By kokopelli
Reviews
KateHC posted a comment on Saturday 13th May 2006 3:22am
What a lovely surprise.
I am so happy that Molly got to see her brothers at the Baptism.
Christmas and a wedding to look forward to...
Gardengirl posted a comment on Saturday 13th May 2006 12:04am
Yea! What a treat, John! I do love this storyline. Thanks for sharing :D
Ken Warner posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 10:56pm
the most wonderful present one could have at Christmas - thanks Kokopelli.
warm and touching, beautifully written is the trademark of your writing - and it is very much appreciated
CootiePatootie posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 9:21pm
As always, this is wonderful. I love the characterizations in this story - they are perhaps my favorite of ANY fanfic (and dare I say it, even the cannon chars sometimes...) I really enjoy the elements of religiosity, as I am religious and the integration that you've made of the two worlds is quite believable and wonderful. It is especially realistic in the conversation between Daphne & Ginny about Fabian & Gideon - and their presence at Ginny's baptism made me cry. It was lovely. The moral maturity/psychological warfare was quite funny, but the "post" at 11 pm was the best!
I know you are a busy man with a busy life, so take this in the spirit offered: update as soon as you can! ;-)
Cheers...
Cassie
Aberforth's Avatar posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 8:03pm
This was very nicely done. The epistolary format works well, and allows us to see from both characters' POV. The glimpse into the Weasley family dynamics was quite satisfying, as was the news of the build-up to Tonks and Remus' wedding. It's wonderful to see more of this story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
UdderPD posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 7:34pm
Very very nice.
Thanks
Patches posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 7:33pm
This was a different format but I like it. Letters and diary entries are cool! I love the present Harry gets from the pass box. I hope he liked it! I'll bet he did. Thanks for writing and so quickly. I appreciate the updates from all of you. Thanks for making my day! pms
MarinePotterfan posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 5:57pm
Great chapter. I was wondering if she was going to do that, I hope in the next chapter you have old dudders look in his room and see a girl sleeping with Harry. I hope the juices keep flow for this story.
MPF
James Barber posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 5:17pm
Great story, great update! I originally read this and letter of summer at phoenixsong.net year so ago, I had this story here up to chapter 8 I think, but recently saw where at phoenixsong.net you requested your stories to be removed, I had found this site cause of bobmin356 stories and I was mildly surprised at all the authors I found. well to make a long story short, thanks for not abandoning this story like I thought you had, love it!
Wooster posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 3:49pm
Azkaban South? Excellent! That had me cracking up for so long that I nearly lost track of the story! I really like the end as well...but what I really liked...for some reason...was the fact that Harry got the Dursleys presents. That just seemed to work so...well. Good job! Please, I know how hard it is to update often, (I have the same problem!) but do try and update before I forget about this story again!
Wooster posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 3:36pm
Again: heehee...
Loved the poetry bit especially. I love both Brownings. Elizabeth Barrett's poetry is always so delicate and sweet...and Robert's is simply...I hate to say amusing since they are usually kind of morbid...but they have such a dark humor to them...
Oh...sorry. Didn't mean to review dead poets instead of you. Great chappie, as always!
Wooster posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 3:06pm
Heeheehee...I think I've READ this chapter...can't think why I haven't reviewed...very funny. Man, took a bit of skimming of previous chapters to catch myself up...haven't read this in a while. Still, it's such a great story my mind recalled it almost instantly. Excited to read these chapters I seem to have missed.
Kinsfire posted a comment on Friday 12th May 2006 1:09pm
I don't know if I reviewed before and mentioned this, but one of the things that you mention here means that the wizarding world has an absolute CERTAINTY about the existence of Christ and his divinity. If the Patils can trace their family back to one of the Wise Men, then there would be no doubt at all in anyone's mind about whether or not Yeshua ben Yosef existed or not.
Which makes the Death Eaters Satan worshipers, for all intents and purposes.
MarinePotterfan posted a comment on Thursday 11th May 2006 9:09pm
This is a great story, I hope that you will update it soon and keep going. I would love to see how it ends. Keep up the great writing.
MPF
Crys posted a comment on Wednesday 10th May 2006 11:28am
Nice cameo of the Prewett brothers. Nit: per Lexicon, it's Prewett, not Prewitt.
Nice chapter. Some good back-story there with the Weasley and Granger religious history.
"You do have him nicely trained, Ginny."
*smirk* Great one-liner.
Tarkas posted a comment on Wednesday 10th May 2006 12:34am
Always good to find a new episode in the TLoS world. There is a bit of a problem with this one to my mind, though, and it stems from the way you have Ginny talk about her decision to be baptised: at the risk of sounding ridiculous, she talks about Jesus too much!
Let me explain that, or try to, anyway. Unless they're suddenly very different to those I know, churchgoers in Britain (England or Scotland) do not go around saying that they "love Jesus" and the like except in very rare circumstances. To a British ear (or mine, which will do as a reasonable substitute), that kind of talk screams out that a person has fallen into the clutches of an evangelical American sect or cult, and they're regarded as rather weird. So having Ginny come out with that makes me wonder just who or what she's become involved with, and will Harry have to rescue her (and possibly Daphne, and the Patils) from a bunch of mad witch-burners?
Other than that, this is an excellent addition to the TLoS mythos, with some fascinating material like the fate of the Prewitt brothers, and some good development of Ginny's character; hopefully, now that she's realised what she means to Harry (as shown by her comment to June), she'll be a little less insecure about her attractiveness to him, and about people like Daphne.
And of course, any chapter with Jasmine and Ginny in it has got to be good. < g >
Kokopelli replied:
In Ginny's defense - the chapel at Hooper is what Abp Carey called "a happy-clappy" church - firmly in the Evangelical wing of the CofE, which is why they are using the liturgy from An English Prayerbook rather than the ASB or the old BCP. The climate at St. Simon's in London is a bit more cool - being more on the spike end of the CofE.
Please remember, we are talking about a 15 year old girl here. ;-)
J
saugart posted a comment on Tuesday 9th May 2006 11:54am
Thank you for updating the story. I enjoyed it. I liked the realism of Ginny trying to decide what her motivations were for becoming baptized.
The Resident posted a comment on Monday 8th May 2006 6:02pm
Thank you for this little peek into the lives of our favourite characters. I still contend that there is a lot of back story missing, including tatoos, that I would dearly love to read to help me better comprend what is happening in this story. Again, any help in this direction would be greatly appreciated.
Kokopelli replied:
Oh, you poor soul. This story, Stories from Sixth Year, is a SEQUEL to a 200k word story called The Letters of Summer. If you haven't read TLOS, you'll be totally at a loss. Give it a shake, it's a good yarn - or so I've been told.
The Resident posted a comment on Monday 8th May 2006 5:40pm
As much as I am enjoying your wonderful story, I find myself at somewhat of a loss. This story seems to be the middle part of a larger story. Two OC characters have no back reference, certain words (cough) Krulach(cough) are not translated, certain mentions of dragons, etc. Is there a previous story that fills in the blanks? Any help would be welcome. In the meantime, I will try to muddle along and try to figure out as much as I can from the existing context.
Jim_xinu posted a comment on Saturday 13th May 2006 5:28am
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