Fic: The Gift for ani_bester

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Title: The Gift
Author: lazy_neutrino
Recipient: ani_bester
Character(s): Neville, Luna, others
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 2100
Summary: A cancelled lesson has unexpected consequences for Neville.
Author's Notes: I do hope you like this!

Comments

[chthonya]

Luna is perfect in this - I love the first scene where she is talking at cross-purposes to Neville, with Neville not quite knowing how to react to her but accepting her all the same. I also loved her line about Binns jumping about the syllabus to get more goblins in, and her matter-of-fact response to Dumbledore suggesting that they were meant to find the picture.

I like stories where the buildings are characters in their own right - the idea of Hogwarts growing upwards, and waiting for someone sensitive enough to find the picture, is very interesting. I did feel a little sad for the fate of the cup, given the circumstances in which it canonically turns up in Hogwarts hour of need.

The story made for a good first-year adventure, and I liked the way you (or Inga?) brought in members of each house to make it fair.

[ani_bester]

I'm so sorry this took me so long to comment on. I've read it several times over again, but one thing or another always kept me from commenting (usually lack of time to leave the detailed comment I wanted to leave)

It's a wonderful story, something that's as great to read the fifth time as it was the first. And each time it's a little better even. I think my favorite is Luna. Though you wrote Neville so well too (and had Theo and Hannah! yay!)But Luna really shined in this fic and you captured her characterization perfectly.

And also I have to mention how well you wrote Dumbledore. I think he's actually one of the harder characters for fic authors to write well, but you nailed him. The scene in his office could have been in the book. It was great.

'Then they're not clever enough to be in Ravenclaw,'
I have to mention that line because it really made me smile. It's so perfectly Neville, and such a wonderful line in general.

Thank you. This was perfect and has made me happy since it first went up :)

[rubyscarlett]

You're so good at setting up a scene, I was right there with all of them. I liked Hannah in this a lot and it's nice to see her having her own thing with Neville. The end is perfect. Lovely story, thank you.