 Borolin 2007-03-19 . chapter 1OK - it reads well and it's an interesting start. As a one-shot it feels a little too open-ended - I think it does need to be turned into a longer story, whether that's an epic romance or just another chapter or two discussing the probable meaning of the vision, and how that makes him feel about teaching her.
IMO it might be better to edit "Severus started and sat up straight as the girl, no woman, marched over to the stool" and make it something like "Severus started and sat up straight as the girl, no woman, a young woman of about twenty, marched over to the stool".
Itr's just that when you first read that paragraph it sounds as if he might be a paedophile, really ogling this eleven-year-old girl as if she was a sexually-mature adult. By the bottom of the page it's clear that that's not what's happening at all. On the one hand, maybe you want to keep readers in suspense over it for a few more paragraphs - but on the other hand it might put some readers off and cause them to hit the Back button before they've worked out what was happening. |