M. R. Moore posted a comment on Sunday 20th August 2006 3:14am

As I was reading, the commitee meetings I couldn't help but by reminded of Sen. McCarthy.

Alorkin posted a comment on Sunday 20th August 2006 3:04am

Coeur de Lion is getting out of hand. Iffn' y'all want, there's an ancient law still on the books concerning treason (or sedition) against the monarchy, (and seeing as how the ministry is *supposed to be* under the auspices of the prime minister who answers to the King) it could be used in some variant. The law was passed, I believe by James III. John Goodman used it in 'King Ralph!' Perhaps it could be worded as 'against the good of the commonwealth', or somesuch. Common law had many similiar, vaguely worded laws that literally could be used to mean anything. I'm certain Amilia, Remus and Hermione could come up with something. Padma Patil was in Ravenclaw, with her family's narrow escape from the Death Eaters, I'm certain she would help.
If his acceptance of the maoneys from Marne Murphy is discovered, and I'm certain the Goblins would be mnost accomodating...
(Bust him down to second assistant sub-foreman in a factory making shoes for a muggle company! Or, bvetter yet, let his secretary's husband beat the snot out of him. Show him that his 'purity' does nothing to protect him.)
As punsihment, after suitable mamory 'tweaking', he could be hit with a charm that makes his skin and hair glow in offensive day-glow colors, and one that makes him dance wildly, then portkeyed straight to the Great Hall during a Death Eater initiation.
Harry and Hermione giving permission for Dobby to court Winky made my heart swell. (I take meds for that, doncha know!)
As always, I eagerly await the next chapter of 'Sunrise'. Alorkin

noylj posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 4:36pm

It is getting really hard to read this story. I still do not see why Harry would ever permit the Wizenheimers to be reinstalled. I also do not see why Harry did not kill the heartless lion when he had a perfectly valid reason to--he should at least have challenged the pig to a duel. God, how much can you pile on Harry.

Daven posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 2:20pm

It is true, this fic and TMW are the upper echelon of Fanfiction. They would be equal, if not for that fact that TMW has not been updated since May 6th 2005. Not that im bitter or anyting.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

ps. Thank you for restating how old Harry is in this chapter. I had plum forgot.

AK posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 2:15pm

Hello there! I happen to have a few comments (oh no!).

First: the Wizingamot is getting really annoying. And to read about em too, can we have Coeur de Lion in the next disclaimer? PLEASE? PRETTY PLEASE?

Second: Snape is nasty! I didn't know he could get nastier but he did. Are you guys going to kill him soon? Actually if the ghosts can kill people woulnd't Snape be a logical target? (You know because of the potions)

Third: Hey we really don't see good ol' Voldie that much anymore, isn't he complaining because of the lack of air time?

Fourth: Um... what was it? Oh yeah! Hey are we going to get Goahoulds coming to invade earth through Harry's Star Gate? Or maybe the Vaulkans, dodgy folk these are, never trust the repressors!

Fith: "We have a request to include akmusique32 in our author's notes. So here she is. She has a little brother named Eli who is for sale on Ebay and she has interesting career goals. AK, if you reach those goals, we want pictures... or video." --> No idea what you are talking about but anyhow...

scott2 posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 2:02pm

Enjoyable :)

Evan Mayerle posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 1:22pm

And things start to get "really interesting", in the sense of that old Chinese curse. The way the plot threads are intertwining is most illuminating.

Ernst Blofield? Didn't he have a relative named Eric who had a certain Bond with England?

AK posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 1:11pm

Hey wait I got a question. Is haven considered part of Britain, or Ireland or is it an independent territory on which the British government in exile happens to be. If so couldn't Harry have his own perfectly legal vigelente force that would deal with all those nice racists accordingly?

Ken Warner posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 12:12pm

what a wonderful long chapter - loved having Charlie fully accepted again - and the revenge of Penelope was delightful - I hope we see a few more along those lines - maybe spreading to the ghosts outside of Hogwarts.
Thanks for some exceptionally fine reading.
In your AN you mention being compared to Jeconais - your stories are great in different ways, and I love them for different reasons - but you update a lot more regularly - which gives you three extra stars.

Warmest regards

seishi posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 10:45am

Hi,
Brill Chapter as usual, i cant expect anything less.

I just want to add a favor, i am levaing for Europe on a months holiday starting the 10th, and i am wondering if you could have 2 chapters updated by then? It is too expensive to go onto the internt in Europe
thanks!
I owe you guys a lot (And so do many of your readers! :))
E

Musings of Apathy posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 9:42am

Awesome chapter.

As to driving me insane...I prefer to be the one behind the wheel, thank you very much. But as far as you doing some of the driving, you would have to argue with my boss for wheel time on my insanity bus. She is bound and determined to complete the task on her own without additional input, but if you are sadistic and evil enough, she may see you as near her equal and allow you something.

