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Reviews for A Matter of Black and White

By : greatwhiteholda

From ANON - Jediashes1021 on September 16, 2006
This is a great fic! I can't wait for the romance between Severus and Aurora. Your doing a great job. I love your style of writing, nice and descriptive. If you have a group of fans you're emailing to when you update, could you add my name to the list? Thanks.

Anxiously awaiting more,
Ash
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From ANON - Rodger on September 11, 2006
Once again lurrrrving every minute of it. Aww bless Snape, and now you've made me want a Fanged Frisbee thing xD Update soon! x
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on September 11, 2006
The sexual tension is obviously rising and "Methinks he doth protest too much", to paraphrase Shakespeare. I'm sure she notices it and knows what is going on, though poor Severus has no idea yet. Heck she's egging it on, and probably with Dumbledore's full approval and help. Snape doesn't really stand a chance.
No matter how much he thought he wanted to be the DADA professor, his heart is still in Potions. I wonder how long it will take him to admit that?
I haven't trusted Slughorn since he first appeared in HBP squatting in some one's house while they were away. He's a name dropping, brown nosing ass kisser amd only thinks of his own self interest. DADA teachers are a dime a dozen, but a Potions Master of Severus' quality who will impart his knowledge to the students at Hogwarts is a rare find indeed. I hope Slughorn doesn't totally or terminally foul up the students while he's there.
I enjoyed the reason why he deducted the 5 extra points from Padma and Parvati. Classes and learning weren't supposed to be fun, I had a few teachers who thought that way.
I wonder if the Zauberfloten play anything from Die Zauberflote or anything else by Mozart? Die Zauberflote is one of my favorite opera, it's an opera that's meant for enjoyment, Severus wouldn't like it at all. I see him as more into Wagner, but I understand that because I'm into Wagner's Ring Cycle myself.
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on September 05, 2006
I really enjoyed the description of Lilitu and Fawks playing together. Oh, to have the freedom of flight that those two birds have, I'd love it.
Albus is right about the Muggle Studies class, it would look strange on her Death Eater's resume and cause no end of distrust and suspicion of her. Who knows, Jane could even be 'He Who I Find Most Tiresome's spy.
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on August 27, 2006
Even though it was a short chapter I enjoyed it. You had the Snape characterization down pat and your were a master of descriptive sarcasm here. Some of the things going on in his head while he was at dinner were really hilarious.
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From ANON - hostwtchfleur on August 26, 2006
fantastic story so far! can't wait for more.
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From ANON - Rodger on August 21, 2006
Im hanging on the edge of my seat! Beautiful writing and I really am looking forward to a Snapey chapter. Thanks
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From ANON - Cass on August 21, 2006
I was wondering if you had any sort of update emailing list, where you could email the people on it when a new chappie came out. If so, I would love if you would include me on said list. I really like this story. I'll be interesting to see where it goes. Thanks.
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on August 20, 2006
I just noticed tonight for the first time that AFF.net doesn't list the genre in with the summary of the stories. I've been taking it for granted that this is a romance and that the NC-17 rating means that there will be lemons ahead. So far I've seen no sign of anything heating up between Severus and Aurora, just a lessening of hostility between them. Am I right in thinking this is a romance? If so, when does it begin to heat up?
Aurora has the same frustrations and anxieties that a Muggle teacher has. Since you are a teacher I guess she is mirroring the same problems you face, parents who know the right people to pull strings for them, children who go through school without getting any education because they never learned the basics, and keeping order in the class room. Keeping order these days must take far too much valuable time from teaching; that's totally unfair to the children who have the ability and want to learn and become educated. Filling them all with self esteem only produces arrogant jerks who think they are above the law and that they will never be disciplined or be held accountable for their actions. True self esteem is something a person earns for them selves by what they have accomplished and what they are doing with their lives. Now it's time now to step down from the soapbox.
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on August 17, 2006
I read this late last night and I know I wrote a review, I must have clicked on the wrong button and deleted it.
Anyway I'm happy to see her make some progress in her lessons and to see them approach each other with tolerance if nothing else, they couldn't keep up all that hostility much longer.
I agree with Aurora, Slughorn is creepy. He's a name dropping social climber who reeks of pedophilia. I'm very suspicious of his loyaties. Since he's the epitome of Slytherins he's loyal to whichever side will be most advantageous to him, and after the final battle he will claim he was always loyal to the side tht wins.
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on August 06, 2006
After seeing the dark side of Aurora it seems she fits right in with Severus. Why was his father wearing a cassock? He couldn't be an Anglican priest, he worked in the mill. He's married and a father so that lets out being a Catholic priest.One thing is sure, he's a thoroughly unpleasant character. He's someone who should have been thrown to the Death Eaters, he deserved it.
I can place this chapter in the timeline, but I'm having a little trouble with the last one. I can't remember if you said how old she is, or if she's younger than Severus or is the same age. 'HW' hadn't become the Dark Lord yet that Walpurgisnacht. I'm going to have to check the timeline in the Lexicon to see when he first gained power and became a threat.
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on August 06, 2006
I've always thought of the night of April 30th as Beltane, and as a Celtic holiday. It was a night for frolic and fun, for dancing round the fire and for leaping over it. A time for both men and women to celebrate and maybe they would conceive a new life during the frolics It was a welcome to the long days and short nights of summer and a celebration of fertility.
Walpurgisnacht here is very dark and reeks of blood and death. I prefer the happy Celtic version.
Why was Voldie/He Who I Find Most Tiresome wandering? He reminded me of Wotan in Wagner's Ring Cycle.
I think that Aurora must dislike her name just as much as Severus does because of the meaning her father gave to it.
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From ANON - Rodger on August 04, 2006
I love your fic! Beautifully written, amazing characters and Dalziel's death was AMAZING. Please update a.s.a.p, you are fantastic x)
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From ANON - Trickie Woo on August 02, 2006
Have you ever thought that the best weapon Snape, DD, and the Order have is that most of the DE's are real idiots? Even Lucius qualifies as an idiot. The really dangerous ones are the ones like Bellatrix who are both idiots and insane; I love your name for her 'the Witch Bitch'. They have great propaganda that makes the rest of the wizarding world fear them and hides the fact that they are idiots. Look at the battle in the Ministry, they out-numbered the teens, but the teens were able to hold them in check until the order got there.
Your Snape is paranoid, he needs to be paranoid to succeed as a spy. His comic edge is back but it's black comedy.
The pargraph about Derek Derrick was wonderful, he fits in with most of the other DE splendidly. I once knew a little girl named Kelly Kelley in a Latch Key Kids program I ran after school in an elementary school. Her mother was pregnant with her second child and I hoped that saner heads came to the fore when she named the new baby. Kelly's father named her, it was his idea of a joke. I only hope she didn't marry a man named Kelly and become Kelly Kelley Kelly.

