itsgwen
Wednesday 20th August 2014 09:00 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
| Nicely done. I love the tie-in at the end with the letter to Dumbledore. |
gymnastgal19
Friday 22nd August 2008 20:51 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
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~delusion~
Tuesday 1st May 2007 06:42 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
| cool, interesting. I wish more people wrote stories about Voldermont's past. |
| Wednesday 2nd May 2007 11:36 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
| Thanks for the review. The silliness of my responses below aside, I think part of the problem in writing Tom Riddle/Voldemort is the repugnance of the character. Unless attempting a caricature, Tom is very hard to script and then be nice to anyone you meet for the rest of the day. Voldemort shows up again in a story that is with my beta. |
honourary_weasley
Thursday 25th January 2007 01:16 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
Wonderful. Simply wonderful. You've portrayed trhe young Tom Riddle perfectly, and Olivander is great too.
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| Thursday 25th January 2007 09:05 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
I have been told that impatience is one of my better virtues and that I am arrogant to a fault. If what my wife says is true, then I guess understanding a young Tom Riddle (versus understanding Lord Voldemort) is not that much of a stretch for me. I wonder if that is why my parents never let me have a wand?
Well, got to run. I have the conductor day shift on the Knight Bus and Stan hates it when I am late. |
Arnel
Wednesday 24th January 2007 12:40 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
| I really wish this story was longer. You've captured Tom Riddle in all his arrogant glory and his imperiousness shines through in everything you have him say. I look forward to reading more of your stories. |
| Thursday 25th January 2007 09:35 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
| See my reply above on capturing Tom's arrogance. |
Astrid
Tuesday 23rd January 2007 12:31 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
Tom's a little brat, isn't he.
Good work! |
| Thursday 25th January 2007 09:22 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
Boy is that ever an understatement!
I consider Tom a little brat in the same context I consider the Pacific Ocean a little deep. |
Miri
Tuesday 23rd January 2007 08:26 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
| A well done story on a topic I don't think I've ever seen before and a story whose action, I think, is completely believable. You certainly have the young Tom completely in character with canon. An iteresting little "missing moment". |
| Thursday 25th January 2007 09:40 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
| This (very) short story originated as an idea on the SQ Pleased To Meet You board. So much has been made of the similarities between Tom Riddle and Harry Potter. Just how would Tom react to the situation of selecting a wand? |
Grandma Kate
Monday 22nd January 2007 05:00 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
| Well done. You captured the young Tom Riddle quite well. The parallels with Harry's visit to get his wand are striking. |
| Monday 22nd January 2007 07:53 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
| I imagined the two choosings to be similar, except Mr. Ollivander would not know (yet) who Tom Riddle is. Harry of course is already famous as The-Boy-Who-Lived. |
Ladybug
Sunday 21st January 2007 23:16 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
| Well done! I thought you got his attitude at that age just right, and it was good to see Ollivander exerting his authority over him. The way Tom spoke about his family was just right. I think this one goes into my personal canon of missing moments! |
| Monday 22nd January 2007 07:44 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
Thank you!
I found Jo's chapter THE SECRET RIDDLE to be the creepiest of the story so far. To envision such virulent megalomania in so young a child give me shivers. |
Rhetor
Sunday 21st January 2007 21:21 | A Most Extraordinary Boy |
Excellent. Your voicing is splendid and I believed we were in the head of young Tom Riddle. Mr. Ollivander was completely in character. The use of the wand to make a snake, without prior instruction in the matter, was just as chilling as you meant it to be. Terrific.
My only qualm, if it is one, is that I'm not sure Ollivander would have been writing to Dumbledore at this point in history. Ollivander strikes me as someone who is very conscious of status and position -- I think he'd be writting to Dippett instead. But I could be wrong.
Great work.
~Ken |
| Monday 22nd January 2007 07:12 | A Most Extraordinary Boy (Author Response) |
I am flattered you liked the story, especially because I am a fan of yours!
We know from canon that Ollivander wrote to Dumbledore when the second of the Fawkes feather wands chose Harry. I based this missing moment on two assumptions. First, that Ollivander wrote not to the Headmaster of Hogwarts, but to Fawkes' familiar. Thus when the first wand chose he would have written to Dumbledore too. The second is Ollivander did not know Dumbledore had already met Riddle. |
