Potions and Snitches
Snape and Harry Gen Fanfiction Archive

Reviews For The Solemn Silence
Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 14 Jun 2011 11:18 pm
Reviewer: Tabitha (Anonymous) [Report This]
    Congratulations, you hold my first review on this site! And I don't know the system for finding out about new chapters, besides keeping an eye on the story, so I guess I'll do that, but I hope the next chapter comes out soon! Very good story, and Silence is so terrified of men, nobody better to help her get over some of her fear than the Weasley Twins!
Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 31 May 2011 8:25 am
Reviewer: Fmh (Signed) [Report This]
    Love this you are betraying her so well thank you
Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 28 May 2011 11:39 pm
Reviewer: Katherine (Anonymous) [Report This]
    REVEIWS MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND! *THROW HANDS IN AIR AND SHOUT YAY* Okie-dokie, this is really go. Your flashback stuff reminds me of children's rhymes, or Belletrix's demented songs (In a good way mind you.) Keep up the good work!
Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 28 May 2011 2:40 am
Reviewer: heartstar (Anonymous) [Report This]
    Oh I love George! more please!
Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 28 May 2011 12:21 am
Reviewer: JAWorley (Signed) [Report This]
    I really am enjoying this story and I hope you update soon! You can really feel Silence's tension and fear. Very good indeed.
Title: Of Brews and Concoctions 28 May 2011 12:11 am
Reviewer: JAWorley (Signed) [Report This]
    Very interesting. I'm not sure I like Harry as a girl yet, but I do like Silence as a character and I enjoy your writing very much. One thing though: you have picked such a beautiful and unusual name for her that I would like to read Silence not Si.
Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 28 May 2011 12:08 am
Reviewer: Incendiarist (Signed) [Report This]
    Well.
    I, myself, am a huge fan of gender-benders -- in the Harry Potter fandom, at least; most other series don't do well with the genre. Imagine a female Artemis Fowl! -- when they are done well: prose neither purple nor beige, characters believable, et cetera, et cetera. For example, SlyGoddess on FFN has 'A Butterfly Effect', and Lady Salazar -- also on FFN -- has 'Steps Far From Paradise', both absolutely brilliant. I do hope that this story gains as high a stature in my favour, because I've noted a distinct lack of decent writing in the genre.
    Silence - I love that name. It isn't too Sue-ish, I think; if I can get stuck with /my/ given name, I can easily see a child being named that. It has the sort of ring of a word that could believably be a name, as well.
    Um... I don't think I've anything else left to say, beyond that I'll be waiting anxiously for the next chapter.
    ~Lakhesis
Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 27 May 2011 8:02 pm
Reviewer: frodolove12 (Signed) [Report This]
    This fic seems very interesting. I'm usually not a fan of girl Harry stories because I think they don't have enough of Harry's character in them, so I want to see what you do with this. The writing is just wonderful, which pulled me in and made me want to keep reading. I really like your writing style and the way you describe ordinary things, like McGonagall's desk.

    Silence is a pretty weird name, but it is unique, which I think is a good thing. I don't really have a good grasp on her as a character yet, so I'll have to see how you choose to develop her. I'm also interested in seeing more Snape/Silence interaction, which I think could be one of the best parts of this.

    Overall, very good beginning. I'm really intrigued and hope you update soon!

    Author's Response:

    Thank you very much!

     I am very excited to write the Snape/Silence interactions as well. There should be more of them in the next chapters. Thank you again!

    --Alis Syn

Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 27 May 2011 1:35 pm
Reviewer: Cicci Green (Signed) [Report This]
    I quite like it, I usually don't like female-Harrys. But you write in a very soothing way, elegant even, and it works. I was a bit doubtful about the name Silence (it could so easily be a Mary-Sue name) but here it fits. I also think Silence is a good female version of Harry, he sort of shines through, even though we don't really know very much about her yet. I'm assuming that'll come.

    About the "flashback-poems"... I like them, well-written and so on. I'm not really sure if they actually fit in the story as it is now. They give it more of a children's book/Doctor Seuss -feel, and the rest of it's written in a more "serious story"-way, if that makes sense. But then again, I like the poems, and it's a quick, smart way to get some background-info out of the way. Like a greek chorus, almost.

    But does it really fit in with the rest of the story and the tone of it? I'm not sure.

    All and all, please keep writing, I'm really looking forward to the next chapter.

    Author's Response:

    Thank you so much! Your review is wonderful!

     The name took me a long time to decide... I intially was going to go with Natalie but for some reason... it didn't sound right to me. And then I thought of Snape's favorite phrase: "Silence Potter!" :P And well, Silence Dogood was a name so... yeah. It just sounded right, and worked for the character. 

     How about a Fairy Tale type feel? That was what I was going for with the back-flashes. Kinda mix of poetic, purple prose, and ambiguity. I'll see if I can't get them to fit a little more with the story though, make them a little more "serious". 

    Thank you again, I hope that the next chapter won't disappoint you!

Title: Of Walks and Obstructions 27 May 2011 1:27 pm
Reviewer: Helene (Anonymous) [Report This]
    A great beginning. I like Fred and George as her protectors and am looking forward to seeing where you take this.

Disclaimer Charm: Harry Potter and all related works including movie stills belong to J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, Warner Bros, and Bloomsbury. Used without permission. No copyright infringement is intended. No money is being made off of this site. All fanfiction and fanart are the property of the individual writers and artists represented on this site and do not represent the views and opinions of the Webmistress.

Powered by eFiction 3.5