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Jabarber69: for some reason your review is showing up everwhere except where I can respond to it! So, Hedwig. . . At the moment, Harry doesn't know about her (probably thinks she's off safe someplace, canon!Harry at this point didn't pay a lot of attention to those things not under his nose). He won't be shown grieving, although her loss will hurt him a bit; mostly taken from his near non-reaction in DH.

The conceit here is that all the 'facts' of canon up to the summer of Harry's summer before second year remain. There are 5 other Horcruxes besides Harry (Nagini was made one in canon when Voldemort was in his mini-Voldie form, as stupid as that seems to me), Dumbledore is as he was in canon, with all the guilt and manipulations, etc. etc.

The Brotherhood had largely removed themselves from most European affairs for centuries, and while concerned with Voldemort, did not rouse themselves in 'canon time'. Contact with Harry makes many of them interested in the world again. Powers which have not been flexed in a millenium are going to become active, old allies (vampires, and readers of my stories can guess the other) will be encouraged to participate.

Little Harry, malnourished physically and intellectually (can you imagine what the Dursleys would have done to him if he outscored Dudley in school?) will spend a year with millenium-old wizards who find they enjoy working with Harry, who find they LIKE Harry, and he will absorb their ideas, their training, and some of their attitudes.

Harry is never going to be an intellectual, a poet, a scholar. He will be a practical genius. He had flashes of that through isolated parts of book V. That totally disappeared in books vi and vii.

To use a LOTR comparison, canon!Harry was part Frodo and part Sam, led by a figure who was one half Gandalf, one third Saruman, and a little bit Gollum. This Harry is part Frodo, part Aragorn, and a little bit of Merry and Pippen toward the middle of the third book.

My, where did all that come from???

"T"