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Reviews for Just Around the Riverbend

By : Kooldragon400
  • From ANON - Jillian on April 20, 2010
    hello,

    I haven't reviewed in awhile because i'm a terrible reader, but let me just say, if one is offended at "buck-toothed" but not "redskin" (which was sorta offensive to me, even though that's my husband's football team) or yank (which I DO find offensive, seeing as I'm southern), then one would be a first class hypocrite. In fact, i find the term mudblood offensive too and cringe when people use it in stories as a "joke." Having been the target of racial slurs and bigotry often in my life, i don't find them as good joking material. That said, you used the terms to make a point. The purebloods have MANY class and racial issues, and like it or not, daisy has to overcome that. To think that other countries outside the US don't have the same sort of racial issues we do is silly. I spent several years studying the after effecdts of birtish and european colonalisim on the world, so no one can argue me there. Anyway, you didn't just drop a few racial slurs because you're a poor writer with poor taste, you were making a statement about our ignorance of others. In the end, you can't please everyone and if that person was offended at that ONE thing, then they were looking to be a jerkoff, and you shouldn't change for them.

    oh and did Malfoy forget that harry is also a parsaltongue? He only seemed to remember the dark lord, unless harry has screwed lucius over too recently? (i rather thought malfoy had done that himself).

    Jillian
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  • From Kayllainde on April 20, 2010
    Awesome story so far :) cant wait to read more. I hope Phelan is ok :(
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  • From gypsy on April 19, 2010
    The story is going well. Keep up the great work! About your poll, I have a son-in-law from England & I asked him about the phrase. He just laughed - but then my ringtone for him is The Battle of New Orleans and he laughs about that too! It's not like you were expressing your opinion, merely a fictious character's personality. Racist and supremist attitudes exist everywhere! To put those ideas in you work is only a stroke of realism.

    On a side note, Brits are taught an entirely different version of the Revolutionary War than Americans and far less emphasis is placed on that specific war. My SIL has spent his 3 yrs here studying it. He had no particular interest in history until he saw both sides of the same story.

    I vote one bad apple and full steam ahead! (down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico! - Battle of New Orleans, Johnny Horton)
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  • From Padfootsgrl on April 19, 2010
    it's amazing how your brain thinks of things like that at wierd moments.
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  • From alina290 on April 19, 2010
    Poor Phelan. I am like Lucius also weary of Tom. Lets just see and hope we are wrong about the feeling of dread, also with Harry's little changes.
    Liz
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  • From voraciousreader on April 19, 2010
    I am an American, and there is Algonquin Indian blood in my maternal line. My european line family has been in North America for over 175 years on my father's side, and nearly 300 on my mother's. I find being called a 'Yankee' amusing as it comes from the name of a chinese pirate and is usually applied only to those from the northeastern part of the States. I had no problem with the various epithets being tossed around as casual bigotry is a normal part of human behavior, stupid as it is. I have not given up on your story because you show a common human behavior on both sides of the pond, I just want to see where you go with it. And I loved the proposal scene. Can I send a get-well card to Phelan and a howler to the poisoner?
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  • From dragongirl on April 19, 2010
    WOW! I really love the characters of Phelan and Daisy.........
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  • From alina290 on April 18, 2010
    The party started really nice for Daisy and Phelan. Wish there weren't such mean people, but hey we need those antagonistic people in there to spice up the scenes. I was really frighten for Hermione. I am so glad she did not fall, but the fright is traumatic too. Keep up the good work. Thank you so much.
    Liz
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  • From LaBibliographe on April 16, 2010

    Chapter 54: Wow - a Cinderella coach and that
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  • From LaBibliographe on April 15, 2010

    Chapter 53: Daisy may not be tall and willowy, but she sounds like a cuddly armful and Phelan apparently goes for that phenotype. Oh, too bad Daisy has to put up with bully girls. She can sling insults like an expert, though. OMG, who sent that powder to Freeda? Knowing, of course, that she was nasty enough to use it? I hope those three girls get more than a week
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  • From LaBibliographe on April 15, 2010

    Chapter 52: This chapter is so cute and sweet and
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  • From HarryGinny4eva on April 14, 2010
    Yay!!!! Okay, I feel all better now. :-D I'm still sad for D&P, but man, this sure went a long way to making me feel that everything would work out spectacularly for all involved. lol I really should go to sleep now, but thank you in advance for what I am sure will be very sweet dreams! HG4eva
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  • From HarryGinny4eva on April 14, 2010
    How about I review and then read the next chapter? lol You started out so beautifully. Daisy's insecurities were so real to what most teen girls go through, as was her blushing acceptance that Phelan saw her as pretty. Lucius did a great job with Phelan and made Daisy's dream come true. How lovely. Sigh... And, then the teen witches with a b. I hope the first one gets more than a week at home as a punishment for what she did. Not only did she hurt Phelan (even without knowing what it was, she meant to hurt him), and ruin Daisy's evening, but she insulted her in a way in which only canon-Draco would be proud. The other two followers were your typical "mean girls" but that was low! ARGH!!! I am really glad you gave us two, as I wouldn't have wanted to go to sleep on that. Poor D&P. :-( But, great storytelling, as always! :-)

    Thanks! HG4eva
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  • From Citten on April 13, 2010
    Those were wonderful chapters!!!! i loved them very much! poor phalen and daisy hope he is okay. loved the night with lucius and hermione! :) totally good timing with waiter! i was so worried that she was going to fall down the stairs, boy lucius has go to keep closer to that woman so nothing happens to her or the baby she doesnt have the best of balance right now and maybe even strength! :) that could not have been a more perfect ending of the night!!! though i swear i will KILL her if she does not accept! ;) dear lucius i could and would kiss you if i could! for i think i would take him in a heartbeat! :) though i may have to ring your neck for stopping it right there! so i do hope that you will be posting soon--like really soon!!!! and that please i beg you to pick things up right where you left off on both sides of the story!!! :) and you have to show us the wedding!!! :)
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  • From Padfootsgrl on April 12, 2010
    so cute! loved the two chapters.
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