If this story is set around 4th year which school year is book 2 of this series set in. I have read mainly book 1 and currently actually re reading it just to remember what happen as it is a great story and the idea of James and Thor being the same person and father to Harry is so cool. Harry getting to know the Avengers and Loki connection to Slytherin house is very interesting.

Dang! That was some heavy stuff. Poor Ron.

Looking forward to the next chapter.

Cheers

that was very well written and very interesting was very interested in how that would happen. please say you will have more written soon .

I was just scrolling around this story's TV Tropes pages, when I saw the notes for this chapter. I had to comment.

My first words were Holy Hell & I figure that's just one of many phases readers used for this particular chapter.

So Harry tries to ease Ron into the truth about the Winter Soldier by bringing up the Avengers darker moments to make it more personal and understandable.

To cut in, the Avengers, while they ARE Heroes, there are VERY GOOD REASONS that are the definition of Good is not Soft & Good is not Nice. They are good for the most part but they are flawed but they use that to be better, to do better.

Ron then finds about Dumbledore's past & Ron suffers a psychotic break & goes on a magical ride...yeeeaaahhh it wasn't good. But it's hard to blame Ron for his reaction, it's hard to know that the person that you admired the most wasn't the perfect idol, you'd thought they'd be.

Ron finds out the truth about Bucky. To say he didn't take it well is an massive understatement.

It's all but stated that the GT is irreversibly broken. And this is just the first part. :(

When Ron meets Bucky after learning this truth, it wouldn't be very surprising if Bucky takes a page of Loki's book & gives Ron permission to kill him.

One possibility to help resolve the issue is to bring Ginny in. It's her father, too; and she knows what it's like to be mind controlled into doing things she really wouldn't have on her own, so won't seek revenge on the Winter Soldier for things beyond his control. Essentially, she'd know all the right things to say to Ron about the issue itself. Then, take her along when coming clean to Ron. Explain that lying to him was more or less a panic reaction out of fear that either someone would overhear who'd further harm Bucky for things he had no control over, or that Ron would lash out out of grief for his father in a reflex before understanding. Tell him that Harry has been looking for a way to properly explain ever since: because Ron is Harry's best friend and he wants to do this right, half assing something just wouldn't do. Tell him that Ginny can explain it much better because of the diary incident, then let her do so.

Even if he calms down & understands why, Ron is never going to fully forgive Harry, much less trust him completely ever again. That's not something that can ever be fixed.

Good chapter.

So, I was watching the Prisoner of Azkaban the other day (favourite movie of the series for me), it has my favourite theme which is A Window to the Past. And it's mostly played on the flute.

So, really, my question is, whether Harry is playing this song before he switches to Pretty Woman?

I am hoping that you can add the MCU version of Yelena Belova (Best MCU character in YEARS!). Maybe she's now on Mars and could be added as a hero and become somewhat of a sister to Harry. I know it would not be easy to do as of what happened in the Red Room episode, but I think her personality and humour would be good for Harry, Natasha, and I think Carol and Diana about fighting as a woman as well as being when a kid/teenager

Always an excellent read. Can’t wit for the final confrontation so to speak.

Once again, your writing ability is absolutely incredible! Every time I read a chapter I am reminded just how incredible of a job you have done combining so many characters/worlds into one, and yet still have it be so cohesive.

Insane to think that I have been reading this series for 12 years. Massive Kudos to you for maintaing such a great standard of work over such a prolonged period of time :D

Yet once again, I am left feeling like Hogwarts is just so irrelevant to the story by now. I dont know if anyone else is feeling this way, but hogwarts is by far the least interesting part of this story for me. All of the most exciting and interesting things are elsewhere. The friendship of Ron and Hermione, although obviously important to a cannon harry potter, feels pretty meaningless here. 12 years into reading this incredible series, and the idea of ron, hermione and hogwarts still being important moving forward just feels disheartening

With any new chapter of this series comes out i did what i often do and started reading the whole series again, and i have thoughts.
It could be my fanfic bone deep dislike or Ron but i hope this is a relationship that doesnt get mended. From Books to fics i just cant stand the guy im sorry.
Doctor strange needs more hugs imo and i would Love to see more HArry/Strange interations just cause i think especially this version of Harry would have some hilarious interactions
Love the series but i am mainly here for the Harry/Carol as you have written that relationship beautifully and i cant get enough of them.
Hoping life is more ahppy that its been especially in theses times and i have to say this series is by far one of if not the best series ive read.
So thank you very much for sharing it with us all

