Grea story. It's kind of fun to see the differences on the distaff side. The vicious beast poodle - that's really hillarious although quite unprobable.
Thank you for writing, I hope you'll continue this story,
On that note, I would like to say that I may have made a mistake. I realise how dangerous a bone-breaker can be on a vertebra. Maybe you can consider that spell as a heavy drainer.
I really want to see the continuation of this story, that's true, but I see that continuing it would be a nightmare for you. Harry is already too strong for Riddle to face as it is. With the girls coming in as well, there is little chance I see of Riddle putting even a scare on them. Perhaps you should make the Lady more knowledgeable in magics than them.
Or here's a good idea - what if you make an area cast spell that prevents magical speeding up for everyone. Riddle can have an amulet or something that will stop the effects from affecting her, but Harry and Co will have to take her down as a group, after the speeded up versions of them take down all the DE's. Please PM me on how well you think the idea can work. I would be glad to discuss it with you. Also, is it too late to put limitations on magic that can be cast in the sped up mode? I can suggest that that branch of magic extend no further(more deadly) than a bone breaker. The really magically draining curses would be done in normal time frame. That would include killing curses, strong bombarding curses, heavily crippling curses, etc. You get the idea.
You really need to continue this story. It is the best alternate universe story I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Please if you don't plan on continuing put this story up for adoption. Please don't let it die.
it seems like a huge liability for the portkeys to actually portkey right near Riddle considering that all someone needs to do is stupify a death eater and attach a C-4 vest with a 2 second timer and then pull the chain of the portkey and riddle is dead and so are all in attendence and the "War" is over
I've loved this fic as it brought a lot of fresh ideas into a not truly new fanfiction genre (crossing into another universe and meet his friends in changed form) and as far as the persons felt really changed i enjoyed your gender bender versions enormously. Sadly not all persons really find a way to show their altered gender, especially Thubany Malfoy could be an eunuch and still would be the same idiot as in "our" reality...
Tom's shade as a trainer and mentor was a creepy but efficient idea, of course he won't battle dummys or avatars but real, deadly, unscrupulous and crazy DEs, so who could train him better? a stack of wood with a bit of animation charm on him or the one he will to have to win over to get out of this alive...
As to the general description of society i'm a bit split in my opinion.. i like that you try to find points where a turnaround behavior would be very visible and at the same time could point out some flaws in the usual behavior of normal young boys/men, but i also feel that it's getting old very fast and the whole "he's a scarlet man" stuff just doesn't anything for me, as i'm already sore with the "normal" view in our frame of reference, the turning of it to the other gender doesn't strike me as anything more fair, unfair or logical than the stupidity already vagrant in our world. And don't get me started on the names... the only one i ended up liking after the first impression was the female Sirius with the fitting nickname Loki ;) Many others on the other hand give me shivers or just leave me thinking "meh". Take e.g. Bones... why Almanzo when Amanda does have quite a lot of possible male forms that won't sound so outlandish?
Regarding the storyline i have few regrets, the largest of which is that I'm not at all satisfied with the way Harry's training/schooling turns out... he's IMO concentrating too much on making Harri superfluous and killing off the anagramless one singlehandedly and ignores too much that there is a world he should try to get back to. This mercenary mindset ticks me off a bit as "unharry-ish" as does the fast romance he dives into with Luna when his heart still did long for Hermione days before... Yes, she's the only one out of everyone he knew before, who's not got wrong bits in her trousers, but then starting a romance in this world kind of means giving up hope to ever return into his own live back "home"... Ain't that as good as a betrayal in it's own way?
But in retrospect that's only a minor inconvenience, the fight against the Darkish lady is a thrilling perspective and i'm anxious to see if it will ever happen.
On the other hand i'm starting to think that it's maybe not quite fair to turn BOTH around... the genders and the view of the "strong" gender... so the same people end up meek and the same guys end up aggressive as in "real time", they just have a tad of changed anatomy... I'm not sure if any other way to draw the difference would lead to a better story or even a similarly good one as this is, but i'm at the moment a bit lost in thought about the inate unfairness to heroes like Susan Bones, Neville Longbottom or Arthur Weasley who did grow out of their own shy selves whenever it counted... only to land back in it when you twisted their genes around ;)
Hi. I figured I'd review your story, which I very much enjoy, and back you up on your genetics at the same time. I'm in the middle of my Master's degree in Molecular Biology, and I have an honours degree in Genetics, so I do know what I'm talking about. At least, that's what I hope. In mammalian species, it is true that heterozygous sex chromosomes (XY) are male, and homozygous sex chromosomes (XX) are female, but that's not true in all species. Birds and reptiles use the ZW chromosomal system, where ZZ is male and ZW is female, the hetero/homozygous opposite of mammalian genes. Therefore, you can have anyone you want being male and female, and even have semi-solid DNA evidence on your side.
I also enjoy the story, you write it quite well and spin an interesting yarn. My only real issue is Thomisina. I just hate the name. Why not Tamsin or Tamsen, which sound so much better, and mean the same thing?
Great story, and I'll make you a deal. You keep writing them, and I'll keep reading them
Realky intersesting story! A gender cross universe had never crossed my mind before, but i'm definitely enjoying it. Talk about girl power! ;) Please update this one again!
Interesting thought about Harry in the Women's World, if he tries for a kid with Luna, it's going to be interesting.
For the genetically perplexed, the way sexual reproduction would work is if some egg cells are Y, others X, while the guys are all X-chromosomal sperm producers.
All except Harry.
What this means in terms of trying for a kid with Luna would be that (barring magical streamlining) the chances are roughly 25 percent of his siring a XX male, 50 percent of starting off a XY female, and 25% of siring a YY uberfemale who would have health issues and be hyper-aggressive in the manner of XYY males in his world of origin.
Such a wonderful story you have here. I love your take on the twisted up Distaff side, the slight changes by dimension, your excuse for how they get to be overpowered, and a bit of the fun with the ministry.