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Post by eskimoRock on Oct 7, 2012 16:38:26 GMT -5
I don't mind time travel stories myself, as long as they're written well. Does is bug you when Harry meets his parents, and does absolutely nothing about it? I read a fic earlier where he just shakes James' hand and takes him to Dumbledores office. What do you think?
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Post by Chameleon on Oct 7, 2012 17:10:21 GMT -5
Yeah. In my mind Harry should be more... I don't know conflicted, excited or anything else. The way you described, he just seems indifferent of seeing his deceased father, which is the fics I really hate. Harry won't be indifferent.
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Post by werewulfking on Oct 7, 2012 17:39:16 GMT -5
Indifferent I can't understand but that he does nothing about his parents Death that is a possibility.
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Post by Chameleon on Oct 7, 2012 17:44:29 GMT -5
I understand that he won't do anything to his parent's death. Let's say he's a thirty year old man. He has a life. Friends, wife, kids and a career. He knows that if he changes the events, then more people will die, and Harry has a Messiah-complex. Plus the kids. He won't change his past, since he knows there's a chance his kids won't exist at all in the future where his parents are alive. Maybe new kids, but not his kids.
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Post by melodypottersnape on Oct 7, 2012 19:27:04 GMT -5
I would love to read one were Harry went back in time and it made an alternate dimension so he didn't have to worry about changing things (and he needs to be younger than seventeen in it).
I hate ones were his parents feel the urge to be parental when they don't know he is their son.
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Post by Chameleon on Oct 7, 2012 23:50:39 GMT -5
Oh yes. I hate those too. Actually I hate any parenting done of them, except if Harry was raised with the Potters.
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Post by G. Novella on Oct 8, 2012 16:11:02 GMT -5
I'm writing two time travel fics (both which I really need to update...) and I always wonder if I get the reactions right. One's a Harrry and Neville travel back and become teachers, which leads into an alternate dimension opening (canon is dimension a) and the other is a next gen travels to OOTP summer, and opens an alternate dimension again. I like to play up the conflict so I tend to jump around with emotions in both, and I can never tell if it's done well until I post. The thing I find hard is that either you delve too much into the depressing stuff, and then the story gets too intense, or you end up not getting the characters right. So it's hard to keep the cheery mood without losing the plot, or keeping the plot without going too much into the emotions. And then the more characters you add, the harder it is to balance everything. It's a tricky combination. The initial reactions I think are the most important, because they set the tone for the rest of the story. Generally speaking, you can sort of get an idea of how the story is from the original reactions. It's just really hard to capture the right feel in words for that moment, because well, it's a lot of emotions. Whenever I read what I wrote, I itch to rewrite it, because it's like, so raw and underdeveloped in my head. But at the same time, it sort of works, because then you can drag that reaction out. It's so much fun contemplating where to go with a story and how to do it, that it's always such a disappointment to read someone's lack of reaction to it. Mind you, that can be done well later, but still, it's just, that's such an opportune moment! Sorry for the rant... I'm done now  |
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Post by sprigofmoonlace on Oct 8, 2012 16:40:04 GMT -5
Time travel doesn't annoy me really, the writing does. However(I have read this in multiple fics) I hate when Lily and James appear and Harry immediately greets them and treats them like parents. Especially when he's lived his whole life without them. I know he wants parents, but I don't see him immediately running to them, being overly affectionate etc. I actually would have him distancing himself for a while. But yeah, these are usually good stories to read.  |
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Post by Chameleon on Oct 8, 2012 16:46:33 GMT -5
Any fic with Harry being overly affectionate is annoying. I only like it when it with the kids or his wife.
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Post by mountaingirl777 on Oct 8, 2012 16:53:43 GMT -5
I don't like time travel that has Hermione going back to the mauraders hogwarts days and she falls in love with either Remus, Sirius or Snape. I actually don't mind if she falls in love with Regulus for some odd reason, maybe it is because we don't know much about him and I see Sirius, Remus and Snape (if Snape was nice) as father figures for her.
