oh, GODS. I love you! SO MUCH. I checked this story at least twice a WEEK to make sure it got updated. Don't take so long next time! NO, do!! Because if you do then it'll last longer :)

Hmmm, I may rethink my last statement later.

Author's Response: Think as much as you want! although I'm at the mercy of my schedule. It's been an agonizing two months but I've updated! :'D

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OH YEAH. SO TOTALLY WORTH THE WAIT.

Author's Response: :D WELL GOOD TO HEAR~

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In utterly typical fangirl fashion, I'll say I just died.

Let me start with the morning after. So well-written. Clemence never once went out of character. She did what you might really expect her to do, especially with the entire pennyroyal business- practicality comes before sentimentality, methinks.

And then, in the latter half, the expected behaviour flies right out of the window as she decides to help Scorpius and I think- or...probably not. This chapter is contradictory in regards to how she behaves, but I dunno if this makes sense, it was still very Clemence.

Secondly, the entire scene in he great hall- I swear I was biting my nails the entire time- the part when they crept in, when Scorpius got pulled in, when Rose and Dom lost control and the mega epic food-fight started...and then, out of the blue (not really, you built up the scene) CLEMENCE SNOGS ALBUS!

It's like BAM! plot-twist in yo' face. My favourite part- "He's mine." and when you describe how Appy's favourite word is now A, reflected in the choice of her characters' names. And before I forget, the girl who shouted "TEAM CLEMENCE!"- seriously, she's awesomesauce. As are the other girls who screamed "Appy or bust!" and sketched a 'C' on their shirt with mustard. You understand the true fangirls of this society, you intelligent, fabulous creature.

Overall, totally worth the wait ten times over. I've said it before, and I'll say it again- Gina, you're asdfghjkl!

Lots of love for Team Clemence and you,
-Akansha.

Author's Response: A huge chunk of time was spent writing and rewriting the first 1500 words or so. I was indecisive about how to approach Clemence's feelings about what happened, and how that might lead to the end - which I already knew would end in Clemence kissing Albus. And it wasn't until this week that I put the whole chapter together, sat back and saw every side of Clemence come out over 7000 words, and it was so rewarding.

Clemence has a soft spot for idiots! She might not realize it all the time, but she is inclined to help people when she feels sorry for them and it doesn't hinder herself.

I reread the "He's mine" and I swear it gets more possessive in my mind every time 8D And I love those silly fangirls, even the Quirkers. When I fangirl, I'm just as crazy as them. Can't hate.

♥ you are all so askjfhasdkfh! I'm thankful to have each and every one of my readers c:

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AREWRWERAWERAWERAWERAWERAWERAWERAWERAWREW GINAAA

so i was reading this in drafts 100 yrs ago (no offense???) but MY GOD I'M GLAD I DIDN'T LET YOU TELL ME WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE UGH THE FEELS

THE FEELS MAN

i can't even leave you a coherent review I will talk to you about it later with better syntax

One of the things that I love about your writing, beyond the brilliance of your individual sentences, is the way that you remember what you've written; there's rarely something that you write into a chapter or scene that doesn't do work for the story. I can't express to you how rare this quality is in writers, how good it makes a story, and what it says to me about YOU. I already knew you were awesome but GINA I DON'T THINK YOU UNDERSTAND HOW GOOD YOU ARE AT THIS AND I WISH I COULD JUST GRAB YOUR SHOULDERS AND SHAKE SOME TALENT OUT OF YOU SO I COULD HAVE SOME TOO

lawd. I'm determined to get myself a pocket pickett. HE IS HILARIOUS AND REALLY A BIT PATHETIC BUT THE COMBO IS ACE. A+ pickett!!!

SRSLY. HUGGING THE LAPTOP TO MY CHEST.

♥ ♥

Author's Response: HUERUEHRUEHRUEHRUR~

Like while I was showing y'all the bits and pieces I was like 'but wait YOU. DONT. EVEN. KNOW. YET. THE END!!' I kind of love everyone. When there are girls who draw mustard Cs on their shirt without a second thought, you have to love the nutjobs.

heh I already told you how I have to scour old chapters and motifs to stick into the current chapter. I remember receiving a review that mentioned how that it would help my writing if I did that, for Capers, and it's something I've kept in mind ever since. I FEEL YOU SHAKING ME BACK AND FORTH we can trade talent but you can't have mine because you already have too much so HAH there.

