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Review:AndrinaBlack says:
That is so wafully creative to change a dance form to a form of magic! I really, really like this story! The chapter was good. It was nice to have a bit of Hogwarts before they leave for India. I liked the story about the grandparents and to get to know a bit more about the indian magic.

There were a couple of small mistakes. Here: "pored over the latest issue of Witch Weekly." I think it should be poring, and there was some other problem with tense soon after that. Other than that I have no critique.

I cannot help you with the Indian thing as I have only been on one Bollywood dance class and that's about all I know about their dances. Though interesting was that they apparently have like a sign language in the dances in the movies since a lot of people don't know the language the movies are made in. So they know the story from the dance movements and especially handmovements in them. The Indian culture is very interesting! I'm so eager to know more about how things will be in this story.

I was wondering about the males who are magical in India (in your story obviously :P ) What do they do? Don't they get recognised as magical at all?

This also made me think that with the help of mythology and things there could be made many different kinds of national branches of magic. It's so fun to blend in mythology and traditions into the HP world (well, as that is what has been done from the beginning), isn't it?

So what I'm saying again is that, lovely chapter Lena! Oh, and poor girls! (just throwing in that too)

-Annina

Author's Response: Thanks so much for the great review Annina! I'm glad you like the fic so far, and thanks for the critique as well. Anyway don't worry if you can't help - I was mostly asking the few Indian girls that reviewed the first chapter. I've seen some Bollywood dance too but that's even farther removed from the devadasi dance than the more "classical" style of bharata natyam - it's more popularized, I guess. But the thing with the hand movements existed way before the movies. It may be that they included that style of dancing in the movies for comprehension purposes as well as entertainment - I didn't realize that. But, yeah, the hand movements weren't created for the purpose of the movies or anything. But they are very intriguing, and actually a lot of the reason I wanted to try making a magical version - certain hand movements would signify different spells and such. I just don't know enough about the specifics of various movements in the dance to make as accurate a fanfic as I'd like yet.

As far as the males and their magic - I'm so glad someone started to wonder about that, I was hoping people would. It is something I've thought out a lot and which will be very important in future chapters... I just don't want to reveal anything quite yet. But your question will be answered eventually. =)

I'm also glad this got you thinking about different styles of magic in other countries. I'd LOVE to see more fics about wizarding schools in foreign countries but it's hard to find them. Maybe I'll make it a challenge or something... anyway thanks again for the great review!

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