Terry Swain posted a comment on Sunday 30th April 2006 11:21am for Miserable Uncertainties

gREAT CHAPTER. :)

Charles Slone posted a comment on Sunday 30th April 2006 9:58am for Miserable Uncertainties

intresting story, can't wait to see where this goes now

dee posted a comment on Sunday 30th April 2006 7:00am for Miserable Uncertainties

great chapter! i hope u update more often than u did before...

Wolf550e posted a comment on Sunday 30th April 2006 4:13am for Miserable Uncertainties

Ruddy awesome! Keep writing!

Life's a Dance posted a comment on Saturday 29th April 2006 10:48am for Miserable Uncertainties

I HATE CLIFFIES!!! You are an evil, evil, EVIL author to leave it like that...That said, please update soon! The uncertainty is killing me!

Kim Patterson posted a comment on Saturday 29th April 2006 8:01am for Miserable Uncertainties

A cliffie? Those are so hard to take. It was great to read your latest chapter and I'm greatly looking forward to the next...and hoping it won't be too far away.

:-) Thanks

Jack-A-Roe posted a comment on Saturday 29th April 2006 12:48am for Miserable Uncertainties

Iloved Arthur's reflection, especially the part if anyone had asked him a year ago...

I think Harry is making too big a deal with his feelings for Ginny. Each day she is more different than the one he knew. If he likes this new person and she likes him, then there is no problem. If not, then he was at least true to his word to help her out and make her early years better than they were before.

Does anyone in the school find it odd that a second year muggle raised student can out duel older students? Shouldn't that raise the eyebrows of some of the professors?

When Harry got through the detention with Snape with no problems, he should have been wondering what was going on. Constant Vigilence!

Looking forward to the next chapter.

Viridian replied:

"I think Harry is making too big a deal with his feelings for Ginny. " Neurotic people do that.

"Does anyone in the school find it odd that a second year muggle raised student can out duel older students?" Not if it's the Boy Who LIved, defeater of Voldemort!

"Shouldn't that raise the eyebrows of some of the professors?" - Not when you consider the number of books he seems to be reading, the marks he and his friends get, and the extra practice they do every morning before breakfast.

"Constant Vigilence!" True, but unless you are Mad-Eye himself, you can only look in one direction at once...

Kail Ceannai posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 5:44pm for Miserable Uncertainties

I had to reread half your story to even remember which one it was and get the details straight from other Harry-transfers-memories-back-in-time stories. Once I got everything straight, I enjoyed your chapter very much despite the unfair cliff hanger.


Thanks for the update!

demonsx posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 4:38pm for Miserable Uncertainties

Awesome update, I love this story.

ridmania posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 4:16pm for Miserable Uncertainties

awesome but very mean of you im ssooo upset harry is awesmoe if its snape or malyfoy you have to get harry to fucking kick their ass big time

Meteoricshipyards posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 2:58pm for Miserable Uncertainties

Evil! Evil! Evil Cliffie! No cookie for you!

That's pretty good.

I liked that he was able to bring McGonnagal over to his thinking. Glad the others are almost ready to know the awful truth. Happy that Molly is helping heal up Sirius. And mad that I'm probably going to wait another month or so before we find out who stunned Harry and what happens to him.

Thanks for writing. Good story!

Tom A.

Prince Charon posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 1:16pm for Miserable Uncertainties

Very interesting.

Please don't leave us hanging over this cliff for to long.

hga posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 12:14pm for Miserable Uncertainties

This chapter is very good, and I enjoyed the excellent Arthur retrospective.

I like how you're moving the story along at a nice clip, although I wonder if the focus on plot is harming character interaction a bit:

This [Ginny] was becoming his closest friend.

You tell us this, and you've shown it to us in previous chapters, but in this chapter I don't think you have the two of them exchanging a single word; in fact I think she has only one line of dialogue where they are discussing Snape. It just seems to me that their relationship has drastically changed, beyond the level Harry is fearing....

