This. Plus I bought in to the explanation that something happened to Pansy to push her towards muggle drugs and night clubs. We have no way of knowing how the dynamic of the relationship worked, plus the fact that we have the interview with her parents to give us an insight to how much pressure she was under to return to an abusive relationship just because of who the other person was. So I don't find it OOC. I don't find Hannah becoming an Auror OOC, since she was in the DA and likely fought with the seventh years at the Battle of Hogwarts. Just because she's a girl and a Puff does not mean she has to follow the fanon of becoming a healer at St. Mungos. (is that fanon? I know it's not in the Epilogue.)

Also, from reading, I was under the impression that the Battle of Oxford happened AFTER the BoH. Still...

 

Same - I thought it was the then-dead Voldemort's last supporters (and their dumbass mercenaries) putting up a last stand.

Hannah married Neville in the end, and she became the land lady of either the Leaky Cauldron or the Three Broomsticks. I can't remember which.

Neville became a teacher at Hogwarts, though I think he served a small stint as an Auror - not too sure, there.

 

The magic is just a backdrop/tool and has no deeper meaning here. Magical society isn't just muggle society with a wand.

 

Got updated.

 

No update yet, sorry. Spoilers are in this post. Not that there's much to spoil.

I've finally read this. I started it when it was recommended, but left it alone after a few chapters for reasons forgotten. I've caught up to where the story currently is and am not feeling it as much as others have.

I like the little bits that Sesc mentioned: wand identification through Ollivander, Squib go-betweens, etc. But I'm hating the characterisations of the majority of the cast. Conversely to others, I'm kinda happy with this Luna. She's a bit damaged after Malfoy Manor. That works for me. Daphne, too, is reasonable from the little we've seen. The rest, not as much.

Harry's kinda sleazy. Harry and Hannah sleeping together after the Oxford battle was perfectly understandable. He felt remorse, but continued anyway. Okay, fine. But it escalates to the point where he, Hannah and Ron have cheated on significant others without feeling any remorse anymore. Harry doesn't care that Ron cheated on Hermione for almost a year, to the point where Ron was intending to marry the girl. Truthfully, at least a third of the story appears to be Harry drinking and trying to bed someone. He's thinking about sex half the time he's working in the later chapters. A lot of elements to the characters could have been a nice backdrop to the mystery if there was something to it.

Basically, the mystery has gone nowhere. There's no atmosphere of mystery or intrigue. There's zero sense of urgency about the case. Harry and Hannah muddle about for four or five days with little to show. I cannot see how this mystery can cause the wizarding world to be 'divided', as the summary states, when we're 68k words in and have accomplished practically nothing.

Two dead bodies. No idea what killed them. It isn't Malfoy.

It would be an involving mystery - no idea what killed two witches, with no magic seemingly involved - if the atmosphere was different. Maybe.

A lot details seem to have been thought of after the first few chapters were written. This is really obvious, to me at least, in regards to all the relationships/sex side of things.

I want to like it. Post-Hogwarts mysteries are an under-explored genre (from what I've read at least). I can't even think of any off the top of my head, let alone good ones. The best I can give this at the moment though is 2.5. The pieces of a decent story are there. However, they aren't meshing in a good way.