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Reviewer: My Wicked Quill Signed Date: 2011.12.19 - 05:21PM Title: The Yule Ball
This must be the third time I've read this novel. I always come back to it. I live it that much!!!
Reviewer: My Wicked Quill Signed Date: 2010.06.05 - 03:19PM Title: The Yule Ball
holy crap. i...wasn't expecting that. HArry he...he...hit her? i...wow
Reviewer: ginnyweasley777 Signed Date: 2009.04.02 - 06:22PM Title: The Yule Ball
oh, excellent chapter
why is is men have to be such insensitive gits?
Reviewer: piltad Signed Date: 2008.12.01 - 04:39AM Title: The Yule Ball
Well........ I don't know............ My postion has been made pretty clear..... To tell you the honest to god truth I hated it BUT only for the reason that right now I am hoping to god that you move down a dark path I know you won't but alas I have read so many fan fics that I can't help but love orignality I mean heck not to many are dark and you have the perfect turning point. I was to thrilled that you did that like I said anything after Yule Ball is just stringing it along if you would of had Harry just starting to act like you have since the beginning than that would buy you a few years of stringing along right now we both now they like each and Ginny is just stupid really I guess. LOL god I feel bad I love the story but can't help but whine about the things that bug me crap I say don't even read my reviews if you have been already.
Reviewer: txreina Signed Date: 2008.07.18 - 07:04PM Title: The Yule Ball
Oh no I can't believe such a beautiful and magical evening turned out so ugly. Even though I think Ginny's right, for dancing with Michael she did go to the ball with Harry. She should have at least taken that into account. Then the next day she was free to see whomever she choose to see.
Reviewer: piltad Signed Date: 2008.03.27 - 07:34AM Title: The Yule Ball
Well I usually wait till I read the story completly till I review yes I know thats kinda rude but as I am somewhat new to fan fics and still reading through all the completed ones rather than be impatiant waiting for updates. But on too why I decided to review is usually to complain your story is very good that is for sure so far I cant stop reading you have made a wonderful world. Now why I have decided to review is because of the whole Harry kinda looking like a prat there with ginny going off with Corner maybe its a Guy against Girl thing I don't know but alot of ppl have gone this way making harry look alot like a prat. But to me its Ginny who has crossed the line not Harry you have him feeling sorry for something he shouldn't of she crossed the line yes I understand how you set her up as second choice and all but still that is something that shouldn't be done her running off with another person. I don't know I go off on a rant that really prob won't effect the story much at all I just felt it was a ceap shot on Harry and kinda guys in general I have been in this postion and I certainly didn't take to kindly to it and have no regrets for my actions and nor should Harry. (well other than the hitting thing. That might of been a little to much but i still trust you.) Just made me a little angry by spinning it on to him.
Reviewer: pottermania Signed Date: 2008.01.06 - 06:01PM Title: The Yule Ball
I have read your story right up to the current last chapter (29). I love it, and noticed your notes at the beginning of Chapter 10 signalled a lot of grumpy readers. This is why I feel compelled to come back and review this chapter myself. One reason, is that it really hacks me off when people leave negative feedback. Up until this chapter there are a handful of reviews for each one, and hey presto, there are 28 of them for this chapter! If you were happy to read the previous chapters (and the evidence of you all is that you have read them) BUT NOT leave any positive feedback for the author, then what gives you the right to sound off negatively now? That's just a reflection on how sad our society is these days: COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN.
I actually wanted to save my review until the end, I have been making lots of notes of all the things that DELIGHT me. I will still do so, but I will write what DELIGHTED ME ABOUT THIS CHAPTER HERE.
My gut reaction to Harry hitting Ginny was "Oh my God! But good on you!" I don't think Harry and Ginny are way out of character...and for goodness sake it is categorised as AU anyway!!
What do we know about Ginny?---She hates being treated differently, especially if she thinks it is because she is a girl.
What did Harry do?---He treated her the same way he'd treat the boys.
What would Ginny think later?......Thanks Harry, for treating me as an equal.
An hell, stop flaming authors.
And to iluvfanfics...your're doing a sterling job and I love this story.
Reviewer: GREYWOLF Signed Date: 2007.12.11 - 09:37AM Title: The Yule Ball
I vacillated on whether to submit this review as I don't like to critisize, but I presume you want feedback on your story. This chapter is totally bizarre. Not only are G/H totally out of character (not just to the books, but to the way you have written them in previous chapters), but to have them sink to the level of emotional and physical abuse is completely unacceptable. I am afraid your betas and your moderator let you down badly on this. The story is over for me, as it would be in the real world because no relationship could continue after this.
Author's Response: Hmm...well, of course I always want feedback, and I thank you for doing so honestly. I know this story (and this chapter in particular) are way AU, but then that was sort of the point. It's fanfiction after all and not meant to be realisitic. I certainly respect your decision to stop reading and won't disrespect your opinion by trying to convince you otherwise. I will say, however, that if you continued reading through the currently posted chapters, you might understand a bit more about the characters and situations I am trying to create. But, thanks for reading this far and caring enough to leave a review.
Reviewer: CodeRomance Signed Date: 2007.12.01 - 09:00PM Title: The Yule Ball
gosh harry thats almost as bad as ron and hermione! maybe even worse! your both denying your feelings! arggg on you all! lol! great chapter!
CodeRomance
Reviewer: CodeRomance Signed Date: 2007.12.01 - 08:59PM Title: The Yule Ball
gosh harry thats almost as bad as ron and hermione! maybe even worse! your both denying your feelings! arggg on you all! lol! great chapter!
