Just read through the first several chapters.

First thing to comment on is that many of the spelling mistakes pointed out in this thread are still present, such as "Rubious" in the first chapter and "Weasly" in the third. This is extremely irritating. I did see "Weasley" spelled properly at least once though, so perhaps the author made a half-hearted attempt to fix things and simply missed a few. We may never know.

Apart from the spelling issues, how is the story? Well, to be honest I think it belongs over on this thread. (That's the "Almost Recommended Fanfiction Thread" for those of you who don't want to click.) It could be used to kill a few hours if you are really bored, but it's not actually good. It's not unreadable either though.

One of the most irritating things is the "New Marauder Harry" that we get. Harry wasn't a prankster in the books, so if he's going to be one in a fanfiction story I want to see some sort of reason for it. None is given. Oh sure, he grew up on the streets and can juggle, great, but nothing is shown or explained about his character that indicates he'd want to be a big prankster at school. So it just doesn't fit and it pisses me off. Doesn't help that they named themselves the New Marauders. The author at least attempts to explain the thrifty Harry by using his background, so I can deal with him not wanting to buy anything new.

Other than that it's just really full of the less interesting cliches. Like Harry talking smack to Malfoy on the train when Malfoy doesn't know who he is and saying something cool that let's him "win" the confrontation. Well, I suppose the "Harry climbs up a chimney in Malfoy's huge private room at Hogwarts and gets shot at with the conjunctivitus curse while doing it but just happened to have a jar of Doxies in his pocket to throw them off the scent" scene wasn't cliche'd, but it still didn't impress.

There are some good parts I suppose. Harry's parents were "comfortable, not rich" which was a nice change from the standard "too rich to be believable" fare. Harry also took the time to read all of his school books before going to Hogwarts but, in an interesting twist, this didn't actually mean he knew everything when he showed up in class. He says something along the lines of there being a lot more to learn than just what he got out of the books. Also appears that the Dursley abuse wasn't overly excessive as all Harry has mentioned is that he got slapped if he didn't have food ready on time.

So yeah, some good parts, but I've just realized that the "good parts" I'm pointing out in this story are more like examples of how the author didn't screw up certain things. There's nothing new and interesting that's done well.

If that's the best thing I can find to say about a story then it's not that good. I can't even say that the writing itself is all that engaging and makes the story easy and fun to read despite the lackluster aspects.

So I'll rate this at 2.5/5, and on deciding whether or not to round up or down... in this case I think I have to round down. Just doesn't have enough going for it. 2/5

I should also admit that I only read the first 6 chapters and then parts of later chapters to try and see if the writing improved. Didn't see anything impressive.