Dear Readers,

With the all the negative reviews I've been getting, its come to my attention that NONE of you know what my story's about whatsoever. So, I guess I should explain what I was going for. I just want to warn you in advance, I'm not too happy that I have to do this. I've had three writers read through this and they understood it just fine...

Unless you haven't noticed, I like my titles to explain more then the plot ever could. I treat them like the punchline to a joke. "To See Him Cry" is the punchline to the story i was trying to create. Yes, it was SHORT, I know. It was on purpose. So was the POV and writing style. I KNOW it was choppy and didn't flow like all my other pieces, but that was the point.
You need to understand that the world I created for this Harry is full of chaos,confusion and premature death. Dumbledore is GONE, Hogwarts is no longer safe, almost all of the students are either dead or back home, the teachers are rapidly disappearing and then Hermione , the rock to which Harry and Ron had always clinged, finally leaves as well. Harry has been forced to endure this world because he's "The Saviour". He's completely lost his childhood and been thrusted into this unknown place he now has to call home. But he's still JUST A CHILD. His thought process hasn't evolved into this poetic rembrandt and he hasn't yet learned to handle all that goes on around him.
I worded the story the way I did because things WERE happening as fast as he was telling us they did. In addition to this, Harry was still in denial about it all. He wanted to believe that the world hadn't changed, that everyone was going to come back and he wouldn't have to face off with Voldemort alone.
His mind was running about two lengths behind body, making him seem indifferent about everything going on. But that wasn't the case. It just took him awhile to realize that THIS was his life now.
Now. Ron. The biggest beef I know most people have had is why Ron didn't seem too upset over his family dying. Ok. WRONG! Did anyone even read the whole story? Yeah, I never once just went out and saidplainly "Ron was depressed because his family died". Thats just stupid, I've never been that sort of writer. What I did was let Ron speak through his OOC actions. When he lashed out at everyone then ONLY at Hermione, I was trying to imply that lashing out at anyone wasn't working for him anymore. Hermione was his girlfriend, so she was closest to him, but when he realized she wasn't taking away the pain , he snapped. The ENTIRE story is about Ron's hidden and denied pain.
Alright. The ending. Simple enough. If you look at the summary, you'll see the definition of "cry". If you read through the story again with that definition in mind, you'll see that everything that means "cry", Ron doesn't do throughout the entire story. Harry does, however, when HE comes to grips with his reality. Then when Ron finally DOES realize the truth about his situation, his defenses break and he cries. THATS the point of my story in plain words. Harry was inlove with Ron and only wanted to see him 'cry' A.K.A. proclaim publicly, suggest strongly a remedy or disposition, and to shed tears often noisily.

Anymore questions or horribly ignorant flames should be sent to my email rather then take up space on the reviews. I hope this was helpful and explained all that was plaguing you.
Apologies if I sounded a bit curt, I just got REALLY steamed that somepeopledidn't taketheenergy to realize that this wasn't smut and it had a purpose. YES it has a T rating, but thats just because the mod would bake my ass if I put a slash fiction in with the innocent hetero stuff. Yanno those little brats, they don't know that TEEN and MATUREisn't for kids. :sigh:

Ok, thats it, got a headache and this matter is making me angry again. To those of you who GOT my story and LOVED it, tacos and kisses all round. :dolls out tons of tacos and eager kisses: YOU are the reason I write. Thank you for your support in this, my darkest hour.

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Ok, bai,
Emerin