HUGGING MY LAPTOP TO SEND TO YOU
hi people reading these reviews/responses and thinking we're crazy; we are.

♥

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Clemence is probably one of my absolute favourite fictional characters. And that includes any 'legitimate', non-fanfiction fiction that I've read. She is delicious and a woman after my own heart. I just hope the wait won't be as long next time. This story is magnificent.

Author's Response: c: one of the very highest compliments! Thank you! I will try to keep updates as close as possible, though I'm likely trying to finish up Capers next as it's 3 chapters from the end.

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I swear to Glob that this is one of the best things you've ever written. Having been with it from the start, having proofread it since the year 2009 or whatever, I've fallen in love with this chapter more and more, and everytime you've sent it to me and I've got to relive it has been super duper special and whatnot.

Sentimentality over - but seriously, no wonder you're a Rainicorn from the Crystal Dimension in me and Lily's fantasy Land of Ooo. You are majestic and you say things to us in Rainicorn Korean that we don't understand but we just sit and appreciate your majesty like the bottom feeders we are (the angst will never end, it's misadventure time).

Okay, this chapter is just a real stoater.

I've waxed lyrical enough about this on skype for you to know the sum of my feelings about it (and boy do I have a lot of feelings about this). The way you handled Clemence's reaction to ~the morning after~ and wrote her narration is so perfectly done. It's sharp and realistic and doesn't go off into the realms of fluff and sugar - there's no mooning over Albus' orbs and whatnot, and she's so...pragmatic! The way you've written her, and all your cast, here is just so so so lovely and so inkeeping with how you've written them so far. Okay I don't think that makes sense so tl;dr your characterisation is perfect.

Anyway. I just love this story so much. Please feel free to bombard me with more (MOAR) previews and such on skype~

♥ ♥ ♥

Author's Response: OH MY GLOB HAY JULIA. I enjoy you and lily's lovingly snide remarks about my update speed. I WOULD NOT HAVE MADE IT HERE WITHOUT YOU TWO. And you and your kind words ;-; SO MANY OF THEM asfdkagn. I am always crey. Creying in Korean that even I don't understand and boxes, because you can't display Korean characters.

I had to look up stoater. I thought you meant like, stoat... beer.

I'VE NEVER HAD TO WRITE SO MANY CHARACTERS INTO ONE CHAPTER It was a doozy. It's one thing to write a morning after starring Albus' orbs and another starring Scorpius' orbs hurrr. Sexytimes is actually very pragmatic in RL, but I never see it in fiction??? But uh, that's probably the extent I can say without being totally awkward in a review box.

♥ ALWAYS.

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THIS CHAPTER IS DELICIOUS. And after two months of hard work, you deserve a nice long review, heheh :) I'm not kidding, this chapter is worth the wait three times over. While I was reading it just got better and better, until it built up to THE GREAT HALL SCENE.
When they first returned to the castle I just thought: Oh no, Dom and Rose are at it again. Then they took Scorpius, and I half expected Clemence to leave or just roll her eyes or something. BUT SHE DIDN'T. Then people started to ACTUALLY THROW FOOD, and I was like, well, isn't this fun! But still it didn't stop, oh no. CLEMENCE REVEALED HERSELF (can you picture me, sitting behind my laptop, wide-eyed, nose pressed against the screen, barely breathing). AND SHE SNOGGED ALBUS. Slammed her lips upon his mouth like it was nothing (I was squealing by now, as I should be). It was not just that, but her whole reasoning behind it... you know, the 'I won't let this school control me, I'll be what I once was' bit. I've always shipped Albence, but now I WORSHIP Clemence. She's a hero in my eyes.
And still the deliciousness kept coming, for me to devour, heheh. I would've loved for Scorpius to come out, but instead of that the Rose-Dom strife was solved once and for all it's now FORGOTTEN. And why? (At this point I was just stunned by all the awesomeness.) Salazar's naughty garters (is it ok for me to swear with that? ...Feels kind of wrong to say it anyway), Clemence-Appy are the sides-to-take of the new drama-school-strife!!! A lot of swearing in this chapter, yes, but entirely appropriate in my book as it totally added to the drama. The chapter wouldn't be complete without that little word in italics at the end. (I know I'm not supposed to review your A/N, but I simply LOVE the word 'horrendously'. I so want to use that in a conversation right now... but the people around me might not understand, as I don't normally start to randomly speak English to them... pity, that.) But back to my point, if I ever had one: "Appy or bust!", 'a 'C' made of mustard'... I'll just keep repeating myself until it hurts: DELICIOUS.

