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Reviewer: charlz1983 Signed Date: 2008.10.11 - 11:25AM Title: Charmed Memories
I thought this chapter was brill!!!! getting another wand for harry!!!! and a small cliffie too!!!! running onto the next!
Author's Response: Glad you liked it! Thanks a lot!
Abraxan
Reviewer: CodeRomance Signed Date: 2008.01.05 - 04:25PM Title: Charmed Memories
oh know destroy the wands quickly! bloody hell! doesnt he ever get a break! great chapter! Fred and George i love them! and that chick Cherilynn...great...i wonder how well that will work out...lol great chapter great chapter! lol
CodeRomance
Author's Response: ROTFL! Glad you got a kick out of it!
Reviewer: txreina Signed Date: 2006.06.21 - 08:54PM Title: Charmed Memories
What a brilliant idea for Harry to get a new wand. He needs to have a powerful to fight Voldermolt.
Author's Response: Glad you like that! Makes sense to me that a more powerful wozard would benefit from a more powerful wand.
Abraxan
Reviewer: jlwitch Signed Date: 2006.05.11 - 11:37AM Title: Charmed Memories
fascinating truly fascinating, I'm glad you worked in a new wand for Harry in such an interesting way too; so many people keep him with his own, but it won't work properly against Voldemort, and other's just give him any old wand; which doesn't suit as the wand chooses the wizard. Not just any old wand would work correctly for Harry or anyone else. I'm also glad you remembered Ron's core, the trio complete the wand core trios... Harry; Pheonix tail feather, Ron; Unicorn Tail Hair, Hermione; Dragon Heartstring.
Author's Response: I hadn't thought about "completing" the trio of core materials that way - nice point! Well done, full marks! :-) Glad you liked that. Harry's new wand creates a new class of wand core, with his own hair as the core. I can't see him fighting the final battle with the original wand either, but I don't know how JKR will get around that problem now that both Dumbledore and Ollivander are gone.
Abraxan
Reviewer: Chreechree Signed Date: 2006.04.10 - 04:26AM Title: Charmed Memories
Well, of course. Harry can't go two days without Death Eaters harrassing him. I think the wand part was cool. I knew Merlin's wasn't going to work, but I thought it would be Harry's phoenix feather. The fact that it was Harry's hair does affirm just how much power runs through Harry. Also, what could be more harmonious with his magic than something that was part of him. Interesting all around. And Cheri seemed sweet. I can't imagine that some of Harry's classmates had to feel, at least, very sorry for Harry, so I like the idea of this little girl sneaking him food. I hope it goes well for her and Fred.
Author's Response: Thanks a lot! Glad you liked the wand and Cheri both! I got a kick out of thinking of Harry reeling out huge lengths of hair, then reeeling them back in again. . .I'd love to see that! And the expression on his face when he does it - and on anyone's face who witnesses it. Priceless! LOL! Anyway, glad you liked it! Thanks for writing!
Abraxan
Reviewer: morgie Anonymous Date: 2006.03.18 - 08:50PM Title: Charmed Memories
Oooooh!
Reviewer: DudleyDemented Signed Date: 2006.02.08 - 06:07PM Title: Charmed Memories
Your stories are very good...poor Harry, his exploits read like his divination homework. All he needs now is to get trampled by a hippogriff.lol. keep it upl
Author's Response: ROTFL! I think he's quick enough on his feet to avoid THAT fate!! Glad you liked it! Thanks so much for writing!
Abraxan
Reviewer: master-spellcaster Anonymous Date: 2006.01.08 - 11:52PM Title: Charmed Memories
How did you get the idea for the extra powerful wand? I would never have thought to add something like that in my new story. It is really hard to write a good story that everyone is interested in. I swear that I am the only fourteen year old on this website that is trying to write a story. Could you please give me tips on how to write a good story? If my story had more action like that in it, I could write a much better story if I could think of things like that to include. Pleasesend me some tips or ideas on what to include in my stories.
Author's Response: I don't know anything about your story so I can't give you any ideas. And since I'm working on becoming a professional writer, I can't afford to give away ideas I might want to use myself someday! LOL!
To get creative ideas, you just have to think "what if?" and go from there. "What if Harry had something that made him more powerful than he is even with his Refiner's Fire powers? What would it be? How would it work? What kind of problems would it give him?" That kind of thing.
LOTS of 14 year olds try to write stories. I did that myself when I was a kid many decadea ago (I'll be 56 the end of this month -- I have a wee bit more mileage than you do, which is probably why I have so many weird ideas that fit well in fantasy stories!) I actually started telling stories when I was about six, writing them when I was 8, but I also pursued a lot of other creative endeavors, so the writing was sporadic through my life. My college degree is in music and I'm a professional sculptor, so I have a LOT of creative things going on in my life, Each form of creativity seems to "feed" the others, so if you get stuck writing, go paint a picture or play the piano or do something else creative to rest and re-energize your creative flow.
The best advice I can give you to improve your writing is to READ READ READ, and don't limit your reading to fanfiction. Read PUBLISHED writers to help you learn a sense of style, pace, character and plot. There are lots of books available to help you learn about each aspect of story writing. Subscribe to Writer's Digest magazine and join their book club. That's a great place to start (it's where I started when I got back to writing in the mid-1980's. I quit writing when my art career took off in the mid-90's and just got back to writing fictin with these two novels).
BTW, I didn't mean to sound rude about fanfic writers -- I am one myself, after all, but I wrote these to loosen up my fiction-writing muscles so I can work on a PUBLISHABLE novel (non-HP, since JKR owns the copyrights). My original novel is 40 pages long so far, and the plot is beginning to sing in my veins. When the plot races along in your brain so fast you can't type fast enough to keep up (and I'm a fast typist!) -- when your characters each speak to you in their own voices and act out complete scenes as you're drifting off to sleep or just waking up -- you're well on your way to creating plots and characters that live. Good luck to you!
Abraxan
Reviewer: redcannons Anonymous Date: 2005.10.31 - 05:57AM Title: Charmed Memories
I love your writing! I'm a beta so if you ever need one, I'm good at grammar, spelling etc. Great job! My mother always has to drag me out of the computer room to stop reading lol
Author's Response: Thanks for the offer, but I already have four betas and a Brit-picker who's also excellent at grammar. Sometimes things get past all of us despite our best efforts. But five opinions are about all I can deal with in writing. Glad you're enjoying the story!
Abraxan
