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By : graballz

From ZooArmy on November 25, 2007
Oh my, er, I don't know if I make a total jerk out of myself now, but I think you made small mistake. But I'm not at all sure... *sigh*
I think it's not Gamma Upsilon Nu , but Kappa Upsilon Nu, because the Greek 'k' equals our 'c'. I don't know. *bites nails nervously*
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From ZooArmy on November 25, 2007
SQUEEEEE We have shirts!!!
Jeez, I almost pissed my pants. I think this grin is engraved on my face for the whole day.
And we have a sorority. WOW! *needs to go back to remember the greek letters*
I could follow all moves pretty well, also I'm a total ignoramus about dances.
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From bananasforyou on November 25, 2007
omg i loved it and im soryy i havent reviewed i was in the french quarter the whole weekend.
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From thrnbrooke on November 24, 2007
OMG!!! I sooo need chapter 6!!! Draco sounds awesome! Holy moly! I love him in drag! Almost as much as Harry!
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From ZooArmy on November 24, 2007
*giggles* Squeal
Draco in a dress. Hurm, very interesting. I think that image won't leave my mind for the rest of the day. grin.
What's the difference between usual high-heels and dance-high-heels? I looked at the image you linked to, but for me they look like usual high heels that are break-neck ^^
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From gorgeousbowneyes on November 24, 2007
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRACO DRESSES UP FEMALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What exactly did I say with the short skirt thing? I only meant short as in you see a lot of leg, eventually, wrapping it around the other guy and stuff. But yeah, lol. I think I might pick up ballroom dancing at some stage.

I loved that Draco was trying to wear pumps to dance in tho!!! I was like, can't you get like proper high heeled dance shoes??? lol. Like I have chorus shoes, but I don't think they'd exactly suit the tango, a little too chunky. I looked at the pic you had displayed in the AN, and that was something along the lines of what I was thinking. I loved that Harry was resisting to wearing green, a gryffindor to the end!!

Also, I LOVED Draco hitting on Derek, I thought that was such good fun! Especially to read, I was like ahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahahahha.

Anyways, can't wait for the last part :P
~gorgeousbowneyes
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From Roozette on November 23, 2007
Another terrific chapter! I am so excited to read the final dance scene that I am actually rather embarassed to admit it.

First, I LOVE Dancing With The Stars. Before I even got to your review notes I was subconsciously comparing the story by using the show as my mental image. I have been using Elio and his blonde partner as the comparrison, because I see Draco as being rather.... flexible... and energetic. *snicker*

Second, I completely endorse your reasoning in regards to cutting out R/Hr/G from their lives. Even as I wrote my last comment I didn't think they would ever meet again, but I can see Draco getting passionate about a writing class and Harry getting forced to start journal writing. Or something. But i love the way you allow Harry and Draco to feed off each others personalities and strengths, so I trust our blonde bombshell to take care of our "savior."

Third, totally unimportant, but you forgot to mention that there are SAT-I and SAT-II. I am not really sure of the difference, but I had to take both of them. They are very similar in the regards that they both take three hours to complete and suck ass. I have not referred to them once the entire time I have been in college, although they did help me be able to skip to Eng 212 instead of starting at Eng 101. Go figure.

Last, I have to tell you I now have a burning and passionate desire to see Harry and Draco do the Passadoble. Oh my God... can you imagine how perfect that would be for them????

I love this story! You are doing such a great job. Very original and fun. Can't wait till the last chap!

Kisses!
Roo
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From Dezra on November 23, 2007
That was a beautiful chapter. Though I love Harry as the top. I love it when Draco is the loving one as Harry temporarily crumbles. You wrote them both very well.
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From Roozette on November 23, 2007
Awww.... geez I adore this story! It's clever and funny and focuses on the relationship aspect between my two favorite boys rather than just a quick shag and a "now what?" conclusion. Good job!

Have to tell you... the pillow talk conversation was sweetness personified. I feel like such an utter twit because I was smiling at my laptop the entire time I read that. Please don't tell on me!

Don't you think it will be healthy for Harry to confront his former friends? Even if they never meet or become friends again, shouldn't Harry address such a serious issue from his past in order to achieve true resolution? In that vein, I love how you are using dance lessons to tap into their emotions and act as a therapy of sorts. Hopefully by the end of the story (or the sequel...) the boys will be secure enough in each other to not feel like one is making sacrifices or too many concessions to be together.

Anyway, I like your work :)

Kisses!
Roo
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From ZooArmy on November 23, 2007
Is it really that odd to have a male/male dance couple for tango or any other dance? Pity.
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From ZooArmy on November 23, 2007
I only read chapter three now, because I need to bring my sister to the train station, but I'll come back. Lol.
I can imagine the scene after the movie when you applauded. Siriusly, I only get funny looks while the movie, because I always laugh when no one else's laughing. They have no sense of humour that's all. pft.
Sexy chapter!!!
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From gorgeousbowneyes on November 23, 2007
I really liked this chapter! Ooooh the tango eh? Can Draco wear a female outfit for his costume, pwetty pwease?? With ice cream and sugar on top?? and cherry? I was thinking about that when you wrote something along the lines of Draco jumping at the idea of dancing the girl's part. What with his blonde hair and all, he could pull it off. Skin tight lycra and glitter, some high heels, short but flowing skirt, lol. Although judging from Draco's reaction to the coconuts and hula skirt for the Hawaiian party, he might not want to do that.

