I think all of book one will be slow paced. On a plus note it ends on chapter 26 and book 2 is bound to have more action.

 

I liked it at first, but the pace is just too damn slow. There's no conflict, it's like reading someone's diary.

Hopefully they return to England soon and something starts to happen.

 

New update and the author is considering making Harry bi as he goes to an all boys school. FAIL.

 

I think this is one of the few stories where slash won't bother me much. It's obvious the author is not some horny fangirl but a serious writer testing his skills by playing around with characters. It might even be interesting to see how he handles it.

 

While I can't say I'm excited about slash at all, I like other things about the latest update. Mostly the way the author handled Pettigrew's emergence. The way he took Neville by surprise and let him know (inadvertantly and through Remus) that Harry was most likely not dead at all was well thought out.

The way Remus put out the notice for Sirius if he'd finished reading was clever, too. One of those things that seems really realist; skipping the classifieds on the day that it could have been most advantageous to keep reading.

Hopefully, if he feels like he has to go slash for a bit, the author will handle it well and (as he put it) tastefully. Which means I won't have to read anything blatantly buttsecks.

 

This one is a good and enjoyable read...
Good characterisation, no stupid mistakes/moments...

4/5 for me

 

Mention of wikipedia killed it for me.

 

I skipped the entire Hogwarts parts, I didn't want to read about things that Harry wouldn't know what was going on. It didn't interest me in that fashion. Although, I do like the characterization of Sirius, props there.

I'll have to agree with Nuhuh, it seems like a fairly regular cookie-cutter indy!Harry.

 

Truth. I'll keep reading it, but that pissed me off to no end; it was gratuitous in the extreme and added absolutely nothing to the plot.

 

You have to remember that the date of 1980 as the birth of Harry was detailed only in DH and CoS. Before it was up to the author as to when the story took place (although it was commonly believed to take 1991 as the first year of Hogwarts)

 

Meh, I thought I was the first to recognize the wikipedia part for what it was--crap. That's where I am right now anyway.

Shit like that bothers me, but I'll keep reading because it's different from anything I've read thus far. No promises of greatness once he reaches Hogwarts but... I don't know. We'll see.

When I finish I'll give a full review.

 

Where does it say so in CoS? I know about graves in DH, but I can't remember anything like that in CoS.

 

From the HP Lexicon:

 

The anachronism is a small part of the annoyance, yes, but I repeat: it was gratuitous in the extreme and added absolutely nothing to the plot. I don't mind if the time in which the books are set is altered - it doesn't bother me in the slightest if there's a decent reason for it - but the Wikipedia reference was utterly retarded.

 

I'm pretty sure wikipedia was around in the 90's.

 

here you go:

 

I looked Wikipedia up on Wikipedia... I know... I know

Launched in 2001.

 

Well I'll be dammed, I remember looking up news on a wiki site before then. I assumed it was wikipedia.

 

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