only it had escaped before he could send it
If I remember, he said "it chewed out of its cage" and escaped.
Not necessarily a critter I would want around.

Snowys may be diurnal, but they're from the Arctic Circle where night and day are scewed and exist for months at a time. Up to six each at the North Pole.
To live a Snowy must hunt in both night and day. Neither one being as dark or light as further south.

I'm so glad this story is continuing!
I have, like work many of my long running favourites, none read this over a screen reader for the past week or so whilst working, allowed me to rediscover it and why I love this.

The 'Yes Minister' / 'Thick Of It' esque Lichfield and his relationship with the goblins is brilliant!
It is always nice seeing a Harry Potter world fleshed out, and ss you said, the world doesn't end with them going to school.

Seeing the internally consistent madness/fanaticism of Dumbledore is a joy, so many other stories I've read that have him as 'an enemy' just have him as mad or as some scheming mastermind.

The fact that he's the not the last one but others like Lucious attribute his actions as being so is also very entertaining.

In all I've been loving this story for a long time and can't wait to see what's next and where the leading plot lines go, Gringotts island, the tourism, the gold testing (which I thought they'd find the easy muggle Eureka solution of placing them in water to show the different base masses, which would have been in the muggle book), their interest in the broom market and any of the 700 year old discoveries the flammels might have made... Ignoring the snake and vold problems at hand in the school and whether he'll take over whilst ginny is flying and crash.

Anyway I'll stop now haha.

Love the story and can't wait for more!

This story is incredible so far!
Kudos to you for fleshing out
so many characters with such
divergent and detailed 3D
backstories.

You show how prejudice are born,
nurtured, taught, exaggerated
and polarized until they become
assumed “fact”. It’s fascinating &
so complex that your ability to
juggle & weave so many stories
while using canon as a road map
astounds me.

I adore your description of tween
Hermione’s relationship with her
perfectionist Mother and irreverent
father: “Puckle”, The Chocolate Coop,
Brownies, Harry Potter as object-
of-interest; flash cards, Trash Tabloids,
“Don’t Tell Your Mother”, sarcastic
Foot-in-Mouth disaster with the Goblins.

You show how HERMIONE, an obviously
intelligent, privileged only-child of two
successful (socially maladroit) overachievers,
could be so complex: bossy/loyal/intrepid.
Fact, Hermione knows her Uber-Intelligent
Mother “The Puckle Robot” not only did not
want a child, but is forever finding fault with
her daughter. Young Hermione desperately
sought her Mother’s approval as a substitute
for maternal love & support. Thus, a humorless
driven Mini Puckle Robot was unleashed upon
the youth of Crawley. Hermione was such an
exceptional outlier that she was unable to form
any emotional bonds. In fact, it appears that irreverent & emotionally savvy Wendell Granger
was Hermione’s savior— whether she acknowledges
his importance or not. Then came potential magical Heroes DUMBLEDORE & McGONAGALL — whose
shiny images were dashed by their all-too-human failures. The mythical real life child Wizard hero - THE BOY WHO LIVED — is unmasked as an abused puppet who Hermione sees as a possible kindred soul - despite their overt differences: he is loyal, humble, honest, wants to do the “Right Thing”. Harry is capable of empathy which seems to be a rare ability among the Magical Witches & Wizards of Great Britain.

Love all your AU Characters
Love the Gringotts Dynamics
Love your financial acuity - The Philosopher’s Stone
would be an incredibly destabilizing economic
artifact - especially to a gold-based economy
Love the Weasley Family Dynamics: siblings, Molly &
Arthur, Tie to Charlus Potter, Tie to Nicholas Flammel,
The Burrow, The Hopefuls, The Family Clock, etc.
Love your beginnings of a Potter Family Backstory

Disturbed by Ginevra Weasley’s inner psychoses
Disturbed by APWBD’s delusional God Complex
Disturbed by the Magical World’s Inertia — which
seems to be one of the key underpinnings of
“The Greater Good” orchestrated by APWBD.

