I know this is an old story, and you supposedly justified it, but it’s horribly irritating that you name Leon as Solieyu in narrative. It is inconsistent. Nymphadora Tonks is her preferred name of Tonks, Ginevra is Ginny, Ronald is Ron.

Mentally having to slow down and try to “pronounce’ an odd name is off-putting during reading.

I hated reading “Hercule Poirot” for the same reason.

*sigh* I feel slightly better for having complained.

Disappointing how you force that shit down our throat (yes I know this will likely never reach you) i mean really you chose to make him be kissed and now your like let me just make him "love" Pansy even though he is in a relationship with tonks, yes you might have done that one to early but making it like they aren't this far in and then putting a harry pansy shit in? just no absolutely awful writing.

That was a nice ending to the book! While it's still a bit annoying to have the Dursley abuse never really questioned, I'm glad some of my others concerns were addressed and I was just a bit impatient.
It's nice to get some of the secrets out into the open and I mostly liked how the events of the year played out, as well as the differences. I'm curious when the Pansy story thread will pick back up and if it'll be in time for some Yule Ball drama.
Harry is a bit bratty and brash, something that's surprising and I expect it to bite him at some point. Although I kind of like that he's a bit thick concerning others' feelings, since that's something he doesn't have a lot of experience in. I've seen authors swing the other way and make him hyper intelligent and empathetic while in Ravenclaw (or elsewhere) so it's a pretty good mix of competency and... thoughtlessness I suppose. Considering he's a studious teenager that kind of awkwardness feels right.
Looking forward to seeing how things unfold, thanks for writing!

I've been reading through and generally enjoying the slow build-up with the Honks storyline, it's cute, but I'm really pressed to continue after chapters like this which show off my least favorite parts of the story. Obviously this is an older story and so I can hardly be constructive after the fact, but I'll try.
It's maddening how laid back and accepting everyone is of the awful abuse Harry goes through. I know in canon no one cares, but his treatment is much worse than in canon and he supposedly has people that care deeply about him. People who have seen the aftermath first hand, blood still fresh. Andromeda is an insensitive and simply awful mother figure here. Her along with Dumbledore are 1000% guilty of knowingly aiding and enabling horrific child abuse. It really feels like there's no consequences for actions anywhere to be found, something I first particularly noticed as a pattern after the incident with Boot and Tonks. A little after the first Tonks and Malfoy scene in the robe shop actually, when Tonks escalated matters from Draco's comments and then her and Harry starting their long vendetta against him. But despite their role in that situation I didn't care too much as they were young and their unjustified indignation anger may have been an intentional story beat for later. I don't think that's the case anymore however.
Back to the abuse, the fact that no one particularly cares and even Tonks has the gall to get after Harry for being slightly moody when as far as he's concerned he was just fighting for his life, makes it a lot worse. Her constant smacks and his blithe acceptance over them doesn't feel natural at all and since that seems to be a default interaction between them, it feels fairly repetitive and like I've read it a dozen times already.
Harry's odd pig-headedness about his dorm mate's condition, vehement hatred of Slytherins and the whole "heroes don't die", "heroes fight alone" thing that keeps popping up doesn't feel natural either. It breaks my suspension of disbelief. For the mysterious condition there's several angles that could be used to justify Harry's attitude, like are they actually friends when one friend apparently doesn't trust the other, but that's not the route we've seen and Harry mostly sounds like an entitled ass. He wants to know someone's personal history because how dare they have a secret from him. And while on him, Harry is oddly... I guess selfish at times, times I don't think it's intentional. He often brings a discussion back around to his own life or troubles when there's no need to do so. The worse case of this was Tonks giving her sad backstory about her mom and dad, or maybe an uncle and Harry practically interrupts her, basically saying, "well *I* think you're pretty lucky. Look at how bad my life is while I talk for a paragraph and you ignore my sidetracking to cater to my feelings." I don't think we've ever gone back for another explanation of Tonks' past either.
I'm glad the condition or creature will finally be revealed, as the big mystery has been such a focus for so long that I've gotten a little bored with it. Otherwise I do like the character. I think a vampire of some type is the obvious choice, too obvious though, so I'm figuring some kind of Celtic fey creature or something along those lines that would be harder to guess but sharing similiar roots as more widely known creatures.
I'm hoping to stick with it and get some answers and deviations from canon events. I do like the story and the slow relationship building is nice. Most of my issues are fairly minor but there's a lot of them and this chapter was a tonal whiplash which brought up a bunch of them all at once.
I hope you're still writing and all my gripes are old news, easy non-fixes these days.

Damn, hit the nail on the head. I'm overly proud of myself. Kudos and keep on writing!

His class choice is odd. Where is arithmancy and ancient runes? I dunno, he seemed interested in spell crafting so I assumed it would deviate from canon more than it did. Maybe I missed something and it'll become clear later in the story. Kudos and keep on writing!

I still think it could be vampirism, although... Kitsune? I don't think the latter is likely, it just doesn't feel right. Anyways, kudos and keep on writing!

I WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT ABOUT WHAT LEON WAS, HURRAY THAT'S A FIRST. Halfway through the second year I had narrowed it down to a few things including a vampire and werewolf, then you threw in taste of the "potion" so that really made me think he was a vamp, but then they saw the wolf and that threw a wrench in my theory and made me lean more toward a werewolf, but then you threw an even bigger wench with the full moon in this book, so I started thinking he was an animagus, but that was quickly discarded because of the "potion" and symptoms. I actually put so much thought into this that I'm worried that I'm more Ravenclaw than Slytherin just because of one character, you are the first person to get me to think so hard on one aspect of one character, congratulations.

Thanks for sharing this story with us.

The surprise is obviously tickets to the world cup. Yay they'll still get to go.

This has been a real treat to read. Onto the sequel tomorrow.

Superb first chapter, even if we didn't get to see how Harry's doing yet. Yeah, it's kind of obvious what he is by now. While I like his character, I hope that he doesn't overshadow Harry and become the main character.

I think it's atrocious that, especially given the amount of physical abuse you have had Harry subjected to by the Dursleys, you have also characterised Tonks as a girlfriend who frequently hits Harry. Why do you not see her violence against him as also being the abuse that it is? If you have difficulty with this concept, just swap the genders and see if that makes it clear for you. Imagine Harriet Potter, abused in the same way by the Dursleys, rescued by young Mr Naiad Tonks. They formed the same relationship as your characters have, including Tonks' possessiveness of Harriet in chasing away rivals, and of course his habit of hitting her or pinning her to the floor and tickling her into submission, any time Harriet says something he does not like. While it may sound amusing, to an unwilling victim tickling can be a form of torture. As a lifelong victim of abuse, Harry/Harriet would accept this behaviour as normal, of course.
I find it disturbing that you seem to.

With Harry in Ravenclaw, I don't see why you would have him take the same classes as in canon. You made a point of saying he's intelligent and curious about spell creation, why not have him taking arithmancy or ancient times. I also find it strange that while Harry is in a different house this house is having all the same classes as the Slytherins.

Couple things about this chapter. First, they wonder why Padfoot didn't change back, summon Wormtail from Ron's robes, and take off with him in dog form again. But they know he doesn't have a wand. Second, Harry wonders why he can't capture Wormtail in the forest and they tell him that because Wormtail got away the first time, he has to get away this time. But, technically... they don't know Wormtail got away. They know he ran from Harry and Tonks after making himself impossible to summon, but who's to say someone wasn't standing there ready to catch him that time?

OH MY GOD DOES PANSY LIKE HARRY