Crys posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 2:57am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

And the intros continue their string of being very amusing.

"I refuse to be drugged by anyone, even a healer, Dad."
*frown* Okay, proving that Charlie's either under AD's direct control or he has some charm or something over him that will become noticeable if he's drugged. He didn't have any problems with AD drugging him to the eyeballs previously. Unless it was unknowingly . . . [re-read] Oh, sneaky. So that's how they're eventually going to pry Charlie away from AD.

Subtle and sensitive as always, Gred and Forge ;)

Lucius has some plan with Dudley . . . I expect he's counting on more sympathy from Harry toward Dudley than is warranted. Curious how that will play out.

From behind him he heard the sound of a raspberry and he wondered if other Dark Lords had problems like this.
ROFLMAO

He had also confessed that he didn't know anyone named Melinda McKinny
*raspberry* Of course he doesn't. That's her married name. He conveniently doesn't mention that he DOES know of Fred (or whatever) McKinny and his long-time girlfriend Melinda Smith (or whatever). Argh. Wonderful dance around the truth.

Congratulations, Bob and Alyx. Your fictional characters are pissing me off ;)

Hmm. Kinda surprised that Charlie wasn't at that town meeting. Or if he was, we didn't see his opinion of what was going on.

Author's Noses which is disgusting and snot a nice thing
*eyeroll*

turnlach posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 2:48am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

I like the Dumbledore intrigue that you have going and I'm looking forward to the Harry/Dumbledore confrontation.

I don't think anyone will really care if Charlie tells Dumbledore that his family are using Dark magic. What exactly can Dumbledore do about it? It's not like he's the Supreme Mugwump anymore.

I'm very interested to learn if Dumbledore can cross the Haven line of Death. I wonder if his aura is black enough that he might become sick crossing it.

I'm curious to know if you guys have read Harry Potter and the Acceptance of Fate by Arya1? This is a story that is as long as yours, a great H/Hr fic but unfortunately has not been updated for well over a year.

It's a prime candidate for your Updateless List.

Bobmin356 replied:

Unfortunately Acceptance of Fate has been abandoned. The Updateless list is for stories which I still have hope that they will be continued. Arya has publicly said she is abandoning AoF.

Erin posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 2:38am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

great update looking forward to the next one.

Loopy Dane posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 2:26am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

Great chapter as usual. My attention span is too long, so I think your chapters are too short! Bet that wasn't one of your poll questions! *grin*
So, the Brotherhood is like the Knight Foundation! Targeting criminals that have managed to place themselves outside the law! If he can't drive an Astin Martin, will you at least give him an impregnable car with a smart-ass AI? *cheeky grin*
Thanks again for a wonderful, high quality story, with wonderfully long chapters, well developed characters and a unique, ambitious epic plot.
-Loopy

Meteoricshipyards posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 2:22am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

Another good chapter. I was expecting a meeting between Charlie and Harry at the end of the town hall, but I can wait. If I may make a request - can we see more of what Dumbledore is doing and thinking.

Other than that - good story. "Do other Dark Lords have this problem?" - Love it. Looking forward to Lucius' downfall. Nice thing about HP stories - it's so easy to root for the good guys.

Thanks for writing.

Tom A.

Brandon West posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 2:10am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

It was too short! It needed to be LONGER! :-P

Good chapter though, I'm dying to see the DD/HP fight scene. Because that's the minimum I think that's going to happen is a knock down, drug out fight between the two.

Or he might have Charlie try slipping the Liquid Imperious into the drinks of his 'dark controlled' family.

BeckiSoup posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 2:03am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

hmmm... a line to stop black auras...dare i say we might see a violently ill dumbledore soon?

Ken Warner posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 1:46am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

Thanks for a wonderful LONG chapter - much more enjoyable than the 3 page updates that some authors post every 2.71 months (or less often) Love your work and the story. I quite often resemble that moonstruck look when I look across a room to my bride of 13 years. GO Harry and Hermoine.
Seriously, love the way you are developing the story and the background so smoothly - excited to see what happens to Lucius when a)he finds out that Dudley and Harry are almost as good friends as Phyliss Schafley and Teddy Kennedy and b)That Voldiewarts does know about his secret operations and is going to skin him and dip him in acid.

Warmest regards
Ken

Hagrid posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 1:10am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

As always, you have out done yourselves. As far as the whiners go, let em read comics. My take on Charlie's acceptance of Dumbledore is based on his upbringin' so of course he believes the ol' man.

Davemcfly posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 1:07am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

WOW! In my Opinion "Sunset over Britain" and this Sequel are some of the most impressive Fanfics I have ever read!
Please keep on Writing and update fast :)

Davemcfly
P.s.: Please forgive any mistakes in this Review...I am an nearly 20 Year old German and the little bit of English I ´m able to write is learned in School :D

makieus posted a comment on Friday 27th January 2006 12:00am for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

I perfer the longer chapters. Willing to wait longer for them to come out. Not sure why, but seemed to like this chapter more so than the others. Back to my homework. Thanks for the break/distraction from real life.

Kyle Bissett posted a comment on Thursday 26th January 2006 11:55pm for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

The military elves could end up causing some confusion in the purebloods, who wouldn't know about rank conventions. Miles is a Commander, which is a Naval rank, Hermione is a Colonel, which is an Army rank (equivalent to Naval Captain, one grade above Commander), and Draco is a Leftenant, which is both Army and Naval rank (though a Naval Leftenant outranks an Army Leftenant of the same degree by one grade). It might be good to convince the elves to use one rank convention (Army makes sense, as they don't have a Navy) and clearly define a chain of command.

Having Draco create both internal and external intelligence services is all well and good, but I hope he realizes that having both run by one person is asking for problems later on-maybe not by him, but by a successor. It's part of the 'Power corrupts and Absolute Power is pretty damn neat' thing.

Was Charlie at that meeting? If so, he'll have to be wondering if the whole command structure of Haven consists of manipulators and the controlled, or if AD is holding out on him for some reason. Throughout Sunset, he wasn't aware that there was a need to choose sides (or that there were sides to choose), so he's defaulting to thinking that the childhood authority figure is always right.

Bobmin356 replied:

Have you actually tried to explain anything to an Elf??? Besides, they are getting their military information from old badly written world war two movies.

They are confused and explaining it to them will only confuse things further. Besides, the elves are busy inventing their own branch of His Majesties Service. :D

Joel1 posted a comment on Thursday 26th January 2006 11:47pm for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

Great job Bobmin, and I cant believe someone actually said that your chapters are too long. Usually you hear complaints of to short chapters. Anyway cant wait for the next chapter!

BYE

Meg posted a comment on Thursday 26th January 2006 11:31pm for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

Very good chapter and, as usual, it felt too short.

Thanks!

Meg

Treck posted a comment on Thursday 26th January 2006 11:28pm for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

Are we going to see a reaction from Charlie over Harry's speach? (I assume he was there)

Great job!!!

Treck

john2 posted a comment on Thursday 26th January 2006 11:19pm for Chapter 6 - Far Reaching Decisions

There are some nits in this chapter, but it's been a good read.

Mr. Lovegood is a widower in canon - has he remarried since then?

Bobmin356 replied:

Mr. Lovegood is still a widower. I wasn't sure if I was clouding the issue, but I didn't really want to say "his dead wife". Maybe I should have eh? :D