UVA? Really? I mean, if the list was left to public schools, couldn't Maryland be on the list? Geez, all these ACC schools and Maryland doesn't even get a look...

This is my third time reading through this story, and I still find myself thoroughly engrossed every time. Excellent job.

Overall a pretty amazing story, nicely executed, especially in the later chapters. Delighted that I stumbled across this. Thanks for a very entertaining read!

Man I love this story!
I just had one question:
'Fred and George had a new product that reversed gravity on a person, which forced them to walk on their hands.'
how does that work?
If the gravity is reversed on someone, wouldn't they fall to the ceiling?
I don't know what kind of messed up physics candy would cause you to walk on your hands.

Well I read up to the end of chapter 4 and was loving it, then one of the friends who rec'd the fic told me it wasn't slash. Dangit. Well maybe someday you will do a slash version? *hopes* If you are open to suggestions, everyone says the story is great and your OC's are great so a slash OC would be awesome, or, a harry/twins retelling of the story would be great as well. I'll check back from time to time to see if anything new and slash is put up.

In Potion Harry got an E in canon...

About "copy of an copyrighted novel"
People a strange... and mean. Maybe You should rename this fic, so they won't find it?

I haven't reviewed many fanfics in the past several years, mostly due to my lack of consistancy reading them. But this story really rocked me.

The way you portrayed everyone, from conversations, to insights, to behaviors, made each and every one of them seem that much more real. I'm half tempted to believe there is a magical school in Michigan with all of those people residing in it.

The end chapter was very moving and I believe a fitting end to an excellent story. I say, Bravo for superb writing skills, original story line, and especially bravo to sticking with it. Most definitly a favorite on my list now.

"Harry went about once a month on the average, by himself or with Drew, which was a lot more than he had done with the Dursleys, both Vernon and Petunia being agnostic." - I find this offensive. Real life UK is largely secular and JKR's Wizarding World appears to be largely secular as well. There is no hint of the protagonist being religious in canon, and making him Christian while making his abusive relatives Agnostic is really strange (who would try to "save" him in Little Whining or Hogwarts?) and biased. Objectively, it would be much more realistic for the characters who abuse a child to beat the magic out of him to be devout fundamentalist Christians. Pushing your bands, movies and soft drinks is bad enough, don't push your religion or try to change the character to conform to what is considered normal where you live.

OMFG! That was brilliant, reading it kept me up for an entire week, and helped me not go mad writing 30 400 word articles...
Man that was brilliant!
The creator of Make a Wish's Mr Black has nothing on this, course Mr Black was mostly comedy or something like that, but still! Damn! I cried in the end. Dude, you should write a book or something.
Beautiful, brilliant, amazing, I'm not going to add anymore words, the thesaurus might sue me for plagiarism.

Stingers have a puny warhead, they are completely ineffective against buildings.

... Well... this took some time.

So, this is possibly one of the best stories I've ever read. And mind you, I've been here since 19, so I've been through a lot.

Your story was captivating and long! LONG! I loved how long it was! The chapters were wonderful, everything was touched. It was wonderful.

Something I DID note, however, is that you tend to look at how things appear and not further on. Like with Remus, you never mentioned what it would mean for Lycans to have a headmaster. It's quite a big deal, but other than that there was little else...

Wonderful. Truly.

Btw. I dreamed of your story last night. How fucked is that? Haha, but I admit, I've been reading tidbits every day for... 2 weeks? So it's been on my mind.

Love your story.

A small thing that bothered me with this chapter: Harry hardly fired any spells before he grew frustrated. You'd think he'd have a large inventory to go through before getting frustrated, but with the spikes he fired two spells.

It just gave him a weak appearance, that if an enemy can last 5 minutes he'll know what Harry can.

I really like it so far, but there's one thing that bugs me. Harry and Sophie. So he didn't tell her about the trunk right away and hugged her as if he should be ashamed. They've just met and now they're dating...

Oh well, I'll try to ignore it for now and read on.

Oklahoma is in the Central Time Zone, so if Tecumseh wanted to attack GL at 2 AM Eastern, they would have left at 1 AM their time, not midnight.

By the way, thanks for the section breaks within each chapter. Your chapters are so long (not a complaint, I like long chapters) that I usually can't read on in a single sitting, and the section breaks make for convenient stopping points.

This is possibly the dumbest critique you've ever received, but it really wouldn't be that hard to fly from the UP to Springfield. The airport in Marquette has daily flights to O'Hare, and from there it's a short flight to Springfield. Which is irrelevant, since Harry was just making an excuse and wouldn't be traveling by air anyway, but I got to know a lot more than I ever wanted to know about UP airports when I worked for a Senator from Michigan a few years ago, so it jumped out at me.

Stupid nitpicking aside, I'm enjoying the story. Political!Harry stories are always fun, and an HP/OC ship is a nice change of pace if done well, as this one is.