Jamie' posted a comment on Wednesday 16th August 2006 1:13pm for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

You know, I just realized something.

Back in Dumbledore's Army, a person of Child Protection Services was named William Hill. Bill is a nickname for William, so it will be Bill Hill. The words have "ill" in common, so something becomes ill. The two remaining letters are B and H. I don't know anyone with a surname beginning with H, so switching them around gives HB. B might be Black, and Harry is lord of the House of Black, so HB is Harry, lord of Black. And he becomes ill. With the magicus matura. In the next story after DA and SC. You had already planned the SoB storylines before beginning to write Dumbledore's army, and put in a very subtle clue for the next series, even mentioning William Hill again in SoB.

Very brillant.

akmusique32 posted a comment on Wednesday 16th August 2006 7:32am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

Hello Bob, Alyx. How are you doing? So I held off reviewing on sunset because well, with the way your chapters tend to go (the long way) its much easier to jsut write everything out at once! So , before I begin telling you what I think of Sunrise my most distuinguished twin shall tell you what i thought( oh I dont REALLY have a twin , she's just really my alter ego, I do, on the other hand have an annoying prat of a brother named Eli, and you're welcome to steal him for your violent disclaimers ANYTIME!)
I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF SUNSET!!! ( i know its all caps but w/e)

I seriously loved it.... I'm a die hard H/hr shipper and though i read others, I just dont think any one works well anywhere else... at all.. (unless of course its slash and that's an entirly differnt matter :) ) so I love novel length fics and this certainly is one... but they're just so hard to find ... and ive been boycotting faffiction.net for the past yr and a half.... but thats a different matter. I loved the pet peeves , the AN's crack me up and It's my goal in life (currently it changes often... one time i wanted to be a high priced prostitute... but I digress) to be mentioned in your AN's... so hopefully i have accomplished that.

I actually read sunset and sunrise in a day and half...( I didnt leave my computer and my lil bro almost blew up the microwave a coupla times ) and my mum got REALLY mad (she does get mad quite often when I get into a fic.... mainly because i read so many novel length ones that its hard for me to stop and the world usaully disapears when I read sooo...) and Im really behind on homework.. so it gave a me another excelent reason to procrastinate even more than usual....

I Love your writing style, though i did notice quite a few typos in sunrise .... but thats not style...
I enjoy your plotline ALOT ALOT ALOT!! its great.... ummm... hopefully dumbles dies at the end of the this one... ( insert generic rant about dumbles being manipulative here) I like how you gave harry a weakness and though I hate it when harry gets hurt and hermione acts stupid , they are essential pieces.... I like tonks being harrys gardian.. that was GREAT....

so now ... on to the sunrise portion of this review ... i guess... I enjoy the peeves stuff... oh and harrys shirts.. mind if i make them for myself? i just NEED the aura one...

ummm ..question... how big of a plot is the hermione not in the field? or rather.. not in a combant position? and the Wizengamot? will dumbles reapear soon to try to take over? also ... harrys going to kill off all the nice assasins... and dumbles giggling is just wonderful...hes nuts... needs to be in the loony bin !! im glad that mad eye is partaking in the war.... CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!!


might i ask where you get your inspiration for your diclaimers? i notice they started out short and now they have grown....and does someone have an unsual obssesion with alan rickman? lol..... (oh and feel free to use Eli as any sort of torture device... hes blonde and blue eyed... reminds me of draco but alas hes related to me so i cant do anything with him... my lilttle brother enjoys hitting and spitting..... cucumbers and has a nasty little obsession with cats... )

when are we going ot here from terry and susan agian?


hmmm... i dont think i can think of anything more to adress accept update soon.. love the fics... keep it coming and.. update soon!!

h.a.n.n.a.h
hp_band_nerd2@yahoo.com


oh and excuse any typos... i attemted to findthem but i really dont like reading things in the itty bitty reply windows..... hurts my eyes...

ted slack posted a comment on Monday 14th August 2006 9:11am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

Y'all are seriously cool. I'm moving to Haven.

Steve6 posted a comment on Monday 14th August 2006 2:51am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

The Great Pumpkin! I loved it! Linus van Pelt and Charles Schultz would be proud. Whoo-hoo! This story keeps getting better and better. I'm not even going to guess where this story is going next. All I can say is keep up the good work and I hope to see another chapter soon. BTW: whatever happened to Colin Creevey anyway? And any other updates on other characters would be appreciated.

selenepotter posted a comment on Sunday 13th August 2006 5:04am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

more please!

