this is an amazing story i am reading the series for the second time now. i just like to say that you can go places with writing that good. good job

Barb,

Despite the fact that this was published over 8 years ago now, I felt the need to respond to this afterword. I remember reading your trilogy way back when (I was in high school at the time.) I can't recall if I just skipped this afterword that time, or it just hadn't hit meas hard as it does now.

I was living in Michigan then, and have since pursued my academic and professional career in Boston. In the almost five years now that I have been living in the Northeast I have met a great many people who were very personally affected by Sept. 11. I have a close friend who's father is a (now retired) firefighter on Long Island in NY. I've gone to school with a daughter of one of the pilots who were hijacked, seeing a picture of her with father and knowing what he faced as his plane was forced to fly into one of the buildings is one of the most heart wrenching things I've ever contemplated.

I felt the need to respond because as I read through this afterword, my heart was back in my throat again, my eyes welling up, thinking about sitting in class with the TV on after the first plane, watching the second plane strike, seeing the towers fall. Reading this has brought the mostly healed wound back to the surface where it can further heal. Especially as we approach the eighth anniversary, its more important to make sure that people remember, that we do not forget. By ensuring that we truly remember the event, we can make sure that people do not profit from it. (I'm not referring to striking other countries here.)

So, thank you for writing this 8 years ago. I don't know if you will even get this, if your account is still connected to an up to date email address but I still felt the need to respond.

Thanks

I'm truly srry i have to do this but this story is driving me insane! I will keep the story in my favorites for if i want to try and finish it but right now this story is just confusing! Hermione gets ** at harry because he likes ginny, but harry already knows that hermione likes ron. Then hermione goes and makes up to him and apologizes but now harry is helping ginny be with draco! WTF is going on! My head feels like its going to explode i'm so confused. :(

This story was actually downloaded as a .pdf with the title Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. It's still my favorite fanfic, as well as the first one I ever read. So glad I found that you wrote it, and hoping to read more of your work. Wonderfully written!

reaaly good book but if it wasnt harry potter it just woulnt be the same

Good opening. Perhaps a bit slow but hey tis only the first chapter.

I have one qualm in particular with this though. You seem to have a very frustrating need to explain every little detail for example: "Krum had been the star of the Quidditch World Cup the previous summer. Quidditch was a wizarding sport played on broomsticks"

You didn't need to go into detail about what Quidditch was. Other than that though I really like it.

I am really enjoying this story, but I really wish you would put speech/quotation marks when the characters are saying something... It would really make it easier to read - grammar was invented for a reason you know!

A while ago, I downloaded what I thought were ebooks, and this story was in the place of OOTP.

I read it and loved it, well my SIL wanted to read it, because I had been going on and on about it, so I lent it to her...

Well I have been searching for it ever since, because I deleted my copy. I was so excited to find it again!

this is very well written!

Funny story to my discovery of this piece. I had downloaded my set of books after I lost all of them, and to my surprise found this replacing the order of the phoenix. This however was actually a pleasant surprise as I actually enjoyed this better than the real book! Good read all around. Good old fashioned teenage drama, and one heck of a twist with Dudley. And nothing quite beats the glimpse into snape's past. The hints about terrorism seem to have the timing spot on given what transpired after you entered this piece. Cheers- Magchange,fellow writer, New Yorker.

WHERE THE HELL ARE THE SPEECH MARKS!, this is a great story, seroiusly I love all nearly all snake talking fics but by the dark gods do you have to leave out speech marks? I'm only giving this a 7/10 because of that but everything else it great, well done.

This chapter is so heart wrenching. It is now 2008 but I still remember those events clearly. I still live not 50 miles from the city. A relative lived just blocks away and I remember my mother being shocked after my dad called her from his office to tell her to turn on the telivision.I was not yet out of school and I was currently being homeschooled so I watched in horror as the replayed and replayed the horrific footage. Every year on the anniversery I try to be solemn and respecvtful (though a friends birthday on that day makes it almost impossible for me) and remember all those who died. While I, a New York citizen, usually forget the other attacks they did happen and the plane crash people are as true of heroes as the firefighters who went to the World Trade Center to rescue victoms.

This seems like a good story..Can't wait to read more.

love it

Great story!

Nice idea and I enjoyed reading this. Thanks for writing.