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Honestly, you've been steeped in this world for going on ten years, right? I'm reading this for the first time and keeping up on a handful of other regularly-updating WIPs and finding new fics and, honestly, steeping myself in my own AUs. It makes sense that the stuff you see as just another part of Ron's headspace is something that's unusual and jumps out to me.
Depends on how thick the accent is, tbh. In both senses: the more thick a written accent, the worse it is to slog through; on the other hand, I think the thicker the accent that the character actually has, the more important it is to have something in their speech to remind the reader what they're supposed to sound like. If that makes sense? (On the other hand... Hagrid's... kind of annoying. Not in the books, but in fic - he sounds wrong without his written accent, but so few fic writers seem to do it right...) Anyway, Fleur did feel very much like an ESL speaker, you nailed the syntax and pauses and such.
I'M GLAD YOU ENJOY THIS FORM OF REVIEWING, I had fun writing it this way!
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