oooh! iam happy! does she really bat boogy hex him???? OFF TO READ NEXT CHAPPIE!
Author's Response: Yeppers!
YEAH! i luved this chapter! There was no singing in this one and that was a bummer but they kissed so i am happy! I hope there is more kissing in chapter 5.
Author's Response: There'll be more kissing eventually, don't worry. ;)
I absolutly ADORE that part in the movie, and you make me love it even MORE upon reading this! I LUV the scene where she faints when she sees the manican of herself. My sister pointed out that when he carries her to the bed her head hits a string or something.
Author's Response: Really? I didn't notice. A bunch of people freaked out because when he carries her there she's wearing black stockings, then when she wakes up they're gone. It kind of made me laugh. ;)
AHHHHH! i cant believe this! I LUV YOU FOR WRITING THIS! your BRILLIANT! OMG! i started singing along with them...i could not help myself....Draco is her phantom, AWESOME!
Author's Response: Ha, it's okay; I sing along with them, too! ;)
ahhhhh! i love that movie and i love this story so far! The Phantom of the Opera ROX MY SOX! i wish i thought of writing something like this!
Author's Response: Thanks!
Poor Blaise. That will teach him to breakfast with Ginny. A quick question, are they in rehearsals or are these actual performances?
Author's Response: Sorry, rehearsals. They won't do performances until the very end of the fic, and they'll be talking about it, so you'll know. :)
Great job! Loved it as usual! Can't wait for more...
Author's Response: Thank you so much! I love reviewers that say that. "Great job!. . .as usual!" It just makes me so happy. ;)
Yay for another chapter!!
::pouts:: you should write longer chapters though! I'm so sad at the end of each one!
Author's Response: I'm sorry! It looks so long when I type it up, then everyone says it's short. . . I really DO try. *pouts* ;)
I love it!!! Yah!! Update soon. Poor Ron, LOL.
Author's Response: I figure Ron deserved it because he's a butthead :) Sorry, read the AN. It won't be soon.
Ginny’s beautiful smile bloomed, and her green eyes lit emerald. “Really?”
uhm...Doesn´t Ginny have brown eyes?
Author's Response: Umm. . .possibly. . .I don't know. See, I have this problem where I gave her green eyes in the first fanfic I ever wrote, and I write more than one fic at a time. I knew if I gave her brown eyes in a different fic, I'd get confused over what color eyes she had in which one, so. . .yeah. Plus, I like her having green eyes.
Love it!!! Hehe, Draco getting jealous. This was a very good break to my LONG hours of studying.
Author's Response: Hee hee, thanks! Hope you do well on whatever you were studying for!
Wasn't that romantic. ;P
No, actually, I think this is going along quite well, for all it's inability to be realistic. But, you know, it's a very good thing you update so often, because these chapters are little snippets. Not that that's not okay, just keep up the pace, so we don't have to keep on wondering longer than might be healthy how this is all going to turn out. Well, good luck, and, like I said, keep it up. I'll keep my eyes out for your next chapter.
Author's Response: Thank you! Ha, I love "for all it's inability to be realistic." :D
I loved it, as usual! However, two lines of the song were slightly off:
First, where you have "All I ask is every waking moment, turn my head with talk of summertime" it should be "Say you'll love me every waking moment..."
Second, where you put, "All I ask for is one love, one lifetime;" it should be "Say you'll share with me one love..."
Just thought you'd want to know. :) Can't wait for more!
Author's Response: I'm going by the original Broadway score, not the movie lyrics. Thank you, though. :)
Aw! They kissed! So romantic! And I believe that Blaise saying he liked Ginny before they went to practice might have had something to do with all the chemistry they might be able to have together on stage. This might turn out like an actual Phantom of the Opera, with Draco jealous because he couldn't tell Ginny his feelings and so Blaise got there first :-)
Please update soon! I love this story!
Author's Response: Yay! Yeah, I think you're probably right. Well, gosh, I can't tell you! What fun would that be?
LOL. Great update. Update soon please!
Author's Response: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! :)
You're very lucky to have a range like that. I have a good range, but I have to work to make it sound decent. As for what I want to do with voice well, if I actually could 'take Broadway by storm' there's nothing in the world I would like to do more. But I have a lot of other ambitions (I want to become a neuroscientist) so I don't know how plausible that's really going to be. Really, I sing because I love singing.
And I like how Blaise is Raoul. You see, I've always liked Christine with Phantom better than Christine with Raoul. I guess I just go for the 'bad' guys, especially the ones that aren't really all that bad.
And I read the reviews complaining about Harry's reaction and don't remember thinking of it as really annoying or off. I think Harry is much more pigheaded than we think of him as. The fact is that the books are all from his perspective and so we don't really see the reasons people wouldn't like him so much. People are rarely unlikable when you're in their heads. Though, when I was talking about the characterization that I liked, I was thinking particularly of Ginny and Draco. The skirt incident in this chapter was a wonderful addition to Ginny's character and it built on one of the characteristics of your Ginny that is more original: her easy self consciousness about her body, or her want to be more modest, whichever way you want to interpret her actions.
Author's Response: Ooh, no, you should do Broadway. Then we could take it by storm together (or fail miserably, but I prefer to think optimistically ;))! Hee hee, thanks. I just really wanted to put Blaise in the story. Aw, thanks. Yeah, I was getting really sick of people making Ginny into a slut or a whore or whatever, so I put my own assumptions on her.
Oh this should be good. Her two onstage love interests are both slytherins. I'm sure Ron's going to LOVE that. LOL Can't wait for more!