As far as the story, I cannot wait for the point in the story where the blessed chairman's treason comes to light. But, knowing you two, this is just a seedling of a plot and will continue to germinate for many a chapter before offering any payoff to your readers. You are evil in that way, insisting on building an actual plot rather than just giving us what we want, instant gratification. When we see Dumbles being evil, we want him dead NOW! When we see Charlie being led astray, we want him educated NOW! When we see a corrupt Wizengamot member, we want them stripped bare, covered in real Vermont Maple Syrup, whipped with a dragonhide whip and staked to an African Fire Ant hill right NOW!

Hmm...can Chairman Amhar Coeur de Lion be the new subject of the Disclaimer? And can Amy stop being the brunt of the pain and start to dish it. She seemes like an S&M Mistress that has had too much 'M' and not enough 'S' lately. I'm not into it, but I hear it's good to give as well as receive.

Well, that is all the viewing of my perverse mind that I will allow today.

Thank you for writing.

Mike (MoA)

Sandra Smith posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 9:40am

please write more. Haven is becoming a good this or at least it will be once the wizengamot is gone. personally. even tho harry would hate it, t think he shhould just take over

AcceleratedGlass posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 9:24am

good chapter update soon

Manatheron posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 9:08am

Excellent chapter, as usual. I found penelope's first possession to be interesting, as well as the attitude of snape's assistant. I do wonder however if Voldimort could supercharge several of his assisants (Giving them the powers of several muiltply enhanced wizards) and then taking their magic. it just goes out to the third power. use the ritual to Bring someone up to slightly lower than him in power and then take that wizards magic. if he just continues that trend, he will basically double his magic every time he preforms the ritual as he can have increasingly powerful people performing it. and as you have already shown that it is possible to exceed the limit by using Boosted Peoples power cores, it's not out of reason.

Also, considering the types of people he is recruiting, is it likely that any of them would steal doses in an attempt to become more powerful than their lord?

Alex00 posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 8:31am

Great work.

sailrpopeye posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 7:55am

Are you certain that there is no way to convince Harry that a ... ummm... series of "unfortunate mishaps" that happen to affect the more prattish (sp?) of th re-constituted Wizengamot might be in the best interests of Haven and wizardkind as a whole? That Amhar clown is the best candidate for the old Acme(tm) anvil that I have seen in years - if you can get Korwin at the same time, so much the better.

Happy thought, send them along with a strike team into England on a "fact-finding tour" and accidentally lose them during a firefight, that should be fairly easy to stage and still look convincing. You might have to put up a memorial to the "brave Ministry members lost in the struggle to free England", but what the heck - marble and a little brass are cheap and you can always recycle it after a few years.

Ed

Kyle Bissett posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 6:02am

By what logic does Amhar think that being allegedly descended from the illegitamate offspring (Richard I didn't HAVE any legitimate offspring) of a king who wasn't competent in anything outside of military matters (The reason why John Lackland had all those taxes that Robin Hood so objected to in the legends is because John had to find a way to fund Richard's wars) and whose family hasn't ruled for more than seven centuries entitle him to royal perogatives? If he is, then by rights he should be treating the reigning monarch as if Charles was GOD.

I get this feeling that sooner or later Amhar is going to cross the aura wards and set them off. He might not be dark now, but he's slipping.

I have the feeling that after the war ends, it will take a year just to make Hogwarts usable again.

How could Amhar tied Hermione up in legal proceedings? It would have been considered a crime on Irish soil, to be tried in an Irish court, and Amhar doesn't have any influence there.

Was Ernst's middle name Stavro? If so, he was supposed to have been garroted and then dumped into an active geyser by James Bond back in the fifties (or killed several times in a variety of ways if you believe the movies instead).

I don't think using drug dealers in Ireland is a good move for Voldemort. He may end up losing a lot of contacts. The IRA and its Protestant counterpart had this habit of killing any drug dealers they came across as a sign of good faith to the general population.

kkf posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 5:45am

Brilliant as usual! Thanks for keeping me entertained!

Kathleen posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 4:57am

Wow, dark evil Death Eaters took the show this time...nice to end on a happy note with Charlie and the elfs. :)

Mickey posted a comment on Saturday 19th August 2006 4:44am

GREAT CHAPTER. Councilor De Lion is starting to really annoy me, good job.

One thing you really have your work cut out for you justifying why nobody used a time turner to catch the murderers, or at least discover who they are.

I don't suppose there's any chance of Snape getting his throat torn out by the slave girl? Doesn't have to be fatal as he can be rescued by one of the DEs coming in to get a progress report or something.

The Unicorn