I skimmed over the violent part very quickly, I didn't want it to become too entrenched in my head because it was one of the most stomach turning deeds that I have read about 'HWIFMT' committing.
In spite of their recent success in recruiting I doubt that the loyal Death Eaters have yet reached a collective IQ of three digits yet.
Now I know how he found out what Draco's task is. That means more arguments with Dumbledore are coming up. In your timeline is school still out for the Summer, or did you adjust it to fit the plot? I'm not a canon stickler so that's OK with me.
I had been thinking you got Dalziel's name from the detective series Dalziel and Pascoe. Instead I learned something I didn't know before.

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From ANON - Trickie Woo on August 02, 2006
We went to Dover and visited the castle (the most fascinating castle I've ever been to from the very top of the keep to the tunnels underneath that were a WW2 command post) and and then to St Margarets to se the white cliffs the day before 9/11, it's one of my best memories of that trip. Two years later we went back during the heatwave of 2003 and walked the cliffs in 95 degree weather. from the top of the cliffs the channel was so clear and aqua blue that it looked just like the Caribbean. I fully understand his simile about the ants there seemed to be caves and tunnelslike in ant hills all over that part of the southern coast. The White Cliffs have become so fragile, I hope there is something that can be done to preserve them from more deterioration.
I think that somewhere between the viewpoint of the three of them, Severus, Aurora, and Dumbledore lies the truth about her progress. He's lost the comical edge and has an edge of dangerous reality in what she overhears. I don't believe she will back out of it, but she needs something to help her feel more secure when she finally meets the Death Eaters, especially the ones that knew her parents. Could she use a glamour to disguise her resemblance to her mother? She still needs to talk to Dumbledore to express her fears of being recognised and get his advice.
But Severus is right, DD is a puppet master who pulls all their strings and manipulates them but doesn't see the consequenses. He can't see the trees for the forest as the saying goes.
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