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I know there are a lot of writers out there who do massive cliff-hangers and over-exaggerate their plots—for reviews, I'd imagine.
Gee, thanks for that
Replies & discussion for the "Faith" series - Bad Faith and ongoing.
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Since I seem to be getting a fair amount of comprehensive feedback on the first installment, Bad Faith, I figured it'd be good to set up a thread to reply to those kind enough to leave their thoughts, and hopefully answer any questions they may have. Feel free to pester me here, as well!
Let me say first and foremost: thank you to everyone who has taken the time to leave feedback. I will only be addressing reviews with questions, but know I adore you all (even incoherent flailing counts as feedback to us authors, and we appreciate it .
SPOILER ALERT: Most of the reviews left encompass the story as a whole - if you've yet to finish reading, these replies will likely spoil a lot of things for you!
As for your concerns about Africa -- my view of the country is not narrow, let me assure you. I tried to hint at that with how well the airport was modernized, but didn't spend a lot of time on it. The idea here was that they were purposely avoiding flash/high pop areas that would be frequented by tourism or people that might notice them (and, more importantly, wizards - even African wizards would be likely to recognise Harry Potter), not to mention Voldemort had the reserve set up very specifically in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere, to dissuade people from poking around (wizard and Muggle alike). I also wanted to touch on Draco's point of view for things, here: seeing the poverty prompted his question to Potter, which made Harry uncomfortable; also Hermione's itch to do something, as a Muggleborn (and therefore highly empathetic) and Ron, the pureblood (and wizard-raised) reminding her that there are 'laws' about such things. These laws will come in to play much later in the story, so consider it a mechanism for foreshadowing as well as character conflict/development. If they had been in any other country (even the USA), they would have been dragged through poverty for the same reasons - because it exists in all countries, powerful and not, and is a fundamental part of the pureblood reasoning that Draco's grown up with -- ie, Muggles being filth/destructive/useless/expendable -- and also partially the reason for Voldemort's rage at being Half-Blood (hence the world domination scheme). It's the central idea of every extreme bigotted, terrorist organization: that they feel they are entirely justified for their wants/actions, and actually believe (enough to die for) the ideals they uphold (however insane they seem to us folks in the middle).
Anyway, I hope that answers everyone's questions! Thanks so much again for your feedback!