Subject: Two down ... way too many to go
Author:
Posted on: 2015-03-06 23:33:00 UTC

Before I say anything further, let me say congratulations on sporking another Rose Potter "book". If Bleeptea were a thing IRL, I'd suggest drinking copious amounts of it.

Actually, normal IRL tea can be calming as well, so I suggest taking a nice, slow drink of a cup or two before going any further!

That said, off to the mission itself!

First off, (at the risk of tooting my own horn) an internal squee rose up when you mentioned greengrocer's apostrophes, for reasons that you might be able to guess.

But a few errors as well:
* That sounded suspiciously like the Ground type one-hit K.O. move.
"Ground-type" should be hyphenated.

* "I trust your judgement, all right?"
The word is spelled "judgment", that is to say, please remove that first "E".
(I'm pretty sure that I'll get some flak for this from our friends across the pond.)

* Riddle accused Hagrid of opening the Chamber of Secrets, and suddenly cast an Arania Exhime at the acromantula when it tried to escape.

...

“It’s spelled E-X-U-M-A-I,” Rina explained....

If the incantation was misspelled, then I'd suggest putting it in quotation marks, like you did with Rose's faux-Latin back in the first part.

* “Get out, uncanon influence!” she yelled, whacking Aragog again, “begone, bad characterization! The power of Rowling compels you!

The punctuation is off. Since there's an exclamation point to end the first quote, the second quote should start with a capital letter. Otherwise, replace that first exclamation point with a comma.

In other words, fix it like this:
"Get out, uncanon influence," she yelled, whacking Aragog again, "begone, bad characterization!"

Or like this:
“Get out, uncanon influence!” she yelled, whacking Aragog again.Begone, bad characterization! The power of Rowling compels you!

* And speaking of the exorcism, three questions:
1) What happened to the wraith itself? Usually an exorcism features the wraith leaving the body, even if it's only one sentence.

2) Why did Rina have to use Expelliarmus? She seemed to be doing the traditional "whack 'em on the head with canon" method with no problems.

3) How did Rina use Expelliarmus/i>? Unless Rina is able to do wandless magic, the omission of her taking out her wand (which is mentioned later in the mission) can be jarring.

Whew, that was quite a bit of typing. But nothing compared to what you have to deal with! Good luck, and don't go too insane!

Reply Return to messages