Wooster posted a comment on Friday 9th December 2005 10:11am

*Ducking behind furniture as Tonks sends various curses my way* I'm sorry! I won't call you Nymphadora ever again! Eep! *scarpers after the chair I was hiding behind is obliterated by a well-aimed Reductor charm* I better do this quickly...Great chappie as per your usual. I finally came up (after having wanted to say something similar through all the chappies of this AND ToD) with how to say why your story is so good: It takes a very realistic perspective on what happens when an individual becomes so powerful that they ultimately have the choice of ruling (Voldemort) or helping others live (Harry) Ha! Try to beat that eloquence! Eep! *falls to floor as Tonks finally hits me with a Full Body Bind charm during my little victory dance*

Wooster posted a comment on Friday 9th December 2005 9:24am

Yay, I've been wondering about Alex. Very nifty. Great chappie. Loved Harry interrupting Remus and Nymphadora. Very fun. Well, it was just an all around good chappie.

In fact...
It's more than spectacular! (To use the vernacular) It's wizard! It's smashing! It's KEEEEEEEENNNNNN!!!!! (ok, no more Dick Van Dyke musicals for me. Though 'wizard' is an oddly fitting adjective...)

Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 8th December 2005 4:26pm

Effrondrement? Really? Nifty! I learned a new French word. Can't wait to show it off in class. It won't be hard to find a good context. We're studying midieval french poetry. Gruesome junk. So THAT'S what happened at the Shrieking Shack. I had wondered. Fantastic as usual.

AK posted a comment on Thursday 8th December 2005 3:43pm

Hey!
It is always cool to read a good-to-be authors first book. One can really see all the evolution. For example your first chapter in this story is rather bad: the story line is cool but the style is really lacking, but as you go on you become better and better. This chapter was very nice, but did you REALLY have to kill her so soon? Poor Harry... oh well life must go on!

Wooster posted a comment on Thursday 8th December 2005 3:30pm

Geez. Another prison break? It's like that old hobo song 'Big Rock Candy Mountain'..."At the big Rock Candy Mountain, the jails are made of tin, and you can walk right out again as soon as you are in..." (Ever seen O Brother Where Art Thou? If not, you should.) I love that Mr. Joyero guy. He's so nice to Ron. I wish I lived in your world. And had money. I'd totally recompense him every knut and then some. What a great guy! My entire body shook when Harry was telling the Grangers stuff. I was so worried about how they'd react...Thank god they took it well. (see! no spoilers! go me!) Wait. Hermione? Not know Ron? Oh crap, oh crap, oh CRAP! That is NOT good. *eep!*

Nyles posted a comment on Monday 5th December 2005 12:46pm

I like the way you made Casey so likable and I can imagine all the reviews you get that about killing her off but on a side note, you could throw a loop at people in the sequel maybe she did not die. After all the ministry is corrupt, as we all know

However, on a side note I really enjoy this story so far and cannot wait to finish it

Wooster posted a comment on Monday 5th December 2005 11:38am

oooh, to be Ginny Weasley right about now. Promise rings are so sweet. More guys ought to use them. Oh, as a big Ramones fan (then again who isn't? I actually only knew a couple songs up 'til I saw this awesome shirt...and I just couldn't justify wearing the shirt of a band that I didn't know all the songs of, so I bought a CD, picked some fave songs, decided I loved them THEN wore the shirt, but I've gone off on a tangent again...what was I saying? oh yeah!) as a ramones fan, i loved your description of punk rock: "The Weird Sisters’ sound with Tonks’ hair," brilliant.

Andrew Niehaus posted a comment on Sunday 4th December 2005 2:38pm

You know, I got the oddest feeling reading this story. And not odd in a bad way, mind you. In many ways, it seemed as if I was reading two different stories- The first story, where Harry gets a job in the muggle world, learns how to fit in in said world, and falls in love with Casey.

And then you killed her. Bastard.

I'm not ashamed to say that her death, and the subsequent funeral, had me in teas. Very well written, that.

And then you moved onto Harry's time at Hogwarts. Suddenly, he was falling in love (a little to rapidly, despite any internal time discrepencies he might have had from his transformation) with Ginny. Casey was pretty much forgotten, aside from a few brief moments (including one excellent moment during Christmas). That was probably the one and only thing I disagreed with in your entire story- Harry fell in love with Casey; he should have mourned more.

