for The Code5/8 c15 Raven
Poor Draco lol
Poor Draco lol
10/19/2024 c58 AsmodaanM
Don't give up. You have talent as a writer. Looking forward to the continuation.
Don't give up. You have talent as a writer. Looking forward to the continuation.
10/1/2024 c58 brianaangel
Woah what a well-crafted chapter. The interactions between Bill and Draco are always interesting. If you can, please update as a Christmas present to us all. We would really appreciate it. I have reread The Code several times so you breathing new life into it is so exciting. Thanks so much!
Woah what a well-crafted chapter. The interactions between Bill and Draco are always interesting. If you can, please update as a Christmas present to us all. We would really appreciate it. I have reread The Code several times so you breathing new life into it is so exciting. Thanks so much!
8/24/2024 c24 Guest
I don’t really like Albus in general, any time I see him from Draco’s pov he always feels so confining. Just feels very claustrophobic idk
I don’t really like Albus in general, any time I see him from Draco’s pov he always feels so confining. Just feels very claustrophobic idk
8/24/2024 c22 Guest
Super pleased, I want them to have a fun chaotic relationship but I also don’t want them hating on Lucie or Bill 2 peer pressure Dray.
Super pleased, I want them to have a fun chaotic relationship but I also don’t want them hating on Lucie or Bill 2 peer pressure Dray.
8/24/2024 c20 Guest
Bill F’d up
Bill F’d up
8/24/2024 c15 Guest
Poor kid
Love the buckbeack scene
Poor kid
Love the buckbeack scene
8/24/2024 c1 Guest
This seems cute
Super excited to see where this goes
- A lazy reader who doesn’t even have an account
This seems cute
Super excited to see where this goes
- A lazy reader who doesn’t even have an account
8/19/2024 c31 longtime reader
Hey... hi. It's me again. I meant to leave a review on every chapter of this as I was going through it but then I got sucked into the story and completely forgot to do that.
But one of the things I kept thinking while I was reading was "wow, this feels a little clumsy. Just a *little* bit clumsy but it's so noticeable when Aduro is such a good writer otherwise. I wonder whether that would be different if they were writing this nowadays."
I actually forgot that you had posted revised chapters so now it very much feels like you read my mind and delivered exactly what I was wanting. Incredible. Astounding. I am genuinely thrilled to pieces and, while I don't plan to reread the new version right this moment, I'm definitely going to come back for it. I did skim through the first chapter and from what I can see, the clumsiness is all resolved. The big flashback becoming just the opening of the story is a definite improvement. I like that change a lot. And also, this is such a small thing but it really does make so much difference, dividers between scenes and POV changes! That's so helpful. Thank you for adding that on your rewrite.
I don't have time to go through every one of my thoughts while I was reading but I did want to hit some of the highlights for you. Someday, I promise, I'll go back and review on every single chapter. I think I did way back when, but honestly I can't even remember what my username was back then.
First things first: the relationship between Draco, Lucius, and Lukas changed me as a person in a fundamental way. I'm not exaggerating when I say that. The complicated, loving, toxic, distant, ever-present family dynamic you created with them genuinely changed the way I think about life and especially changed the way I think about family when I write. Like, I forgot the name of this story for a while and was unable to remember much about it, but two of the things that always stuck with me were the images of Lukas smiling as the world flashes green, and 13-year-old Draco screaming in Lucius's arms.
Second: I love the way you write Bill. He's a perfect older brother. I love the way he knows how to distract Draco from pain or distress by offering ways to ease the tension, stories from his own life, and no-judgment subject changes. I love the way he focuses so much on what's good for Draco, rather than how he can make Draco his mind. I love that he chooses to be someone Draco can trust, a safe person to be around even in the least safe of circumstances. I love watching Draco bloom under that kind of positive reinforcement and I love the way you're written their relationship. Bill reminds me of my own older sibling. He's not perfect, far from it, but that's okay because a perfect person would never get through Draco's walls.
Third: I remember, on my first time reading, that I went absolutely wild when every single one of Draco's rules came into play during the rescue mission. Well, in the subsequent years I completely forgot that detail and had the joy of going absolutely wild for it again today! It's so well written and I adore how all of the foreshadowing suddenly came together in this glorious crash of circumstances. Utter perfection, genuinely a master class on how to set up consistent characterization and how to use past details to tie the plot and theme together. Gorgeous. I'm in love. And that's the old version - I can only imagine how you've improved on it since then!
Those were the three biggest things I wanted to tell you. Thank you again for sharing this story with me and all of your readers. I am not exaggerating when I say that I would be a different person if you had never written this, and I think I would be worse off for never having read it.
Hey... hi. It's me again. I meant to leave a review on every chapter of this as I was going through it but then I got sucked into the story and completely forgot to do that.
But one of the things I kept thinking while I was reading was "wow, this feels a little clumsy. Just a *little* bit clumsy but it's so noticeable when Aduro is such a good writer otherwise. I wonder whether that would be different if they were writing this nowadays."
