I very much enjoyed your story, - take the characters and world, add a large dose of common sense and see what happens. I disagree with you about Soul Bonds, but only because they're fun to write about, and often fun to read about.

as good a point harry may have he needs to realise thta bones was not the minister for magic and therefore not responsible for the actions of ther government of the press during harrys life in britain she mearly the new person trying to clean up the mess that fudge made

loved the story, and it was funny how you kept throwing in fanfic plots into Harry's thoughts

great chapter

hey great chapter

This was an awsome story..I have one on the go..not posted yet..alsong similar lines only it will be with Luna & it will be after ol Toms defeat.

:)

Too bad Dumbledore can't spend more time actually trying to help Harry than he does moving him around the chessboard.

I enjoy the scene schanges but wish that Hermione was more interested in the tiny bikinis that would drive Harry to perform feats of accidental magic.

Dumbledore will never leave Harry alone. Your stories are invariably interesting and thought provoking.

Any story featuring the Grangers is a good story. Thanks.

Another idea came to me today and I felt that I should share it, hence the double review. One of the major reasons that your stories are so fantastic is because you provide a reasonable explanation for everything that occurs. The best example of this was your reasoning for the more equivalent pureblood/non-pureblood relationship in Australia than in the UK.

One of my biggest grievances with fan fiction that has Harry and co. move elsewhere to fight/continue education/etc. is that it is automatically assumed that Britain is the only place in the world where this archaic magical society still exists; somehow (magically) the rest of the magical world is light years ahead in their socioeconomic thinking and a blissful and happy place. Nothing in JKR's books have shown this to be the case, including the portrayal of multiple countries at the Quidditch World Cup. It frustrates me to no end when I read something like, "Oh, we'll move to America. They don't have this silly pureblood superiority there." Really? Why don't they? If you had given me one or two sentences to make that statement even remotely believable, the story would be about 100x more enjoyable.

So kudos to not falling into a common pitfall and continuing to produce quality work.

I liked the story - you managed to cram in a lot of detail and action somehow, even though you didn't make it strictly novel-length like some of your other stories. I agree with Bob and Alyx (or Alyx and Bob, probably as she sees it) that killing off Voldemort in interesting ways is increasingly hard to do and I've read enough of both yours and their stories to know it's true. I look forward to your next story and your last great idea.

By the way - I thought your last non-one-shot was going to be Notebooks and Letters. Has anything changed, and can we expect another novel-length story from you? Please say yes :-)

Just wish to point out one light error, Brits can legally get married from sixteen years old as that is the age of consent in Britain. So Harry would not have to wait until he came of age at seventeen.

I wholey agree with you on the soul bond issue. Same goes for the veela bond with either Fleur or worse, Gabriel.

Which is why I came up with a new twist: Instead of girls (or Dumbledore, or whomever) telling Harry they had a soul bond with him, or a veela bond, I imagined a scrupolless Harry convincing some pretty girl, or possibly a part veela, that. O course, that could go either way - question is weather they'd believe him, and set his bedsheets afire, or fail to believe him, and send a fireball his way instead...

The funniest thing would be if he later discovers it's true, possibly cemented after consumating 'the bond' and, if the girl believed him, he's now stuck with her while she gets fat and wrinkly, or in case of the veela, she didn't believe him, and now he's stuck without her, and can't get it up with any other woman. Of course, being a woman, she doesn't have anything to get up, so she doesn't have a problem.


mo

Amusing and fun, if perhaps a bit too easy. I mostly agree with you about soul bonds, although I think if the parties involved are of reasonable ages, and they both accepted, even if it was a moment of unconscious weakness, then it can be an interesting plot device to make some relationships feasible than might ordinarily be. Of course, quite often, this could have been gotten around just by spending more time on development, but it is likely to be a great deal more work.

No I suppose the biggest issue about soul bond type stories is they tend to make everything too perfect. After all, would all of the main characters thoughts/emotions really be safe for his bonded to hear?