More on Ron and other Weasley’s inner demons
More on Minister Fudge — has to be more to him.
More on the Malfoys - such greed, ambition, disdain,
contempt, inability to love… how does it evolve?
More on the intelligent yet ineffectual adults populating
Hogwarts: McGonagall Flitwick, Sprout, Pomfrey,
Sinistra, Vector, Grubly-Plank, Babbling, Trelawney,
Hagrid, Pince & whoever is the Head House Elf…
Maybe flesh out Severus Snape more…. So far so good

WHO IS ON THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS?
WHAT EXACTLY DO THE HOGWARTS GOVERNORS DO? WHAT’S IN THE REAL HOGWARTS CHARTER?
WHAT IS HOGWARTS ENDOWMENT? TRUE OPERATIONAL COSTS?

WHO IS ARGUS FILCH?
WHY IS HE EMPLOYED AT HOGWARTS?

EXPLAIN SYBIL TRELAWNEY’S LONG CON….?

Oh no, this version of Dumbledore is a monster alright. There's very little more evil and terrifying than a busybody that thinks they know best about how to run your life. It's quite literally one of the biggest contributors to just how bad things got under Stalin and Mao: some people were bored and so they tattled on their neighbors. It wasn't just that those dictators were truly evil themselves, they deliberately set things up to encourage busy bodies to tell on their neighbors.

That aside, this story is fascinating. Your capacity to capture the thoughts of people is truly master craft at work. I only hope by the time I get finished reading all the chapters of this story that it stays this good.

Also, most stories have some humor in them, but you've got whimsy, puns, and solid punchlines (Petunia Dursley being shamed in a tabloid is effing hilarious. I would have shouted my laugh if it wasn't so late in the night.) in spades, so the tag is accurate and appreciated.

Please don't stop writing until the story has a good ending (good as in solid, it's your story to choose tragedy or comedy in the traditional Greek sense).

After your introductory summary of the major plot points so far- thank you for that- and rereading the last chapter to get properly reacquainted with the story, I was grinning nearly the entire time I was reading this, loving how you write these people, and rather hoping that Molly and Gwenog Jones would continue meeting for lunches and such as the story goes on. Perhaps Gwenog would even visit the Burrow during the upcoming winter holiday, so Ginny would meet her Quidditch hero in person...

And then I read "Ginny stomped her way up to her room, determined to tell this all to Tom and hope to sleep 'til next year-" And I swear my stomach dropped. Oh. Right. Deadly danger coming; forgot about that. About how that oh-so-companionable friend in the diary is going to turn Ginny's world and all of Hogwarts into a nightmare...

Got through a re-read and it’s pretty okay, things dragged on getting to Hogwarts in my opinion, but this was fun otherwise. You may want to consider cross posting on AO3 though since FFnet has been crapping out lately.

Havent read the chapter yet but that warning at the beginning was really fuckin condescending

"i wanted to give you somehting but it escaped" sounds like the excellent beginning of a AU fic with the potential of changeing EVERYTHING like say ...
his Mothers Cat .. who was her familiar .. and Knows THINGS ...
or
a magic Snake who can teach him Magic Snake Things ...
or
an animated book written by his father that knows all the secrets of being a Marauder
or
a magic animal that escaped from the House of Black and wants to serve the Black Heir and teach him Black Magic Things ...
or
a different magical animal that can do magic thing and teach other magic things ...

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so happy you are continuing this story!

That description of Snapes’ private thoughts/intentions is the most realistic and honest I’ve read.
Compliments on your abilities to’read’ and relate the characters’ motivations and reactions; with enjoyable humour!

Certainly this dumbldor is self-delusional, and your depictions of his hubris is spot-on to canon, even if JKR never penned such.

Great chapter! I imagine that writer’s block can be quite challenging, but I’m glad you’ve seen something of a breakthrough. Thanks again!

A wonderful fic that is for me almost as new as it is a re-read, as with all the FFN issues I had forgotten about it.
Very amusing goblin shenanigans without going overboard and a very believable H/Hr romance to boot.

Great story! Lots of adventure going on. I did get lost with some of the Flamel stuff, but when that happened, I just skipped that particular section and moved onto some of the points of view that I was comfortable with. I thought Harry dealing with all of the goblin and litigation stuff was very interesting. I liked it when they felt like they were all family bantering with each other. You also did a good job of making Harry still act his age even when all of this stuff was going on around him. Thank you for writing this.