Sinfield4 posted a comment on Thursday 5th April 2018 4:06pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

Fantastic storyline. I have enjoyed reading them. Thank you

Rocket Lucy posted a comment on Monday 8th May 2017 11:46pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

Fantastic. What else can I say. I always tell people to read Bobmin for a good fan fiction, but I think yours is right up there with theirs. The only mistake that caught my attention was when Madeye Moody went to Grimmauld to fetch Ginny's engagement ring, and there was no mention of the wards Harry put up to keep people out of his room. Everything else was perfect. My eyes were burning, I read so late into the night. Thank you so much for sharing.

irishbloodinmyveins posted a comment on Sunday 8th February 2015 5:21pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

Absolutely outstanding fictional writing! I sincerely enjoyed reading both refiners fire and The Time Of Destiny. Thank you, thank you, thank you! What an inspiring couple of stories u absolutely had me hooked from the first chapter of refiner's!!!!! Xxxx

Terrible Tues posted a comment on Wednesday 28th September 2011 9:29am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

Good pair of fics.

tcl7189 posted a comment on Saturday 22nd January 2011 12:55am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

GREAT GREAT RIDE!!! Loved the whole story...both of them!!! Although was starting to wonder if you were really planning to off Harry with as many times as he was injured After Moldyshorts died!!!...lol...Thanks for the hard work!!!

sammiscott32 posted a comment on Saturday 4th December 2010 1:31pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

I really liked these two books :) I think you are a fantasic writer :)

Ginny-Potter-123 posted a comment on Monday 19th July 2010 6:30pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

This Story Was Awsome!!!!! I Loved It! The characters were intense and the plot was captivating! All in all i really enjoyed it! Now im going to read The Refiner's Fire because i didnt realize untill like chapter 19 that there was a different story before this lol! Again Great Story!

marchemort posted a comment on Wednesday 14th July 2010 12:16am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

Those stories where quite fantastic, even if I am not a big fan myself of the Harry/Ginny relationship ( I was kind of sad when Casey died back in the begining of the refiner's fire)

Excellent fictions all around, congratulations! (:

BarnabusIII posted a comment on Monday 5th April 2010 3:20am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

see, this is what I wish the Deathly Hallows epilogue was like. a good end to two excellent stories :)

Paul Blay posted a comment on Monday 8th March 2010 4:07am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

Overall I liked these stories and thought they were well written. There were some points, however, that I didn't care for.

Luna. This is the first Harry Potter fanfic that I've read that I could characterise as 'Luna bashing'. She comes across as a morbid, clueless escapee from the spell damage ward.

Trevor. That bizarre episode was more suited for an out-of-continuity omake than as part of the story. Apart from getting a free-pass on the illegal transformation of her husband nobody seemed to care a less that she'd killed his muggle mistress. We don't even know whether that woman even knew that he was married or not.

darksidhe posted a comment on Friday 10th July 2009 7:13pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

Wow! I just finished the Time of Destiny... Read fire right before it. Thank you for a fantastic way to spend a dull week!!!

Abraxan replied:

I'm so glad you enjoyed my stories!

Abraxan

Tracey1 posted a comment on Saturday 20th June 2009 1:05pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

You know, this is about the third time i've read through this series and i have truly enjoyed them every time. They are well thought out and written so that everything is nicely wrapped up at the end. I think the only thing that "irked" me was the many uses of the phrase "drinking in her/his scent ". But, other than that - BRAVO!!

Abraxan replied:

Somebody totaled it up and in these two books I've written more than JKR did in all of hers put together!   When you write that many words, you're gonna fall into some habits with phrases and will miss seeing them in editing.   Sorry about that.   Glad you enjoyed my stories!   If you liked these, you might enjoy   my original novel, "Star Sons: Dawn of the Two" which you can order on Amazon.com or BN.com or several other sites.   Just do a search on my name, Lynda Sappington, and you'll find it.

Thanks for reading and reviewing!

Abraxan

ArcMage Emrys posted a comment on Wednesday 17th June 2009 7:33am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

One of the best Harry/Ginny fics I ever read!!..

Abraxan replied:

Thanks!

Abraxan

Sporkmetender posted a comment on Tuesday 10th March 2009 9:14am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

This really is a lovely story. I felt sure poor Harry would have plaques at St. Mungo's and in the Hospital Wing at Hogwarts before both stories were over :)

The land of the phoenixes was a lovely concept, and I liked how you handled the Snape-Harry interaction.

Harry constantly claiming he's fine is pretty funny too--it's such a typical Harry thing to do.

Also, and this is the sincerest compliment I can think of, I read this entire story in one sitting (excepting bathroom breaks), and I did the same with Refiner's Fire yesterday :)

Abraxan replied:

In ONE SITTING EACH?????   I'll bet you had a numb bum after that, LOL!   That IS a lovely compliment, that you read them nonstop!

Yeah, Harry always saying he's fine amuses me no end - and it is SO in character for him!   Glad you liked that.

Glad you liked the Land of the Phoenixes, too.   I liked the concept so well, I'm considering using it in my original novels.

Thanks for writing!

Abraxan

ghostchicken posted a comment on Monday 9th February 2009 1:12pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

*Sniff* Well done! You scared me there with the dragon thing, but thank God for the phoenixes!

