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Remembrance
Pennfana7 Reviews | 7.0/10 (7 Ratings, 0 Likes, 1 Favorite )
One hundred years after the defeat of Voldemort, people still remember.
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Pennfana
Member Since 2005 | 38 Stories | Favorited by 15 | 134 Reviews Written | 358 Review Responses
I always feel extremely strange when I'm writing these things, having never really been all that good at talking about myself. In any case, here are the basics: I'm a 41-year-old Canadian who started reading the Harry Potter books about twenty years (!) ago just to see what all the fuss was about. I wrote my first fanfic about a year later, and I've been semi-active in the fandom ever since. I am very musical; I play the bagpipes, I've played the violin since I was about nine years old and I sing with two choirs (a community choir I've been singing with since 1997 and a church choir I've been singing with since late 2008). Writing is also one of my many obsessions, and (much to my relief) the monstrous case of writer's block which grabbed me for a couple of years seems to be gradually letting go. Even so, should I submit any chaptered fics here, it's reasonable to assume that the updates will be pretty far apart even if they're actually finished before I start posting. It's not intentional; I'm just, at times, a little forgetful.
Reviews for Remembrance
I agree with you on both acount. It's important to remember those who sacrifed their lives to offer us a safer place to live. But unfortunately I don't think it'll prevent other wars.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Remembrance)
I know it won't prevent other wars—it hasn't. But I do think that remembering is a good thing, if only because it helps to put war into perspective as something that shouldn't be glorified.Thanks for reviewing.
I enjoyed this. I think it's important to remember our past, especially the conflicts/wars. Although some of what Betty said is probably true... that it won't stop other wars, but I think helps.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Remembrance)
Thank you.
Well Done. Great to see the Malfoys and Weasleys gettting along.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Remembrance)
Thanks. I figured that after a hundred years, a friendship between members of those two families might not be totally impossible.
I read your story with interest, and your comments. And it made me wonder if perhaps other histories of wars like that of World War 2 would be re-written, smudged, smoothed and glossed over so that records of atrocities that happened to both the Jews and the Russians would end up being downgraded.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Remembrance)
I suspect that eventually, they will be to some extent. In a way, it's happened already; many people forget that although the Jews were by far the Nazis' favourite victims, they put people from many other groups into concentration camps. Homosexuals, ethnic Poles, Russian prisoners of war, Romani, people who were physically disabled or mentally ill, political opponents, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons, Serbs, anyone else the Nazis didn't like—all of these people ended up in the camps as well. These other people were every bit as likely to suffer and die as the Jews were. I do not think that their suffering has to be erased in order to comprehend the evils that were done to the Jews, but for some reason, it often seems like the non-Jewish victims of the Nazis have been forgotten.In any case, thank you for reviewing, and I'm glad I made you think a bit.
You acheived you goal in writing this story. Your points are spot on and well made.
Response from Pennfana (Author of Remembrance)
Thank you very much.
*tries to come up with more to say but can't really form the words to express how much I really liked reading this.*
Response from Pennfana (Author of Remembrance)
Thank you.