Let's see:

Dumbledore left Harry to years of abuse by the Dursleys.

Quirrelmort is bent on being evil/world domination.

Snape is nasty and yells at Harry for a few months.

But hey, Sirius Black is undoubtedly thrilled at seeing Snape meet the same fate as the other two-he can tell Harry how much the greasy git deserved being beat up four-on-one for years. The Shrieking Shack? Only what Snivvy deserved. Any resemblance to what Harry suffered from Dudley's gang is only a coincidence. And Remus can lie like he usually does about how wonderful James was.

Go have fun, Harry...now that Vapormort is out the picture, I'm sure there's an opening for a new Dark Lord.

holy crap! git-r-done and a nother chapter made...this is a killer story! :) - EV

A great story I love it, but I hope it'll be more than a one-shot, because what happened to the other teachers like McGonagall for instance and what about the muggleborns? How will they learn magic without a school to teach magic? Keep up the great work and update as soon as you possibly can:) May you be blessed with inspiration and have fun writing:)

Bye for now:)

great story are you planning on a sequel.

That was freaking awesome.

That was basically what all the books smashed and crumbled into one rear kicking year of good old pay back and throw downs.

Of course Harry never actually lifted an offending figure to anyone's eyes, but he engineered everything so well.

The unexpected even went towards aiding him, amazing.

Most of all I liked how everything fell into place within a year.

That was one heck of a year.

Again, awesome work, you did one heck of a job.

Masterfully done. My compliments to the author!

Awesome work.

To quote the weasel that you should have left naked in Snapes arms...

"Bloody Brilliant!"

Great story. Surprisingly warm considering the Harry is a calculating murderer. But at least it's only of the guilty. :)

Rob

WoW that was outstanding! And I too share your views on AU, sadly most of the stories on the net read out damn near exactly like rowlings work describing his school years, and let me tell you that gets really boring really quick!

I think you came up with if not the most original then in the top ten ways of taking out snape, quirrel and dumbydork and lets dont forget the dursleys, really all 6 of them: Poetic Justice!

Thank You for a very enjoyable couple of hours! I'll definitely recommend this story to my friends!

i imagene hogwarts was a great school once especially because it was one to inspire greater oevrall learning then apprenticeship.

But your dead on about the school sucking ass under dumbledore.

Damn it's a wonder that tom could become so powerful under such a horrible school or was it when dumbles became headmaster

your revenge was incredble and i do wonder whats up with that ruddy bird flawks staying with dumbles

He will probably be the Harry Potter who outsmarts himself, these types of wise asses can't help it.

I love it so much!

I really enjoyed that.

Great story, thanks!

Interesting plot and probably about as realistic as Jo's fairy tale.

However, there are some plot holes:

o- Draco (and others) would be, by nature, constantly interfering with Harry at Hogwarts.

You've made no plausible allowance for that and it did sap quite a bit of canon Harry's time and energy.

o- No adult at Hogwarts would have helped Harry get to Sirius' trial and they would actively work to prevent him from going.

Harry did not have the invisibility cloak and he did not know about the Knight Bus. He would be hard pressed to get to London.

o- I don't believe, for a second, that Dumbledore would have that much sense when guarding the stone. ;-)

Of course, you also fill in plenty of plot holes left by JKR, so maybe it evens out.

Overall, this was an entertaining and sometimes thoughtful and humorous story.