And a note for the third year: didn't it take the expose of the whole Chamber of Secrets disaster to clear Hagrid so that he could become a professor? Without something happening, Harry and co. won't be able to study under him next year---and Harry wouldn't be planning on that, he'd be planning on getting Hagrid cleared (although his plate is very full, and this is highly optional).

Of course, as others have noted, maybe Fate (which you've explicitly given some sort of power to) has conspired to repeat the CoS, solving both these problems.

Anyway, we waited a month for this, and it was worth it. Please keep up the good work.

luisalexandre posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 11:18am for Miserable Uncertainties

It feels a bit stupid to consecutively say your story his great ( 26 times already) but i really have nothing to criticize. It's an ambious, well written, well thought story, the characters are themselves, and even better, are not plane, evolving in a logical manner. And now the story is reaching on of it's high point's, which is great.
And by the way, that's no cliffie, that's a canyon, or something.

Lincoln posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 11:11am for Miserable Uncertainties

Hmm. I knew there was a reason i hated cliffhanging! O no! what will happen? will he still be able to hold his own against the appalling potions professor? I think he should- after all, he has the experience to take on Voldemort in his previous life.

I also like the way he's starting to warm up to Ginny- I hope she's as warm, understanding and supportive this time around- i have a feeling she will be..

Nice writing on the other characters as well, it was a good thing to see things from Mr Weasley's perspective as well - will we see an outtake on the conversation he had with Mrs Weasley revealing Sirius to her?

Once again, Many thanks for your writing, and keep it up!

I remain,

Lincoln

Regress posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 8:37am for Miserable Uncertainties

OOOOOOHhhhh, bloody cliff-hangers.

*sigh* I'll just have to wait, won't I? Meh, it's worth the wait. Great job on the chapter as usual, I'm getting pretty interested to see what's going on with Ginny that's keeping her so distracted and quiet, could she be getting suspicious of Harry? I doubt it, but it will be an interesting conversation when Harry can finally come clean completely with her.

Anyway, keep up the good work and don't worry about rushing yourself. We (the readers) should know how life can get, so I certainly don't mind a longer wait if you don't have as much time/inspiration to write.

thedjinn posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 7:33am for Miserable Uncertainties

Uh oh... unfortunately, this chapter is just as brilliant as your other ones, DANG IT. Well, it looks like it's about time to read over the previous chapter again. I think I've read the entire story (thus far) a few times - get something new each time.

Well, as usual, your story is the most anticipated of any WIPs I am currently reading (of about 40 or so, I think at last count).

I don't have any negative comments - I should after the initial euphoria passes.

-J

Quizer posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 6:51am for Miserable Uncertainties

Time for my second reading & review, the first being the one where I describe my 'first impressions' and forget to praise the good stuff while bitching about the stuff that irks me or wonder about things I don't understand.

I like those insightful passages from the perspective of other people, in this case Arthur Weasley. When I recently re-read the whole story, the passages from Molly's and Hermione's point of view also stood out positively once more. Were you an author of lesser calibre, I suspect those passages might be dull and repetitive and subtract from the story rather than add to it, but you get most out of them. Good job, and keep using them!

I especially like them because they let us see clearly the effects Merged!Harry has on the timeline. Which brings me to my next point. What I really like about your story is that it is not locked into a repetition of canon. If something happens the same way in your story as it did in the original timeline, there's usually solid reasoning for that. I sincerely hope it stays that way; I don't like stories whose authors go to ridiculous lengths to preserve the canon timeline and events in their AU/timetravel story. I really liked that bit with the stormy Quidditch match instead of the fair weather it (supposedly) had in the original timeline. It goes to show that the tiniest random factors can totally change things. That said, I don't mind (much) if the chamber does get opened in the coming chapters, as long as you provide solid reasoning (I would prefer a new, innovational chain of events, though. And please don't make Harry suffer!)

