Okay, just jumping to the end of this (NOT LOOKING AT THE COMMENTS FOR FEAR OF SPOILING IT...), but I'm just at the Virgin question. Dear God, Merlin! I can HEAR him asking her for such honesty, slow and hesitant, luring her into his seduction. Your history on Paganism was nice and straightforward enough for those "other types" to get involved.
In RL, my husband is Pagan and is very strong with his personal opinions - especially at Christmas (Solstice and such...) where he LOVES to compare Christianity and the ironic similiarites people believe all started by them. Sorry, I digress....
...on to finish reading.....
BTW - the Ron/Harry thing baffled me. To the point where I scrolled up to check and see if this wasn't someone else in a different community that I was reading. But, alas, you wrote the two other contenders out of the house.
The way you wrote the transformation was so vivid, I could almost feel him coming back, coming alive. As if he were feeling his own hot blood pumping into his living breathing body, he probably never believed she would be his lamb. Well done. Well done!
My heart was burning...
In RL, my husband is Pagan and is very strong with his personal opinions - especially at Christmas (Solstice and such...) where he LOVES to compare Christianity and the ironic similiarites people believe all started by them. Sorry, I digress....
...on to finish reading.....
BTW - the Ron/Harry thing baffled me. To the point where I scrolled up to check and see if this wasn't someone else in a different community that I was reading. But, alas, you wrote the two other contenders out of the house.
The way you wrote the transformation was so vivid, I could almost feel him coming back, coming alive. As if he were feeling his own hot blood pumping into his living breathing body, he probably never believed she would be his lamb. Well done. Well done!