The Wizard Who Meddled With Time has been updated with a new chapter.

Story Stats
Chapters: 9
Words: 93,549
Updated: 2018-08-22 19:46:14 UTC
Published: 2015-08-02 01:07:24 UTC
Previously updated: almost 3 years ago
New Summary:
Terrible things happen to wizards who meddle with time. When that wizard is Harry Potter, the terrible things tend to happen to other people instead. Fourth Year. Time Travel.

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I didn't want to leave concrit in an ffnet review, and since this just got bumped by Xion anyway...

Just got to Chapter 8 and your Author's Note is meta, man.

Sort of how I'm feeling too, I guess? It's not that nothing has happened in the story yet but it feels like not much has happened.

Harry went back in time. He's done some basic horcrux stuff, made a deal with the centuars, created a wand, spent time working on his friendships with various people (some of which are different), played with the press, etc.

Put like that, it seems like a lot has happened. But honestly it feels to me like we're spinning our wheels and have been almost the whole story so far. There's almost no suspense and nothing for Harry to currently be striving towards since his current goal requires him to wait around for a few months.

It's well-written, clever, and incorporates great tidbits like Betsie the not-goat. But it feels like filler. Sorry but 3.5/5 from me. Gotta finish the last chapter before deciding to round up or down.

 

I did @Johnnyseattle - I also read the last chapter available on ffnet, where the author admits that the story is not a fantastic piece of writing. Still significantly better than most of the stories on ffnet, but I rounded down to 3/5.

As for Chapter 8 though - it starts off with more of that feeling that nothing is happening, despite the fact that they're off to grab the diadem. For all the suspense involved they might as well have stopped off for a sandwich somewhere. That would be fine except it's been an entire story of that same feeling, and if there wasn't going to be any suspense it could have been 9k instead of 90k to get to this point.

Then there were some shenanigans with Fred and George and I finally got bored and started skimming. Checked back in and saw more humor with dog!Sirius, jokes about Harry seducing Snape, etc.

There was a really neat bit about Harry being able to make a one-spell wand for someone, as his wand-making abilities for anyone save himself are rather limited, and that was a neat concept that could be explored further, especially if that one-spell becomes easier than normal to cast, etc.

CareOtters is a damned fine writer from what I can recall of his other work. He's a phenomenal beta. This story is "good" but it's not great in my opinion, for all that the writing is technically sound and the ideas are fun.

Edit: In hindsight by "read the last chapter" you might not have meant the last chapter but rather the "chapter 9" that isn't really a chapter. My bad if so.