Name: justawillowtree (Signed) · Date: 19 Jul 2020 12:00 AM · For: Chapter 2

Somehow I managed in my last review to entirely avoid the topic of James and Lily, so I shall rectify this: THEY ARE THE CUTEST. CUTESTESTEST. The way you set them up in the last chapter was adorable, with their Bookworm Flirting and their Unsubtle Escapes from the room.

Onto the new chapter! :D

SDKGHLS I WAS NOT EXPECTING THEM TO BE ARGUING ABOUT RESTRICTED VOCABULARY IN PUBLISHED STUDIES BUT HERE WE ARE. God of COURSE this is how these dummies flirt! Discussing very important topics, for sure, but the degree of nerdiness required for such nonsense!! I absolutely love them -- this is so funny and so brilliant and I wish there were more chapters for me to devour!

I also love their codenames for the math grads. :P

I love!!!

 

Love, Eva

Name: justawillowtree (Signed) · Date: 18 Jul 2020 11:40 PM · For: Chapter 1

AN ACADEMIA AU FOR THIS ERA IS THE BEST IDEA EVER. I do not know if this is based on real life, but I can imagine that grad students do sometimes positively hate the undergraduates in the classes they have to teach, which...makes sense. My poor TA in my British Literature class had to suffer through many awkward silences as we struggled through her very intelligent and difficult questions hahaha. Also! Stress and reproduction in zebrafish suddenly sounds like exactly the type of thing I’d be interested in learning more about! :P Perhaps once I’m done reviewing this story, I’ll go and Google some stuff  about stressed zebrafish!

I LOVE KAHOOTS. But does this mean that every time a teacher does a Kahoot, they’re trying to escape doing their jobs? :O

EVAN WRITING DOWN IN HIS PLANNER THAT HE NEEDED TO CALL HIS MOM. I was initially skeptical about him because of his rather Death Eater last name, but that line just made me so happy I can’t be skeptical anymore. I am in love with this story already! It’s so funny! You’re so good at writing humorous situations omg, which makes sense because your Twitter account is a treasure trove of the most hilarious tweets. :D

 

Love, Eva

Name: Rumpelstiltskin (Signed) · Date: 18 Dec 2017 10:51 PM · For: Chapter 1

HELLO! 

 

I seem to stepped into some sort of alternate dimension and I'm in love with it. Puking in the backseat of an uber at three in the morning is no fun for anyone. Marlene named Remus Werewolf and he has a YouTube thing? This is amazing. Also, a Lily who is both hung over and irate from arguing with Snape does sound like a thing from my nightmares. Everyone is going to have a heck of a day. Mary and Fabian sound like a cute couple, if they could ever get past that love/hate relationship thing. James' nickname is Doe Eyes--how adorably fitting. Also, I love that Marlene gave everybody nicknames. I can totally see Lily going off for a half hour on somebody spilling coffee on her shirt. It kind of works, since James seemed to do nothing but irritate Lily for years canonically and in this, she was definitely annoyed that he spilled coffee on her (but she will love him anyway).  Investigating is a good idea! Both is good!

 

This was  fun!

 

-Rumpels

Name: nott theodore (Signed) · Date: 17 Dec 2017 09:56 AM · For: Chapter 1

Hey Paula!  You know, I'm not normally into AUs, but you're one of the authors whose work I always love reading, and I love your AUs - you always manage to capture such a vibrant sense of the characters and fit them believably into the new setting that they've been transported to, and this was really fun to read.

 

I'm intrigued by your choice of Evan Rosier as the main character, especially because in canon he's a Death Eater and not someone we usually see interacting with any of the characters in the Order - you know, except when he's hurling curses at them or something.  I'm already wondering whether or not he's going to end up working against the characters we see here somehow, or if he'll stay as he is now.  He seems firmly integrated into this group.

