I am hoping that Santi covers the third year as he has to show Harry is capable enough to to enter the triwizard tournament, so the coming year should be very important. We can see in this story that Victor is not academically very bright so the chances of him being the triwizard champion is very low, at least i hope that they are low.

The occlumency training scene was done very good.Looking forward to moar!!
The Force is indeed with you Santi and i am hoping that the dark side is stronger.

 

How so? The tournament is not about who knows most magic, and even if it was, there would still be at least a few seventh years that are, in absolute terms, better in magic than Harry.

But yeah, Harry is going to be the Durmstrang champion. No other choice would make any sense storywise.

 

Ever since Harry made the move to Durmstrang I've been expecting that his and Nathan's names would both come out as representatives of two additional schools.

 

Given that Harry is the protagonist and there's no reason necessarily to have Voldemort attempt resurrection by the same crazy scheme, it's possible that there would be no incentive to actually put Nathan in the tournament. In fact, in terms of creating a legitimate schism between the two without the classic arrogant!other-boy-who-lived, having the 'nonhero' brother be in the tournament and not the other could have ramifications as large if not larger than if they were in direct competition. Rita alone would drive the wedge as far as it would go, and combine that with international prestige on the line...

ONLY SOLUTION IS SANTI: WRITE MOAR!!!

 

I wonder if its a good thing for Santi to hear everyone thinking so far ahead of where the story actually is. I hope he doesn't become too influenced by all of the talk by his peers concerning future events in the plot. Not saying I dislike the discussion, I just hope he can still have an un-mutilated imagination when he writes.

Fantastic story Santi, much more refined then some of your earlier works.

 

Hey Santi,

I just finished reading this in its entirety, and I've got to say, way to go on writing a great story.

Awesome ideas, awesome description, and awesome differences from canon - though I do admit that we know too little about Nathan Potter, except that we have a somewhat unlikable perspective on him, and that he's done a bunch of stuff that Harry from canon has done. I'd like to see more of him, and also see how interacting with Harry the prodigy (maybe through a few letters?) could influence/change the canonical Hermione. Wouldn't be the first Hogwarts/Durmstrang coalition that produced some great advances in magic, even if the last one may have caused World War II.

I'll keep it brief since I'm constantly being yelled at by people here to write my own stories again, but I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoyed the story, and am looking forward to many future updates.

Cheers!

Kevin

 

^ What he said

I enjoyed this a great deal. Just finished reading it through and I really like where it's going so far. Part of what makes this so awesome is that the characterizations seem believable (if that's the right word) and really well developed. You've taken a couple of OCs, one largely unexplored character, and an unfamiliar setting and have crafted something that both seems very much like Harry Potter, yet is at the same time refreshingly different.

Kudos, 5/5.

 

I can't wait to see everyone's reactions to Harry's discovery. FUCK YEAH.

The Santi, get well soon!

 

60+ Pages is to many to scroll through to find what you are trying to read.
First Eight Chapters are from FF.net, on the assumption that they are the proper edited chapters.

Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived
Chapter 1: An Alternate Beginning
Chapter 2: Hogwarts Fall
Chapter 3: Choices
Chapter 4: Durmstrang Spring, Part 1
Chapter 5: Durmstrang Spring, Part 2
Chapter 6: Durmstrang Spring, Part 3
Chapter 7: Summer at the Hollow
Chapter 8: Rising Expectations and Raising Questions
Chapter 9: Part 1
Chapter 9: Part 2
Chapter 9: Part 3
Chapter 10: Part 1
Chapter 10: Part 2

Transfiguration Redo

Edit: Thanks to Yak for showing me how to fix the default post per page problem, while keeping a thread based view.

 

Right there is the perfect solution for everyone complaining about the amount of discussion.

 

Except that it doesn't link to the actual posts, but the thread page numbers, and so don't work correctly for people using non-default board settings. For example, this thread doesn't have have pages 45 or 59 or whatever on my screen.

Protip: use the link on the top-right of each post showing the post number instead.

Chapter 9: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Transfiguration Rewrite
Chapter 10: Part 1

 

Or a super awesome mod, such as yourself, edits the first post of the thread and adds the index to it

 

How does it even matter? I've got 32 pages in this thread (much more manageable than the odd 60), and I'd never need to search anything except the last chapter or so because I could just go to ffnet, as God and Santi intended.

 

Oh for fuck's sake. Can't we just make a separate thread and end this moaning?

 

Absolutely not!

*moans in Seratin's ears*

 

Yes, everyone should definitely increase their default post-per-page count. 20 posts/page is too little.