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Of a Linear Circle #10
Of a Linear Circle - Part VIII - The Second Wizarding War
Fandom: Harry Potter
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence - Post-Goblet of Fire - Time Travel - non-canon relationships - Poly Relationships
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Voldemort's second British Wizarding War began on the Ides of March. Wizarding Britain is still reeling, but there is hardening resolve, as well.
Voldemort will be stopped. Dumbledore is not the only magician to make such a promise.
Words: 369484
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence - Post-Goblet of Fire - Time Travel - non-canon relationships - Poly Relationships
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Voldemort's second British Wizarding War began on the Ides of March. Wizarding Britain is still reeling, but there is hardening resolve, as well.
Voldemort will be stopped. Dumbledore is not the only magician to make such a promise.
Words: 369484
- GenresFan Fiction
1261 pages, ebook
Published May 14, 2020
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October 22, 2021
I don’t know what to do with this story. Series. Whatever.
Lovely worldbuilding, but I already wrote about the jumping problem. Plus I totally stopped trying to keep track of the very diverse OC classmates, yet they keep popping up. Far too many dead people still living, though these saved, and the how, is interesting.
Interesting things are happening, though very drawn-out…
Skipping VII for now. I think after VIII I’ll go V-VII-IX… this timeskip madness is so irritating.
The better timegap stories have present-past-intermediate-present then don’t go back to the past for multiple 100k of words again. This one fails at reader continuity.
And then, SO MANY THINGS are just NOT explained. It’s as if the author had these great ideas and intricate details and forgot parts while he was struggling to write it all before it vanished. (I know that feeling.) This, unfortunately, leaves the reader wondering ever-so-much. I normally like tons of background detail, but not if it makes the story series an incoherent mess.
Still so much wrongness in the Latin (and others), for all the author’s righteous about others using wrong Latin. I’m pretty certain he was plain wrong and the others right in one instance, but I didn’t even dare to look it up to be fully certain, so much did I not want to know. This destroys my entire belief in the AUness parts. (Plus still so much into-your-face with the forced diversity, up to and including emphasising things one would not normally even consider just to prove they “care” about diversity. Sometimes, you care too much.) More inconsistencies follow; Winky speaks proper English for a sentence before reverting, even… and the unexplained things. And… argh, I need to take more detailled notes while reading, can’t find that particular place of puzzlement again right now…
Lovely worldbuilding, but I already wrote about the jumping problem. Plus I totally stopped trying to keep track of the very diverse OC classmates, yet they keep popping up. Far too many dead people still living, though these saved, and the how, is interesting.
Interesting things are happening, though very drawn-out…
Skipping VII for now. I think after VIII I’ll go V-VII-IX… this timeskip madness is so irritating.
The better timegap stories have present-past-intermediate-present then don’t go back to the past for multiple 100k of words again. This one fails at reader continuity.
And then, SO MANY THINGS are just NOT explained. It’s as if the author had these great ideas and intricate details and forgot parts while he was struggling to write it all before it vanished. (I know that feeling.) This, unfortunately, leaves the reader wondering ever-so-much. I normally like tons of background detail, but not if it makes the story series an incoherent mess.
Still so much wrongness in the Latin (and others), for all the author’s righteous about others using wrong Latin. I’m pretty certain he was plain wrong and the others right in one instance, but I didn’t even dare to look it up to be fully certain, so much did I not want to know. This destroys my entire belief in the AUness parts. (Plus still so much into-your-face with the forced diversity, up to and including emphasising things one would not normally even consider just to prove they “care” about diversity. Sometimes, you care too much.) More inconsistencies follow; Winky speaks proper English for a sentence before reverting, even… and the unexplained things. And… argh, I need to take more detailled notes while reading, can’t find that particular place of puzzlement again right now…
January 5, 2022
Series continues to be good, with a few caveats: Tons of side characters being treated well means massively slower story progress. General competency porn continues, but the Latin somehow got worse (while the complaints about bad Latin, in-text, remained), which is mildly infuriating. Somebody explain to the author what a Vocative is, please.
Other than that: More old people, more not-really-dead people, a Death speaking in all-caps, plus the conclusion of the main part of the series. It's not great, and it's often concerned with plugging its own plot holes, but it's decent plotting, alright writing and also some competent adults kicking ass.
Other than that: More old people, more not-really-dead people, a Death speaking in all-caps, plus the conclusion of the main part of the series. It's not great, and it's often concerned with plugging its own plot holes, but it's decent plotting, alright writing and also some competent adults kicking ass.
May 23, 2021
Books truly have no business making me cry. Who authorised those squiggles on my screen to emotionally effect me?!?
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