Reviews for Winter of the Willows
GreatT'Phon1of4 chapter 5 . 3/12/2021
Dumbledore dies at 115 I believe. That makes Hitsugaya roughly a decade older than him.
The Green Seer chapter 21 . 1/19/2021
Hello! I'm not sure if I reviewed this story back when I first found it, but it has been a long time and now that I've read it again I wanted to give some thoughts. First of all, this was great! Both stories where such a delight to read and enjoy. The second one was especially good since your improved writing was much more apparent along with the more interesting narrative plot.

The first story was a good introduction. I felt it was more mellow and not as engaging but I attribute that more to the book's plot rather than your take. There are so many things that can happen when the most interesting things take place right at the end, but you still made do with Toshiro getting to learn more about the wizarding world and funny Soul Reaper shenanigans.

The second one is all kinds of awesome. Now we're getting in the politics and inner workings of the wizarding world, now we have two perspective to follow, the students and Hogwarts and then the Order and Voldemort, now there are real Soul Reaper shenanigans happening that can get super complicated. Soul Society picking up on Voldemort's soul pieces 'activating' after his resurrections is one, if not the, best incentives for Shinigami to get involved and it's honestly my go to explanation for having the worlds come together. I was so hype when I realized that's what you were going for!

The plan that the teachers and Toshiro have... well, I understand it in general, but obviously I don't know the details and how it will all work out. Things are already progressive at a very fast pace what with the Hocruxes coming into play so early on. And you said there is another final story after this one which I assume will deal with the hunt for them but I don't know if there will be a time skip or if it continues right after this one. That's really exciting!

I know that it has been a long time since this was updated. I haven't checked your profile yet but I am hopeful that it will strike your fancy at some point again. Maybe with the final arc of Bleach being animated this year, perhaps.

Now, there are some continuity errors that I've noticed. I understand it can get really tedious to keep track of what the characters know but those things were pretty big stuff. I'm not sure what chapters there were because I didn't take notes but I will tell you that: Toshiro learns about the Prophecy twice, once at Grimauld Place from Sirius and Lupin and the second one from Dumbledore at Hogwarts. I assume that the true revelation was with Dumbledore and I'm not sure that Sirius and Lupin even know that the weapon is a Prophecy to begin with.

The second error was that Toshiro got a detention from Umbridge during her first inspection of Snape's class. He had a very awesome standoff with her and I was cheering right along with the other students. But after the fated Griffindor/Slitherin match, she gives him, Harry, Fred and George a week of detention and at some point Toshiro said to one of the twins that he hasn't got a detention up until that point. I suppose that could be explained by it happening earlier in the year and McGonagall coming in clutch for him so he spent his detention doing something other than quill torture. This way the detention with the others doesn't have to change.

Hmm... since I didn't take notes those are the only things that stand out as blatant mistakes. I'm sure that fine toothcombing will reveal some more but I really don't mind them. I usually find reasonings to explain them myself or just ignore them as the author forgetting. In the grand scheme of things, they're not that important.

The story is still enjoyable, the characters are very well written and there is over 100k words to read in total. Finished or not, I'm glad this exists and I do want to see it complete but only if you have fun while doing it. You're under no obligation to write it, but it would definitely feel special to see a notification for a new chapter from this story.

Thanks for you work so far and take care!
Makuro767 chapter 1 . 10/3/2020
Hitsugaya ToshiroSeireitei walking air conditioner
Matsumoto RangikuSeireitei walking air conditioner's ON button
Selena92 chapter 21 . 9/24/2020
Awesome!

I couldn't stop reading...

But damn, this is difficult. Poor Toushirou, having to suffer so much. And how the hell did Voldemort find out about Toushirou? Through his connection to Harry?

I love that you added in Ran, though I wish she could play a bigger role. I love her relationship to Toushirou and it was so cute how she allowed him to sleep on her. She might make it his mission to drive him up the wall, but she clearly loves him and feels protective of him. Like a mother (in my personal headcanon, she IS his mother, though she doesn't know).

Umbridge is being a major pain in the ass as expected.

I am a bit worried about what Toushirou has planned...who exactly might not ever forgive him? I don't want him to sacrifice his friendships, nor his good relationship to Ran or Juushirou. It'll hurt him.

The end of this chapter... whoa. I really hope that Toushirou can do something about Voldemort's soul inside Harry and that none of the others brain him for seemingly going homicidal on Harry. Poor Harry, too. He has no idea after all what's going on here.

KUDOS!
isis424 chapter 21 . 7/25/2020
LOVE MORE PLEASE AND THANK YOU
RavenWingDark chapter 7 . 5/14/2020
it’s so apparent how much growth toshiro and the trio and toshiro have made! this progress, from where they started and ron and toshiro shopping and toshiro cheering harry up, is sooooo gratifying. it made me so happy to see it. despite himseld, he cares about them. and they get to learn so many fun details about his life now that they see him as a real friend and he shares details with them like with hyourinmaru. Thanks for this story!
Kage-Shino chapter 21 . 3/29/2020
...Seven years. I doubt university in itself would last seven years. Unless you had additional schooling. Even so, you would probably be able to get on a computer over the summer. An explanation would be appreciated, or even better, an update.
Kage-Shino chapter 5 . 3/28/2020
How To Train Your Dragon is awesome, and it's certainly odd to see Toshiro referred to as an old man. But it fits.
Kage-Shino chapter 4 . 3/28/2020
The person from the future is snickering at how the past is wrong.
Kage-Shino chapter 3 . 3/28/2020
Actually, it would be a bit more than nine of his lifetimes, because 814112, Toshiro is 122, and 914120.
Guest chapter 21 . 10/17/2019
This is an incredible story. The plot you have woven is so intricate yet so is honestly one of the best portrayals of Toshiro that I have ever seen, hima and Neville's friendship is so soft. I
RaggedyPurpleWomyn chapter 21 . 8/30/2019
Please update!
Amarenima Redwood chapter 6 . 7/21/2019
I do hope you get back to this story eventually.
mimic chapter 21 . 10/4/2018
this is all rather mean really. TwT

actually, old reader, and just reread this whole blurb in one sitting for the nostalgia. Still the best bleach fic I've ever read.

But, yeah, like I've said this is all pretty mean at this point. TwT

In any case, thank you for the wonderful read as always. I'll most likely reread this again at some point, honestly, i didn't get this far reading Order-harry was too much of an angst ball without Toshiro mitigating it.
RavenWingDark chapter 21 . 9/9/2018
Wow. Blown away by this story, read it all in 2 days. In the beginning, I was skeptical and it was frustrating how Toshiro and the 3 were acting towards each other but they've all grown so much and now that they're trusting each other, it means so much more. Please let me know if you ever plan on continuing this story-there are so many more things left to see: them finding out he's a captain and about rangiku, his bankai form (his ADULT bankai form), his past, theres so much left to be explored and i havent seen a story this well written or as interestingly integrated with two plots like this in a long time. You manage several ideas and many characters in such an interesting way. Anyway, even if you don't finish it, thank you so much for the time you spent on this story, it was a delight to read. (I'll still be checking back periodically though!)
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