The Time of Destiny

First of all, I'd like to let you know how much I'm enjoying your story. The plot is fabulously written and I just adore your Harry! Next, I'd like to tell you how excited I was by this line: "Music is a magic that’s beyond anything we teach at Hogwarts." As a student studying to become a music therapist I truly do believe in the magic of music and was thrilled to see it acknowledged in your story. Oh and I blame you for late nights and no sleep because I've been so enthralled in your story! :)

Thanks so much!  I think the credit for that particular line must go to JKR, because Dumbledore says something like that when he has the students sing the school song (all with the melody of their choice, the tempo of their choice, etc., LOL!  Fred and George sang it as a funeral dirge, remember?)  My degree is in music, so I loved the line too, and I applaud you for going into music therapy.  Good luck in your career!  And sorry about all the sleep I've cost you!  LOL!  I'm glad you're enjoying my stories!

Abraxan

The giants, the room under Albus', and the Auror interview, wow, you have so many new ideas.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Abraxan

Giants. Giants.
Next we'll see Harry charming the Merpeople and other animals. :)

The final battle is shaping up. Hope Moldeyshorts gets his too.

can i just say that i had to stop reading this chapter almost immediately because i was rolling on the floor laughing hysterically? y'see, i could picture it perfectly. Dumbledore all serious, telling Harry he's Gryffindor's heir, and Harry, looking completely dumbfounded saying "Erm...ok"

classic.

great chappie, is Hermione going to be writing the HP books? Is JK Rowling actually Hermione? Cause I've thought that for YEARS.

AAGH!! I started reading The Refiners Fire several days ago when unwell, and since then i have been absolutely engrossed! Your charaterization is at times better than JK's, and at the least is more consistent and believable for teenagers. If you continue this quality of writing, then I will be mysteriously ill every update. Of course if you don't, I'll feel obliged to hunt you down and subject you to every torture my twisted little mind can come up with. Take all the time you need to keep up the good work!

grejt story,
keep upp the good work.

Opinions are like assholes.
Everyone has one - but some just smell worse than others.

Wow. Great work!
You made it into the top three of my favourite fanfic authors :D

(I hope I got the grammar right... *g*)

All in all, a very good chapter. As I've said before, you have a great talent with words and can take the reader and make them see your vision and feel the emotions associated with it. Please, keep writing. You have improved so much over some of your earlier work, e.g., Harry Potter and the Betrayals. (Either that or you got better betas/editors. -grin-)

I've thoroughly enjoyed this story and "The Refiner's Fire." There's a great flow to both of them that leaves me waiting longingly for the next chapter.

Wow - there was a fascinating chapter - I train librarians on software, and am teaching a cataloguing class today - I sent the paragraphs about the library to my colleagues as "The next enhancement of our software..."

Thanks for this wonderful story
Ken

Another Great chapter, I like how you had Ginny notice his eyes to realize that he was Harry in desguse. I like the his dad in the picture and Harry getting to talk to him.

MPF

Some good discoveries in this chapter, an' not a parkin' meter in sight! I was right chuffed to be asked by the Professor to whittle that flute, glad it helped. Send me an owl if yer need me.

I found you while I was reading Bobmin's story "Sunset Over Britain" and was checking out the other authors. I was also following your story on fanfiction.net.

Your story is so good, and I really enjoyed reading this chapter.

Thank you!

I noticed with the last chapter, and now this one ... printing with Mozilla the text on the pages is all screwed up, with disproportionate and horrible white space between single- or double-quote characters and the next non-white-space character.

I've had this problem with the occasional fanfic out there, and usually find that it prints fine using Microsoft IE. I *think* - from looking at the html once or twice - that it's (sigh) a Microsoft thing, heaps of html crud which only IE can seem to handle properly for printing.

This is the first story on fanficauthors with which I've had the same problem. I was hoping that Tim's code was 'open source safe'; I guess maybe it's the format of the chapters that you're uploading that's the source of my problem, and that fanficauthors doesn't filter out the Microsoft stuff or reformat things after all.

I've never had this problem with Time of Desitiny on your other site - fanfiction.net I think?

Cheers, Brad.

An excellent chapter; Harry as Heir of G is very, very old, but your take on it is pretty original. James is excellent even as a portrait - you fancy writing the life of Sirius when this is done? He'd be the best Marauder to get a novel out of - James is just too light, even with his attitude problem. Harry's diplomacy is good, though I hope you'll be revealing the 'plan' he mentioned to Hermione soon. Bearing in mind his heirs I think Gryffindor having a [unique] sense of humour and a deeply twisted mind is about right...

Loved the stuff.... your writing and plot is progressing along very nicely!