This Means War
By Jeconais
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Not another cliffhanger!
Very exciting story, loved many different part of it.
OH btw... At this point Dudley would either be in College - at which i don't think he would be - or working.
Or like me and be looking for a job but no one taking him on at all - Remember. 11 year old - start high school.
High school here, has 5 years, not 7. Hogwarts has 7 for both high and college - Newts being wizarding A-Levels.
College 2- or 3 depending, years.
So if you ever make a change or explain something elsewhere about that, you could say when he left Smeltings and *barely* got into college, he met Sheryl and so on... or that , with harry being all
isolationist that summer, harry didn't hear that dudley got kicked out toward the end and had to drop back a year when going to stonewall hence a year-discrapancy. I know this happens as, a lad named
leon had moved just a week into our year 10 (4th year hogwarts), and he should have by all rights been in year 11 - a week to catch up isn't much. but they knocked him back a full year.
He already had most of the year's coursework, having done it when he did a full year 10 at his last school. So he had more time for bullying *rolls eyes*
Once again, Great cheapter !!
I've been lurking around your site waiting for you to finish this story (I do a lot of systems analysis and project planning so I spend up to six hours in my office reading or sleeping) because I
hate being forced to stop reading a story and wait for updates. I'm an only child, I'm whiny like that.
This is an incredibly, amazing, believable view of fantasy. It's like reading Asimov or Clarke writing science fiction - yes, it's grounded in fact/canon - it's totally within character, or rather,
based on established fact; a layered fantasy on fantasy. Let me check under my tea cozy for some more hyperbolic superlatives.
The plot is outstanding; the character canonizations are outstanding - you handle their language appropriately - for example; Ron's attitude was masterful and completely within character;
Dumbledore's "hands off" policy is completely based in fact/canon; the inter-character interactions are outstanding.
I burst out laughing in my office reading the YMCA scene. I had a tear in my eye when Ginny was comforting Harry in the Great Hall after showing Snape his childhood - if you repeat that to anyone
I'll deny it.
I tip my hat in respect as I jauntily head off to drink beers and play darts. I'm halfway through Chapter Eight and fully expect there will be no systems analyzed nor projects planned tomorrow.
I'm very entertained by the idea that the Hogwarts staff acts like normal people behind the scenes. Well-written and convincing.
I am a firm believer in the right of an author to use cliffhangers as a way to make their audience wait. I think it's an especially useful tool for fanfiction writers, as the reader doesn't have the option to immediately continue on. Regular authors can only do this at the end of books, and it is especially evil when there is no sequel to that book. But, although it makes your readers fret, they know there will be a next chapter eventually. And that, although long winded, is my reason for never, ever coming after an author for leaving a cliffhanger. Although... I do sometimes come at them with a "That's evil, now you must update soon" but that's a heat of the moment thing. I never blame them. It's a very useful tool. In fact, I respect you even more for taking advantage of it. It's a very good thing, it really keeps the reader interested. Wow, ok, I'm officially ranting, I'll go away now. I loved the chapter, as always, and I like them long, it means each time you update there's plenty to love, not just two pages of goodness, but almost a hundred.
Bummer.
gunny
MMails are a cool idea it almost makes it a new cannon idea. i resently read one that these two muggleborn developed it new. I think that it would increase the value of many stories. Oh on to the reveiw of the chapter not the notes this one was a good chapter it created the set for harry's busyness. i find myself realigning cannnon years in my head when reading the story automaticly which is a testement to the writting of the author. the malfoy's main money maker is butterbear makes sense and shows in this story that it was made from stealing it form ABE.
Hehe, good on Ginny. I was hoping she wouldn’t be that dumb. Dudley wrote that? Really? I’m rather shocked. Loved the vault and his parents’ advice, especially regarding redheads. Harry’s voice of command is just plain funny, as was the reaction of the Gryffindor girls to Harry’s new clothes. Loved the cliffhanger and the way you manipulate the plot.
Actually, the premise of Mmail being similar to Muggle e-mail (which itself started with the original ARPANET in the US) is more a case of *great minds think alike* than anything else. What people
don't realize is that ARPANET itself (which is still the core of the commercial Internet) is almost thirty years old, and, with judicious hardware and software updates, is not only still extant, but
still in use. (The government side of ARPANET morphed into MILNET, and, later, into the .GOV and .MIL domains of the current Internet; my own first e-mail address was on MILNET in 1985, while working
for the Navy as a civilian.) The model for Hogwarts' Magical Area Network is not the Local Area Network, but the much larger Metropolitan Area Network, with a gateway to the rest of WizardNet
(actually, two such gateways; one at Hogwarts itself, and a second at, fittingly, the Ministry Building, which is also home to the WizardNet/Muggle Internet gateway). The idea of the Death Eaters
monitoring the WizardNet/Muggle Internet gateway makes all sorts of sense; as long as the various ARPANET and successor gateways with the commercial Internet have existed, we have ALWAYS been warned
that it is HIGHLY LIKELY to suspect adversarial monitoring of the traffic through said gateways, as they are in fixed, and easily located, areas. This is *precisely* why Harry wanted to meet with
Dudley (and later, Dean Thomas) in corpus, for security reasons.
To the teeth of my review of this chapter:
Severus DEFINITELY has a clue. And, oddly enough, so does *Dudley Dursley*. And so do the rest of the Hogwarts staff. (And, amazingly, so does the future *Bellatrix Snape*. Yes, I said *Snape*, so
get your jaws off the floor.) Vernon and Petunia Dursley are in so much hot water that they will get *parboiled*.....
hehe. that explains the Blaise thing...
I was about to die when Ginny threw the punch, but you made her so trusting of Harry, you weren't anxious for long.
I agree with the whole cliche thing. highly annoying.
hello my name is joost i am from holland and i was wondering wen you are going to post the next chapter of This means war?
i most say that its a funny story and i like it. greetings from holland
"Sirius shared his popcorn with Remus as well as Snape."
XDDDD Bwahahahaha! LMAO *Gasps for breath*
I am SO sorry that I havn't reviewed in any of the other chapters. It's just at the end of every chap, I'm so eager to go on to the next one that I click and start reading right away. (I've only
stopped once, and that was to go to the (as you wonderful brits say,) loo. O.O! XD)
I've read only one of your other stories, along with this one, and they are both fantastically brilliant. Can't wait to read more. *Grins like a maniac*
~Call me PWG
please update. looking forward to ch.10 and the next ch. in "white knight, grey queen". your writing style is awsome. iv'e got your website bookmarked and i check it every day for updates.
Tim just to let you know this review area shows up about a third of the way up the story in firefox! i am putting this message in here just to let you know! plus fantastic story keep up the great writing!
Brad
The full size liunk in the a/n is fine, however.
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While I'm at it, take a peek at the review and go to next chapter button :)
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