Easily, the best Harry Potter fanficiton that doesn't have Harry Potter as the protagonist...

Am off to the other Uric stories you have written... ! :)

I can quite honestly say this is the most unique thing I have ever read on this website!

Gods, i love you for writing this.. Is uric a ancestor of Luna and Xenophilius by any chance?

It's really cute and playful! A bit historically inaccurate but really, I don't blame you too much as long as you don't degenerate into american slang, which you didn't. So good job, a real original AU you have here.

Fav quote: “Uric. Do you have any idea just how unique you are? I doubt I’ll ever meet a mind like yours again, not that that isn’t a bad thing…”

You've probably heard this before, but Uric remids me a bit of Luna (except a bit weirder). That kind of laidback, calm interest in whatever grabs their attention...although Luna has a considerably clearer outlook on life.

I'd be interested in seeing what Chocolate Frog cards looked like in those days. Did they even have them back then?

If you have problems with people faving and not reveiwing, let me say: I will get round to reveiwing. Eventually. So, just saying.

Love Uric's literalness.

Peeves is a poltergeist NOT a dead wizard. In Rowling's world if he was ever anything velse it wasn't human.

You wouldn't shred parchment. It is thin leather. You would clean it off with a knife or cleaning spell. (Hobbits can't do spells though). It doesn't crumple, and is quite expensive.

Dear Samwise,

I did a lot of historical research for this story. I'm an archaeologist so I hate historical anachronisms in historical fic. That being said, Rowling already messed up her own chronology; castles in the founder's time, and putting the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets below the faucet of a sink. Rather than ignore these things or follow some obscure theory of mutating castles, I've decided to incorporate them into the wizarding world. There is nothing saying that wizards have to develop at the same rate as the muggle world, and considering how advanced Roman plumbing was, I have no trouble assuming that wizards have more advanced plumbing in 1680 than their muggle counterparts. I've also decided that wizards discovered and settled Australia earlier than their muggle counterparts - this is not an anachronism, it's a choice on my, the author's, part.

For any other apparent anachronisms, they are actually because I'm writing this story in modern language, rather than the middle English it could have been written in. The Dancing Trousers in the last chapter are not trousers as we would interpret them, but they are two tubes of cloth covering the legs which were attached together at the top and tied/held around the waist. They're not culottes since those were worn by the upper classes, and calling them knickerbockers would also be anachronistic since that's a term from the 19th century. I chose to use the word trousers in order to make the story accessible to modern readers and because trousers is the closest modern word for what the Dancing Trousers are.

Trust me. I do think about these things before I write them.

Thanks for your reviews,

Ariana

I had assumed the glass ball was a prphecy...so thankyou for explaining.

Trousers? Possibly not in 1680. Knickerbockers? culottes? Makes more sense of other inconsistencies - had thought story was set further back.

To Samwise O'Keefe: The story is set in 1680, not the 12th Century.

love the dead pan style. Keeping Uric's viewpoint works best - although it is fun to see events as the others (Mr. Kurze and Uric's friends)actually see them.

Uric makes me think he has mild autism in that he sees everything but makes different choices about what is important in a scene than the others would. Also in that he doesn't understand why others feel particular emotions.

No violins armour sinks or faucets in 12th century. Love the description of the two boys whose "reality colided" in the bathroom at 3 in the morning. Love the idea of a castle with more secret corridors than students.

May be you live somewhere more upmarket than I do. I certainly know children who punch their friends to make a point .

No potatoes and no paper in the 12th century - but like the characters

Really enjoying this so far. Like URIC'S sense of asking or saying things off at a tangent. The castle would be fairly new and quite a lot smaller then. The population in Britain was only about one tenth the size it tis nowadays.

Chocolate hadn't been discovered back then.

You might want to find oput about the muggle world of the 12th century to make it more accurate.