Yeah, the new one sounds funnier. Also, According to JKR wizards live longer than us (DAMN!!! :evil: )


Anyway, they can live (On average) to be between 150 and 200. Just FYI so bear that in mind for you're other story. ALso, they can fall prey to diseases we can't. We have, let's say Ebola, they have Dragon Pox and other shit. (Abraxas Malfoy, Draco's grandfather, died of Dragon Pox.)

 

You know, that's scarily alike one of my own bunnies.

Post-Hogwarts, Harry is a magical private investigator with Luna as his partner/secretary/Moneypenny... Harry's job is pretty much as Dumbledore's - fixing strange magical problems.

A ghost of your disgusting mother-in-law is after you and you wife likes her around? Have a masochistic house-elf, who is intentionally misbehaving so he would be punished? Misfired animation spell created a haunted sentient house, that don't like it's owner? Person tried to kill himself by conjuring a homicidal monster, but accidental magic made the monster permanent and turned it into a serial killer, that is killing all the people looking like said person? Someone stole the Sorting Hat? Or did it just run away with Fudge's enchanted bowler hat?... Call Harry Potter Magical Mystery Specialist...

Of course, there are Bossy-Braniac Hermione and Stupid-Whipped-Muscle Ron having similar agency and being Harry's main competition (who always end up screwed). Harry's character should of course be combination of jaded noir detective and Saint (from the TV show)...

Probably won't do anything with this, but has potential...

 

Oooh! I like that! Harry and Luna in direct business competition with Ron and Hermy. I've seen fics with Ron and all his 'brilliant strategy' skills running their little operations center and Harry is the big muscle grunt wand for hire. Hermione all the researcher!genius crap. Never liked that breakdown. But I'm not good about spreading the strengths and hero-skills around. I keep wanting Harry to be able to do it all, without relying on Hermy for his thinking or Ron for the strategizing. And half the time on those it seems Ginny is another secret agent like Harry. Bleh. What was that one fic, The Garnet Snitch or something? Couldn't ever get into it.

I liked sloth's "Marauders, Inc" where Sirius and Remus were the boss-types but Harry did all the field work. Had those two been Ron and Hermy, bleh. Actually I don't think I like hardly any of the students Harry's age except Luna and the Twins. Minor characters like Alicia, Angelina and Katie maybe. But certainly not to be much better than Harry at anything that matters. Better at chess, fine. Memorizing shite for school tests, that's okay. Anything remotely useful? Not so much.

But definitely IP. That sounds like a fun one with Harry and Luna in investigating or whatever business. I don't think there's hardly anything that wouldn't improve with more Luna. Well, except for my Sirius and Harry new world bunny. No alternate/former wife around to handcuff bachelor!Harry in that one.

And since it seems to have been approved and requested I will write that world-hopping Harry once I finish You Did What?! It'll probably be just a big one shot though. Or posted all at once. I don't like the idea much as a longer chaptered, and theoretically never-ending story. Already got my one never-ending story. I'd be tempted to leave it hanging for whenever I read another wussy!Harry and I'd just pick on other stories. That might make me feel a bit better, but not exactly cool in my book. Unless someone else wants to write it first, then I don't have to.

Man typing in the dark on my bed is tricky. I should just go to sleep.

 

YEah, I'm going to sleep now. :roll:

 

You think 3:30 am is late? Add 6 hours to that... Goodnight.

 

Much better than his other story, which looks like it's going nowhere.

 

Exact... james might be an ass but i dun see him smacking his kid around... just aint happening... and lily is even less likely

I get the feeling its going to be one of those "I knew the whole time i just needed you to live miserably ot understand Tom" excuses >_>

 

I've never read any of those 'they thought person X was the BWL/GWL but secretly it was Harry' and been able to believe it. There just isn't any sensible or logical explanation.

If you're going to go and declare "OMG! The first Killing Curse survivor ever!" let alone, "So that's how we reflect it back!" you're not going to look at two babies and wonder which one it was. You're not going to assume a child pulled off something nearly impossible just from wreckage. Even if you bloody witnessed it, you'd assume there was something else, and it would take someone who can actually tell wtf is going on, who would be forced to admit. "No shit. It really was the fricking baby."