Other than that, it has been a fantastic story ( I took to downloading chapters to my PDA and reading them at work and, aside from the two chapters befor the big battle that I skimmed, I hav read each and every single word. This has been a brilliant story, and I can't wait to start reading the sequel.

Great job,

Andrew
Naitch03

Wooster posted a comment on Sunday 4th December 2005 9:57am

Sad, but beautifully written chapter. I'm so sad about Seamus, (even if i knew it was coming...hey, does that count as a spoiler? they already know about it...) hogwarts knows how to properly deal with grieving: commendation of heroes, stern warnings, exemption from exams and a big feast.

James Benfield posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 11:08pm

Great story! I loved your idea about being sick can make you stronger, something I hadn't seen before, though I have noticed similiar things popping up everywhere since I first read this on FF.Net. Hope the sequal is half as good as this!

James

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 6:53pm

Three battles in this chapter, and each amazingly well done. Ron's strategizing was simply brilliant, as were the twins' bombs in the battle of Little Hangleton, I would dearly love to have seen the battle at Hogwarts. All those gargoyles, Grawp, and the knights...I bet Fleur will feel silly for making fun of them ("We would never allow zees kind of zing at Beauxbatons" etc). That battle sounded absolutely amazing. The scariest battle is the medical one. Nothing's scarier than a battle where the enemy isn't an actual physical being but injuries.

Great writing. But now I'm exhausted. It's almost two in the morning and I am going to bed. 'Night!

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 6:08pm

I was sitting here reading and thinking: ooh, a pleasant Quidditch game, and then I thought back to ToD and mentions of a portkey Snitch. The rest of the game passed in a flurry of anxiety.

Cool.

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 5:21pm

Whoa, what a chapter. So much happening. You did a smart thing putting the resolution in the same chapter as the problem, you would have had one anxious and upset fanatical fanfic fan on your hands. (I'm a fan cubed!)

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 12:10pm

Oh Neville! *cries a bit* And now we've officially rounded off my list of favorite characters. Did you see him in the new movie? So...adorable!

Yay for the four of them having something...er...happy happen to them for once...

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 9:28am

Way to be realistic: If I were Dumbledore I'd be terrified of Mrs. Weasley too. (I should know...my best friend's mom IS Mrs. Weasley! She even has red hair!)

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 5:22am

Cute with the magic rocks...
I'm very worried about Snape, even though I've read ToD, I still don't like it when my fave characters are in peril.

Oh, et l'aurors francaise est tres bete! Je suis tres furieux! Il est vraiment faut que je les donnes un enorme coup de leurs tetes!

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 4:53am

Liked the line about Ginny not kissing bad at all. Very clever and cute. Poor Harry, this generally sucks for him, doesn't it?

Great chappie again, and now i must bid you adieu 'cause my brother's kicking me off the computer...again.

Wooster posted a comment on Saturday 3rd December 2005 4:18am

She pulled off her small backpack, which had been on her back through battle, torture, being tossed over a cliff twice, a one hundred and fifty foot fall into a lake, near drowning and more battle. Miraculously, the potion bottles inside were all intact.
*grins huge* don't you just love how fiction works?

Wooster posted a comment on Friday 2nd December 2005 6:30pm

ooh, sneakin' off at night. so ginny.
way to go on the 'let's make wooster's favorite characters happy' chapter, first lupin getting a new moon-time buddy, then hagrid and buckbeak. yay! stupid kreacher. i really despise that creepy little bugger. harry is going to be seriously flipping about killing those three men isn't he? oh! and I ADORED Snape's reaction to the name Pigwidgeon.

It's the little things that make life grand, eh?

Wooster posted a comment on Friday 2nd December 2005 5:57pm

"I have read about computers somewhat, although I must admit I don’t understand them."

"Most Muggles don’t, either,"
Amen to that.

...at least for a day or so...cute way to end it...too bad it's all too true. i'm very interested in snape's 'concerned look', and the spell thing with hermione was very cool...and yay for Ginny decking people!