Name: Crimson Quill (Signed) · Date: 12 Jun 2018 07:23 AM · For: That's What Friends Are For

 

Hey Pix,

 

I'm here to judge my challenge for 'new beginnings', I'm working rather slowly at the moment so sorry about that!

 

So, I really like the choice of characters in the story, I think it's an interesting friendship to explore. I like the idea of Luna being there as Neville's best man. I think Luna is always makes a great character to explore from her POV. she's different to get right and I'm enjoying this more thoughtful version of her. I love that you've paired her with Charlie as a love interest because it's something that I've never considered before but it does make sense. 

 

Drunk Neville is totally the best. his line about '"I want to look memorable,", I chuckled at this. I loved Neville's POV of the wedding, very sweet and not over done with the romantic aspect as I know you said you don't do 'romantic' before. I think the story can be considered to have more than one 'new beginning' with the wedding and Luna's trying to move on from Charlie.

 

I like Augusta's appearance at the wedding and the idea of Luna and her planning a reception is something that needs it's own one-shot!

 

Thanks for entering my challenge!#

 

- Abbi xo 

 

Author's Response:

Hi Abbi!

I'm so glad you're judging the entries! Yay!

I don't know about you, but Neville/Luna never really worked for me, but I can totally see them having a close friendship.  On an emotional level, they have a lot in common, and after the Final Battle, I can see some bonding taking place.  Luna is very hard to get right, and I was nervous, but I just went with my instincts and hoped for the best.

Haha, drunk Neville!  I don't think he'd be one of those overly emotive people who wears his heart on his sleeve all the time, so I kind of see him this way.  I'm sure he's all romantic with Hannah, but since that wasn't what this fic was about, I didn't have to go there.  Haha.  Leave it to me to write a wedding scene without the romance.  :P

Thanks for hosting the challenge!

Pix

Name: beyond the rain (Signed) · Date: 28 May 2018 06:30 PM · For: That's What Friends Are For

Hey Pix, I'm here again from the review tag! 

So given that Matthew Lewis got married recently, I thought this was the perfect fic to review! 

I never pictured Neville and Hannah running off to get married, but the way you wrote this....I could really believe it. The way they did it the muggle way, flying to another part of the world, having a private affiar, I really liked that! 

Another thing I liked was the tidbit about Hermione being miffed that she wasn't invited! So like Hermione, especially when she felt better once she realised that no one was invited really. Very in character, even though she was hardly in it at all. It was a lovely touch. 

Seeing Luna vulnerable about Charlie, and thinking about how he'd like the dress, before thinking that it wasn't for him....I loved it. It was so relatable (I can admit that I'm guilty of thinking the same thing as Luna once or twice.) , and it made Luna human. I love her weirdness and her eccentricity, but sometimes we forget that Luna is a person, and she isn't an idiot, she's just wired differently. She still has the same problems as the rest of us, like relationship problems, and even her best friend not wanting her to read her speech. 

She was constructed perfectly, and my heart hurt for her a little bit. You deserve better Luna!! <3 <3 

All in all, this was another great fic of yours - and I'm so glad I got to read it! Thank you for humanising Luna and making her more than just "the strange girl who believes in wrackspurts and nargles" . 

 

Author's Response:

Hey there!

Aww, Matthew!  I saw that on twitter.  :)  

Yeah, Hermione would want the whole traditional thing.  She really embraces rules and traditions and things, and friends and such.  I have this thought about writing a Luna/Rolf thing one day: it'd be a novel length thing, with Luna being all weird on the outside, and very sensible, yet sensitive on the inside. Part of that story was the idea that Luna and Charlie made a brief connection, but it didn't last.  This is sort of an extension of that.  I also love the idea of Luna and Neville being close, but not romantic together. They'd be thick as thieves, without the thieving...  or maybe a little thieving... who knows what Luna would be able to convince Neville to get into? Haha.

I think we all might have these sorts of thoughts about people who we think we like, but are probably not the right fit.  I wrote another extension of this earlier in the month, but it's not quite ready for posting here.  You may like that one too, but my beta said it made her cry.  I only cried because my beta did, I swear.  :P

I'm so glad that Luna seemed 'right' to you. I love the idea of her character, but writing her is hard to get right.  You've got to be a bit frazzled, but still in a focused way, and I only know it when I see it and it's hard to stay in that headspace, you know?

Thanks for the tag review!  We'll have to meet again soon!

 

Pix