Angus Hardie posted a comment on Tuesday 30th May 2006 10:52pm for 9 - London

This is a wonderful story. I've never read a story with Gabrielle and Harry before and I never imagined how well it would work. THe story is brilliantly set out, the concept is extremely clever and the writing superb.

I particularly liked the way that the relationship between the two of the them develops. I also liked the back story that you wrote for Velas and of course the way that Harry behaves is beautifully done.

I'm looking forward to the next chapter very much indeed!

Aikuchi Shikaku posted a comment on Tuesday 23rd May 2006 10:16pm for 9 - London

Wonderful, absolutely wonderful. Riveting, exciting, and very romantic. A good read in it's entirety. I hope that you will continue.

CootiePatootie posted a comment on Tuesday 23rd May 2006 5:54pm for 9 - London

Tim;

I started Hope a long time ago and promptly forgot about it. Today I found it again, and boy am I glad. There are so many things in this story that I absolutely love; honestly, I couldn't begin to name them. I am not surprised, though, I have this reaction to everything you write.

This is an excellent example of just why your fanfic (and by the by, the work of those on your site, here) is truly worth reading.

Things I like (of course I will forget some...)
Hermione not being "forgiven" - good show
"Min" - my favorite professor bar none
Gabby - a beautifully fleshed out character (please, this is not meant to be in any way raunchy) she has heart, spirit, intelligence, and wit. *I* would be in love with her, and I'm a 34 year old woman! ;-)
Harry - I'm so glad you let him grow up. I like him grown up.
The Beauxbatons Faculty Quidditch team. Yahoo!!! that was great. And Lee commentating? How perfect is that. Of course the "Harry's Heros" Quidditch team will hire him as an announcer, right???
Mme Maxime - I love her character. Together with St. Margarets (Mary), you two have an amazing gift for taking characters that are somewhat peripheral to the canon story and building a whole world around them.
Love the visits...Merlins' cave, how great is that? Harry Black...wonderful (though it does remind me of one of my top 5 hilarious fanfics: Make a Wish by Rorshach's Blot on ff.net. Harry is "Mr. Black" in it); shopping in Milan oh I could just DIE! I love Milan, though me personally, I would've gone shopping in Firenze, but I'm a teensy bit biased about that
Hmmmm...ol' Trelawney as a devious sneakie poo, didn't see that one coming
Snape & Malfoy bleghhh
Is Dumbledore under a potions influence? I mean, even for "manipulative!Dumbledore" he seems really out of it - schizoaffective really.
oh me...I guess that's enough for now.
I anxiously await your next installment.

Cheers!

Cassie

ps: what's the story with Remus, Tonks, and Cho's betrayal? Have you already written that one? I'd love to read the "final battle." CP

mashimaromadness posted a comment on Monday 22nd May 2006 9:20pm for 9 - London

Wow! I'm so excited that Harry has finally caught on. And the Quidditch and dueling scenes were amazing. You have done an amazing job with these characters. I am so attached to them, and I really try not to do so and read a story objectively first. But I just can't help loving (or hating) them. It's really quite a fabulous expierience. And I can't wait until Harry finally officially accepts Gabby. It's going to be so romantic! Aaah, listen to me, you've made me into a sap! Damnit! I can't get enough, I am forever waiting until your next update.
Faithfully,
Mashimaromadness

Leo posted a comment on Saturday 20th May 2006 6:19pm for 9 - London

This is a hell of a story!! I realy like it!! chevallier harry is just whicked! and gabrielle is perfect! the magic, quiddich, innuendo, etc are precicely what i like!
AND the prospect from a new teem!!!
i'd like to see the next chap!
GREAT STORY ª!!

digger posted a comment on Friday 19th May 2006 9:58pm for 9 - London

I beg you update your work soonest

unperfectwolf posted a comment on Friday 19th May 2006 7:25pm for 9 - London

I just read the entire story over again and I wanted to (re) tell you how much I like it. For some reason, your Harry is one of my favorites. The way you describe him just brings him alive to me - and it seems so right. I think I fell in love, no matter where the story went or goes, when Harry first jumped onto his broom with Gabby. But yeah.

