I'm so happy he got his trial. So many fics refuse to be nice. thank you.

The reveal was everything I hoped for.
Bones seems to be working smart in the background.
Good stuff :)

OMG how are you changing so much, I see a 7 part series and assume most will be a canon rehash, way to exceed expectations ;P

Harry's summer is great now, this has been magical and a pleasure.

Wonder if they're still gonna try to hardball him when he's younger and cuter?

You know if you burn your house down, then you never have to go home?

You know, Mrs. Longbottom is always called old, and everything about her is 'old, set in her ways, stuffy, prim and proper', etc. I mean, a stuffed vulture hat? Really?! Unless she is the Great Grandmother? But she is always going on about HER Frank this or that.
With magicals nearly always marrying early, and pureblood betrothals practically forcing marriage before they turn twenty, HOW is Neville's grandmother NOT only about FIFTY TWO, maybe less! Realistically, she should be twenty years younger than McGonagall. And NO ONE calls Minerva- OLD.
Depending on how many kids you have, a generation is twenty-ish years, maybe thirty. Neville is only twelve, same as Harry. Eighteen, eighteen, and twelve is forty eight. Frank is an only child, and Alice was Lily's age, even if Frank was a few years older (?).
Conclusion. Augusta Longbottom ain't no old witch!

Please, don't make Remus' and Sirius a couple.
I saw a "Spidey and Friends" this morning, with a same sex couple and their kids having a picnic... in a kids CARTOON! So, yes, tolerance is good. Everyone do your thing. Let your freak flag fly, and all that. (I'm 57. I don't REALLY feel that way, but societal norms are pushing me to at least ACT like it's ok.)
Maybe I'm scarred (two R's). I've been hit on 52 times. Out in bars, when I was younger, college, even in my forties. I don't know if I'm some kind of gay magnet, or if they just ask everyone, hoping to get some.
Anyway, I'm not down... figuratively OR literally.
( At least every single proposition was from a "bottom", not the other way around.)

My dad had an old pre 1950's, Kodak 620 film size camera, and I used it a couple times for my photography class in the early eighties. Fold out bellows, lens on the front frame, flip up 'fast' viewfinder, or 90 degree angle prism. Very cool, but very outdated. Roll film in 620 (almost 3 inch by 2 inch negative! Think BIGGER than medium format Hasselblad or Bronica) wasn't even made any more, so I had to go to a pro photog shop in the city (Akron, Ohio) and buy 220 size ( 2 inch square ) then grind down the spool size on a bench grinder, to make it fit the camera.
So..." Grab another cannisters and pop it into the camera"? Probably not. If it WAS a 35mm SLR , then you WOULD have a telephoto lens available, AND variable power flash, too! That is not the kind of camera Colin has.
Just sayin'.

He bought some kind of 'coloring' potion. Hair, or skin? So... Green? Or Gryffindor red?

Omake
Also, in the Goblin mail box, a small package with a small note attached. Reading the card- ' Mother says you might still be a little young, but go ahead and start you a collection, anyways. She also said to tell you, as I get older, these 'items' will continue to get smaller, and smaller'.
And opening the parcel, Harry pulled out what appeared to be an already fairly small pair of panties. The note had been signed Love, Daphne.

"No good for long distance flights, but it's good enough to get from school to home."
From the highlands of Scotland to London is roughly 500 miles (I don't DO metric). Surrey is further west, and Otterey St. Catchpole is south and west from Surrey. So... six hundred miles? And owls can't go faster than twenty four miles per hour. (I have no idea wtf JKR thinks they do. Apparate? Portkey?)
Anyway... long distance? Just how far is that, if 600 miles is short?!

(What is the kilometers? 1.6 times the miles?)

"Marble" statue? Not bronze? We will be finding out why, soon enough?
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Razzafrazzen- brazzencratzin, em-effing, G-dee-ing, movie watching - so and so!. The elevators go DOWN. The floors of the ministry go DOWN. The ministry building is inverted, upside down. Atrium is the top. Floor TEN is the lowest. Book Canon rules. Please don't quote movie sh**!
My earlier rant about Harry's bedroom was that EVEN the movie got it right, unexpectedly. Not supporting movies as a source.

2014 date, so, yeah, kind of stupid reviewing...
Anyway...
No one. Ever. Even the Dursleys. Wouldn't put bars on the FRONT of the house. And I HATE the movies, but "CoS" clearly has the flying car coming around to the back of the house. (I don't have the book to cross check) And master bedrooms generally have windows on the front of the house, so you can look outside when the sirens go down the street.
But yeah, bars on only one, front, second story window? I HOPE someone called the police!
So... No driving down the road pointing and laughing. Yes, rude. Yes, very Dursley-ish. But not real feasible. Harry ain't up in the window.

that means his bethrthal contract will be invalid as he wasnt harry's guardian