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[fpb]

Look, I don't mind a three-word review. Really, I don't. Of course I would prefer something long and thoughtful, especially if it is positive, but I realize that not everyone can write essays. So I repeat, I don't mind - after all, the review was positive.
But:
WHO on God's green Earth does not know how to spell "Aw!"?

(http://www.fanfiction.net/r/2052874/0/1/)

Comments

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Dear Marie,
in response to your friendly review, I write my stories by instinct, and rearely stop to ponder the narrative devices I use. Which is not to say that I cannot, later, explain why I did what I did. In this case, I wanted to make the reader identify as much as possible with the narrator; so, the narrative voice is that of the narrator alone, experienced like the reader would experience his or her own voice coming out of himself. This is really central to the experience I was describing, the experience of an ordinary man - and I refuse to use the word Muggle, because that is already to accept Potterverse categories - coming into contact with the realities of the Harryverse.

By the same token, it was necessary for him to reach as many different layers of common experience as possible. So he is an ordinary bloke who goes down to the pub, but at the same time he is educated - not an overwhelming intellectual, but enough to be able to relate to other areas of society than the working classes. Such things are far more common than you imagine. The father of the woman I loved, Debbie Wallace, was a working man with a passionate love for Verdi.

I regret that it did not work for you, but that is what, looking back, I put into the character of Jack Kipsell.

[dreamer-marie.livejournal.com]

I'm more used to research scientists with PhDs not knowing who Hamlet is, to tell the truth.