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Registered: Feb 19, 2007
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The Man Who Ripped Apart the World by Emeral_eyes    (Reviews - 26)

He was supposed to be their hero. He was supposed to bring about the new era of harmony and peace in their world. But when the revolution came, and the tenuous peace he’d worked hard to earn - for all of them - dissipated like smoke. He was supposed to be their hero. But he was only a man. A man who betrayed them all. A man who ripped apart the world.
Category: Works in Progress
Rating: Not Naughty
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasley
Compliant with: All but epilogue
Era: Future AU
Genres: Action
Warnings: Graphic Violence
Completed: No
Series: None
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Chapters: 3 | Word count: 6852 | Read count: 6051 | Published: Jun 10, 2012 | Updated: Aug 19, 2012
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Reviewer: Grizel Signed
Date: Sep 03, 2012 Title: Chapter 3: Chapter 3

Very interesting...

It reminds me a little of the cold war, with all the propaganda and confused motives.

Reviewer: Grizel Signed
Date: Jun 17, 2012 Title: Chapter 2: Chapter 2

Very interesting. I liked the line "I can see how you might think that." Maybe things aren't what they seem?

Author's Response: Always!

Why D/G Matters (And Always Will) by Anise    (Reviews - 26)

ANOTHER BRAND NEW CHAPTER, YAY!

Does D/G still matter? Yes! And maybe, just maybe, it matters more than ever before. Read all about the reasons why our one and only OTP is truly built to last. Are YOU ready for the shocking truth? ;)

Chapter SIX Quote of the Day:
Okay, there isn't really a quote, but JJ Abrams is mentioned. Just read it. ;)
Category: Essays
Rating: Sorta Naughty
Characters: None
Compliant with: Fully compliant
Era: None
Genres: None
Warnings: None
Completed: No
Series: None
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Chapters: 6 | Word count: 12251 | Read count: 17358 | Published: Nov 10, 2013 | Updated: Feb 06, 2016
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Reviewer: Grizel Signed
Date: Nov 28, 2013 Title: Chapter 4: Chapter 4

I read quite a bit of Dramione. When authors are taking the ship seriously (and they often do), they take qualities represented by Hermione and use Draco as a lens to ask questions. In cannon, Hermione is heavily associated with intelligence, time, and memory. Dramione authors use these qualities to ask questions such as:

1) What role does intelligence play in love?
2) How does where we are in time impact who we are? If we could go to a different time, how would that change how we feel and what we are capable of?
3) If we could change or even erase our memories, would that set us free or are we bound to the past?

Dramione is about who we are and how we can change, because a lot has to change for Dramione to be convincing.

If we let Ginny’s character drive D/G, we would have to use a little more creativity, because Ginny isn’t nearly as well defined in cannon. However, she was associated with family, physicality (especially sexuality), emotion (especially emotional recovery) and honesty. All of those qualities would be great to examine, using Draco as a lens.

Used thoughtfully, each ship poses its own set of questions for thoughtful fan fic writers to ask and answer.

Author's Response: I totally agree that Dramione can be very well done. I've read some great fics. I would really like to see more fics that explore Ginny's intelligence... it's something that I don't think was ever done enough (she was Hermione's best friend and studied at her side, after all!;) BUT.. there is another reason why I associate Draco with Ginny, and it's coming up in the next chapter. It's something that for me, has always been central to this ship, and has a lot to do with how I became fascinated with it in the first place... and why I finally came back to it. This quality, for me, is everything-- and I don't think that there are any other two characters who share it, Draco and Hermione included. What is it? Well, that's coming up in the next chapter, isn't it... ;) Thank you so much for your thoughtful reviews!! :)

Reviewer: Grizel Signed
Date: Nov 25, 2013 Title: Chapter 3: Chapter 3

I have been enjoying your essays and thinking about why D/G is my OTP, dabblings in Dramione be damned. I had to think through the history of everything to come to a conclusion.

The HP fandom was one of the funnest things I've ever had in my life, and that is saying something. The night DH was released, we had huge party in the little town I grew up in. Like many places, there were tons of festivities while we waited for the bookstore to open at midnight. I spent my time helping local kids make glittery wands in the pottery store. Then we all got our books, and my entire family stayed up all night reading. We declared ourselves very happy with the way the story wound up, and I went on never to read DH again. Looking back, I can see a lot of the glow came from the large-scale camaraderie, something that doesn’t come along every day, rather than the brilliance of the wind-up. This was experienced world-wide, and it partially explains why more questions weren’t asked about DH, at least at the time.

I think the reason for my dissatisfaction is best summed up with your observation that not one shot from one gun on the Draco-and-Ginny table ever went off. But that isn't the most important gun that was never fired. There had been years of pressure building up around Harry and Snape, and that really needed to be resolved face-to-face. Draco’s behavior in the final battle was senseless, and Ginny just dropped off the map. Tom himself was never examined. We were lucky to get the background on Dumbledore. Otherwise, the story was essentially unfinished. Instead, we got ramblings about wands and the hallows.

