brilliant... good old hagrid

A very interesting piece of fan fiction. I especially like the world-building you did with the goblins and their culture.
My favorite part is you promising a faster pace before going on hiatus for two years and counting :p

Well, the omake was an interesting diversion. I would rather like to see more of the main story, though. Can't say I think that's too likely given the time since last update.

Do goblins find useless coins to be things of beauty? From what you've written, a lot of work went into them, even though the goblins see them as worthless. Since the goblins don't use money themselves, why would they care if someone wrecked the wizarding economy through counterfeit? Unless they have plans to do that themselves next rebellion, anyway.

With how much effort was put into making galleons indestructible and unchangeable, has anyone tried making scale-mail armor from them? Given my understanding of canon/fanon, that might stop all 'ray' spells, including the killing curse.

Okay, I'm impressed with the trials. Good work.

You know, at first I was going to say something about the obvious attempt to get him to cheat by using iron. But now I see a theme. I'm guessing he'll have a chance to cheat on each trial?

I still don't get how goblins could end up running a bank, when culturally, they have issues with private ownership. I just can't see it.

I have issues with seeing communism work, too. But goblins aren't humans, and might think differently enough for it to function. It also helps that they are united by tensions with the wizards... Who are major major business partners.

And that brings me right back to not being able to make sense of the internal contradictions. Having people defined as businessmen, who do not believe in private property feels too nonsensical to me.

I don't understand. The goblins find the buying and selling of physical goods disgusting. Their only business is a f***ing bank. And they focus on contracts.

Do your goblins have a cultural fetish for being disgusted?

I intend to read further, but I suspect that I will have some of the same objections to this that I had to Harry Crow. Namely that the author was using the goblins to write what was effectively culture-pornography. He had a 'perfect' fantasy culture that was not internally consistent, and then the story quality fell to levels that I found unreadable.

I'll tell you in a later review if this does end up going the same route for me, and hopefully some criticism of the constructive variety.

I would just like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed what you have written so far! It is a fantastic approach to how Harry had been raised. Please keep writing, I haven't had a fanfiction capture my attention in quite a while. Thank you!

Update

I love the world building and lore. And I'm even more sad that this hasn't been updated in forever! Ha.

Absolutely brilliant. I am so very sad that this hasn't been updated since 2013 :(

My guess is that, with all of your 'intermissions' and your 'Omake' (whatever that's supposed to be) that you left a lot of your readers in the dark. 'The play is the thing wherein to catch the conscience of the King', my dear. Translated, that means stop your 'interluding' and 'aside-ing' and get back to telling your story.
I'm going to 'Follow' this, just in case you ever come back to it. Quite interesting and engaging tale.
Thanks!
MelJ

This fic is great, and your Bellatrix is a stone cold badass.

this whole story is very funny, i hope it isnt forgotten!