Abraxan replied:

Glad you liked it!

Abraxan

Yanagi posted a comment on Thursday 23rd October 2008 4:20pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

What a wonderful story. I loved every single word. Thank you so much.

Abraxan replied:

Thanks a lot!

Abraxan

RockBiter posted a comment on Saturday 13th September 2008 2:16pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

The end at last, and what a wonderful ending. Everyone and everything turned out well, and you did what I've always wanted an author to do. You brought the Dursleys back at the end and showed them who and what Harry really is. Thanks for that.

The best thing about fan fiction--and something I began to appreciate very much when I read Bob and Alyx's stories--is NO WORD-COUNT LIMITS. It gives you the chance to explore subplots and develop relationships in a way you'd never be able to do in mainstream publishing.

Thank you for sharing an excellent story with all of us.

Abraxan replied:

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!   Yeah, the word count limits in real publishing is a daunting thing to deal with, but I finally got a good feel for it when I finished "Star Sons" (my original novel).  

Don't give up on my writing yet - there are several ficlets and another novel to go, all set in the RF universe!   Happy reading!   And thanks for the reviews!

Abraxan

Carolyn Jinn posted a comment on Tuesday 26th August 2008 2:03am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading these two novels.. I was so impressed with these stories, that my son is now reading them and is totally enthralled in them.

Keep writing ,especially if you enjoy writing, as this shows in your writing and is enjoyable to read.

Abraxan replied:

Thanks so much!   You still have a lot of HP reading to go in my Refiners world (they're all on this site - just look for the list of stories under my name).  

I   have an original novel available now too - go to Amazon.com and do a search for "Lynda Sappington" (that's me) and you'll find "Star Sons - Dawn of the Two" a fantasy novel about two magical brothers and their adventures.   I'm working on the second book in the Star Sons saga now.

Thanks for writing, and for recommending my work to your son!

Abraxan

Daraganyan posted a comment on Tuesday 29th July 2008 9:31pm for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

This is something amazing.

I'm going to apologise - I don't really write or speak english very well, and this is difficult for me. I'm from Finland, if you're interested... But even though this is hard for me, I want you to know what I have to say, alright?

These to novels were amazing. In these I had a combination of everything I love in fanfiction. Good writing and the type of characters I love - for an example, multi animagus and powerful Harry and so on.

The only thing that bothered me in the end was that not always you hurt yourself badly. He always was in the danger of dying, and I understand why you wrote it that way - but next time, I'd like to suggest that sometimes it's not that serious. He could just get something minor from time to time. If it's always life-or-death situations, you numb the reader's mind and it isn't so effective anymore.

Well, getting that out of my system, I loved this. You wrote it very well, and it wasn't even too easy to guess what will happen next, which is often a problem in fanfiction. I also appreciate the fact that you used many clichés, like removing the Dark Mark, without making them sound like old things. You had a fresh way to look at them, I suppose.

Thank you, and I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say.

~Daraganyan, a silly girl from Finland.

PS. I might be interested in translating this sometime in the future, if you'll allow me, but I'll return to that later...

Abraxan replied:

I understood what you were saying perfectly!   Thanks!   And your point about numbing the reader's mind is well-taken.   I wrote Refiner's when I hadn't written any fiction in 16 years, so I was relearning how to write fiction in the first place, and learning how to write novels at the same time - I'd never written anything longer than a novella before.   And I wanted to "push the envelope" to see how far I could go in various directions and still hold things together to a sensible conclusion.   All the various ways of trying to kill Harry were deliberate - Voldemort and Bella will do anything to kill him (In my pre-Horcrux world, killing Harry is the goal, not keeping him alive so only Voldemort can kill him in order to reclaim that piece of his soul).   I wanted to show the "extremes" of Bella's and Voldie's madness, so I took it to extremes.

As for my "fresh look" - I'm glad you saw it that way!   It truly was fresh for me because I stopped READING fanfics when I started writing them.   Anything you see in my fics that's similar to something someone else wrote is coincidental, because I didn't read any fanfics unitl just recently, after I finished writing "Now and Forever" (it's on this site - be sure to read "A Fox's Tale" and "Beginnings" before it, so you'll read them in chronological order).   N&F ends the RF saga, so I'm free to read again - and to get back to my original fiction, the first book of which, "Star Sons - Dawn of the Two" is available on Amazon and Amazon.co.uk (do a search for Lynda Sappington - that's me - and you'll find it).   I'm polishing the second book in the series now.

Thanks for writing!

Abraxan

Rebel Goddess posted a comment on Friday 4th July 2008 1:17am for Epilogue - Part 2: Back At Hogwarts Again

I have to pause to say how much I've enjoyed this story. I was a little confused at the length of the epilogues at first as so much seemed to have been tied up several chapters before the end, but I loved the fact you used real threats to Harry when he returned to Hogwarts. It's been a great ride so far and I can't wait to continue it. Thanks again for writing such an imaginative and amusing story.

Abraxan replied:

Thanks!   I wanted the Epilogues to be worthwhile reading on their own, and to tell a ripping good story, so that's how they got to be so long.   I'm glad you enjoyed my work!

Abraxan