I was wondering about whether one was more the top than the other, if Harry was ALWAYS a top or not. It didn't feel specifically like he was, but you hadn't mentioned much about it before, and this satisfied my curiosity, without me even having to ask!! lol.

I'm a dancer myself, I have since I was five. I used to do ballet but I never moved onto point because my mother didn't allow me because she didn't want me to get injuries, or even just ruined feet. But dancing is seriously one of the most dangerous 'sports' other than like gymnastics and still, ballerinas have to do acrobatics sometimes, so its still as injury prone. But I do other dancing than ballet, I've been doing jazz and hip hop for ages, and by jazz I mean classical jazz along with just the normal dancing kind of jazz. A dance I'm doing this year is to a song from Dream Girls, and it's done in proper chorus shoes (tap shoes without the taps and a bit higher heel) with proper jazz technique, which is basically ballet technique with straighter arms. So it's kinda scary, I've tripped and spilled over so many times in that dance.

Anyway. I loved the whole argument in the middle of the dance class. I would never be allowed to get away with an argument in a dance class!! lol. But it's partner dancing, which I've never done before, so that might be a little different. I'm so glad Harry and Draco have such a strong bond in this, it makes me go 'awwwww' I love this!!

Can't wait for more,
~gorgeousbowneyes
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From gorgeousbowneyes on November 23, 2007
Ahhhhh yes I remember that scene, it was quite gruesome, and I only remember a tiny glimpse of it, before hiding my face in my bf-of-the-time's chest. LOL. But I see what you mean about 'cruxisfiction' now - when I first read it, I got an image of like in Xena where Caesar has put Xena dn hundreds of other people up on crosses, and left them to die spread out along a coastline of his territory or something. I thought you meant something like this, but now I get you.
This chapter was good, I loved how Draco used Harry's post sex daze to get what he wanted, lol typical slytherin. Anyway I'm off to read the next chapter, and I'll leave another review after that!
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From Utopia on November 23, 2007
I danced for years (until exams got in the way)! I had my second gold bar in country-western line dancing; everyone thinks its easy - you just stand in a line and do the steps... its not easy at that level! The line dances got incredibly complicated (64+ steps before a repeat in some, and you'd to remember it all again after the turn, but the reference points on the wall had vanished!) and quite a few had ballroom steps, one of my favourites had a sort of cha-cha theme, another was samba. Looking back at 20, I wish I'd done ballet as a child - my mum could have turned professional, but at 4'11", she wasn't tall enough to do so and stopped. She never pushed me into it, but girls that used to pick on me did ballet - and I didn't want to be near them longer than I had to. I went for music instead, and still enjoy playing sax and flute. I have done belly dancing - THAT is wonderful! You don't have to be a dancer, two left feet are perfectly acceptable; and you feel so sexy doing it (and it tones your thighs, tum and bum without a gym!). My mum did it too, and made the outfits! I was the youngest one in the class, at 17, and the oldest wouldn't tell her age, but she said it was somewhere around 70! (I can actually imagine Draco in a shimmy shawl - the jingly coin belt thing - and not much else, dancing for Harry! lol!)

Lads dancing are like gold dust! They might get the mick taken out of them for it when they're younger, but professional male dancers have incredible fitness! There was a TV show where they put 13 male ballet dancers against a rugby union team - the rugby players did well to come seconds in the tests designed by the sports scientists! Look at Billy Elliot, for example, it showed the hardship male dancers have to go through, whereas nobody batters an eye lid if a girl does ballet! (and I'm stopping before I get into a rant! lol).

Its WONDERFUL to read a story where there are NO comparisons to it - I am a HUGE fan of originality, and it is an UTTER PLEASURE to read a fic that has so few cliched moments, but still keeps the characters firmly in character! I adore how you have developed Draco's character, he's changed a lot from the snarky little brat from the books, but any fan would still instantly recognise him!

One thing, any chance of an authors note explaining the american colledge system - what the UK sees as a colledge is different and could be confusing for British readers (like me, for example). I've written a basic guide to UK education, any chance of a comparison to the USA?

In the UK, colledges do: [list:]
* GCSEs (general certificate of secondary education - taken at 15 and 16 years and compulsary, they are normally done in school - but many adults who don't have these qualifications take them too in night classes, some older teens use a college to re-take)
* AS levels and A Levles (Advanced Subsiduary and Advanced Levels) AS's are half an A Level, and count as qualifications in their own right - but it is better to have the A2 level. These are taken at 17 and 18 - but quite a few adults take them too. A-Levels are the general requirement for university in the UK, but there are equivalent courses too.
* Other courses are also taught at colledges, such as aromatherapy, massage, cake decorating, catering, first aid... if you want to learn it, a colledge somewhere will teach it!

UK universities are different from US ones, you generally take one subject (sometimes a combination of two) and that's it for three/four/five years. You have to be 18+ to go to uni, and genrally need A levles to get in. I'm a second year Biology student, and I took Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths at A2 level. I took 13 GCSEs before that.

Anyway - a BRILLIANT piece of fanfiction, and a REAL PLEASURE TO READ!
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From ZooArmy on November 22, 2007
Ha! GO ME! I guessed 300, also I've never seen the movie. Do americans really stand up and applaud when a movie's over? Weird.
And Ron and Ginny were against Harry and Draco and abandoned the Golden Boy? Wanker- Waaaaaanker. No wonder they went to America
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