 

I loved your choice of casting the Marauders as the maths grads, and creating that sense of division between them and the bio grads.  It's easily believable and also gives them plenty of opportunity to interact.  I loved the nicknames that they had for the different maths grads (Doe Eyes is so clever on multiple levels) and seeing James creep in and want to leave a book for Lily.  

 

The dialogue in this was so fun and easy to read - it flowed really naturally and I liked the way that the characters bounced off each other and joked around.  I felt like you managed to show how well this group know each other and give us an idea of the dynamics in this chapter, which is a really great start to the story.

 

Well, if they weren't suspicious that there was something going on between Lily and James before, Marlene and Evan are definitely onto it now.  Let me know if you update this soon - I really enjoyed it!

 

Sian :)

Name: Crimson Quill (Signed) · Date: 16 Dec 2017 05:17 AM · For: Chapter 1

Paula!

I adore this! I thought this piece was amazing, I've read a couple of AUs piece recently and I'm always so obsessed with how they fit characters into the piece. 

I thought you did a great job at this, I adore the relationships and the rapport that you created between the characters that your writing suggests that we've known these characters forever but we've only just been introduced to them but I love that I feel like that. I think it's the mark of good writing, all the interactions so believeable. you work in canon characteristics into the piece to eg. Lily's anger (I'm not sure if that's really canon but it's accepted head-canon in the fandom I think :P)

 

I loved how they had nicknames and James 'Doe eyes' Potter's appearance was pretty damn adorable here. I really want to hear more from this group of  characters and their crazy university lives because it really make me smile.

 

 I thought the whole piece worked so well, I want to be friends with them! I like the little details that obviously place in modern day like ' puking in the backseat of an Uber on their way to Lily's place' hahaha. In conclusion, you should probably write more xD

 

- Abbi xo 

Name: Felpata_Lupin (Signed) · Date: 16 Dec 2017 03:14 AM · For: Chapter 1

Hey, Paula! Here with a snowball (hug) for you! :)

Oh, this was so funny! I'm not really familiar with (is it PhD?) dynamics, except for what my Uni friends tell me, but I can totally imagine all this happening. :P Do they get that kind of crazy nights a lot? Bet they do!

Evan's sass was awesome, as was Marlene's sarcasm. I loved them. And Lily's fury... perfection! Ahahah! Also, Snape is always Snape, even if he's just mentioned en passant. I love it all!

So I get the Mathematicians are the Marauders? And why was Remus so irritable? Btw, I love the nicknames! :P

Aww... James is just the cutest thing... Look at him, all awkward... and he's left a book for Lily's research... how sweet is that? (Well, you know how much I love Jily, it's not a novelty...) Btw, Lily's reaction when they tell her about James stopping by was absolutely adorable, and she sneaked out to get coffee with him... Ahahah! Of course Evan and Marlene would investigate... so naughty... :P

This was absolutely fantastic! Loved it so much! I'll try to come back for more!

Love and snowball hugs,

Chiara

Name: manno-malfoy (Signed) · Date: 16 Dec 2017 12:40 AM · For: Chapter 1

Hi there! I'm here for the winter wonderland event once again!

And I have a question! Is there any genre that you cannot absolutely rock?! There was absolutely no better way for me to start my day than with this adorable and totally relateable story. I actually freaked out when I reached the end to check if it's completed or if that was it because I want more of it. The sooner, the better please.

I have my reservations when it comes to AU. But I'm going to shove them straight out of the window if you give me brilliantly written characters, witty dialogue, and funny nicknames for everyone. And you get extra points for the academia setting. Because I'm still on the receiving end of the system, I thoroughly enjoyed the subtle (or is it glaringly obvious) criticism in the part where Evan had to sloppily prep for his class. Teachers and professors always try to seem like these perfect, unreachable beings, but this just felt so realistic and familiar. I've been a victim of one too many kahoots.

All in all, this is just lovely. Please keep writing it. I promise to try to my best to always be here to gush about it.