just to let you know, there is no minimum age for scouts. while it is unlikely that a 12 year old will complete the requirements needed, it is possible. however, i have heard speculation about a minimum age of 12 years and 1 month being enforced in some areas, and some people on the board when the scout tries to advance might try to stop him because of age, but its like karate, if you pay the dues and meet the requirements, it is possible to reach black belt in less than two years. the only reason i know that is because i was privately taught for about 2 weeks by my buddy who's a black belt and had already made my requirements for purple belt, i only had to pay for boards, belts, the gi, and the certificates. i know that you have moved on from this story for sometime, but yeah. felt like letting you know

All chapters r very fantasticaly brilliant

Very very neat,just like how everything is described & written damn well.

Awesome! I am still very much enjoying this story arc! I'll be telling my little sister about it. :-) I rarely rec stories to her because she has so little time, but these she has to read. I know she'll enjoy it.

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I think it is outstanding you included a Red-tailed Hawk in your story. I was lucky enough to have flown a Red-tail from my fist a few years before I had a stroke. I am also lucky that my Indian name happens to be Red Hawk. I was named for 2 of my cousins who are/were Chief's.

The only problem I can see is that calling a Red-tailed Hawk large is relative. Hawks are not that large. I assume you meant it was larger than most hawks and not large like an eagle.

Thanks!

You know what, I think that clock was a brilliant idea. I do have doubts as to whether it would really work. Apparently, it answers questions truthfully, but that depends on what the subject of the clock believes the truth to be. Exactly how does the clock work anyway?

Let's take the simpler example of Weasley's family clock. If Mr. Weasley resigned from Ministry of Magic and took a job elsewhere, say in a book shop, would the Weasley family clock show Mr. Weasley to be at work whenever he's at the bookstore? Basically, does the clock take into account the physical location of the place or does it depend on how the subject of the clock hand thinks of that place? If the latter, does it use some form of passive legilimency to achieve this? If yes, then would this work on people who are proficient in occlumency, say Snape?

Alright, I'm turning into a Hermione here. But really, this has so many possibilities. Especially in law enforcement. If someone could somehow get Voldemort's hair, they'd no longer need Snape to spy. The hair doesn't have to be willingly given after all. I'm also interested in the clock's limitations. It somehow burnt out on Harry's last question, but why *that* question? Was it because the answer was too long? Was it because the question was such that if asked to real Lucius Malfoy, it would evoke strong emotions? Or perhaps if the hair is unwillingly given the clock only works for a short amount of time, after which it will stop working and that question was just a coincidence? Did Percy want willing wood (willingly given by the owner) to counteract this effect?

I'm just curious to know what YOU, author of the story, think are the right answers to these questions. It's your universe, you dreamed it up, so who can know it better than you? Also, wanted to say that I'm enjoying the story so far. Especially Percy's character.

I absolutely LOVED how Harry got all the information from Dobby. He was patient with Dobby, treated him kindly and most importantly, used logic to figure out Dobby's boundaries and ways around them. He didn't stop at discovering a single way either (Dobby confirming or rejecting his guesses with yes/no answers) but went on to discover a more efficient way of getting information (Game of hot and cold). I also like how he didn't try to use force to take his letters from Dobby, preferring instead to convince him of Harry's point of view.

Great story you have here. I am very excited to read the next story, which I will do as quickly as possible - Its like an adiction!

Another good story in the series. I think I forgot to review the 2nd one when I finished it, but I'd stayed up late reading it and was falling asleep in front of my computer by the time I was done with it. It was also well written.

I love your fresh take on Harry's first encounter with Dobby and the unintentional circumvention of Dobby's letter-snatching. :)

Do not write lines in other languages. If you want to put a conversation in Spanish or Latin, italicize the text and state that the conversation was in that language or that the individual speaker said it in that language. The reader should not have to stop half-way through the chapter and scroll to the bottom to figure out what is happening and then scroll back up and struggle to find their location again.

I'm running out of good describing words...

Excellent!

wow, that must have took some imagination to build up, congrats! very cool design, and using an already known factor of the books is awesume. :)

oh, no. Draco good on a broom O.o

And, of course, i have a feeling you are having Lucius being under the imperius from narcissa, or at least something...not sure.