Interesting! I love how Parvati just seems so real, in the way she talks and describes things. Very nice. Great job!

I liked this. It was good. I liked the exploration into a woman forgotten by her creator.

I've actually reviewed this fic before, but I've come back to leave another comment under my "new" login.

As you may presume, I really like this story. I like the way you analyze the traits and flaws of each character, and still keep it in Parvati's distinct voice. Parvati comes across as a very real and tangible character in this story.

It's very clever how it's a character study not just of Parvati, but of the other leading ladies of their year.

I love Parvati/Lavender, and the way you wrote their awesomely awkward first kiss was great. Hehehe. It was so cute and realistic.

I wonder if you're gay/bi/queer yourself? Not that straight people can't write gay characters with nuance and sensitivity, but it seemed like it might be based on a personal experience.

It's a deceptively simple story, and yet written with a lot of depth. Really, really brilliant Elektra.

Oh, and I recognized the disclaimer : Merchant of Venice. How do I know stuff like this when I've never even studied Shakespeare? Mysterious indeed.

I've read this story many times in the last few years. Thank-you, Elektra, for writing such an intelligent and authentic story. This fic is very, very good.

I love this story. Love, love, love it. The Parvati/Lavendar romance is soo cute, and Parvati's thoughts on the people in her life are really interesting and well done. The only part I wasn't sure about was Padma, but I'm always slightly paranoid about when people write identical twins because I am one, and if you aren't one there's no way you can know what it's like. So that wasn't bad, considering.

I loved the end. It brought things together in a way that took my breath away - at least the last sentence especially. Even the parts where it was a little hard to understand her, like when she's talking about not wanting to be transparent, but visible, made sense because she was only trying to figure things out, too.

Okay, I guess what I'm trying to say is

This isn't a typical Lavender/Parvati fic, and it doesn't have a Harry Potter feel to it, but the characters...they feel real. You can almost here Parvati saying all this and it makes sense, it makes sense that deep down under the witch business, she's a normal girlie girl in love with her best friend. I adore.

This is an amazing fic. I first read and reviewed it on fictionalley, but when I came across one of your other stories, 'fourteen gone', your name rang a faint bell with me and when I took a look at your other stories, what should I find but this.

Your writing shows a level of depth and maturity that's impressive. This story was insightful and honest. I like reading stories of this type that flesh out secondary characters like Parvati. In most fics she appears only as a background character with little personality. It's unfair that she's often pigeonholed as a ditz, when there is canonical evidence, as you wrote, that she's loyal and at times assertive. Anyway, the way you wrote her really brought her to life (to use a tired cliché - sorry). I loved the character observations - all of them rang true. This line was particularly good - "Maybe the difference is that where most Ravenclaws go deep, Hermione goes far." I'm not sure why, but it struck a chord with me.

I also appreciated the humour - Ravenclaws and jokes, Ron "Honestly, Hermione, I didn’t know that when you fancy a girl you should actually tell her instead of starting huge rows with her" Weasley. Great stuff.

I'm really in awe of your writing ability. You have a skill for character observation.

OOh, I liked that. Very insightful - you have such a gift with character observations. I particularly loved the one on Hermione, because it was simply so accurate and captured the essence of her so perfectly.

Wonderful story. :-)

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Excellent story. Nice characterization and writing. And a nice idea.

This was wonderful. You really made Parvati seem like a real person, like an actual character instead of a background-character-in-Harry-Potter's-year-in-Harry-Potter's-house; and the same goes for Pansy and Lavender. My favorite line, though, was in the 'Hermione' part, where you said, "Maybe the difference is that where most Ravenclaws go deep, Hermione goes far." I.. I just loved that, for some reason. Oh, and I loved the first line of the 'Padma' part as well.

It was just a lovely story in general. I loved it.

that was nice. i liked the second-to-last paragraph best. :)

Are you going to continue this? Cuz...cuz you should. Yep. You should. Even if you're only doing girls (I'm doing something similar over in the Hey Arnold section) there's still Ginny, and...I dunno, Cho, and really minor characters...And I'd be interested to see your Parvati's takes on Harry and Ron and all of them. And Draco. Especially Draco. (Yeah, I'm reading and reviewing all of your stories now, in case you hadn't noticed...)

That was a really good story. I liked your descriptions. I think that Pavarti can be ditzy sometimes, but not all the time. I had no idea what that quote was from, although I knew I had heard it before. But my mum said the merchant of something. I dunno.

First things first: you got that disclaimer from the "Merchant of Venice." Where's my cookie?

Seconds things, erm, second: This is...vivid. Parvati is so real, so almost tangile, that for a second there I could see her talking to me and I wanted to tell her that there's a little hair hanging in her eyes. I love the way she described her first kiss with Lavender. Maybe it wouldn't have made it into romance novels, but in my opinion, that's the best kind of kiss *grin* And I like her rundown of Hogwarts' various leading ladies, and her description of each.

For some reason, I especially liked this quote: "Ravenclaws go deep, Hermione goes far." I'm not sure what EXACTLY about that line that struck a chord with me. I guess it's that I've always wondered myself why Hermione wasn't put in Ravenclaw. That seemed to sum it up in once sentence.

And this line, too: "We were born identical, if you don’t count the fact that we’re different people." Struck me as oddly funny.

wow.

this feels like canon. you've made Parvati into this wickedly wonderful, three-dimensional character, and i have a strange feeling i'll be reading the books expecting this from her now.

i LOVE the shylock disclaimer...i read "merchant of venice" in tenth grade and had to write a paper on that speech and "the quality of mercy," haha. i also love Parvati's descriptions of Ron and Harry, and her desciption of Hermione's intelligence, and her rehashing of her stubborn childhood with Padma and the matching dresses, and the way she feels about handing in essays (which is the same way i usually feel...eep!)

basically, i loved the whole thing. to pieces.

you rock.