Author's Response: TWO MONTHS I love that everyone is reminding me of this in some form. And I was actually really really excited to post this because SO MUCH HAPPENS but my excitement was obscured by the fact that it was taking FOREVER and not obeying me >:c

I have this image of you as, of all things, Spongebob and/or Patrick, because they always do that thing where they get reaaally close and start breathing with ginormous eyes, and that's how I saw you.

While I was writing the last part, I was amazed this side of Clemence came out the way it did, because this is her being truly angry, whether she realizes it or not. This is her, at her limit, unwilling to accept status quo - this is how far she has to be pushed in order for her to make a stand, even if it's mostly for selfish, personal reasons,

Oh my, the less we know of Salazar's naughty garters, the better methinks -shields eyes-

HAH, I LOVE THAT YOU LOVE HORRENDOUSLY. I now love horrendously. ♥ I horrendously love you.

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I swear to God, this was like reading about a war. The whole food throwing and people going down I was literally like "oh the horror, young lives ruined, what have you done!" I love Dom in the end though with the grinning and you go Clemence! You show Appy!

Appy is like one of those really scary fangirls that are intense. You know, those fangirls that send death threats and all that jazz. Appy is just scary.

Congrats to Clemence though, she just dragged herself into this war now. I love that random girl though, she just stands up and yells TEAM CLEMENCE! Oh I'm looking forward to the next chapter but take your time with it! No rush or pressure or anything!

Author's Response: If there is one thing I do without fail, it is going all out when it gets the most ridiculous 8D Clemence wasn't kidding when waaay back in chapter 8, she told Pickett to brace himself for war.

Appy is not just one of those really scary fangirls - she is THE really scary fangirl. And a rather deceptively powerful one too :0

Bahah everyone loves that girl, except probably Clemence, because a new war involving her is the last thing she wants!

♥ aaah you're too lovely.

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YEAH GO CLEMENCE
YEAH GO ALBUS
YAY

Author's Response: YEAH WOOO!

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Really good! Whens the next chapter coming out? AHHH im in love with the story lol!

Author's Response: Just posted! :D

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Please. Just update okay? asdfghjkl

Author's Response: I JUST DID! C:

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You are so fantastic! I love this fic, I love this fic, I LOVE THIS FIC! I had to stop reading and go laugh on the floor several times in this chapter. Funniest moment:

"'I know what you're thinking — '"

"Let's test this — I'm thinking of a number between one and ten."

"'How bad can it be?'"

"Not remotely close. It was four."

Ahhh!

Author's Response: Pickett is a baaabe. ♥ thank you for reading! c:

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DUDE. Must you torture us with your responses to reviews but your lack of actually updating? Siriusly. Just update. (Or I'm gonna make you eat slugs or something)

Author's Response: Bwaha, I did avoid responding for awhile, but NOW IT IS UP~

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POST CHAPTER 17.. PLEASE I CAN'T WAIT ANY LONGER MY BRAIN NEEDS It

Author's Response: SORRY! BUT IT'S POSTED NOW!

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Just want to say how much I like this story. It's original, witty and incredibly funny. I love the conversations between the characters and how you've kept everything real. Keep up the good work and I hope you upload a new chapter soon.

Author's Response: Thank you so much! c: I'm busy, but I am chugging along!

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Okay.
Okay okay okay.
So, I've been reading fanfiction on this site for a fair amount of time, but I've never made an account. But my god, your story is the first that has made me actually get an account and write a review. I just started reading yesterday, but this has to be one of the best fanfics I've had the pleasure to read.

Okay, first off, I just gotta say. WHY. Why did I have to start reading now of all times, when the story has been left at this much of a cliff. However, I think it is brilliant. This chapter is completely unexpected yet it seems to fit wonderfully, and is hilarious and poetic and engaging on top of that. Kudos to you, my friend. I've read some of the other reviews, and I agree with all who can express their satisfaction much more eloquently than I can.

When I first started reading this story, I was a bit unsure. The world that you have created at first seemed a bit caricature-ish, but you so quickly developed Clemence as a narrator, as well as all the people around her who we see through her eyes, that your world immediately gained so much depth. I have fallen in love with Clemence, because she is so flawed as she struggles with the dissembling of the world that she has spent all her time categorizing and classifying. It strikes me as a coming of age sort of story, in a way-there are many parts of herself that she has driven away and attempted to deny, but are now coming to light. As a unreliable narrator, as well as a teenage girl, she is awesome.