I actually forgot that you had posted revised chapters so now it very much feels like you read my mind and delivered exactly what I was wanting. Incredible. Astounding. I am genuinely thrilled to pieces and, while I don't plan to reread the new version right this moment, I'm definitely going to come back for it. I did skim through the first chapter and from what I can see, the clumsiness is all resolved. The big flashback becoming just the opening of the story is a definite improvement. I like that change a lot. And also, this is such a small thing but it really does make so much difference, dividers between scenes and POV changes! That's so helpful. Thank you for adding that on your rewrite.
I don't have time to go through every one of my thoughts while I was reading but I did want to hit some of the highlights for you. Someday, I promise, I'll go back and review on every single chapter. I think I did way back when, but honestly I can't even remember what my username was back then.
First things first: the relationship between Draco, Lucius, and Lukas changed me as a person in a fundamental way. I'm not exaggerating when I say that. The complicated, loving, toxic, distant, ever-present family dynamic you created with them genuinely changed the way I think about life and especially changed the way I think about family when I write. Like, I forgot the name of this story for a while and was unable to remember much about it, but two of the things that always stuck with me were the images of Lukas smiling as the world flashes green, and 13-year-old Draco screaming in Lucius's arms.
Second: I love the way you write Bill. He's a perfect older brother. I love the way he knows how to distract Draco from pain or distress by offering ways to ease the tension, stories from his own life, and no-judgment subject changes. I love the way he focuses so much on what's good for Draco, rather than how he can make Draco his mind. I love that he chooses to be someone Draco can trust, a safe person to be around even in the least safe of circumstances. I love watching Draco bloom under that kind of positive reinforcement and I love the way you're written their relationship. Bill reminds me of my own older sibling. He's not perfect, far from it, but that's okay because a perfect person would never get through Draco's walls.
Third: I remember, on my first time reading, that I went absolutely wild when every single one of Draco's rules came into play during the rescue mission. Well, in the subsequent years I completely forgot that detail and had the joy of going absolutely wild for it again today! It's so well written and I adore how all of the foreshadowing suddenly came together in this glorious crash of circumstances. Utter perfection, genuinely a master class on how to set up consistent characterization and how to use past details to tie the plot and theme together. Gorgeous. I'm in love. And that's the old version - I can only imagine how you've improved on it since then!
Those were the three biggest things I wanted to tell you. Thank you again for sharing this story with me and all of your readers. I am not exaggerating when I say that I would be a different person if you had never written this, and I think I would be worse off for never having read it.
8/13/2024 c1 longtime reader
Hi. I don't know if you watch this account anymore but I was one of the readers that followed this fic as you were first writing it. I haven't read it since college, nearly ten years ago now, but when someone asks me what a good fanfiction is, this is always top of my mind. As far as I'm concerned the world you've built in this series is the pinnacle of fanfiction.
Anyway... here I am in the year 2024, about to read my favorite fanfic again. I don't really have the words to tell you what your writing means to me, or the time to write it all out because it would take me hours, but I'm achingly grateful to you for writing this. It means the world to me. So thanks for doing what you do. I hope life has been treating you well for the past nearly twenty years since I became your reader.
Hi. I don't know if you watch this account anymore but I was one of the readers that followed this fic as you were first writing it. I haven't read it since college, nearly ten years ago now, but when someone asks me what a good fanfiction is, this is always top of my mind. As far as I'm concerned the world you've built in this series is the pinnacle of fanfiction.
Anyway... here I am in the year 2024, about to read my favorite fanfic again. I don't really have the words to tell you what your writing means to me, or the time to write it all out because it would take me hours, but I'm achingly grateful to you for writing this. It means the world to me. So thanks for doing what you do. I hope life has been treating you well for the past nearly twenty years since I became your reader.
7/29/2024 c31 raisha
I liked that you are trying to analyze your own stories but tbh i prefer those little rules you wrote at the start of stories. They gave a mystery and puzzled touch. Did you totally removed those? Lemme see other chapter.
I liked that you are trying to analyze your own stories but tbh i prefer those little rules you wrote at the start of stories. They gave a mystery and puzzled touch. Did you totally removed those? Lemme see other chapter.
7/29/2024 c30 raisha
Thank you. I mean really thank you for considering D/G not D/H. I kinda hate D/H stories and in your story,ginny and draco is the best pair.
I was thinking dropping your story if D/H pair was there. No offence but hermione's social skills are meh. Ginny is much cunning. Thank you author for this awesome story. Now i'm gonna check revised one. But i loved the raw. Maybe you don't check reviews anymore but whatever.
Thank you 3
Thank you. I mean really thank you for considering D/G not D/H. I kinda hate D/H stories and in your story,ginny and draco is the best pair.
I was thinking dropping your story if D/H pair was there. No offence but hermione's social skills are meh. Ginny is much cunning. Thank you author for this awesome story. Now i'm gonna check revised one. But i loved the raw. Maybe you don't check reviews anymore but whatever.
Thank you 3
7/29/2024 c29 raisha
10/10
10/10
7/29/2024 c22 raisha
Finally friends again TOT
9/10
Finally friends again TOT
9/10
7/29/2024 c21 raisha
Idk but this chapter triggered me but I'm not complaining. You are a great writer. Please keep writing. Draco is my fav character,i loved him in this story.
Infinity/10
Idk but this chapter triggered me but I'm not complaining. You are a great writer. Please keep writing. Draco is my fav character,i loved him in this story.
Infinity/10