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Harry has won the war and lost everything he held near and dear. In desperation he gambles everything on a dimensional jump. Bad Weasleys good Dumbledore.
Relationship: Harry Potter/Hermione Granger
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Harry has won the war and lost everything he held near and dear. In desperation he gambles everything on a dimensional jump. Bad Weasleys good Dumbledore.
- GenresFan Fiction
214 pages, ebook
First published September 11, 2006
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December 2, 2023
Rounding a bit *up* to 3★, though that's partly based on my personal Potterverse prefs, so YMMV.
Content warnings for sexual assault, non-con potioning & Imperius, attempted rape, suicidal ideation in the beginning, past attempted suicide. And do I need to say "character death" when it's a baddie?
I really can't buy into Harry's grief-filled descriptions of martyred sugar-and-spice Saint Ginny, who loved all of the *real him* rather than the hero-image Boy-Who-Lived the rest of the wizarding world worshipped-&-hated in the world he left behind — a world which is similar to canon (except for the last couple years), where I definitely don't buy it, either, J.K.! — which further hampers my ability to buy into the rest of this magically-&-politically-overpowered-Harry tale.
He arrives, well-trained for battle and advanced in his studies, carrying his whole double inheritance in his wizard-space trunk, and soon realizes that the joy of having some of his lost family and friends (with several interesting, unusual choices by the author), and Voldemort long dead, is balanced by finding a still openly, vilely bigoted society where he'll have a lot more work to do before any of the peace he longed for. The Great Hall of Hogwarts is seated by blood-status, rather than by the Houses, and students with Muggle blood must fear even rape on the Hogwarts Express.
But wait, strongest-mage-ever!Founders'-Heir!Harry just has to demonstrate to the whole school that magical strength isn't determined by blood, and all but the worst will change their whole way of thinking PDQ! 🙄 And he has hardly any criticism for nice old Dumbles and company, who presided over that hall for years. 🙄🙄 Of course not only this Draco but also this Ron and this gold-digging-bitch!Ginny are among the Slytherin-purebloods worst, making Harry's adjustment harder. 😖
I do like the respectful way Harry gets to know and encourage this Hermione, long-cowed but otherwise much the same in intellect and values, getting a chance in this dimension (where Hermione rightfully loathes Ron) to become more than friends, as he couldn't hope for in the last... but the wixen tradition of early engagements/marriage is another somewhat 🙄-y element.
The writing is good at the technical level of grammar, etc., but at the higher level, ... well, I know I've given other fics with a similar level of maturity in plotting 3★ for having characters I rooted for, even if they were technically less polished, so ...
Content warnings for sexual assault, non-con potioning & Imperius, attempted rape, suicidal ideation in the beginning, past attempted suicide. And do I need to say "character death" when it's a baddie?
I really can't buy into Harry's grief-filled descriptions of martyred sugar-and-spice Saint Ginny, who loved all of the *real him* rather than the hero-image Boy-Who-Lived the rest of the wizarding world worshipped-&-hated in the world he left behind — a world which is similar to canon (except for the last couple years), where I definitely don't buy it, either, J.K.! — which further hampers my ability to buy into the rest of this magically-&-politically-overpowered-Harry tale.
He arrives, well-trained for battle and advanced in his studies, carrying his whole double inheritance in his wizard-space trunk, and soon realizes that the joy of having some of his lost family and friends (with several interesting, unusual choices by the author), and Voldemort long dead, is balanced by finding a still openly, vilely bigoted society where he'll have a lot more work to do before any of the peace he longed for. The Great Hall of Hogwarts is seated by blood-status, rather than by the Houses, and students with Muggle blood must fear even rape on the Hogwarts Express.
But wait, strongest-mage-ever!Founders'-Heir!Harry just has to demonstrate to the whole school that magical strength isn't determined by blood, and all but the worst will change their whole way of thinking PDQ! 🙄 And he has hardly any criticism for nice old Dumbles and company, who presided over that hall for years. 🙄🙄 Of course not only this Draco but also this Ron and this gold-digging-bitch!Ginny are among the Slytherin-purebloods worst, making Harry's adjustment harder. 😖
I do like the respectful way Harry gets to know and encourage this Hermione, long-cowed but otherwise much the same in intellect and values, getting a chance in this dimension (where Hermione rightfully loathes Ron) to become more than friends, as he couldn't hope for in the last... but the wixen tradition of early engagements/marriage is another somewhat 🙄-y element.
The writing is good at the technical level of grammar, etc., but at the higher level, ... well, I know I've given other fics with a similar level of maturity in plotting 3★ for having characters I rooted for, even if they were technically less polished, so ...
December 10, 2020
Wow this is bad. At first it was kind of funny how bad it was, I thought the author was going for some sort of joke. Then it just kept going and getting so much worse as it went on. Wow.
I wanted to finish at least a chapter so that I could put in exactly where I dropped it. But it was just so bad and the first chapter just kept going and going... I couldn't do it. Afterwards, I found that the entire 50k story was written in a single chapter.
-Dropped about 1/6 of the way through the first chapter... It was so bad.
I wanted to finish at least a chapter so that I could put in exactly where I dropped it. But it was just so bad and the first chapter just kept going and going... I couldn't do it. Afterwards, I found that the entire 50k story was written in a single chapter.
-Dropped about 1/6 of the way through the first chapter... It was so bad.
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