I definitely can't wait for the next chapter

Snape flirting, the twins cursing, Hermione smiling a true smile. Lovely!

It is fabulous how they're all purposefully breaking rules, and Hermione's reticence is so in-character. I'm anxious to hear Back in Black's plans for taking down Umbridge.

I like how you slipped in the bit about Percy. You are able to put such depth into so few words - I LOVE IT!

Wonderfully bluffed Hermione!  How on earth are they going to bring down the dreaded Pink Lord? I can't wait to find out!

 Love it! Keep going.

Wow, the idea of a world where all the women look the same.  Reminds me of the movie with Christopher Walken, where all the women are replaced with robots.  I hate it when I can't remember names of movies or books.  That was also very dystopic.  I look forward to your every update.

This is really wild ..and very funny.Please continue

I would have thought after the visit to the centaurs in OotP that Hermione wouldn't be able to make Umbridge and co. any more paranoid!Hmm, I wonder what's become of 'half-breeds' like centaurs in this Pink Hell...

Hey, this is great! You've come up with a truly original premise, which is darn hard in Our Ship. Though really, who better?

oh, you're evil... I'm setting up a contest, to decide which one of us updates quickest...and a second one to decide whose sense of  humour is blackest... loser gets Pinked.

On second thought, skip it.... my tame fare has nothing on this brilliant dystopia. have I told you before how much I love dystopian fics?? I'm sure I have....lol

You've got an absolute gift with words. Tell me, you do this for a living the the RL, don't you?? If not, you're wasting sheer brilliance, and I'd scold you, except that you'd stop writing fics and start writing real works, and then I'd have to pay for them, and...
And if you DO write in RL, I'll just sit back in awe and bask in reflected glory, because I've NO idea how you manage.

*sighs*
I really do wish you were writing DH instead of the Ronshipper cough (is that sacrilege? Did I violate a decree???? *pastes on a Proper Smile*)

Good job, of course!
But you knew that....
Naomi

Author's Response:

Thanks!  I'm really glad you liked the chapter!  Oh - no contest!  I'm only cramming them in due to the deadline.

 Thanks for the notes on my writing.  I don't do this in real life.  Instead I do literary analysis, which means I write, but academicaly instead of creatively.  But reading lots of fiction is invovled and I've taken creative writing.  I love doing it!

I am truly enjoying this story.  I love this take on things. 

How long before Hermione realises that Snape probably still has to break Decrees 23, 31, 47 and 49, if not more of a similar nature?

Will it help her to decide whether or not to join?  

I am loving this fic so far.  Just the right amount of seriousness to make the ridiculousness stand in sharper relief.  I'm looking forward to more!

You promised that the Pink Lord is going down, so I'm keeping (trying to) my side of the bargain.Sheer absurdity of Umbridge's decrees contrasts wonderfully with the sober seriousness the mischief-makers treat them with. I'm very happy though that they still manage to pick up the funny side of it as soon as the business is dealt with. Although, the interleaved dialogue structure is unnerving. If I count correctly, you now revealed 15 decrees, two of which ban colours, the rest are Behavioural. Judging by the cruelty of even the first ones, I cannot comprehend why the magic folks don't revolt in greater numbers. What did the general public believe in following Voldemort's fall? I hope we will get that piece of the puzzle eventually enlightened. If Percy's, and even more markedly, his mother's fates are any indication of large scale terror, they are apparently efficiently paralysed in dread (more on fear management in dystopia at your livejournal; I had a productive discussion with my husband).

Must say I'm tickled...pink! really enjoying this, can't wait to read more!

pink is my most loathed and detested color so naturally i'm panting to join.  this has to be the most unique story idea i've ever come across.  thanks so much and i look forward to further updates

I nominate this for Hottest. Smink. Ever. (A smink is, of course, a combined smirk and wink.)  I don't precisely know how you managed to make it so electric -- it's almost bare bones as far as the immediate details go -- but I think you've managed to build up the repressed Pink environment so well that it hit the reader almost as hard as it hits Hermione, even before we get to see her full reaction.

As always, can't wait for more!

Dear Lord! Poor Percy. And Molly.... This has had ME wanting to join Back in Black!

Moi aussi, Vive la resistance!

I just don't know how to make the little accent over the 'e'...

I like the smirking in contrast to Proper Smiles. Can't wait for more!

I want to know why they saw the same sign!  Excellent chapter, I can't wait for the next.

Great story! Highly amusing. And I like the way she thinks of Snape. By the way, what happened to Harry and Ron?

This is so funny, even with all the reminders of why Umbridge is such a revolting person. I love the gang of subversives. I can see where you'd have Hermione hesitating to join up but I hope she comes on board soon -- she must look awful in pink, for one thing.

It was great to see the serious background to the resistance thing and Snape being forced to flirt was hilarious

Wow, things must be serious if Snape is forced into flirting!  Perhaps Hermione can help him perfect the talent?!

More Soon Please!

Mandy. 

That bit about Percy's death really drives the whole problem home - it's not just Umbridge's message that has been taken to a new level, her methods really have, too.  And when even Percy can't manage to comply!

Oh, no! Joining the resistance will mean breaking laws! Whatever will Hermione do? Shatter them, I expect.Poor Percy appears to have been described dying twice. Thinking Pink is obviously lethal.