Right after I finished DH, I turned to fan fiction, starting with D/G. When a story builds up as much pressure as that one did, it really needs to be resolved or it will bang around in my brain forever. To be honest, none of these characters from Heathcliff on down are JKR’s. As a fiction addict, I have met all of them before, many times. What she did so ingeniously was mash them together. So I have no problem with other people re-mashing the mash up. That is what it is there for, and fan fiction has helped me come to terms with the problems in the original story.

Since reading your article, I have pondered two things. First, why did she go down the road she did with DH? My guess is that you are right, she was trying to configure the ending to match up with the primitive outlines of the epilogue she had devised years before. I also don’t think she fully understood all the characters (they weren’t all hers, after all), and didn’t get their appeal.

Second, why D/G? For me this is pretty simple. With the exception of Snape, who was spoken for long ago, Ginny and Draco are the only sex-positive creatures in the story. Ginny for obvious reasons and Draco because a) he is the hurt/comfortable character; b) his coloring (drawn from White Russians and the Jackal, I would guess) signals romantic intent and c) his tragic situation should have been transformative, which is romantic in itself.

So yes, do carry on with this path you are on. This particular ship has a job to accomplish. It would be too bad to see it descend into fluff. Nothing against fluff, but D/G could be so much more.

Author's Response: Thanks!! :) What a great, GREAT review. (And I love the phrase "dabblings in Dramione be damned." ;) I remember the DH release, too. It was at the local mall in the independent bookstore, everybody was so excited, the book was released at midnight, la la la... and then I read it. :P It's NOT that there weren't a lot of good things about the last 2 books, or that nothing worked in a logical way. But you're right. There were many more problems than just the crucial interaction missing between Draco and Ginny. Even if they never spoke another word to each other or were in the same room again, those individual characters were ridiculously underdeveloped. Harry and Snape never did resolve anything, did they? Instead, there was a fake wrapup in the epilogue when Harry named a child after him. If it comes to that, we didn't get any resolution of Draco and Snape's relationship-- and this was *after* Snape made a deal to kill or die for him, if necessary. We could go ON, and on, and on... and actually, later in the essay, this comes up again. You WILL be quoted. Well, if that's okay. ;)

There's much more to come! And I hope that you continue to enjoy it, and also to get something out of it. :)

Reviewer: Grizel Signed
Date: Nov 25, 2013 Title: Chapter 3: Chapter 3

I have been enjoying your essays and thinking about why D/G is my OTP, dabblings in Dramione be damned. I had to think through the history of everything to come to a conclusion.

The HP fandom was one of the funnest things I've ever had in my life, and that is saying something. The night DH was released, we had huge party in the little town I grew up in. Like many places, there were tons of festivities while we waited for the bookstore to open at midnight. I spent my time helping local kids make glittery wands in the pottery store. Then we all got our books, and my entire family stayed up all night reading. We declared ourselves very happy with the way the story wound up, and I went on never to read DH again. Looking back, I can see a lot of the glow came from the large-scale camaraderie, something that doesn’t come along every day, rather than the brilliance of the wind-up. This was experienced world-wide, and it partially explains why more questions weren’t asked about DH, at least at the time.

I think the reason for my dissatisfaction is best summed up with your observation that not one shot from one gun on the Draco-and-Ginny table ever went off. But that isn't the most important gun that was never fired. There had been years of pressure building up around Harry and Snape, and that really needed to be resolved face-to-face. Draco’s behavior in the final battle was senseless, and Ginny just dropped off the map. Tom himself was never examined. We were lucky to get the background on Dumbledore. Otherwise, the story was essentially unfinished. Instead, we got ramblings about wands and the hallows.

Right after I finished DH, I turned to fan fiction, starting with D/G. When a story builds up as much pressure as that one did, it really needs to be resolved or it will bang around in my brain forever. To be honest, none of these characters from Heathcliff on down are JKR’s. As a fiction addict, I have met all of them before, many times. What she did so ingeniously was mash them together. So I have no problem with other people re-mashing the mash up. That is what it is there for, and fan fiction has helped me come to terms with the problems in the original story.

Since reading your article, I have pondered two things. First, why did she go down the road she did with DH? My guess is that you are right, she was trying to configure the ending to match up with the primitive outlines of the epilogue she had devised years before. I also don’t think she fully understood all the characters (they weren’t all hers, after all), and didn’t get their appeal.

Second, why D/G? For me this is pretty simple. With the exception of Snape, who was spoken for long ago, Ginny and Draco are the only sex-positive creatures in the story. Ginny for obvious reasons and Draco because a) he is the hurt/comfortable character; b) his coloring (drawn from White Russians and the Jackal, I would guess) signals romantic intent and c) his tragic situation should have been transformative, which is romantic in itself.

So yes, do carry on with this path you are on. This particular ship has a job to accomplish. It would be too bad to see it descend into fluff. Nothing against fluff, but D/G could be so much more.