Late comments because busy life

I am sad it went that way with Ron

But thanks for chapter

The psychotic break was a little esoteric and the recap of the Avengers sins went a little long (though I don’t blame Harry for wanting to put off having to admit the truth, which seems like it kinda backfired), but overall yeah this turned out pretty good. Kinda feels like Harry being all secretive and, dare I say, fae-like blow up in his face in this manner. He has his reasons, but that doesn’t mean anyone else has to like or respect those reasons. Also…. Is… is Rob going to become the Punisher? Cause his headspace is sounding distinctly Frank Castle like…

This was not how I envisioned this going at all, and unfortunately the surprise was not a pleasant one. To start, most of the chapter was Harry reiterating, ad nauseam, how everyone has a dark past. At this point, we know. Ron knows. Harry knows. Hearing it again wasn’t valuable, and just made Harry feel unnecessarily dramatic.

Next, Ron having a psychotic break was not earned. Not even close to earned. Having Dumbledore’s past be what pushed him over the edge? I know Ron looks up to the old man, but they’re not so close as to make that a justified trigger for something like a mental breakdown. If he’d collapsed after Harry had told him about Bucky, that would be different, but putting it right after the Dumbledore reveal just felt out of place.

And that leads into the fact that Harry didn’t get to tell Ron the truth. Just like with Hermione, that moment was stolen. Unlike with Hermione, this felt like having the right pulled out from under the pay off. Harry’s been building to this decision, to finally coming clean to his best friend after months of lying, for so long. It was set up to be a major catharsis for him even as it was a betrayal to Ron. It also would have contrasted nicely with what happened with Hermione, a Harry is now in a place where he can be honest even at that sort of personal cost. Instead we got a rehash of what we’ve already seen, but now with Ron. At this point, you’ve dragged this out so much already that this latest setback is putting this storyline firmly into slog territory.

As for making Ron a Seer, I’m very unsure of how that will go. If you play up how that can enhance his tactical abilities, pushing him in a Mat Cauthon-esque direction, I think it could work. I don’t think emphasizing the mysticism and vagueness you tend to favor with foresight will work with Ron’s character. He’s a practical boy, with a very utilitarian mindset and no patience for the wishy washy.

I know this review has been overwhelmingly negative, and normally I don’t like to leave just criticism, but in this case it’s all I have. This is the first chapter of yours I’ve ever read that I truly think was just bad. Hopefully I’m wrong and what you have coming for Ron and Harry won’t be what I expect based on this, but right now I’d say you swung and missed for the first time.

Well...wow. Tragic and powerful, I am looking forward to and kind of dreading (in a good way) what is coming up. It's amazing that it's been 9 years and you're still at it. This is one of my favorite crossovers and I am really grateful you are still sharing your work with us.

That being said I want to say when your story gets into philosophy or being introspective you tend to get what Stephen King calls "diarrhea of the word processor." This is not meant as an insult. It's just an observation of someone who really does enjoy your work. I just think at certain points in your narrative it would improve your writing if you could self-edit a bit more. lf you could be a more concise and focused I think it would provide a better flow to your story. For example, when Harry was going over all the bad things the Avengers and everyone else had done but were still good people it was a bit overkill. For us readers this is a theme that has been a constant presence almost from the start of the story. To make the point Harry was trying to make to Ron a much smaller sample size of examples would have worked fine (say Thor, Loki, and Dumbledore for example) ones that Ron knew personally. That would make more sense in a conversation while still reinforcing a common theme you've already established.

I'm hoping you take this observation in the spirit it is meant. I'm not saying my above suggestion would be the superior way to write and that you are doing it wrong. I'm just spit balling an example, not trying to dictate any one idea as being "better" than your work. You do remarkable work. All I mean to do is offer some (what I hope is) constructive criticism.

With much appreciation I look forward to the next chapter.

-Brian

"Yes Sir, I'm here to speak with you about your application to the Closet Sadist's Association and I'm sorry but I think I'll have to deny your request and transfer you over to the 'Blatantly A Sadist Club'"

... Yikes. I expected Ron to react badly when he eventually learned about Bucky, but that was ROUGH.