The Woes of Harry Potter
Chapter One
Reviews v Hits
Disclaimer: Nothing you might recognise belongs to me
"What are you doing, Harry?" Hermione Granger asked, coming up from behind Harry.
"Oh, hey Hermione, I'm just about to upload my story onto this fan-fiction website you showed me," replied Harry,
"Oh cool. Have you finished it? What's it about?" enquired Hermione, scanning the first few lines.
Harry blushed. "Well, it's about what I imagine Sirius to have said to my parents when he met them again after going through the Veil."
Hermione gave him a hug. "Can I read it? I'll beta it for you!"
"Yeah sure," said Harry, "I'm going to find Ron. Give me a yell when you're finished." He got up and Hermione took his place.
For the next half an hour, Hermione read through Harry's story and carefully checked for any grammatical mistakes. At the end, she found she had tears in her eyes. It had been two years since Sirius had passed through the Veil and Harry was gradually getting over his death and others that had died fighting for the Light in the Final Battle. Everything appeared to be perfect so she called Harry back and he uploaded it onto Hermione's favourite fan-fiction site.
"I can't wait to see what people think of it!" he said, his green eyes gleaming.
Two days later, Harry logged onto his email account and excitedly looked for reviews. He had eight messages in his inbox; four of them were from his Hogwart's friends. The other four were entitled 'Review Alert!'
"What?" whispered Harry, "Only four reviews for my story?"
He clicked them open and read them through. They were all positive, fortunately, but Harry was annoyed. Hermione saw his face and asked what the matter was.
"I only have four reviews of my story, which took me absolutely ages to write! Did I write it badly or something? Was there only four people who looked at it?" asked Harry, confused.
Hermione frowned. "Well I thought it was really good when I read it…hang on, we'll look at your stats."
"My what?" Harry said, moving aside so Hermione could get to the keyboard.
"Your statistics for your story. You can look at your Hits and tell how many people have visited your story," said Hermione, "Ah, here we are." She looked at the table of statistics and drew in a breath sharply, "Sixty-three."
"What?" said Harry, loudly, "You mean to say sixty three people have read my story and only four had the decency to write me a review? Well! I don't think much of the other fifty nine people! Are they just lazy?"
"Probably," Hermione said, equally as annoyed, "God! They could just be considerate and leave a review saying 'yeah, I like your story' or 'I didn't like the story because…'! It really is rude!"
They both scowled. "I thought the point of this website was for aspiring writers to help one another by reviewing one another's work and telling them when they go wrong!" sniffed Harry, furiously.
"It is," said Hermione, "oh well, maybe there'll be some more reviews in a couple of days…"
But there wasn't.
OK, just had to get that out of my system and it is actually based on a true story (though obviously not with Harry and Hermione!)
Please review even if you are just saying "yeah, I like your story" or 'I didn't like the story because…"
BUT that doesn't mean I'm begging for reviews; it's entirely up to you.
Thanks (smiles)
Edited 3/10/05