The story had a few updates, the latest two chapters posted yesterday.

With these two chapters the story seems to change its direction with an at least 90 degree turn.

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Suddenly, omniscient!Dumbledore: The reader learns that Dumbledore knows about Harry and Hermione sneaking out of Hogwarts, performing magic with circumventing the trace. He assumes or is sure that they are responsible for at least Lucius' death, and the new DADA-teacher is a triple agent by Dumbledore, informing him of everything that happens in their lessons.

I am not sure if I should take this as totally unbelievable or as a proof of Harry's naivité concerning his surroundings and the whole endeavor.

The second development came as much out of the blue, at least for me:

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Suddenly Harry feels bad about killing all these Death Eaters, especially Malfoy and Nott. It's as if the author has read Chime's post above and turned over parts of Harry because of it - or did I miss something beforehand?

Now Hermione appears to be the really ruthless part of the duo, arguing for the 'greater good'. This development has a lot of potential, but I doubt the author is able to handle it.

I honestly don't know where the author intents to go with this story and meanwhile I doubt he knows it himself.

 

Yeah I'm not sure how to take it either.

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On the one hand I like that Dumbledore is being shown to be quite passive yet knows what's going on more than you think he does. On the other hand how far do they have to go before he steps in and asks them what's going on, I mean as far as he's still concerned they're actually children.

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I kind of liked that Harry regretted killing Malfoy and Nott, he notes that they may never have rejoined Voldemort if they were given the chance not to and perhaps all he's done is robbed two families of their fathers. Which is a fair point and you have to wonder at what point they're doing more harm than good. I don't agree with feeling bad about the others they took out though, Harry doesn't seem to either, in fact he seems to feel bad that he doesn't feel bad about those. This I'm not sure I agree with, I don't want him turning into a saint.

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I was enjoying the divide between Harry and Hermione for a while but I think it might have been taken a little far. Despite being completely and utterly wrong Hermione still seems to think she's right about everything which doesn't really make any sense. She's supposed to be smart, but she's taken it to a new level where she doesn't think anyone else is. Not sure how much further the author is going to take that, hell she could be on the road to be the next Grindelwald.

 

I agree she's pretty bitchy, especially in the latest few chapters. But that's not the reason she didn't rope Ron in to go back in time, it was because it had been literally years since she or Harry had even spoke to him. They didn't even know him any more.

This is actually used in chapter 18, not the chapter listed as 18 but /18/ - I hate prologues messing the chapters up. Which I thought was pretty neat.

I could be wrong but I disagree here, they actually go out of their way to include Ron. Or Harry does at least. I don't know how many chapters you've read or if it was just the first couple but I think you've interpreted this incorrectly myself.

I agree here though, but unlike most stories this actually seems to be getting plot relevance and is shown to be a fault not blindly passed over like she's always right.

 

Something about the last few chapters has put me off reading it.

 

I've been following this story myself, and I think the last two chapters will be the turning point of the story; either it comes out of this awesome and great, or it turns to shit real fast. It all depends on how the author decides to handle the direction of the story, based on the couple of bombs she dropped in the last two chapters.

 

Why would she want to go back after how she and Ron parted ways last time? ("More of my family just died and you want to go camping?" Which were all reasonable reactions/objections from a grieving and depressed person)

 

I liked the last couple chapters. It has potential to get very good, so I hope the author has planned what he wants to do with this (I seem to remember there was a little foreshadowing concerning parts of what happens, so I hope it was planned from the beginning).
It could also go downhill fast depending on how it's handled. But the turn the story takes is interesting at least.

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It's especially nice that Harry finally stops following Hermione blindly and puts his foot down regarding her bitchy attitude and her actions.

 

Well, Hermione has been a bit of a cunt for the entire story, and in the last few chapters she has become a Super Cunt™ to the extent that I basically have to skip over the parts that involve her.

For me, the most unbelievable part of the story, more unbelievable than the idea of fucking magic itself, is Harry or anyone for that matter being cool with Hermione being in their head. I mean, even for one second. That's the sort of thing that in reality if you ever caught anyone doing, you would punch them right in the face and never go anywhere near them again.

I hope the author repairs Hermione, stops Harry being a bitch, and they get back to the good parts of the story. This whole year has been a bit shit tbh.