Name: juls (Signed) · Date: 18 Dec 2019 03:45 PM · For: Chapter 1

Hey, Vicky - I'm here to review your story for being Snake of the Month. (I'm really glad to do this honor, in fact I'm honored. This is is my first official act as Snek Prefect.) So - on with the review!

 

First off, I love this story and the fact that it was written to honor us all in the last House competition. It's really odd and an awe inspiring to see are names listed throughout the story. You had us all participating through out, which was like - for me - woah, there's me doing such and such.

 

It was just the funniest read, and it truly did play out the competition as it went in Real life.

 

You truly brought it all too life, and created a story that is fun to read as well as being part of a competition. Kudos to you for that, because I don't think I could have written such a fabulous story myself. (Being truthful here, dear. This was truly imaginative.)

 

Story made me want to talk the poor lion home and give him a good dinner for helping to save us. But we all know I'm partial to cats - even big ones.

 

I'm so glad to have been a part of your story and honored to have with you and the others in the competition and (honestly) can't wait for our team up in the next one.

 

<3 juls

Author's Response:

Hi, juls.  I'm so glad that you loved the story, and it's neat that you are now our Slytherin Prefect, so that you, as one of the Greenfriar Players, can write the review.

 

Even from the first moment, I intended to write our names into the story because we worked together so well as a team -- it just had to be us. But I see in the proposed new rules for the archives, it will not be permitted to use the names of actual HPFT members in the stories :( so we got in just under the wire.  I wanted our seven-person team to be co-ed, and Carl Pookha was obviously a guy, so I morphed your name into Jules, which is ambiguous, and you will notice that I never referred to that character with a specific personal pronoun, so readers can interpret it as they wish.

 

It was a fun story to write and it went very fast, almost 5000 words in 24 hours, which for me is fast, because one doesn't agonize over the lines of humor and absurdity or worry about whether they are making sense.  This was the funnest House Cup competition for me so far, even though we didn't win the event.  I too am looking for the next chance for us to team up!

 

Vicki