Don't now if you've started the second-year fic yet, but I was thinking it would be better if you did split them, simply because the overall length would be too unwieldy if you just kept ploughing through with this one.

You just reminded me of an old bit of New York City wisdom: NEVER CORNER A RAT. And that's an actual rat in this case, since parts of the city were well known , in the late 1960s and early 70s, to be quite literally crawling with them. They'd run and hide at even the slightest threat, but get one cornered, and you'd likely be the one to get hurt. (PS: That was an AWFULLY small rat they used in the movies; even the ones in university labs were bigger than that.)

Continuity alert! Continuity alert! In an earlier chapter you had Amelia state that Remus' lycanthropy made any possibility of his being Harry's guardian problematic; now Minerva's thinking she doesn't really know about it. So which is it?

You have taken “ I Did Nothing,” and create something wonderful af magical with your excellent storytelling skills. From the start, I was hooked! Sone chapters were grittily realistic and drawn by a hand that seemed too familiar with the themes of abuse. Thank you for sharing your time and talents.

If you include Fantastic Beasts, the one word that would destroy the Headbastard is Obscurial.

Self-suppression of magic until it warps, danger to all around one, and the "pragmatism" of Grindlewald.

I do honestly believe that any Dumbledore who would use people as tools repeatedly would have wanted his sister used as a tool for the Lowest Evil.

This, this is why I say...
Headbastards Must Die.

Just finished binging through this. In one word that sums up my opinion of this story, BRAVO.

This is now one of my all-time favorites. McG and Snape were both awesome from beginning to end. I have a particular dislike of character bashing and while I don't completely agree with Dumbledore's treatment, what you did with Ron instead is... hat's off. Hat's FREAKING off.

Filius is right...
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That's interesting. I've never seen Severus choke on his food before.
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...Minerva does have all the fun sometimes.

"Before I actually grant Professor Snape his severe wish to remove an ear from one of you"

Holy shit lol

I came across this and I love it even with its serious
subject matter. This could have gone that way.
Thank you for the good story.

What a great story, adults who know how to adult indeed!
This story has the best Weasley twins I've seen and Dursleys' fate is pretty unusual and funny, yet in line with the books (didn't Snape threaten something like this on books?). Although it's rather amusing how almost every chapter starts with a/n with "sorry for long delay between chapters" - poor author really struggled with this one, it seems.

Okay, these twins are amazing. I want more of them !

Just fire a damn paralysation jynx into that bloody owl, you daft woman!

Dodged a bullet there, mate. If you would go with "Albus politicking when obviously in the wrong just so the story could stick to the canon"-trope, I would drop it hard and fast. So many stories build up to changes, then artificially fail to implement these changes just because the authors fear to deviate from canon backbone.

oh, my! Brilliant Severus and of course, your amazing mind...!

Because subjecting this version of Harry to a physcial sport with tackles and bludgers is sane? Honestly, this scene should have been changed to Minerva thinking that she WISHED she could make him seeker, not actually going through with it.