For someone who prefaced the story with following canon, you're making a ridiculous amount of changes to back story. Also it comes off a bit disingenuous to promote blood equality but then rewrite history to make the two protagonists heirs of the founders. That said, I am enjoying the story.

Are Ron and Millicent dyslexic?

CT

Common indeed - and not just in the case of family; the escort to the gate. Prior to 9/11, relatives and non-relatives could escort ANY passenger to the gate of their flight (though I did take two flying trips prior to 9/11, I did plenty of escorting before that Bad Day (Reagan National [at the time, just National, as Reagan was still alive], Dulles International, BWI, and Philadelphia International). I did almost all my flying AFTER 9/11; no escorts past the TSA checkpoint - at ANY airport. (All four of the airports I named except Dulles - never flew out of there - plus Douglas International [Charlotte, NC], Chicago Midway and McCarran International.) The only flying I did prior to 9/11 was to the same place - my aunt and uncle's home in Dallas, TX - 1994 and 1995. Neither flight was non-stop - in either direction; then, as now, a connecting flight was typically cheaper than a non-stop. I've still only been on ONE non-stop - that was last year; BWI to McCarran - and THAT was sheer luck (good for us, but bad for our luggage - it was still on that one-stopper that trailed our own arrival in Casino City by two hours).

brigrove - Unlike the UK, we Americans (in fact. most non-Brits) tend to - for the most part - NOT have a National Bias; if anything, when it comes to the United States, Americans are typically our own harshest critics (of the United States, that is) - do you realize how many Europhiles there are in the US - and especially among politicians (and more so liberals - however, not alone among liberals)? Look at Magical Britain from the outside - and as a Muggle - even a Muggle Brit - is almost as "outside" as it gets. How much has merely non-magical Britain changed merely from 1815 to 1981? By contrast, look how LITTLE magical Britain has (and that is just as JKR portrayed magical Britain) - if anything, magical Britain is far more conservative than even the most far-right backbenchers of the House of Lords OR Commons; yes I'm an American - however, Question Time is on C-SPAN, not to mention BBC America - so I DO follow Parliament to an extent; do you HONESTLY believe that a person that follows the Death Eater tenets could be electable to even the House of Commons? Magical Britain - just merely in contrast to the conservatives of non-magical Britain - are far more conservative by comparison - in other words, magical Britain is so conservative as to be equipped with feathers, beaks, and lay eggs (chickens, in other words); the extreme right is no more deserving of respect than the extreme left - even, if not especially, when you add spellcasting to the mix.

Thanks for a great (re)read!

Still a favorite!

Aha! from your AN I see why I like this Harry so much :)

Sounds to be base on one who is likely a fellow asp :)

Marcus Finch is extremely close to Marcus Flint.

You forgot the Winked.

A great chapter, but in it Voldemort assumes the child is male, but the bit he heard doesn't say that.

are you still planning on working on the sequel to this? its damn good so far and would hate to not be able to finish reading the whole story.

Booooo... Hurr durr I need Harry to have a sister

I'm trying to finish it but it's just one giant information drop with a little bit of plot that moves really really slowly not to say that it's not good great actually and I got all the action happens in the second book it's just getting to that point that's difficult

I've read this story about a dozen time and how you began this is so effective that it still feels fresh even on rereads. Thanks.

K

that's a wonderful story and a wonderful ending.