CodeRomance
Reviewer: Old Fart Signed Date: 2007.11.24 - 03:37PM Title: The Yule Ball
I liked it up to this point. Even if Ginny was a bit too "ghetto" for my taste. But the punching each other thing was over the top. I'm sorry but that ruined the story for me....
Reviewer: ttestagr Signed Date: 2007.11.08 - 08:27AM Title: The Yule Ball
I have a problem with this chapter. It seems to me that you're trying too hard to keep Harry and Ginny's relationship close to canon. The way you set up Ginny with Michael Corner, it was jarring and seemed out of place. Harry's thoughts and feelings up to that point were progessing smoothly, no hint of worry or concern about his attraction to his friend. And then when Michael Corner shows up, he just shunts her off to him like she's a leper?
To do something like that, you needed to foreshadow some kind of doubt or other concern that Harry has about their relationship. For an example, when she came back to him tipsy, you could have had her regress back into shyness a little. Lowered inhibitions could have led to thoughts she was no where near ready for, and caused her to clan up. Such a backslide would catch Harry's attention, and conceivably have him worrying about whether a romantic relationship could cause her to backslide a little. Fear that he'd lose the openness he has with her friendship is something that could cause something like that friend comment to come out.
If you really needed Ginny with Corner to advance your plot, it wouldn't have been a problem. You did need to lead into it better, and that fault prevents this from being a truly amazing chapter. The interaction at the beginning of the dance was very good, and the ending was fantasticly done. Other than this one issue, I have no complaints.
Reviewer: moshpit Signed Date: 2007.11.06 - 11:38PM Title: The Yule Ball
I think the point that was not emphasized enough in my prior review is that your story prior to the chapter of the Yule Ball does not support the actions that occur during that chapter. It's the equivalent of having Dumbledore and McGonagall walk into that chapter, and having Malfoy and Snape walk out. It's not that your story is AU or the characters are OOC for canon. It's that they are completely OOC for their natures in this story as it was constructed prior to those events.
I read the A/N on the succeeding chapter, as you asked, and skimmed the chapter itself. Sadly, that chapter just reinforced my feelings on the matter. As I said, it's your story, so you can do what you like. I'm never one to tell others to change things or the like, I'm just trying to point out that you had one set of characters before that chapter, and you threw those characters away to make that chapter work -- and apparently only to introduce angst for no purpose other than to introduce angst.
So, good luck with the rest of it. I'll not be reading any more, obviously, but you seem to have a following that don't mind these things. I'm sure they'll appreciate it however it plays out.
Reviewer: hjp74 Signed Date: 2007.11.06 - 02:25PM Title: The Yule Ball
well this story started out well eneugh evan though the jumps in time between the chapter were a little long as it dint give eneugh senses of the build up in frendship between harry & ginny & ii will admit that certan of ginnys charecter trait wernt very apeeling although they dindt relly show themselvs until the start of year 4 ie being very good at poker why it just dosnt firt into the story at all & seamed to be put in soly to show how goood she was at hidding stuff plus her casully use of cursing something iam sure molly wouldt have left unpunsed.. then last chapter we get to see ginny stand by & give harry surport so i wasnt to worried in the direction this fic wa haded ie go to the ball together become slightly closer & prehaps start datting towards the end of the year but this chapter has pretty much ruined any cance of that for starters you gave no indication that cho was in the picture so i was rather surprised that harry went to her first after all if he gets on so well with ginny why bother with cho.
so getting ginny to go with hime buying her a dress robe & complmenting her they go to the ball only for ginny to pretty much throw it all in his face & i was very disapontend in her whole attitude ok so they went as frends but to go of and dance with some one else not for one dance which is what harry agreed to but the whole evning is just completly selfish & relly sjow how much she must value harrys frendship then she has the gall to be upset that harry wasnt to kkeen on how the whole evning turned out so she resorts to volance & hits him year thats some frendship they have got going btw i think in one of your revew answers you think harry should have had the gall to to spek his mind but givan ginny charecter she would have turned on him evan soner & just done her own thing any way after all ginny sid it best no tell s me what to do. The fact that harry hit her back was tottaly unexpected & so far out of charecter he might as well be draco if your best frend hits you you dont lash out i probaleyy would be on the floor lokig up at her wondering what had happend then after completly trashing there frendship she hit him again & from where iam standing it looks like harry got lucky & found out ginnys tru charecter before getting envolved with her of couse this being harry he is cgoing to blame himsel for evrything so it looks like we have loads of chpter of harry moping & ginny flaunting her relationship just to spit him as thta sthe type of girl you have turned her into so id say that ther frendship completly trashed untill sixth yers & i would have stoped reading at this point as i relly dont like the typeo f peolple you have turned harry & ginny intobut the next chapters up & it quite short so i might as well read it but my expectations of how much damage controle you can do is pretty low.
James
Reviewer: GypsyWeasley Signed Date: 2007.11.06 - 01:05AM Title: The Yule Ball
Lemme just preface my review with this...I normally really don't like revisionist stories like yours. The ones where history changes and Ginny is friends with Harry all along. It always seems to change the story, or Ron or Hermione change from who they are, or Ginny is a super-Ginny and totally unrealistic.
That being said...for some reason I decided to read your story anyway and I'm very glad I did! It gets better and better with each chapter. I am very pleased that while they're good friends you've maintained his friendships with everyone else and that you really haven't changed the story as well. I love this Yule Ball chapter because it is so well-written and the angst is so THERE! My heart really went out to both Harry and Ginny at different times. Very nice job! Really looking forward to you continuing this story!
Reviewer: Trance Starr Signed Date: 2007.11.06 - 12:40AM Title: The Yule Ball
I knopw this looks very bad for Harry right now but I do hope that Ginny recieves at least SOME of the blame for kindof ditching him at the ball.