The story is just awesome. The more I think about, the better it gets. Okayyy, I better leave now while I can, before I spew fangirl all over the place. Just...update soon please, with mounds of your favorite dessert and a cherry on top.

Author's Response: I'm totally still writing, but I figure I could take a break to respond, because its been nearly a week ack sorry sorry sorry D:

Aaah like, I get reviewers on occasion who say that they joined because of me. And that is one of the biggest compliments ever c: Because I know people hate joining things. You've got do go to your email and verify and everything, and it only takes 30 seconds, but it always /feels/ more like 30 seconds.

Anyhow. YOU'VE ACTUALLY COME AT A GOOD TIME. It's like a... middle point. Intermission and all that. And everyone else had to go through all the /other/ cliffhangers. Know me long enough and you'll know that I /adore/ cliffhangers. So there will be a lot to come. There will probably be one next chapter.

It was meant to be quite caricature-ish because that was what seemed fun at the time, but I let the story grow as it wanted to. It seemed so natural for it to change along with Clemence, that the more her views are challenged, the realer people seem to get. They become individuals and less generalized.

...but there's definitely some latent crazy in Hogwarts.

It is definitely a coming-of-age (this is what I laaav to write). It's a story that I never read growing up - one with such a bluntly selfish *female* protagonist who doesn't change with the onset of ~feelings - and it's a story I think that I wouldn't have appreciated while growing up anyway, but it is one that I appreciate now.

♥ thank you so so much c: I don't like cherries, unfortunately but I will take the dessert (currently, I'm still aiming to try baked alaska, but fried ice cream works). I'm still writing! Unfortunately, I've been booked with 30 hours a week in labs and job hunting, but I should get something out this week, and my schedule will clear up after winter quarter.

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Please stop responding to reviews and START WRITING!
(CAPS LOCK FTW)
Ignore me xD

Author's Response: I spent five minutes trying to figure out a clever response to this, because obviously I /have/ to respond to this, so there goes on more zinger I could've written for etc. AHA BACKFIRED!

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Hey again! Will you be updating by tonight? It's been
FOREVA!!! If not (I will kill myself haha jk.. I think),
then when do you think you will update?

Author's Response: Hopefully I'll be updating over the weekend! :)

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OH MY SNAPE
YOU MY FRIEND ARE AN "BLOODY GREAT" WRITER AND IM NOT JOKING

Ohh,"Hi, Im A New reviewer AND A New Profile To This Site BUT IM ABSOULTLY IN LOVE with this story!!"Took Me About 1 Day And A Half To Finish this!,INCLUDING "SLEEP TIME" *Wink* *Wink*
HOW I ask HOW do you write So Good i'm Actually Gobsmacked
I found this story on Fanfiction And I was in love !
I ALSO CANT BELIEVE How AWESOME CLEMENCE IS I mean WHOA

And Pikett Well This Says it All!

"'I know what you're thinking — '"

"Let's test this — I'm thinking of a number between one and ten."

"'How bad can it be?'"

"Not remotely close. It was four."
I was Really Struggling to keep a straight face :D

WELL Thats My FIRST EVER REVIEW SO WOOP WOOP PARTY TIME!! And Also I rate this story 10/10 !

Author's Response: OH WHY THANK YOU!

c: you created a profile just to review? Eee, right now I'm responding in "sleep time" so it's all cool. I've loved writing this fic more and more with every chapter and I'm glad you've enjoyed all the crazy with this ridiculous cast!

♥ FIRST REVIEW PARTY! I'll send you some of my favorite characters - the tilde and ampersand

~ & ~ & ~ & ~ & ~ & ~ & ~


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So I'm kind of new to this whole reading fanfiction thing, and you have rapidly become one of my top 3 authors. This is, in my opinion, the best chapter you've written. The way you make the voice in each of your stories reflect the main character, businesslike in Game/Play, erratic and round-about in Capers Ensue, and a clear love of words and an elegant turn of phrase in Etc. Etc. is wonderful. The sex scene was very tastefully handled, and two of my favorite quotes of yours occur during that scene, not just because they are beautiful, but because they are so descriptive of the characters.

