Uhm... Interesting. Please continue.

CT

Any chance of your going back to this story so we can find out what happens to Harry this time around. It's almost right at four years since you've had a chance up update. I hope your muse and schedule will allow you to write and post more chapters sometime soon. Keep up the good work. Zafaran {mailto:} zafaran {at} fastmail {dot} fm

I like the starting of this fic (even if its already 5 chapters in) I hope to get a notice soon that your updating.

Great story. Thanks for sharing!

I LOVED THIS CHAPTER, UPDATE SOON PLEASE!

Very interesting start!

great story keep up the good work update soon

great story

I'm not sure if I've read this one yet.
Whatever the outcome of THAT statement is, I'm still interested . . . in fact, this fic looks REALLY good.
So far the plot is WAY cool and it definately looks like a better one of these "Time Travel fics".
PLEASE update!!
Thanks!

Very well done!

was it cannon books until lucius malfoy killed him? or how did the past go?

Yep, I was right, this does look like a good story! Update soon!

This looks like a very good story! I can't wait to read more!

great story cant wait to read more ~Elia LeFae

This is a terrific amount of fun! and I hope one day you will return to it. I like the little details--Harry's return to the past not because of success at too high a cost but on account of failure; Hermione's speech patterns; the wonderfully inane games that kids get up to (our modern perceptions of childhood are rather too idealized and whitewashed for my tastes--I liked that you had the girls tease Harry and Hermione but also experiment in a way that they likely would not if they were older (unless they were drunk, of course)); the interaction with Fawkes (many would have had Harry go the route of purposeful wandless magic--something that seems pretty darn implausible to me); the notion of the congeniality charm. Simply exquisite.

On a side note, you might want to talk to a certain 'Amberile,' also posting on this site. According to the AN, the author got your consent to use certain ideas from this fic for the author's own fic, 'Harry Potter and the Fight against Fate.' I think the quality of the latter fic would improve greatly if the derivation was not quite so clear--it's one thing to take inspiration from another fic, it's quite another to borrow the phrasing. The author is clearly exploring ideas that you do not in 'Undo, Retry'—taking ideas like ‘what if Harry could see auras the way Ollivander can?’ and ‘what if Hermione’s parents had sent her to a school for the gifted’ and ‘what might result from Harry not hiding his accomplishments in school’ and running with them—but the similarity in phrasing is so strong in places that I found it uncomfortable to read:

From your chapter 4:
“‘I thought not. Well, Mr Potter, the steel tools effectively put an anti-magic coating on the wand wherever they cut it. While you could have used bronze or stone tools, such tools are not available in the Muggle world. So by using the knife to shape the wand, and the drill to hollow it out, there were two layers of a mild anti-magic coating between you and the feather. So not only were you trying to use a wand when normally you would be too young to do so, and not only did that wand lack the normal magical treatments which make it much, much more efficient than the simple combination of its materials, but you had to fight through the effect of the iron tools as well.’

"Understanding came to Harry, and he had to fight to keep his expression to only what he believed was appropriate. ‘Oh,’ he said. ‘Well, I guess I need a new wand, then?’”

From Amberile’s chapter 5:
“‘I thought not. Well, Mr Potter, the steel tools effectively put an anti-magic coating on the wand wherever they cut it. While you could have used bronze or stone tools, such tools are not available in the Muggle world. Therefore, by using the knife to shape the wand, and the drill to hollow it out, there were two layers of a mild anti-magic coating between you and the feather. So not only were you trying to use a wand when normally you would be too young to do so, and not only did that wand lack the normal magical treatments which make it much, much more efficient than the simple combination of its materials, but you had to fight through the effect of the iron tools as well. It is safe to assume that you will be an extremely powerful wizard one day.’

“Understanding came to Harry, and he had to fight to keep his expression to only what he believed was appropriate. He knew what he would be capable of one day and he was once again annoyed at his stupid child body.”

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If this degree of derivation does not violate the extent of your consent, you still might want to advise Amberile to go back and either rewrite such scenes in her (?) own words or to consider omitting them altogether. As ‘Harry Potter and the Fight Against Fate’ branches more and more from the initial seed of similarity between it and ‘Undo, Retry’, these word-for-word bits become ever more jarring and unnecessary.

Anyway, I thought you ought to be the one to deal with this, since Amberile’s author notes imply that other reviewers have pointed out similarities before. She appears to be under the impression that publicly giving you credit for your ideas makes it permissible to directly insert chunks of your words into her fic.