The Hat Trick's a great story -- hell, my very critical dad loved it. But it's a trifle dark, especially for a Ron/Hermione piece.

Ron/Hermione fans, particularly those on Checkmated tend to be young, and they like to see them end up together and live happily ever after, and that's not what this is. Ron's deep into some pretty illegal shit and has screwed up his dreams in the process. The story is about him finally coming clean and getting out of the mess he created, it's about integrity and the cost of integrity, verses the emotional cost of not having it -- which is higher?

I have a fairly good idea why they didn't enjoy it. But the timing was pretty crappy, because I just discovered I wouldn't be able to do my merry_smutmas fic, and I'm pretty bummed out.

There's little point to sending one-liner reviews, except to say thank you. To send a one-liner review of something you didn't like is just revenge.

Icarus