Kyle Bissett posted a comment on Friday 11th August 2006 10:02pm for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

You stated that the Wizengamot was purged of non-purists in Sunset. As such, the only people to be rescued from Azkaban from the Wizengamot would be muggle sympathizers and people who annoyed the DEs in the Wizengamot (I'm willing to be that Mr My-last-name-was-the-nickname-of-a-Plantagenet-so-I-must -be-a-King was in the second category). As such, purists in the Wizengamot should be a distinct minority at the moment.

How did Littleton know Voldie was a half-blood? Only a limited number of people knew Voldemort's real name and history, though AD should have spread that knowledge as far as possible to weaken the DE power base. The only time his origins have been openly stated in public was the battle at Hogwarts, which was witnessed only by Death Eaters, who would have been ordered to not spread that 'slander' on pain of multiple Cruicios and an Avada Kedavra.

Malfoy's made a big mistake. Keeping the General Staff is a necessity, which he did. Purging the officers below the General Staff was stupid, but as he isn't planning to keep the army around for the generation it would take for those officers to replace the General Staff. But I doubt that he realizes that the true strength of any army comes from the senior NCOs. You didn't say specifically, but from your descriptions he's either replaced the sergeants with more thugs, or simply put the sergeants under people who don't understand that they have more experience than the officers and as such should be listened to. As such, even with harsher discipline, the effectiveness of the British Army will drop dramatically. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the junior officers and senior NCOs who managed to avoid the purges trying to work their way to the resistance units. Once that happens, Mad-Eye will need to find a way to make sure these recruits aren't DE plants, some of which will show up eventually - one that doesn't involve pointing a stick, muttering some Latin and giving a trust/don't trust verdict. Colonel McHardy would not understand or accept that process as valid.

Bobmin356 replied:

In Sunset we said the non purists were purged. That is correct, the people who were purged were sent to azkaban where they were ultimately rescued. This group consisted of a number of pure bloods who agreed with the policies of Voldemort, but refused to follow a half blood.

I won't go into numbers, but the current break down of the Wizengamot is mostly made up of neutrals, with some people, whom we've already met, on the Ministry's side, and some against the ministry.

The Wizengamot was informed of Voldemort's background in Sunset. It was in a scene that was cut from the story but kept in the plotline.

Yes what Lucius did was stupid. But then I don't claim he's any sort of genius, never have. As for McHardy, he's learning to trust Moody. The guy's brought him food, supplies, more men... after a while you sorta learn to trust that. Besides, a bulk of McHardy's men will come from a more reliable source than Moody.

Jamie' posted a comment on Thursday 10th August 2006 11:25am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

A question: will you ever post Dumbledore's Army and Spiritallus Crystallus on here?

TxA_GunFighter posted a comment on Thursday 10th August 2006 11:01am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

Good chapter.

gunny

M. R. Moore posted a comment on Thursday 10th August 2006 3:58am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

I have to know, are they? Though i've never heard of a Great Pumpkin.

You know, I'd swear that I once read a story that had Luna being the many greats granddaughter of Santa.

mathiasgranger posted a comment on Wednesday 9th August 2006 1:20pm for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

That was a fun chapter and it moved the story along quite nicely.

I envy your ability to carry on so many different aspects of the story at once, it makes reading your story a very involved experience.

I've reread several chapters that you've recently posted numerous times to catch the direction of the story and there are still things I'm sure I am missing.

I have to admit the great pumpkin was very funny, although I can hardly remember watching the cartoon special on Halloween when growing up. Good old Linus patiently waiting for the great pumpkin to arrive.

Thanks for the update and keep up the good work.

Matt

minervakitty posted a comment on Wednesday 9th August 2006 1:57am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

I do hope that Bob knows that the letter is now phony and that the twins get more torture in future disclaimers, along with Snape. Does this mean that Lucius would get boosted before getting offed by Voldie? Who's going to put the portals in place? Wonder if the portals will work in non magical areas. I do hope they find out on who's leading the pure blood idiots at Haven and boot them out. Just how many people will Voldie loose? I do hope that they tap the labor force that they have in Haven. Also those that break the peace should be forced to do the demeaning jobs for a very long time. Wonder if someone has brewed stamina potion for the Brotherhood. How many more angels will be born?Dumbledore should get doubled and triple crossed. I wonder who's holding the blackmail pictures? I do hope that Camilia tasted really good.