If you're walking down the street, there's two babies in a stroller near a car and the car explodes, you're not going to assume one of the babies made it pop. And if you get to the point where you believe it is one of the babies, you're not going to stupid enough to just pick one. To wizards, an AK bouncing back would be like magic being viewed by a muggle. You need some semblance of proof to believe that shit happened. Just for kicks, I'd say AK the babies. You know just to make sure.

As for traumatic events being memorable, I'll add my two cents and say: true. My earliest memory, from when I was less than 2 years old, like eighteen months or so, involved my dad and uncle trying to fish. The part I remember is the meat of the hand between the thumb and forefinger my dad got a hook stuck and yanked out. Bled like a mofo. Pretty sure he needed stitches. But that visual image just kinda stayed with me.

Considering me, it's pretty shocking I don't remember breastfeeding either.

 

All I can say is, oh wow!

 

A question if I may, do I need to read Lone Traveler to understand the story or are these two stories completely different?

 

I didn't read Lone Traveler and I can follow this easily.

 

I love the new chapter. Looking like Harry/Padma. And it's cool how they can relate to each other being compared to their twins.

 

I had wondered if it was going to be that kind of match just by virtue of the fact he made them out to be twins. I thought his phrasing was rather intelligent too-- didn't feel too contrived even though this scene definately had to have been planned from the decision to make this a seperate story.

Nah.. you can read this well with no absolutly no knowledge of the other story and it stands on its own; however if you decide you like it you may want to avoid the other story just to avoid anmy spoilers. Personally I'm looking forward to seeing what he does from this Harry's POV once the Harry from the other story shows up.. Also looking forward to seeing what the results are when that HArry leaves. The laws of unintended consequences can be funny at times.

---bornagainpenguin (who enjoys both stories)

 

He tries to make Harry clever, but fails miserably. Him trusting Morgan (sp?) and Daphne Greengrass sucked. It was too soon. And Harry is WAY too powerful. This is also PoS redux. The broom? That isn't necessary to the plot. All it does is raise the stakes and cast suspicion on Snape. And his inner monologue whilst dealing with his parents?

The problem is that Harry "isn't" a typical 11-year old according to this author. He's supposed to be a genius. He also seems to be implied to have the cunning of an adult. THe problem is the author doesn't write him that way. He STILL writes Harry as immature, with shoddy half-logic behind it to explain it in an adult manner. The kids all seem to be on one hand grasping adult concepts and dynamic and yet he still behaves extraordinarily childishly. Example, Harry's thoughts about the Quidditch match and the response he's getting. Meanwhile, he's wasting time playing quidditch. And the kid can conjure WANDLESSLY a bubble of water, but he can't slow down his fall? Even a cushioning charm on the ground would have helped him.

He made Harry too powerful, so now he's trying to compensate. (I believe one Author's note mentions a 'Pack of Werewolves'.) THis doesn't change anything. It doesn't bring anything new and is blatantly unoriginal. Its like making Harry a body builder and making him lift 20 pounds rather than 10. He's not going about things differently.

And the Dumbledore issue still hasn't been resolved. IS the man an idiot? Does he really not know Harry is the Boy-Who-Lived? He has to know for the story to have ANY credibility especially now that Harry is performing Wandless magic. So why doesn't he tell Lily and James?

And didn't Harry and Padma connect VERY quickly? For a kid who grew up resenting others and untrusting, he seems to make friends fast, don't you think?

PRetty disappointing.

 

Chuck actually raised really good points.

I'd like to think that makes him more human and childish, but *shrugs*

I guess I actually like this more because it's possibly the only brother-thought-to-be-boywholived that doesn't have Harry abused. Though, I'd like to see one where he's just intelligent and isn't super advanced.

 

I agree with most of what Chuck said on a smaller level (meaning I care less about those points) however...

I disagree with that. Of course they'd connect quick, they have practicaly the same lives, both are twins, both are the less noticed of their respective twins, always made out to be less and not as good as the other, both resent this fact but are learning to deal with it, both are smart and like reading, etc... I think even though Harry has been untrusting so far, at the age of 11 kids connect easier to people like them, IMO.