Author's Response: Ha, yeah, Ron's reaction is quite. . .well, you'll find out. ;)
why did patrick leave? I love this story only sometimes you leave your chapters off like this one and it frudtrates me to no end! Please update soon! I want to figure out why patrick's leaving and whether or not Blaise and Ginny have chemistry :-)
Author's Response: Ha, I'm sorry. :) Patrick's not leaving the show, he's just stepping down from his part. He'll still be directing. And there was no big reason for that, just that I wanted to put Blaise in the story ;)
Please read this whole review before getting angry or defensive. Wait it out.
I find this completely implausible. Hogwarts does not put on muggle musicals. Ginny, Hermione, and Draco don't sing. Not one of them. (Well, I guess Draco could, but I doubt it, as his father certainly wouldn't indulge it, especially in public.) And even if Ginny could sing, she couldn't reach that C and sound good. Let’s be realistic for a moment. When has she been having all these lessons? I mean, I do voice and especially the last year I've focused in on it, and I have a pretty high range, but I don't sound good on that note. Ginny is no super woman.
But, not only do I love the Phantom of the Opera, on principal. I also can see the reason why you might want to bend things so far. It's not like Phantom of the Opera is all that plausible either, except that in its own way it is. I think you can get away with this extreme fall away from cannon if you keep one thing in tact: the characters and their characterization as done by J.K. Rowling. I think it's not only possible, it's necessary. So, with that to think on I encourage you to keep up what you're doing, but remember that you're treading on fine ground; you don't want to jump so far off that what you're writing no longer relates to Harry Potter enough to be called fanfiction, really, but that it can't be called anything else as it's a story about two magical characters named Draco and Ginny who go to a school called Hogwarts, etc.
I wrote what was before this in the review after reading the first two chapters. I'd just like to say that you're doing a good job of characterization though your Ginny is slightly cliché, she's also quite believable. I had to laugh when she said why she loved music, because it's the same answer I myself have given many times before. So, don’t give up because of raunchy reviewers like myself who haven’t the tact to figure out how to coat what they think of your story with sugar. Do know this, I don’t tell people I like their story when I don’t just as I don’t hold back telling people what I think are their weak points. So, when I say I see a strange sense of much skewed promise here, believe me. I’m giving your story a chance even though it’s subject matter is something I’d usually deem completely ridiculous, and, therefore, not worth reading or review. So, have hope in that fact and continue to write this holding on to what you can of the cannon and knowing that you can discard what must be discarded for the sake of the musical, and the romance. Keep it up, whatever you’re doing. You’re doing a better job than I think I myself could do with this plot. You’re really quite brave. You see, I’d never in my wildest dreams attempt to write something like this. I wouldn’t even give it the chance.
Author's Response: It IS completely impluasible, I'm not going to lie. I'm not good at writing canon, never have been, so I write non-canon. Regarding Ginny, I wouldn't be so sure about that. I can hit a 'C' just fine, and that was before I started voice lessons. Oddly enough, I find it really amusing that you think my characterization is good, because that's what I've gotten the most complaints about, namely for my portrayal of Harry in this last chapter. But, quite honestly, I'll ALWAYS prefer you not to sugarcoat it; reviews that say something besides 'OMG, post more soon!' are what make my fics worth something. Thank you for a VERY good review, and I'm glad that you're reading it. And just out of curiosity, what are you taking voice lessons for? I mean, what do you hope to do with it? I myself am planning to take Broadway by storm (at least, I hope so ;)).
LOL. I love this story! Update soon!!
Author's Response: Ha, thanks!
Short but so sweet. Update asap
Author's Response: Everyone says that, and I've been trying so hard to write long chapters. :( Ha, j/k. Thanks for reviewing.
Hmm, there are some lovely moments in this fic, and some places which set my teeth on edge a little. Your Draco feels very real---sullen, hostile, uncooperative, possibly covering up some strong emotions. The scene in the last chapter, where Ginny enlists his help with her costume is wonderful. Her impulsive hug, his inscrutable reaction were perfect.The scenes with Ron and Harry, particularly Harry, are over-the-top, however; they don't chime right for me.
And for Ginny to react by threatening the Bat-Bogey twice---I mean, she's never used it unless she was being directly attacked or restrained before, and physically, not with words she didn't like hearing. The last line of this chapter made her character very unsympathetic---overreactive and hypersensitive (I mean, she has known Draco felt this way about her for years, so why does it suddenly matter so much?), immature and foolish (to pull such a stunt right after she asked Draco for his cooperation with her costume?) Just to let you know where I'm experiencing trouble-spots in the fic.
On the plus-side, it's interesting enough to make me want to read more. Phantom of the Opera, what a lovely musical and what a great vehicle for a love story within a love story!
Author's Response: Thank you very much! I agonized over that scene a lot, so I'm glad to know it was appreciated. :) Yeah, I've gotten quite a lot of comments about Harry being so OoC. I think I'm going to go back and re-write some of that. Ron, though, will stay the same, because he acts like a total butthead a lot in the books. ;) At least one of those times will be changed. No one else mentioned that in their reviews, but it DOESN'T really make sense, I suppose. Thank you very much for all your input; you've been a really big help!
can't wait for more! Great job!
Author's Response: Thank you very much!
Aw! That was a really good chapter! Ginny's response to her mom's howler was great! And the trios being prats, I hated and loved it at the same time!
As for Ginny's admission, well that's just plain cute!
Author's Response: Aw, thanks. Yeah, well, the trio being prats isn't anything new, I think ;) Ha, thanks.