Back in chapter 14? That was in the "Gaunt Estate" (that's what Voldemort called it in the invitation). Though "How did you know about this place?" would have been lulz if the meeting had been in the Riddle house.

 

According to Lord Silvere, Harry and Bellatrix will be traveling twenty years in the future in the current AU.

He had this to say in his Yahoo! Group:

WARNING!: Spoiler alert!

Spoiler

> Harry and Bellatrix's next stop is about 20 years into the future. Fortunately
for Harry, the wound won't kill him, though it will make him ill for quite a
bit.
>
> The hair ornament is not a precision instrument and it is largely controlled
by "fate" which seeks to maintain a balance between Harry and Voldemort. (Thus,
Harry and Voldemort switched wands, some folks were born on different dates,
etc.)
>
> The prophecy I tacked to the end of the last chapter is the prophecy that is
given in place of the original, at nearly the same time, though perhaps a year
or so later.
>
> Contrary to what some have suggested, Dumbledore won't be able to readily
interpret it because Harry and Bellatrix to him are now presumed missing and
very probably dead. (Not to the bank, however. I think I covered that one in the
story.)
>
> So, when Harry arrives in the future, he will encounter a little bit of an
Alternate-Boy-Who-Lived-Who-Isn't-Actually-the-Boy-Who-Lived situation.
>
> So what's the point of the Yahoo group?
>
> I'm not sure that posting scenes from between H/B's disappearance and
reappearance would go well in the Delenda Est story proper. On the other hand, I
think it's interesting to know what has happened in their absence.
>
> Thus, I'm looking at the possibility of posting these in between scenes here
at this group. What scenes might I do?
>
> 1) Dumbledore and Moody wondering where H/B are.
> 2) Aftermath of the new prophecy.
> 3) The Diary is let loose on Hogwarts even though the basilisk is dead.
> 4) The Order has tension over trying to figure out to whom the prophecy
applies.
>
> ETC.
>
> I don't know how you guys feel about that, but that is tentatively the plan
for me while I work on firming up the future in my mind and finalizing the plot.
>
> I'm also open to discussion about other things.
>
> All the best,
>
> LS
>

 

Eh... at least it wasn't back to the past again. Still, I really don't like it. Thought it may have just been the crappy quality of the latest chapter, I feel like this is making additional conflict for the sake of conflict, not because it'll be a better story. It's not like Harry had much of an advantage over Voldemort in the first place..

 

That honestly sounds god-awful

 

Methinks the quality of the story started decreasing over the summer. IIRC, Lord Silvere started updating on a weekly basis that, quite frankly, surprised me. I mean, I remember creaming myself whenever the story updated before he started with those spitfire updates of his.

He also said something about starting law school this fall, so perhaps he just wanted to get Part 1 of the story done. It would explain the whole quantity-over-quality thing we've been seeing over the last few months.


On a side note:
T3t: What the hell are doing posting in this thread for? I'm waiting for my Thunderstorm update!
Damnit! You promised us biweekly updates and I want my Voldebabe!!! :awesome

 

In progress, bro:facepalm

Hopefully by next Monday - 12 days.

 

Half-right. Yay me.

 

Fuck sake, I was always a massive fan of this, probably because of my massive crush on Helena Bone-her Carter, and now it's going to shit. Time-travel fics are often pathetically drab because explaining the mechanics of time-travel in a believable way is so difficult that most of us just accept any pathetic deus-ex-machina as what it is and get on with the plot. Now we've got to go through this again, and by now the plot has become less interesting so, inveriably, it's going to suck balls. I hope I'm wrong.

 

Personally I feel like one of the authors is better than the other one and that leads to the piss poor updates and the flashes of brilliance.

 

Yes. Welcome to twenty pages ago, before the author showed up and revealed that he was really just bipolar as hell.

 

What the fuck?

All those hours reading the story for this BS? I'd rather read Harry and Bella trying to fight off Voldemort and also get reactions to Harry being Lord Black...

WTF is the author thinking?

 

What is this? A Bellatrix/Lockhart movie?!

Do want.

(Bonus appearance of Poppy Pomphrey)

 

Not gonna run through 25 pages of comments for a story lol my bad.

 

Dude, it was mentioned something like five posts above yours. And it's in the thread's tags.

 

Mentioned as 'Bi-polar ass authors'. Not really his mistake, especially considering the story...

 

Yeah, alright, fair enough. I'll quit rage-derping for now.

 

One of the worst chapters. I think that the main reason for it that the authors wanted to finish the Part 1 quickly. Therefore they put remaining parts of the plot (more happening here than in two average chapters) in this chapter and they did not even bother polishing thoroughly. Of course it caused a huge quality drop. It is not a really promising atitude...
Reading the plans for the Part 2 (new time travel!) I have no high expectations for the fic anymore. It seems that they are just wasting the potential the story initially had.

 

And yet sadly we continue to read because it is the best Harry/Bellatrix story that is currently active ;p

 

Don't you forget Only Enemies.

 

That hasn't been updated in over two years though!

There's also Ouroboros, and VotN said a month back he was 14 out of 18k words done on it.