Scott Sakraida posted a comment on Wednesday 9th August 2006 1:31am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

This is probably your funniest chapter so far in this story. the great pumpkin from charlie brown is the best. hope that gets all explained next chapter.

Manatheron posted a comment on Tuesday 8th August 2006 3:21pm for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

Can't we just get the queen to disband the Wizengamut? it would simplify so many other things.

PS. The great Pumpkin? -{Grins}- Nice touch!

Lurk posted a comment on Monday 7th August 2006 7:06am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

My god! ::laughs hysterically:: The Great Pumpkin? The Great Pumpkin?!?! Good grief.

::sigh:: I love Charlie Brown. I also love this story!

Hmmmm, let's see. Eh, Wizengamot's stupid, and Harry should just blast them all and go "har har har, I'm the ruler now!" (I just quoted something, but I can't remember what....)

Good idea, keeping Hermione MAINLY out of the fighting, it's not really her forte.

Dumbledore is giving me nightmares. His giggle creeps me out.

Eh? Nooo! Why the twins!? Twins are cool! Twins are sexy! They don't deserve to be roasted like chestnuts over an open fire! Though the fire farts are funny.

Keep it up!

Crys posted a comment on Monday 7th August 2006 3:52am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

Harry left Q Branch but DIDN'T look for Amy? Hmm. I'd think he'd be at least curious.

EP-3E ? Is that the predecessor to the Rivet Joint (electronic intel gatherer) aircraft? Or have I just proclaimed that I'm a complete idiot by asking that?

You took away the chocolate frog company?! How could you? Well, okay, so it leaves a spot for an obvious niche company for Haven.

Good insertion of Mr. Amos. Your general bigoted arsehole moment, there. Nothing spectacular, just pointing out what they're like.

The pageant. *grin* That was just too fun. My kids are just getting to school age, so I'm sure I'll see some variant of this in the next few years.

I'm just glad the name "Charlie Brown" didn't show up.

> but I hear the BBQ was spectacular
Okay, Bob, that was just wrong. Funny as hell, but wrong.

Shawn Pickett posted a comment on Monday 7th August 2006 12:49am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

An outstanding chapter. While I see the Wizengamout being A problem, I would think that some of the blatant bigots like Mr. Amos ought to be run out of Haven on a rail.

ironau posted a comment on Sunday 6th August 2006 9:18pm for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

"Many Boffins died to get us this information" is a quote from Star Wars when the rebels are discussing the death star. I even suggested to google to display their search complexities in number of boffins. Saddly they have not yet done so publically.

I'll let the rational number issue die right here. if you don't know what I'm talking about Harry likely doesn't either, and I'm sure you don't want a number theory discussion in your reviews :)

I just finished reading sunset and sunrise and the stories are very well written. The pace is slow, but the plot is so complex that I think the pacing is correct for the complexity.

So if Harry and Hermoine are the two great heros, who is going to become Linus preaching the story of the great pumpkin. I vote for one of Luna and Draco's many time great grand childern.

erin_colien posted a comment on Sunday 6th August 2006 11:27am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

great update looking forward to the next. wouldnt mind seeing more sessions with the wizard council.

Laura Peregrine posted a comment on Sunday 6th August 2006 4:52am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

I never realized that Linus Van Pelt was a wizard or a squib!

Laura Peregrine

MarinePotterfan posted a comment on Sunday 6th August 2006 2:46am for Chapter 17 - Trick or Treat

Another Great chapter, I wonder how many babies are going to come about because of the Angels mating. I see a big battle in the comming chapters, I hope that it put a big dent in Voldys forces. Oh by the way there are 247 bomblets in a cluster bomb. But that is a minor detail. If you have any questions on weapons that are being droped or fired from any American aircraft. Shoot me an email, 22 years of Marine Avaition Ordnance. So I know every weapon and there uses, and I will be more than happy to give you any information you need.

Thanks for Writing
MPF