Wish there were better way to describe this, but here goes:
I have read the Potter books over 10 times each when little. I remember being fully invested in the moments in those books, and the feelings I had when reading them - the delight in the romantic scenes, the dread of the darker ones, the jealousy, the stupid mistakes characters made to make their lives worse at the moment. I haven't had that for 15 years.
I am generally opposed to gender swaps in existing fiction works, though I do recognize that it can work. I believe it works when the genders have little or nothing to do with the plot.
But.
This is not the case at all!
When I watched the Yule Ball AI short, about Harry and Draconia, I went searching for the source and found your work.
I haven't slept through the night and read everything up to book 5 and am still reading.
You have made me feel deeply about the characters and the story again. I needed this, more than I realized. I absolutely love how you handled things. Sure, writing isn't perfect, some dialogues are feeling repetitive and some - shallow. However, that's how I felt about the early books as well at times. It is the emotional investment that I took from this. And it is deep. It touched me in a way I've forgotten it can and I absolutely love it.
I want to say - thank you! Please, keep going. It says on your profile here that this is for fun.
It mean the world to me.
