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[aidenfire]

I review a lot. Basically, one can be safe assuming that if I read something and liked it, (something on LJ, or FA, or some other place where reviewing is easy), I reviewed it. And, as most of the things I read are on recs or from great authors (here's looking at you, flist! <3<3), I like most of them. However, I don't write a lot, or spectacularly, so I'm not sure how writers respond to people like me--people I've termed serial reviewers. After a certain point, do reviews from the same person start to lose your interest? If a person has reviewed your work five times? or ten? Do you think that the person is simply reviewing to review, or does each individual review make you happy? Also, if you had a long, chaptered, novel-length, would reviews on each chapter irritate you, or would they make you think the reader really enjoyed the fic? What if you were friends with the reader? Would that make you value their reviews more or less?

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[aidenfire]

Oh, and about your fic--the AU perspective was interesting, with Harry and Draco not knowing each other, but still being the same people. On a purely selfish level, it was nice to have them, *ahem* enjoy themselves without having to worry about all the emotional baggage they've managed to create for themselves over the years. (And they have managed to create a rather lot, haven't they? Those boys.) On a more in depth level, though, it kind of showed how the two of them shaped each other, and how they were different without having grown up together. I think Draco was a lot more in control, more smooth. I firmly believe that Harry is about the only person who routinely makes Draco lose his cool, and without Harry around in his youth, Draco grew up more cool than hot, a little less emotional, and more about self-gratification. And Draco may have forced Harry to be a stronger, more confident person--have you read Lord of the Rings? (spoilers for return of the king (JRR Tolkien, not Peter Jackson), skip this if you haven't read)
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In the books, when the hobbits return to the shire, everything isn't as perfect and wonderful as it was in the Peter Jackson movies. They still had a mess to clean up there, and I thought that was a lot more realistic. Admittedly, it was nowhere near as difficult as some of the other things they'd done, but it was still one more thing to do when they returned to the place they thought was safe, their haven, and that was was ultimately broke Frodo.
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Draco is kind of like that for Harry--one more obstacle to deal with beyond Voldemort and the Death Eaters (God, that sounds like a bad band from the seventies or something). Sure, Draco's not REALLY a life threatening obstacle, but he's still an obstacle in the place that is more home to Harry than anything else, the place he wants to feel safe (AKA The Shire). Dealing with that can't have been easy, so I think Draco's mere presence would make Harry into a stronger, more mature, more confident person.

Um. Wow. That was going to be short, really.