I wonder though. One person on the Yahoo Group said that perhaps the diary got switched (perhaps during the train incident?)... Ginny's behavior seems highly suspicious to me as well. I really hope it is not a controlled Ginny or something similiarly bad that stunned him at the end of the chapter. My preferred 'captor' would be Lockhart, trying to save his career. That would promise to be fun, but I can't really picture Lockhart pulling the sneakiness and the stunner.

I also hope Harry stops/gets over his self-doubting routine soon. I don't like reading Self-doubting!Harry at all, and even though it makes sense, is well done, and the very nature of those doubts is repetitive, I find it irks me. I really hope you handle the 'reassurances' his friends are going to give him well. I see a lot of pitfalls ahead in that area.

The Cho & Cedric thing was a very nice touch which I really enjoyed.
The usage of Rita to get rid of Lockhart is great, too. I remember the passage where Harry thought: "That's it, you negligent bastard, you definitely have to go. Sooner rather than later." I was starting wondering why he didn't appear to follow up on it.
I'm also looking forward to that interview. Rita is probably sharp enough to notice something is off with Harry. It shall be interesting to see how Harry deals with that.

"He wouldn’t let things progress until she knew the whole truth." I can see this sentence spelling trouble. If Ginny misinterpreted Harry's sigh when he saw Cho and Cedric, I can actually see her having jealousy and inferiority issues. Hope that doesn't grow into a problem. Bring on that revelation talk we've all been waiting for soon, will ya?!

"But excessive self-interest was a lot easier for Harry to deal with than outright malevolence."
Considering Harry's loathing for Lockhart, this sentence doesn't really ring true. I'd say the opposite makes far more sense in that case, even though Lockhart's self-interest and delusion is so far off the scale it isn't even funny.

Liked the Quidditch match. The comments about the snitch 'trying to warm up' make me wonder: Does it have a 'sentient AI' or did it fly into the broom by accident?

I have to agree with what another person said about the stunner: I thought that a stunner makes people unconscious. I can accept that it takes a fraction of a second for the spell to shut down the brain, in which time one would be unable to move but still aware of what happened, but the description of it at the end is still strange.

Snape is behaving very strangely as well. Somehow I doubt it is him who organized Harry's 'accident' shortly after the detention. Still, there's so many things that are left unanswered. Hurry up and write more, okay?


Quizer

Sideline posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 6:32am for Miserable Uncertainties

My thoughts on this chapter in general are the same as always: I loved it, you rule, and I hate your job/commute.

More specifically McGonagall, Skeeter, and Slughorn were all perfectly in character. Harry musing about his age puts to rest most, if not all, of the concerns about his current and potential relationships. The whole occlumency situation coming to a head has me furiously speculating on how you will play it.

The cliffhanger was the right move plot wise. If this were a novel I was reading at three am on a Monday night I would stay up to read the next chapter. That has always been my test and you are one of the few authors (the lack of the term fanfiction was intentional) that pass it.

Thank you for a nice bit of relaxation in a stressful day!

Quizer posted a comment on Friday 28th April 2006 4:45am for Miserable Uncertainties

Bah, evil cliffhanger. I knew that it would amount to something like that. Wonder who the 'familiar' voice was.

Ginny's behavior makes me wonder if Lucius churned out another Horcrux that has a similiar effect as the Diary. I kinda doubt she is jealous of Cho, she ought to have seen her with Cedric as well.

Looks like Harry underestimated the changes he wrought once again, like with Vernon Dursley. After the 'excessive' caution Harry has displayed throughout this fic, I find it kind of hard to understand how he let himself be caught off-guard here though. Snape's behavior alone should have made him suspicious (regardless whether it actually WAS Snape who attacked him).

You better be careful writing the next chapter! I don't like reading Helpless!Harry. Hopefully he will still have a few tricks up his sleeve that will get him back in control ASAP.


Quizer