I guess you mean this?

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"Quimley took Darla's hand. A moment later, they were yanked through space, and then they were standing in pitch darkness. Alexandra immediately lit her wand, and saw the cavern she had left, in the tunnels beneath Charmbridge. She recognized the clay floor beneath her."

This already happened in the previous chapter.

 

Ah, I overlooked it.

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I was thinking the the elf took them to the caverns under the school still in the Lands Below (where the underwater big cats are). I have to read more carefully.

 

Short answer:

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The coin satisfied Death and closed the gate, but Death isn't the one demanding a sacrifice; the token didn't satisfy the requirement of the Deathly Regiment.

 

And it's complete.

I gotta say, I'm definitely looking forward to book four. This was one of the best read's I've had in quite a while.

 

Ha, so I got my wish in the end.

I must say, that seven years thing is really sad, and I hope that is going to be resolved eventually, because, damn, what a downer.

Still, *sadfaces* that it's gonna take so long for the next installment.

5/5

 

Too bad we'll have to wait so long.

 

So, I merged the threads. While I did process people's wish to see at least one of the fics of the trilogy in the Library, series are all in one thread, and it was just silly to make an exception. I was curious to see where the rating would go though, so I left it up as a single thread for a while.

I expected the rating to go higher up after the merge, but what probably happened is that people who had rated both threads found their second rating cancelled. The two threads combined gathered around 120 votes, not just 87. So, that'll be taken into account when we move the thread.

I'm aware that people can get rather passionate about this fic, so allow me to add: bitch in PMs if you like, but keep it off the thread.

/off to get painkillers

 

I'm pretty confident that most of the people who did like the second fic will come back to rerate the combined thread, thus putting both in the library. Seems like a win/win for those of us who loved it.

Anyway, rerated the series 5/5, as thats how good I found it.

A question however, is it actually possible to remove votes from a thread, and revote on it? And if so, would that be a possibility for thia one?

 

You can change your vote any time, just click on the stars and change it. Don't think you can remove your vote though.

 

Yeap, Cheddar has the right of it.

I also believe that after a certain time, you can put a new vote into the thread, instead of just changing it. I've noticed this by the mouseover, after revoting on a thread that i'd already voted on previously. It adds another vote, and changes the rating, so yeah.

 

I'm sorry, I read through this whole thread a while back, and I'm only even looking at this series because of the very high ratings. I just want to confirm something here. There is no Harry Potter in this story, correct?

 

Correct. The only canon entity in the story so far is Voldemort, who is mentioned in a historical context. The story is set in the United States after his fall.

This really is an excellent series by a writer who, by book 3, has developed professional-grade chops. If you're looking for something different, it's worth checking out. (The second and third stories are better than the first in the series). It's not traditional DLP fare, granted, but good storytelling nonetheless.

 

thanks. I'm definitely gonna give it a read, just wanted to make sure I know what I'm getting myself in to.

EDIT: I'm now around 10 chapters in and I'm finding myself ensnared somewhat despite myself. It's very well written, and has been mentioned, the world itself seems quite phenomenal so far. I just WISH so badly that there was interaction with Harry, with the world we know. I mean, why not? Everything is so well done, there's no reason it couldn't work.

But ah well, its still a very good read so far. Now back to the story.

 

Keep reading. It gets a lot better later on. That is not to say the first book sucks by any means, but I agree with the above sentiments that the second and third books are better than the first.

 

Oh don't worry, I'm now about halfway through the third, and basically as I posted in a review on the second one, I'm thoroughly hooked.

Yeah, probably the most glowing review I've ever written...

 

I'll bump this, as I just found it and was impressed with the series. Spent basically the past two days reading all three stories, and enjoyed them. I think that the second book was probably the best, though book three is great too. Book one was an excellent start to the series, and gave some great background on Wizarding America how it might work in the Potterverse. The whole bit with the Lands Below stretched its canonicity, but it works out alright.

Definitely not the worst way to spend an afternoon - and it tends to suck you in, so plan for that.

I agree with some of the criticisms of the main character; she was rather unlikeable, in some cases almost overly so. Some of the other characters are better - particularly the ones introduced in the later books, where I believe the author has a bit more experience at making characters more interesting. As noted above, Max was such a great character that his death was as impactful to me as Dumbledore's was in canon to a 13-year old fangirl.

I also liked Julia, though at times I wasn't sure if I was reading into her depth or if she was just a caricature...Abraham Thorn is a very interesting character - I don't know quite what to make of him.

I enjoyed the Ozarkers, especially Innocence, who breaks the mold of what we know about them.

I'm glad Darla's dead, I wish she would've been written off a long time ago; bitch annoyed me.

To the author: Looking forward to more of both this series and the writings outside of this series that you might do.