As far as the phrase "if thats what you think, you've got another think/g coming", it /is/ "think". But it's almost always used wrongly these days, so it makes SENSE for you to use "thing". But thats just me being the daughter of an english teacher.

Anyways, I can't wait for more, because I truely am excited to see where the story goes. THis story is absolutely awesome.

GuardianOfLight posted a comment on Friday 19th May 2006 4:59pm for 9 - London

Excellent, magnificent, a truly wonderful chapter.

A real air puncher as I call them, a chapter that was really satisfying to read.

I hope the next chapter comes out soon, this one was definitly worht the wait.

Adam (GuardianOfLight)

ichtys posted a comment on Thursday 18th May 2006 12:55pm for 9 - London

Thanks for sharing this story with us,Tim.
I really enjoy reading enything you write, so if you some day get a book published, I'll buy it (if I can get it).

Please extand my thanks to the Beta-team as well.
Regards Ichtys

Blaznazn2k3 posted a comment on Thursday 18th May 2006 6:17am for 9 - London

GREAT CHAPTER!!!
I can't wait for the next chapter to be released! Please hurry and take us out of our misery.

Just one qualm though, in this entire story, you make Trelawny seem much more intelligent, manipulative, and revengeful than her original character was portrayed. I'm not complaining or anything, but I've always figured her as the self-absorbed type that puts too much faith in her own prowess at "seeing".

tempeleng posted a comment on Wednesday 17th May 2006 11:03am for 9 - London

I really enjoy your stories! Thanks for sharing it on the net.

Teddy posted a comment on Wednesday 17th May 2006 6:45am for 9 - London

Damn that was good!! cant wait for the next chapter!!

And i hope draco dies :D and snape and that bitch Sybill.

ArxSerpens posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 6:49pm for 9 - London

w00t, thanks for the update =D

hope to see another one soon, but ont rush it either :p

great work,
Regards,
ArxS.

atlantis-rob posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 6:37pm for 9 - London

Holy cow! That was an incredible chapter J! Really awesome work with the quid matches, especially Harry's Heroes vs the Warty Hogwartians! Too frickin awesome! The various talks with people like Viktor and co and the setup of malfoy were brilliant as was how you handled harrys and gab's reactions! Awesome chapter! You da man!

matt posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 6:31pm for 9 - London

Another excellent chapter. Though there are many reasons for him not to in this construction of things, I wonder what your plan for the name of the new quiddich team will be.
I've always been interested that J.K. Rowling never gave Hogsmead "The only all wizarding village in Britain" its own team....or at least so I think.
Looking forward to soem of the other stuff that you recently said is in beta....and of course to another chapter of this excellent tale, whenever it is ready.
Matt

amulder posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 12:30pm for 9 - London

Forget all that silly plot stuff... I want to know why John called you a jelly doughnut in his review!

:-)

...art

dstorres posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 10:25am for 9 - London

Hello again, while I reviewed this story already I felt compelled to mention something that has been bothering me. While your story is very, very, very good I can't help but be bothered by the Trelawney scene.

While it makes for a great ending I feel that based on your description of Harry in Ch 5: Barcelona that Harry should have known (in NY) that someone was watching him. I re-read the scene and no matter how enamoured he was in this chapter I would say it was no different than Ch 5 (just my opinion on that of course).

Thought it was worth mentioning. I will patiently await the next chapter to see what happens with Harry & Gabby.

KLGreen posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 7:57am for 9 - London

I read it and I completly loved it from start to finish

jzysman posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 6:30am for 9 - London

brilliant brilliant and more brilliant! I really love you work! I truly enjoy how though harry is a powerful wizzard that alone does not really impact the flow of the story, he still has hurdles to overcome and long range plans to bring out. Thank you!!

elderpoot posted a comment on Tuesday 16th May 2006 5:49am for 9 - London

Me like!!!! Rarrr!