Everyday From Right Now: Chapter 2

LINK: EFRN: Chapter 2

It's Posting Day!

Below we have my commentary and other thoughts over some aspects of the chapter, for your curiousity. And Chapter 3 is going to be up even quicker this week. I went over Chapter 2 last night and realized that while it does get out more details and answer more post-DH questions....there's very little else. As in, very little Ron/Hermione, which was my whole point for writing this story in the first place! lol.

Soooooo, you can just zoom through Chapter 2, and I'll have Chapter Three up either the 23rd or the 24th (Thursday or Friday). ...well, don't zoom too fast, or you'll miss what little R/Hr is in there! ;P

So, here's my ramblings, lol. Enjoy:

-- This would be the first transitional chapter of the story- so soon, I know! I slipped in as much Ron/Hermione as I could, but as much as I love them, needed to focus on the plot for a little bit. There was a bit though…and to make up for it’s lack of it, Chapter 3 will be posted much earlier (Thursday or Friday), and with so much Ron/Hermione it borders on mindless, lol. ;)

-- As you see, I have begun addressing the trio’s possibilities of how to compensate for their missed final year of school. I have 11 complete chapters right now, and nothing has been decided yet…actually…for Harry it has. BUT! Lol, I can’t give anything away…just wanted to acknowledge that, yes, I will indeed be tackling this issue as well.

-- I am slowly bringing Ginny back into the story. Obviously. She’s a great character, and lots of fun to write- and I think we have similar attitudes, lol, so it helps. I’ve never been big on Harry/Ginny, but trust me, it will be appearing in due time…

-- I am in total denial that Fred Weasley has died. Not until I see the funeral. …of course, I know it’s been written in other fics, but I had a feeling that I’d need to do it myself. It’s like therapy in a sense, lol.
So, to prolong the time where I actually had to write the actual funeral *SOB* I decided to do the entire thing. Have the Weasely’s plan it out, not just decide it simply, that’s where you get their conversation about where to bury Fred.

-- I was falling asleep last Thursday night, after completing the Chapter entitled “The Wandmaker” from Deathly Hallows (I’ve been re-reading), when a sudden thought made me sit straight up in bed: OMG. Ron and Hermione don’t have their wands anymore!
I had forgotten this fact. Their own wands had been left behind at Malfoy Manor and taken by Snatchers. Ron uses Wormtail’s, Hermione uses Bellatrix’s. I had to check the book a million times to make sure, and as far as I can see, that holds true for the rest of the book.

And quite frankly, I didn’t want that. Soooooooo, TA-DA! I came back to an already long ago completed Chapter 2 and made them get new wands. Ollivander made Luna a new one after all. And I mean, c’mon, Harry got his wand back, why shouldn’t Ron and Hermione?

I actually toyed with the idea of having Harry, like, lol, I don’t know, using the immense power of the Elder Wand to just summon their wands back, but when I thought about it, I didn’t know if that seemed believable enough…and I really didn’t see anyone in Malfoy Manor holding the wands safe. I truly think they would’ve snapped them in half or something, especially Bellatrix.

And I didn’t pick anything random. …I seriously (yes, seriously) looked up a bunch of different wand trees and what the wood symbolized and then tried fitting them accordingly. I mean, that’s what JKR did, she says so on her site.

Why did this matter? Why did I care so much? Did I have to do it?No, I didn’t. …But you will find that I don’t take any detail lightly in my stories. I’m not going to just throw anything in there; I want it to be as close to canon as possible, making it fit the story lines of the series.
…and I’m slightly anal and have OCD. Details are my LIFE. XD

-- And for my fellow die hard Ron/Hermione supporters: I’ve been easing gently into the Ron/Hermione interaction so far. You know, hugs and gentle words. But next chapter…I sort of take the plunge and…lol…well…you’ll see….XD


See you guys at the end of the week. ;)
xox