have SO much French you could include translations either after the sentence or after the paragraph. I know I didn't miss too much here but it was a little annoying having to skip parts where I couldn't guess the words.
Keep up your great story!
Author's Response:Yes, I know. I get bugged any which way stuff is translated, I lose track of what's going on if it's at the bottom and I think that they're switching back and forth between two languages if the translations are included in the text. Ideally I like translations in a footnote at the bottom of the page, but that's not so feasible here. Since I really was switching back and forth between languages I opted for the first method.
Thank you! I'm working on the next chapter but it's slow going due to school and work.
:) Good job! Can't wait to see what you add. I like how awed ginny is by everything, its super cute! :)
Author's Response: Thank you!
Oh and yay for a longer chapter! It's always exciting when you get more :D
Author's Response: Haha. I aim for at least 2000 words before it gets sent off to my beta and then it grows after a revision or two.
Another wonderful chapter my dear! I love that your not making things so easy for Ginny! I can't wait to see how the story progresses espesically with how Ginny will view her family after being at the school where everything is rich.
Can't wait for the next update!!
Author's Response: Thank you! I hope the next update will be sooner rather than later but I can't really make promises.
Yay! I was very pleased you updated, I'm starting to really grow fond of this story! The translations must have taken some work, totally applaud you for that :) ...I'm writing a story where they are from Italy..and I don't speak a word of Italian. :( So bravo! It is very difficult to translate and I definitely appreciate that! :D
One more thing that stood out to me in particular: the hyperlinks! Totally smart of you to do that :) Your adjectives were great and the picture to go along worked well. In stories where Ginny is forced into high society, clothing is very important, and I enjoy vivid images to go along, as it is a big part of the socialite, elitist lifestyle.
So, great, great, great and I look forward to more! (Hopefully in English, hahaha, for the sake of poor Ginny XD lol)
xoxoxoxoxoxo,
M :)
Author's Response:Thank you! The translations weren't *too* hard: I took 4 years of French in high school so I can recall some basic words and verbs, although I've completely forgotten how to conjugate. I'm sure that there's all sorts of grammatical errors as to where I put adjectives, but I decided to pull up sites that have lists of verb conjugations and go the simplistic route since I figured that the students were still using simplistic phrasing. This should be the last chapter with any substantial translations, the next chapter takes place at the end of Ginny's 5th year so she'll be quite fluent and I'll just leave all the dialogue in English.
The hyperlinks were my way of being lazy, I think it's much easier for everyone to see what I mean rather than writing out a long, flowery paragraph for something relatively unimportant to the story. I'm glad you liked them though. :)
I do enjoy all of your chapters. I am determined to stick with this story, as I really am interested in how it will turn out. This is quite a different AU. Brownie points for orginality!
Author's Response: Thank you so much! I'll try to update as quickly as I can, but I'm trying to beef up the chapters and get them beta'd this time around: the original I had started writing had some chapters barely grazing the 1000 word mark. =x