"because I learned in this frenzy that I like how he tastes with the lake water and with my name on his tongue" This really tells me a lot about Clemence, and how she feels about Albus. She isn't ready to deal with this relationship intellectually, but just hearing him (finally) use her first name melts her, and she pulls him to be intimate, rather than carnal.

"Desire is so eloquent in the right hands." This sentence, to me, encapsulates the character. In (arguably) the most passionate mind set a person can have, she equates her experience to the power of words, boiling down her most primal drive into words she would normally save for language.

Appy's novel is, of course, hilarious, and Pickett finally begins to really flesh out, fulfilling the promise and hints he's shown in previous chapters. "Not even close, it was four." is potentially the funniest line so far in this story.

All in all, you've done an amazing job giving Clemence a voice, and making her story come to life. My only complaint is that I was silly enough to begin reading before the story is finished, and now I must wait.

Author's Response: Aaah, thank you so much! To me, each of my main characters reflect a different side of myself, and it's been fun to explore every one of them, and the more I write Clemence, the more I enjoy writing her. There are many parts to her as a person that I would not like, but I imagine her as a (anti-)heroine for intellectuals and the precocious, people who aren't satisfied with the world but yearn for what they're missing, who feel empowered and imprisoned by their beliefs, and in this way I can relate to her.

And oh my, I never expected anyone to analyze the sex scene of all scenes, but I'm so glad you did, because it's exactly what I tried to convey and it makes me happy that it's actually /there/ and the quotes you pulled out are my favorites from that scene. Even though Clemence is far from traditionally romantic, she had such a poetic view of the world at times and she might spurn love for herself, but she holds it in high regard as an ideal.

The boys aim to please! Pickett's storyline got a bit buffed up recently, as I added in some new plans!

♥ aah, I'll try not to make updates too sparse; they should ramp up after mid-year or so c:

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ah, I LOVE YOUR STORY!!
The bit with Appy's book was hilarious.
I hate books that are all same same and use the weirdest language like they are trying to be cool.
The only thing I hate more is when people use abreviations like "u" and jks" in their actual stories.
I have seen people do that. Makes me wanna just shout "Have you heard of the English language!"
anyway rant over, I love you and your story, can't wait fr what happens next!

Author's Response: Bahaha yep, also all the unnecessary weird slang that goes into fic in general that really cheapens a story.

Thanks!

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Hi ^^.

I'm a bit late. School, exams, still one left (but I'm already sick of Russian literature, so I think I should take a break). But unfortunately my brain is dead, so I won't write anything half as smart as I would want to.

""'I know what you're thinking — '"
"Let's test this — I'm thinking of a number between one and ten."
"'How bad can it be?'"
"Not remotely close. It was four.""

Author's Response: Heee, Pickett can do no wrong. ♥

I make so many Russian jokes about their depressing literature and eternal winters. Ah, Dostoevsky, you will not be missed.

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I am addicted to this story! You do write some fantastic characters- Clemence is one of those characters I wish I'd come up with myself! Appy's manuscript section is one of my favourite scenes so far- amazing dialogue. Anyway, I can't WAIT to find out the aftermath of the last scene...

Author's Response: Ahh thank you! c: Clemence is loads of fun and such a guilty pleasure to write. And all of the satirical sections too, oh man I had fun with this one 8D Whole chapter, really.

♥ thank you again!

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DUDE. It's been like 3 months. Please update. like
please. I NEED IT.

Author's Response: I know! I'm sorry~ but it is next to be updated c:

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One; I read this chapter the day you posted it but I didn't review. Because because because, I was too shell shocked to xD
Amazing work though, You caught me completely off guard but ASDFGHJKLZXCV you-have-no-idea-how-much-I-loved-this!
You write so well. So damn well. And the PLOT! Argh, the plot's just PERFECT.
Pickett and Scorpius. Genius xD Pickett's such a sweetheart, I love him so much and Scorpius is so cute ^.^
But ALBUS ohmygerd, I love him :3
So much sexual tension in this chapter! >.< How do you even write so well?
Sorry for the totally crazy review but AMAZING WORK! I can't wait for the next chapter :D
I'm really curious to see where you take this now!

With loads of love (apologies for the crappy review),
NightStar

Author's Response: OH random BUT I like your keyboard smash. It includes a lot of neglected letters on the keyboard :D

Mah boooys. I've come to realize that I like to write mostly male casts. It happens in all three of my novels. I hang out around a lot more of them than girls so I suppose that's why.

♥ thank you so much! Sorry for the late response!

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