I'm loving every detail so far :) I'm glued to the story!
Author's Response: Thanks!
Your story is amazing, im so engrossed in it, please write real soon, seriously I can't wait.
Author's Response: The next chapter is currently with my beta, so hopefully it should be along soon. Thanks!
oooh nice.. more more and more please i am loving this story
Author's Response: Thanks! The next chapter is with my beta so hopefully it'll be along shortly.
Is Ginny going to meet Draco at the Quidditch league? I can't wait to read more! :)
Author's Response: You'll see, they meet in a couple of chapters. =p
This story is great, but isn't Allemagne the french name for germany? I thought Deutschland was the German name for Germany.
Author's Response:It is, if you look at what she says, she says "I am Germany" (grammatically incorrect, I know, I was trying to make it that way since they're just learning the language) and then she adds that she hates the French name for Germany.
Thanks!!
Hooray! This was lovely! I really hope you plan on continuing this story. I think it is brilliant :D
Author's Response: Thank you! I will, no worries! Just let me get this test out of the way and I'll start revising the next chapter.
I love this story. It is well written and has a plausible and interesting plot. Can't wait to see how it develops.
Author's Response: Aww, thank you so much!
The time skip was unexpected I thought I'd missed a chapter but over all this was really good :)
Author's Response: Yes, I'm kind of skipping through her school years. The difference in her schooling is what differentiates it from the actual Harry Potter books, but at the same time, writing about all ten and a half years of her schooling would probably be at the very least one story and we'd never get to see Draco! The next chapter will take place at the end of Ginny's tenth year, although she won't actually be in the chapter. Once we hit that chapter there won't be anymore time jumps for awhile.
keep going!
Author's Response: I will, thank you!
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
Very good! I can see how her brothers might be upset, seeing how it was almost sort of a family tradtion, so to speak, to go to Hogwarts, especially with them being Head Boys and Prefects and all.. Any more anger or resentment wouldn't have made sense and would've shown the Weasely boys in a very OOC light, so I appreciate your effort in giving them a decent "stopping point" in their anger toward Ginny's decision.
Another thing I particularly liked was how you described Ginny recieving her first wand, because the experience is very similar to Harry's in canon, so I love that you stayed as accurate and as believable as possible- kudos to you!
All in all, great job as usual and I hope to see more!! It is a fantastically intriguing story, definitely worth tracking :)
Author's Response: Thank you! I really can't see someone getting their wand on the first try, I see the process as similar to picking out running sneakers. You've got to test out a few pairs first to see which is the best for you, not just grab the first pair you think will work.
What a great story so far! I really enjoy your writing style, and I look forward to seeing how Ginny develops without the chamber and the Harry-thing. Keep up the good work!
Author's Response: Thank you!
Once again, I am enjoying it. It starts off slow, but I like it. It's interesting to see. I'd say more buuutttt, I'm out of it. So, can't wait for an update!
Author's Response:Thank you! I'm still trying to bang out chapter 4 but hopefully it'll be up soon!
This is so exciting! You never fail to impress, it reminded me so much of Harrys first day in diagona alley and I love how you made Ginny have to search for her way! Ginnys reaction to new clothes was spoton and just how I imagined it ;) thank you for yet another wonderful chapter cannot wait for more!
Oh ps. Madame Boucher reminds me of Minerva so much after she took to headmasters position I hope we get to see more of her :D
Author's Response:Thank you! I kinda modeled it after Harry's trip through Diagon Alley, but the new clothes is actually quite important to the rest of the story.
I hadn't planned or tried to model Madame Boucher after Minerva, she's actually modeled after two of my aunts. She'll still be around but she won't be a major player in the story.
i like it, i wonder if in the next chapter you're going to be skipping to present day? anyway continue with this please!
Author's Response: Nope, just a couple more chapters and then we'll get to the "present day" (which I think in the timeline of the books is 2001 or 2002). I'm working on the next chapter right now and there's quite a few that just need to be polished up! Thanks!
Fantastic. I am really loving this story. Please keep writing it!!
Author's Response: I am, no worries! Thank you!