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Reviews for Triumph Out of the Bitter Taste of Ashes

By : Kiristeen
  • From ANON - vicki on November 12, 2003
    Hi I just wanted to add my two cents worth. I read a lot of these stories, I do not usually review (I have had 1 person make fun of the way I word my rewiews, I don't like subjecting myself to that) Any way I just wanted to say you are doing a very good job of writing this story you did not insult my intellegence in the least. I also wanted to tell all those people, that unless you yourself have been in that kind of position and you know for sure that you would of walked in and aborted a baby without even thinking about it =in the slightest than how can you complain about what is being written. I think you are handling this well. I hope you do not stop wrtiting this it is very good.
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  • From ANON - Bess on November 12, 2003
    I believe I do owe you an apology. My statement came out very harsh. It was not my intention to flame. After reading your comments and thinking about things I understand what you were trying to show. Those pictures would be exactly what Hermione would be faced with in pro-life pampletes. I just misunderstood your rational for the websites. Once again, I do enjoy your story, and am sorry for how harsh my statements were.

    Bess
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  • From ANON - z26 on November 12, 2003
    I like the story the way it is so far, I don't have an issue with abortions like I guess some others do. I have always taken the approach of 'you can't judge a person until you walked a mile in their shoes'. I have not been in a situation where I had to decide something this serious. I am glad you are walking us through Hermione's steps in herisioision, rather than having her make too fast.

    Thanks for writing. I have enjoyed reading your story so far.
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  • From ANON - Bess on November 11, 2003
    So Hermione keeps the baby, and slowly begins to love it, finds love with Severus, and lives happily ever after. Well, that overdone, cliched, and so not true to life. I do enjoy your story and will probably continue to read it, but I don't enjoy the preachy tone that this chapter has taken at all. Don't say that this didn't reflect your opinions about abortion, and then list pro-life websites at the end. Don't insult readers intelligence like that.

    And for what is worth from someone in the medical field, those websites are incredibly biased and some statements and just plain untrut. T. There are much better, unbiased, websites out there pertaining toroduroductive health, and abortion.

    Bess
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  • From ANON - Lully on November 11, 2003
    I am really enjoying your fic. A good story with lots of interesting dilemmas. My two cents....why can't Draco, if he wants to be in a commited relationship with Ron, look into aritificial insemination (his sperm), donor eggs, and surrogate mothering? I have yet to see a slash story where these options are considered. All these things are callcally possible aave ave occured...so....why not? Does having a gay relationship exclude being able to have biological children? I can think of examples in real life of gay women bearing children with donated sperm...so again....why not? A bit more complicated for a man, but not impossible....especially when you can afford to pay.

    Not sure where you are going with Hermione and her pregnancy. That's quite a problem there. I'm sure Draco would take in his half-sibling if Hermione can bear to continue the pregnancy and to give birth....which seems very uncertain at present.

    Look forward to more.
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  • From ANON - Anon on November 11, 2003
    It would have been better if you hadn't made it a "pro-life" aka "anti-abortion" thing. Every other story has Hermione raped and pregnant. If you'd had her go through with the abortion, your's would have been different.
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  • From ANON - Anon on November 11, 2003
    I think your story would have been a lot better if you'd had Hermione abort the baby. I am so sick of stories where Hermione is somehow raped and then has the baby and loves it, and everything is perfect. Real life rarely works out that way. If she'd had the abortion, your story would have been different. And it would have given you different issues to explore. Instead you had to it it a "pro-life" aka "anti-choice" thing. I am a little disappointed.
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  • From ANON - Barrie on November 11, 2003
    I could get into a huge abortion versus life arguement right here. The horror tactics used by the far right and the christian conservatives disgust me. The assumption that they are right and the rest of the world is wrong makes me scream with fury. Overpopulation, reincarnation, science, who cares what other's think? They are going to shove their way down the throats of everyone else. (This is not an anti-christian rant, just against people who dictate their views to others.)

    Blue and Black Cohash are herbs that has been used as abortants for thousands of years and far past the first trimester, so I can't imagine that the wizards don't know about it, by the way.

    The girl has been raped, what she needs is counseling, where are the psychologists of the wizarding world? The midwives whose job it is to help girls through this?

    I am very angry that she is going thorugh all this alone. (Which must mean it's a good story, if I have gotten all riled up)
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  • From ANON - Deb >^..^< on November 11, 2003
    This chapter (23) was very well written!!! You covered quite a lot without actually getting into the graphic end of things, yet got the point across completely. I couldn't get the 1st link to come up, but the 2nd one, I never knew, never really needed to know. This whole subject is in fact very touchy, but I think you are handling it with total respect & I feel that in itself shows that you are a writer with a conscience!!! I think you are doing a wonderful job of writing from the perspective of a hurt, sad & very troubled mind that is Hermione!!! I will be watching cha chapter 24. Deb >^..^
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  • From ANON - Deb >^..^< on November 09, 2003
    So glad that your back & yes, this was well worth the wait!!! I can picture Harry's face, seeing what he walked in on;-) Can't wait for MORE!!! Curious to see how long it takes for Ron & Draco to move a bit further into their relationship? Also looking forward to hearing more about Hermione & how she & Severus get going + how she's going to deal with Draco & her baby!!! Deb >^..^
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  • From ANON - Barrie on November 09, 2003
    I have been enjoying the story so far, but I think this is the sweetest chapter. Poor Drakey-wakey. His reactions are very realistic and I am sorry the truthgoingoing to be such a problem for him.

    I have in fact been enjoying both pairings. I loved Snape's snit fit over the mollycoddling Hermione received and I am enjoying Ron's confusion.

    So, if Bill's a ponce too, does that make homesexuality one of the side-effects of in-breeding? : )

    Friendlyquark
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  • From ANON - Zee on November 06, 2003
    I am enjoying this very much. Keep Snape snarky! (Cannot abide a wimpy Snape!)
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  • From ANON - jo on October 29, 2003
    So, when's the next chapter? Is it soon? Can you make it sooner? Would *now* be too soon? Pleeeeeeeease?
    -jo
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  • From ANON - jen on October 29, 2003
    DNA is more like blueprints or potion's instructions than an actual potion itself. The DNA is used in a similar way as a cookie cutter, except it makes the protiens that make up the you.
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  • From ANON - Barrie on October 28, 2003
    Having studied both Anthropology and genetics, I am very much amused by the likeliness of your theory. Women tra traditionaly been considered the magical ones in most ancient cultures. The division of male's magic, which normally consists of hunting magic and the life magic of women, gathering, growing and giving birth predates the very recent male domination of religion. (Not to get feminist on you or anything) Anyway, the point is, the female passing down the "magic" gene is not unbelieveable.

    In the meantime, poor 'Mione. It just makes you want to cuff Poppy.
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