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Post by teflonbilly on Oct 11, 2012 17:22:27 GMT -5
I'm writing two time travel fics (both which I really need to update...) and I always wonder if I get the reactions right. One's a Harrry and Neville travel back and become teachers, which leads into an alternate dimension opening (canon is dimension a) and the other is a next gen travels to OOTP summer, and opens an alternate dimension again. I like to play up the conflict so I tend to jump around with emotions in both, and I can never tell if it's done well until I post. The thing I find hard is that either you delve too much into the depressing stuff, and then the story gets too intense, or you end up not getting the characters right. So it's hard to keep the cheery mood without losing the plot, or keeping the plot without going too much into the emotions. And then the more characters you add, the harder it is to balance everything. It's a tricky combination. The initial reactions I think are the most important, because they set the tone for the rest of the story. Generally speaking, you can sort of get an idea of how the story is from the original reactions. It's just really hard to capture the right feel in words for that moment, because well, it's a lot of emotions. Whenever I read what I wrote, I itch to rewrite it, because it's like, so raw and underdeveloped in my head. But at the same time, it sort of works, because then you can drag that reaction out. It's so much fun contemplating where to go with a story and how to do it, that it's always such a disappointment to read someone's lack of reaction to it. Mind you, that can be done well later, but still, it's just, that's such an opportune moment! Sorry for the rant... I'm done now Hey now, don't be too harsh on yourself (I know, I know, useless to even ask, but...) I've loved Time Traveling Holiday quite a lot. Your chapter "Hell" was just ... wow. It's all I can say, you really dug deep and got to a really intense and beautiful emotional place with regards to Hermione and you did it well. So, again, don't be too harsh on your writing because you've done a great job so far. Please, do update again, and I'd love to see more young Ron & Hermione and their budding relationship as it's been kickstarted by their kids. TB |
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Post by eskimoRock on Oct 11, 2012 17:36:46 GMT -5
I completely second everything said there but then, I've told you before how much I love that story. |
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Post by melodypottersnape on Oct 12, 2012 10:22:37 GMT -5
can you give links to those stories
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Post by G. Novella on Oct 14, 2012 9:41:07 GMT -5
First off, Thank you! That's, *blushes* a really great compliment to read after freaking out about a chem test all week. And it's urging me to update. Now to go scrap all the crap I've tried to write for the latest chapter and start over! (This is about a ten day occurrence) And yeah, I can link you. yourfanfiction.com/viewuser.php?uid=324That's just a direct link to my profile. The stories are on there. I hope you enjoy them! |
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Post by eskimoRock on Oct 14, 2012 10:28:48 GMT -5
Please update soon, gnovvy, you're killing me here |
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Post by G. Novella on Oct 14, 2012 10:43:08 GMT -5
I'm trying to write it out. It's really bad. I hate it every other day. On the bright side, I got onto to AO3, so if anything happens to YFF, I've got a back up  |
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Post by G. Novella on Oct 28, 2012 12:41:42 GMT -5
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Post by eskimoRock on Oct 28, 2012 13:29:17 GMT -5
Yaayayayayayayayay Gnovvy I love you a lot |
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Post by G. Novella on Oct 28, 2012 13:31:42 GMT -5
Lol, it took me forever to figure out how I wanted it done and what was worth writing about and what was stupid.
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Post by eskimoRock on Oct 28, 2012 13:40:04 GMT -5
I read it, and loved the new chapter I can't seem to find you on twitter though  |
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Post by G. Novella on Oct 28, 2012 13:46:37 GMT -5
Ugh, do I post the username or the log-in identity thing? My sister won't help me, and I don't get it...
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Post by eskimoRock on Oct 28, 2012 13:57:25 GMT -5
Send me the link to your profile over message on here, that might be easier |
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Post by blackroses77 on Oct 29, 2012 10:16:34 GMT -5
I understand that he won't do anything to his parent's death. Let's say he's a thirty year old man. He has a life. Friends, wife, kids and a career. He knows that if he changes the events, then more people will die, and Harry has a Messiah-complex. Plus the kids. He won't change his past, since he knows there's a chance his kids won't exist at all in the future where his parents are alive. Maybe new kids, but not his kids. That is why I hate time travel fics that take him that far back in time. I said in another thread what's the point in going back if your not going to change anything. Actually now that I'm thinking about it I much prefer redo fics that take Harry back to just before he recieves his letter, or at some other point in his schooling, over true time travel stories. |
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